Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 144, Ed. 2 Wednesday, August 6, 1980 Page: 1 of 18
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Oklahoma's creaking water ma-
chinery, strained to the limit by
heat wave demands, now poses criti-
if the parent requesting the ser-
vice receives Aid to Dependent Chil-
dren from the state, the service is
free. Others must pay a $50 fee, said
Nita Giles, project director of the
Child Support Enforcement Unit.
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McCartney said a good response
to a nationally offered coupon is ap-
ilems for 116 systems serv-
communities and lesser
es for 96 other systems, the
"Last year, we were doing good to
get two million coupons per month,
Miami, Fla., the closest major
mainland point, is some 575 miles
north of Kingston. If the hurricane
reaches the mainland, it is not ex-
pected to do so before early next
week, according to forecasters.
Still packing 135-mph winds at
the center, down from the 170-mph
The service currently is tracking
101,000 persons from Oklahoma, she
directly to find stolen children if the
Oklahoma State Department of Hu-
man Services is requested to use the
federal Parent Locator Service to
find parents delinquent in child sup-
port payments.
Although prohibited from using
the service specifically for finding
stolen children, if the guardian par-
ent is owed child support by the
and now we re processing about
three million."
After the department has ex-
hausted all resources in state re-
cords, records of other states and
federal records closed to the public
because of privacy laws can be
checked.
pointing out that fewer coupons are 1
offered because persons are away I
on vacation and also tend to eat out |
more often.
In the newest development, the
Army Corps of Engineers has hon-
ored a water board request and re-
leased water from the Pine Creek
Reservoir to bolster downstream
supplies in the Idabel and Wright
City areas. Emergency releases
already had begun at Waurika Res-
ervoir.
At that time, the weather service
said, Allen's eye was just off Jamai-
ca's north-central coast and was ex-
pected to continue moving west-
northwest toward the Caymans at
20 mph.
Approximately 16 million coupons
were redeemed in 1978.
Oklahomans are clipping food
coupons to cut grocery bills and re-
deeming their bargain slips in
record numbers.
Even if a child is located in anoth-
er state, snags can be encountered
if child custody laws conflict.
Parents sometimes spirit children
away to a state with more favorable
domestic laws and attempt to have
custody legally changed, she said.
"Although the trend is to honor
rulings qf other states, there has
been a problem in that courts have
been inconsistent in enforcing other
states' laws," said Lynn Barnett, at-
torney for Woman to Woman Coun-
seling Service. “You sometimes
If that pace continues, says Mil-
ler, by year's end the number of
coupons redeemed will be nearly
double the approximately 21 million
returned in all of 1979.
"It seems like we are seeing more
cases where child stealing is a part,
but right now we just can't get in-
volved in it."
missing parent, the parent can re-
quest the department check all
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The coupons also tend to be sea-
sonal, with more soft drink mixes
and ice cream offers during the
summer, and staple foods and bak-
ing item coupons showing up during
the winter.
that people are aware of values. It's
just foolish not to use them."
Summer is the slow season for
coupon devotees, McCartney said.
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Checks of records maintained by
agencies such as Internal Revenue
Service, Social Security Adminstra-
tion and Department of Public Safe-
ty can provide clues, but the bulk
are closed to the public.
However, they can be entered in-
said. But the service has its draw-
backs.
Many of the records, such as tax
returns, are updated only once or
twice a year, making many of them
outdated before they can be put to
use to track a transient parent.
Federal law also prohibits use of
the service for anything other than
support payment cases. Thus, it can
be used only indirectly by many
parents and is unavailable to oth-
ers.
Giles said federal legislation is
pending which would allow locator
service use in stolen child cases.
winds of the day before, Allen’s cen-
ter this morning passed within a few
miles of Jamaica's north coast, an
area lined with tourist hotels from
Port Antonio in the east to Montego
Bay in the west.
The U.S. National Weather Ser-
vice said the center of Allen was lo-
cated about 50 miles east of Mon-
tego Bay at 6 a.m. It said the storm
should pass within 25 miles of Mon-
tego Bay by late morning, then head
out to sea again on a path that
would take it 50 miles north of
Grand Cayman Island and south of
the Isle of Pines off Cuba’s south
coast, and then into the Gulf of Mex-
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It received 18,215,295 redeemed
coupons from state shoppers during
the firt six months of this year.
Iranians held up a pieture of Ayatollah Rihollah Khomeini as they arrive
la Queens en reate to the Islamic Mosque Tuesday eight The 111 pro-Kho-
meini Iranians held to a federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., since last week
were treed after giving atthorities their games. Story on Page 7.
of the Haitian coast Tuesday night.
Officials feared widespread destruc-
tion and possibly heavy loss of life
on Haiti's isolated Jacmel peninsu-
la.
unanimously elected to the one-year
term Tuesday at the National Gov-
ernor's Conference here.
The commission is a planning and
economic development agency with
a current budget of $12 million. Ok-
lahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
souri, Texas and Kansas form the
commission.
Riot ‘guests’ linger
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -
Hurricane Allen unleashed 100 mph
winds and torrential rains against
Jamaica's eastern and northern
coasts today and left much of Kings-
ton powerless. Hours earlier, it gave
Haiti's southwest peninsula a devas-
tating sideswipe that officals feared
would raise the death toll sharply
from the 18 known victims in its
sweep through the eastern Carib-
bean.
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cal water officials also reckon
monthly oporating costs have
soared $750,000 above normal.
"Inadequate pumping and distri-
bution sanacity contmue to be the
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All power was out until about 10
p.m., Ray said, and workers were at-
tempting to restore electricity to
five area homes this morning.
Ten power poles lining Main
street which carry electric and
phone service to the center of town
were snapped. Crews replaced those
poles temporarily to provide emer-
gency service.
"I have every reason to believe
this storm really was a tornado —
there was no warning at all," Ray
said. "I had a large pole barn picked
up, carried for a quarter mile, then
put down."
He theorized straight winds would
have snapped the support poles in-
stead of lifting them eight feet out
of the ground.
Ray, who lives a block from the
high school, said that building sus-
tained the most extensive damage.
The auditorium roof was "laid
back," but Cody said there was little
water damage.
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Dr. Jose A. Colon, director of the
U.S. National Weather Service in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, said the eye
of the storm was staying mostly
over water, meaning the storm was
more likely to maintain its strength
and to intensify again when it
moved away from land.
Jamaica's electric power authori-
ty announced in Kingston it had
shut off its generators before the
height of the storm struck after
midnight to protect its equipment,
and power would probably remain
off most of today, the radio report-
ed.
“Babies don't work or buy hous-
es," said private investigator Rob-
ert O. Cunningham. "But if the par-
ent has a job or anything, It's going
to show up on paper sooner or lat-
er."
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government records on a missing
parent is frequently the only way to
trace a stolen child.
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Haitian President Jean-Claude
Duvalier declared the southwest
peninsula a disaster area. A govern-
ment spokesman said widespread
damage and heavy loss of life was
possible in the primitive area
around Les Cayes near the peninsu-
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Jamaican Prime, Minister Mi-
chael Manley told his people he had
asked for "God's blessing," and
urged a massive evacuation of
coastal areas as tides rose and
heavy rain squalls built in advance
of the storm's arrival.
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State: Partly cloudy tonight I
and Thursday. Lows tonight §
mid-70s to mid-80s. Highs j
Thursday 90s to 105. (Details, j
Page 36.)
Long a method of introducing con- •
sumers to new products, the i
coupons are also showing up on 4
many more established products. I
“We re seeing them for more of I
the old brands of cereals and coffee I
and other products," Miller said. "I I
think the companies are trying to I
keep their satisfied customers from I
using the coupons on new products I
and then switching."
John McCartney, of McCartney I
Foods, estimates use of coupons has I
tripled during the last five years.
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By John Hopkins
HARDESTY — A violent storm
which extensively damaged the Har-
desty High School building Tuesday
caused $150,000 damage to the roof
alone, officials estimated today.
Construction crews began repair
work early today. High school prin-
cipal Claude Cody said he does not
expect a delay in the school dis-
trict's Aug. 22 opening, although
damaged air conditioning units may
not be repaired by then. *
Elsewhere in this Texas County
community of some 250 residents,
damage was widespread — with
many broken windows, damaged
roofs and downed trees. There were
numerous reports of persons cut by
flying glass, but there were no re-
ported serious injuries.
"There's hardly anyone who's not
out this morning picking up limbs,
TV towers and other debris,” said
Hardesty resident Charles Ray who
watched the 5 p.m. storm move into
the community from about two
miles away as he approached town.
Ray, a member of the Texas Coun-
ty REACT team, an emergency citi-
zens band radio group, estimated to-
tal damage at $200,000. He said sev-
eral mobile homes were destroyed
as were numerous grain elevators,
several stocked with grains from re-
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lines, storage tanks and pumps. Lo-
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State coupon use
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She said sorting and returning the
coupons to national firms where
they originated keeps 54 association
employees busy.
Food producers offering the dis-
count coupons are apparently keep-
ing pace with increased demand by i
weekly state wtter'resources board
report shows. About 1.5 million
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Long a mainstay of grocery ad-
vertising, discount coupons appar-
ently are luring new converts from
among disgruntled shoppers want-
ing to nickel and dime their food
tabs back down to reasonable lev-
els, grocers say.
'Td say we're getting nearly dou-
ble the number of redeemed
coupons this year that we did in
1979," said Saundra Miller, a
spokesman for the Oklahoma Retail
Grocers Association. "People are
just more aware of trying to find
ways to save."
The grocers association, which
acts as a clearinghouse on re-
deemed coupons for independent
grocers in the state, estimates it is
receiving more than three million
redeemed coupons per month, worth
between $650,000 and $700,000.
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k island of St. Lucia on Monday. At
least two people are known dead in
Haiti — in a boating accident near
Port-au-Prince reported by ham ra-
K dio operators who heard the SOS.
Grand jury
approved
• petition calling for a
grandjury investigation of the
financial dealings of a current
Oklahoma City councilman
and a former council member
was validated today and Okla-
homa County District Judge
Jack Parr said he will convene
the panel Nov. 17.
Tbe petition specifically
calls for a "thorough investi-
gation of certain financial af-
fairs" of Ward 4 councilman
Bill Bishop and recently re-
signed Ward 5 councilman
Harold McEwen. The petition
was gathered after their in-
volvement with a heating and
air conditioning company that
did business with the city was
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