The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 124, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 6, 1993 Page: 1 of 10
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PARTICIPANTS in the High School Summer Academy
for Environmental Science at Oklahoma State university
spent a windy afternoon at the Sooner power plant of Pon-
ca City taking water tests to be compared with water from
the other parts of the state. Taking and recording a sam-
ple from the lake is Tamera Hamilton, a junior at Fron-
tier high school.
Tamera Hamilton, a junior at Frontier high school, is
one of 25 Oklahoma high school juniors and seniors who took
part in the High School Summer Academy for Environment-
al Science, held at Oklahoma State university this summer.
Hamilton is the daughter of Ernie and Mary Hamilton
of Marland.
During the four-week academy, students worked in re-
search teams to gather environmental information from all
parts of the state to learn how these issues in Oklahoma af-
fect their lifestyles. They conducted numerous soil and
water tests from all parts of the state, and documented
many of their finds through photography.
This academy was funded by the Oklahoma State Re-
gents for Higher Education, and sponsored by the OSU Col
lege of Education and the Graduate College. All expenses,
including room, board, supplies, books and field trip ex-
penses were provided for each participant.
In addition to funding from the regents, Oklahoma and
Texas corporations also financially supported the academy.
Phillips Petroleum Co. in Bartlesville provided a gift
of $7,500 in support for the academy. Conoco, Inc. in Ponca
City provided $1,000 to be used toward a graduate
assistantship.
The Atmospheric Radiation Measuring Program in La-
mont gave $400 to defray travel expenses during a field trip
to explore northwest Oklahoma, and Dolco Packing Cor-
poration of Dallas provided $200 for use in purchasing stu-
dent incentives.
Field trips taken by the students included one to the
state capital, where they met with Lt. Gov. Jack Mildren,
Assistant Attorney General Brita Haugland-Cantrell, and
personnel of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife
Conservation.
Students also traveled to the Wichita Mountains Wild-
life Refuge; the Osage County Tall Grass Prairie; Phillips
Petroleum Co. in Bartlesville; Tar Creek in northeastern
Oklahoma; the Port of Catoosa; Cherokee Heritage Center,
and the Midwestern Nursery Container Division.
They toured the Lone Mountain Hazardous Waste Fa-
cility, Little Sahara, Boiling Springs, Alabaster Caverns,
and spent the night at Great Salt Plains State Park. Also
on their tours were Glass Mountain, Cimmaron River, Bax-
ter Pharmaseal, Keystone Hydroelectric Dam, Oklahoma
Poultry Farms, Heavener Runestone State Park, Kerr Cen-
ter, Beavers Bend State Park, Weyerhaeuser Plywood
Plant and Nursery, the Aqua Farms Catfish Processing Fa-
cility in Holdenville.
They also visited the Sooner Coal-Fired Power Plant,
HEW Landfill/Recycling Plant, Stillwater Wastewater
Treatment Plant, Conoco in Ponca City, Midwestern Nurs-
ery Container Division, and tiie Lone Mountain Hazardous
Waste facility.
Before beginning their program, all of the students took
part in the well-known Ropes Course at Camp Redlands.
Co-directors of the academy are Dr. Jack Vitek, pro-
fessor of geology, and Dr. Ted Mills, professor of environ-
mental science. Instructing the summer academy was Gary
Layman, Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
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100th Year — No. 124 Tuesday, July 6, 1993 (AP) Means Associated Press Perry, Oklahoma 25 cents
POW Homecoming:
A Picture Of Joy,
Tapestry Of Sadness
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VEHICLE DAMAGED
IN SMALL FIRE
The rear seat area of an
automobile was damaged
by fire after 2:30 a.m. Mon-
day at the intersection of
Seventh and Cedar streets.
Firemen extinguished the
small blaze of unknown
origin. Operating the car
was Debbie Andrews, 810
Cedar street. The car, a 1979
Chevrolet, was not exten-
sively damaged.
Parents Should Be Able
To Block Violent TV
By DIANE DUSTON But the networks would have to code their violent pro-
Associated Press Writer grams for the equipment in the TVs to be used as a block-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Television viewers should be ing device. And network executives show little enthusiasm
able to block out violent programs by a push of a button, for the idea, noting such a move would reduce advertising
according to members of Congress who say the industry's rates for programs that might be blocked out.
plan to warn about programs that contain violence ought "With free television totally dependent on advertising
to be only a first step. revenue, we are concerned by any proposal that targets
The technology for viewers to block out certain pro- advertising levels for reductions, no matter how seeming-
gramming is already available. For example, it is used by ly worthy the objective," testified Peter Tortorici, CBS ex-
the cable television industry to keep adult programs from ecutive vice president of entertainment.
being watched by children. "The notion that the chip would discourage advertisers
“If you have determined that parental discretion is from supporting programming containing violence is very
necessary, why wouldn’t we want to allow parents to block troubling,” he said.
out the programming?” asked Rep. Edward Markey, D- Tortorici and executives from ABC, NBC, Fox and the
Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce tele- motion picture industry urged the panel to withhold judg-
communications subcommittee. ment on the effectiveness of the parental warnings, com-
Markey, at a hearing Thursday on the networks’ new ing this fall, until they’ve been used for awhile.
rating proposal for violence, said children often watch TV “We are concerned about being crowded by additional
while home alone and parents “need to have the power to government control,” said Thomas Murphy, chairman of
exert control with technology based fixes in the TV set.” Capitol Cities-ABC Inc.
Even today, viewers could block programs if they were Warren Littlefield, NBC president of entertainment,
electronically coded by the networks, said Markey, who has said not all violence on television is harmful.
been pressing the networks to reduce violence in their Some violence is gratuitous or glamorized and “we will
programs. eliminate it from our airwaves," he promised. In other
New TVs already are equipped with the block-out tech- shows with some violence, "we take on socially relevant
nology because it is included on the computer chip that must issues, like incest, date rape and the dangers of maniacal
be in sets to decode captioning for the hearing impaired, cult leaders."
PATIENTS MOVED
BY AMBULANCES
The fire department
made only two ambulance
runs over the Independence
Day weekend.
Nicole Richards, 12, 624
Grove street, was taken to
Perry Memorial hospital
after 3:10 p.m. Saturday.
She was badly shaken fol-
lowing a fall from the diving
board onto concrete at the
swimming pool at Lions
West park.
Opel Daniel was transfer-
red from Perry Nursing
home to St Mary's hospital
at Enid after 1:10 p.m.
Saturday.
LIONS TO HEAR
ABOUT MARINE FIRM
Perry Lions club will hear
a discussion about manufac-
turing at Mercury Marine at
Stillwater during a noon
luncheon Thursday at the
Catholic hall.
Gerald Davidson, Lions
program chairman for July,
said Bob Strom, program
chairman for this week’s
meeting, arranged for a
representative of Mercury
Marine to be guest speaker.
Searches Resume For
Two Assumed Drowned
By The Associated Press
Csee Hau Cheah was Reed said.
Authorities were to re- riding in a canoe with three One man who was rescued
sume searches in northeast others Sunday afternoon by onlookers was taken to
Oklahoma today for two when it hit a tree and split in Tulsa Regional Medical
people presumed drowned two, the Oklahoma Lake Center, suffering from cuts
in separate boating ac- Patrol said. he received from the boat’s
cidents over an accident- The 19-year-old Tulsa propeller blades and from
plagued Independence Day man could not swim and
weekend, was not wearing a life rope burns, Reed said.
In addition to the two jacket, the lake patrol said. No identities or conditions
possible drowning victims. He tried to tread water but immediately were released,
officials were looking for a quickly went under, the lake At least one person was
man who disappeared while patrol said, confirmed drowned in Okla-
hiking in southwest Okla- Lake patrol officials said homa over the holiday
homa, and trying to deter- they would probably shut weekend.
mine the cause of death of a down Keystone Dam to drag Billy Ray Marr, 47, of
woman found in Seminole the lake for a man who may Ardmore died in waist-deep
County. have drowned when his boat water at a swim beach at
The Oklahoma Highway capsized Monday afternoon. Lake Murray on Sunday,
Patrol expected to have a That man and another authorities said.
total on the holiday’s traffic were fishing when their boat A Kiowa County sheriff’s
deaths sometime today, began to drift into the dam dispatcher was unsure when
Five people died on state area, lake patrol official the search for a local hiker
roads over the 1992 Fourth Bud Reed said. missing since Saturday
of July weekend, compared As the boat was being morning would restart.
with 17 people who were kill- sucked in, it capsized throw- Keith Babcock, 55, left a
edin 1991. ing both into the water family gathering at the
6 9 Great Plains State Park,
telling relatives he was go-
ing to take a walk, Under-
sheriff Buck Jones said.
Two planes borrowed
from the highway patrol and
two Army helicopters loan-
ed from Fort Sill joined of-
ficers on horseback and on
foot in the search for the
man Sunday.
Babcock has a history of
mental illness and apparent-
ly had gone off his medica-
tion recently, Jones said.
“I don’t know what else
we can do but hope he turns
out safe somewhere," Jones
said. "We hope and pray
that’s going to be the out-
come. Sure don’t want to
find him any other way.”
FOUR-YEAR-OLD
SUFFERS DOG BITE
Sheriff’s officers checked
on a dog bite report involv-
ing a four-year-old girl over
the weekend.
The incident occurred at
3:35 p.m. Sunday at the Paul
Tennies residence eight
miles north of Perry on
US77. The girl was listed as
daughter of Jeff Kurtl,
Slinger, Wis.
The child was taken to
Stillwater Medical Center
for examination and treat-
ment. She apparently was
not seriously injured.
By GEORGE ESPER because my former wife had abandoned
AP Special Correspondent the marriage within a year or so after I
FOSTER CITY, Calif. (AP) - His was shot down. And she did not even
older daughter is racing to meet him, have the honor and integrity to be honest
arms outstretched, both feet off toe with the kids. She lived a lie. This picture
ground, face split wide in a giddy smile, does not show the realities that she had
Close behind on the tarmac, also runn- accepted proposals of marriage from
ing, are his two grinning boys, his three different men ... It portrays
younger daughter, his tall, attractive everybody there was happy to see me.”
wife. But for Stirm's older daughter, Lorrie
The joy of this reunion leaps out from Kitching, the photo captures a wonder-
toe pages of history: Bob Stirm, crisp in ful, pure moment in time. It brought
his Air Force uniform, was finally home basket after basket of fan mail and
after nearly 5% years in the prison newspaper clippings from all over the
camps of Vietnam, world, she recalls.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture Lorrie is 35 today and lives in San
that captured that very personal, yet Mateo, Calif., with her second husband
most public of moments symbolizes the and an 11-year-old son from her first
end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam marriage. She works in the sales depart-
War, the bittersweet homecoming of 591 ment of MediaSourcery, marketers of
American POWs in 1973. multimedia software.
Twenty years later, the picture is very Tears filled her eyes as she looked at
different. the picture recently and saw her
In his home near San Francisco, a 15^-year-old self about to leap into her
Vietnam history book is opened to that father's arms, her airborne feet shod in
page of Stirm’s life. He gazes at it. her first pair of high heels.
“I have several copies of the photo,” "It’s a wonderful piece of history that
he says, "but I don’t display it in the we just happened to stumble into,” she
house." says. "It never would have gone away in
Why? Stirm laughs He points to the my mind, but seeing that photo brings it
picture, to the tall woman - just outpac- all back again - just all the joy that was
ing her younger son — dressed in a blue- there.”
and-white pleated skirt and blue sweater, "It was like Christmas,” she says,
sporting a large corsage. "You knew Christmas was going to be
“Because of her," he says simply, great, but you didn't really know what
Stirm’s anger and bitterness these two was going to happen on Christmas, and
decades later seem directed more at the that was just like when Dad came home,
woman in the famous black-and-white It was Christmas morning.
photo — his former wife, Loretta — than “You were racing down the stairs
at the Vietnamese captors who tortured because we knew that there was a great
him. present waiting for us. Everybody’s face
He says he survived the torture, the is genuinely happy.”
mock executions, the dread-filled days Directly behind Lorrie in the photo is
and nights, so he could return to her, on- Cindy, the youngest child. Shehadturn-
ly to be handed a “Dear John” letter by ed 11 only two days before her father
a chaplain upon his release. returned home. She is wearing her
I have changed drastically — forced favorite dress, a black jumper with a
into a situation where I finally had to lacy pinafore, knee socks and Mary
grow up,” the letter read in part. “Bob, janes
I feel sure that in your heart you know Today, she is Cindy Pierson, the
we can’t make it together — and it 31-year-old mother of an 8-year-old girl,
doesn’t make sense to be unhappy when “It seems like another lifetime ago,”
you can do something about it. Life is too she says. ‘I look at the picture, and I
short. , , don’t see me. ... I don’t feel like I was
To Stirm, now 60,it is cruel irony that really a part of it. I was soyoung. I didn’t
so public a reunionihad so hollow a core, really know him when he left I
"It brought 3 lot of notoriety and thought it would be wonderful to have a
publicity to me and, unfortunately, the dad because all my friends had dads at
legal situation that I was going to be fac, their functions.”
ed with, and it was kind of unwelcomed, Robert Stirm Jr. is 34 now, the father
Stirm says of the photo, taken by of three sons and a dentist in Concord,
Associated Press photographer Sal Calif. His sister, Cindy, is his office
Veder.
“In some ways, it’s hypocritical, (continued on pg. 5)
Celebration At
Lake
Iterc
But A Success
Today’s Prayer
Abba Father, our world is suffering
the consequence of spiritual neglect,
quicken in us an appreciation for the pow-
er of the Spirit.
A restricted Independ- that usually requires 80 blew Sunday evening at
BLACK SNAKE 1S ence Day celebration came watermelons, celebration sites at the lake.
CAUSE OF EXCITEMENT off Sunday evening at the The fireworks display A few of the fireworks sent
A black snake caused a municipal watersupply lake fired from the west side or sparks flying on strong
the lake was sponsored by wind.
the Cherokee Strip Centen- Only one small fire de-
nial committee. Karen Wil- veloped on the north side of
cox, chairman of the cele- the lake. Firemen were on
bration steering committee, hand with a truck and quick-
said motorists gave $1,031.15 ly put out flames.
at the lake. Contributions of Perry had light rain Mon-
$5 per automobile had been day. The city had a sprinkle
sion wound up creating invited. early Monday afternoon and
some confusion and result- . . ... recorded .16 of an inch of
ing in some persons leaving cox said an addi- precipitation at dusk.
the lake area because of in- tional $500 was given by the Most downtown busi-
convenience of getting to First National Bank & Trust nesses closed their doors
some locations. Co., Exchange Bank& Trust Monday as did the court-
Co., The Perry Daily Jour- house post office
People driving to the lake nal, shady lady Restaurnt, nan. s had
area on the lake road had to Elaine Randall and Mr. and some limited service
drive around a section to be Mrs. Butch Heppler. deliveries.
able to move to the area of Gene Wood served as The celebration holiday
On Page 7 today is a map the Lions picnic shelter. chairman for manpower for period went off well as as
of the City of Perry includ- There were some changes in securing workers to cut and accidents are concerned
He was flown to St. Fran- ing all streets and other the areas where fireworks serve watermelon and re- There were no injuries re-
cis Hospital in Tulsa, where characteristics of the could be ignited. cruiting Lions volunteers to ported except for one me.
he died shortly upon arrival, community. Information from the Per- invite contributions as peo- dent in which a girfel from
the patrol said. . The map is provided by ry Chamber of Commerce ple arrived at roads imme- the diving board at the
, Atleast two people died in Perry Printing & Office was that 40 watermelons diately leading into the lake swimming pool at Lions
traffic accidents over the Supply and The Perry Dal- were served Sunday eve- area. West park. The injury was
(continued on pg. 7) ly Journal, ning in an annual free feed Strong southerly winds not serious.
Troopers were awaiting—
the results of an autopsy on little excitement after 3.35 despite more elaborate
a Texas woman discovered p.m. Monday on the parking plans.
along a Seminole County lot at Perry Plaza shopping A city order left the lake
road on Sunday, center. road closed across the dam.
Leah Mae Cloud, 37, of An unidentified woman A 16-inch and a 20-inch drain
Arlington, Texas was found had driven into the parking pipe on top of the dam road
8 feet from her car around lot in a pickup truck pulling were left in place for eco-
8:15 a.m. No other details a cattle trailer. When she re- nomic reasons. This deci
immediately were avail-
able.
Also on Sunday, a 31-year-
old Shawnee man was killed
while helping to tow a
sunken boat ashore on Lake
Eufaula, authorities said.
Frank Fuxa was struck in
the neck by a part of the
boat after the rope used to
pull the craft out of the
water broke.
center.
An unidentified woman
had driven into the parking
lot in a pickup truck pulling
a cattle trailer. When she re-
turned to the pickup, she
was greeted by an un-
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