Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 24, Ed. 2 Wednesday, March 19, 1980 Page: 1 of 23
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Market advancing broadly
For openers
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Frankfurt: $524.04, up $55.50.
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State schools get
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Phillips to buy LA oil firm
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The blaze was believed to have
started around 9 p.m. in an Apart-
ment above the Tri-State Sporting
On Tuesday the Dow Jones indus-
trial average rose 12.97 to 801.62,
State: Scattered showers
most sections tonight. Cooler
Thursday. Lows tonight 30s to
50s. Highs Thursday mid-50s
to mid-60s. (Details, Page 35).
Analysts said traders were en-
couraged by the market's showing
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PAWHUSKA — Three downtown
Pawhuska businesses were gutted
by a late-night fire Tuesday, and
several others suffered smoke and
water damage in a wind-whipped
blaze battled by firefighters from
six communities.
Carter was rolling in the same di-
rection as Reagan, defeating Kenne-
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Gainers lead lesers
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Eligibility and the amount of com-
pensation is based on the work
record and pay level of workers.
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Gainers took a 5-2 lead over losers
among New York Stock Exchange-
listed issues.
have an-
hd ap-
es that had been falling sharply be-
gan to recover Tuesday. Today the
price of gold bounced back above
the $500 an ounce level, showing a
gain of more than $30 in London.
During the preliminary hearing,
Richard Brooks Douglass, 16, identi-
fied Ake and Hatch as the intruders
who came to the family home and
robbed his parents, bound all four
and shot them.
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Among precious metals stocks,
ASA gained 1% to 43%; Dome
Mines 2% to 58%, and Engelhard
Minerals 1% to 28%..
The president now has defeated
Kennedy in 17 states, losing twice.
But Kennedy said "I will continue,"
even if Carter beats him in New
York.
rebounding from Monday's 23.04
slide.
The average pay last year was
$87.07 a week, compared with $74.80
in 1978.
Hatch, 26, and Ake, 24, are ac-
cused jointly in the shooting deaths
last Oct. 15 of the Rev. Richard B.
Douglass and his wife, Marilyn, dur-
ing a robbery in their rural Okarche
home.
with a subsidiary of Phillips is ex-
pected to complete the arrange-
ment, officials said.
Thirty-seven Oklahoma schools
have been awarded federal grants
totaling $743,379 for energy conser-
vation work, Jim Hodges, the state
eduction board's energy boss, an-
nounced today.
The funds will buy technical ad-
vice and finance such projects as
building insulation, more efficient
lighting, modified or new heating
systems and automatic lock and
clock controls.
Tuesday, when the Dow Jones indus-
trial average climbed back above
the 800 level after falling below it
Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market advanced broadly today, fol-
lowing through on Tuesday's rally.
The Dow Jones average of 30 in-
dustrials climbed 4.35 to 805.97 in
the first half hour.
• Higher ell prices bring Oklaho-
ma and ether oil-produeing states
rising re venae harvest — Page 17.
• Johannes Steel considers hikes
in prime rate on outrage — Page 17.
• Opening local over-the-eoun- •
ter. New York and American stock I
exchange listings — Page 18.
pany ordered residents and workers
of east-central Weatherford evacu-
ated Tuesday as a precaution
against possible toxic fumes.
Police Chief Paul Gaines called
off the evacuation about 5 p.m. after
firemen controlled the blaze at Ax-
tell Roofing Co. and it was learned
the smoke was not dangerous.
Strong winds swept the dark smoke
north across 1-40 where it cut visi-
bility and forced traffic to detour
through downtown.
Murder charge filed
McALESTER — Jerry R. Tackett,
33, Oklahoma City, remained in the
Pittsburg County Jail today under
A strong south wind hampered ef-
forts to extinguish the fire in the 50-
year-old buildings.
Observers said it was the largest
downtown fire in Pawhuska in 10 to
15 years. No estimate of damage
was available this morning.
Center. A woman told police she had
fallen asleep in the apartment while
smoking a cigarette.
The woman and two men who
were also in the apartment when the
fire broke out were evacuated safe-
ly, police chief Don Stephens said.
A fourth person was initially
feared to have been trapped in the
fire, but authorities later learned he
had boarded a bus Monday after-
noon and left town.
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The fast-spreading flames gutted
the sporting center, which housed a
billiard and pool parlor and a sport-
ing goods store, Mary K Carpets and
Pauline Alred’s ceramics and curio
shop before being brought under
control around midnight.
Fire Marshal Jack Barker said
businesses as far as five doors away
suffered smoke and water damage,
including Earl’s TV and Appliance
Store, Sears, Family Furniture and
the optometry office of Dr. W.P. Mil-
ler. Fire walls saved the firms from
heavier damage, Barker said.
Firemen remained on the scene
early today, hosing down hot spots
in the still smoldering rubble.
The fire was first sighted by a
Pawhuska police officer who turned
in the alarm at 9:15 p.m. Local units
were joined by firefighters from
Bartlesville, Barnsdall, Fairfax,
Wynona and Hominy.
"By the time the first truck ar-
rived, the flames had already bro-
ken through the roof, and when the
second truck got there the whole
back side of the building was en-
gulfed," Barker said.
Bartlesville Red Cross volunteers
assisted by rushing air bottles to
firemen. Businessmen and specta-
tors helped drag furnishings and
merchandise from the burning
buildings out into the street as the
fire raged out of control.
"The streets are full of TV sets,
pinball machines . . . everything
you could think of," one witness
said.
Mark Lea "Beau" Cantrell, lawyer
appointed to represent Hatch, also
will seek dismissal of the murder
charges against Hatch. He argues
no evidence was presented in pre-
liminary hearing to tie his client to
the shootings.
In addition to slaying the Putnam
City Baptist Church senior pastor
and his wife, intruders that night
wounded their two children. The
teen-aged son and daughter have
since recovered from their critical
injuries.
Defense lawyers Cantrell of El Re-
no and J. Malone Brewer, Oklahoma
City, will argue the motions in Cana-
dian County district court before
Judge Floyd Martin.
Representing Ake, Brewer wants
the state to disclose its evidence
against his client, who temporarily
has been committed to Eastern
State Hospital in Vinita for mental
observation.
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ry next Tuesday to be the big test —
which is what he used to say about
Illinois.
sion, said he expects the average
tax on the 60,000 employers whose
workers are covered by the compen-
sation program will range between
0.2 percent of taxable wages and 3.4
percent, compared with a minimum
of 0.4 percent and maximum of 4.7
percent in 1979.
The new rates will be announced
officially when employers receive
forms for payment of their first-
quarter's tax between March 31 and
April 30.
million in unemployment compensa-
tion last year. That was $10 million
more than in 1978 but $12 million
less than in 1977, down $23 million
from 1976 and $72 million less than
in the recession year of 1975.
Gandy said the 0.2 percent mini-
mum tax for the employers with the
least turnover record will apply this
year. For employers entering the
compensation program the rate will
be 3.1 percent until they establish
an experience record.
Oklahoma's unemployment rate
in 1979 averaged 3.5 percent, much
lower than the national average of
5.8 percent. The jobless rate of the
one million workers covered by un-
employment compensation last
week was only 1.8 percent.
The unemployment compensation
program covers all 1.2 million Okla-
homa workers, except for farm
workers, self-employed and domes-
tic workers.
Idled workers were paid $41.7
The average has traded in a range
between 800 and 900 for most of the
past several years. Some traders ac-
cordingly have adopted a strategy
of buying at the low end of that
range and selling near the top.
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ter, $48,098; Washita Heights,
$20,900; Watts, $38,700, and Weath-
erford, $18,183.
dEmaller grants, mostly for techni-
dassistance went to Alex,
Blackwell, Cache, Central Oklaho-
ma Vo-Tech, Cleveland, Clinton,
Crowder, Fort Towson, Lane, Long-
dale, Mountain View, Muskogee,
Roosevelt, Selling, Sulphur, Union
City and Wewoka.
The purchase price amounts to
about $18 per share.
A portion of the price was to be
placed in an interest-bearing es-
crow account to cover contingen-
cies. Details of the account are still
to be woxkd out, officials said.
: Gssdnalaadretors have ap-
CHICAGO (AP) - Ronald Reagan
took a giant stride toward the Re-
publican presidential nomination
with a convincing primary victory
in Illinois, while President Carter
trampled Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's
Democratic challenge. Their victo-
ries were matched by landslide
leads as votes were counted today in
competition for national convention
delegates.
Reagan's easy win over Rep. John
B. Anderson, with former U.N. Am-
bassador George Bush a distant
third, left the former California gov-
ernor with no formidable challenger
in view. "They'll find someone,”
Reagan smiled. He said he wouldn't
claim the nomination just yet for
fear he'd jinx himself.
Reagan's victory in the industrial
Midwest provided geographical
breadth to a string of wins that in-
cluded two of three New England
contests and four triumphs in the
South.
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Ahmad Manzoor Khan, 35, will be
sentenced April 22 on his guilty plea
to a charge he bought weapons in
Tulsa and attempted to ship them to
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on a TWA jet.
Rahmat Ullah, 38, was granted a
mistrial after alleged prejudicial
statements were made to the jury
before it heard testimony that ar-
resting agents seized 28 carbines
and two pistols allegedly bound for
Pakistan.
Fire brings evacuation
WEATHERFORD — City officials
wary of heavy, black tar smoke bil-
lowing from a fire at a roofing com-
Amusements
Astrological
Business News
Bridge
Classified Seetion
Comies
Dear Abby
Deaths
Johannes Steel
Our Times
Sprts
Swap Shop
TV Log
Vital Statisties
Women’s News
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He said low unemployment and
strict enforcement of compensation
eligibility requirements contributed
to the growth of the trust fund. In
July, the maximum weekly pay an
unemployed worker may draw will
increase from $132 a week to ap-
proximately $150 a week. The mini-
mum remains at $16 a week.
So far this year, unemployment
claims have been generally lower
than a year ago.In the last week re-
ported, there were 2,202 claims
filed, compared with 2,298 a year
earlier. The number continuing to
claim benefits beyond the first week
totaled 18,051, down from 19,152 the
week before and 18,821 a year earli-
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Gun runner pleads guilty
TULSA — A Pakistani accused of
attempted gun running to his home-
land pleaded guilty in federal court
Tuesday while his alleged partner in
the scheme was granted a mistrial
and released.
Advances and declines were
about evenly balanced on the NYSE.
Big Board volume totaled 47.34
million shares, against 37.02 million
in the previous session.
The NYSE's composite index rose
87 to 59.09.
Gold prices rebounded past the
$500 mark on world markets.
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By Giea Bayless
Oklahoma employers are going to
get a tax break on the levies they
pay into the state unemployment
trust fund, the Oklahoma Employ-
ment Security Commission dis-
closed today.
The tax will go down slightly be-
cause of relatively low unemploy-
ment in 1979 and a bulging $176.5
million trust fund balance.
Lewis Gandy, director of unem-
ployment insurance for the commis-
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VOL. XCI, NO. 24
277,869
Dally Paid Cireulation
Morning-Evening
Average for Last Week
Classen's Prince Bridges is
Player of the Year and Del
City's Buddy Armstrong Coach
of the Year in balloting of
metro Class 4A and 5A
coaches for the 1980 Times
Big All-City Team.
Bridges was the Comets'
driving force to the 4A state
championship, while Arm-
strong piloted the Eagles to
the 5A crown and a 25-3
record.
Tuesday's Illinois primary was a
two-phase contest, with presidential
candidates competing for popular
votes while supporters ran separate
races for seats at the Republican
and Democratic conventions.
In returns from 88 percent of the
precincts, Carter led with 164 dele-
gates and Kennedy had 15.
Actually, 152 delegates were
elected Tuesday, with 27 more to be
named at the state Democratic con-
vention. Under party rules they are
to be apportioned to candidates in
line with the outcome of Tuesday's
competition.
On the Republican side, 89 per-
cent of the precincts had tallied de-
legate votes. Reagan led for 42, An-
derson for 24, Rep. Philip Crane for
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in killings
By Mary Je Nelsen
EL RENO — A separate trial will
be sought for Steven Keith Hatch
when hearings begin here Friday on
more than 40 defense motions in-
volving the first-degree murder
charges facing him and Glen Burton
Ake.
AP Laverphoto
A demonstrator holds up a newspaper preclaiming “May Day, 1989" as
Republican presidential candidate John Anderson attempts to speak to sup-
porters in Chicago. The demonstrator, whose name was not immediately
released, was wrestled from the stage by a Secret Service agent.
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London: morning fixing $914.99,
is $32.50; afternoon fixing
$527.00, up $46.60.
Parte afternoon fixing $524.33,
op 897.47.
Gold prices
Selected world gold prices to-
dy by a margin of more than 2-to-1.
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in drivers’ seats
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Receiving energy-saver grants
were Alex, $26,825; Alluwe, $22,606;
Bartlesville, $62,480; Boswell,
$4,837; Chandler, $30,120; Chicka-
sha, $38,693; Custer, $20,500; Fair-
fax, $15,372; Great Plains Vo-Tech,
$11,856; Hennessey, $6,969; Indiano-
la, $16,022; Kiowa, $8,722; Konawa,
. . $54,013; Miami, $123,264; Silo,
$76,549; Skiatook, $32,012; Stillwa-
BARTLESVILLE (AP) - Phillipa
Petroleum Co. and Great Basins Pe-
troleum Co. have arrived at an
agreement for Phillipa to acquire
the Los Angeles company for $196.6
million.
' The agreement in principle was
announced in New York City Tues-
dey by William F. Martin, chairman
and chief executive officer at the
Ba rlesvide based Phillips, and
fart Wdh|. Chairman and chief ex-
EeudvsrdicevdLGreat Basins.
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proval of the merger to their
sharehoulders.
Phillips directors must still con-
sider the arrangement.
Great Basins is involved in oil and
gas operationn the United States
and Canada. The company had reve-
nues of $26 million and net income
of $1.6 million during the fiscal year
ending July 31,1979.
During the six months ending Jan.
31,1980, Great Rasins reported rev-
enues of $129 mliqnand a loss of
$2 millioiKJKWriO*
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