Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 263, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 23, 1980 Page: 1 of 34
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Prime Minister Mo-
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warned Monday the
hostage issue would be
returned to the Parlia-
ment for new decisions
if the United States did
not meet Iran's $24 bil-
lion demand for their
release, according to a
report carried by the
Syrian news agency.
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NEW YORK (AP) -
Several major refiners
announced increases of
up to two cents a gallon
in wholesale prices of
gasoline, diesel fuel
and home heating oil
today, as Saudi Ara-
bia's 6.7 percent oil
price increase and the
rise in domestic crude
prices continued to
make themselves felt.
Industry spokesmen
said dealers could pass
on the increases to con-
sumers if they wished.
The Labor Department
said in Washington to-
day that gasoline pric-
es rose 0.9 percent in
November while the
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wagons and vans.
The vehicles criss-
crossed the neighbor-
hood — many several
times — between 3:30
and 5 p.m. In several
instances, employees
sat in idling city trucks
and pickups while com-
panions ran errands in
taverns and stores in a
business district at NE
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patrol division and "will go back to
the streets" as soon as patrol com-
manders fix a date.
Clark, acquitted of a second-de-
gree murder charge alleging he
beat Clyde Edwards to death during
an arrest last March, will receive
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NEVADA-LAS VEGAS downs OCU 86-76 in
first round of Rebel Roundup — Page 21.
TOM OSBORNE closes Nebraska practices
for Sun Bowl game — Page 21.
Local: Cloudy and colder tonight and
Wednesday. Low tonight mid-20s. High
Wednesday low 30s. Details, Page 4.
Applications sought
EL RENO — Applications to fill a vacancy
in the associate judgeship in Canadian Coun-
ty are being sought by the Oklahoma Judi-
cial Nominating Commission, Andrew Wil-
coxen, commission chairman, said.
James Bednar resigned as associate judge
last month to become district judge. Wilcox-
en said Jan. 2 is the deadline for submitting
applications for the position. An appoint-
ment is expected to be made in either late
February or early March.
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VOL. XCI, NO. 263
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Daily Paid Circulatlon
Moraing-Evening
Average for Last Week
price of household fuels
fell 1.1 percent.
Among refiners con-
firming price increases
were:
— Mobil Corp., up
two cents a gallon on
gasoline and a penny a
gallon on diesel and
heating fuels.
— Standard Oil Co.
ROGER DALE HAYES charged in death of
a 9-year-old Guthrie girl — Page 8.
DALLAS RULING may allow Oklahoma
City employees to run for office — Page 13.
MEAT SHORTAGE spurs brief strike at 50
Polish border factories — Page 11.
IRAN, IRAQ both claim gains in western
highlands and Khuzistan — Page 19.
REAGAN CABINET complete except for
hard-to-find education secretary — Page 1.
BLAZE KILLS two New Jersey tots as sta-
tion door traps firemen — Page 19.
It was also unclear
whether all of the hos-
tages would be gath-
ered together for the
service and whether it
would be held Christ-
mas Eve or Christmas
Day. The diplomats
said the clergymen
igawere Iranian citizens
aqut their identities
dhBere not immediately
disclosed
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riod for police. Police officials said
it was the first time an Oklahoma
City officer had been charged with
murder.
The trial also escalated smolder-
ing differences between police and
Oklahoma County District Attorney
Bob Macy who inherited the case
from former county prosecutor An-
dy Coats.
Tension among city officers over
the case began escalating when the
trial began Dec. 15. It was shortly
after the trial opened that the city’s
Fraternal Order of Police represent-
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CHOCTAW — Faculty members are ex-
pected to protest at a special meeting to-
night the school board's reinstatement of
five Choctaw High School students suspend-
ed after allegedly making bomb threats.
Teachers, who are circulating a petition,
believe the reinstatement will make future
discipline difficult, said one instructor, who
asked not to be identified. The board will
meet at 7 p.m. in the administration office at
Third and Main.
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Oklahoma City police officer John
Clark, cleared of a murder charge
Monday, will return to duty as a
master patrolman, police officials
announced today.
Clark reported to police head-
quarters early today. After a series
of meetings with police officials, he
spent the morning preparing for his
return to active duty.
Police Chief Tom Heggy said
Clark, suspended without pay ap-
proximately eight and one-half
months, has been reassigned to the
Coming Up______
'Tis the season for Christmas movie re-
leases and Oklahoma City area theaters are
getting a lot of them.
The Weekend page in Thursday's Times
v ill feature capsule reviews by staff mem-
I prs on some of the best movies showing in
L cal theaters.
atlve claimed Macy was "anti-po-
lice."
Police cite Macy's prosecution of
former Oklahoma Highway Patrol
trooper Jim Pischel and the involve-
ment of Macy's office in the grand
jury investigation of the county
sheriff's office as examples of his
dislike for police.
Macy, himself a former city offi-
cer, denies any such bias.
There has been no official re-
sponse on the case from within the
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all back pay, Heggy said.
Police officials said they are
being cautious about Clark's return
because of death threats and bomb
threats received by Clark and his
family and by police.
Clark's acquittal, though expect-
ed by local officers, ends a tense pe-
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largest, is one of the court until she was re-
four U.S. companies lieved of duty two
that buy most of Saudi months ago. She was
Arabia's crude oil. Mo- unsuccessful in a feder-
department since charges were
filed.
By Mike Ward
If Oklahoma City of-
ficials wanted to Inven-
tory the municipal ve-
hicle fleet, the Harri-
son-Walnut neighbor-
hood might be a good
place to start.
The area near down-
town Oklahoma City is
the center of brisk city
vehicle traffic during
late-afternoon hours,
when employees use
taxpayer-purchased
gas to cruise the
Streets before quitting
time.
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Lambert's nane was
one of five recommend-
ed for the post by the
Oklahoma County Bar
Association. The others
who were on the list
weren't identified.
He was presiding Ok- ’
lahoma City municipal
judge from 1964 until
1974 when he became a
state senator.
Lambert stepped
down from the senate
in 1978 at the end of his
first term.
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Former state senator
Phil Lambert has been
appointed an Oklahoma
County special judge
succeeding former spe-
cial judge Sandra John-
son, who was fired in
November, District
Judge William R. Saied
said today.
r Lambert, 48, will be
sworn in Dec. 31 for his
(Indiana), whose Amo-
co gasoline, diesel fuel
and heating oil rose
two cents a gallon.
— Cities Service Co.,
up a penny a gallon on
gasoline, diesel in heat-
ing oil in several re-
gions.
— Exxon Corp.,
which said it raised
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in locations throughout police head- sonable doubt — that Clark had
quarters and officers responded. As committed a crime," one of the 12
many as 10 officers sat in on Clark's jurors said Monday night.
trial daily.
Most officers said they were confi- Tm very happy," Clark said as
dent Clark would be acquitted. he and attorneys walked to an ele-
The eight-man, tour-woman jury vator on their way out of the court-
heard a week of testimony before house.
finding Clark innocent of beating In the courtroom, Cindy Owens,
Edwards with a flashlight while he girlfriend of Edwards, muttered,
was handcuffed. "No . . . no," while being comforted
The jury deliberated about 45 by Karen Edwards, ex-wife of the
minutes before returning its verdict dead man.
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Ministers to see hostages
Two Iranians, a Prot-
estant minister and a
Roman Catholic priest,
will celebrate Christ-
mas with the 52 U.S.
hostages, diplomats
said today in Tehran. A
leading member of Par-
liament's hardline
lamic party was quot-
ed as saying he sees no
chance for the hos-
tages' release before
President-elect Ronald
Reagan takes office.
Swiss diplomats rep-
resenting ,S. interests
in Tehran said approv-
al for the religious ser-
vice was received earli-
er in the day during a
meeting with govern-
ment authorities.
There were indica-
tions the service would
be held in Farsi, the
Persian language,
rather than In English,
and that neither the
Swiss nor any other for-
eign representatives
would be allowed to at-
tend.
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MIDWEST CITY — City council members
will consider a proposed ordinance regulat-
ing and enforcing parking zones for handi-
capped in parking lots at tonight's meeting.
The proposal would also involve a require-
ment that police investigate accidents on
private property according to Oklahoma
statutes.
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TOKYO (AP) - For
the first time, Japan
has outstripped the
U.S. in annual automo-
bile production and
emerged as the world's
largest car maker, the
Japan Automobile Man-
ufacturers Association
said today.
Association officials
said in a report that Ja-
pan's automakers
turned out 10.1 million
motor vehicles between
January and Novem-
ber, and were expected
to produce 11 million
units by the end of this
year. Last year's total
was 9.6 million units.
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heating oil and diesel versity law school.
fuel prices one cent a There was no imme-
gallon last Saturday on diate Indication of what
the Gulf and East assignment Lambert
coasts. will be given by district
An Exxon spokes- judges. Special judges
man in Houston, who aren't elected like dis-
asked not to be identi- trict judges. They are
tied, said the move was appointed and serve at
due in part to “the re- the pleasure of the dis-
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Duncan. the consortium, attrib- trict judges to reap-
IIISA n., na — cDuncan said one of the men had a hatchet in his uted its increases to point her. but Mrs.
, JX nTheohad heardssandoweresspotted hand and was standing over • hole in the build- "the constantly rising Johnson has "'‘i •
are ceruln neither ot .he men ing sroof The other mentold officers he wasjust cost or crude " damage suit against
out strolling around and didn t know how he got on Among other refiners district judges for re-
in a case local police have dubbed the "Santa the roof," Duncan said. raising prices in recent moving her from the
Claus Caper, two Tulsa men were discovered Jaileq on complaints of attempted second-de- days were Gulf Oil payroll before her term
shortly before midnight Monday on the roof of an gree’tdrglary were Jake Sier ill and James C. Corp., Shell Oil Co., would have expired
OTASCO store here, said Tulsa nolice Cant Polnh MeCarrell both 28. Philline Peot-m Ca Tan 1
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In a report from Teh- after the Reagan inau-
ran, the Yugoslav news guration.
agency Tanjug said Tanjug said Ayat, the
Hassan Ayat, a mem- party's defeated candi-
ber of the hardline date for president in
Islamic Republican elections early this
Party in the Parlla- year, was also quoted
ment, the Majlis, told as saying the latest Ira-
the English-language nian terms for releas-
Tehran Times newspa- ing the hostages are
per he saw no "possibil- “definite" and there
tty at all for the hos- are no plans for the
tages to be released be- Majlis to debate their
fore Jan. 21," a day fate again.
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Photocopied notices urging offi- at 5:45 p.m. Monday.
cers to attend the trial were placed “We couldn't find — beyond a rea-
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cruising is one reason
city fuel bills are so
high.
The neighborhood
lies immediately east
of the business district,
bounded roughly by NE
10 and the Rock Island
tracks on the north and
south and the Santa Fe
tracks and Lincoln on
the west and east.
Twenty-eight city ve-
hicles — from street-
patching trucks and
pickups to traffic con-
trol trucks and admin-
istrative cars — were
spotted cruising the
2. Although the Japa-
The driver left the nese statistics do not
car at 4:30 p.m. then include those for De-
vanished in a crowd at cember, officials of the
nearby Masters Recre- associaton, a trade
ation Club. He returned group representing 13
35 minutes later and automakers, said it's
drove north. certain that Japan has
City records show the outdistanced the Unit-
car was checked out to ed States since only one
„ . . - month of production re-
See CREWS—Page 2 mains.
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area during a 15-min- 2 and Stiles.
ute period Nov. 26. A new city pool car
The traffic included _ 8012496 - circled
eight city street patch- two blocks then
ers, five flatbed rigs, bounced down a rocky
five pickups, three alley and parked out of
large dump trucks and sight behind Moonlite
city sedans, station Cafe, a club at 316 NE
Contents Copyright, 1980. The Oklahoma Publishing Co.
Final HOMe LCneST STOCKS
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Tuesday, December 23, 1980
Times stam photos by Mi Buhiner y.1 -
Carol Clark, wife of city patrolman John C. y - X
Clark, tensely awaits verdict with officer Mel
Thee above, and then, at right, is overcome with EGA
relief along with Thee and Clark’s brother, Alan, 333007
seconds after the innocent verdict is read.
That compared with
7.4 million units U.S.
automakers produced
between January and
Nov. 29 of this year,
down from 10.9 million
U.S.-produced units in
the first three quarters
of 1979 and a total pro-
duction of 11.4 million
units last year.
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