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During the commemoration,
the group will tape a 45-minute
special for PBS and speak to 200
young cadets attending the Air
Space Museum’s Aerospace
Team ’90 summer education
program, said Finch.
Shane Williams-Beauchamp,
28, of Chickasha, Lisa Adams, 27,
of Lindsay and Joe Hackney, 42,
of Blanchard, have been im-
plicated in the shooting death of
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
Oklahomans wanting to change
state law at the ballot box face
more legal roadblocks than exist
in many other states that have
the initiative petition process.
In Oklahoma, it can take up to
By LES WYATT
Express Staff Reporter
A Chickasha woman, a Lin
dsay woman and a Blanchard
man have been ordered to stand
trial on charges of murder, as-
sault and conspiracy charges in
the alleged robbery of two Texas
men in Garvin County in May.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
Four of the five spacemen who
participated in the historic dock-
ing of Soviet Soyuz and Am-
erican Apollo aircraft in July
1975 will commemorate the
ism for deciding legal questions
before petitions are circulated,
thereby ensuring an issue will be
voted upon once sponsors obtain
the required signatures.
In Arkansas, the attorney gen
eral must sign off on the ballot
language before petitions are
circulated — not after the pet-
ition signatures are filed, as is
the case in Oklahoma.
In Utah, Maine and Alaska,
officials like the attorney gen-
See Petitioners, page 10
County authorities the incident
occurred at a mobile home which
was owned by Lisa Adams and
located south of Lindsay. He said
Gentry was shot with a shotgun,
wrapped in a blanket and thrown
off a bridge on Rush Creek
The system can be cum-
bersome, even for a governor.
Gov. Henry Bellmon announced
last April he would not be run
ning for re-election, but would
take part in initiative petition
efforts to change state govern-
ment.
Nine months after petitions
plans were knocked out by legal
challenges in the Oklahoma Su-
preme Court.
More recently, a controversy
has developed because of the
likelihood there will be no vote
this year on an initiative petition
to repeal a $223 million school
reform and tax bill enacted at a
special legislative session.
The Stop Taxing Our People
organization says it has col-
lected about 150,000 signatures to
place the issue on the ballot —
much more than the required
94 400.
Dan Brown, chairman of
STOP, says the possibility that
sians would do something."
Stafford has been escorting
cosmonauts Alexsey A. Leonov
and Valeriy N. Kubasov around
the country since they arrived in
the United States Wednesday. As
part of their visit, they attended
some of the Goodwill Games in
Seattle.
They will be joined in
Oklahoma City by Donald K.
“Deke" Slayton. The third as-
tronaut, Vance D. Brand, de-
clined an invitation because of a
schedule conflict.
“We’ve got people from all
over coming to see them,” Finch
said. “There will be a lot of auto-
graph hounds ”
For two days beginning July
17, 1975, the Apollo and Soyuz
aircraft were docked in orbit.
The five spacemen aboard the
two aircraft conducted joint ex-
two years to get a proposal on a
statewide ballot after petitions
are circulated and the required
signatures are collected.
One of the main reasons is that
legal challenges to the proposed
law or constitutional change are
allowed prior to a vote, and the
governor has much control over
when an issue will make it on a
ballot.
bia Circuit in Washington.
Others who have been mentioned
have been U.S. Trade Represen
tative Carla Hills and Sen. Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah.
Bush’s choice will help deter-
mine the court’s approach
possibly well into the next cen
tury — to abortion rights, affir
mative action, freedom of
expression and other contentious
issues.
Brennan said he decided to end
his 34 year career on the court —
one that spanned the admin
istrations of eight presidents —
because of his “advancing age
and medical condition.
He suffered a small stroke
after the term ended, falling
down in Newark Airport en route
test, further delays can occur
because the governor then de-
termines the timing of an ele-
tion. If the governor does not call
a special election or place the
issue on another statewide bal
lot, it would go on the ballot of the
were circulated for three pro-
posed constitutional amend-
ments, one of the issues
supported by the governor is fin-
ally going to a vote this fall. That
proposal would add to the state
constitution provisions for an
ethics agency.
Two other Bellmon-backed
The three waived formal ar-
raignment Friday and were
scheduled to be tried on charges
of first-degree murder, con
spiracy to commit a felony and
assault and battery with a
deadly weapon.
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changed.
Historically, it has taken up to
two months for signatures to be
counted, first by the secretary of
state and then by the Supreme
Court.
Then there is a 10 day period
for legal challenges in the Su-
preme Court. Once a challenge
has been filed, as is expected on
the STOP petition, it can take
several months before the Su-
preme Court rules.
If a petition survives a court
They may visit the National
Cowboy Hall of Fame and Remi-
ngton Park race track during
their day in Oklahoma City.
The cosmonauts will leave for
Houston Tuesday and visit sev-
eral more cities before returning
to the Soviet Union Aug. 31.
Four of the five were reunited
once before in Oklahoma City.
Kubasov met with Brand,
Slayton and Stafford at the Aero-
space America ’88 air show at
Will Rogers World Airport in
June 1988.
the issue may not be voted on
until November, 1992, is “lu-
dicrous” and shows the initiative
petition system may need to be
process is moving.”
Bush declined to divulge the
names of those discussed during
the meeting and would not ac-
cept further questions.
Solicitor General Kenneth W.
Starr, the government’s top
courtroom lawyer, has been
mentioned as a leading possi-
bility for a high court vacancy.
Starr gave up a federal judge
ship to take the Justice Depart
ment job.
Other possible candidates
include a number of federal ap
peals judges, including Ralph K.
Winter of the 2nd Circuit, J Har-
vie Wilkinson III of the 4th Cir-
cuit, Patrick E. Higginbotham of
the 5th Circuit and Clarence
Thomas of the District of Colum-
District and the Lincoln Electric
System, Mrs. Orr said.
A site in Boyd County near the
South Dakota border has been
selected as the preferred loca-
tion for a low level nuclear waste
warehouse that would hold waste
from five states in the Central
Interstate Low level Radio-
active Waste Compact.
The compact states are: Ne-
braska, Kansas, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Developer US Ecology plans to
submit by July 31 an application
to build the facility.
“There is little doubt that a
period of discussion would be
helpful, if the deadlines are ex-
tended,” Mrs. Orr said.
“We’d like to include the
people of Boyd County as well as
the power companies ... the
waste generators, in those dis-
cussions,” she said.
“This morning we discussed
the fact that such talk does in-
clude some risks. Were the num-
ber of sites reduced, how does
that affect us,” she said.
“It’s not the amount of work
we’ve done to site a facility and
meet all the federal deadlines,
but it’s a matter of being able to
effectively represent our posi-
tion in Washington,” Mrs. Orr
said.
In a letter to Kerrey on Thu-
rsday. she wrote, “Congress can
only be persuaded to reconsider
its action on the low-level waste
issue by the forceful and sub-
stantive persuasion of its mem-
bers together with affected state
officials.”
“The power companies realize
they are the largest generators
and that we must all pull
together as a state to deal with
our responsibility," Mrs. Orr
said.
•WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Bush, moving quickly
in the wake of Supreme Court
Justice William J. Brennan’s
surprise retirement, said he and
top aides had discussed several
possible successors to the high
court’s leading liberal jurist.
Speaking to reporters aboard
Air Force One, Bush said his
75-minute meeting with Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh,
White House Chief of Staff John
Sununu and presidential counsel
C. Boyden Gray was the first
session in which a successor was
discussed, but “there will prob-
ably be more."
“lam going to try to make this
determination as soon as pos-
sible,” the president said. “The
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Rep
resentatives of three Nebraska
power districts said today they
would support further discussion
of the construction of a low level
radioactive waste disposal site
in the state, Gov. Kay Orr said.
In an interview with The Asso
ciated Press after a morning
meeting with the utility officials,
Mrs. Orr said the officials indi-
cated they would support a rec
ommendation by Sen. Bob
Kerrey, D-Neb., with one stipu-
lation. , . _
“The bottom line is that Con-
gress would have to extend the
deadlines imposed on the siting
process before we could discuss
Sen. Kerrey’s proposed mora-
torium,” Mrs. Orr said.
Kerrey’s letter to the utilities
last Sunday prompted the meet-
ing with representatives from
the Nebraska Public Power Dis
trict, the Omaha Public Power
. . Astronauts, Cosmonauts Ready For
3 Reunion In Oklahoma City Monday
1, AunM A CITY (AP) - didn’t do something, the Rus- periments and shared ideas dur-
We Saw...
Kevin Holman and team, winning first place in team juggling at
the National Juggling Competition... Justin Powell, visiting his
grandpa and Granny Kay...Jessica Lewis having fun on her
birthday Thursday-Terry Cook. hjmg to decide if he wa^
embark on another overseas trip . Ron Eaton, getting the Chick
asha Little League team ready for the state tournament, Melissa
Tollison visiting relatives.. Jin. . (bbetts, delivering a news item.
David Sikes in a telephone conversation. Peter Dorn, stopping
byDthe"Epr‘ss.. Jackie McCaughtry. talking about building
her deck. . . Irene Andrews, in a telephone conversation. . .Ed Math-
ews remembering a trivia question answer, but not the duestion
Tammy Rutledge, in a telephone conversation Oscar the dog,
suffering through another treacherous day at the office.
District Weather
Today Considerable cloudiness and cooler with a 20 percent
chance of thunderstorms. High of 84 Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph
event Monday at the Oklahoma
Air Space Museum.
) “Oklahoma is in the top five in
the nation in space mem-
orabilia," said museum director
’ Don Finch. “We got to thinking
about a reunion, and thought
why not do it?”
The space docking flight,
which took place July 15-25,1975,
was the first joint space oper-
ation between the United States
and Soviet Union.
Finch said he contacted
Oklahoma astronaut Tom Staf
ford, who commanded the Am-
erican part of the mission, about
the idea for a 15th reunion.
• ‘ He thought it was a wonderful
idea,” Finch said. “He felt if we
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Daily Express/Les Wyatt
STATE TROOPER CRAIG MEDCALF, after serving Grady County
residents for 5 years, has been reassigned to the Size and Weights
division of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. As of August istI Craig
will be assigned to the Motor Carrier Safety Awareness g
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safety equipment such as brakes, lights, etc. and also check
overloads He will be working in a three-county area which includes
Grady. Oklahoma and Canadian Counties. Craig and his family will
remain in the Bridge Creek area and hopes to visit frequently w
the many friends they have made in Grady County.
Parole
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Willoughby I
LEXINGTON (AP) - The |
state Pardon and Parole board
recommended parole under cer- l
tain conditions for a Chickasha |
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Richard Willoughby, 30, was
sentenced to serve 45 years for
the 1981 shooting death of a J
Colorado man. (
The board ordered Willoughby
to spend six months under pre-
parole conditional supervision
and to be treated for substance
abuse.
A convicted child molester
serving sentences totaling more
than 400 years has been denied a
bid for parole.
Charles Robert Brown, who
was seeking to be paroled from
the first of more than 400 years of
sentences for numerous counts
of making obscene videotapes of
minors, forcible oral sodomy
and indecent or lewd acts with
children under 16, was denied by
the board on Friday.
Brown, a former Oklahoma
City ice cream truck driver was
convicted last year. He wanted
the board to make his sentences
run concurrently instead of con-
secutively — which would red-
uce his prison time to 20 years.
The board unanimously refused.
The board denied freedom to a
man who has served 13 years for
the 1976 murder of an Enid boy
Clifton Driskell, a former state
bank examiner, was once sen-
tenced to death for killing Kevin
Tapp, 11, of Enid in 1976. The
sentence later was commuted to
life imprisonment, and he be-
came eligible for consideration
for pre-parole.
- Driskell’s wife told the board
she is paralyzed on one side as a
result of a stroke last year and
she needs her husband’s help.
She said he has worked hard in
prison and helped several in-
mates become Christians.
But Jesse Tapp, the victim’s
father, and his minister brought
petitions signed by 4,000 people
protesting clemency for
Driskell.
Also denied parole recom-
mendations Thursday night and
Friday were:
— Ray Carolina, convicted of
murder in the 1972 slayings of an
Oklahoma City grocer, his wife
and his child.
— Gary Parsons Jr., convicted
of first-degree manslaughter in
the 1985 fatal shooting of Thomas
Wolfe in an elaborate tree house
in Oklahoma City. Parsons, ser-
ving time in a Washington
prison, is the son of the
Oklahoma Corrections Depart
ment associate director.
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William Gentry of Arlington,
Texas
Prosecutors allege the three
and another man shot and killed
Gentry after a muffed robbery
attempt May 12th, near Lindsay.
Steve Northington, with Gen-
try at the time of the incident,
was stabbed, bound, dumped off
a bridge and left for dead but
survived. Authorities are con-
tinuing their search for the
fourth man implicated in the
slaying.
Northington told Garvin
Real Estate Course
The Oklahoma Real Estate Commission will deliver a closed-
circuit Talkback television course on “Law of Agency Tuesday,
July 31 9 a.m.-noon. The course will be taught by Neil Worster of
Norman from Oklahoma City Community College and telephone
connections will be available at USAO.
Illiteracy Hotline
The Oklahoma Telephone Association is funding the Oklahoma
Statewide Literacy Hotline. The organization has adopted the
method of contributing to the fight against illiteracy to assui e all
non readers access to help. Nearly 2,000 calls have been received
in the first two years of the program. Callers who wish to become
tutors or who want to raise their reading level should call
1-800-522-3201.
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to a Scandinavian vacation,
court spokeswoman Toni House
said. Brennan’s doctor advised
him to “avoid stress and strain
and consider retiring,” Ms.
House said.
Appointed to the court by
President Eisenhower in 1956,
Brennan quickly found a home
among the liberal majority led
by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
As the court changed over the
next three decades and the bal-
ance of power moved to the right,
Brennan played a key role in
preserving liberal victories
while also speaking out numer-
ous times as a dissenter de-
fending individual rights.
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next general election.
That would be in November.
1992, if the school issue is not
voted upon this year.
Bellmon aide Andrew
Tevington says it’s not likely that
Bellmon, who leaves office in
January, will be the governor
who decides when the STOP pet-
ition goes to a vote.
“We understand their frus-
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ours to go through the process,”
he said of STOP’S dilemma.
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