Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 97, No. 65, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1988 Page: 1 of 12
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CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1988
25 cents Weekdays — 50 cents Sunday
VOL 97—NO. 65
Critics Delighted With Collapse Of Panama Talks
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Fog-Enhanced Hydrochloric Acid
Cloud Forced Evacuation
All were taken to a campus
recreational facility, Gonzales
said.
Halliburton Co., owners of the
tank, assisted in the cleanup,
Gonzales said. Oklahoma State
has a contract with the company
to clean out the university’s air-
conditioning systems, Gonzales
said.
He said the hydrochloric acid
is used to take deposits out of the
air-conditioning lines.
THE CHICKASHA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS of 1988
poses in front of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
New Managing Editor Named
Chickasha Daily Express General Manager Charles Drew
has named Frank Rodriquez managing editor of the newspaper,
effective Saturday, May 28.
Rodriquez will replace Michael Duffy, who has accepted the
position of city editor/reporter with the Big Spring Herald,
located in west Texas.
Rodiquez has served as managing editor of the Pauls Valley
Democrat for two years and was previously a staff writer for the
Donrey newspaper.
A native of Henryetta, he is a graduate of East Central State
University (Ada) where he earned a degree in English with a
minor in Mass Communications.
At ECU he served as editor of the student newspaper and as a
staff photographer.
Duffy, who was named managing editor of the Express in
August, 1987, has been employed with the newspaper since Janu-
ary of last year.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from North-
eastern Oklahoma State University (Tahlequah) and has
previously been employed as a reporter by the Tulsa World,
Broken Arrow Ledger and the Daily Pictorial Press in
Tahlequah.
Duffy completes his tenure with The Express Friday.
Airport Funds Allocated
At its May meeting, the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
allocated state funds totaling $50,000 for airport development at
the Chickasha Municipal Airport, according to District Six Aero-
nautics Com m issioner G il bert C. Gibson.
“These funds are to be used to construct a parallel taxiway with
six inches of concrete,” said Gibson.
The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission is responsible for ad-
ministration, dispersal of appropriated funds and promotion of
aviation in Oklahoma
Middleberg Alumni Reunion
The Middleberg School Alumni Association will hold a reunion
at 2 p.m. June 18th at the school.
Entertainment by Jack Stidham and his band will be provided
from 4 to 6 p.m. The End of Main Caterers will provide a dinner at
6:30p.m. for $6.
Former students, teachersand friends are invited to attend. For
more information, or to make dinner reservations, call: Melvin
Ricks at 485 2128; Glenda Ricks at 485 3652, or Ray Montgomery at
224 6130.
Judge Orders Gou
McAlester, Okla. (AP) — a
Sand Springs couple is being held
without bond on a first degree
murder charge after a state in-
vestigator testified the woman
admitted she shot a burglary vic-
pie To Stand Trial
tim who chased her and her hus-
band after the burglary.
Special District Judge Kirk
Pyle ordered Bob Smith, 43, and
his wife, Sally, 35, held without
bond Wednesday pending trial
on the August jury docket, court
officials said.
A state agent testified earlier
in the two-day preliminary hear-
ing that Mrs. Smith said she shot
David Blessing, who followed
her and her husband and
rammed their pickup after his
rural Indianola home was bur-
glarized April 24.
“She said, ‘If he'd have just
gotten our tag number and
turned us in to Sheriff (J.B.) Orr,
none of this would have hap-
pened," Oklahoma State Bureau
of Investigation agent B.G.
Jones testified Tuesday.
Jones said he advised Mrs.
Smith not to discuss details of the
case but he claimed she "kept
spurting it out . "
“She looked at me and said, ‘I
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Administration building. Commencement Exercises were held
Monday, May 23 in the Middle School Auditorium.
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RESERVATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED through noon Friday for the Saturday evening dinner theatre
performance of Sentimental Journey, a nostalgic musical variety show featuring show tunes from the 1930s
and 40s. The USAO Drama Department Production features students and adjunct faculty members, including
FRONT ROW: Roxanne Burns, Cathy Clark, Cryss Davis, SECOND ROW: Eric Tubbs, David Hunter, Carl
Matthews, BACK ROW: Danny Torres, Judith Drummond, Billy Elkins, Anita Johns, Robert Pittenridge,
Amanda McRae. Tickets arc $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and
the show will begin at 7:15. The show is a project of US AO's unique Independent Study Session and is
directed by Danny Torres of Broken Arrow.
to Washington. Shultz said that
the negotiating package, worked
out laboriously between Kozak
and Panamanian officials in the
last few weeks, has been scrap
ped.
“No further negotiations are
contemplated," Shultzsaid "All
proposals addressed during
these negotiations have been
withdrawn. No offers remain on
the table."
For much of the day Wed-
nesday, a deal seemed to be
within reach. But Kozak tele
phoned the State Department at
4 p.m. EDT to pass along the
news of Noriega's decision.
Under Secretary of State
Michael Armacost said Noriega
had indicated that “majors and
captains” within Panama's De
fense Forces “might take strong
action" against him if he agreed
to the deal.
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Gonzales said about 1,000 gal-
lons of the diluted hydrochloric
acid leaked from the 7,000-gallon
tank, which was less than half
full of a solution of about 35 per-
cent hydrochloride and 65 per-
cent water.
The police cordoned off a
quarter and half-mile area near
the tank, Gonzales said.
Workers from a physical plant
administrative service building
and groundskeeping office, lo-
cated in the path of the cloud,
were evacuated along with resi-
dents in the university’s married
student housing complex, Gon-
zales said.
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Chickasha Daily Express
Invites
Ronda Smith
To the Southland Twin,
Washita Twin
or Chief Drive-In
to see
Any Feature Now Showing
This coupon good for Iwo Uetas.
We Saw
Stan Copelaind, marking six years with DonRey this week...
Darla Cook, busy working...Woozy Lucas, stopping by the Daily
Express...Bai bara Thomas, picking up a photograph.. .N.C. Ke-
nnedy , taking are of business.. .Gail Bush. teaching a class.
Abby Binyon, looking for a lost puppy...J.D. Lewis, acting as an
intercom...Susan McCaughtry, grocery shopping...Jackie
Frailey, running an errand . Mavis Miller, talking about the His
torical Society Museum being open on Memorial Day. Bobby
Bingham, celebrating his eighth birthday today...Katherine
Peeples, talking about her favorite teacher, Glenda Crump.
District Weather
Widely scattered mainly late afternoon and nighttime thun
derstorms over the panhandle and west through Friday Other-
wise, mostly fair with warm afternoons Lows tonight upper 50s to
low 60s. Friday high 80s.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
collapse of U.S. efforts to nego
tiate Manuel Antonio Noriega’s
departure from Panama is being
hailed by both congressional
Democrats and Republicans,
who assert that the admin
istration's strategy was mis
guided from the start.
There were virtually no
dissenting voices Wednesday
after Secretary of State George
P. Shultz, appearing solemn at a
hastily arranged news con
ference, said that Noriega had
rejected U.S. proposals for his
resignation as defense chief and
his temporary departure from
Panama.
The reaction came as no sup
rise since criticism of the admin
istration's stand had been
widespread well before Shultz's
announcement. The critics in-
cluded Vice President George
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Bush, who has expressed some
misgivings at the Reagan ad
ministration’s negotiations with
Noriega, on Wednesday said that
he still was optimistic that Nor-
iega could be persuaded to step
down.
“I'm convinced Noriega will
be out of power,” Bush told re
porters in Lakehurst, N.J. “The
fact that we haven't solved this
doesn't depress me.
“I don’t want a bad deal. I
want a good deal We ll have to
go back and figure it out.”
Senate Republican Leader
Bob Dole of Kansas said that he
welcomed Shultz’s announce-
ment. “Noriega must go if we
are to achieve our goals in Pan
ama. But sending Noriega off
into retirement with a legal
golden parachute ... would have
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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) —
Fog and light wind helped spread
a toxic cloud Wednesday after a
hydrochloric acid solution
leaked from a tank near
Oklahoma State University,
forcing the evacuation of studets
and employees, officials said.
An estimated 300 Oklahoma
State University housing resi
dents and employees were
evacuated briefly after the leak
was discovered at 6:45 a.m.
Wednesday. No injuries were
reported.
All those evacuated returned
to their homes and jobs after
safety workers neutralized the
liquid escaping from the tank.
The cloud of fumes had dis
sipated by 9:15 a.m., said Nestor
Gonzales, the university’s public
information officer.
He said Wednesday morning’s
fog enhanced the fumes to a
“good-sized cloud," and a light
wind that shifted direction sev-
eral times forced the university
safety department workers to
move their com mand posts.
When the breeze began blow-
ing out of the northwest, the resi-
dents and workers were
evacuated, he said.
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Bush, Justice Department offi-
cials, Panamanian opposition
leaders and 86 senators.
Perhaps the most biting com-
ment of all was made by Sen.
Alan Cranston, D-Calif., who ex
pressed no regret at all for the
administration’s negotiations
failure.
“This administration nego-
tiates with the darndest people —
Iranian terrorists and Pan-
amanian drug dealers," Cran-
ston said. “I think we should
have an administration which
doesn’t negotiate with people
l ike that.
“This administration has
handled the Noriega situation so
badly that it is an embar-
rassment to the United States."
After the negotiations broke
down, President Reagan
ordered the return of State De-
partment envoy Michael Kozak
shot him,’” Jones said. ‘“He
(Blessing) just ran up to the
pickup and I shot him."
Law officers said they found
an unloaded .22-caliber rifle be
neath Blessing’s body on a black
top road near his Indianola home
| offthe Indian Nation Turnpike.
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