The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 67, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1987 Page: 1 of 14
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his balance and cat ice laden tree
branches on a garage not at Bostoa ■
Avenue and Ptne Street. De La Crux
is one. of nearly 406-workers ■
restoring electricity in Tulsa after N
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retirement. “I had mixed emotions
about retiring. I thoroughly enjoyed
teaching and I have seen some
drastic changes as the years have
gone by and some good
changes,too," Curl said. She recalls
the bright second grade students
who learned to read very well when
they left the first grade. Curl at-
tends the International Gospel
Center for Bible study and plans to
do some travelling with her
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"We make America better u hen u e aid out people.
Southwest Telecommunications;
Tulsa Junior College; and Curtis
Lawson.
Members of the parade committee
have asked the city to waive the
$500 fee for providing police security
for the parade.
of the damage," he said. "The storm
could have been five times worse.
We were lucky.”
However, repairman and tree-
cutting services from four states:
Kansas, Louisiana, Texas and
Arkansas may not feel very lucky.
Some arrived as early as Christmas
Day for what they were told would
be four days of hard work.
"Looking at how bad (the storm
hit) we could be here for another
week or two,” said Weldon Thomas,
of Fort Worth, Texas. He is em-
500 emergency telephone calls. “Some of those calls were trom ployed with ASPLUNDH, a Texas-
Before freezing rain and ice began people in private homes, hooked up based company that arrived
to fall Thursday, the fire department to life support systems,” Stoops Saturday to cut trees.
’’ — . !•"“ .. .-Firefighters carried tern- "it was hard for me to leavehome
porary support systems and small, on Saturday,” Thomas said.
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"it may” be the end of the week
before service is fully restored,"
PSO spokesman Kevin Harrison
said rumors of transformers
arriving from New York are false.
"We have enough transmitters.
The problem lies within the power
lines," he said. Harrison said about
70 "feeder” lines were repaired
Monday night and work crews
Special Events Center; East Tulsa
Dodge; Classic Car Club; Whole
World Family Supper; Harold Wise
Co.; Shaylaco Security Co.; Helping
Hands; Lee Fegan Pre-school and
Day Care; Wayne Phillip Smith Co.;
Transportation available
The 1986 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebration for the State of
Oklahoma will be held on January 20th at the State Capitol. In keeping
with previous celebrations of 1986 & 1987, the activities of this com-
memoration will include a joint session of the legislative body with a
noted guest speaker; educational activities with poster, essay and
See Holiday Pagel
Tulsa's Mayo Hotel may still be
resurrected into a 275-room suite
hotel, despite last week's opposition
from north Tulsans and a mayorial
candidate who believed CDBG funds
would become a thing of the past.
The opponents of the renovation
were not fully informed about how
City Development would use $10
million in future CDBG money - that
would normally be used for housing
programs, food service and tran-
sportation - as collateral for a group
of private Investors’ loan, without
cancelling services, said Pat Conley
of City Development.
“We will continue to receive about
$3.3 million CDBG funds, and con-
“We have repair crews working on
it, but we cannot determine when
power will be fully restored," said
Nancy Harlow spokesman for PSO.
Meanwhile, exhausted repairmen
worked in. near-freezing tem-
peratures Tuesday, for the fourth
straight day.
Harlow said most of the 400 work-
men were concentrated in the area
encompassing 38th Street North to
Tulsa City Commissioners voted unanimously to cancel the contract of
Clean-All Janitorial Service, January 9. The block-owned company had been
in charge of cleaning City Hall and other city buildings.
Helena Caldwell and Raymond Alberty received the Humanitarians of the
Year Awards January 8, at the Tulsa Community Action Agency’s annual
meeting.
A small crowd of Tulsans braved bitter cold and dangerous sheets of ice
January 19, to join hands and march in the first annual Martin Luther King
Parade.
Civil Rights marchers in Forsyth, GA., were greeted by 400 rock-throwing
Klansmen. One week later, 25,000, demonstrators showed up at Forsyth in a
"March Against Fear and Intimidation. '
February
The Tulsa School Board voted unanimously to elect Judy Eason-McIntyre
as school board president and Vernon Hobbs as vice president This is the
first time in Tulsa history blacks have been elected to serve in both positions.
An all-white jury ordered that a black Vian school teacher, fired In April
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destruction of Earl and Myrna Jackson’s home near Kellyville. Jackson s
house had been bulldozed into rubble. Russell Sawyer, who reportedly
had the house removed, claimed he owned the property.
Two Creek County residents, Larry Cole and Edward Washington, were
charged with conspiring to manufacture PCP.
Luther Woodard and Ray Freeman were re-elected as state com-
mitteeman and district committeeman, respectively, from Osage County.
Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., spoke at the University
of Tulsa on February 11.
The Other Brothers' Club hosted the fifth annual Jewels 'N Gems Fashion
F Renowrie?authors. Dr. Nathan and Julia Hare, spoke at Rudisill Library
Feb 19 as part of Tulsa’s Afro-American History month celebration
See 1007 Pagel
The trees are older and larger and
when they fell, a great number of
power lines collapsed with them,"
she said.
Rainfall Christmas Eve (only .26-
inches) and Christmas Day, com-
bined with cold Arctic air near the
ground and wanner Gulf air above
caused falling rain to freeze,
said Jim Giles of KOTV.
"The 1.29-inches of rain and ice
3Mh"’«reet "South and from 25th pellets that fell Friday caused most
Street west to Delaware on the east.
"Those areas were the hardest hit.
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house,” he said.
Stoops said more than 10
firefighters received burns and
injuries during rescue attempts.
'They an doing well,” be said.
at Cincinnati Avenue and Jasper Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries; DEA
St.(Pioneer and Sunset Plaza) and
will end at Apache and Cincinnati at
the Special Events Center.
All city employees will have the Cell Anemia Research Foundation,
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THE WINTER ICE STORM
damaged many trees in the North
Tulsa area, causing damage to
many homes and blocking roads the
day after Christmas.
missioner J.D. Metcalfe did donate speech by the winner of the high
$100 each towards covering the cost sdiool oratorical contest.
of security. According to the On January 16, from 5 p.m. to 7
mayor’s press secretary Sam Jones, p.m. a documentary film on MLK
the mayor has said he will donate will be presented at the University of
the remaining $300 if no one else “ —
does.
Glen Raney, Design Director for
Major Affairs, said there is still time
to order floats for the parade as long
as they’re not “super spectacular."
Also on January 17, State Sen.
Maxine Homer will speak at 6 p.m.,
January 17, at TU’s MLK Com-
memorative Service at TU’s Sharp
Chapel, 7th St. and Evanston
Avenue.
See King Page 6
Crawford said the city could not Tulsa school choirs will be heldjtW
waive the fee for one organization
without waivering it for all.
However the Mayor and Com-
Longtime educators retire
husband.
Marquette Haynes retired after 24
years in the TPS system. She was a
first grade homeroom teacher at
Frost Elementary School. "I would
have felt better if I could have left in
May, I feel that I have done only one-
half of a job by leaving in the middle
of the year. I really stressed the
three R’s and my kids have come
through. I will certainly qjisamy
See Teachers PageS
Activities planned for annualMLK celebration
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Activities are being planned for
Tulsa's second annual celebration of
Martin Luther King’s Birthday.
Over 20 organizations have notified
the MLK commemoration society
they will be participating in the
January 18 parade.
The theme of the parade is "Say
CDBG fund use clarified
tlnue to spend $3.3 million in
programs,” Conley said.
He said CDBG funds will be
secured through a $10 million
provision placed on the contract
with the private investors, who seek
a $10 million 108 loan from HUD.
Conley said pledging the CDBG
funds would only help secure an
investment loan.
"When investors apply for the $10
million with Smith-Barney (In-
vestment loan service) they will
present a guarantee from City
Development that the loan will not
be defaulted,” Conley said.
Federal legislation states that a
city department may secure a loan if
will be closed for the national
holiday.
Parade chairman Sister Sylvia
Schmidt is encouraging
organizations to participate by
sponsoring a float or making a
donation.
r Those wishing more information
Yes to Success" in observance of about the parade can contact Sister
King’s belief that everybody can Sylvia or Leon Rollerson at 582-3147.
Organizations involved in the
parade as of this writing include:
Of the 199 Tulsa Public School
employees that took advantage of
the early retirement incentive
program, 10 black educators have
retired after many years of service.
. Peaches Curl retired after 27
the investors cannot meet the loan years of consecutive service to TPS.
deadline. Citv Development will She was a special education teacher
at Roosevelt at the time of her
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One of the few totally destroyed be working block-by-block.
homes was Teresa White’s, Meanwhile, treetrimming crews
firefighters reported. have been visiting homes and cut-
See Fire Page 7 See Storm Page 7
ditlonal 200.
“This storm was worse for us than ----..
the 1984 Memorial Day flood," said large fires. Many homes received
Chief Mike Graves. extensive damage, but we were able
“There’s always an increase in the to contain each individual fire to that
number of fires in an average
weekend at Christmastime. But this
year was about five times worse
than others,” he said.
Although data will not be com-
pleted for several days, district
operations chief Howard Stoops said
firefighters responded to a total of
578 calls. Most callers said fires
the security will not jeopardize the
department and if the business
venture would help stabilize the
city’s economy. The Mayo Hotel is
listed on the National Register of
Historical Sites, and Tulsa’s need
for added hotel-motel space
downtown would qualify its
preservation for the loan.
"What we are doing is taking it
one step further: we are insisting
that the investors supply an
irrevocable letter of credit, from a
reputable bank, to City Develop-
ment for $10 million," Conley said. If
deadline, City Development will
See Mayo Page I
1987: Recapping the written pages....
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It was the best of times and the worst of times, putting it simply: A suit
filed again* the City of Tulsa brought tension to Tulsa citizens; Michael
Jackson released a new album; Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died;
the “yuppie" generation became working folk like everyone else; "Red
Williams celebrated his 84(7) birthday, and the Oklahoma Eagle celebrated
- its 67th year in business.
January
Many Tulsans started the year of 1987 by observing Kwanzaa, an
American version of the African harvest celebration.
The Task Force on Higher Education recommended that Langston
University by eliminated as a part of the University Center at Tulsa.
First degree murder charges were filed against Larry Hamilton tn the
Christmas Eve 1986 beating death of 89-year-old Nora Myrtle Davis.
Mayor Dick Crawford declared January 10, as Christopher Davis Day in
Tulsa. As part of the day’s activities, the mayor spoke at a gospel concert to
raise money for Davis' needed liver transplant Funds are still below the
necessary $210,000.
Electricity, heat and tree-limbs started as a result of fallen
aren’t the only losses reported from powerlines, from a wood-burning
last week's ice storm. Tulsa fireplace, their homes or kerosene
firefighters responded to more than lamps, he said.
"Some of those calls were from
Before freezing rain and ice began people in private homes, hooted up
to fall Thursday, the fire department to life support systems, Stoops
answered nearly 560 telephone calls said. “Firefighters carried tem-
in 1987. Christmas Day alone, pvimj —---—. ------.. --—
firefighters responded to an ad- portable electric generators for Although repair work is slow and
dltional200 those victims. "* mov ** ,he of wee't
“Luckily, there weren’t many
111 E. ADMIRAL BLVD. TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74120
Holiday storm paralyzes city^
Tulsans de-icing
By A. Lee
Staff Writer
Communications; Rollerson
Enterprises; Black Eagle Enter-
prises; The Oklahoma Eagle; Sickle
day off and many private businesses Inc.; Urban League of Tulsa;
Described as the third cruel storm
to hit Oklahoma this year - the
blanket of ice that covered Tulsa
streets last week still has many
Tulsans without electricity for the
fifth straight day.
Although repair crews have been
working 34-hours a day, nearly
10,000 Tulsans are still unable to
enjoy electricity, said a spokesman
for Public Service Co.
Fire and ice
fearsome duo
Electricity, heat and tree-limbs
Tulsa
On January 18, from 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. a documentary film on MLK
Tulsa, Tyrell Hall, at 7th St. and
Evanston Ave. The winning essays
from TU and Tulsa Public Schools
will also be featured.
On January 17 Theatre North will
, , . present a concert for the public at 3
Major Affairs built many of the p.m. It features Morris McCorvey in
floats in Tulsa’s Christmas parade "A Letter From a Birmingham
and it has helped many churches, Jail,” selections by Alice Williams
schools and other organizations with and Keith Jemison, and the "I Have
fund raisers. a Dream” speech by the winner of
Other activities to celebrate the oratorical contest.
King’s birthday include:
On January 15, a concert featuring
Mayor Dick Tulsa pianist Donald Ryan and the
a.m. at the Brady Theatre, 105 W.
Brady St. The concert will also
feature King’s “I Have a Dream"
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