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OKIAHOMA CITY <AP) He has asked the state I egis- anced mass transit system in "If the system was used and npIIIIme IIm
Since 1966, Rep. Jim Townsend, lative Council to draft a bill to Oklahoma.” was profitable, it wouldn’t cost UIIIII Illi Ri, nrnsj also would
O-Shawnee, has been tr ying to change the present state High- For years Townsend has ar- the state a penny," he says. "b -T raise the director’s salary from
win legislative support for crea- way Department into a’state gued that the state was nearing 19500 to 95000 a vear and
tion of a statewide mass transit Department of Transportation, the "saturation point” in high- "But it wouldn’t pay unless OKlAHOMA CIn. (An dryn”‘emcssist.
development program, with authority over planning way construction, and that a Tulsa and Oklahoma City had Hikes in crude oil prices for do- p
He is trying again in the 1974 and developing bus, rail, water statewide system of public complementary ststems. . .and mestc o1 ae giving the inde-
legislative session, tills time and air transportation as well transportation was needed to not one city in our state has a pendent o. producers a mar- The House environmental
with the hope that the energy as roads and highways, relieve traffic congestion and first-class public transportation gina profit and encouraging quality committee, headed by
crisis will help his cause. "It would give us, for the parking problems in urban system.” exploration. Rep. Tom Bamberger, D-Okla-
Townsend is co-author with first time," Townsend says, “a areas and reduce the highway The large cities, Townsend Ed A. Smith, chairman of the homa City, will hold a public
Rep. Tom Bamberger, D-Okla- department that could coordi- death rate. Now he is adding says, should stop building large hoard of Services Drilling Co., hearing at 10 a m Wednesday
homa City, of a bill to create a nate development of public the gasoline shortage to his list parking facilities in downtown -usa, Okla said Sunday, in- on Bamberger’s bill to create a
seven-county Central Oklahoma transportation. It would be able of arguments. areasand turn instead to devel- terest in drilling is picking up seven-county Central Oklahoma
Rapid Transit Authority, to obtain matching federal Townsend approaches the oping and improving public and money now is available, Rapid Transit Authority.
But the Shawnee legislator funds in any area of public problem with a "wagon wheel” transportation. Without it, he but materials aren t
plans to introduce an even transportation.” concept with Oklahoma City believes, downtown develop- Smith was in Oklahoma City Bamberger said he believes
broader piece of legislation Townsend says Bamberger’s and Tulsa as hubs. ment, including huge new civic , the annual meeting of the the energy crisis has height-
aimed at development of public proposal, which set up a sim- "You’ve got to start with the centers which have been built, Oklahoma Independent Petro- ened interest in the proposal,
transportation on a statewide ilar program for Canadian, hub" in developing a statewide will never work. ’ leum Association (OIPA). The House soil and water re-
basis. Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Lo- program, he says. The House environmental Smith1 hesrecentlyre- sources committee will take up
Townsend, a locomotive engi- gan, Oklahoma and Pottawa- Forexample, says Townsend, committee, which Bamberger IU .o touring some nu- on Tuesday a legislative inter-
Amtrak has authority to pro heads, will hold a public hear- ropeansteenmisandsad, no im study proposal on a hold-
pipe available there until 1975, over bill, to create a commis-
The producer also said gov- sion to plan for transportation
eminent regulations were the 0 water from normally wet
worst thing producers had to eastern Oklahoma to arid west-
put up with besides the short- I
age of pipe and added the gov-
ernment should “let the eco-
nomic pendulum swing free.”
Could Revive City Visit This Week iSSSS
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — * Owners Association, said one
There’s still hope for Sequoyah OKI AHOMACITY i AP)-An tienceLattingis to meet Ris- POWs had been moved out (of problem the independents have I
Industries, Inc., says a former unsuccessful commando raid ner’s plane at Will Rogers Son Tay) previously,” Risner had in the Pasis that the 804-
Sequoyah executive who has made in 1970 in an attempt to World Airport at 2:30 p. m. said. "It had its impact on the ernment treated independents
specialized in helping flounder- free American prisoners of war Risner will go to the state Vietnamese, though. and major oil companies the
ing companies. in North Vietnam boosted POW Capitol later Wednesday to "They were afraid there same
O.C. Center, former executive morale "sky-high," says Col. present copies of his book to would be such raids on all the We hope we ae finally
vice president of the carpet- James Robinson Risner. Gov. David Hall and legislative camps, so they began bringing being differentiated from the
manufacturing company, said Risner made the statement in leaders. He also will appear at in the POWs from the outlying majorot companies, he said,
he thinks the firm can be re- his book, "The Passing of the a news conference at the Capi- areas into one central camp, 1 he future looks bright,
vived and continue to operate Night: My Seven Years as a tol and will make appearances which they could better de- King said the increased
after a federal court acts on Prisoner of the North Vietnam- Wednesday and Thursday on fend.” prices have had two major ef-
the company's request for pro- ese.” Oklahoma City’s three com- For the first time in years, fects onthe industry. One is the
tection under the federal bank- Risner, from Oklahoma City, mercial television stations. Risner said, this brought Amer- hat in the plugging of stripper
ruptcy act. now is assigned to McDill Air in his book, Risner said the ican POWs together, an esti- Wels and the second is that
T would like to think that it Force Base in Tampa, Fla. Nov. 21, 1970, commando raid mated 350 of them, producers again can find in-
could for the sake of the em- He is scheduled to come to by Army and Air Force volun- Consolidation of American vestors in oil products,
ployes who have worked hard Oklahoma City Wednesday leers on Son Tay, deep in North prisoners, Risner said, led to Ha T Gibson, manager of
for it,” Center said. after appearing earlier the Vietnam, “put all the POWs growing resistance by the the OIPA, said the higher
Center resigned last week same day on the NBC Today captured in North Vietnam to- POWs which raised morale, but priceshave caused some 2,000
and he said it was because of a show in New York City, gether for the first time.’’ sometimes led to harsh retali- wells in Oklahoma that would
disagreement with top officials Oklahoma City Mayor Pa- "Unfortunately, all of the ation. have been plugged in 1974 to re-
of the firm. I, * "In my wildest imagination I main producing wells.
I guess my talents weren’t C° AA iII I m r f rei i p had no idea American prisoners Gibson also laid some blame
appreciated," he said. “I’ve • • lV 11111 V II II V III of war would be treated as in- on Washington.
been healing sick companies humanely and cruelly as we “We’ve got the prices and the
for the last 15 years but it looks • A < i ,1 A l . were" Risner wrote in his incentive now, but we’ve still
like this one got away from Wrerk ( InIec AAi Idht book. got to fight the rules and regu-
me.” m Ml—*3 *--N" 11 Despite the brutality, Risner lations from Washington," he
Company officials could not said, the POWs’ faith in God said,
be reached for comment. CHILDRESS, Tex. i AP) — The freight carried cargo strengthened during their long Eu
The company announced Sat- Railroad officials sought dues from Lubbock to Wichita Falls imprisonment.
urday it would file for the today to what caused a $3 mil- when the pre-dawn accident oc- "When the pressure started
bankruptcy petition “at the lion derailment of most of an curred. to build up, I would pray," Ris-
beginning of the week." 80-car freight train that lost a A Burlington Northern ner wrote.
big cargo of cotton, cottonseed spokesman Sad p railroad "I hope to show how that
ROME i APi Rome is oil and fertilizer near here. had leased the track from faith has been tried by fire—
Italy’s largest city in terms of Sixty-two cars of the Bur- Quanah,Acme Pacific recently and never failed. I would like
population, but it only ranks lington-Northern freight flipped because its own track was out to say, ‘Don’t ever be alarmed
No. 4 on the scale of tax dis- off the tracks, 20 miles south of of service by your faith, nor of your won-
putes. Tax authorities say Tu- here, early Sunday, sparking a derful heritage. Be proud of
rin has the most disputed in- lire which roared out of control The accident was the third those things which made Amer-
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coordinated statewide trans- good beginning. vide rail service if Oklahoma ing Wednesday on Bamberger’s
portation development pro- But he says a state Depart- officials would agree to guaran- proposal to create a Central
gram, Oklahoma cannot contin- ment of Transportation “is the tee payment of part of any loss Oklahoma Rapid Transit Au-
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OKIAHOMACITYI AP)-Ok- More discussion of federal the $22.9 on capital improve- ern sections of the state,
lahoma House members may revenue sharing also is almost ment projects. Both the House and Senate
take up during the coming certain to be heard as lawmak- Revamping of the state’s cor- have passed a resolution calling
week the first of what is ex- ers return to the Capitol after a rectional and penal system is on Congress to exempt °kla-
pected to be a series of propos- weekend in their home dis- high on the list of priorities of homa from Emergency Day-
als on penal reform. tricts. House and Senate mem- both the legislature and Gov. light Saving Time. Still on the
A bill by Rep. David Riggs, bers almost certainly heard David Hall this session follow- House calendar is a second res-
D-Tulsa, to set new and stricter some views from their con- ing the riot which resulted in olution, by Rep. Charles Elder,
qualifications for top officials of stituents on the issue of wheth- destruction of much of the D-Purcell, asking school boards
the state Department of Correc- er or not to appropriate a two- State Penitentiary at McAlester in the state to examine their
tions, was sent to the House ca- year supply of revenue sharing last summer, class schedules with a view to-
lendar last week, and Riggs funds this year. , ward possible change so young-
says he may bring it up on the An interim committee of the sters will not be required to go
\ floor this week Gov. David Hall has proposed legislature recommended up- to school in the dark each
j Other items on state lawmak- spending 822.9 million in sreve- gradingofsthegalifirationsof morning.
-=-d erstgenasasts fourthweek for the next fiscal year as well cials along with other proposals
BOONE Spencer was TEDDI Ranay Gibson MELISA Lynn Worbes way today inude nss trnsi as $24.1 the state will have on to rebuild a smaller institution
four years old Saturday, is one year old today. She is three years old today, a speednimit measure,’ a water hand at the end of the current at MeAlesteraendeexpandother
He is the son of Mr. and is the daughter of Mr. She is the daughter of transportation proposal and a fiscal year June 30. faillittesto offer-ast ongerrn
Mrs. Harold Spencer, and Mrs. Jerry Don Mr. and Mrs. Fred second Daylight Saving Time The Senate has adopted a inmates P 8
1916 Bluebird. Gibson, 820 Hickory. Worbes, Blair. tesolution. resolution, introduced by Presi-
dent Pro Tempore Jim Ham- Biggs’ bill to upgrade quali-
ilton reaffirming opposition to fications of the Department of
use of any of the anticipated Corrections director and his as-
revenue sharing money while sistants was approved by the
House leaders have said they House penal affairs committee
would agree to spending part of last week. It would require the
corrections director and his as-
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Hart, Sandra. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 47, No. 329, Ed. 1 Monday, January 21, 1974, newspaper, January 21, 1974; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2121423/m1/2/: accessed June 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.