The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 61, No. 104, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1975 Page: 1 of 20
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Frwlayjebruary 7,1975
6 hl Year, No. 104
Norman OK 73069
Jackson
announces
Corrections probe ordered
I-
many
denied any wrongdoing by his his department
came after he contracted flu He irregularities, was reassigned by We have to have a change I'm just strategic arms both in Americi
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Regents reconsider
New contract awarded
had been posted at the airport
com-
Police at the airport runway
would not allow newsmen to get
The witnesses said Mr Onassis'
personal physicians and other
associates boarded an Olympic
had defied doctors' orders not to
venture outside his home.
of
or
heated discussion bet-
ween the two insurance
panics' representatives.
administration s U.S.-Soviet
Vladivostok arms limitation plan
department.
"I welcome this investigation,
“Our records will be
himself."
Boren said he called I.ash onto
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$800,000
The governor was asked if the
News In Briefs
Entertainment
Sports
Pidice Beat
Campus Notes
Boren said he expected lash to
OL AND OSL wrestlers meet
in the 89th renewal of the
B< dlam Series toiught p.8
VALENTINES are expected
to swamp the Student Post
Office in Adams Center this
year p.7
A SPECIAL MEETING has
been set for Monday con-
cerning a lack of in-
formation on completion of
the Norman Cable TV
system p. 15
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was accompanied by his wife, the
former Jacqueline Kennedy, and
was to be admitted to the
American Hospital in suburban
Neuilly.
Family sources in Athens said
Mrs Onassis had pressed for Mr
inside
IT’S SNOW FUN AT ALL-
Trekking across campus in
weather made uncomfortable by
the year's first snowfall became
difficult when below-freezing
temperatures created a thin layer
of ice on streets and sidewalks.
tPhoto-Paul Southerlandi
investigation, only to be told by of "Dillinger.”
He thus joined Hep Morris K.
Udall of Arizona, former Gov.
Boren and the Soviet Union that we neec
for the security of either nation.'
program spread risks over
members of the university group
with members sharing costs
proportionately.
Other objectives
that Bennett, who was assigned to
! the alleged
Onassis visits Paris
for muscle treatment
Phris AP Onassis' immediate transfer
Aristotle Onassis arrived in abroad ever since he was confined
Pans Thursday night for treat- to bed six days ago, but that Mr
Onassis' daughter and Greek
mismanagement of state funds by
the state corrections department
Thursday.
The crime bureau was also the
requested to investigate a possible <
cover-up of the allegations by dismissal
He (I.ash) must
1-ash as a guard at the maximum giving him the chance,1
security McAlester prison after he said
and the promptness of claim
payments. The regents also con-
sidered whether each companies' best'insurancep^owam '' '
Jack Cochran, director of OU
public relations, said the univer-
sity is not required by law to accept
the lowest bid, but rather to accept
included “the lowest and best bid."
Witnesses at Athens airport said
the 69-year-old Greek
multimillionaire and his wife
boarded a I car jet which had been
on the alert on the runway for the
past three days.
I .ash’s executive r
Earlene Mays resigned in protest
to lash's leadership.
(Xher department officials also whether these have any substance, Pentagon voting record and his
support of Vietnam war policy.
“I want to see arms reduced,”
Th* OU Board of Regents (----
Airways Boeing 707 which also Thursday night awarded the Harper presented .
had been posted at the airport. university’s group health in- of the objectives considered by the premiums necessary to
Olympic officials said the Boeing surance P'3" to another company regents when they awarded the
was specially equipped with beds idter reconsidering the awarding contract to American Fidelity,
and medical equipment. J*. Amerlcan Harper explained that the
regents considered objectives such tation,
OU Personnel Director Leonard keeping administrative costs to a
I an explanation minimum and requiring only those
. J pay ex-
penses and build necessary
reserves, Harper said
Following Harper's presen-
2__, representatives of
American Fidelity and American
National Insurance Go. told the
regents why they believed their
company offers the university the
of the plan to the American
Fidelity Assirance Co.
Gov David Boren expressed as long-range insurance protec-
concern this week when a regent tion, dependability of the program
within 100 yards of the departing subcommittee awarded the con-
couple and it was not possible to tract to the second highest bidder,
confirm whether Mr Onassis’ only
daughter, 24-year-old Christina, Th* regents awarded the new
had also left. Mrs. Onassis and contract to the low bidder,
Christina had stayed at the American National Insurance Co.
multimillionaire's bedside for after
most of the last three days,
relatives reported
Corrections Director Russell lash. tie (lash) must assume
lash pledged complete direction of that department"
cooperation with investigators and Boren said, adding that morale in
I seems to be at an
noren saw in a specially-called discuss the problems with the
press conference Thursday he told corrections department, which
lash he expected lash to improve included low morale among em-
administration of the ployes and the resignations of learned the allegations into misuse Oklahoma in a field that will in-
iwretions department or face three key correction department of state funds involved up to elude Sen IJoyd M Bentsen Jr. of
Texas on Feb. 17.
The favorite
candidacy
Washington AP
Sen. Henry M Jackson of
Washington formally unveiled his
candidacy for the 1976 Democratic
presidential nomination Thursday
night by pledging to use the White
House "to help the people in this
country who are getting hurt.”
Considered by many Democrats
the closest thing to a front-runner
in the growing, wide-open race,
Jackson has already raised at least
$1 million, more than any potential
candidate except .Alabama Gov.
George C. Wallace The 62-year-old
senator, who has been running
ever since he flopped in his party's
1972 race, made his formal
By JIM BRADSHAW denartment . t declaration in a five-minute,
Gov David Boren ordered the . .. ? Mr Lash,nust prove ^gan the investigation filmed telecast after the CBS
g* ,™,, bureau „ conduct . laah „.d ■ Our rXda Xte “ aard he railed Ush ,ten ."»k »«» M»eie', aluwing
„ the carpet Ihurslayiiioming Io laah M(there
Boren said in ajpecially-called discuss the problems with the matters requiring his attention.
An Oklahoma Qty radio station Jimmy Carter of Georgia and
reported Thursday afternoon it had former Sen Fred R. Harris of
face three key correction department of state funds involved
officials Wednesday,
The three officials, Business The governor was asked if the The favorite of rr.cr.y
Manager Raymond Johnson, crime bureau would investigate Democratic party regulars and
accountant James Bennett and the possiblty that some state funds old-line labor leaders, Jackson
secretary were diverted for personal use. sought in his announcement to
I “Yes," Boren replied, "there counter opposition from party
have been implications. As for liberals long opposed to his pro-
said they were on the verge of however, I’m not ready to say.
resigning over I-ash's leadership. p 121 r _ ,
Johnson resigned in protest of improve conditions within the the senator declared, but he
what he claimed was 1 .ash's ob- department soon, saying he hoped renewed his opposition to the
struction of an investigation into "to be seeing signs of un- administration's U.S.-Soviet
awarding of contracts for design provement" before he goes to
and construction of prison Washington Feb. 17 to request which he said is actually "going tc
ment of a muscular disease Onassis' daughter and Greek bu,ld‘ngs federal funds for upgrading ««t billions of dollars more for the
complicated by flu and fever. He doctors objected. Johnson claimed Wednesday Oklahoma’s prison system. defense budget.” He called foi
that Bennett, who was assigned to "Within the next weeks we must niutuai arms reduction "because
Die tycoon s confinement to bed investigate the alleged see some signs of improvement. we have more than enough ir
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Elston, Linn Ann. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 61, No. 104, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1975, newspaper, February 7, 1975; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1826140/m1/1/?q=technical+manual: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.