The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 102, No. 217, Ed. 1 Monday, October 23, 1995 Page: 1 of 10
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Astronaut Back
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102nd Year — No. 217
Monday, Oct. 23,1995
(AP) Means Associated Press
Perry, Oklahoma
25 Cents
AP Aerospace Writer ____
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Three months after E
returning from the longest space flight ever by an American, SEG I
NASA astronaut Norman Thagard feels like a kid on summer ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ " W •
break. ____7
No more needles, no more pokes, no more texts to learn A M T ,
by rote. VOnOdISs TUSY
Thagard spent nearly four months on the Russian space ------ W
station Mir, followed by a month of exhaustive medical tests m ■
briefly
stated...
Two Fatalities in Traffic
422
^ Accident Saturday Night
Two young Waukomis men who were the
nephews of Peny residents lost their lives Sat-
urday night in a one-vehicle traffic accident
on a county road four and one-half miles south
of Billings.
Dead are Eddie Joe Schneeberger Jr., 23,
and Ricky Joe Schneeberger, 18. Funeral
arrangements are pending with Brown Fu-
neral home of Enid.
They were nephews of Ray and Carol Se-
ward, Perry.
vert, then traveled another 176 feet before
overturning two and a quarter times.
The vehicle then burned, with the driver and
passenger inside. The car was equipped
with seat belts but they were not in use, ac-
cording to the OHP report.
The bodies were removed from the accident
Ingcoumlonabrtfdliring a grueling year in Russia undergo- On Weekend GED CLASS TO
Most of Thagard’s checkups and debriefings are over, and MEET TUESDAY
he’s back to his earthly routine — running four miles a day, Tire thieves and vandals parked at the Cherokee Strip Students attending the GED
taking in an occasional Florida State University football game, were busy in scattered areas Motel. Officer Connie Pow- class at Perry high school will
making astronaut appearances, planning a Christmas vacation of Perry over the weekend, ell was investigating meet from 6 to 9 p.m. Tues-
with his family. , James Hess, Coldwater, Major vandalism occurred day, instead of Thursday
His weight is pretty much back to normal and he’s no longer Kan., reported a Michelin 14- sometime Frida v nioht at evening.
anemic. He’s also regained the muscle he lost in weightless- inch tire had been stolen from the patie V 2.14 Next week, the class will re-
ness. his pickup truck parked at the oidsmonnearspopemrlet sume studies at their usual
“I’m real encouraged," Thagard said in a telephone inter- Cherokee Strip Motel. The street pose apoaware time from 6 to 9 p.m. Thurs- According to the Oklahoma Highway Pa- ___________________Jaume ^
view with The Associated Press earlier this month. “From a tire was valued at $135 and against five vehicles narked day, according to Joann tol the accident happened at about 10:30 p.m. determined until the medical examiner’s re-
physical standpoint, everything is or is close to returning to was taken from the spare tire catide ueth e sBreshears, instructor,
normal. position. Officer Connie Pow- $750 for three -------
The only thing not yet up to snuff are his bones. Despite ell was investigating. PERRY MAN MOVED
twice-daily exercise sessions in orbit, Thagard was incredi- Crystal Slavens, 701 Fourth The damage was noted TO THE HOSPITAL
bly stiff after he returned to Earth and easily winded. Every- street, reported a $370 Ruger mostly to the paint of three A Perry man was moved to Iag 1 m 4 ■
thing felt heavy. .357 pistol was missing from 1995 Chevrolet pickup trucks. Memorial hospital on emer- InArAl YOT A nAal
For weeks, jogging on terra firma was murder and he had inside her home. Investigat- The chemical structure of gency run after 8:30 a.m. V ■ ■ V ■ ■ ■• ■ V % V
to be careful not to break any bones, weakened by so much ing was Lynn Barker, city re- eggs damages paint. Monday. , _ _ 1
exposure to weightlessness. serve police officer. A police investigation re- Loy d Grim, 416 Holl y D A D 1.
“It was easily two months before the jogging felt normal,” John Farguson, Hamburg, port filed by Officer Connie street, was taken to Perry II IIICTCTOL DATTO
Thagard said. Iowa, reported a 14-inch tire Powell said there was $250 Memorial for treatment of ill- - V
And while he was exposed to much more radiation in and wheel had been stolen damage to each of the three ness.
orbit .than he would have been on Earth, he doesn’t think it from his automobile, also new pickup trucks. -------
was enough to significantly increase his chances of getting DOG BITE REPORTED
cancer ------------------------------------- TO POLICE SATURDAY
AsThagardthinksbackonhis“grandadventure” Coming Events A dog bite incident was re- — Thebattlecryforgovem-
there ’s a tinge of sadness. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ported to police Saturday ment reform has been sound-
“For almost everybody, there’s almost a little bit of a let- . , morning. ed by a task force of state em-
down after a flight,” he said. “Nothing huge, because for Monday, Oct. 23 Per- Boundary street. Bitten was Lori Wallace, a ployees, but the general has
one thing you know it’s just a short while before the activity rspack SEX Cub Scouts pack Friday, Oct. 27 — First meter reader for the ci ty yet to decide the nature and
level cranks up again.” meeting, 7 p.m., elementary day of annua] bazaar of crafts utility department. The bite scope of the war.
The 52-year-old physician, engineer and former combat school cafeteria. and baked goods, 9 a.m.-4 occurred near 1908 Ridge- A 50-member state em-
pilot moved to Russia in February 1994 under a space coop- Monday, Oct 23 Par- p.m., fellowship hall, Orlan- crest. The suspect dog, a Dal- ployee team urged massive
erative agreement between the two countries, and knocked ents ight," 6-7 P,m" Perry do Christian church. Spon- matian, belongs to Danny reform in a six-pound, 688- honey, the governor’s com- cation entities into one
himself out trying to learn everything he could about the Soyuz middle school media center sored by Ladies Aid. Williams. The animal has page report released last munications director. “It’s too agency, eliminate district
spacecraft and Mir station. For an entire year, 70-hour work- for parents, of PACE and SKI Saturday, Oct. 28 — Sec- been ordered impounded at a week. early to say. There’s a chance school boards and slash the
weeks were customary, necessary to pass all the written ex- students and those who be- ond days of annual bazaar of veterinary clinic for 10 days. The document contained a he will accept the whole thing number of elected state offi-
ams. ievetheir childrenare gifted, crafts and baked goods, 9 =---wide array of controversial lock stock and barrel. cials to four, with the gover-
Thagard blasted off with two cosmonauts on a Soyuz rock- Monday Oct —Noble a.m. 4 p.m., fellowship hall, FORMER PERRYAN proposals, including a plan to “Then there’s a chance he nor and lieutenant governor
et from Kazakhstan on March 14 and arrived at Mir two days County Diabetes Support Orlando Christian church. RECUPERATING scrap the structure of the state will look at it and see what’s elected as a team,
later. He was the first American to be launched on a Russian Group, regular meeting, 7 Sponsored by Ladies Aid. Former Perryan Larry education system and go to a doable and go forward.” The attorney general and
rocketship and the first American to fly on Mir. p.m. First Christian church, Saturday, Oct. 28 10 Kukuk,is recuperating at voucher system for common Keating made refonn a key state auditor and inspector
He and his Russian crewmates returned to Earth on July nona doora.m. Public auction home, car his Marion, home fol- schools, word in his 1994 race for gov- would also be elected. Offi-
7 on NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis, following its docking with Auesday, oct Blood and furniture. 905 Kaw street, lowing his dismissal from St. The report now goes to emor, but his platform did not cials that no longer would be
Mirons s . .wear testing clinic, & a.m. Perry, Okla. Irene Sull ins, Joseph’s Medical Center in the Governor’s Commission approach the far-flung rec- elected would be school su-
Thagard spent 115 days in space, beating the previous U.S. erry Senior Citizens Center, owner. Wichita, on Government Reform, ommendations of the state perintendent, state treasurer
record by 31 days. A Russian cosmonaut-physician holds the Tuesday, Oct. 24 — Per- Saturday, Oct. 28 - 1 Kukuk underwent angio- which faces a Dec. 15 dead- employee team. The Repub- labor commissioner, insur-
A^encan refers hadn’t hadaS tong-duration space ROH CHANGEoFmt p.mpipuenecsesonetemi ^shomeaSess is Route • qnsen: m?redla^ mmacinestna cor-
subject for more than 20 years and were eager to see how Tha- ANDLOCATION. Between Hollystreet Perry Okla- 1( Box 40’ Marion, KS, its recommendations to Gov. themes of past GOP candi- The reformers acknowl-
tests are only once or twice a month. • property at 932 South Bound- lando Uni ted Methodist Casket bearers have been A onower government.
Frank Culbertson, acting director of the shuttle-Mir pro- ary. Perry, OK Ruth Barnes, Women annual chili/chicken- named for the funeral of A fast-moving cold front form the basis for his program EThereaction of legislative
gram for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, owner. .noodle dinner, 5-8 p.m., at Or- Blanche Marie Meade, 98, brought a shower and much in the next three years some educators have con
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Thagard said he would have come back in worse shape if in«’ avenue and Thursday Nov. 2 - noon at St. John’s Lutheran only a trace. Temperatures In at least one area - Keating will need a lot of
he hadn t worked out regularly on Mir s treadmill and sta- Christie-Jones American Le- church at Covington with were in the 60s Monday com- vouchers for schools — the help from the Democratic
tionary cycle. Perhaps most important for future space station By The Associated Press gion Auxiliary meeting,7 Rev. Richard J. Docekal, pas- pared with the 80s Sunday, task force’s recommendations majority in the Legislature to
occupants is to stay reasonably busy with meaningful work,” Gingrich Stumps for p.m., Morrison American Le- tor, officiating. Burial was Strong southerly winds differ from the public position get his final proposals enact-
. Largent a in the Covi ngton cemetery whist led through the a rea of Keating’s in the 1994 cam- ed. But Democratic leaders
Four more N A SA astronauts are supposed to live on TULSA, Okl a. (AP) —Saturday, Nov. 4-10 under direction of Brown Fu- Sunday and Sunday night un- paign. Keating said he op- never warmed up to Keating’s
Mirover the next two years, beginning with Shannon Lucid, House Speaker Newt Gin- a.m. Public auction of per- neral home of Perry. 111 the cooler temperatures posed vouchers, but was a proposals in his first state-of-
who will go up in March armed with tips from Thagard. Af- grich combined politics with sonal property, 1004 Hillside. Bearers were Gerald Pope moved through around 2:30 strong advocate of open en- the-state speech earlier this
terithauthe United States, Russia and other countries will start pleasure while campaigning Estate of Flora Fowler, Car- Keith Schoeling, Wal ter . am- Monday. Strong north- rollment - another recom- year. Some accused Keating
building an international space station. After that, the next step for Congressman Steve olyn Young, Representative, Hyde, Warren Miller, Doyle west winds prevailed Mon- mendation of the task force, of going overboard in his
an. Largent, arriving early Saturday Nov 4__10 Meyer and Jim Hodges, day. The task force report was (continued on pg. 10)
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24-hour period ending at 11 Today, partly to mostly tips to do “OK for the next 20 Bring vestixaitt or dessert Nursing home. .
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--from the mid-50s northwest tocampaign for the former _ . „ in MoGuire cemetery at Lu-
Hospital Notes to around 70 southeast, standout with the University Teletvne Funeral home onoi rown
Hospital Notes - cent" ersacona.
Perry Memorial Extended Forecast: Tues- was inducted in July into the Service side, John Burnside, Chris
Scott Wise, route one, day, mostly sunny. Highs Pro Football Hall of Fame woe V UU
Peny, admitted Sunday. , mid-50s to lower 60s. in Canton, Ohio, Gingrich .
Dismissed Sunday: Hazel Temperatures for the was there. AuGIteO
Herdlitchka and John L. 24-hour period ending at 11 Gingrich said the Okla-
elds, both of Perry Green a.m. Monday were: High homa congressman “brings The Perry police depart-
valley Nursing home.87, low 52. Temperatures every element of what he ment’s teletype service was
Dismissed Saturday: De- for the 24-hour period end- showed in football to the being audited Monday by
lores Helf-James, route one, ing at 11 a.m. a year ago: playing field of the U.S. Capi- people of a state agency.
Morrison and Willie Wil- High 68, low 48. Precipita- tol.” The audit was being con-
liams, Ludlow, Mo. tion: A trace. Some 350 people attended ducted by people of Okla-
the $500-a-couple dinner, homa Law Enforcement Tele-
About a dozen people wav- communications service. This
ing signs arrived at the Dou- audit is an annual operation
bletree Hotel at Warren Place conducted with each police
to protest the visit by Gin- department that operates a
grich. . , teletype. Police Chief Fred
However, uniformed LeValley said purpose of the
guards said they were on pri- audit is to make sure teletype
vate land and ordered them to operations are being con-
a public spot three blocks ducted in the proper man-
from the hotel. ner.
Coming Events
Weather
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CLOUDY
Daily Bible Thought
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the coun-
sel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the
seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree
planted by streams of water...Whatever he does prospers.
Psalm 1:1-3
scene to Brown Funeral home of Perry.
Because both victims were badly burned,
the bodies were sent to the state medical ex-
aminer for positive identification. OHP offi-
cials said the cause of the accident cannot be
The men were riding in a northbound 1987 port is reviewed.
Pontiac that ran off the east side of the road- OHP Trooper Mike Crawford of Tonkawa
way, traveled 331 feet before striking a cul- investigated the accident.
An AP News Analysis
By RON JENKINS
Associated Press Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)
Frank Keating, long on recommendations but
Keating will use those short on details in many ar-
recommendations to deter- eas. It contended the changes
nune much of the program he would save an estimate $300
will present to the Legislature million to $500 million a year,
when it reconvenes in Febru- cut state jobs by 3,000 to
ary. In the meantime, an aide 5,000 over three years and
says, it would be premature make government more ac-
for Keating to comment on countable.
what he will propose. Among the sweeping pro-
“It’s too early for him to get posals were ones that would
involved,” said Dan Ma- combine the three state edu-
By ROBERT MACY position to grand jury author- had been called a “blood-
Associated Press Writer ities in Las Vegas. sucker" for writing the book.
I .Nichols and Timothy “This has been a catharsis,
IAS VEGAS (AP) — The McVeigh face a May 17 tri- a cleansing for us,” she said,
ex-wife of bombing suspect al in the April 19 bombing of “I hope people will read our
erry Nichols begins a six- the Alfred P. Murrah Federal story and understand we've
city book tour today, but Ok- Building in Oklahoma City tried to cooperate in solving
lahoma City isn't on her agen- that killed 169 people. Both this case.”
da. an j n .. have pleaded innocent to Ron Delpit co-wrote the
n By Blood Betrayed," charges they carried out the book with Padilla and is fea-
Cockrum, Kevin Hammond, Lana Padilla says she has "in- bombing, tured in the work as Andy
David Hammond and Cody formation So damaging to The book traces links be- Donovan, a family friend.
Sewell. Terry Nichols it could put a tween Nichols, McVeigh and Padilla and Delpit declined
stake in his heart" if she is Michael Fortier, dating to the to say how much they would
called to testify at his trial as time they servedin the Anny receive fr°m the book, pub-
muTI .. . together in 1988. lished by HarperCollins. But
The book focuses main Y Padilla credits Josh with tip- The Dallas Morning News
on the turmoil the bombing ping authorities to the link quoted an industry source fa-
broughi to the lives ofPadil- ,0 Fortier, of Kingman, Anz. miliar with the deal as saying
la ana her son, Josh Nichols, 0 , Padilla would get 30.5 cents
calling herself and 13-year- Fortier admitted he cased per book, which costs S5 99
old Josh victims No. 170 and the Oklahoma City building That means she could earn .
171. with McVeigh and pleaded maximum 591 5004 Th
Most of the information guilty to related charges, in- printing sens our Deite
contained in the 218-page pa. cluding knowing about the Will REF Wo-THIrds
perback has been told previ- plan to bomb the building but amount the source said, hat
ously in numerous interviews failing to notify authorities. The book tour begins in
Padilla has given the media. He is awaiting sentencing New York today, followed by
She testified last summer in a federal prison in Fort stops in Cleveland on Tues
before an Oklahoma City Worth, day, Detroit Wednesday
grand jury that indicted Padilla said Fnday in an As- Chicago Thursday, St Louis
Nichols. And Josh gave a de- sociated Press interview she Fnday and Dallas on Oct 30.
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