The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1975 Page: 1 of 46
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THANKSGIVING TIHEfe
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER $7, 1975
NUMBER 17
122 NORTH GREENWOOD AVENUE TULSA, OKLAHOMA
TA AG Plans Voter Drive
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School Board Adds 4 ¥4 Acres To
Carver Campus For $76,500
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City Appoints M. Rice
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For North Tulsa
(DMB) With a street bond issue
going before Tulsa voters in mid-
December and elections for the Tulsa
City Commission coming up in the
spring, members of the Target Area
Action Group in their annual meeting
last Thursday shared concerns and
plotted a course toward greater
political involvement
• If we don’t organize, then we won’t
be able to play with these politicians,”
neighborhood organizer Riley Mc-
Caskill told the group
By consensus the group decided to
begin a campaign to register voters
and help inform them of issues per-
tinent to the Model Neighborhood this
week McCaskill emphasized that
David M Breed
of The Eagle Staff
out Shifts in residences or failure to
vote in recent elections have resulted in
the rest being dropped from rolls of the
Radford. All were honored for features related to North Tulsa and
minority affairs.
See JORDAN
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leave the building Mrs Woodley, who
liad been busy making salads for
dinner guests, refused to leave the
kitchen, telling the manager On* she
was "afraid to leave with him.”
Reports indicate that Woodley left
the restaurant for a few minutes.
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returning with a handgun He chased
Mrs Woodley around the kitchen, then
fired four shots with the pistol.
was pronounced dead at the
scene,
Woodley fled the scene He was found
a short time later by police, shot to
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death in his car behind the Allstate
Building, 3910 E. 51st Street Reports
indicate that the car lights had been
left on and the doors were locked
Woodley died as the result of a single
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representative (hnstopher indicated
that he has met with Moton officials,
but that he is still not clear on Moton's
reasons for not seating the delegate
Also cited as a problem area was the
rising rate of crime on the Northside
lack of adequate enforcement as the
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state Capitol Station
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The Tulsa School Board last Wed-
nesday approved acquisition of 4 35
acres adjoining the preswit campus of
Carver Middle School to provide ad-
ditional playground area Price of the
parcel was set at $76,500 and purchase
was arranged through the Tulsa Urban
Renewal Authority
Also approved was acceptance of a
bid by Cowan Construction Inc for
construction of the new Emerson
Elemental y .School on trie sue at 1© E
King Cowan's bid on construction of
A meeting was scheduled Wednesday
morning by members of the Tulsa
Highway Committee to explore steps in
completing a transportation network tn
Northeast Tulsa Members were to
consider extension of the Port Road to
tie in sections of the Cherokee and
Gilcrease Expressways with the Port
of Catoosa
Members of the committee include
Tulsa's Board of City Commissioners,
the County Commission and Tulsa
District State Highway Commissioner
William Nash.
The proposed extension of the Port
Road (State Highway 266) would bring
the route from where it presently dead-
ends near the Mingo Valley Ex-
pressway to connect with the Gilcrease
al about 30th Street North and
Darlington, it would mold together
routes surrounding the aerospace
industries, Tulsa International Airport,
Coleman, H.G. Barnard Jr., J. Patrick
Manhart, Mrs Gerald Westby, Mrs
Roger Atwood and Barbara Iverson
Newly appointed is Alex Stoia^director
of Philbrook Art Center
City Commission approval was also
granted for two appointees to fill
vacancies on the CRC which have
existed since last spring Newly named
members are 1-arry Endicott, a
behavioral sciences professor at Oral
Roberts Univesity, and Mrs Barbara
Feldman Geffen, an attorney.
Members of the CRC are appointed
annually with terms beginning in
January
Handcuffed Okmulgeean
Allegedly Beaten
While Patrol Looks On
Word from Okmulgee at press time terested partv put it
According to an eyewitness who
;>roductiun on the proiens of senior
citizens
Special recognition was paid durir^
the luncheon to Tulsa Daily World
management, construction on the new
facility will start "immediately ”
Plans are for the school to be open with
a new curriculum and a voluntarily
integrated student body for next fall's
term.
In other business. Superintendent Dr
Bruce Howell told members of the
board that other positions have been
provided for all of 28 teachers left
without contracts at the end of October
when anticipated tederaidesegiegati >n b
funds failed to materialize He said the
teachers, who staffed programs tn
remedial math and communication
skills for students moving into
voluntarily integrated situations, have
been rehired in other teaching jobs.
Street Issue Calls
For Trades
A NEWS ANALYSIS
by David M Breed
of The Eagle Staff
On December 16 Tulsa voters will be asked to
approve nearly $30 million for two bond issues.
One is for street improvements, including
purchase and clearance of some expressway
right-of-way, and the other is for new and
modified traffic signals in the downtown and
other key areas.
The traffic control issue is in the amount of
$802,000 and limited access facility im-
provements are listed totaling $27,519,000 A
breakdown of the limited access issue shows
$2 6 million for reconditioning of arterial and
collector streets; almost $20.2 million for
roadway and intersection improvements; and
$4.75 million for purchase and clearance of
right-of-way.
In an article last week, The Oklahoma Eagle
looked specifically at those projects slated for
North Tulsa . Key elements were the purchase
of right-of-way for two miles of the projected
Northwest Tulsa Osage Expressway, widening
of West Edison to the site of the new Central
High School at 33rd West Avenue, intersection
improvements along the final section of the
Cherokee, and completion of the Cincinnati-
Jordan Defends
Food Stamp
Program
New York, - Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.,
executive director of the National
Urban league, defended the food
stamp program against un-
substantiated charges of fraud and
insisted "food stamps are part of the
arsenal of the war on hunger and
the issue should not be used to make
of Oklahoma formed the dominant
theme Hus week as Tulsa’s chapter -A
the Naiional Conference of Christians
and Jews met to recognize con-
he facility was $1,485,000
Though the apparent low bid at the
tune they were opened earlier this
month was from Roy J Hannaford Co.
in the amount of $1,451,000. all six
companies bidding for the job sub-
mitted five alternate estimates The
School Board is bound by law to accept
the "‘lowest and best"’ tad for con-
structing facilities according to
specifications
According to G Blaine smith,
assistant superintendent for business
Program and formerly on the staff of
the Tulsa Urban league, was reap-
pointed to the Arts Conumssion along
with former members Bradley Place.
Dr Marvin Reecher, Joseph R
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American Indian in
INNOVATE .section,
awards went to
this week was that a young mentally
tiandicapped black had been beaten in wished t > remain anonymous, a patrol
front of witnesses and three Oklahoma 6 car was outside the Pizza Hut whan
another arrived After the three
uniformed troopers brought the young
man, liand< uffed. out the doors, the
non-unifoi med person arrived in a
pi< kup true k and proceeded to beat the
man with the uniformed troopers
looking on
The witness indicated that people
inside the restaurant said the young
ma’i h id hassled a young lady, the
daughter of the man who arrived in the
pt< kup "Die witness was allegedly told
tlie non uniformed man was also a
Highway Patrolman
After the beating, the witness said,
all four took the young man off in one of
the cruisers, returning about a half-
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or found jobs outside the district
The district hs filed suit in US
District Court against the federal
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare for denial of Tulsa's requests of Moton Health Center to seat a TAAG
for funding the programs through the
Emergency School Assistance Act The
suit is still pending
Also, Tulsa Mayor Robert J
laFortune has been assured by
regional officials of the federal
Department of Housing and Urban
See CARVER
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" Every area of the city,” he said “it
seems like, is the forgotten area of the
city’’ in the minds of its voters when it
comes to voting money for im-
provements. "We have to overcome
those feelings’’ of sectionalism, he
said.
He likened criticism of what goes into
City bond issue packages to Monday
morning quarterbacking’' and pointed
out that the current issue, with a cost of
just over half that proposed in ah
ill-fated attempt a year
ago, deletes most of the
more controversial elements of the
larger issue l"he defeat of the larger
issue, he said, led him and his staff to
Among those receiving Brotherhood Awards this week from
Tulsa's Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
registration was only useful when
coupled with such an education
program.
According to TAAG Evaluator Bobby County Election Board
Eaton, voter participation in the Model Concerns of the group as a whok
Neighborhood has declined noticeably focussed on a proposal to use the Acme
tn the last year Of those MN residents Brick Pit 620 N. Greenwood, as a
registered to vote a year ago, only 32 sanitary landfill and financial
percent are still eligible, he pointed problems in operating the community-
run Varick-Timothy Child (Tire Center
The proposal to fill the Brick Pit ha*
been explored by the office of John P
Thomas, Commissioner of Water ano
Sewerage The plan has won partial
endorsement from staff of the Tulsa
Urban Renewal Authority with con-
ditions that, wh— filled, the area would *er*: (,"n/!.ie Griffith, Ina Hall, Rocky Stegman, and Margaret
be improved for recreational facilities
Some fill, staffers have said, would be
necessary to make use of the pit
anyway
In commenting on the proposal.
TAAG Board Chairperson Dr (liarles
Christopher pointed out that the shale
bed f the Pit makes it an unsuitable
site for a fill because the rock prevents
settling and decomposition of garbage
It would be very unsanitary for that to
> a sanitary landfill," he said
I .aura Long of TAAG Area E called
for community support in recruiting
for the Varick-Timothy program and
working together to improve housing
and attract new housing development
in the MN Area “Our people are
accepted substitute teaching positions getting somewhat disgusted.” she told
members of the group, "but we can't
wait
Another concern of the group was
recent refusal of members of the board
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Murder-Suicide Claimed In Deaths
Investigators have reportedly ter-
minated their inquiries into a pair of
shooting incidents Saturday which left
a North Tulsa woman and her
estranged husband dead Homicide
detectives believe the two shootings
were a murder and a suicide resulting
from the couple's domestic problems
Reports indicate that Altha Renee
Woodley. 20, of 865 E 53rd Street
North, was working in the kitchen of
Jamils' Restaurant. 2905 E. 51st Street
Saturday afternoon Her estranged
husband, Alphonzo Bill Woodley, ap
peared a little before 5 p m and the two
became involved in an argument
Restaurant management reportedly
told tlie Woodleys to stop aruing or
VOLUME 58
I DMB i Mabie Rice, long supporter of
youth activities and artistic expression
within Tulsa’s minority community,
was reappointed last week by Tulsa
Mayor Robert J laFortune to the
City’s Arts Commission The City
Commission also approved
Minority Issues Highlight
NCCJ Awards Luncheon
DMB i Problems and progress for part serie >n deaf children in the Tulsa
minorities in Tulsa and across the State Tribune <nd Bill Sampson for articles
on the American Indian in the
Tribune
Radio awards went to Jim
Daugt> rty, asst engineer a: Station
tnbutions from members of Tulsa s KAKU for a teen-age call-in show
working press called KONTACT which is jointly
Tribute was paid to three persons in p w red by the Tulsa Metropolitan
the print medium, two in radio and four Ministry: •■■■I 1° Jim Back for his
learns in television at the annual K R MG An tern an Forum examinations
Thanksgiving luncheon and awards * min nty pr blems
ceremony The observance was held in Telev sion awards, in addition to the
the Pompeian Court of Tulsa's Employment Central spot, went to
downtown Fairmont Mayo. Margaret Radf' rd and Greg Sherrill of
A public service spot announcement Kill for a spot on Taft; Mahcoe Van
concerning the Oklahoma Eagle’s Dyke and R<« ky Stegman for a
Employment Central Program was segment n Greenwood for KOTV’s
among the works recognized The spot Maiicoe's Scene; and the Rev Bill
was prepared by Bill Southard and Guilf rd- f Oklahoma City for a KOED
Connie Griffith, staff members at
KOTV - Channel 6.
Print medium awards went to Ina
Hall for a feature on North Tulsa ap-
pearing in the Metro Chamber's
TUI.SA Magazine entitled Little
Africa;” Marian Hargrove for a four-
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Highway Patrolmen by another man
also alleged to be with the Highway
Patrol
Scattered information indicated that
the four, three in uniform and one in
plainclothes, handcuffed a young man
named Sanford at Okmulgee pizza
restaurant about noon Tuesday and
beat him "half to death," as one in-
Support Urged For
Street Bonds
i DMB i In meeting with North
nominations to fill two vacancies on the Tulsa's Hungry C’lub last Wednesday,
City’s Community Relations Com- Tulsa Street Commissioner Sid Pat-
mission. terson called on leaders of the black
Ms. Rice, currently director of the community to join in supporting a $29.8
Minority Women s Employment million street bond proposal which goes
to city voters for approval on
December 16
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Ms of the Week
The doors are' justness for the
Black pro’1 ,u woman, says Annette
Wallace. “More Black women who were,
previously taught that their >nly chance for a
professional future was in teaching are
discovering that the business world holds
unlimited possibilities for them,” said Ms.
Wallace, who is employed in a management
training program by the Bank of Oklahoma.
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