The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 63, No. 202, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 1977 Page: 1 of 6
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Problems of
the handicapped topics at seminar
dicapped people can reside while atten
wetety designed for non handicapped
tions.
intense competition between the men.
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Oil flow undisturbed
The most serious was caused by an ex-
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A two-semester coarse studying
women in Oklahoma history is being
offered beginning this fall by the OU
Women's Stndie* Program See
Sion, page 2.
Garrett said the staff attorney assign-
ed to the case sought assistance and m-
The Urban I eague is a predominantly
black organization interested in civil
people are complaining about the dollar
cost of providing education to handicap
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audible
ear old
exually
her con
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merce is displaying to downtown
merchants a plan to restore and
revitalise their section of town. See
story, page 5.
Johnson was unasailable for com-
ment.
supports,' Pollitt said. “The insulation
was
require the
as wider
j may
ann-race
the line
Explosive devices "appeared to have
been placed in the pipeline support
.. "We don't
know what type of explosive material
was used, and we don’t know how much
was used But it definitely was a man
made cause."
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ice dur-
the last
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choked
me. she
Editorials
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The magazine Johnson alleges,
contains pictures and factual errors
which should not have appeared in
the publication
PANEIINTs tl-ri Aadine Roach,
baren Ires and Judv hat/ were featured
luesdav in a discussion of discrimina-
involved in the managerial ranks of cor Katz said
potations She said women are also not
in the key places where the important in-
many black people laws "after eight years of not-so-bemgn
been betrayed” by what he said was the Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell later address-
administration’s unresponsiveness to ed the convention, making him the
Since women are not always in the
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they miss out on a lol of the important
discussions within a business, Katz said
Irey said women in offices are
recognized not for their achiesement but
for their sex roles
Katz believes in the business world,
women are categorized into four groups
She said the mother role of the r
in business life encompasses all of the
lion and women at the IRih annual
Human Relations weminar currently on-
Hands said he would be meeting
with some of the fraternity alumni
and would comment on the matter
further today .
business connections and his job on l'
tax panel, was the catalyst for the com-
mission inquiry.
In his letter of resignation, Rogers, a
ed political harassment
“Those with political differences have
used their influence to try to discredit
me and embarrass the commission.”
Rogers said.
He did not identify those he said were
harassing him and could not be reached
for additional comment.
The former Democratic senator from fice.
Hands declined further comment
on the issue, but admitted a meeting
had been scheduled between himself
and Johnson
ded, those are few indeed
There has been a good deal of talk
lately by college administrators across
the nation about the financial impact of
I federal laws prohibiting
against the physically
Johnson, in his letter to incoming
freshmen who might be anticipating
joining the Greek system, charged
the fraternity with printing "inac-
curate and erroneous” information
about the fraternity.
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"All I can say right now about the
situation is that it was a big
misunderstanding." said Pi Kappa
Alpha president Rick Hands concer-
ning some apparent trouble between
the fraternity and OU fraternity
coordinator Josepn E. Johnson
The misunderstanding Hands is
referring to is that over a rush
magazine. "Pikeboy" which the
fraternity printed in an effort to lure
pledges
going at 01 s OCCE- <staff photo hv
Mevr Pallet)
On Tuesday, Labor Secretary Ray
Marshall told the convention that the
administration is dedicated to struct en-
OKLAHOMA CITY (API - Former
state Sen Cleeta John Rogers resigned
Tuesday as the first assistant general
counsel for the Oklahoma Tax Commis-
sion in the wake of an anticipated state
investigation into his business dealings.
D M. Bern, chairman of the Tax
Commission, confirmed the commission
bad initiated a "cursory" inquiry into
Rogers' business dealings that resulted
in his resignation.
Berry said a story in The Sunday
Oklahoman, which raised questions of
possible conflicts of interest in Rogers'
although "Pikeboy" editor Mark
Cusack said only 45 people were on
the "Pikeboy" mailing list.
•hich authorities said were deliberately
s«t blew away insulation i
Alaska pipeline about 15 miles north of
here but did not interfere with the flow
of oil
About JO to 40 feet of an above-
ground section of the pipeline were
damaged. Larry Talbert, state deputy
commissioner of public safety, said
Tuesday
The blast site is about a mile north of
a cafe and about five miles off a state
highway in an almost jungle-like area
thick with spruce, willow and birch
trees
TaP*ert said wires, batteries and what
appeared to be detonators were found
Walter Mason, OU's affirmative ac
non officer, said he agrees the goal of
making public buildings accessible to the
handicapped should be striven for. But
he added it is not he whom the sup-
porters of the goal have to convince, it is
the legislature.
A Student newspaper
serving the
Iniversity of Oklahoma
community
Then, privately. Carter took Jordan
aside and made clear his feeling that
public criticism of the administration
was "damaging to the hopes and aspira-
tions of t hose poor people. ’ ’
him to tell Berry that if the Tax Com- I
mission made a decision "that it not be |
based on information in newspaper ar- ■
tides.'* |
Tax Commission member John Gar-
rett said the commission's preliminary
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have Rogers appointed acting Tulsa anything wrong.
But he said that if Rogers had not
resigned. *‘l think we would have gone
into an extensive type of investigation."
One of the allegations in the
newspaper story was that Rogers work- *
ed on a sales tax shortage case from a
company with which he was associated.
In reaction to the magazine.
Johnson mailed out letters last week
to 2,100 incoming freshmen men
VAerfnesdav, July 27. 1977
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fourth Cabinet-level offficial to lake the
podium.
Marshall said Carter has made civil
rights a key area of his government
reorganization project in order to im-
prove coordination among agencies
responsible for enforcing those laws.
When Carter addressed the conven-
tion Monday, he called Jordan "my
good friend,” and said the im-
provements he wanted to make in the
lives of poor people would take more
time
by pipeline blasts
FAIRBANKS AKtAPl — Explosions totaling | J days of delay
fill' H 3111 naxeif ■«* * -*tz4 • ,
) I he most serious was caused bv an ex-
on part ofjhe plosion on July 8 ai a pump station that
- caused a $hutdown f)n Ju|^ 4
cold liquid nitrogen caused a crack that
forced a 2 day shutdown.
There have been several other shut-
downs of several hours, including a .
stoppage after a truck hit a valve on July of the pipeline which"slants"downwa7d
19 causing an c“ ”
estimates totaled 42,000gallons. of a point where it goes underground.
A U.S Interior Department The pipe is about three or four feet
spokesman says that Alyeska patrols the above ground at that point, the closest it
times a day since it is near a populated
FOOT RFI IFF from hot pavement h seeking lack relief amid risiaa
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dre» All of Norman has probable been
non with the Tax Commission.
But Pyron said the agreement was
contingent upon a request in wntme
from Berry.
He said the governor's office did con-
cun thai the Tax Commission should
conduct its own probe "because of the
sensitive nature" of Rogers' position.
Pvron said Gov Boren authorized
there were "apparently several blasts"
in the area
The explosion is the latest in a series
of difficulties that have plagued the UIS
pipeline since it began pumping oil on sulation on the pipe and to the pipeline
There have been four shutdowns
Aleysk a officials said there was no
halt in oil flow in the line The oil front
had reached Mile '40 on Tuesdav morn-
ing and was expected to reach the
pipeline's southern terminal at Valdez
torn away and blown away in some on Thursday or Friday
Carter moving quickly to squelch
new criticism from black leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) — President black problem
Carter, who readily acknowledges the ~
role black voters played in electing him,
is moving quickly in public and private rights and”city problems
to cut off criticism of his administration Carter was joined by two ranking
by black leaders. black Cabinet-level officials, U.N. Am-
Soon after Vernon Jordan, executive bassador Andrew Young and Patricia
director of the National Urban League, Roberts Harris, the secretary of housing
issued a stinging critique Sunday of the and urban development, in defending
Carter administration's first six months, the administration before the conven-
the President, members of his Cabinet non.
and W hue House aides were responding
with aggressive defenses of the ad-
ministration's work. w
Jordan had told the Urban League forcement of the nanon's civil rights
convention that "manv black people laws "after eight years of not-so-bemgn
feel that their hopes and their needs have neglect.”
been betrayed” by what he said was the Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell later address-
ee Oklahoma City was named a tax com-
mission attorney after Gov. David
Boren rejected a Senate move to have
one-time candidate for governor.charg- Ffcwts SXemh devated"'ikfini
assistant chief counsel. .... t
_o Boren ^ad °PP°sed Senate moves inquiry failed to show Rogers had done
County tag agent and chief counsel of
the Tax Commission.
Rob Pyron. Boren's news secretary,
said events leading to the resignation
•ere not initiated by the governor's of-
He said Berry asked the governor’s
office for advice and was told Boren
would agree to an Oklahoma State
Bureau of Investigation probe of any
possible conflict of interest between formation from Rogers He said Rogers
.“,l"ess dealings and hi* post- confirmed he had helped organize the
firm and volunteered to contact the
company owners.
Garrett said Rogers was able to get the
owners to make a partial pavment and
contract for installment payments for
the remainder
“There was nothing illegal or
unethical in what he wav doing," Gar-
rett said
women,
The costs of meeting the federal
guidelines are "prohibitive indeed,"
Mason said, and he doubted if OL could
meet the guidelines without some
federal assistance
The federal laws prohibiting
discrimination do not provide for
federal funds to help implement new
policies, Mason said.
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ofS'X?nmmM.tmna'a»Z,nlhom7n ™ *°™n n* Another class.f.canon of women
highhghlrt diluwon TueJav TZ i / P 7'he ,mTx,r‘an’,n •»’.ch she spelled out .s the office pet or
li’h annual Human Relates f%mal "e be.ng made "cheerleader " of fht office She n the
being held this week it the nil h *f,nien are TJ01 alwa>' in the mascot or humorous faction to the
/,nl*,, „ , * f? Ok h * m<n * rc',room'' «olf courses or bars, business
Thr ni °n ?U'ng du*‘a,l0n ’hey miss out on a lol of the important Katz said the final category for
paidI diKussmn^of^wome’n Ind d7USMOn'*"h,n a hu'inf'\'<a'^'d women m busmess >s the .ton maiden
discrimination ai the carls aliens *om'n in art who speaks her mind and is pushed so
IsoZofTsemmar ' “ b“' thaIdoming mH,
soJiaVTor?Mmhode3XPrd!T0°„f K,U a ■' ««
which also mSed Karli Irt a •‘•men are categonzed into four groups one of these roles it is very dtff.cult for
wn cn also involved Karen Irey. assis- She said the mother role of the woman her to become at all flexible
Katz S^nt JoZ Th m*1 'n ’’“'"T en<ompa's<' 111 of ,hf •‘•men ,n the busmess world
Kau. assistant professor of human rda emotional impact of the ofhee are be.ng pushed into the same roles
Katz told the aroun then-ar» r i C '•a,cFnry' 'hc said- m which women at home are pushed into
t old the group there are plenty of solves the woman as a sex object or She said habs showers dinners or nar
f.t..„ !h " 01 c' " °',,n "“<*>**'»( '<™i< lioion of cite
Katz said there are vers few women intense competition between the men x
of the need to open society to the han discrimination
dicapped handicapped
Kutz and Dunsky commented on the Because the laws will reM
lack of housing facilities for handicap building of new facilities, such as.
ped students at OU. There used to be doors and new elevators, the laws
housing tn Hester Robertson Hall. Kutz hit manv colleges harder than
said, hut it was done awav with in 1973. discrimination legislation did
and now OU has no center in which han Kutz said she “ain’t believe" so manv
spots."
Some sections of the pipeline are
under ground and others are above
ground The above-ground sections rest
on metal cross-supports elevated by steel
posts about six feet high Pollitt said
some cross-supports were dented.
The explosions occurred at a section
Alv"ki «oa^rian0^
The pipe is about three or four feet
area where the explosion took place four comes to the ground on that section of
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area Alyeska would not comment on its
security operations r
near lhal lo-nn. nf .h, gm _______ a A’*’''*’ ’*CUr?> °ff'Cer' rCpOr,ed lhf PtMlitKrnd.'
near that section of the 800-miie pipeline damage to authorities about 9 pm
operated by Alyeska Pipeline Service Monday qight. but Talbert .aid the ex
°. n , „ plosions probably occurred on or before
State Police Lt. George Pollitt said last Saturday
He said investigators were attempting
to lift fingerprints from the pipeline at
the scene.
"There was blast damage to the m-
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The plight of handicapped people tn a dmg7)U
f°f non hand,caPT*d Because of this, Kutz and Dunskv ped people
people has begun to receive some public said, many handicapped students are
and governmental attention in the past dropping out of OU. and some are at
lew years But. according to two co- tending other schools which are better
directors of workshops on the handicap equipped to provide for the needs of
ped there still exist manv barriers to the handicapped students Though thev ad
handicapped which must be eradicated -•— -
Helen Kutz and Gail Dunsky, speak
mg to Tuesday's late afternoon session
of the IHth Annual Human Relations
Seminar which is being held at OU. told several
dicapped
Kutz and Dunsky commented on the
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Duck, Marilyn. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 63, No. 202, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 1977, newspaper, July 27, 1977; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1829802/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.