Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 131, Ed. 1 Friday, July 21, 1967 Page: 1 of 32
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To Decide
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J. D. ‘s Fate
Double Cross on Police
2 Negroes Wounded
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one other was noncommittal.
One parole official even
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feelings of the state pardon
and parole board revealed
Friday.
Amusements
Bridge
Business News
Classified Section
Comics
Friday Forum
National Affairs
Oil Reports
Our World Today
Sports
TV Tidbits
Vital Statistics
Women’s News
But across the small courtroom, he can feel little em-
pathy with those five women and seven men sitting as ju-
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warm and humid through
Saturday. Overnight low
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One board member said he he doesn’t have a chance,
hoodlum serving a life prison definitely is opposed to any
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There is some property at SW 6 and Harvey that has
needed cleaning up a long time. What can be done? R. M.
lire Marshal John D. Anderson says this property has
been tied up in an estate, but this has been settled and the
lots have now been cleared and graded.
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Need help? Write to Oklahoma City Times, P. O.
Box 25125, Oklahoma City 73125 or telephone CE 2-3311
between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Our baby was born March 29 and we have had hospital-
ization insurance for three or four years. But up to now
they still haven’t paid the doctor’s hill. They are supposed
to pay $90. Can you help? J. E., Moore.
clemency consideration for years of a life term assessed
Oklahoma City police de- the 33-y e a r -o l d convict.
By John Bennett
J. D. McCarty stares across the room to the jury
box.
ma 26 years, faced with strangers.
They know "J. D. " but McCarty doesn't really know
them.
We asked Bob C. Lamirand, director of claims for the
state insurance commissioner to help us and he reports
your claim is now being processed. The insurance company
says the physician's claim was inadvertently delayed, but
that you should receive the payment soon. If you do not, let
us know.
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Is there going to be city bus service in the area south
of SW 44 between Agnew and S May for the Capitol Hill
High School? All of the children north of SW 44 have to go
(See ACTION LINE—Page 2)
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Coming from the west there is no one-way arrow at the
stop sign at NW 28 and Walker. Cars turn the wrong way
and cause confusion. W. W.
The office of traffic control says one-way signs are lo-
cated on the east side of N Walker at NW 28. However, a
“do not enter" sign now has been installed at the southwest
corner of this intersection.
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With Fraud
Yawning while his prosecutor presents his case is defendant J. D. McCarty, sketched by Miss Patty Kirtley. Times staff artist.
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Decision Setback
The decision was consid-
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32 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, FRIDAY, JULY 2171967
county excise board hearing
and heard City Manager
Robert M. —
licesaid more than 25 persons, most of them Negroes,
income tax evasion trial?
Meanwhile, Howard Wes-
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None has played a real role in major politics. All
have known “J. D." only from a distance.
They are oilmen, housewives, foremen, men and
women poles apart in the sentiments of a man like J. D.
(See STRANGERS—Page 2)
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To the right of JHcCarty is his counsel James W. Bill Berry. Prosecutor Willard McBride is at podium.
Skinner has
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while Weston shows figures
of $28,520.66.
In 1961, government fig-
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were R. G. Tutten and his
wife, Martha. They are ac-
cused of embezzling $17,734
between July 1, 1964, and
Dec. 31, 1966.
D. K. Cunningham, assist-
ant district attorney who
filed the charge, said the fel-
(See CHARGE—Page 2)
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Reported
District Attorney Curtis P.
Harris charged Friday that
the city manager and city
council use the municipal po-
Mce and fire departments to
appeal to the public for mon-
ey, then “treat them like
dogs” once they get funds.
At the same time, three
members of the police de-
partment said officers have
started a slowdown on ticket
writing in protest to the way
the city’s one-cent sales tax
is being handled. (Details,
Page 3)
Police Chief Hilton Geer
discounted the reports, but
said police pay scales are at
the bottom of a list of nine
comparable cities.
Harris made his statement
after sitting in on part of the
tective, is fighting an uphill Three others appear to be Bennie. F. Cravatt during a
battle in his bid for parole, leaning in that direction and te=- ---------' - ' ’’
public accountant, testified!
about an examination he
|said he made of McCarty's
; records.
He said his examination
showed a difference of $19.-
Oklahoma City. He was doc-
keted for parole considera-
tion by the board during its
meeting Sunday and Monday
at McAlester.
W. J. “Tex” Bynum, depu-
ty director of the department
of corrections, vsait * Skinner
(See PROLE—Page 2)
$22,118.28 in taxable income., ,,
MINNEAF OLIS (AP) — Firemen battled more than 30
fires as fire bombing, window smashing and looting broke
[out again in a predominately Negro section of Minneapolis
early Friday. Two Negroes were wounded by gunfire.
It was the second straight night of disturbances in the
By Mary Jo Nelson
The former superintendent
of Quartz Mountain State
Lodge was charged Friday
with embezzling state funds.
Also charged was the su-
perintendent’s wife, a former
clerk and bookkeeper at the
lodge, which is nestled in the
rugged Quartz Mountains on
the edge of Lake Altus.
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council member Mrs. Pa-
tience Latting say police and
firemen need salary raises.
“They made this claim be-
fore the sales tax election
and I helped them by mak-
ing several speeches in
which I said the same
thing," Harris said.
“But after the sales tax
| was approved, they handed
the police and firemen a
mere pittance. Now they’re
using them again to claim
they need more money.”
Harris said police salaries
are so low, the department
can’t begin to hire its quota
of officers. He said police-
(See HARRIS—Page 2)
A penciled sign on District Attorney Curtis P.
Harris’ desk Friday read: "Your Choice, 25 cents."
Harris had just placed atop his desk copies of spi-
cy magazines and books, U. S. Supreme Court opin-
ions and American Bar Association Journals.
The money, he said, would go to the Chief Su-
preme Court Justice Earl Warren and other justices.
Harris, in his fight against pornographic litera-
ture, frequently has quarreled with both the high
court and the ABA.
Then, displaying his little-seen humorous side, he
quickly gathered up the materials, tossed them into
the trash and ordered they be burned.
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For 26 years he was in the political arena. Now he is attorneys, who stepped up
on trial. a new arena where his very fate hangs at stake, their defense Friday in the
Here is a man who wielded power unlike many state former legislative leaders
political figures throughout the nation.
Here, on trial, is the man whose mark was power.
Here is the man who madejobs, made political for-
tunes — and broke them — whose hand, heavy at times,
helped shape the destiny of Oklahoma.
Here is the man the most powerful body in Oklahoma
City turned to for help in 1962.
It In McCarty the Oklahoma City Chamber of Com-
merce paid 11,000 a month "for his help.” Ironically, tes-
timony by the chamber is a major part of the govern-
ment’s case against McCarty.
McCarty may reminisce during his bitter days about
the legislation he helped forge.
He may think back about state education and what
he did to help its fortune.
He may reflect nn industry, law, medicine, govern-
ment, the children and the aged whose fortunes changed
with the wisdom or mistakes he exhibited in the legisla-
ture.
were arrested.
More than 300 firemen and
the city's entire complement
of fire-fighting apparatus
were used in battling three
major fires and 30 smaller
ones. Every available fire-
man was called back to duty.
Sheds Destroyed
Two of the larger fires de-
s t r o y e d lumber storage
sheds at firms some distance
from Plymouth Avenue.
They appeared to be unrelat-
ed except in timing to the se-
ries of fires along Plymouth.
Efforts in the Plymouth area
were delayed about 45 min-
utes when a report came in
that a Bennett Lumber Co.
warehouse was aflame.
District Fire Chief Robert
Hannon said he could not say
whether the Bennett fire was
started to divert attention
from the Plymouth area.
4 Calls Close
Judge Luther Bohanon’s
ruling concerning the char-
acter witnesses came min-
utes before the trial entered
its fifth day.
Berry protested the ruling
as prejudicial to McCarty.
Prosecutor Willard Mc-
Bride based his right to such
a question as the supreme
court decision in Michelson
vs. the United States. The
decision stated, in part:
"The prosecution may pur-
sue the inquiry with contra-
dictory witnesses to -show
that damaging rumors,
(See MeCARTI — Page 2)
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of $14,216.14 : lymouth Avenue area, a couple miles from downtown, Po-
The figures for 1962 are
$34,278.00 for the government
study and $28,723.00 for Wes-
ton's study.
The defense strategy is to
admit owning an undeter-
mined amount of taxes, but
that the taxes were not paid
because of "neglect, errors
and omissions."
Ruling Protested
A second part of the strate-
gy shown by expert testimo-
ny is that the Internal Reve-
nue Service's beginning bal-
ance for the auditing period
was erroneous.
The gist of it that the gov-
ernment simply failed to se-
cure all the records in their
audit of McCarty's income,
defense attorneys say.
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Charged with embezzle-
ment by a public officer
Should character witnesses
for J. D. McCarty testify,
they will be asked if they
ever heard that McCarty ac-
cepted any money to influ-
ence legislation, a federal
judge ruled Friday.
However, defense attorney
James W. "Bill” Berry said
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Nine-year-old Linda
Joyce Eason, who was
struck by a car on a city
street Wednesday, died
Friday morning in Mercy,
Hospital.
She was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Eason,
1315 SE 42.
Investigating officers
said the child and two
friends were going to a
neighborhood grocery
when the accident occur-
red in the 4300 block of S
High.
Officers said the victim
apparently darted into the
path of a car driven by
Mrs. Sherian Kay Arthur,
704 SE 32.
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dence, I'd say that," Hannon
said.
The third large fire de-
stroyed a grocery store on
Plymouth Avenue.
Firemen answered four
calls in 37 minutes to fight
fires in supermarkets, ga-
rages and cafes near Plym-
outh.
The trouble Friday was
halted by a platoon of about
30 helmeted policemen
armed with shotguns. The
patrolmen marched down
the smoky, glass-covered
avenue with orders of a ser-
geant to shoot back if fired
upon and to "watch the roofs
for snipers.”
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Planes Expected
PORTLAND, Maine (AP)
— A flight of 40 private
planes from Portland, Ore.,
is expected to arrive here
July 30 in celebration of the
18th anniversary of the first
Portland-to-Portland a i r
tour.
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