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December 23, 1982 Contents Copyright, 1982, The Oklahoma Publishing Co.
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Senate breaks tax bottleneck
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the Senate, was on hand
and pass it.
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overturned, a Navy
spokesman said. Four
men were killed and six
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Dropped
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Stabbings Holidays mean
myth that Christmas has
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WASHINGTON (AP)
— The Senate voted 81-5
today to choke off a final
conservative-led filibus-
ter against a 5-cent
gasoline tax increase,
clearing the last obsta-
cle blocking action on
both the legislation and
adjournment of the 97th
Congress.
After the 60 votes nec-
essary to break the fili-
buster were obtained,
senators — anxious to
called."
"I was not for it. .
good idea.
"It was silly as a 10-
cent watch," Helms said.
"The lame-duck session
never ought to have
been called, it was a
tragic mistake and I fell
that way when it was
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Index
Amunememts 25-26
Indiana cools
fiery Kentucky
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p . 3.
He is listed in stable
condition st a Guthrie
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Nation rallies
to help the hungry
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California and Oregon,
including the main
north-south route serv-
ing the Pacific states,
and gale-force winds
flipped cars and closed
the Golden Gate bridge
Market Report
/ Dow rises 4.60
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in mixed trade
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that society owes them
semeyhing."
tude is rooted
when Presi-
it began a
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"There's obviously go- ij
ing to be some feelings
of worthlessness for
these people - especial- 3
ly parents who are un- 3
able to give their kids an S
Atari or some other ex-la
pensive gift It's inesca- fl
pable."
While unemployment ■
is indeed a reality and S
the depression that goes f
with it is frightfully real. •
Knoflicek said a lot of *
holiday blues are caused I
by the the American
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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market
headed higher today. The Dow Jones average
of 30 industrials rose 4.60 to 1,039.64 in the
first half hour today. Gainers led losers 5-4 on
the New York Stock Exchange.
Early volume leaders included Chrysler, up
% at 18%; Boeing, down % at 35%, and
Warner Communications, unchanged at 2944.
GOLD PRICES
LONDON: morning fixing 1445.50, off 11.75.
ZURICH: median $445.50 off 13.25. HONG
KONG: closing 1445.34, off 61.
3 . $>;g
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—NATION-
AVALANCHE CONTROLLER explodes, kill-
ing four, injuring six — Page 1.
HEART PATIENT Barney Clark gradually
returning to normal, officials say — Page 6.
—WORLD-
BOMB WRECKS Israeli consulate offices in
Sydney, Australia; two injured - Page 6.
—OKLAHOMA-
SNYDER EDITORS say they’ll appeal con-
viction in newsroom altercation — Page 4.
BALLOON FLIES all the way to England
from Frederick school yard - Page 16.
UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSING increase in
mental health center admissions - Page 14.
— SPORTS-
QUINTIN DAILEY has become target ex-
tralegal abuse - Page 11.
DAN DEVINE talks with Temple officials
about coaching job — Page 11.
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By Michael Crewden ,
During the holiday
season people are more
inclined to help those
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gloom for som e
state residents
lanthropy today," said
Mike Alagood, director
, j of Travelers Aid Society
Oklahoma "People in
gneed take for granted
that sompbody will give
them sgmething.
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as it swayed up to five
feet.
A man in Contra Costa
County died when he
picked up a fallen
20,000-volt power line
Bank holdup bid blows up
A man toting a device he claimed to be a
bomb attempted to rob the Lakeshore Bank
drive-in branch at 4219 NW 63 about 7:40 a m.
today.
However, when a teller refused to give him
any money, the man panicked and fled the
bank, leaving his alleged bomb behind.
The Oklahoma City bomb disposal unit ex-
amined the device and determined it con-
tained bomb components but had no explo-
sives. Police are looking for a white male in
his late teens or early 20s wearing a red-and-
grey plaid shirt.
Murder charge dropped
TULSA — A second-degree murder charge
has been dropped against Irma Serrano Zani,
who last month helped convict her husband,
Robert Zani, of murder in the death of his
mother
Authorities said Mrs. Zani, 39, has been re-
turned to a Texas prison to complete a 30-year
sentence for the 1979 murder of a San Antonio
realtor.
Mrs. Zani last month testified as a prosecu-
tion witness at her husband's trial in the death
of Gladys Zani in 1974. She testified that her
husband beat to death his mother with a ham-
mer and dismembered the body and scattered
parts on a trip to Arkansas
Holiday coffee perking
Holiday drivers will be able to get eye-open-
ing free cups of coffee along two Oklahoma
turnpikes during the Christmas Eve and New
Year's holidays.
In a project sponsored by the Oklahoma
Turnpike Authority and Howard Johnson's,
drivers on the Turner Turnpike and Will Rog-
ers Turnpike are invited to take breaks for
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By Steve Walden
OKMULGEE - Two
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Storm rocks
West Coast
Amusement rides at
Disneyland stopped in
their tracks and San
Francisco commuters
were robbed as they left 4 A0
stalled electric trolleys $ ,0 #
when the first big storm 1; 5 43
of winter knocked out 3 j ft 42
power to 2 million cus- zhh
tomers in three states S
At least 10 people 771
were killed in accidents 1
linked to the storm. f
Heavy snow blocked U w
highways Wednesday in 28
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GUTHRIE - A Minne-
sota woman was killed
Wednesday night when a
45-pound rock thrown
from an overpass
smashed through the
windshield of her fami-
ly's truck, the Oklahoma
Highway Patrol report-
ed.
Carol J. Gilbertson,
43, of Lake Owatonna,
Minn., was declared
dead at the scene after
she was hit in the head
as the truck went under
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a county road overpass less fortunate
on 135 about two miles But an Oklahoma City
south of Guthrie man who specializes in
Her husband, Alvin J.__
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driving the truck, was Private hoslng vital
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rock and loot control of helping thepeedysaida
the truck, which came to large aecteeMAfpoPW
rest in a ditch latioh tok4Kikdtet
doorway of their home before It homed Monday. Behind her is one of Sylavong’s female volunteers at a By John Hopkins
four children. humane society thrift For the lucky, Christ- my that is prohibiting!
sh OP "ere stabbed mas 1982 will be a time many families from full
Wednesday afternoon, of quiet contemplation filling Christmas wishes 3
leaving one dead and the with friends and family. The
state's jobless}
other in critical condi But for many Oklaho- rate — 6 6 percent — is g
tion at a Tulsa hospital, mans _ especially the the highest since JanuP
eg • authorities said elderly, singles and the ary 1976.
just keeps going on yet established a motive son may turn to a time
" were discovered about "Holiday depression is
house at 708 NW 31. The said. 4:30 p m when the bod- very, very real despite
eight members of the "They lost all their ies of the two women what we've been told,"
family, which includes clothes ano Deddng n were found on the floor said William Knoflicek,
Sylavong’s mother-in- the fire. In tact, tey.08 f “the downtown store, a clinical psychologist
law and brother-in-law, everything they,ad. TQkmtlgee police and Ok- with Presbyterian Hos-
were away at the time of The family s crisis lahonpa State Bureau of pitals Center for Coun-
the fire comes as one in a senes t
which began a decade
their ago on the other side of
the world
probin the incident. “Unfortunately, the
Shirley Mann, in her storybook Christmas
30s, was pronounced does not come true for
dead at the scene.Geral- everyone
dine Dennis, 63, was first In fact, he said, this
taken to an Okmulgee season maybeworse
hospital and later trans- than last because of a
ferred to St. Francis worsening state ecomo-
Hospital in Tulsa. A hos
she is in critical condi- Creche realism
tion with multiple stab
wounds to the head, face
The spokesman re- really bum steer,
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Dennis had been con DALLAS — Charlie lie Brown's display of
scious or had been able Brown the 800-pound bad will toward men
to speak to investiga- steer starring in Preston may have resulted from:
tors. She also refused to Hollow Presbyterian an overdose of Christ-
say whether Dennis was church's “Living mas activity: He already
on any life-support Creche," escaped trom had appeared in Nativi-
equipment the Nativity scene and, ty scenes at Baptist and
An Okmulgee police pursued by police, neigh- Lutheran churches,
spokesman said both borhood residents and a Or» Payne said,
women were volunteers pastor, stomped through "maybe he just doesn t
at the shop, run by the a North Dallas neighbor- like Presbyterians.
Wagging Tail Humane hood - twice Shetler, senior pastor
Society Proceeds from At one point during at the church, was nurs
sales at the resale shop the fray Wednesday ing a sore arm but other-
are to be used for con- morning, the Mexican wise having loads of pun
struction of a new ani- steer tossed the Rev. as he recounted events
mal shelter in Okmul- Jerold Shetler over his Wednesday morning,
gee. shoulders. And in a sub- The animal, which
Renfrow said it did not sequent showdown, the Tuesday evening had
appear the store had steer dragged him shown bullish tendencies
been robbed. He said it around the churchyard by lowering its horns
is not yet known whether on n tow-rope and stamping at Payne,
iWay program lot either of the women had Chur A member first hit the trail at
See AID-Page 2 been sexually assaulted James nyne said Char- See BULL-Page 8
had no clothes to wear
They didn't stay home
either. They have no
home Neighbors took the
All their belongings family in and
were destroyed in a fire church donated clothes
Monday, one day after a for them to wear until Sylavong and his wife,
story chronicling the their situation Improves Boun Pheng, recently es-
Laotianfamily’sdifficul- Still, the Rev. Chan caped from Laos with
ties in coming to the Vongsurith of the Trinity their children and in
United States appeared Baptist Church, said the laws
in The Sunday Oklaho- fire was a big blow to the They had spent six
man's "The Oklaho- family. years as political prison-
maM • “I took them out to ers in a Laotian concen
Fire officials believe dinner last night trying tration camp where they
the blaze may have been to lift their spirits, and their children were
deliberately set on the They're very depressed forced to labor up to 20
back porch of their about it,” Vongsurith See LAOS—Page 2
for today's votes. been bedeviled by con- minute filibuster, stand-
Senate aides said to- servative members of ing at his desk and ob-
day at least 10 senators his party who argue the jecting to requests that
had returned to Wash- tax hike is bad policy. would allow a quick
ington — some via mili- The latest problem vote. Helms and Baker
tary transportation — to cropped up Tuesday eventually agreed to the
vote. Included among night after the House showdown votes today,
the group was Sen. Bar- passed a compromise While Baker and
ry Goldwater, R-Ariz., version of the legislation Helms were at odds over
who has been recuperat- and adjourned. Senators the gasoline tax, they
ing from heart surgery. thought they also would and other senators
Baker who tried be able to vote and go agreed that the post-
throughout the lame- home election session Reagan
duck session of Congress But Sen. Jesse Helms, requested to get action
to enact the bill has R-N.C, mounted a last- on money bills was not a
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go home for Christmas “I think we'l manage
— were moving immedi- both," Baker said before
ately to a final vote on the Senate convened at 7
the tax bill. a.m. CST.
Majority Leader How- Senate passage of the
ard H. Baker Jr., R- measure would send it to
Tenn, predicted before President Reagan, who
the voting began today supports it, and clear
he had the votes to the way for the Senate to
break the last in a string adjourn nearly two days
of conservative filibus- after the House,
ters against the pro- Vice President George
posed nickel-a-gallon Bush, acting in his role
boost in the gasoline tax, as presiding officer of
and a city gardener was
i Laos family s trouble
women in Washington •
state were killed Tues-
day night by storm-top-
pled trees.
Two civilian operators
of a 50-ton crane used to
remove fallen trees from By Michael Crewden
Yerba Buena Island, a Thavone Sylavong’s
U.S. Navy station, died four children didn’t go to
today when the machine school this week. They
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Hollywood home of an summoned the paramed-
apparent heart attack, ics," French said.
police said. Webb, head of the
Los Angeles County Mark VII Ltd. produc-
Fire Department para- tion company that made
medics who were sum- such TV shows as
moned to the house pro- Emergency. and
nounced Webb dead at "Adam-12, was best
3:23 am, said Los Ange- known for his portrayal
les Sheriff’s Deputy of Sgt. Joe Friday on
Clyde French. "Dragnet, a series
Webbs wife. Opal, was based on actual police
with him when he died, files. .
said French He began the show on
"Mr. Webb had been radio in 1949, and 11
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Scattered showers tonight.
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