Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 94, No. 254, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1983 Page: 1 of 126
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By James Johnsen
Oklahoman Robert S.
Johnson watched help-
lessly — through eyes
made raw by fumes in
the cockpit of his battle-
damaged P-47 Thunder-
bolt fighter - as the
German pilot lined up
and flew formation with
him.
Johnson, back in Ok-
lahoma for Saturday's
Aviation and Space Hall
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crosses that marked
downed Germans paint-
ed on the side of John-
son's fighter.
ing his wife's former
husband and that man's
wife.
"He was calm, he
walked to the cell on his
own power. He made no
movement after he was
in the chair," Jordan
said.
As guards began
strapping Smith into the
chair, he said, "Hey,
ReeSMITH—Page 2
of Fame induction ban-
quet, says he was close
enough to see the color
of the enemy pilot’s
eyes.
For most of World
War II, Johnson was the
rials
1943 he was helpless, a
sitting duck for the ene-
my pilot who was riding
his wing and counting
the number of black
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halt and he didn't"
It was the news team's first day in Beirut, where
they were collecting videotaped Christmas greet-
ings for Marines' families back home. WITN serves
an area that includes Camp Lejeune, N.C., where
the Marines are based.
The car carrying Perry, Corcoran and Nassar
See NEWSMEN—Page 2
others, was shot out of
formatloa by enemy
fighters.
Fighting an on-board
fire, dazed from lack of
See JOHNSON—Page 2
Highway quarter-covered
Brooks Armored Car Service guards scramble to back door of the track apparently popped open and
Sdr "wrmihgtosp"pd * The U " 2*4?' o quarters tell out, covering one lane of
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — U.S. Marines at Beirut
International Airport fired on an American televi-
sion crew today, wounding one reporter and a driv-
er when their car approached the wrong gate at the
Marine compound.
Neither of the wounded men was in serious condi-
tion.
"We got a driver that apparently didn't know
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where be was going and almost got us killed," said
Robert Perry, the news director of WITN-TV, the
NBC affiliate in Washington, N.C. Perry, 52, was not
injured.
Newsman Joe Corcoran, 29, was hit by flying
MIDWEST CITY lands four players on Big
All-City football team — Page 47
MIAMI QUARTERBACK Dan Marino to
start in Pro Bowl — Page 47.
The drama began
when Johnson was fly-
, , ing escort on a bombing
leading American ace. .raid and, with seven
But on that day in June
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By Griff Palmer
Oklahoma City police |
raided a nude-dancing i
bar Wednesday night
for the second time in a
month, citing five work-
ers for B-girl law viola-
tions. Police brought
with them health in-
spectors who shut the
bar down.
Sgt. Larry Andrews of
the Oklahoma City Spe-
cial Projects Group said
undercover officers
found dancers at Super
Vixens North, 4617 NW
10, were again soliciting
drinks from patrons.
The B-girl ordinance
passed ia July forbids
bar employees asking
patrons to buy them
drinks.
Andrews said detec-
tives visiting the bar
Wednesday were urged
to buy dancers drinks at
prices ranging from $11
to $250.
Lt. Dave McBride, po-
lice spokesman, said
city-county health in-
spectors ordered the
bar closed after the raid
because the business
was operating without a •
health permit.
McBride said the in-
spectors allegedly
found backed-up drains
and roach infestation in
the bar The business
has been ordered to cor-
rect the health prob-
See VIXENS-Page 2
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glass fragments in the left shoulder, and a bullet
grazed the head of Lebanese driver Mustafa Mah
—NATION-
:: COORS CHAIRMAN agrees company's ads
art “tasteless,” kills them — Page 20.
SCHOOL MEAT processed in plant where
maggots fell from ceiling — Page 24.
—WORLD
3 IRAQI MISSILE ATTACKS kill 32. injure 300
in Iran — Page 21.
. SOVIET UNION HAS world's largest plane;
it could carry nuclear missiles — Page 44.
—-OKLAHOMA—
STATE MOTORISTS will find gasoline prices
nickel lower this yule season - Page 12.
TOEPEN VOLUNTEERS to take pay cut to
help save state money — Page 14.
—BUSINESS—
• SOVIET UNION, several other countries
shopping for wheat — Page 21.
HARTFORD STEAM BOILER offers sound
investment, Johannes Steel says — Page 34.
___ school,” the girl's physi-
"I think they (the Marines) were justified in clan. Dr. W. Scott Ryan,
doing what they did," said Perry. “They told him to told the parents.
Metro Report
Ex-publisher hopes
to buy out investors
Midwest CITY — The former parent com-
pany of the defunct Oklahoma Journal newspa-
per may be near liquidation W.P. Bill Atkin-
gon. Journal publisher until the paper sold in
.1979, has said he wants to buy out all stock-
holders of W.P. Bill Atkinson Enterprises.
Atkinson, president, chairman of the board
Qnd principal stockholder, said he wants to
lose the company's books. The company's
chief remaining asset is land, including some
undeveloped property north of Quail Springs
Mall. Company officials and stockholders will
meet at 14 a.m. Saturday at Rose State College
to consider Atkinson’s proposal.
.At least one stockholder, Tom Pledger, a for-
mer Midwest City councilman, has asked in a
letter that a committee be formed to examine
the property disposals and to audit the compa-
ny’s finances before the company is liquidat-
ed. Further details on Page One of Neighbor-
Fine limit raised
NICHOLS HILLS — The maximum fine for
‘city offenses was raised from $70 to 1100 Tues-
day by the Nichols Hills City Council. The ac-
tion conforms with what other area cities have
done recently after a state law allowed the in-
creases.
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Policeman reinstated
. NICHOLS HILLS — Police officer Larry Van
Schuyver has been reinstated after a Nichols
Hills police shooting review board ruled he
was Justified in returning gunfire at a fleeing
felony suspect Sunday evening.
The burglary suspect has not been ap-
prehended, but was believed wounded. Suspen-
sion with pay and the review are routine pro-
cedures after an officer has fired his gun.
Promotion recommended
TINKER AFB — Brig. Gen. Jerry D. Holmes,
commander of the 552nd Airborne Warning
and Control Wing from July 1981 to September
1942, has been nominated by President Rea-
gan for promotion to major general.
Holmes was born in Jenks and lived in
Wewoka, lie obtained a bachelor’s degree in
geological engineering and a master's in aero-
space engineering from the University of Okla-
homa. Holmes left Tinker to assume duties as
special assistant to the deputy chief of staff
for logistics at Headguarters Tactical Air
Command. Langley Air Forte Base, Norfolk,
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JACKSON, Ga. (AP)
— John Eldon Smith
was executed today for
the 1974 slayings of two
newlyweds, the first
man to die in Georgia's
electric chair in 19
years and the second
man put to death In the
United States in two
days.
“The order of the
court has been carried
out,” said prison spokes-
man John Siler. Correc-
tions Department
spokesman David Jor-
dan said the electrocu-
tion began at 8:08 a.m.,
was completed at 4:10
a.m. and a team of three
doctors declared Smith
dead at 4:15 a.m. after
2,000 volts of electricity
passed through his
body.
The 53-year-old for-
mer insurance sales-
man was sentenced to
death after being con-
victed of fatally shoot-
After bearing three days .
ny before U.S. District Judge Luther ney Wes Fredenburg told the jury
Eubanks, the four-man, eight-woman Kiley is, “I dare say, the worst person
jury listened to closing arguments you folks have ever met."
and instructions this morning before
beginning deliberations at 9:35a.m. But Fredenburg said that bol-
The panel was still out at mid-day. stered Riley's story that Combs
. . . Combs, a second-term Bethany sought the pay in return for his help
was “pretty shaken up," Democrat and chairman of the Senate in getting a district attorney's lawsuit
could not describe a Finance Committee, faces a sentence against Riley's Mid-States Distrihut-
holdup weapon. of up to 20 years in prison plus a See COMBS- Page 2
over herpes
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP)
— A 4-year-old girl with
herpes has been admit-
ted to a school for the
handicapped after near-
ly a year of debate over
whether other children
could contract the dis-
ease from her.
The girl's mother
tried to enroll her
daughter, who has cere-
bral palsy, in the school
in December 1982.
But parents thought
their children might
catch herpes, and three
teachers threatened to
quit. The school board
set up home tutoring for
the girl.
After discussions be-
tween the school board,
staff, herpes specialists
and parents, the board
said the girl could at-
tend the school, which
has five other pupils.
After the decision,
three children were
kept home temporarily.
Nobody is telling you
that the risk is zero, but
the risk is so minimal
that it doesn't justify
excluding a child from
hospital costs
By Charles T. Jones and Bandy Elite
A federal judge this morning approved a compro-
mise Medicaid reimbursement plan that state offi-
cials say will curtail skyrocketing hospital costs
and save taxpayers $8 million to 49 million a year.
The compromise represents a retreat, however,
from an even stricter cost-containing plan that has
been saving taxpayers double that rate since April
1, when it was implemented over the objections of
the Oklahoma Hospital Association.
The association filed a lawsuit to get that plan
overturned. The compromise signed today in U.S.
District Judge Thomas R. Brett’s court settles that
dispute.
Meanwhile, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. is
awaiting a decision by Brett to unseal thousands of
pages o hospital financial records gathered as pos-
sible evidence in the case.
OPUBCO, which publishes The DaUy Oklahoman
and the Oklahoma City Times, argues that the cost
reports are of vital Interest to the public because
they may shed light on how tax money is spent.
Brett, who ordered the documents sealed under a
protective order, has postponed until January a
hearing on OPUBCO’s request.
This morning, representatives of both the state
and the hospital association seemed pleased with
the compromise Medicaid reimbursement agree-
ment, which will allow state welfare officials to de-
termine in advance bow much hospitals can receive
in tax-funded Medicaid money for certain medical
procedures and services to the needy.
Michael Fogarty, assistant director of medical
services for the state Department of Human Ser-
vices, compared the compromise plan with the
reimbursement plan the department operated,un-
der prior to April 1.
“I think ultimately this will save all taxpayers
money," Fogarty said “I think the long-term ef-
fects are what’s dramatic."
Brett’s official blessing brought to an end a bitter
court fight between the HS and the Oklahoma Hos-
pital Association that has been under way since
last May.
The dispute included protests by DHS attorneys
that they could not get a fair hearing from Brett,
who for several years represented St. Francis Hos-
pital in Tulsa, the state’s largest privately owned,
See MEDICAID—Page 2
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By Dave Selden
John F. Wolcott, a
Louisiana oil man who
built Louisiana Downs
near Shreveport in the
early 1970s, today
unveiled plans for a pro-
posed $40 million pari-
mutuel horse racing
track near the Love
County community of
Thackerville in south-
ern Oklahoma.
In a morning press
conference in Oklahoma
City, Wolcott said he
would be joined by Los
Angeles attorney Law-
rence Ritter as princi-
pal financiers of the
proposed Oklahoma
Downs racetrack.
Wolcott said the en-
closed complex will seat
29,000.
Wolcott noted that
4% million people live
within a 100-mile radius
of the proposed site.
Thackerville Is approxi-
mately 20 miles south of
Ardmore.
They chose the site,
he said, largely because
of its midway proximity
to both Oklahoma City
and the Dallas-Fort
Worth area.
In a licensing applica-
tion filed with the Okla-
homa Racing Commis-
sion, developers are
seeking to bold thor-
oughbred races at the
track during a mid-
April to Labor Day sea-
son.
“We could be ready to
race by 1986,” Wolcott
said.
World War II flying ace •
recalls tense air meeting
holds up I
Wendy’s .
Worker put
in freezer
By Griff Palmer
A gunman robbed a 2
Wendy’s Old Fashioned ,5
Hamburgers restaurant 2
at 11121 N May about |
12:34 this morning, 5
making off with an esti- ■
mated $2,700 after lock- I
ing a restaurant em- I
ployee in a freezer, po- I
lice said.
A police dispatcher I
said the freezer has a
safety latch inside
which allowed the 22- ■
year-old man to escape. ■
The methods de- l
scribed in this morn- •
tag's holdup resembled
those of other recent S
robberies. The employ- •
ee told police the robber
waited outside and ac-
costed him when he car-
ried out the trash.
Police said the robber
followed the employee
inside, forced him to
open the safe, then or-
dered him into the walk-
in freezer.
Two armed robbers
held up a Burger King
restaurant on south 1-35
Oct 10, then herded six • 1y .
On Oct 14, a gunman on extortion allegations
held up a Hardee's res- •
taurant on NW 39, By Eay Robinson
Jse* aaAssednattu lsemoraingbegan so-o tme itocomvicted of seeking
Police have tied an Mike Comb, wh I charged with try- and FBI informant Richard Anthony
kansas’prisonescap- ing to obtain • $2,000 payoti troma intormani Kicnara Anthony
arrested in Topeka to drug dealer described by the prooecu-
theHardee ’ holdup., tor as an “absolutely horrible and rot- In closing arguments, attorneys
The police dispatcher ten" person. agreed that Riley is nothing short of a
said the Wendys em- After hearing three days of testimo- career criminal. Assistant U S. Attor-
ployee described the
robber who struck this
morning as a black man
in his 20s, 4 feet and 180
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