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He cited the “forgotten
Oklahoman" as the reason for
his candidacy. He described the
forgotten Oklahomans as those
"who quietly pay their taxes,
support their family, church and
school, and who feel their
government is no longer in touch
with their needs or beliefs."
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aamdate’a, baccalaureate’s and
master's degrees in 45 majors.
The university’s liberal arts
curriculum also includes
numerous technical and pre-
professional programs including
hufinem and economics, aiming,
computer science and agricultve.
Parents, as well as students
are invited to participate to the
activity, according to Taylor. For
more information, contact Vikki
Robinson at the Tulsa Urban
League’s office,
She suggest we call an attorney
fnend of hers. I talk to this man
and he is very sympathetic with
my problem, but he thinks I am
fighting a losing battle as he
feels it would be just like
fighting city hall. However, be
agrees to go over the whole thing
with me if I will write it all
down, but that he can’t promise
much.
The bureaucrats are just too
big for little people like me to
take on. It's now 4:15 p.m. and
the maintenance man still hasn’t
come to check the heat. My wife
calls the office again, and is told
that he was supposed to have
been there already, but that they
will page him again and that he
will be right up. We wait until
about 4:40 p.m. and I become
anxious about the heat. I go
down to the office and ask why
• the maintenance man hasn’t
come up to check the beat. The
office clerk is perplexed. She
tells me she will try to find the
maintenance man and send him
right up. When I return, I find
that I am to return a business
call which I do.
Janitor walks in
About 5:00 p.m. there is a
knock on the door while I am on
the phone, and my wife calls out
that she will be right there.
Before she can get to the door
and unlock it, the janitor has
used his pass-key and walked
right into our apartment. Uninv
riled. ‘Tm not supposed to be
up here." he says, “I came to
see if you have any heat.” My
business call interrupted. I look
behind me as be holds his hand
up to the heating vent and says,
“No, you don't have any heat.
He takes a quick look at our
thermostat and then walks out,
slams the door without another
word being spoken. I finish my
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effort to reach the YM’i membership drive goal «f 640.808 with the
campaign to its last few days. Jeu Hastings to campaign chair-
person. Patrons are urged to either renew their memberships or
ceatribute by calling the YMCA at 585-1171.
business call, and we eat supper
in a cold apartment.
Want Bent
At 6:30 pm. we decide to call
Don Brooks at his home and try
to get our heat restored. I insist
that my wife make the call as I
begin to have a growing
uneasiness about the situation.
More retaliation for calling the
fire marshall and the health
department. I don’t want to lone
my temper over the phone. My
wife is as assured by Don Brooks
that someone will be right out to
restore heat to our apartment.
We watch a movie and patiently
wait. Nine o’clock and still no
heat. We decide to try Tom
Hares at home. I have lost
message for him to call us as
soon as be came in, because we
had no heat, and that if he
doesn’t get something done about
it, we will have to go to the
local news media with the
problem.
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We then decide to check with a
couple of other tenants, and we
find that one woman thinks she
has more heat than she does.
Another tenant turns on his beat
so we can check to see if be has
heat, and within seconds I feel
very hot air. He has beat.
Calling Don Brooks again seems
to be in order, but I have lost
my patience to even a greater
degree by now, and I again insist
that my wife make the phone
call.
Brooks assures her that
someone is on the way to
Pioneer to restore the heat. My
wife must take a shower, the
coldness of the apartment not
with-standing. The janitor comes
to my door again and I talk to
him this time without opening the
door. He assures me that the
project engineer is on his way To
restore beat to our apartment. I
am skeptical. I have heard so
many assurances since 3:30 pm.
that I am tired of the word.
But, aha! Hot air at last! It is
sometime after 9:00 pm., we let
it run on high until the apart-
ment becomes too warm and
then we turn the beat off. At
about 10:00 pjn. there is a knock
at the door. It is the janitor and
the project engineer. They want
to check our heat. They look at
the thermostat and see that it is
turned off, and jump to the
erroneous conclusion that we
have had it turned off all this
time and that that has been the
problem with our heat all day
long The janitor agrees, thereby,
contradicting himself as he had
already verified that we had the
thermostat on and we still
weren’t getting any beat. They
turn it on and feel the air
coming from the beating vent.
WelL you’ve got hot air now!”
says the engineer Yeah, I say
They leave We went to bed.
It had been a lone and
frustrating day. Thursday the Sth,
Morrissey to run for congress
derstand the needs of business
people,” he said. "Tulsa is a
terrific city and the whole first
district is full of friendly, hard-
working people. I’m anxious to
tell this story to all those who
might be interested in locating
their businesses in this part of
the country.”
Morrissey also called for
restraint in federal spending
without the elimination of
essential government services. He
urged creative, inexpensive ap-
proaches to social responsibilities
such as education.
Morrissey, in his remarks,
cited Challenger 7 astronaut
Christa McAuliffe as his model
for a new vision of America.
“She was a startlingly normal
American," said Morrissey, “but
Problems at Pioneer Plaza
I made several calls to attorneys
trying to see if I had grounds for
legal action. At this point, I and
my wife had had four torts
committed against us. One at-
torney agreed, but told me that
even though I probably could win
if I took it to court, I would
probably be out more money
than I could recover in the form
of damages. Further, to prove
anything, I might have to get a
physician to testify that I and
my wife had suffered physical
harm as a result of the illegal
actions.
That had a chilling effect on
my attempts at legal action, for
while both my wife and I were
suffering both mentally and
physically from this minor war
with THA, I realized that it
would be difficult to link it to
those medical problems. At this
time, I begin to feel that this
was one war with the
bureaucrats that I could not win.
It is at times such as these
that people feel the full impact
of how terrible it must be to live
under the shadow of a repressive
government, such as that in the
Soviet Union.
THA had returned to their wax
stripping, and I was still won-
dering bow they could get away
with renting an apartment that
didn't have a patio screen door.
Friday the 7th came, and to my
very great surprise, all wax
stripping on the floors had been
indefinitely stopped. Later in the
day, I learned that another
tenant had gotten into a vigorous
argument with the janitor over
the access issue. Now I knew my
fears and complaints were
justified But legal action seemed
out of the question.
However, as
Dan Morrissey, a 37 year old
professor at the University of
Tulsa Law School, announced
that he will be a candidate for
the democratic nomination for
Congress in Oklahoma's first
district.
“I want to represent the
majority of first district citizens,
not the power structure,” said
Morrissey. “My concern is for all
the residents of this area ..par-
ticularly for those on fixed in-
come and those who are worried
that they won’t have enough
money to pay both the rent and
the grocery bill.”
Morrissey cited economic
development of the region as his
top priority. “I teach business
and finance courses and un-
progressed, I begin to experience
acute diarrhea and a severe
headache. This became
progressively worse and was not
helped by the conflicting thoughts
I had regarding it. On the one
hand I might have the flu; on
the other the whole thing might
be a manifestation of the severe
stress I was under. When my
wife returned from school, she
insisted that we call the doctor.
It was late in the day, so we did
not, immediately reach him. I
was willing to wait until the
following Monday, but my wife
insisted that we call him at
home. So we did.
He was concerned, but felt that
it could be handled with regular
over-the-counter medicine. He
did, however, ask that we both
make an appointment to see him
and, although he wasn’t sure he
could link the stress and the
consequent physical symptoms
with the “THA War”, he was
concerned about the stress and
be advised us to try to alleviate
the situation. So there it was.
Back off. Doctors orders. We had
decided to do that when we co-
incidentally found out that one of
our neighbors was without beat,
that she had turned in a work
order about it early enough in
Pioneer before 5:00 p.m., and
that at about 4:00 p.m. the
maintenance man came to her
apartment and told her that she
would just have to make do until
Monday morning.
All she had in her apartment
for heat was her kitchen stove
and a small space heater, both
of which she had going when my
wife went to visit and to ask if
there was anything we could do.
She told my wife that she was
O.K.
Representatives from Lincoln
University in Jefferson Qty, MO,
will appear at the Tulsa Urban
League, M0 E. Apache, March 22
to speak with area high school
students and other interested
persons.
Turpen to run for governor
Attorney General Mike Turpen,
in four-city tour, announced his
candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of
Oklahoma.
In making the announcement,
Turpen reviewed his four years
as Oklahoma’s chief law en-
forcement officer and highlighted
his accomplishments.
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House suit. Won by a lucky man at a
drawing, April 26th, one o'clock p.m. No
purchase necessary need not be
present to win. Must be 18 or over.
she lived the words of President
Kennedy that every person can
make a difference, and every
person should try."
Morrissey serves on the
community action ministry at the
Church of the Resurrection; he is
a member of the Justice and
Peace Commission of the Diocese
of Tulsa; he’s an active volunteer
in the Sooner Chapter of the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and
also serves on the board of
Maximum Potential, Inc., a non-
profit corporation that provides
housing and job placement for
mentally retarded young adults.
He is also a precinct chair in
the Tulsa County Decmocratic
party and was a delegate to the
state and county convention in
1904.
School representatives to speak at Urban League
career counseling with
prospective Lincoln students.
The activity will begin at 10
am. and finish at 2 pm.
Lincoln University, founded in
1066, is a state-supported land-
grant institution offering
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