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disallow some bureaucratic rules.    I
Diverting Ill-Gotten Gains     ?
Senate Bill 310 would clarify I
and stiffen state law that forbids a
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The bill would require a criminal
to forfeit the proceeds "from any
source, as a direct or indirect result
of the crime or sentence" of which
he/she was convicted "or the noto-
riety which the crime or sentence
has conferred upon" the convict.
Proceeds from such a contract
would have to be paid to a state
district court and deposited in an
escrow account.
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upon the defendant's resources, the overtime, plus $1.94 million to de-
judge could require the debt to be velop medium-security space to
paid in a lump sum or in install- confine 180 prisoners, to pay op-
menu. .                   erating expenses for 700 new
The costs of indigent defense are prison beds being added this year,
considered a debt "and shall be and to expand the remote elec-
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considering Senate bills and reso-
lutions, House committees resumed
meetings throughout the week.
Nevertheless, the full House con-
vened to consider several meas-
ures, including bills to strengthen
Oklahoma's so-called "Son of Sam"
notoriety-for-profit law, to appro-
priate funds to beef up the state .
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County Purchasing Limit, Tag
Agent Proceeds Raised
The governor recently signed into
law House Bill 1109, which raised
the threshold at which county offi-
sublet Wanmethod provided by tronic-monitoring program which cials.must seek competitive.bidson
iawfor the collection of debts," the utilizes ankle bracelets and voice purchasesoThebilhiked the limit
""ApprVedby both the House and phone calls to confirm the location Thesgoyemnaralso signed House
the Penate, SB 69 was sent to the of convicts.
govemor for his consideration. The medium-security space will ceeds Ehat tag agents can retain to
ovemcutIEm Some slack be developed convefting 140 financetheir offices. EffectiveJuly
gent Rill 304 would nrohibit  old temporary holding cells at the  1, tag agents can keep $2.25 from
Senatepomianiewrrompendiiz-   state penitentiary in McAlester and  each vehicle registration, each
insuraneasom Pad spr exceeding  converting additional space at  special license plate sale, and from
ing any driver cited ror eenK Strinotown                         each certificate of title they issue,
the speedlimit, SD817 also raises the Correc- Previously Ihe amount tag agents
milespehour a theamoton tions Department's staffing level to could retain from each of those
nAweolerdinewtemption would 4,900 fun-time employees, incte transactions was 1.25.
not apply to any driver who previ- .In addition, SB 173 allocates
ously has received more than three $388,000 to the regulatory Corpo-
tickets for moving violations that ration Commission "for the pur-
have resulted in fines or convic-   pose of preventing an agency-wide
tions, nor to any motorist convicted   furlough. Declining tax receipts
of driving under the influence of an fromnoil and gas production caused
intoxicating substance.               a shortfall in the agency's budget.
The bill was returned to the Sen- officials said.
tious, truthful and free from vani- No quick end is seen in court. Bell’s appeal of a Corporation
ty” were about 30 percent less like- Commission order for $84 million in state upgrades, $148.4 million
ly to die in any given year than the in customer refunds and $92.7 million in annual rate cuts has been
group as a whole.                pending in the state Supreme Court since 1992. The Attorney Gen-
seemedftSainat injury. S Bell’s total potential liability at $380.2 million on
thestudvmaidahutaslsasfromascrly The court on March 13 reinstated a briefing schedule in the case,
cer.                            The order denied Bell’s bias allegations against Commissioner Bob
For men, Friedman said: “It is Anthony, who cooperated with the FBI in a bribery investigation
not true that the good die young. In which brought two convictions.
terms of the rush toward death, the Assistant Attorney General Rick Chamberlain said “the impor-
encouraging news seems to be that tance of the order was not really evident at first glance. We felt it
the good guys finish last.”          was a major victory in that we can now get on with the real issues.”
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Furthermore, Termites who were While pre-selling was popular in Pauls Valley, it could be-
considered cheerful children were come an onerous pattern for others, suggests an independent phone
more likely to die younger, the company officer who calls it “an embarrassment to the state of Okla-
study found.                      homa.”
The analysis of cheerful children "It sure tells other towns how to get what they need,” said Tom
showed they were risk takers who Riley of Oklahoma City, vice president of Dobson Telephone Co and
weremore likely to smoke tobacco board member of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. “It seems
Co hold them hostage. 42
ZIX tar derkhites “Forward Scout,” an anonymous newsletter, highlights a
early Friedman said             growing practice of lawmakers asking that the record reflect if I
Other members of the research had been in the chamber I would have voted yes/no on xyz bill.”
included- Deborah L. Win- Scout said after Rep. Bob Ed Culver, D-Tahlequah, “asked that his
gard of UCSD; Leslie R. Martin of non-vote be recorded for posterity, he informed everyone that he
UC Riverside; Carol Tomlinson- would have made the vote except that the ‘buzzer in the lobby was
Keasey of UC Davis; Joan S. Tuck- acting erotically.”’ Some Capitol employees say they “would kill” for
er, a former UC Riverside gradu- the name of the cynic who sends his zingers to every office.
By Rex Dalton
Copley News Service
Divorce means more than the
demise of a family, a team of Cali-
fornia researchers says — it can
mean early death for the offspring
of divorced parents.
In the first study of its kind, the
team found that the children of
people who divorced faced a signif-
icantly greater risk of dying early.
There was direct evidence that
the male offspring died earlier, the
research says.
The women died younger, too,
but apparently because they
smoked more.
And the longevity study found
that conscientious children were
more likely to become adults who
lived longer.
“If you are conscientious and
your parents didn’t divorce, you
are likely to live seven to eight
years longer," said Howard S.
Friedman, a psychologist at the
University of California at River-
side who also is associated with the
University of California at San
Diego. "That is a really whopping
The bill also earmarks $3 million effect"
for the State Regents for Higher The longevity study, published in
Education and $2 million for the the February issue of American
State Vo-Tech Department. Those Psychologist, studied 1,528 Califor-
appropriations represent interest nians whose lives were monitored
earnings from the $350 million for more than 70 years.
general-obligation capital-im- Friedman and his colleagues
provements bond issue that Okla- studied Californians who wer en-
homa voters approved in Novem- rolled in 1921 in the Terman Life-
ber 1992                            Cycle study, which was set up by
All of the expenditures author- renowned psychologist Lewis Ter-
ized by the billwould be appro- mantocharipeoplefromprerado-
priated from the state's General lescenceethroughouttheir iVGS. n
Revenue Fund. The measure was _ The 856 boys and 672 ® ..
sent io the governor for his sign.- Terman’sostudz.weresamongathe
turec,„ . ..   . ..         dren, each with an IQ of,at least
Eliminating Duplication 135. The research subjects called
The Joint Committee on Sunset themselves “Terman’s Termites."
Review would be abolished by Terman first published his re-
Senate BUI 221, which is similar to search on the chhdren in the late
House Bill 102 that passed the 1940s. Records on the children are
Dan Ramsey            House in February.                 stored at Stanford University,
...     .           The House/Senate committee where various research teams still
ate for consideration of House monitors various state boards and      th* ri»ta
amendments.                       commissions, which by state law    About three years ago, Fried-
Rules Rejected                    "bear the burden of establishing  man’s team began collecting death
In House Joint Resolution 1043   that a sufficient public need is pre-  records on Terman Termites. The
the Legislature would reject two   sent which justifies their continued  team then began comparing death
The funds would be earmarked to rules changes that the State Board  existence."                        records with the vast amount of
pay restitution to victims of the  of Health adopted Feb. 16.            The joint committee voted earlier  existing data on the Termites’
crime, to reimburse the public de- One proposed rule would modify this year to disband because the marital status personalities and
fender’s system for the convict's le-   the definition of "physician" to   House and Senate both have per-  behavior traits.
gal representation, to pay fines,  mean only doctors of medicine or  manent sunset review committees.     The study showed that men
court costs of "every cost and ex-  osteopathy. However,   statutes     Public Schools                    whose parents remained married
pense of incarceration and treat-  adopted by the Legislature define a    senate Bill 53 would authorize  had a median age of 80 at death,
ment" of the criminal.               physician as anyone licensed to  school districts, under certain cir-  while men whose parents divorced
Anyone who negotiates such a  practice optometry, dentistry, oste-   cumstances, to make capital ex-  had a median age of 76 at death.
contract without providing for for- opathy, podiatry, chiropractic, penditures from their general Women whose parents remained
feiture of the proceeds would be medicine and surgery.              funds. The money could be spent married had a median age at death
deemed to have committed a fel- Another proposed Board of only to build or remodel class- of 86, with women whose parents
ony. Punishment would be a fine of  Health rule would modify the  rooms; the expenditures could not  divorced having a median age of 82
up to $10,000 and triple the pro-  definition of physician services to   exceed 5 percent of a district's gen-  at death.
ceeds from the contract, and/or 10 include psychological services. But eral fund; and the practice would r
years' imprisonment.                 state statutes generally exclude li-   be limited to no more than five
SB 310 also would extend the  censed health-service psychologists  consecutive years for any single
time period allowed for crime vic-  from the definition of "physician",   district,
tims to file a claim against the pro- HJR 1043 notes.                      SB 53 was sent back to the Sen-
ceeds from a notoriety-for-profit State agencies and rules promul- ate for reconsideration.
contract: from five years to seven; gated by them "are required to An Education Support Personnel
The House amended and passed  follow and comply with the statu-  Legislative Task Force would be
SB 310 and returned it to the Sen-  tory law of this state," the resolu-  created by House Concurrent
ate.                                 tion stresses.                        Resolution 1010, which was en-
Crime and Punishment         Supplemental Appropriations    dorsed by the House and was sent
State law requires any suspected    Senate Bill 173, which appro- to the Senate.
criminal represented by the state's priates $2.9 million more to the The 15-member panel would
indigent-defense network to pay   state Corrections Department to  study the feasibility of establishing
the costs of his legal representa-  accommodate Oklahoma's  bur-  a state minimum salary schedule
tion.                                geoning convict population, was  for school support personnel.
Senate BU1 69 would direct the  endorsed overwhelmingly by both  similar to the established wage
judge, when assessing those costs the House and the Senate.            scale for certified teachers.
to consider the defendant's ability Because of the rising number of A report from the task force
to pay "and any likely hardship convicts, the bill allocates $1 mil- would be due by Feb. 1,1996.
which would result." Depending lion to pay guards for accrued
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schools they attended.              of secrecy foes, since a meeting in the Ozarks could be a way to
The evert reason divorce is con- avoid coverage by the hometown newspaper.
nerted to early death wasn't deter- “All meetings of state, county, municipal, school and all other
mined, but Friedman speculated it governmental entities covered by this act may only be held within
had “something to do with the con- the geographical boundaries of each such entity. This includes all
flicts of stress" seen in divorced regular, special, and emergency meetings,” it said. No more.
families.                           It acquired a school title in redrafting and was then comman-
The death rates were examined deered by school forces looking for a way to keep guns out of the
to see what environmental factors student body. SB38 was the only school issue bill, Title 70, still alive,
may have contributed to the early                                ***
deaths. With the exception of A route taken by Paula Valley to gain digital switching ca-
smoking, in. women, thene factors pable of modern telecommunications is not the quickest solution for
didnwtoinc wm dottarattiy reiat. 72 other towns still on rotary switches, a Southwestern Bell Tele-
arhX."- Mt nf num ahnu phone spokesman suggests.
edtosthedeathraeofmenwhoe Bell will install the switch, projected at a cost of $1.2 million, in
pani h a“y a Es8 nhvii- return for the pre-selling of phone services by the Pauls Valley In-
in who was" a’ co-author But dustrial Authority. Under Bell’s cost analysis, the city would not
women whose parents divorced otherwise have qualified.                                .     .
were found to smoke more, which in a test that was the first of its kind the authority agreed to sell
contributed to their early death. phone services equal to at least $65,000 in annual revenue. The
Said Criqiii, “Women who are the total so far is more than $137,000 in Caller ID, Call Waiting, Call
children of divorced parents die Forwarding and Plexar services.
younger, but the reason is they The plan initiated by Pauls Valley took about a year, said Bell
smoke more."                    spokesman Bill Mashek, and negotiation is still the best hope for
In looking at Terman Termites’ others.
behavioral characteristics, the re-     "We certainly want to see them get digital switches,” he said “The
searchers found that children — process of the Pauls Valley test is probably not the quickest way.
especially boys — who were rated Negotiations are still going forward. We’re hopeful of a negotiated
decades ago as “prudent, conscien- settlement.”
Friday, April 7,1995
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WEEKLY MARKET COMMENTARY
Week of March 27-31,1995
The Dow Jones !ndustrialAverageloggeda8.4%galn for the first quarter
of 1995 breaching the4000 and 4100 mark along the way. The SAP 500
advanced 9% and the Transports added 12.4% during the past three
months. The technology lalden NASDAQ Composite jumped 8.7%, but
small caps lagged their larger counterparts as the Russell 2000 rose just
4%. U.S. stocks benefited from Increased optimism that the Federal
Reserve had engineered a soft landing; investors also brought money
home as the tequila effect washed over Latin America following the peso
devaluation. ,
Asthequarterendedon Fridayinvestors received ajolt as the govem-
merit revised the Gross Domestic Product growth for the fourth quarterto
5.1% 4.6%. The Dow plunged 60 points on the opening as investors
began to rethink the belief that Interest rates will remain stable. investors
On the New York Stock Exchange this past week advancing issues
outpaced declining ones with 1603 issues up, 1024 issues down, and 457
unchanged. The average daily volume on the NYSE was over419.0million
last week versus 405J mion trading the week before. On the week 283
stocks rose to new highs while 59 fell to new lows.
The transportation average rose 64.72 points to 1635.74 while the
utimeskst0.86ofapointtocoseat 188.51. The NASDAQ Composite was
Off 1,46 pointe toend the week 81817.21 and the S6P600closed at500.71,
giving up 0.26 of a point The DJIA added 19.02 to close at 4157.69.
ECONOMIC NEWS: Existing home sales fell 5.0% in February, a larger-
mhan-expected drop. Consumer confidence rose to 101.0 in March from a
previous 99.0. Factory orders fell 02% in February after a rise of 0.6% in
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decision not to raise rates; bonds continued to fall at the dollar continued
to side despite the Bundesbanka surprise move to cut abort term interest
rates. The 30-yeu Treasury bond fapushing the yleld up to 7.42%.
STOCKS IN THE NEWS
ADOBE SYSTEMS (ADBEJ staged 29-6/8 to dose the week at 82-1/2
as Ingersoll-Rand announced a hostie bid for ths company. Clark has
spumed the $13 bMon offer.
CIRCA PHARMACEUTICALS agreed to merge with Waton Pharme-
ceutoala in a stock swap. Shares of Circa jumped 51/8tocoeeat223
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