Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 56, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1979 Page: 1 of 112
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Magic corner shuts out humdrum world
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(See FESTIVAL—Page 2)
Nigh vows to veto extra
funds
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State’s penal plan
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(See PEN AL-Page 2)
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His statement in a press confer-
ence brought a quick response from
House Speaker Dan Draper.
By Jim Young
Gov. George Nigh, in his strongest
statement since he became gover-
nor, threatened today to veto any
appropriations bills carrying signif-
icant increases, because of rejec-
tion of a 120 million income tax cut.
It was not clear if the proposal
would salvage the rationing propos-
al in the House or Senate.
The House Commerce Committee,
which voted to reject the plan
Wednesday, met again today so that
Carter's supporters could make an
attempt to revive it. But Republi-
cans boycotted the meeting, and no
new vote was taken.
Carter's supporters on the House
committee said the White House
compromise would have switched
enough votes to reverse Wednes-
day's outcome.
The rationing plan will get anoth-
By Marilyn Dark
The Festival of the Arts, officially
speaking, is "a mixture of art, flo-
wers, music, balloons, dramatic per-
formances, food and fun that has be-
come Oklahoma City's rite of
spring."
But that's really just the begin-
ning.______________________________
Because the festival is actually
whatever you want it to be.
About 300,000 Oklahomans are ex-
pected to come down with festival
fever before the whole shebang
closes down Sunday evening. They
come in strollers and wheelchairs,
on bikes and on skateboards.
In a last-ditch move to save the
income tax cut. Nigh said the Legis-
lature has the option of voting the
tax cut or seeing the money held in
reserve for the next session to
spend.
Draper, who has been the leader
in the fight to block reduction of
general-fund -totals this year, said.
"I suspect he'll have the opportunity
1974 survey by another HEW agen-
cy, the National dsaringhouse on
Smoking and Health.
In the proposed order filed today,
Bullock wrote that state promises to
comply "herald a new day in the his-
tory of this case, and the history of
corrections in Oklahoma.
the festival may be downtown super-
visors who lose their employees
each day to the lure of music float-
ing above the high-rise buildings
from the grounds of Civic Center
Park.
For six days, one little corner of
downtown Oklahoma City is trans-
The governor said at a press con-
ference he has compromised as far
as he can on the question of a tax
cut and to "go any further would
violate my principles."
He said he was asking the joint
conference committee on taxes to
give members of the Legislature the
right to vote on a tax cut.
"If they (legislators) get out of
here and there Is no tax cut, there
(See NIGH—Page 2)
Nigh said, "Wherever they put
that $20 million I will veto it.”
Sweet time promised
Prague sisters Carrie Bedlacek, left, and Jewel Novotny display some of
their ovens’ contribution to the annual Koiache Festival expected to draw
29,999 visitors to Prague Saturday. In addition to 25,IM dozen traditional
Czech pastries, the event offers an II a.m. parade, bands, costumed Czech
dancers and a queen coronation.
who launched a war against smok-
ing 15 months ago, also issued a
challenge to American cigarette
companies to spend 10 percent of
tbeir $800 million advertising and
promotion budgets on public-ser-
vice ads urging children, teen-agers
and pregnant women not to smoke.
He said the tobacco companies ih-
sisL they “consider smoking an
adult habit," but he declared: "The
time has come to ask the cigarette
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D.,
said today he will introduce legisla-
tion giving President Carter stand-
by authority to impose mandatory
wage-price controls, which Carter
has rejected as unworkable.
Kahn testified before the Senate
Joint Economic Committee shortly
after the Labor Department made
to the consumer price index
The administration's chief infla-
tion fighter, Alfred Kahn, told Con-
gress today there are no "quick
fixes" to soaring prices and warned
Americans that "we still have some
bad months ahead.”
When the first three months of
1979 are taken together, the annual
rate of inflation was 13 percent, the
Labor Department said in its newest
price analysis.
That is the largest quarterly rise
since the 13.1 percent jump during
lhe July-September period of -1974.
And although there are activities
for all age groups, the children
probably have the best time of it.
Cartoon characters come to life
and saunter through the park, stop-
ping for personal chats with their
biggest fans. The Art Field, located
at the northwest corner of the
grounds, offers kids the chance tc
take to the arts themselves, with a
thick, luxurious azaleas with bold
pink blooms forming a springtime
horseshoe around a stage where
puppeteers, singers and dancers
perform for patrons seated on
benches under tall shade trees.
its report of the 1 percent March
increase, which compared to a 1.2
hike in February and 0.9 percent
during January.
"My final counsel can only be a
counsel of patience." Kahn said.
""We can win this fight if we per-
(See PRICES-Page 2)
responding to the public health mes-
sage . . . that smoking is slow-
motion suicide," he declared in a
speech prepared for a meeting of
the National Interagency Council on
Smoking and Health.
Califano said the youth survey by
HEW's National Institute of Educa-
tion found that 3.3 million persons
age 12 to 18, some 12 percent of that
age grodflllferegular smokers
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1968, tl
• WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Carter today made a new effort to
save his beleaguered standby gaso-
line rationing plan from being killed
by Congress.
With a critical Senate Energy
Committee vote scheduled later in
the day, the president offered to al-
locate more gasoline coupons to
states where motorists drive great-
er distances to work.
ten 12 percent In
tol«pe^|Mfe
“The present attitude of Oklaho-
ma's highest elected officials will
hasten the day when this court's
work is done," wrote Bullock.
The proposed order by Bullock
calls for prisoners at McAlester and
Granite institutions to be housed
one to a cell by October. The Sept.
11, 1978, order called for the same
action by April 1. t
Bullock's proposed order also con-
forms with the state proposal that
the east and west cellhouses of the
Oklahoma State Penitentiary be
closed by June 1981, and that the re-
formatory at Granite be closed or
renovated by January 1982.
The state was under a noon dead-
line today to file Its proposed find-
ings, conclusions and order.
Bullock's proposed order calls for
an audit by the state of progress
posed order for a new schedule of
compliance filed by the ACLU.
Louis Bullock, ACLU attorney,
adopted with few exceptions a sug-
gested compliance schedule submit-
ted by the state two weeks ago.
The state's schedule delays up to
six months the timetables for com-
pliance established in a Sept. 11,
1978, prison order by Bohanon.
Today's ACLU action followed a
three-day bearing concluded Mon-
day in which attorneys for both
sides presented testimony and evi-
dence about compliance to date and
alternatives to compliance by the
state.
“It is my intention to improve the
funding for education and capital
improvements," the House speaker
said.
Draper disclosed today that the
special joint conference committee
on tax bills is already moving to-
ward reporting back to the houses
Pioneer spirit shewn — Page 19
Friday schedule — Page 13
Photos - Pages 17 and 18
Local: Fair to partly cloudy
through Friday. Lows tonight
mid-40s; highs Friday low 70s
(Details, Page 34.)
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of the Legislature that it can reach
no dfereement on tax cuts.
The speaker said a conference re-
port. that the group can reach no
agreement is already being circu-
lated to committee members to
sign.
The latest flare-up over a tax cut
places Nigh and Draper on a colli-
sion course, with the speaker threat-
ening to use the $20 million planned
for the income tax cut for increased
appropriations for major programs.
At the same time, Nigh is saying
he will veto the bills If they are sig-
nificantly over his budget.
Draper said, “We have got very
real ae^dslor that money.” ...
Nigh said the state can afford the
tax cut and he does not want
lawmakers to reject the tax cut and
then put the money into appropria-
tions bills.
smokers in this age group, 1.7 mii-
lion to 1.6 million, Califano said.
Smoking by boys ages 17 and 18
has fallen from 31 percent a few
years ago to 19 percent now, but the
rate for girls in that age bracket
has climbed (fWR 19jyrcent in 1968
t<> past
Thrm ,t,H photo by Bob Albnght
By Dwayne Cox
Attorneys for lhe American Civil
Liberties Udion endorsed a pro-
posed state plan for compliance
with a federal prison reform order
today in court documents filed with
U.S. District Judge Luther Bohanon.
The shift from claims the state
was not acting in good faith in pris-
on reforms was contained in a pro-
Prices take leap
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Consum-
er prices surged by 1 percent in
March to burden Americans with
the worst quarterly inflation rate in
more than four years, the govern-
ment said today.
Sharp increases showed up in vir-
tually every consumer category
Gasoline rose at the fastest rate
since the summer of 1975, Meat
prices jumped 2.7 percent and cloth-
ing surged 1.5 percent, the biggest
gain since mid-1974.
Although the overall 1 percent
March gain was less than Febru-
ary's 1.2 percent jump, it was little
consolation to Americans who had
to dig deeper into their wallets to
make ends meet.
Because of inflation, the govern-
ment said today the nation's 35 mil-
lion Social Security recipients will
receive a 9.9 percent increase in
their benefits beginning with their
July checks due to inflation.
Social Security benefits are tied
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police dog
doses badge
M By Mike Ward
k If Oklahoma City policemen foul
■un their job, they get fired. And the
■■Ba policy holds true for tyr-
llegged cope on the force.
Police Chief Tom L. Heggy said to-
day that Scottie, a two-year veteran
of the police canine corps, has been
"terminated" effective immediate-
ly, partly because he chomped down
on a patrolmen instead of a car
theft suspect Wednesday.
“1 guess you'd say we are doing
the same thing with the dog that we
would to an officer who was being
fired," Heggy said.
“We had a psychological test run
on the dog, and the experts say he is
not suited to his work
Heggy said Scottie will be sent
back to Lackland Air Force Base
Monday. He was trained there for
the department in sniffing out
bombs. The dog is expected to be re-
trained for military sentry work.
"We had seen a problem develop-
ing in this area, and that's why we
had the Lackland people come up
and run the tests," he said.
The fact the dog bit officer Ken-
neth Linn when he was supposed to
be going after a suspect "in just
kind of the final straw,” Heggy said.
Supervisors said the dog techni-
cally would be terminated from du-
ty the same as humans since he is
on personnel rosters in the canine
unit the same as patrolmen are list-
ed in their divisions.
Firing Scottie has created a new
problem for police supervisors, and
Heggy said he hopes are someone
will donate a new German Shepherd
as a replacement.
“We need a male dog with a fairly
aggressive personality between 1
and 3 years old," Heggy said.
formed into a charming, free-spirit-
ed carnival, with enough diversions
to shame a three-ring circus.
Festival-goers can almost become
lost in a sea of flowers and people,
forgetting the huge city that lurks
just out of sight above the tree line.
For the artists displaying their
dazzling array of expressions In all
forms, it's a chance to collect recog-
nition and profits that aren't that
easy to come by the rest of the year.
Open-air food stands offer enough
variety to please the most adventur-
ous diner or the hard-core hot dog
devotee.
At the center of all the hubbub are
rettes and fewer boys are starting,
women are apparently finding it
harder to give up smoking, and girls
Girl smokers outnumber boy ' are taking it up in" increasing
proportions," Califano said.
“Our statistical research has
yielded another new and chilling
fact: A boy who takes up smoking
before age 15 and continues to
smoke is only half as likely to live to
age 75 as a boy who never smokes.”
he said.
TIW HEW secretary, an ex-smoker i (See SMOKING — Page 2)
Teen smoking down 25 percent, study shows
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new
government survey found that
smoking among teen-agers has fall-
en by 25 percent since 1974, Health,
Education and Welfare Secretary
Joseph A. Califano Jr. said today.
Califano also disclooed that an-
other HEW poll found an estimated
JT million Americans tried to quit
tammuox last year, and X5 million
■■■red themselves successful In
Eh^Khe habit
people ard* getting and
Festival strikes everybody’s fancies
You can drop $1,000 or more on
arts and crafts, or drop by on yout
lunch hour and spend nothing but a
relaxing hour ... or maybe two. In
fact, the only people not charmed by
tax-cut dispute
to veto the higher education and
common education bills."
'Insuited*
OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
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