The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 23, 1981 Page: 1 of 68
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma county com-
missioner scandal has mushroomed into the largest in the
The starters did exactly what was expected of them as
Cameron University showcased its football talent with a
controlled intrasquad scrimmage Saturday. The first
offense scored three touchdowns, the defense added one,
and kicker Gary Schornick booted a50-yard field goal.
National Park Service officials said nation’s history, the federal government’s chief prosecutor
the crash site was about 25 miles east said Saturday.
ACCORDING to the officials, who
asked not to be identified in any way,
Reagan and his key advisers who met
in California for the past two weeks
also reached two other decisions of
equal importance:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost unnoticed in
the hubbub over the repeal of the minimum
Social Security benefit, Congress has snipped
out or scaled back more than $2 billion worth of
other benefits next year.
Widows will lose benefits when their youngest
child turns 16 instead of 18, and most 62-year-
olds will have to wait an extra month to qualify
for benefits. By rounding to the lowest dime and
the lowest dollar, Social Security will save hun-
dreds of millions of dollars annually.
These and other cuts were tucked away inside
the massive fiscal 1982 budget reconciliation bill
President Reagan signed Aug. 13. Many of the
changes take effect Sept. 1.
The system will save $915 million in 1982 and
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tion say it ultimately will implicate more than 100 commis-
sioners and former commissioners. One source said the
number could pass the 150 mark.
Price would neither confirm nor deny such estimates,
but he said the 35 people already convicted or known to
have agreed to plead guilty already make it the largest in
the nation’s history.
Citing problems with persuading women to enlist for
other than traditional jobs, the Army has called a virtual
halt to the recruitment of women. But many women
soldiers assigned at Fort Sill’s artillery center serve in
non-traditional roles.
beyond their 62nd birthday to qualify for bene-
fits, instead of being eligible the same month.
Starting in September, only those born on the
first or second day of the month will retain their
eligibility for payment in that month. This saves
$205 million in 1982 and nearly $1.2 billion
through 1986.
— Workers age 70 or 71 will be subject to a
$6,000 limit on how much they can earn without
losing benefits in 1982. Those 72 and older now
can earn unlimited amounts and keep getting
benefits, but it was due to drop to 70 on Jan. 1.
Instead, Congress voted to delay that liberaliza-
tion until 1983. Savings in 1982: $460 million.
— The lump-sum death benefit of $255 will be
paid only to the deceased worker’s spouse or to
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Lawton man and his wife were among
six persons from Oklahoma killed in
the crash of a single-engine plane I
which exploded on impact in Grand 1 2
Canyon National Park Friday night. , E
officials said.
Killed in the crash were Tim Watson, 7
47, pilot of the plane, and his wife, PI
Doris, 43, authorities said. The Watsons
lived five miles east of Porter Hill. A f
Other victims were identified as Jim
Brady, 40, and his wife Kelsey, 39; and
Larry Hewlett, 38, and his wife Dee a
Ann, 35, all of Gotebo. Federal Aviation
It was the second crash at the canyon commissioners.
Sources familiar with the scope of the federal investiga-
was 28.078,451 million gallons a day.
running around 15 million gallons a
day,” McCaffree said.
“As usage falls, revenue doesn’t fall
as fast," McCaffree said “For any one
customer, the more you use, the less it
costs you.”
The drop in water usage hasn’t yet.
been reflected in water revenue fig-
ures, McCaffree said. “We’ll see the
effect of that in the August revenue.”
Revenue and usage should be back to
normal in the winter months, he said.
The city has 36 different sources of
revenue. Water is one of the “big four”
sources that brings in more than a
million dollars, McCaffree said. The
See Water, Page 18A
Mostly clear with mild nights
and warm days through Monday.
High today and Monday in the
low 90s. Low tonight in the mid-
60s. Saturday’s high was 90, and
the low was 64.
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Asked what he would have done if he had not paid
kickbacks. Moore said, “I wouldn’t have sold enough
material to feed my family.”
Moore is one of those who has signed an agreement to
plead guilty. He is expected to receive more lenient
treatment than most of the others in that group because he
has spent the last year or so of his life traveling around the
state making payoffs to commissioners and recording
them for the FBI.
While it would seem apparent that the massive federal
crackdown and the resulting widespread publicity about
the kickback scheme would have ended the payoffs, at
least for the moment, one legislative leader revealed last
week that he has not found that to be true.
State Sen. John Clifton, D-Shawnee, presiding over the
first meeting of the House-Senate committee that is
studying county government, told his stunned colleagues
Friday that kickbacks are continuing.
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$10 billion through 1986 by phasing out benefits
for college students 18 through 21.
The other less well known economy measures
include:
— Ending a mother’s or father’s benefits when
the youngest child turns 16 instead of 18, unless
the child is disabled. Children will keep getting
benefits until 18. This will take effect immedi-
ately for parents who become eligible after
August 1981. For parents eligible before Sept. 1,
it will not tpke effect until September 1983. Most
of those affected are widows. The savings swell
from $40 million in 1982 and $160 million in 1983
to $450 million in 1984; the combined savings by
1986 are almost $1.7 billion.
— Most retirees will have to wait a month
Congress cuts benefits in Socio l Security
Wo ter usoge
in cool' July
down one-third
SERIOUS BUSINESS. Three-year-old Kenya Rhodes obviously doesn’t want any distractions as
she concentrates on digging into a piece of cake Saturday during the Fourth Annual Lawton
Salvation Army Boys Club Picnic. The event included such activities as miniature golf,
children eligible for survivor benefits. It will not
be paid to grown children, other relatives or
funeral home operators, effective Sept. 1 The
savings are $182 million next year and nearly $1
billion through 1986.
— In figuring benefits, amounts will be round-
ed to the next lower dime at each intermediate
step and to the next lower dollar at the final step.
This seemingly minor formula change, effective
in September, will save Social Security $140
million in 1982 and $1.5 billion through 1986.
— A new cap will be placed on how much in
disability benefits a worker and his family can
draw in addition to workmen’s compensation.
The cap will keep the benefits from exceeding 80
percent of his average earnings.
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This year, according to Graves, “it’s
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By TOM JACKSON
Of the Constitution staff
Relatively cool temperatures this
summer has caused water consump-
— Contrary to earlier assertions tion in Lawton-Fort Sill to drop this
about spending whatever is necessary year in comparison to 1980.
for defense, cost will be a critical fac- Bob McCaffree, director of finance
tor in decisions about strategic nuclear for the City of Lawton. said it s too
weapons, but not something to be early to tell what effect the drop in
talked about openly. water consumption will have on city
„ , revenue. Higher than expected sales
— Contrary to Reagan campaign tax collections may make up the differ-
pledges, there is nothing the United ence he said
States can do in the next four years to Statistics collected by Ronnie
fix what many officials and experts see Graves, supervisor of the Lawton Fil-
“There has iust never been anything like it ” he said, as the problem of the vulnerability of ter Plant in Medicine Park, show the
“Testimony during one of the earlier trials indicated it has nthoarrmn sosionmosshaoneaban plan ayeraee 02//“0.182 glonrrawa
been a way of life in many count.es for at least 30 years, calls "the window of vulnerability” to a terga day I Julv ThaHa third
He was referring to testimony by Guy Moore, a former Soviet first strike. • 1,847,58 ■ McCa free laid
equipment company owner who is cooperating with the difference, Mc-anree saia.
FBI and IRS in the investigation. Virtually all of the top layer of the The average temperature was down
Moore testified during the trial of Blaine County Com- Reagan administration believes that eight degrees in July, compared to July
missioner Orville Pratt that he had been doing business in Moscow is now able to launch only a 1980. “Of course, that tells you why this
Oklahoma for almost 30 years and had met only three small fraction of its powerful and accu- usage was down.” McCaffree said.
county commissioijers who definitely were not looking for a rate missiles and destroy in a first in August 1980. average consumption
kickback. !
Administration officials said there
were no survivors of the crash.
Jim Brady was founder and owner of
Brady Drilling Co. in Gotebo. The plane
involved in the crash was owned by the
company, according to Frieda Adams,
a friend of the Bradys.
Ms. Adams said the plane left Hobart
about 10 a.m. Friday on a business trip
to Colorado. The plane had stopped at
Alamosa, Colo., and was headed to Las
Vegas, Nev., when the crash occurred,
FAA records indicate.
Ms. Adams, who said she had known
Watson about 10 years, said he was
employed as an executive with Brady
Drilling Co. approximately six months.
Prior to joining the firm, Watson had
worked in the insurance business. Ms.
Adams said Watson was at one time a
partner in an Oklahoma City insurance
firm.
Ms. Adams said the Watsons have
two children, Bobby Jones and Kathy
Jones, both of the home.
The Hewletts were not employees of
the drilling company, but were friends
of the firm’s owner, according to Ms.
Adams.
Coconino County, Ariz., sheriff’s
deputies brought the six bodies to the
Flagstaff, Ariz., morgue about 2 p.m.
Saturday, but would not confirm identi-
fication of the victims pending notifica-
tion of next of kin.
There was no indication as to the
cause of the crash, deputies said. The
single-engine Piper exploded on impact
in Grand Canyon National Park sever-
al miles from the Desert View Ranger
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" nonetheless on the verge of accepting it the long-term solutions discussed were
.as the only idea that has been carefully the ant (ballistic missile system to pro-
a thought through. tect Minuteman from attack and the
Mk.j In the meantime, he has instructed airborne MX.
largest in
Acting Chief Ranger Butch Farabee coordinated the massive FBI and Internal Revenue Service
said rangers reached the crash site by investigation, said a search of federal files indicates there
10 p.m. MST. They found three bodies has never been anything close to the Oklahoma scandal in
immediately and three more later, terms of the number of elected officials involved.
Farabee said. Wreckage from the “It is certainly the largest investigation of political
plane was scattered over a wide area, corruption, in terms of sheer numbers, in the nation’s
he added. history,” Price said. “FBI records bear that out.”
Farabee said no one on the ground Price said some of the great national scandals, such as
was injured although there were people Watergate and Teapot Dome, which implicated some of the
in the vicinity. One witness reported nation’s leaders, “brought down more powerful people,
seeing the plane “going down” about perhaps, but not in such numbers.”
9:30 p.m. MST, he said. Price is not revealing the actual numbers, of course, but
The bodies and the wreckage were 35 people already have been convicted or are known to
"pretty well scattered all over,” have agreed to plead guilty in the county commissioner
Farabee said. scandal, and 29 of them are commissioners or former
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to shuttle 200 MX missiles among 4,000
shelters in order to overcome political
opposition to deployment in Utah and
Nevada and give the plan a Reagan
flavor.
By JAMIE JOHNSON normally scheduled time. If Elkins decides to implement in-service training program fills House Bill 1706 require-
Of the Constitution staff the early schedule, classes will begin one-half hour earlier, ments for yearly faculty education.
While idle students are trying to cram everything they On the early schedule students attending Eisenhower Tuesday, teachers will be at their respective schools
wanted to do all summer but didn’t into the last few days. Lawton and MacArthur high schools and Eisenhower and making final preparations for students. Meetings with
Lawton school administrators and teachers are busily MacArthur junior high schools would begin classes at 7:45 principals will be for discussion of the previous day’s
prepa rin8 for a new year... t . am- Central and Tomlinson junior high schools would seminars. , . .
School opens Wednesday, but Superintendent John begin at 8:10 a.m., and elementary and kindergarten The food services department has been reviewing more
Elkins still is not sure exactly what time things will get studentswouldstartat8:30a.m. than 6,000 applications for reduced price lunches that
rolling. . Elkins will announce his decision Monday. poured in during enrollment week. Leon Perry, food
1 he school board last week gave Elkins authority to .. services director, said about 10 percent will be approved,
make a decision Monday as to whether to implement an , ® Ina "eeK before school was filled with meetings, Parents were required to fill out one form for each child,
early time schedule to avoid hot afternoon temperatures, orentaons and workshops for teachers and administra- so Perry’s office was inundated with applications. Notifi-
Because of this year’s unseasonably cool August, Elkins tr; EuKins addressed about 65 new teachers Friday cations of approval or denial had to be sent to parents
said he would rather wait to see the forecast for the week to ouine an orientation meeting, within 10 days after the application was received.
come before deciding. All teachers report for the first day Monday for staff Regular lunch prices were increased 10 cents this year
If temperatures remain cool, classes will begin at their development seminars. Attendance at the school’s first See City, Pagel8A
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WASHINGTON — President Reagan uteman missiles, a strategic part of the
is moving toward approval of a United States nuclear arsenal,
modified and smaller version of the
Carter administration’s plan for basing THEY HOLD this view even though
the new mobile MX missiles, despite they recognize that Soviet leaders
his strong past criticism of it, accord- would face considerable uncertainties
ing to administration officials. in deciding to launch such an attack. A
At the same time, the officials said, minority of strategic experts holds that
the president has decided to relegate these uncertainties, such as whether
the airborne MX plan to an "option” to Soviet missiles would be as accurate as
be considered for deployment only af- expected, are so vast as to make a first
ter 1990. strike implausible.
These same officials described The lack of a short-term solution to
Reagan as unhappy with the idea of this problem and cost consideration
doing anything similar to the Carter has led the president, officials related.
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