The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 53, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1978 Page: 1 of 20
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Development," Inhofe said.
Last week,
Progress (CFP)
Though it was somewhat short
notice last week, advocates for a
northeast Tulsa area were able to
delay an attempt by the City
Engineer’s office to gain permission
to place a Street and Refuse Dept,
maintenance facility at the nor-
theast comer of Harvard Ave. and
36th Street North.
The attempt was in direct conflict
with the adopted District 16 portion
of Tulsa's new Comprehensive Plan.
According to Tulsa attorney Don
McCorkell, long active with the
Lillard Steams, a Xerox executive District 16 organization and plan-
ning team, the plan which
adopted by the City included
provision
projected
location.
An elderly woman who knew the
lives of all the other tenants was
found murdered in her Osage Hills
apartment Sunday afternoon.
Eileen Virginia Standley, 54, was
found partially nude on the
bathroom floor shortly after five by
her boyfriend, William J. Strunk,
53, of Missouri. The State Medical
Examiners Office reported that she
had died of a slash wound across
her throat. Further tests were
planned to determine whether the
woman nad been raped.
Most of the residents of the 144-
unit section of the complex were on
low or fixed incomes, since the
section was reserved for the elderly
and disabled. Her apartment was
directly across from the apartment
office building and the Osage
County District Court Annex.
None of the residents were able
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Britt, Leroy Powell, Raymond Banka, Tina
Dunaway and Betty Phillips.
..All of these corpsmembers are President or
Vice President of their respective dormitory.
a 31-member committee
dertake an
cinnati Ave. and 36th Street North
which includes parcels which
have been targeted for one facility
for the North Tulsa Ambulatory
Health Care System and the
proposed site for a hospital planned
by the Tulsa General Hospital
Authority. Owner of the tracts and
Mayor James Inhofe today named
—.j to un-
indepth Study on
Citizens
held a town hall
meeting, stressing that the Mayor’s
plan for re-organization of the
Community Development Depart-
Bastion, KRMG, radio executive;
Frank Horton, Citizen’s Coalition;
Bryan Briggs, Greater Tulsa
Council; Burt McIntosh, Greater
Tulsa Council.
Also, Nick Jones, Greater Tulsa
Council; Beverly Young, Junior
League, Dorothy Troupe, Tulsa Job
Corps; Sue Sloos, chairman,
Citizen’s Coalition; Mary Warner,
Tulaa Board of Education; Flossie
Winesberry, Tulsa Area Manpower
Authority and Augusta Mann,
Target Area Action Group.
Others include Theima Whitlow,
of the Tulsa Housing Authority;
former City Finance Com-
missioner William H. Morris Jr.;
Granville Farley of the Greenwood
Chamber of Commerce and Carl
Moose, representing the Concerned
Citizens for a Better Community
and Hap Bradley.
See MAYOR
Continued on Page CA
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1>7» 122 NORTH GREENWOOD AVENUE 741W>’
Citizens' Participation.
He said the committee’s work will
likely be completed in 60 to 90
days. “We plan to examine what
we’ve done in the past, what we're
doing now, and our plans for the
future - especially as it relates to
by a semi-tractor-trailer rig,
students officers called an
emergency session so that they
might make a contribution to the
fund. They voted to give 100
dollars to the fund. The money
was voted out of their ‘welfare*
fund which is received from ven-
ding machine concessions and fines
levied against the student body as
well. Donations were also made
from the staff.
The money was delivered to Mrs.
Margie Johnston, the aunt of the
two boys at Osteopathic Hoaiptal.
Mrs. Johnson indicated that the
money would be spent to help pay
plan, such a decision would be
subject to reversal by the Tulsa
District Court
The proper way of approaching
the situation, McCorkell says, would
have been to file for an amendment
to the Comprehensive Plan and,
pending a decision on that matter
by the City Commission, proceeding
with the facility or finding an
alternative location in accordance
with existing provisions.
But, McCorkell and others who
labored many months on their
respective district plans say, there
is a broader issue involved. The
intent of the district plans and the
Comprehensive Plan itself to guide
the City in making capital ex-
penditure and other decisions.
The attempt to locate the facility
at the original location in spite of
the plan’s provisions appears to
show a disregard for not only the
plan but also the citizen-planning
process as well. McCorkell’s
presentation to the BOA resulted in
a delay on the question for two
weeks.
The matter is to be discussed
again at the BOA meeting slated
for August 17.
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And,
former ___
Board of Education; Rev. J. A.
Brinkley; Pat Cremin, chairman,
Human Rights Commission; Vic
and former director of Tulsa Urban
League; J. Willard Vann, director
of the North Tulsa Comprehensive
Medical Center (Moton); Fred
Davis, president of the Tulsa
Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Also Robert K. Goodwin, editor
and publisher,. The Oklahoma
Eagle; Vernon Hobbs, Tulsa Board
of Education; Gloria Huckaby,
housewife; Suzette Birch, leader of
the Southeast Tulsa Homeowners
the Rev.
director
Ministry;
Victims Get Job Corps Aid
By CHARLES JEFFREY, JR.
Oklahoma Eagle Staff Writer
The plight of the Johnston or-
phans whose parents were killed in
a cart
a bit ’
Bm
Corps.
The session was called by of-
ficers, newly installed, by Mayor
Inhofe’s aide, Richard Soudriette.
Hearing of the fund that had
been established to aid the seven
and fifteen year old sons of the late
Jerol and Janie Johnston killed
when their car was struck head on
Mayor Names 31 to Committee for Reorganization Input
Inhofe Names Citizen Participation Advisory Panel
By DON ROSS and Citizens' Participation. ___ j_________ . B'
Wyant, Citizen Coalition; Hal Allen,
Land Entanglements
Surround Hospital Site
A convoluted legal case passed a
first test last week in Tulsa District
Court though its eventual outcome
could affect placement of a
hospital and a family care health
clinic in mid-North Tulsa.
The case involves property nor-
thwest of the intersection of Cin-
to give any clues about the murder,
but several said they were not
surprised to hear of her death.
Ms. Standley was an epilectic and
other residents feared she might
injure herself or start a fire during
a seizure.
During these times she did not
feel well, residents said, and —»
very quick-tempered. They felt
that she would have violently fought
any attacker.
tlMictiiH said tt wee toe sm*
to speculate whether this murder
was related to a series of raps
attempts on older women in North
Tulsa.
Strunk found the body when he
let himself in the apartment with a
key, police said. He was being
questioned but was not being held
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was
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for relocating the
facility to another
That should have been
taken into consideration, he points
out, before City Engineer Harold
Miller sought the ruling from the
zoning Board of Adjustment
But, says McCorkell, “nobody
down there is minding the store.”
A subsequent check with the City
Attorney's office revealed that the
Board of Adjustment cannot legally
grant the variance to the existing
land-use in the area. Since it is in
direct conflict with the adopted
holder of “agreements" with ad-
jacent owners is North Tulsa Dr.
Lawrence Reed.
The legal proceedings over the
tract and other of Reed's holdings
names a former legal intern,
See LAND
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for the transportation for I
younger child Joseph who had
been released from the hospital and
who left for New Jersey Tuesday at
12:30.
United Bank officials indicated
that contributions were “coming in
daily” but declined to say how
much had been received referring
callers to highway patrol trooper
Glenn Johnson who could not be
reached because of illness.
Bank officials indicated that the
response in funds was also ac-
companied by numerous letters and
cards expressing sympathy for the
family.
said, “you know what
Tuesday, during a
sponsored by the Greenwood
Chamber of Commerce, Inhofe said
he was new to city government,
“but on entering office I found
virtually no coordination - at least
not enough to make city govern-
ment work."
He said one problem that
remains unresolved is citizen’s
participation.
The mayor pointed out that the
committee was a cross section of
the community with an emphasis on
North Tulsa, “because that is
where most nf the problems are.”
He was asked if the plan was
subject to changes and if this plan
is “made from the voice of the
people," and if it is wrong “can the
voices of the people change it?"
With some hesitation, the mayor
said it could be changed.
He also said during the chamber
luncheon that there are political
considerations concerning federal
funds.
He explained that Oklahoma is
low on the priority list and “Tulsa
is even lower."
In naming the members of the
31-member study committee, a
spokesman for the mayor said the
re-organization plan would improve
internal management of federal
funds, involvement of citizens in the
planning and improve the im-
plementation process and capability.
He said there could be better
coordination of capital improvement
funds, and development of projects
that could stand on their own after
initial funding. Also expected is
more involvement by the private
sector including banks and savings
and loans.
On the 31-member committee, the
mayor has appointed are:
The Rev.Charles Webb, pastor of
Pine Street Christian Church;
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200 persons at Town Holl meeting Saturday
Tulsa, some of whom
particularly friends of
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Oklahoma Eagle lately
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ment could serve to divide an
already divided city.
A spokesman for the mayor said
their office had intentions of for-
ming such a committee before
CFP’s plans were introduced.
"However," the spokesman noted,
“CFP’s plans will fit very well in
the concerns the committee is
organized to address.”
In announcing the 31 committee
members at a regular bi-weekly
news conference Wednesday mor-
ning, Inhofe indicated the group is
considered broadly representative
and includes advocates for North
have not
Job Corps students include, front row, Tom
Jones, Diana Self • Secretary, Ida Evitt, Emma
Abbott • Vice President, LaRhonda Ingram •
President. Second row, Brent Craig, Cathy
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