Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 68, No. 95, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1977 Page: 1 of 10
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Hominy prison contractor held to bid
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
The State Board of Affairs
voted unanimously Thursday to
hold a Kansas contractor to its
bid on a prison contract in spite
of a $253,000 mistake in his bid.
But John Hayes, Oklahoma
City lawyer for the B. B. An-
dersen Companies of Topeka,
indicated he may take the
board’s decision to court.
Andersen’s low bid was $5.4
million, but firm officials said
they bid $253,000 less than they
intended on the second phase of
the Hominy prison construction
job because of an error.
Dr. Ned Benton, state correc-
tions director, had warned that
failure to award the contract to
Anderson would mean a 90-day
delay in adding the 400-bed in-
stitution to the state’s over-
crowded prison system.
The next lowest bid was $5.8
million and Benton said the de-
partment would not have
enough money in its budget to
complete the project at that
price.
Hayes said the bid was a
classic case of a mistake” of
the type which the state has
allowed to be corrected in the
past, “I don’t think the state
has been taken advantage of,”
he said, adding that he plans to
take "some kind of appropriate
action,” presumably a court
suit.
Paul A. Wilbor, board vice
chairman, made the motion to
deny Andersen’s request to
withdraw his low bid. He said
he felt the mistake could have
been avoided
Chairman Robert Lester sec-
onded the motion, saying, "In
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CAUSE
LILY JOURNAL -CAPITAL
Published Evenings, Tuesday through Friday and Sunday Mornings
Volume 68 No. 95
Speaker lauds mothers
Friday, May 13, 1977
Sunday 20° per copy Daily 15’ per copy.
Large crowd hears Iba
at All-Sports Banquet
Mr. Basketball” Henry P. Iba,
former basketball coach of
Oklahoma State University,
coach of three olympic
basketball teams, and college
mentor of PHS basketball coach
of Max Shuck, was the principal
speaker at the All-Sports
banquet for PHS athletes
Thursday night.
Iba, who said he “threw in
some corn” learned things from
his elders when he was a
New PHS grid
coach hired today
The Pawhuska board of
education early today elected
James Edward Burton, 33,
Yukon, as head Pawhuska high
school football coach.
Burton with 10 years coaching
experience- six as head coach
and four as an assistant, this
year instituted football in the
Deer Creek School near Ed-
mond. Earlier he had served as
coach at Page, Arizona, at
Northwest Classen High
AAAA) School in Oklahoma
Economics gets $20 billion
shot in arm from Carter
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres-
ident Carter today signed a bill
authorizing $20 billion for gen-
eral economic stimulation and
a $4 billion public works bill,
calling the legislation "a major
Pre-K indergarten
screening set:
Meeting Tues.
Plans have been completed
for a parents meeting and a pre-
kindergarten screening for
students entering Pawhuska
Kindergarten this fall.
Richard Palazzo, school
phychologist, said the screening
linic is scheduled for the
Catholic Church Parish Hall
May 19th, starting at 8:30 a.m.
All parents wishing their
children to take part in the
screening must make reser-
vations prior to the parents
meeting on May 17th. Palazzo
may be reached by calling the
superintendent of schools’ of-
fice.
Also, parents of children to be
screened must attend the
parents meeting at 7:30 p.m. on
the 17th, next Tuesday, in the
high school lecture hall.
Individuals who wish to take
part in the screening process
are asked to contact Palazzo at
the high school and pre-register
Me the screening.
The screening program called
"he Enchanted Village, is to
provide a gross assessment in
See No. 5 Page 6
Wynona City Council
closes dump to others
The Wynona City Council
decided at a meeting this week
that the city dump is only for
residents of Wynona and the
immediate area.
People from other com-
munities, Hominy and
Pawhuska were named, have
reportedly been using the
younger man just as athletes,
should learn from the "older
boys on the team, they should
provide the leadership ”
The coach spoke to a capacity
crowd at the banquet at the
Fairgrounds Agriculture
building.
Andy Surritte, president of
the Booster Club was emcee for
the program and supervised the
presentation of the many
awards to the athletes.
City, at Bishop McGuiness High
School, (AAA) Oklahoma City.
He also instituted football in
Heritage Hall school at
Oklahoma City.
Burton was educated at St.
Gregory's College at Shawnee
at Oklahoma State University
and Central State University
with degrees in English and
History. His teaching field is
literature and English, speech,
See No. 3 Page 6
move in the right direction.”
With mayors from some of
the nation's major cities and
congressmen and senators look-
ing on, the President said in a
White House Rose Garden cere-
Filing period in
commission vote
opens here Mon.
The filing period for the
District 1 county commissioner
election opens Monday. Filings
can be made at the office of the
election board secretary,
Chauncy Witcraft, in the First
National Bank Building.
The special election primary
is scheduled for Tuesday, June
7. It was called by Governor
David Boren to fill the unex-
pired term of the late L. B. May.
The filing period opens at 8
a.m. Monday, May 16 and will
remain open until May 18 at 5
Matches believed cause of death
TULSA (AP) — A boy who
was found dead in his burning
home Thursday may have been
playing with matches, officials
said today.
The boy, Craig Lewis Clark,
9, was found in a burneed out
closet.
“We don’t know for sure
Wynona City Dump.
“It’s not that big,” Mayor
William Miles explained.
A supervisor is being hired to
direct activity at the dump and
there will be possible fines for
others besides Wynonans using
the dump and for Wynonans
improperly using it, a
Coach Shuck introduced Iba
as, he said “I always introduce
him, my college basketball
coach.”
The famed basketballer, who
has had national championship
teams as well as the Olympic
teams, told the youngsters that
there are some main
ingredients to success and some
important things that perhaps
we all overlook.
"Look at this crowd tonight.
You young men, in shirts, ties,
dressed well. Appearance is
important, it is your first
chance to make an impression,
your appearance. You should
be commended.”
The coach also stressed the
involmement of the Mothers’
club which has backed all the
sporting programs in the
school, and the fact that parents
owe to be respected.
"As long as the women-and
mothers in particular-are
backing you, you have nothing
to worry about,” he stressed.
Iba also said he was glad that
women are finally rising to the
forefront in athletics.
“I have watched the Russian
women's basketball teams and
mony that the legislation dem-
onstrated "in a vivid way the
close cooperation that has
evolved” between the White
House and Congress and the lo-
cal and federal governments.
p.m.
So far there have been an-
nouncements by a number of
candidates who intend to file for
the office. The first was Lloyd
Smith, Pawhuska, who ran
against May in the last com-
missioners race. That race was
so close that a recount was
conducted and fewer than 20
votes separated the two can-
didates.
Also filing for the position will
be former city councilman
See No. 6 Page 6
what caused the fire but we su-
pect the youngster was playing
with matches,” Tom Osburn,
assistant fire marshal, said.
The boy’s body was found
after children returning home
from school saw smoke coming
from the house.
spokesman said today.
The dump is open from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 1
to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The council said there would
be no exceptions for the hours
the dump is open.
The Pawhuska city dump is
closed on the weekends.
I dream of the day, and I know it
will come, when the US will
defeat the Russian women,” he
said, "but not until Oklahoma
and Iowa and others get away
from their old-fogey women’s
basketball rules,” he said.
He pointed out how American
women are now tops in tennis,
golf, in sprinting and other
sports.
“Women are tough," he said, 1
“you can beat a man, but to
beat a woman is a tougher job.
Take golf, that's the toughest
game there is, and look at the
good women golfers,” he
pointed out.
“Women are tough and 1
fighters, that’s why they make 1
good homes and good mothers,”
he said.
Iba said, “I may make a
statement here that will will
suprise some of you, but I 1
wonder if we are not in danger 1
of over emphasising sports,” I
and he pointed out the fantastic 1
salaries paid some professional 1
sports personalities.
“Athlets and people are 9
successful if the players /
remember motivation and
See No. 2 Page 6
The $4 billion appropriation
bill for public works is among
the spending plans authorized
by the larger economic stimu-
lation bill the President signed
The economic stimulation bill
also authorizes $8 billion for
public service jobs and $1 bil-
lion for a program to boost em-
ployment by 200,000 among
young people Bills actually ap-
propriating the money for those
programs are still moving
through Congress.
The President said that in
talking with foreign leaders in
Europe last weekend, he found
that “the most unified concern
expressed was for jobs for
young people.”
Also included in the economic
stimulation bill is authorization
for $631 million in general fi-
nancial assistance for state and
local governments.
Administration officials have
predicted the public works bill
will create 300,000 jobs directly
in the construction industry and
another 300,000 jobs indirectly.
AFL-CIO President George
Meany, who had criticized the
See No. 4 Page 6
Workshop set
for bus drivers
A School Bus Drivers
Workshop will be held at
Pawhuska High School July
11th through July 15th, spon-
sored by the Oklahoma State
Department of Education.
Sessions will be from 8 a.m. to
noon each day in the high school
lecture hall.
All school bus drivers are
required to have a bus drivers
certificate and attendance at
the one week workshop is
required for certification.
Men or women who wish to
obtain a bus drivers certificate
are welcome. No charge is
made for the course.
Anyone interested in at-
tending the workshop may
phone 287-1265 to enroll,
Pawhuska Superintendent of
schools Oren Terrill said.
JOURNAL CAPITAL TROPHIES -Mike Hayes (top photo) was presented the Outstanding
Football Player Award from the Pawhuska Daily Journal -Capital by Booster Club president
Andy Surritte at the All Sports Banquet Thursday evening Hayes also won the Sparkplug
trophy for basketball from KOKN. Jessie Sterling (bottom photo) won the Outstanding
Basketball Player Award from the Journal Capital. (J C photos)
was producers claim
new plan a windfall
WASHINGTON (AP) - Natu-
ral gas producers privately
concede they would reap $20
billion in windfall profits under
the Carter administration’s new
pricing plan, energy adviser
James R. Schlesinger says.
Schlesinger told the House
energy and power subcom-
mittee Thursday that uniden-
tified companies also say pri-
vately they would rather have
a lid on prices than deregula-
tion, fearing the embar-
rassment a sharp price in-
crease they foresee under dere-
gulation would bring.
The administration has pro-
posed a uniform national price
of $1.75 per thousand cubic feet,
Laetrile bill passes
committee approval
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A
bill to permit Oklahoma doctors
to treat terminally ill cancer
patients with the controversial
substance Laetrile has been
unanimously approved by a
state Senate committee.
The House-passed proposal
won approval in the Senate
Public and Mental Health Com-
mittee on Thursday. It now
goes to the full Senate
The measure removes re-
strictions on hospitals and doc-
tors administering laile.
The legislation would have no
effect on the substance's sup-
ply. It is banned by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration,
which says it is worthless in
treating cancer.
“This bill is not doing any-
thing more than what Judge
Bohanon’s court has ordered,”
said Democratic Sen. Ernest
Martin, committee chairman.
Iska
In Uriel
LUCKY TONIGHT!-Friday the 13th, today, can be your
lucky day. A number of Pawhuska stores are remaining
open until 6:30 tonight, for a special after-hours shopping
spree. The late opening was set to make shopping more
convenient for Pawhuskans and Osage countians.
COACHES NEEDED—Any man or woman interested in
coaching baseball or softball in the summer recreation
program, is asked to attend a meeting in room 102 at the
junior high next Thursday, May 19, at 6:30 p.m
Classification of teams will include the Pee Wees for 8, 9
and 10 year olds; Midgets for 11 and 12 year olds. Preps 13
and 14 year olds and senior team, 15 and 16 year-olds. The
students must not reach the maximum age in each division
prior to November 1, 1977.
30 cents more than the current
interstate rate and about 50
cents less than the rate for gas
produced and sold within one
state.
Schlesinger estimated the
price could increase to $2 98 by
1985.
Schlesinger and other repre-
sentatives of the Carter admin-
istration appeared before two
separate committees to push
Carter’s energy plan.
Industry spokesmen disputed
Schlesinger’s contention about
anticipated profits. David H
Foster, vice president of the
Natural Gas Supply Committee,
told the subcommittee Carter’s
See No. 7 Page 6
Folgers cuts
coffee prices
NEW YORK (AP) - An an-
nouncement from Procter &
Gamble Co. that it had cut
prices on its Folger ground cof-
fee by 25 cents a pound gave
consumers almost as much of a
perk as a cup of fresh brew in
the morning.
Zut the Thursday decrease in
wholesale prices to $4.18 isn't
expected to have much effect
at the retail level — many
retailers price coffee at or be-
low wholesale to attract cus-
tomers. and in one New York-
area chain, Folger coffee is
selling for $3 79 a pound.
Robert Wunderle, an econo-
mist for the Pathmark stores,
said, “We don't make any mon-
ey" on the brand, but declined
to say if was being sold at a
loss.
The Cincinnati-based Procter
4 Gamble, the nation's second
largest coffee roaster, last
raised prices on March 30,
when it imposed a 25-cents-a-
pound hike. A spokesman said
See No. 8 Page 6
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