Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 248, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 15, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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MRS. MASSENBAUH
OKLA. HISTORICAL SOC.
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Area family bearing heavy medical expense*
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This could be Timmy’s last Christmas
Timothy Wayne Johnson, who will be three next
month, is like all 2-year-olds. He’s waiting for "ho, ho”
as he calls Santa Claus
But Timothy Wayne is not like a lot of other two year
olds His third Christmas could be his last
Timmy has what doctors call a "terminal" con-
dition It has a long name, and it is pretty unusual But
the name of the disease doesn’t mean a lot What is
important is that his circulation system, the blood
vessels, are not growing Timmy is, but the normal
growth of his body has put a strain on the circulation
system which is not growing The result is that the
prospects of a heart attack or a "stroke” are not only
probable, it is just a question of time as to when.
Convulsions one not unusal even now
Tim, who was born in Pawhuska, and his family, Mr.
and Mrs Paul Johnson and his sister, Samantha, 5, and
a brother, Billy, 8, live in Osage County, on Route 1,
Bartlesville
Christmas will be pretty bleak this year Tim has
recently returned from another stay at St John s
Hospital, Tulsa He has been hospitalized there seven
times since the illness was discovered-just a year ago
this week—and one of those stays was for 26 days
In addition, he has been hospitalized in a hospital in
Minneapolis, a 3-week session
Tim’s dad is an auto mechanic Mrs Johnson
(Linda) used to work to help the family out with the
medical bills But she has to spend her time with Tim
now, he needs lots of care.
Her last job was one that she could do, while grab-
bing a few hours away from home She would strip old
motors, electrical and automobile to salvage copper,
which she sold to the junk dealer for money to help out
But even the scrap gathering has stopped now
The Johnsons have tried to keep up with the medical
bills, but it has caught up with them Last week they
were looking at $11,000 in bills, and with those from the
last hospital visit not yet in.
The family has exhausted every avenue of help
They tried the State Welfare Office-but welfare told
them they could get food stamps, nothing else
Timmy ’s special diet and medicine alone coat the
family $50 per week, on top of the medical bills.
Timmy was born in Pawhuska and is no stranger to a
Pawhuska clinic and Pawhuska physicians
The family has been reluctant to seek help but a
friend contacted the Journal-Capital and asked if
something couldn’t be done to help the family
The J-C will establish a Timothy Wayne Johnson
fund, and a bank account will be opened in his name at
the Bank of Commerce
Anyone wishing to help the family is asked to mail
contributions to the Tim Johnson Fund to the Journal-
Capital or NBC and make checks payable to the fund
The money will be deposited in the bank for the use of
the family
Donors will be listed by the J-C unless individuals
wish to remain anonymous
The fundwas kicked-off Saturday morning with $20
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IC school
parents to
meet Monday
A meeting of parents of
children who attend Indian
C amp School is set Mon-
day, December 16 at the
school at 7:30 p.m
Ben Sanders, school
principal, said this will be
an important meeting. The
1973-74 Title IV program
for 1C will be studied for
possible revision ” Other
items to be determined at
the meeting will be the
formation of a parent
committee for the coming
year and an election of
committee officers
Coupon Days
winners told
Winners announced in the
Pawhuska merchants Coupon
Days coordinated by the
Journal-Capital after drawings
in downtown businesses
Saturday were
Peters Hardware - Mrs. A. J.
Miller, 1611 Bighill, a $15 gift
certificate
Robinson’s Shoes - Mrs. Billie
Carey, 900 W 5th, $25 gift
certificate.
Crawford’s Furniture - Sarah
Dennis, 212 East Third, $20 gift
certificate
J.C. Penney Co. - Sylvia
Barker, 1012 East 12th St., $20
gift certificate
Whitehair Trading Post - G
B Hatchett, 201 East 17th, $15
gift certificate
OTASCO-Homer J Benson,
1321 East 13th, an electric
blanket
Anthony’s - Mrs Frances
Gibson, Johnson Rt., a $20 gift
certificate.
Earl’s TV-Della Connell, 530
Trumbly, a portable Zenith
Radio AM-FM
At Hurt s Western Auto the
winner was Mrs. Genevive
Curry. Box 181 She will receive
a $15 gift certificate
At TG&Y the winner was Mrs
Emil Hunt of 1501 Revard. She
will receive a $20 gift cer-
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By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Meeting in unannounced ses-
sion, the Senate Finance
Committee Saturday approved
a last-minute bill to provide
direct cash payments to poor
working families with incomes
under $5,600 a year.
Osage lease sale set
The Osage Agency Lease Sale No. 182 is scheduled Wed-
nesday, January 15, 1975 in the Osage Agency auditorium at 10
a m. here
According to the Agency , 66 oil leases. 39 gas leases and 44 oil
and gas combination leases will be offered at the public auction
Each tract will be offered separate in the order listed on the
sale bill available at the Agency. Bonuses paid by bidders are
for the right to drill on the leases
Christmas program
set at Lynn school
Toys for tots
Lance Corporal Joe Downs, USMC, left, and his sidekick
Bruce Mim,. Marine Corporal, (not pictured) both of Tulsa,
commandeered a big truck here Saturday rounding up the last
of the Toys for Tots donations Jim Lampkin, trustee of the
Osage County jail, right, has been helping repairing and pain-
ting toys for the project Jim got the pleasure Saturday of
seeing the fruits of his labors Early in the days cars began
pulling up in front of the Youth Service Center south of the city
By noon Jim and the marines along with houseparents at the
center. Vernon and Evelyn Wadsworth and Judge Mermon
Potter had helped the parents select toys This was the scene
about 11 11 a m and this was all the toys left Potter said the
center was out of toys and parents were pouring in Efforts to
get more toys during the remainder of the days before Christ
mas are being made An appear) is out for anyone who has any
toys, to call the center A record of those turned down Saturday
was kept and the parents can be contacted anytime up until
Christmas Eve, Potter said. (J C Photo)
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DAILY JOURNAL- CAPITAL
Published Evenings, Tuesday through Friday and Sunday Mornings
Volume 65 No. 248
Sunday, December 15, 1974
Daily 10* per copy. Sunday 20‘ per copy.
‘Runaway fathers' bill included
Senate panel oks work
bonus 9 to poor families
The cash payment measure
-called a "work bonus" —was
one of several riders the
committee tacked onto minor
tariff bills and sent to the
Senate floor for consideration in
the final week of the 93rd
Congress.
Another bill, approved under
the same rush procedure,
creates financial penalties and
inducements to spur state
governments into searching for
"runaway fathers” who do not
pay child support when they
disappear from home
Sen Russell B Long, D-La.,
chairman of the committee, has
been championing both propos-
als for years. The Senate has
twice approved them, but
House-Senate conferees killed
them each time
Long’s proposals were ap-
proved at the unannounced
committee meeting in a room
off the Senate floor, as the
Senate conducted an unusual
Saturday session to clear the
way for adjournment next
week
Also approved were several
non-controversial sections of a
tax bill produced by the House
Ways and Means Committee
but killed this week by the
House Rules Committee These
sections approved Saturday
excluded controversial meas-
ures to increase taxes on the oil
industry and phase out the oil
depletion allowance.
The work bonus" proposal
rewards wage-earners who earn
Shidler, Wynona down
1 Pawhuska gains in
Oct. sales tax net
Two osage county communities recorded losses in sales tax
collections for the month of October, according to a report by the
state tax commission Other towns in the county reported gains.
Pawhuska recorded a heathy gain on its full twocent sales tax
A year ago the 2-cent tax brought $18,686.67 to the city. In Oc-
tober of this year the tax brought in an additional $2,247.53 for a
total to the city of $20,934.20.
Hominy showed collections of $9,956.47 from their 2-cent tax in
October. This was against a one-cent tax a year ago in Octrober
which brought in $4,299 77 The additional one-cent tax brought
an increase of $5,656.70 over October a year ago for Hominy
Fairfax recorded a $208 58 increase over a year ago from
$2,973.30 to $3,181.88 for the one cent tax Shidler showed a small
loss in October Collections in Shidler a year ago in October
were $1,197.92. October collections this year amounted to $95.66
less or $1,102.26.
Wynona also recorded a loss for the month of October A year
ago collections at Wynona totaled $317.67 and this year in Oc-
tober the collections were $52 83 less or $264.87.
less than persons on welfare
Any family earning less than
$4,000 a year would be entitled
to a federal payment equal to
10 per cent of earnings The
money would be paid four
times a year The bonus would
diminish as earnings rose
above $4,000 a year and phase
out at $5,600
The cost to the federal
treasury would be $600 million
a year
Long’s plan is an alternative
to the Nixon administration’s
welfare reform program known
as the "family assistance
plan," which would have
provided a guaranteed income
to all families whether or not
the head of the family worked
Long argued the administra-
tion plan —twice killed by
Senate votes —would reward
idleness while doing little for
those who worked.
Pawhuska
Christmas
plans told
Pawhuska churches have
outlined a range of Christmas
activities for this week
The High School Community
Youth choir made up of youths
from four churches will go
caroling throughout Pawhuska
tonight at 6 p m The youths
will be those from St Thomas
Episcopal, First Christian
Church, Presbyterian Church
and First United Methodist
Family and children’s
program centering on the
meaning of Christmas are
scheduled at the following
churches
United Methodist
The church’s annual Choir
Christmas Party is set Wed-
nesday in the home of Mary
McCartney, 315 East Eighth St
The children of the church will
present a Christmas program
Dec 22 at 6 30 p m A live
nativity will be held on
December 23 and 24 from 7 to 8
p m Both animals and children
will share the story of Christ-
mas.
Catholic Church
The CCD Children s Christ-
mas progream is scheduled
tonight at 7:30 p m in the new
Catholic Parish Hall Each
c lass of children has prepared
their own part for the program
Most of the children chose their
own subject and developed their
part using their own in-
terpretation The object for the
children is to learn the fun of
becoming involved
Christmas Mass will begin
Dec 24 at midnight with special
choral presentations
First Christian
A film "Voices of the Deep"
will be shown today at 4 30 p m
at the church The film is free
and no offering is taken It is
made available by the Kiwanis
Club in their support of chur-
ches A Christmas covered dish
dinner is set Sunday, Dec. 22 at
6p m in the Church Fellowship
Hall It is an all-church
fellowship dinner. Santa will
appear and carol singing will be
included There will be treats
for everyone
Presbyterian
The church choir will present
special Christmas music
Sunday, Dec 22 during worship
service Children’s classes will
have Christmas parties during
Sunday School A Christmas
Eve candlelight communion is
scheduled at 11 p m Dec. 24
Assembly of God
A Christmas program entitled
The Faithful Pioneer" will be
presented Sunday, Dec 22 at 6
p.m The children will be
presenting small segments
between acts of the play.
The public is invited to all the
church activities.
Students of Lynn Elementary
will present their annual
Christmas pProgram Monday,
December 16 at 7:30 p.m at the
school. Mrs. Minnie LeMaster
will direct the program entitles
the "Living Christmas Cards."
Program speakers will be
Raymond Bohannon, Teresa
Cole, Randy Corsaut and
Josephine Archambeau.
SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
Jerome Archambeau will
accompany Mrs. LeMaster with
the harpsichord and other in-
struments.
Teachers assisting with the
program will be Mrs. Anna
Daniels and Mrs. Maxine
Ammons, first and second
grades; Mrs. Betty Reeves,
third and fourth; Terry Young,
principal and teacher of the
fifth and sixth grade and Mrs.
Margaret Wamego, fifth and
sixth grade
Solists will be sung by David
Jordan, Josephine Archambeau
and Susanne Wadsworth
A duet will be sung by Dan
Jordan and Marlene Campus
entitles Winter Wonderland
Thirteen additional Christ-
mas songs will be sung by trios,
quartets and sextets from
students of all the grades
Friends and relatives of the
students are invited to attend
the program
Grand Jury may hear conflicting testimony
Big Mac death probe set Jan. 6
Editor’s note
The McAlester Democrat's
Jerry Pool has covered the
McAlester Penitentiary daily,
as editor and reporter, before,
during and after the 1973 riot.
Here is his preview analysis of
the grand jury to begin
investigating the prison Jan. 6.
By JERRY POOL
McAlester Democrat
Written for UPI
McALESTER (UPI)
A
federal grand jury convening
Jan. 6 to investigate the
teargassing death of a state
prison inmate probably will be
greeted by the sort of tidings
that breed frustration —vastly
conflicting testimony.
Several real obstacles may be
expected for the jurors as they
tackle the job of setting in
perspective accounts of the
death of inmate Robert For-
sythe last May
On the one hand you have
testimony from prison inmates,
mostly hardened criminals, and
this quite often results in a
strange type of humor, whether
truthful or not
Then you have testimony
from correctional officers The
circumstances in the wake of
the nation’s most destructive
prison riot are very far from
ordinary and that traumatic
episode has bred many new
thoughts into prison officers
There seems to be good
reason to anticipate a prolon-
ged. tedious and well publicized
session for the panel, and the
outcome could very well be
surprising
Preliminary investigations by
both state and federal agencies
have revealed vastly conflicting
stories concerning both the
grand jury’s primary target,
the Forsythe death, and alleged
civil rights violations It ap-
pears the varying stories will
assure a complex and tricky
case However, some sources
close to the investigations feel
earlier statements made by
several officers and inmates
may be changed considerably
when they begin testifying
under oath.
It has been officially deter-
mined that Forsythe died as a
direct result of the may 20
gassing and that "some neg-
ligence" may have been in-
volved in the incident
Most inmates involved in the
gassing in the maximum
security unit known as the
"rock" are expected to tell of
alleged brutality and unneces-
sary violence on the part of
guards
While it appears almost
certain the jury will hear
strong evidence indicating neg-
ligence may have been at least
partially responsible, inmates
are also expected to make
claims that Forsythe was
denied medical treatment
Conversely, many of the
officers will undoubtedly defend
their actions, describing the
incident as a major disturbance
which could only be controlled
by use of teargas
However, a top corrections
official who asked that his
identity not be revealed has
said there is strong evidence
that official department proce-
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