Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 11, 1980 Page: 1 of 26
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Catholics win
The bill was first scheduled at the program in the house chamber at 10
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witness’ fate
Nursing home bill
causes house stir
The elderly visitors bad been
scheduled to attend an hour-long
ing the hostages after Khomeini
backed the demands of their cap-
Ridley said before Mehri was
hired, bureau officials confirmed
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HB 1853. an act setting stringent
licensing requirements, establish-
ing residents' rights, and making
other reforms passed, 91-0.
charge today in Harrison Town
Court.
Ridley emphasized all census em
ployees are supposed to wear red,
white and blue badges bearing their
names. He urged citizens to ask for
identification if they doubt credibil-
ity of anyone claiming to be a cen-
sus employee.
A long haul up . . . an easy ride down. That’s the
story tor 10-year-old Frankie Alles Baucom, a fifth
grader at Stand Watie Elementary School, as he reach-
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A major reform bill affecting
nursing homes was passed by the
state House of Representatives to-
day, but for a while it looked like the
hundreds of old folks who swamped
the capitol would not be around to
cheer.
Areawide Aging Agency, had been
said to be fighting mad about the
scheduling. This could not be veri-
fied because efforts to find her in
the milling crowd were futile.
“It was just a breakdown in com-
munications," McCorkell insisted
after the bill was rescheduled. He
had choicer words earlier.
his employment would not violate
federal immigration laws. Mehri
was the only Iranian among 900 em-
ployees hired by the local office re-
cently, the manager said.
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Sacramental wine is not an "al-
coholic beverage" under Oklahoma
law and can be imported into the
state without control by the state li-
quor agency, the state supreme
court ruled unanimously today.
The court thus struck down at-
tempts by the Oklahoma Tax Com-
mission and the alcoholic beverage
control board to force churches to
purchase wine through retail liquor
stores. The two agencies acted un-
der opinions issued by Attorney
General Jan Eric Cartwright.
The court action was brought by
the Most Rev. Charles A. Salatka,
archibishop of the Oklahoma City
Roman Catholic archdiocese, and
Most. Rev. Eusebuis J. Beltran,
bishop of the Tulsa diocese.
Justice Ben Williams, who wrote
the opinion, said to rule that sacra-
mental wine comes under state reg-
ulation, the court would first have
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Lows tonight low 40s. Highs
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cramental wines from the classifi-
cation of “intoxicating liquors."
Tn the case at hand we find no in-
dication that the traditional use of
sacramental wine by the Catholic
Church has changed over the 62-
year period since this court's deci-
sion," the court said.
Justice Williams said when the
people repealed prohibition in 1959,
there was "no intention to curtail or
interfere with public worship in the
slightest degree."
'We conclude that the use of wine
by petitioners solely for sacramen-
tal -purposes in worship is not in-
cluded in the general term "alcohol-
ic beverage" as used ... in the Con-
stitution," the opinion said.
She is headmistress of the Ma-
deira School in McLean and is listed
in the Social List of Washington,
D.C., as having a home in Carmel,
N.Y.
about the number of housing units
on her lot.
The woman, who asked to remain
anonymous, said Mehri was polite.
But she said she doubts the wisdom
of the federal government's employ-
ing an Iranian national to query
households for the census.
"I don't like it, but I didn't get
alarmed.
"But I wonder why the goverment
had to employ an Iranian with the
world situation the way it is."
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"She's a very nice lady," said the
police chief. "She works at a very
good school. She's one of the nicest
ladies we've ever had here.”
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Program," which he wrote in collab-
oration with Samm Sinclair Baker.
It said: "We are grateful to Jean
Harris for her splendid assistance
in the research and writing of this
book."
Asked today about the acknowl-
edgement to Mrs. Harris, Baker said
Tarnower "had had her read parts
of the book (for comment) and he
wanted to acknowledge that.”
es the high point in the areh of this pedestrian bridge
erossing 1-244, and, grinning, comes to the easy part —
a coast to the bottom.
Jeannie Cartmell said Mehri ap-
peared at her home and began ask-
ing questions before she Interrupted
him to ask his nationality. When he
replied he was Iranian, Mrs. Cart-
mell said, she refused to answer any
questions.___________________________
She said Mehri refused to leave
her yard, departing only after hot
words were exchanged and she
threatened to call police.
Another resident nearby said the
census employee questioned her
By Dwayne Cox
Oklahoma City Census Bureau of-
ficials say they have taken "correc-
tive action" against an Iranian cen-
sus enumerator whose confronta-
tion with an Oklahoma City woman
Sunday brought critical calls to the
local office.
Al Ridley, .S. Bureau of the Cen-
sus district manager in Oklahoma
City, said Jamal Mehri, hired to
work part time verifying addresses
for the coming mail-out census, has
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The Oklahoma City Board of
Edncatloa often seems unap-
proachable for parents who
want to beeome involved.
“They sit in the corner and are
told,” one mother comhplains.
School officials contend the
board can’t agree to every re-
quest by parents.
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Angry words exchanged during Sunday encounter
Iranian census worker reassigned following complaints
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been reassigned following the inci-
dent.
"He has not been fired," Ridley
said. "But we don't work on Sunday
and for that he has been reas-
signed."
___Ridley's personnel action came
after several residents of the 1800
block of NW 12 called and com-
plained to Census Bureau officials
about Mehri’s appearance in the
neighborhood Sunday to ask ques-
tions regarding address verifica-
tion.
Associated Press
Iranian President Abolhassan
Bani-Sadr today accused militants
holding approximately 50 American
hostages at the U.S. embassy of
being under the influence of pro-So-
viet groups. He also predicted the
hostages would not be freed before
mid-May, a French newspaper said.
"Unfortunately, they (the mili-
tants) sometimes let themselves be
influenced by certain political
groups favorable to the U.S.S.R.,
such as the Communist Tudeh Par-
ty, which wants to isolate Iran on
the international scene," the Irani-
an president was quoted by the
French newspaper Le Monde.
Bani-Sadr also accused Iran's
Revolutionary Council of “weakness
and indecision” in its recent con-
frontation with the militants over
letting members of the United Na-
tions commission see the hostages,
the paper said.
"If the council had shown itself
firm, if it hadn't changed its mind
every day under pressure from this
or that group, we wouldn't be where
we are."
The commission left Tehran today
with a veiled threat to withhold its
report on the alleged crimes of Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi until it is
allowed to see all the American hos-
tages, who began their 129th day in
captivity today.
"The commission is not in a posi-
tion to prepare its report and has in-
formed the Iranian authorities ac-
cordingly,” the five-man panel said
in a statement. The commission
members flew to Switzerland and
New York after their 17-day visit
ended without a visit to the cap-
tives.
Bani-Sadr's comments to Le
Monde seemed to confirm what Aya-
tollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the all-
powerful Iranian religious leader,
said more than two weeks ago: that
the fate of the hostages will be left
to the newly elected parliament.
The Iranian president said the re-
lease could not come before mid-
May because the parliament will
not have sufficient time to examine
‘Scarsdale Diet’ doctor slain
am. That had to be held in the sec-
ond and third floor rotundas when
the morning house session was
called.
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da, following 36 other pieces of leg-
islation.
"That'll be about six o'clock and
all these old folks will be gone back
to the nursing homes," said one law-
maker who asked not to be named.
Rep. Don McCorkell, D-Tulsa, the
author who has fought an uphill bat-
tle all session against welfare advo-
cates, had asked that the measure
not be first on today's long agenda,
because he was scheduled to ad-
dress the estimated 1,700 senior cit-
izens who had a day at the capitol.
But McCorkell said that didn't
mean he wanted the bill to be last,
when most of the hundreds of elder-
ly citizens had gone back to their
residences.
Word got around the capitol that
some of the old folks and their sup-
porters were angry about the place-
ment, so Rep. Vernon Dunn, D-Loco,
house majority leader who sets the
agenda, changed the bill from next
to last to about third.
Earlier, a sponsor of the senior
citizens day, Charlotte Heard of the
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HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) - Dr. Her-
man Tarnower, developer of the
popular Scarsdale Diet, was fatally
shot at his suburban New York City
home, and police charged the head-
mistress of a posh private girls'
school with his murder.
Police Chief William Harris said
the 69-year-old physician was shot
in the chest, arm and hand during
an apparent struggle late Monday
in his home in Purchase, N.Y., near
here.
Jean Struven Harris of McLean,
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had to find that it is alcoholic bever-
age.
"We decline to make such a de-
termination." the justice said.
The court cited a 62-year-old state
supreme court ruling exempting sa-
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Va., was trying to drive away from
the house when police arrived, the
chief said today. She was charged
with the killing because of what
Harris called "certain admissions
she made
Police said they recovered a
handgun believed to be the murder
weapon.
Tarnower listed Mrs. Harris, 57,
first in the acknowledgements of his
best-selling diet book, "The Com-
plete Scarsdale Medical Diet: Plus
Dr. Tarnower's Lifetime Keep-Slim
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Chief Harris said Mrs. Harris
would be arraigned on a murder
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Timee atam photo by Bob Albright
Ridley defended hiring Mehri de-
spite the current world situation
and an anti-Iranian climate in Okla-
homa City.
“We don't make the rules, we fol-
low them and the rules say we don't
discriminate in hiring. period " He
said Mehri has been assigned a job
where he should not meet hostile
city residents.
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By Dwayne Cox
District Attorneys Andrew Coats
and Kay Huff remained huddled at
noon today with a half dozen law en-
forcement officials in a heated con-
ference to decide what charges to
file against Verna Stafford.
Mrs. Stafford was the prime pros-
ecution witness against her hus-
band. Roger, who has been convict-
ed in the Oklahoma County deaths
of six Sirloin Stockade employees,
and in McClain County for the
triple-slayings of the Melvin Lorenz
family-
Coats and Mrs. Huff began meet-
ing with representatives of the Ok-
lahoma City police department, Ok-
lahoma County Sheriff Gene Wells
and OSB1 Director Tom Kennedy at
10:45 a m.
Coats said Monday the decisions
he and Mrs. Huff reach on charges
against Mrs. Stafford will have
broad implications in future law en-
forcement.
He said he is concerned tough ac-
tion against Mrs. Stafford might dis-
courage accomplices from cooper-
ating with investigators in future
crimes.
Mrs. Stafford has testified to
being a willing participant in the
robberies in Oklahoma and McClain
counties which resulted in the nine
slaying for which her husband has
beenMptenced to die.
Coats noted Monday that he
doesn't believe Mrs. Stafford did
any actual killing. But Mrs. Huff,
McClain County District Attorney,
hinted Monday that she and Coats
may disagree over charges to be
filed against Mrs. Stafford.
It has been speculated that Coats
might seek an armed robbery
charge against Mrs. Stafford while
Mrs. Huff is leaning toward a stiffer
charge. .
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the case before then. U.S. and U.N. tors, and the Revolutionary Council
officials had hoped the commis- rescinded its decision to take custo-
sion's work would expedite the hos- dy of the Americans.
tages release. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbza-
During a stopover in Zurich, com- deh, who saw the commission off at ,
mission co-chairman Mohamed Bed- the airport, said he hoped the panel
jaoui of Algeria told reporters the would return to Iran to finish its
panel's mission "was not a failure, work. But he reiterated the regime's
but of course we are disappointed. It position that freedom for the hos-
was a step on the road. But it ws tages will be decided by Iran's new
not a failure," an apparent refer- Parliament, which won't convene
ence to some of the evidence collect- for another month.
ed in Tehran. •The commission's task in investi-
The commission left without see- gating the crimes of the ousted shah
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Dunn was trying to get all house
bills considered before a Thursday
deadline. They die if not taken up by
then.
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Another house leader insisted the
late hour for McCorkell’s bill was
not Intended to slight the old folks.
But some members took it that way
"I'm not too thrilled about it. I
don't think it's fair but that's life in
the big house,” said Rep. Bob Kerr
III, D-Oklahoma City.
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