The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 77, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 16, 1978 Page: 1 of 44
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grants favored by President Carter
instead of — or in addition to — a new
tax credit.
The president says the nation can-
not afford both programs. He has
been sharply critical of the Senate’s
proposed $500-per-student tuition tax
credit, which was approved on a 65-27
vote Tuesday night.
Although the vote was lopsided
enough to override any presidential
veto, the margin by which the House
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Murder Case
News In Brief
‘Buttlegging’ Big Business In North Carolina
Nearly 1.2 billion packs of cigarettes were sold by retailers in
North Carolina last year, but only about 740 million of them likely
were inhaled in this tobacco state. See story. Page 6C
Justice Department Seeks Scientologist In England
The Justice Department is seeking to extradite from England two of
the 11 members of the Church of Scientology who have been charged
with breaking into government offices, planting bugging devices and
stealing official dc.uments. See story. Page J1A
let The Jury Decide, ’ C
By JIM LUTHER
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate,
intent on providing college tuition tax j
relief for middle-income families, is i
debating whether to approve the i
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In the case of polygraph test results, a jury in Oklahoma is not allowed to
In 30 states polygraph results have been admitted in trials, but in Oklahoma
such evidence is still barred.
Military courts also refuse to hear polygraph results at trial. However,
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T FT the jury decide," urges OSB1 chief polygraph examiner Tom
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Fair to partly skies are predicted
through Thursday with hot after-
noons. Light southerly winds
tonight. The high this afternoon
and Thursday should be in the up-
per 90s. with the low tonight in the
low 70s. The high Tuesday was 99
and the overnight low was 72.
h Examiner Urges
He served three years of a life sentence. He was finally released when
another person confessed."
The polygraph testimony that might have convinced a jury he was inno-
cent was excluded in 1923
in 1978 that is still the case in Oklahoma, although "here we are 55 years
later with no comparison in training and background of polygraph exam-
iners, Puckett said.
"This happened last year," recalls the OSBI polygraph examiner in
detailing another near "miscarriage of justice."
Last September a Lawton convenience store was held up by two armed
robbers. One suspect was caught at the scene when a silent alarm was
tripped. The other fled.
On the same night a young man from Chickasha - convicted a year
See POLYGRAPH. Page 4A
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last article in a three part series on
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followingconviction the convening authority may consider polygraph ev-
dence to dismiss or reduce the charges or lessen the sentence
I he OS. Supreme Court has never specifically ruled on the issue
An odd federal court murder case from 1923, Frye vs. U.S is still fre.
quently cited to exclude polygraph testimony
pAtthetime, 55yearsago, the polygraph test was obviously rudimentary.
ana"akestidbiad xi was ask euestions cor Frye, the murder suspectj
hi He was not showing emotional responses (indicating stress) according to
his blood pressure. At the trial the doctor (William Marston) testified he
believed Frye was innocent of the murder."
The court, believing that the polygraph had not yet reached acceptance in
convicted tific community, excluded the doctor’s testimony and Frye was
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Service the past 12 years, resigned
the position Tuesday night.
Miller will continue as Comanche
County Civil Defense director at pre
sent, although he listed retirement
plans as the reason for resigning the
Easter pageant job.
Applications for executive director
are now open. Miller said. He set Jan
1 as his final day on the job, although
he will leave earlier if a replacement
I is found, he said.
“I feel real good about stepping
down now," Miller said. “The associ-
ation is in the best financial position
it’s ever been in, and the grounds are
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, have given to a Memphis trial court if
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283′602 The 50-year-old Ray, accompanied
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2 pected,,that "I did not shoot Dr Preyer, D-N.C., shot back that "the
Martin Luther King. question of the treatment of Mr Ray
Ray, in his first public accounting is a collateral matter which is not be-
J under oa th ° ?e events surrounding fore this committee. We will not deal
the 1968 murder of the civil rights with that."
leader in Memphis, Tenn., told the
House assassinations committee: "My LANE CRIED: "But his treatment
testimony is the same that I would See ring. Page 4A
already hit by police and firefighter quchapmannasaid one man.was.being somengarba gemen and teachers off veteran from Tutlle and president V
strikes that threaten to spread into a Ue I en.a D , blackout but he the job Tuesday. School is scheduled the Sooner State Dairv Show Associa- ....
citywide general strike. Some looting wasnot onsic ered a suspect. He said to start Thursday, but the teacher un- tion, captured the junior class Jersey said, "it is not a difficult matter for it was not known how many in.
was reported rhemna, ±owas not a striker, had ion has urged its 5,500 members to bull award at the 52 nd annual show an attorney to move his client to a mates were involved in the incident.
The blackout, which occurred T-er lar n a f respect any picket lines, today at the Comanche County guilty plea 1 m sure every member of Sara Passmore, spokeswoman for
shortly after midnight, affected all of a--dl were no immediate reports of The head of the Memphis AFL-CIO fairgounds. this committee knows this.” Ray's at- the state Department of Offender Re-
the state's largest city and surround- ‘ Mir) Aasong. N ,, A Labor Council, Tommy Powell, said The yearling bull from Jones' Twin torney at the time of his sentencing habilitation, said inmates in the pris-
tag Shelby County, officials said. mMnorrethano1n0p.NatiqnalsGuards- he would -*>* council on Monday Creek Farms is namednfsleeper was Percy Foreman, a nationally on‛s M building, a maximum -security
Power began coming back on 90 min- 125 I Pa , 8 he cit with to to call a general strike and boycott of Keeper,” known trial lawyer. cellblock, were going to work details
utes later and was completely re- ” ’ 8 Poe officers and 75 See Memphis. Page 4A Mike Butler, an FFA member from Then Ray turned to what apparently about 7:30 a.m. when he incident
stored about 2% hours after the ou---------Cushing, won the 12 years and older Will be the underlying theme of his started.
tage hit. class of the Junior Fitting and Show- Claim to innocence: that he was a Mrs Passmore said the weapons
Police Director E. Winslow Chap- T| IAe „7, Ca ni ll manship Contest Tuesday evening mere pawn in what he thought was a used in the incident were prison-
man said at an early morning news UOSOOVS bTorrs r HV HwAe Butler and other participants were gun-running scheme by a mystery made,
conference that the blackout was 55 I *IVIIIIJ I IU» IIUVUL judged on the appearance of the ani- man named "Raoul" and may have She said inmates in M building had
"probably due to sabotage," but a mal. including its condition been set up, moreover, by undercover continued to go to work details after a
spokeswoman for Memphis Light, Gas WAZaL A Til c • grooming, dipping and cleanliness ’ operations of the FBI. The story is July 23rd incident in which one guard
& Water Division said the substation VVITh Arei plenhane KorIFA Also included in the 100 judging one which Ray has long aired via and two inmates were killed. The M
“was entered and that switches were 111,11 -M vIVMIIVIIV •UIVIL• points was the appearance of the ex- prison interviews. building inmates, who are housed in
hibitor in the ring and leading posing 1 M CONCERNED about FBI in- single cells, bad not been involved In
gBy LIN DIXON Telephone service in steping was and showing the animal to its best formants coming up here to testify,” that incident.
Of The (institution Staff also reported to be out -going advantage. be said. Ray then repeated his claim Since the earlier disturbance, offi-.
Phone service remained curtailed Some Public Service onny rue Sandy Morris, Ninnekah, won the that some FBI personnel are out to cials have had daily inspections for
the break-in at the substation about 15 today for some area residents as tomersin Lawton were SE ~ FFA portion of the highest age kilhim, adding: "They have a iv weapons, and many work details have
miles east of downtown Memphis. crews worked to restore service trical Dower for several lrueec bracket in the exibition class; for high cense to kill. been curtailed.
Paula Payne, a spokeswoman for knocked out by gusty thunderstorms day after the storms rolled in 7, E3 school sophomores and over, while Ray pointed out recently disclosed Duane Riner, a spokesman for Gov.
the utility, said someone threw a se- 'Tuesday. fore 6 D m lrinin , mrq Janell Brehm of Loyal won top honors FBI documents showing that one of George Busbee, said that when Bus-
ries of switches at the big substation, A line of thunderstorms ripping pea-to half-dollar-sDed han in the 4-H divison. Chris Minor, the first men 10 reach King after the bee was informed of the latest inci-
cutting off a main electrical power through southwest Oklahoma played District Manem Roh Mrgn gig Strong City, won the first place prize gunshot on April 4, 1968, was a dent, be called it “another of the
link with the Tennessee Valley Au- havoc with phone and utility lines service was intartssan.sd in the 9 to 11 years catagory. purported civil rights worker later deplorable, blind racial hatred-type of
thority. The TVA's Allen Steam Plant throughout the area late Tuesday p.m around Clover l ani. 4 Today’s contests include judging for identified as an undercover agent of incidents which results in wanton re-
on Presidents Island could not carry while sparking grass fires, scattering Bishop on 29th north of ‛r3 poa Jersey, Ayrshire and milking Short- the Memphis police and the FBI. taliation.
the power demands alone and auto- hail and dropping varying amounts of vard on Farris tln 142 55Zv horn cattle. That man was quoted in FBI field The July 23rd riot had been the
rain in isolated heavy storms. Streets and in the cnubt ano- Th» u i . c , c investigations as saying the fatal shot latest in a series at the prison this
Phone service in Fletcher was a ' Heights T he Hols T Sooner Classic Sale was fired from the bathroom window see INMATES, PageaA
“locked out” this morning dim tn i . * be held at 7:30 p.m. today, of a rooming house where Rav was - ___ .
lightening-singed telephone cable be M linescrews worked until midnight. Buyers from Oklahoma and several staying. Ray seemed to imply the
tween Lawton and Fletcher officials Morgan said, repairing the damage surrounding states will be present. man had lied to cover up the real ~ . n
said Residents there could not call caused when tree limbs struck by Prize cattle are expected to go for source of the gunfire. EdSfPr Poqprn+
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iaymaminw"Er"ne/ J* r £ Director Resigns
s« storm, Pa,MA SM dairy, Pa.,<A that “Mr. Ray was beaten by federal 3
By The Coiulilution Staff
Wes Miller, executive director of
the Wichita Mountains Easter Sunrise
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Vandalism Blamed; Loafing Reported Show Veter
Power Loss Hits Strike-Torn Memphis Exhibits Junior
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AFTER HIS attorney, long-time as-
sassinations buff and writer Mark REIDSVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A group
Lane, engaged acting chairman Rich- of white inmates attacked black in
ardson Preyer in battle over Ray's mates with prison-made weapons at
treatment by federal authorities, Ray the Georgia State Prison today, and
launched into a long and rambling one man was killed and three others
preliminary statement, his voice injured before guards restored order
quick but halting. prison officials said.
Ray pleaded guilty to King's killing The disturbance — the second ma-
in 1969 but almost immediately jor violent incident at the facility in
recanted that confession afler re- less then a month - was ended and
ceiving a 99-year sentence in a Ten- all inmates were locked in their cells,
nessee state prison, according to a spokeswoman for the
“In respect to my guilty plea,” he state prison system.
Ray Tells His
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