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P. 6, Perry Daily Journal Thursday, Dec. 15, 1994
Jet In War Game
Crashes Into
Apartment House
The plane was owned by
Phoenix Air, based in Geor-
gia, and was operated by the
California Air National Guard
under contract, the Penta-
gon said.
4-H and FFA news are pub-
lished in The Journal, be sure
By JOHN HOWARD pled Learjet away from a to have your reporters turn in
Associated Press Writer school moments before it their details of your meetings.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP)—A crashed in the street and
“hero” pilot steered his crip- plowed into an apartment
building, touching off fires
■ ne F A H and explosions, officials said.
USDA IO Both people on the small jet
died Wednesday and at least
Alter Milk 18 people on the ground were
TIES injured.
The plane, which had just
completed a National Guard
REC ENTLY HONORED WITH Oltha Grimes memorial scholarships were these practical nursing and radiologic tech-
nology students at Meridian Technology Center at Stillwater. The scholarship is awarded based on the commitment of
the students to continue their education. Recipients are, left to right, Jennifer Thomas, Perkins; Kristi Shelton, Perry; Au-
drey Frank. Perry; Lesia Credille. Perry; and Anela Miles. Perkins. Another recipient, not pictured, is Lisa Dennis, Per-
ry.
Pricing
By KIMBERLY A.C.
WILSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Agriculture Department
plans to change the way it cal-
culates certain milk prices Witnesses said the plane,
each month, potentially af- with one engine burning
fecting the cost of items like and the other apparently dead,
ice cream and frozen yo- clippeda power pole and
gurt. crashed into the street about
The new pricing method af- half a mile from an elemen-
fects Class II milk products, tary school.
the Agriculture Department “It definitely looks like
said. That’s the kind of milk the pilot was trying to save
used in manufacturing soft people, to avoid the school,
dairy foods such as cottage when he put it down in the
cheese, yogurt and ice cream, street,” Fresno Fire Depart-
About 10 percent of the na- ment Capt. Bob Waterston
tion’s total milk production is
used to manufacture Class II
products.
The price, to be announced
at the same time as the Class
I milk price, will be deter-
mined using the Minnesota-
Wisconsin, or M-W, price for
the second preceding month,
added to a fixed differential
of 30 cents.
Patricia Jensen, USDA’s
war game, was returning to
an airport about noon when
the civilian pilot reported en-
gine problems and the plane
veered from its flight path,
said Air National Guard Lt.
Col. James Arthur.
REGARDLESS OF THE WEATHER, Young-At-Heart members of the Noble
County Family YMCA can do their walking at the Y facility. In addition, they have access
to an indoor pool, weightroom, sauna, steam and whirlpool. Membership gift certifi-
cates, suitable for Christmas giving, still may be purchased at the Y. Membership costs for
Young-At-Heart (over 60 years of age) are $39 for six months. Membership price for
Young-At-F lean X2 (for a couple over 60 years) is $78 for six months. Among Young-At-
Heart members at the Y are, left to right, Nadean Nation, Loma Perrin and Lena Carlile.
OU Law School
Critic Wants To
Close College
By LIBBY QUAID one of the flagship institutions
Associated Press Writer of its kind in our region,”
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Boren said. “Its graduates
— A vocal critic of the Uni- have had a major impact on
versity of Oklahoma law the history of our state and
school has filed a bill to shut continue to do so. For Okla-
down the school.
homa to be one of the few
State Rep. Leonard Sulli- states in the Union without a
van, the bill’s author, said state-supported law school
Wednesday the OU program would be a serious mistake.”
costs taxpayers about $6 mil- Boren had said last week
lion each year, that the college of law should
Sullivan's criticism of the have fewer students and
university’s law school has should be moved back to
focused on professor Anita the center of campus from its
Hill, whois on unpaid leave “relatively isolated location"
while she wntes two books, on the south edge of campus.
Hill testified against the He told the State Regents
confirmation of Clarence for Higher Education he
Thomas to the U.S. Supreme will evaluate the college to
Court, accusing him of sexu- determine how to meet the
al harassment. Thomas was bar association’s recommen-
later confirmed. dations.
Sullivan, R-Oklahoma City, He also will include the law
protested a drive to create an school in a campus-wide
endowed professorship in evaluation of all OU’s pro-
Hill's name. He sought her fessional schools and wants
ouster in 1991, saying the more funding for the law
university needed to get the school library.
left-wing, extremist influence Sullivan said the school
off the campus, should be last on the list of
Sullivan said Wednesday state money needs.
that Oklahoma City Univer- “Higher education officials
sity and Tulsa University, have already said they will be
both private schools, better short several million dollars
prepare students for the state next year, and the regents are
bar examination. asking for $63 million in new
nh money for critical needs,” he
Pointing to a recent report 1
by the American Bar Associ- said.
ation, Sullivan said the OU Boren said earlier the Bar
law school has detenorated. Association s criticisms are
"The ABArepOnCHilicized sumclenittorniehcred!
almost every phase of the ucation
school, including the facili- He said he wi,| meet with
ties, crowding, funding, aca- law school officials before
< emics, meeting student Christmas to develop a plan
needs, listening to student to deal with the bar report's
complaints, scheduling, qual- recommendations.
ity of instruction and other ar-
eas,” he said. . ,
University President Dal Announcements of engage-
Rieriy President David ments, and a picture of the in-
Boren called the idea a mis- dividual or couple, will be
taken . published in The Journal. For
believe the University of details come in and talk with
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Optimistic
About Amtrak
(continued from pg. 1)
Oklahoma would be a lack of
rolling stock,” he said. “It ton’s total milk production is said.
may actually help us from used to manufacture Class II “It looks to me that this pi-
that standpoint.” products, lot was a hero,” said Fresno
Amtrak dropped service to The price, to be announced Mayor Jim Patterson. The
Oklahoma in 1979 when it at the same time as the Class victims’ names were not re-
trimmed some of its lesser- I milk price, will be deter- leased.
traveled routes. But pushed mined using the Minnesota- The flaming wreckage
by a growing interest in pas- Wisconsin, or M-W, price for rolled half a mile, scattering
senger service, the state de- the second preceding month, debris that blew out windows 1
cided to conduct a feasibility added to a fixed differential and set buildings and at least I
study of opening a route of30 cents. 20 cars on fire. As the plane 1
through Tulsa and Oklahoma Patricia Jensen, USDA s crashed into the 18-unit apart- ‘
City. .acting assistant secretary for ment building, leaving a huge IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIII
The st udy, which began marketing and regulatory pro- hole, residents scrambled to S • AT =
Nov. 8, likely will be com- grams said changing pricing escape. One woman broke = THURSDAY
pleted within the next two formulas would coordinate her leg when she leaped from “ III • LI
weeks, Nickles said. the value of milk used to a second-story window. E AL
The state Legislature would make Class II products with “They were throwing their E
have to vote whether to sub- hisher-priced Class I fluid babies out the wincjows__E ■ VI Til® E
sidize any proposed service, milk. . , TVs, all their valuables,” said = -
Proponents of returning Pricing for thelower-grade Kim Brown, who works near- E DA E
passenger trains to Oklahoma milk has been determined by by. ′ E ) DOP-EI E
believe the railroad would 3 Pr>c>ng method based on a Two people remained W1 •
profit from a route linking Riceformula that updates the pitalizedthis morning said E Q niirnr^r 5
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The route would provide * who was burned over 60 per- E
easy access for tourists head- The report cited instances cent of E
ed to Branson, Mo, said Roy when the lowest-grade milk seartotiaiibndy was in crit- E
Thornton, the owner of a was actually priced higher . witness David Flores ■
Midwest City travel agency than Class II prices. To com- said he saw a man in a blue E
that serves as a state repre- pensate, the middle-grade uniform flving through the air -
sentative for Amtrak. milk prices would be altered, Flores said he anca friend =
Tennessee Company to Op- Midwest Travel Service has sometimes out of proportion crawled through the wreck- =
erate Oklahoma Prison been recognized by Amtrak to the cost of fluid milk, age to help him, only to find E
HOLDENVILLE, Okla, for having some of the rail- Jensen said the new formu- that he had been decapitated =
(AP) — A Tennessee com- road’s highest ticket sales, la will simplify the pricing Dave Desroches was in his E
pany has reached an agree- Thornton said. procedure and keep Class II parked van more than a block E
ment to operate a medium-se- "In a state that doesn’t even milk prices in line with prices from the apartments when he =
cunty private prison in Hold- have Amtrak service ... that for the highest-grade milk. saw the plane’s right wing hit E
enville, a project that figures shows the demand is there,” That’s important because a light pole. Then there was =
to bring at least 200 jobs to he said. “the Class II product market an explosion and a huge fire-
the area. Joe Kyle, state Department is closely linked to the same ball that stopped inches from
Corrections Corporation of of Transportation manager of marketing and distribution his van.
America said Wednesday it rail programs, said the tracks channels as fluid, Class I “Ifwe had left a minute ear-
would build a 960-bed, $36 being considered are in good milk, and linking the two pric- lier, we would have been in-
million prison. Construction shape. ing methods should better re- cinerated,” Desroches said. “I
should begin early next year Inspectors have been ex- fleet and respond to market- know he was trying damn
and is scheduled for comple- amining crossings, speed re- ing conditions,” the report hard not to hit any houses,
tion during the first quarter of strictions, warning devices said. That’s why he landed in the
1996. and “siding tracks” — sepa- Producers will soon vote on middle of the street.”
We expect to add about rate tracks available for freight the orders that will provide Investigators from the Na-
200 jobs. not counting jobs trains while the passenger the changes in the method tional Transportation Safety
resulting from direct spinoff," train continues on its sched- of pricing Class II milk. Board began searching at the
Mayor Jack Barrett said. “We uled time, he said. Details on the Class II pric- scene at dawn today,
have been the No. 1 unem- “The cuts will have no bear- ing method decision were The Lear 35, under contract
ployed area in the state for the ing on service or potential ser- published in the Federal Reg- to the National Guard, had
past 10years. If we don’t cre- vice in Oklahoma,” Kyle said, ister on Wednesday. been acting as a target in a —
ate the jobs, we will lose our “Amtrak has agreed to con- Copies are available from “routine, war-games training -
way of life, duct a fair evaluation.” all market administrator of- mission,” Arthur said.
The unemployment rate in fices and from the Order For-
Holdenville, in Hughes Coun- Announcements of engage- mulation Branch, Dairy Di-
ty, is about 10 percent. Up to ments, and a picture of the in- vision, AMS, USDA Room
90 percent of the jobs will go dividual or couple, will be 2971 -S, P.O. Box 96456,
tolocal residentstrained published in The Journal. For Washington, D.C. 20090-
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The prison is expected to our social editor 4829.
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planned to meet today to an-
nounce details of the prison’s
financing, which will be
arranged through tax-exempt
bonds similar to those used to
build the town’s inmate work
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Watson, Milo W. The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1994, newspaper, December 15, 1994; Perry, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2257362/m1/6/: accessed June 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.