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Writers call strike
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MORE ABOUT SHADID’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
YOU BE THE JUDGE
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THESE ARE THE FACTS.
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The Traveling TPs, a local chapter of Okiebagos, the Oklahoma state chapter of
Winnebago International Travelers Recreational Vehicle Club, will meet at the Altus
Ramada Inn March 12 through 15. They will visit the Museum of the Western Prairie
and Altus Air Force Base, and the Lingle Greyhound Farm will host a series of
greyhound races for them. Persons who own an RV made by Winnebago are
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THE TRUTH IS. according to the official city council meeting minutes on September 3rd,
1985, “The mayor appointed Mr. Wiseman (Ed Wiseman is the Altus city administrator) to the
Mountain Park Conservancy Board."
Should Shadid be elected mayor of Altus, the city will pay him a salary and expense
allowance of $7,200.00 a year. As mayor of Altus, he would be the boss of Ed Wiseman, our
city administrator, who, in turn, would be Shadid's boss while serving as one of the two Altus
members of the Mountain Park Conservancy District board. What a conflict of interest!! In ad-.
dition, if elected to a 4 year term as mayor, Shadid would have the opportunity to appoint
both of the Altus members of the Mountain Park Conservancy District board - one/half of the
4-member board of directors who would set his salary, his expenses, and his benefits.
The board of directors of the Mountain Park Conservancy District consists of 4 members -
one from Snyder, one from Frederick, and two from Altus. The Altus members are appointed
by the mayor with the consent of the city council. The present board members are Ivan
Roberson and Ed Wiseman, Altus city adminstrator.
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Eyewitnesses said the ground roll- ped in a paper mill whose walls col-
ed like a sea during the quake. The lapsed and a motorist whose car was
ground opened up in cracks. with one buried in a landslide.
Hoyt Shadid, one of the candidates for mayor of the City of Altus, receives an annual salary
of $28,477.58 as manager of the Mountain Park Conservancy District. In addition, he shares in
a special retirement package which brings his real income well above $30,000.00 and is pro-
vided an automobile with all operating expenses paid. 70% of the operating expenses of the
Mountain Park Conservancy District are paid by the City of Altus. These expenses include Mr.
Shadid's salary, his retirement package, and any other expenses he is paid.
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life. If we put on the armor, we can-
not lose.”
Foberts told his faithful they must
not let people or circumstances deter
the fight to raise money for the
scholarships and implement the
medical missionary program
The city of Altus would then be paying both his salary and expenses of $7,200.00 as mayor -
and 70% of his salary, retirement package, and expenses as manager of the Mountain Park
Conservancy District.
Would Hoyt Shadid, manager of the Mountain Park Conservancy District, be in conflict of in-
terest should he be elected mayor on March 3rd? Mayor Houck would lead you to believe he
would not.
Paid Political Advertisement by Concerned Citizens for Altus
Mayme Sue Martin, Chairwoman
THE TRUTH IS, according to the official city council meeting minutes on April 15th, 1986,
"The mayor also appointed Ivan Roberson to the Mountain Park Water Conservancy District
Board."
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Quake claims one man
missing and dozens were reported in-
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Aftershocks continued to rumbl
through the Bay of Plenty region
tonight. some 260 miles northeast of
the capital of Wellington
Ewan Smith. head of the New
Zealand Seismological Institute,
reported the main earthquake struck
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Foberts told viewers he will climb
into the Prayer Toer to pray for sup-
port for the scholarships. In a letter
mailed to supporters last week,
Foberts pledged to pray and fast in a
marathon that would last until he
needs for the scholarships or “God
calls me home."
"We want you to know - I want
you to know personally - how I love
“You’ll get a little burst of activity turned," Coleman said.
that starts tin with a number of ear- Civil Defense Director Edward
thquakes thal’l continue for some Latter said first reports of injuries
time, then it will die away after a concerned two forestry workers hit
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"We’re joining the battle against
the devil shoulder to shoulder."
Foberts said
In Mayor Leo Houck's open letter to the citizens of Altus on February 22nd, 1987 he stated,
"The mayor does not actually vote on the nomination of any particular prospective appointee
(to the board of directors of the Mountain Park Conservancy District) since the mayor only
votes on questions under consideration by the council only when the council is equally divid-
ed", leading you, the reader, to believe that the mayor has no involvement in the selection of
the board.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (UPI)
- The strongest earthquake to hit
New Zealand in 65 years destroyed
three towns on the northeastern
coast today, toppling buildings,
buckling roads and leaving
thousands homeless.
Civil defense authorities reported
’ an elderly man died of a heart attack
; during the quake, two people were
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Guildof America said. in that direction.”
Guild representatives scrambled Schweitzer would not elaborate on
to contact members and set up picket the network’s demands but said they
lines outside affiliated television and were far less than demands made on
radio networks in Chicago, New CBS management
York and Los Angeles and the net- Waldman, spokesman for
works operationsin Washington and the union that represents more than
’ PeW or u u . . 500 writers, producers, graphic ar-
The twobudget-conscious.net- tists and other employees at CBS and
works promised their news shows . . networks were de.
. would be maintained at normal
: During the strike, management use unlimited numbers of part-time
personnel willfillin for striking and temporary workers, who are not
workers and the networks will rely ,..P , ...
more heavily on news reports from paid ri &e ‘ .
the major wire services such as Waldman said the guild was very
United Press International and The concerned that all the cost-cutting
Associated Press, network officials over the past year has meant a
said tremendous increase in workload
•Everything is going very and in scheduling abuses. All these
smoothly," Tom Seem, newsroom things affect the quality of news,
manager for CBS News in Guild members voted 420-29 last
Washington, said 21 ■ hours after the week to strike when the current
strike started. "We’re staffing with three-year pact expired and no
management people today and are agreement was reached.
having no problems," Waldman said other unions at the
“We are disappointed we could not networks have supported trike fund-
reach agreement on the issues,” CBS raising efforts and had (indicated
said in a prepared statement read by those with provisions allowing them
a spokesman. “The company pro- to honor strike picket lines would
posals are addressed to the basic and consider doing so.
I Oral Foberts wants his supporters to
: put on “holy armor” and go to “war"
; against critics of his controversial
tactics for raising $8 million for
medical missionary scholarships.
"If we lose, we lose our vision.”
Fobert said during his Sunday televi-
’ sion program.
Roberts has said God commanded
him to raise the $8 million by the end
- of March. or he will die. But on Sun-
- day, Foberts did not repeat his
earlier claims that God has told him
to raise the money, or he will be call-
: ed "home.”
In a program recorded at an
earlier chapel service at Oral
Foberts University, Foberts and Dr.
Larry Lee, dean of the OFU
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seminary and pastor of a church in you, how I believe in you and how I
Texas. called on the television au- want you to put on the holy armor of
dience and the students to fight God,” Foberts said Sunday. “I thank
criticism of Foberts’ vision for the you for sticking by me - your hum-
scholarship program. ble servant of God."
"Last night the news media broke “I have heard from God. I’ve
loose again and they are suggesting listened and I’ve heard," Foberts
television is going to cancel us across said.
« the land and they are aiding and Lee told viewers that God would
abetting it,” Foberts said. meet their needs, “reach right where
“I wrestled in my room last night you are and heal you and meet that
and tears soaked by cheeks and I financial need. We’re really praying
3 called on God. Today I need help - on this campus."
I not only me - some people have In the letter mailed last week,
never heard of God and Christ." Foberts told his faithful he believes
♦ Foberts said. they will help him fulfill God’s com-
Foberts said plans for the medical mandment to him and help him
missionary scholarship program are finish his goal of raising $8 million
4 becoming more widely known. for the scholarships.
“Everybody knows because the On Sunday, he called the trip to the
media has alerted them. That’s what tower the most important trip of his
they want me to be quiet about . And life.
He’s (God) telling me not to change a “When I go up into the Prayer
thing. This is war," Foberts said. Tower, I go up in my special prayer
“We can’t lose the battle,” said room. Would you write me the most
l ee. “We’ve got to put on our armor, urgent need that you have that you
. This is not a fairs tale. We’re not y want God to supply, that you want
preaching about something that’s not/ me to take with me into the Prayer
9 real This is the most real thing in my Tower?" he asked viewers.
He said the quake level d Em
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foundations 17 span-. w, re EdMds
reported impassible twisted Eni
railroad rak ‘run 1‛eit t 111 E
and bl • ked al- withlamt-l Een
Telephone service and electricity EMMMN
were cut off throughout the region. DI,
and shopping centers were strewn KV owners
NEW YOFK (UPI) - ABC and necessary issye of reducing with glass, Latter said.
CBS and the writers’union broke off operating costs and achieving Worst hit were the towns of
• contract talks early today and more greater operating flexibility in our Whakatane, Kawerau and
than 500 writers, editors, graphic ar- local and network news operations." Edgecumbe. where police said 95
tists and other members went on “Our writers, editors, graphic ar- percent of the homes were rendered
strike rather than accept the net- tists and others in the WGA unit per- uninhabitable - many knocked off
works’budget-cutting proposals, of- form essential and often highly their pilings or split down the middle
3 ficialssaid. creative functions,” said George Authorities declared a state of civil
The negotiations had been extend- Schweitzer, vice president of CBS emergency in the region, which has a
ed several times past the 12:01 a.m. network communications. population of 400,000.
deadline but the talks stopped at 5 “Our object is not to impair what
a m. they do or make it less important but I
We have officially gone on rather to reduce some of the needless j
strike." a spokesman for the Writers cost Our proposals are a major step ?
at 2:15 p.m. today (10:15 p.m. Sun- measuring 1.2 miles in length and 3
day EST) and measured 6.5 on the yards deep
open-ended Richter scale. The Reporter Graham Coleman flew U
epicenter was35 miles offshore. over several towns after the quake
Late today, he said more than 100 struck and reported seeing buildings ■
aftershocks had been recorded since, and bridges toppled. railroads buckl-
with the largest measuring 4.5 on the ed, roads divided by large cracks
B ichter scale, and trucks overturned
Smith said he expected after- “As we circled over the 4
shocks to continue in waves for Edgecumbe area, we could see at 2
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