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James is named in an ll-count
indictment. The trial began Aug.
12.
The tribal leader testified in his
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sioners also wanted to wait until
an Oklahoma State Bureau of In-
t was completed
prospective Blue Ribbon
'tracks as “major”
^‘intermediate."
• Commissioner Paul Garris
•moved that the board declare an
^emergency and allow Executive
^Director Jack Boyd to follow
^proper legal procedure in setting
ing, but emerged shortly before
lunch to say they were hung up.
U.S. District Judge Ralph
Thompson gave the panel addi-
tional instructions and recessed
for a lunch break. He said the
jury would continue work follow -
one major track in the stale, to be
located in relation to the centers
__t , of population in Oklahoma —
Sept. 10. The sites and times for i.e., Tulsa or Oklahoma City.
The guidelines discussed in Po- •
lean were agreed upon by three ol
the six commissioners, said Chair-
woman Delores Mitchell, adding
that only lour commissioners at-
state.
Some of the items to be consid-
ered include adopting policies re-
flating to the size, type and num-
•ber of pari-mutuel tracks to be
".licensed, and the classification of build
as “major” and 10 miles north of the Oklahoma-
Texas border.
General guidelines concerning
the number of tracks to license in
the state, their size and their clas-
sification came out of an earlier
Call for your
appointment with
Pam Warren
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el tracks to be licensed in the Racing Commission."
The group was from southern
Oklahoma, and before the meet-
ing they picketed outside the
building. The commission has
three times denied a license to
a track near Thackerville,
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that the nearly $95,000 he re-
ceived from Shawnee builder
H.G. ‘‘Chuck" Thompson was
for campaign contributions and
was not intended to buy his
influence.
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; Pic HI R. Okla. (AP)
^Workers finished plugging a con-
•laminated water well in this
northeastern Oklahoma commu-
nity Wednesday and tests showed
’water from two other wells was
Safe to drink, a cits spokesman
Said.
;• The town ol 2.200 had been
^without running water since Mon-
'day, when Environmental Protec-
tion Agency subcontractors shut
Jpl’i -II ihr,»p ui’lk in order tn
iblock the well that was pumping
I’iron-contammated water.
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swere expected to be in full opera-
tion by late Wednesday, but city
^spokesman lorn Thomas said wa-
iter pressure would remain low un-
Mil a new well can be drilled.
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? Authorities had to abandon a
•.proposed site for a
•,Wednesday when they learned
there was an underground mine
^shaft within 45 feet ol where the
'new well would be drilled, he
•isaid.
•; The Picher area is honey-
tombed with abandoned mines
5 from lead and zinc operations ac-
•'live until the 1930s.
5 “The tentative plan now calls
' for the new site to be moved a lew
' hundred leet to the east,'' said
Thomas, a former Picher City
. Council member. He said the site
; would be on the grounds of an
? elementary school and the school
board would be asked for permis-
’ sion for the well to be drilled.
Until a new well is drilled,
• “there will be water, but there
2 will be extremely low pressure."
< Thomas said.
I; He said local and state health
I; departments were continuously
/ monitoring the water from the
x. two remaining wells to make sure
; it does not become tainted.
" W lule the wells were shut down
for two days, the Oklahoma Na-
< tjonal Guard provided a 5,000-
S gallon water tank tor residents,
f Thomas said city water depart-
Mineni employees and volunteer
-.' firemen distributed water to those
1 unable to travel to where the tank
< was located.
;• Area fire departments stood
;"ready to provide lite protection,
jjjtit they were not called upon.
“We’ve been very fortunate so
Jj far.’ Thomas said.
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issued al this time, and in the
immediate future;
—classification of pari-mutuel
racetracks as major and
intermediate;
mission would vote Wednesday
on the Poteau recommendations, tuel organization licenses must be
but Assistant Attorney General
Neal Leader advised the panel it
had not followed proper legal of Tulsa called tor the Sept. 10
procedure and needed to do so
Proper procedure includes pub- settled for the healing to be held
before as many commissioners as
can attend.
“Before voting on these very
important issues, I want to hear
sday, when Environmental Protec-
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oft all three wells in order to second day Wednesday in the
kickback trial of Overton James,
longtime governor of the Chicka-
The citv's two remaining wells saw Nation.
James, who was appointed in mg lunch.
1963 by then President John T.
Kennedy, is accused of taking
kickbacks in exchange for his in-
fluence in securing building con-
tracts for low-income housing for
tribal members in Ada and on behalf Monday and told the court
new well other tribal lands.
The jury began deliberations
I uesday afternoon and worked
until 9 p.m. without reaching a
decision. The panel returned to
the jury room W ednesday morn-
trick said. “I think we must spe-
cifically give the public an oppor-
tunity to be heard by the
commission."
Mitchell asked all the commis-
sioners to be in attendance for the
Sept. 13 vole.
“This might well be one of the
most important decisions you’ll
make lor the stale," she said.
The commission cited a lack of
information concerning how $10
million worth of capital improve-
ments will be made at Blue Rib-
— clarification of present crite- bon when it tabled a vote on the
ria and standards, and adoption track’s license renewal. Commis-
of additional criteria and stan-
dards to be considered in review-
ing applications for organization vestigation report
licenses; on a
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Pacing rules delayed by commission
on which application lor pari-mu-
filed.
Commissioner Sheldon Detrick
I OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - application.
□file Oklahoma Horse Racing A large group of people packed
^Commission, yielding to advice the small meeting room at the
the state Attorney General's OHRC’s offices. Several in the
office, Wednesday delayed until crowd wore T-shirts that read:
next month a vote on rules con- “Impeach Gov. Nigh. He Held
corning the number of pari-mutu- Oklahoma Back 3 Years With His before voting on rules.
lie posting of the meeting and a
public hearing on the issue.
Emergency had to be declared
because the Legislature, w hich re-
views all rules of the commission what the public has to say," De-
and has power to overturn them,
is not in session.
The public hearing and com-
mission meeting will concern only
these issues:
— adoption of policies relating
to size, type and number of pari-
workshop iii Poteau. One conclu- mutuel organization licenses to be
ip another meeting at whith votes sion was that there should be just
on those issues could be taken.
The meeting was scheduled lor
Sept. 13. with a public hearing set
meetings was not determined.
In another matter, the racing
commission tabled until its next
neetmg a motion to renew a li-
ense lor Blue Ribbon Downs,
vending receipt ol information tended the meeting,
nissing on the track s I: s r*‘‘
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Knickmeyer, Ellen. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 72, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1985, newspaper, August 22, 1985; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1821989/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.