The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 64, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1977 Page: 1 of 18
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...in the nation
Pressure mounts
Boomer to continue
despite council vote
Sales cut ahead?
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‘Tax’ bill criticized
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When New Dawn Productions began stag-
ing concerts at the Boomer last summer, a
Class A license was obtained which allowed
sales of 3,2 beer if more than half the conces-
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TULSA (AP) — D.W. Calvert, president of the
Oklahoma Petroleum Council, called the ad-
ministration energy bill before Congress
"another tax bill in disguise" Wednesday. The
bill would generate additional tax revenues and
would force consumers to pay Increased prices,
he said. "Although increased prices might
discourage consumption somewhat, taxation will
never produce a single barrel of replacement oil
or a cubic foot of natural gas. We would all be
paying the replacement cost of energy we use,
but the energy would not be replenished."
NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Motor Co., to meet
federal fuel efficiency laws, may have to
discourage sales of large cars, Lee lacocca,
Ford's president, said Wednesday. The federal
mileage law requires auto manufacturers to meet
a minimum fuel economy standard of 18 miles
per gallon on all 1978-model cars produced In the
U.S. "This could create some problems for us In
the next 12 months," lacocca said.
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By STEVE WALDEN
Prohibiting beer sales at the Boomer
Theatre will cut into operating revenues but
will not result in the theater’s closing, a New
Dawn Productions spokesman said Wednes-
day.
The Norman City Council Tuesday re-
jected a recommendation of the Norman
Planning Commission that the theater be
granted permissive use to operate under
nightclub status in the commercially-zoned
Campus Corner area.
New Dawn Productions, which operates
the Boomer, had requested the permissive
use because beer concession receipts at the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure mounted
Wednesday for quick House-Senate agreement
on an abortion policy At stake is a $60.2 billion
appropriations bill for the Department of Labor
and the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare. Current funding for those agencies runs
out Friday, the end of fiscal year 1977 The
House position is that the government should
pay for abortions only when a woman's life
would be jeopardized by a full-term pregnancy.
The Senate position is that the poor should be
eligible for federally funded abortions in cases
of rape or incest, or where medically necessary.
Items questioned
STILLWATER (AP) — Charles Platt, the director
of Oklahoma State University's fund raising cor-
poration, will appear before the organization's
board of trustees Friday to explain bills for
travel, entertainment and personal items which
have been questioned. A petition with names of
several employes alleged that Platt abused his
expense allowances on a trip to the Tangerine
Bowl last December and listed other items which
they questioned.
compromise seen
the 1960s, although the Senate would continue meeting
until late Wednesday night.
Earlier, Abourezk and Metzenbaum had vowed to
block a vote on the deregulation of natural gas prices by
the unusual device of calling up about SOO amendments,
one after the other, for Senate action.
Late Tuesday, Carter administration officials said
they would agree to a compromise natural gas price ceil-
ing of $2.03 per thousand cubic feet, a 28 cent increase
over $1.75, the original price in the energy plan.
The price is currently fixed at $1.46.
On the only real test vote so far, the Senate indicated
tentative although narrow support for an industry-
backed deregulation plan sponsored by Sens. Bentsen
and Pearson.
Abourezk and Metzenbaum say they hope to switch
enough votes to prevent the Senate from lifting price
controls. But if they succeed in preventing any vote on
natural gas, the present $1.46 price ceiling will remain in
place.
As the sun rose over the Capitol, Byrd declared,
"We’ve had about enough of this foolishness.”
Senate decorum was set aside and there were periodic
flashes of anger by senators irritated at the tactics of
Abourezk and Metzenbaum.
continued on page 2
TULSA (AP) — A possible annexation of the Oral
Roberts University campus to Jenks is not likely,
the city manager of Jenks said Wednesday. The
Rev. Oral Roberts, founder and president of the
university, touched on the possibility at a lun-
cheon recently, after he mentioned zoning and
building permit problems he was having in Tulsa.
The idea was brought up by a member of the au-
dience. Jenks City Manager Rod Ray said
Roberts "laughed and said, 'It might not be a
bad Idea.'" Such a change, Ray said, would
create "terrific logistic problems" and "would
take a miracle."
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Filibuster ends;
By LYNN MONTGOMERY
Strictly speaking, a fireman is a member of
a company organized to put out fires.
But who do you call when a horse stumbles
into your swimming pool? Or your child has
his hand caught in a candy machine? What
about when your cat won’t come down from
a tree?
"People who don’t know who to call for
help with a peculiar problem often call the
fire department,” Jim Davis, assistant fire
chief of the Norman Fire Department, said in
a recent interview.
A discussion among personnel from two of
Norman’s three fire stations revealed the
unusual calls the fire department has receiv-
ed.
Dispatcher Judy Kula remembers the time
a man called and wanted his swimming pool
filled by a fire hydrant.
"He thought it was a public service,” Kula
said.
The fire department has also visited more
than one backyard cookout, Davis said.
“We get calls from people who see
smoke," he said, "and when it turns out to
be a barbeque in someone’s backyard, it can
be pretty embarrassing to us.”
Many of the unusual calls to the fire
14 department pertain to animals.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate adjourned
Wednesday night without voting on natural gas legisla-
tion after a 37-hour session that resulted in a com-
promise that could break a nine-day Senate impasse.
The Senate planned to begin work Thursday morning
on a compromise offered by Majority Leader Robert C.
Byrd and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-WA, chairman of
the Senate Energy Committee.
At issue is a critical portion of President Carter’s
energy plan allowing for higher natural gas prices at the
wellhead, but providing for continued federal controls.
The Senate Democratic leadership hopes the new
compromise will be acceptable to supporters and op-
ponents of deregulated gas.
Before taking up the Jackson proposal, however, the
Senate must vote on a complicated parliamentary tactic
designed to get the proposal to the floor. That tactic
would allow a clear-cut Senate vote on the issue of
natural gas deregulation.
While retaining federal controls on natural gas, the
Jackson compromise would allow producers to charge
more for gas than called for under President Carter's
energy plan. Under the key proposal made Wednesday,
it also would permit greater quantities of gas to qualify
for the same higher prices.
Sen. James Abourezk, D-SD, one of two filibuster
Wilburn Hurst of Fire Station No. 3 recalls
the time a woman called and said she was
worried about a bird that was sitting on a
highline.
“She said it had been on the highline for
over two hours and it was beginning to get
dark and it wouldn't come down,” Hurst
said.
"She became very belligerent when 1 told
her it was probably roosting on the
highline,” he said.
Perhaps the most unusual call that the
Norman Fire Department has received was
about a horse that had fallen into a swimm-
ing pool, Davis said. A wrecker was used to
get the horse out of the pool.
The fire department has also dealt with
cats and squirrels "stranded" in trees and
birds nesting in chimneys.
The fire department handles many false
alarms as well as strange situations, Davis
said, but “it’s part of the job and you get us-
ed to it.”
The three Norman fire stations, which
cover approximately 197 square miles, are
located at 411 East Main St., 2000 West
Boyd St. and 401 East Lindsey St.
Emergency calls may be phoned in at 321-
3131. All other calls, 321 -8696.
By BILL CRUM
A question arose Wednesday as to when federal day
care center regulations concerning child to staff ratios
go into effect.
Rob Pyron, Governor Boren’s press secretary said
Wednesday the Oklahoma State Welfare Department
had talked to federal officials who said they had not
received orders from the Department of Health, Educa-
tion and Welfare to enforce the regulations.
One congressional aide reported Congress had
delayed implementation of the regulations until April 1,
however an aide to Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-OK, said
Wednesday that only the House of Representatives had
approved the delay.
A three-judge federal panel ruled Monday that strict
new staffing requirements for the day care centers must
go into effect Saturday.
However, regardless of when the ruling will take ef-
fect, the ruling which would require one staff member
for each child under six weeks of age and one for every
four children aged six weeks to three years, is being op-
posed by the Boren administration and local day care
center operators.
Gov. David Boren asked the state Welfare Depart-
ment Wednesday to develop some program possibilities
to soften the blow of the increased federal day care staf-
fing requirements.
The Boren administration has been strongly opposed
to the HEW guidelines since they were first suggested
more than two years ago.
"We’re not going to let one single mother be forced
out of her job due to increases in day care costs," Pyron
said.
Day care center operators contacted in Norman by
the Oklahoma Daily were
proval of the regulations.
“It’s going to mean a lot of changes,” said Victoria
Deppert, director of Middle Earth Day Care Center.
Jimmie Landers, a staff member at Canterbury
Schools Day Care Center, called the regulations
“almost an impossibility.”
“It would be to the point of being ridiculous,” she
said, noting that Canterbury is a drop-in day care ser-
vice and the staff never knows how many children will
be in the center at a given time. When contacted
Wednesday she said there were 14 infants at the center,
with one staff member for every four children.
“Whoever drew up the regulations had never been in
day care and never worked with children,” said Shirley
Clark, director of Alameda Day Care Center.
“Anybody who works with infants knows that they
sleep about half the time and that the worker would
have to sit and look at the child.”
Clark said her center could comply with the guidelines
if the federal government would pay the wages for the
new help. She said the government subsidizes children
whose mothers are working if the mothers would other-
wise be on welfare.
Clark said “prices would have to go so high" and that
the staff would have to almost be doubled. She said her
center receives no HEW funds at the moment, though
nearly half of the children are HEW children.
Current rates for children at the Alameda center are
$6 per day. Clark said this would go up to $8 or $9 per
day when the new regulations go into effect. She said
there are now eight children for each staff member at
the center.
Polygamist hunted
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Last May 10.
naturopathic physician Dr. Rulon Allred, 71, was
gunned down in his office in front of several pa-
tients. Four days later, an attempt was made on
the life of another man, Merlin Kingston. Both
men were leaders of separate polygamist
religious sects here, and the Allred murder has
touched off a bizarre manhunt for the leader of a
third sect, Ervil LeBaron, 52, who claims the
right to command religious assassinations and
leads a group called "The Church of the Lamb of
God."
The Boomer Theater Music Hall which began bringing live acts to Norman last summer,
will not be allowed to sell beer during its concerts as a result of a Norman City Council deci-
sion Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Wooten)
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leaders, reportedly has said he will back the proposal.
The other leader, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-OH,
said he may. Both men have vigorously fought both
higher prices and an end to deregulation.
But the Jackson proposal is also designed to appeal to
Senate deregulation forces because it allows more gas to
be sold at higher prices.
As word of the compromise proposal spread, Senate
Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd interrupted an around-
the-clock Senate filibuster to allow further meetings bet-
ween opposing sides.
Metzenbaum said as a result of Jackson’s actions,
"There have been some switches. But it’s still going to
be very close.”
Metzenbaum said before Jackson’s compromise pro-
posal may be voted on, the deregulation plan sponsored
by Sens. Lloyd Bentsen, D-TX, and James B. Pearson,
R-KS, must be set aside.
The senator said he and Abourezk would call off their
filibuster long enough for an attempt to defeat the
Pearson-Bentsen plan.
The filibuster has slowed other congressional
business, and Byrd said earlier, "1 find a growing desire
to get to a vote.”
Byrd said there would be no repeat of Tuesday's all-
night session, the first since the civil rights debates of
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sion revenues did not come from beer sales.
A check of records however, revealed
more than half the sales did come from beer,
and a Class A license was voided. New Dawn
Productions was then told a Class B license
would be needed for continued sales, City
Clerk Mary Hatley said Wednesday.
However, the Campus Corner area, where
the Boomer is located, is zoned for commer-
cial use and nightclubs are allowed only by
permission of the planning commission and
the city council.
The planning commission earlier this
month granted the permissive use request,
but following protests from other Campus
theater indicated a Class B "night club" Corner merchants at Tuesday’s meeting, the
license would be needed for continued beer city council rejected the request.
The merchants said the theater’s operation
contributed to vandalism, littering and
morality problems in the Campus Corner
area.
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