The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 142, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1974 Page: 1 of 36
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VOLUME 73—NO. 142
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Maryland Suit Seeks
Hike In Gas Allocation
Bankers’ Meet
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Army Recruiters Seek Skilled Workers
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THE ACTION came Wednes-
day as authorities in 20 states,
including Maryland, worked
to decide how to distribute a
one-time bonus gasoline allo-
cation given them by the Fed-
eral Energy Office for the ri's!
ceived at Meers in the lake’s
watershed area, had brought
the lake level up three inches
by noon today, L. T. Harrison,
filter plant superintendent, re-
ported. Jimmie and Medicine
MEANWHILE in the 19 oth-
er states receiving extra gaso-
line. governors and officials
made varying decisions about
where the gasoline should go.
In Alabama, officials said
rural areas will get the fuel;
in Massachusetts, the one-
time bonus will go to major
metropolitan areas; in Flor-
ida, most of the new allocation
will relieve hard-hit in-
dustries; and in Missouri,
where officials say motorists
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LONDON (AP) — The price of gold soared briefly Thursday
to an all-time high of $156 an ounce. Dealers attributed the rise
to the weakness of the U.S. dollar in Europe.
established slate emergency
supplies, will go. But however
the gasoline is distributed,
most officials say it will only
ease the problem — not solve
it.
OKLAHOMA (TTY ZAP) — The House Rules Committee ap-
proved passage today of a strict new act to require full public
disclosure of finances by all elected and appointed officials at
all levels of government. The bill, introduced originally by
Rep. Tom Rogers, D-Enid, was drafted by the powerful Rules
Committee, which had before it several similar measures.
many serving reluctantly.
“The Army is extremely
well disciplined and getting
more disciplined," Callaway
told a Pentagon news confer-
ence.
The Army secretary singled
out forces in Germany for spe-
Secretary of the Anny How-
ard H. Callaway reported to
President Nixon Wednesday
that "the volunteer Army is a
reality . . . stronger than
when the draft ended" over a
year ago.
He acknowledged that the
Army expects to fall some
20,000 men short of its author-
ized level of 782,000 men by
the end of the fiscal year in
June, but indicated no con-
cern about this relatively
small shortfall.
Callaway claimed the Army
is more combat ready, better
motivated and of a higher
quality than when its ranks
were filled with draftees.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE STATE of Maryland
has filed suit against federal
energy chief William E. Sim-
on and 20 major oil companies
in an effort to force them to
increase the state's monthly
gasoline allocation.
"All we’re asking for is our
fair share,” said Maryland
Gov. Marvin Mandel. He
claimed the situation was crit-
ical in the state and that in-
dustries might have to close if
workers couldn’t get gasoline
to get to their jobs.
or if more demands would be
made.
The SLA had demanded
originally that Hearst dis-
tribute $70 worth of free food
to each of California’s poor
and needy as a condition for
negotiations for the girl's re-
lease.
NEW YORK (AP) - Rep. Angelo D. Roncallo, R N.Y., was
indicted today on charges of extorting money from an in-
cinerator contractor, the U.S attorney in Brooklyn announced.
Five other men were indicted with the first-term congressman,
all current or former officials of the Town of Oyster Bay, U.S.
Atty. Edward Boyd V said in a statement.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Gov. David Hall's bill to exempt
prescription drugs and medicine from the state sales tax was
killed today by the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
The committee decided to hold the bill "for further study" and
the measure's author, Sen. Robert Murphy, D-Stillwater, con-
ceded defeat.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A proposed $13 million revenue
er forecasters said. Fair 0
partly cloudy skies and cooler
readings have been forecast
for Southwest Oklahoma
tonight. Warmer temperatures
are expected Friday. Gusty,
northerly winds 25 to 45 miles
per hour should decrease to 20
to 30 m.p.h. tonight.
Temperatures should range
from a high this afternoon in
the upper 30s to a low tonight
in the mid 20s and a high
Fnday in the low 50s. High
Wednesday was 76, low 40.
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Commenting on the Mary-
land lawsuit, an aide to Simon
said the FEO had acknowledg-
ed Maryland’s problems in in-
cluding it among the 20 states
to receive the bonus alloca-
tions.
“But we recognized that
other states were in short sup-
ply and some of them were in
Temperature Chart
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Evidence Cited
The indictment said the
grand jury had heard evi-
dence that within two months
after the March 25, 1971. price
support decision Jacobsen had
solicited the money from the
dairy group "on the represen-
tation that such money was to
be paid to a public official for
his assistance in connection
with the price support deci-
sion."
Jacobsen testified before the
grand jury on January 25.
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C. L. MELENZYER, direc-
tor of Alabama’s energy
See MARYLAND, Page 4
To Draw 400
Some 400 to 450 state bank-
ers are expected to attend a
regional Oklahoma Bankers
Associaton convention at Mon-
tego Bay Saturday, Jerry
Mustain, senior vice president
of the Security Bank and
Trust Co. here, said today.
Attending will be represen-
tatives of banks in the south-
western portion of the state,
Mustain said. The OBA is di-
vided into four regions, or
groups.
Registration will open at
12:30 p.m. Saturday and run
until 6 p.m., Mustain said. A
business meeting will be held
at 2 p.m., with Jon Rice, chief
of the financing division,
Small Business Adminis-
tration, Oklahoma City, as
guest speaker.
John A. Taylor, petroleum
geologist from Oklahoma City,
will address OBA members on
the energy crisis, Mustain
said.
Officers will be elected fol-
See BANKERS, Page 4
Hearst said he could not
possibly meet that demand,
which state officials estimated
would cost some $400 million.
He went ahead instead with
the $2 million “Peoples in
Need” program.
The SLA said it would ac-
cept a “good will gesture”
from Hearst, president and
editor of the San Francisco
See HEARST, Page 4
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The overnight rains left a
total of 1.20 inches of precipi-
tation in downtown Lawton at
the Lawton Publishing Com-
pany, Third and A, while Fire
See STORMS, Page 4
Statement Issued
Fields issued a brief state-
ment which said:
“Reg Murphy presumably
has been kidnaped. Jim Min-
ter. managing editor of the
Constitution, received a tele-
phone call at 9:15 p.m. from
someone saying Murphy had
been kidnaped by the ’Revolu-
tionary Army.’
"The caller said the Con-
stitution would hear further
by other means. Channel 5 TV
— WAGA — received a sim-
ilar call at about 9:20 p m.
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Reg Murphy, editor of The Atlanta Constitution,
shown at work at his desk recently, has been con-
firmed as missing by his wife. The newspaper's
news editor, Edward Sears, said early today that
ATLANTA. Ga (AP) - Reg
Murphy, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, has been ab-
ducted by a group calling it-
self the "Revolutionary
Army.” the newspaper said
today.
Murphy, 40, has been miss-
ing since about 7 30 p.m.,
Wednesday, when he left his
home with a man who said he
wanted to talk to him about a
news story, his wife said.
Call Expected
search Wednesday night,
sources at the paper said.
Murphy was named editor
of the Constitution in October
1968, at the time the late
Ralph McGill was publisher.
Murphy and Hal Gulliver,
associate editor of the Con-
stitution. were co-authors of a
See EDITOR, Poge 4
and an administration deci-
sion to raise milk price sup-
ports in 1971
Testimony Aired
The indictment recounted
that Jacobsen was asked
about $10,000 received from
Associated Milk Producers,
Inc., a dairy industry organi-
zation.
Jacobsen told the grand
jury that he put the money in
a safe deposit box and left it
there until it was inventoried
by FBI agents, the indictment
alleged.
The indictment charged that
testimony was false.
The maximum penalty for
"making false declaration be-
fore grand jury or court" is
five years in prison and a
$10,000 fine.
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lion food distribution program
in an effort to win her release.
Food Stockpiled
Already, $100,000 worth of
food had been stockpiled. The
distribution of food to the poor
is scheduled to start Friday.
Another San Francisco radio
station, KGO, reported that
the Rev. Cecil Williams, an in-
termediary in past SLA com-
munications, received a tele-
phone call Wednesday night.
It directed him to a telephone
booth, where he found the
tape recording.
KGO said that, unlike pre-
vious tapes received from the
SLA, the new recording did
not carry a message from the
kidnaped woman.
Miss Hearst turned 20 on
Wednesday. Her parents had
appealed to the abductors to
release her on her birthday as
a gesture of good faith.
News Conference
The FBI scheduled a news
conference in Los Angeles at
9:30 a.m. PDT with U.S. Atty.
Gen. William Saxbe and FBI
Director Clarence Kelley. An
FBI spokesman declined to
state the purpose of the news
conference, but said that
Charles Bates, the agent in
charge of the Hearst case, was
expected to be there. The EBI
said earlier a statement would
be released from San Fran-
cisco this morning, but later
denied it.
No one outside of the SLA
knew whether the food dis-
tribution, which starts Friday,
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than it was a year ago” when
they suffered with what he
called extreme problems of
drug abuse and racial discord.
Callaway conceded that
these problems still are
present but said Army com-
see army. Page 4
Creeks, Lawtonka tributaries,
were running a foot deep at
noon today, Harrison said.
The Lawtonka level stood at
1 95 feet below the top of the
floodgates at noon today, com-
pared to the Saturday reading
of 2.13 feet below the top of
the gates.
Appreciable runoff also is
expected at Lake Ellsworth
where two inches of rain fell
overnight, Harrison said.
More than two inches of pre-
cipitation was reported at
Apache, in the Ellsworth wa-
tershed area.
Rain or snow, reported fall-
ing at all Southwest Oklahoma
reporting stations at noon
today, is expected to end in
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wife received a call from
someone who said, 'If you
want to know about your hus-
band, call Jim Minter.' "
Mrs. Murphy said the per-
son who called her did not
identify himself in any way.
"I am not sure what to do,"
she said. "I have no other in-
formation. I am waiting now
for some kind of contact."
Security Tight
Security was tight at the
Journal-Constitution's new
marble and glass building.
Guards were requiring all em-
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1974.The indictment quoted bond issue to improve the Oklahoma park system was unveiled
the following segment of his today at the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Commission
testimony: meeting. Chris T. Delaporte, state park superintendent, pro-
"Q. And it is your testimony posed the bond plan and said the bonds would be retired dur-
see indictment. poge 4 ing a 15-year period from park revenues.
are not suffering, the gasoline ployes to show their building
will go to farmers, school passes and to register, even
buses and public trans- though they were familiar
portation. with most of them
It's up to the governor of FBI agents searched Mur-
each state to decide where the phy's office for clues again
fuel. being added to already today after having made a
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Slaying Victim’s Auto Located
By JERRY WEBER Tied from a thumbprint dur- late Wednesday by four black
rNHE search for killers of a ing an autopsy in Oklahoma males. The males were being
1 47-year-old city man City Wednesday. sought as suspects in the mur-
whose burned body was found Deputies said Jones was der, one source said, but this
on Mt. Scott Tuesday spread apparently murdered, possibly was not confirmed by depu-
to Oklahoma County today with a gun, then taken to the ties.
with the discovery of the vic- top of Mt. Scott and burned. Where the car was found ih
tim's abandoned car there A .25-caliber pistol, material Oklahoma County was not re-
about midnight Wednesday. similar to scraps of doth vealed.
Authorities were also seek- found on the body and an item Authorities today continued
ing four black males as sus- with possible bloodstains - questioning friends of Jones, a
pects in the murder of Leon all found in his Summit resi- house parent at the Marie
B Jones, 4341 Summit, whose dence Wednesday afternoon — Detty Youth Center here and a
identity was confirmed by were taken to the state Bu- retired serviceman, attempt-
deputies working on the case reau of Investigation crime ing to trace his whereabouts
this morning. laboratory today for analysis. earlier in the week.
Jones, whose charred body Oklahoma County officers
was found on the mountain had under surveillance a 1970 'Jones did not show up for
Tuesday afternoon by a wild- model car belonging to Jones "orE Monday morning at the
life refuge worker, was identi- that was thought abandoned See slaving. Page • ‛
WASHINGTON (AP) - A By PEGGY JO ORMSON
federal grand jury today in- t IGHT snow began falling
dieted a Texas lawyer on a L in Lawton this morning
charge of lying to a grand following a night filled with
jury about dairy industry con- thunderstorm activity that left
tributions to President Nix- appreciable amounts of rain-
on's re-election campaign, fall over the area and at both
Indicted was Jake Jacobsen, Lawion water reservoirs.
54, of Austin. Winds gusting up to 50
The indictment returned in miles per hour accompanied
U.S. District Court charged the thunderstorms, causing
that Jacobsen lied in an ap- considerable damage in the
pearance before a grand jury Lawion area.
investigating whether there The 1.40 inches of rainfall
was any connection between measured at Lake Lawtonka,
dairy industry contributions coupled with 2.5 inches re-
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(AP) — The terrorist kidnap- ’
ers of newspaper heiress Pa- I
tricia Hearst sent a new com- |
munication to her family |
today, apparently containing !
an additional demand of $4 I
million for the girl's freedom.
Charles Gould, a family I
spokesman, said, "Yes, there I
is a tape and some letters as ’
well."
Message Included
Gould declined further com-
ment but another spokesman
said the tape included a mes-
sage from Miss Hearst.
There was no immediate
comment from the FBI, but a
news conference was sched-
uled in Los Angeles by U.S.
Ally. Gen. William Saxbe and
FBI Director Clarence Kelley.
Gould said the commu-
nication was from the Sym- :
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" There have been no de-
mands. but there were in-
dications that a followup tele-
phone call was expected.
William H Fields, executive
editor of Atlanta Newspapers,
which publishes the Con-
stitution and Atlanta Journal,
said the newspaper received a
telephone call about 9:15 p.m.
an Wednesday.
He said similar calls were
made to Atlanta television sta-
tion WAGA and to Mrs Mur
phy
in Washington, the FBI is-
j sued this statement.
"The FBI is aware that Reg
Murphy has allegedly been
kidnaped. We are looking into
this matter in connection with
our jurisdiction under the fed-
E2 I era! kidnaping statues and we
"" have nothing further to say
regarding this matter at this
time.”
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By FRED S. HOFFMAN needed by the Army can enlist
AP Military Writer and receive credit for them,
{XTASHINGTON (AP) — translated into quick promo-
VV Army recruiters are tion and higher pay.
making special efforts to sign The Army feels this is a
up skilled workers who have bargain because it saves
been laid off by industry. training expense.
Military manpower officials “We are targeting unem-
say these efforts have met ployed and laid-off workers
with “a fair amount of inter- because we have something to
est and a fair number of en- offer them and they can help
listments." us,” one senior officer said.
By means of personal con- Apart from this, Army offi-
tacts and advertisements, the rials said they have seen no
recruiters are selling a pro- significant indications that the
gram called "stripes for economic downturn has impel-
skills ” led large numbers of un-
This means that a man own- skilled youths to enlist be-
ing any of about 100 mechani- cause job prospects are uncer-
cal, technical or other skills tain.
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