Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 70, No. 252, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1979 Page: 1 of 8
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Pawhuska
Tues.-Fri. 20’ Sunday 25'
Daily
Journal-Capital
Thursday. Dec. 20. 1979
Vol. 70 • No. 252
HUSPS 423720
New civil violence is reported
Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Fighting
between rival groups in eastern Iran’s
troubled Baluchistan region left two
persons dead and 36 others wounded,
Tehran Radio reported today.
It was the latest outbreak of violence in
areas of Iran where ethnic minorities
have been agitating for greater
autonomy from the central government
Shidler area
residents hurt
of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The 50 American Embassy hostages,
meanwhile, were spending their 47th day
in captivity. Iran’s interior minister
raised the possibility of Christmas visits
by the American hostages' families but
the militants holding the embassy said
they have not yet decided on such a
move.
The Tehran Radio broadcast gave few
details of the fighting in Zahedan, capital
of Baluchistan-Sistan province
It said it broke out as “Dr. Yazdi" —
presumably top Khomeini lieutenant
Ibrahim Yazdi, a former foreign
minister — was delivering a speech. The
report did not identify the “groupa” that
fought each other
It said the Sunni Moslem religious
leader of the region, Mowlavi Abdolaziz,
issued a message to Zahedan citizens
saying the disturbances were engineered
by “enemies of Islam."
Most of the 600,000 Iranian Baluchis
are Sunnis — the rival sect to Khomeini ’s
Shiite Moslem religion. The nomadic Ba-
luchis have chafed under Tehran’s
control since first coming under Persian
rule in the mid-19th century.
Several other ethnic groups in Iran —
some of them Sunni — have sought
greater self-rule under the revolutionary
government. Most recently, the Turkish-
speaking Azaris of Azerbaijan rebelled
earlier this month. The violence has
generally abated in Azerbaijan in recent
days and the Khomeini regime is trying
to restore good relations with the Azaris
On the subject of Christmas visits to
the hostages, Interior Minister
Hojatolislam Hashemi Rafsanjani told
the newspaper Bambad: “There is a
possibility their families will be allowed
to visit them and we would like such a
thing to take place.”
But a spokesman for the students who
have been holding 50 Americans hostage
in the embassy since Nov 4 said Wed-
nesday there has been “no decision And
such decisions are up to us."
The students again torpedoed another
conciliatory expression by Foreign
Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who told
The Washington Post that the hostages
could be freed if the U.S. government
held an official investigation of Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's alleged
crimes.
“The only thing that could free the
hostages would be the return of the
deposed shah,'' said a student
spokesman
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in house fire
A Shidler woman and her son were
admitted to St. Joseph Medical Center at
Ponca City early Wednesday morning
following a fire which totally destroyed
their residence two miles west of Shidler
at 2 a.m.
Carolyn Ewing, 40, received serious
burns on her arms and face in the fire,
and was confined in stable condition in
the intensive care unit at the hospital.
Her son, Karol Kekehbah, 18, was also
admitted with burns on his arms.
Leonard Ewing, Carolyn Ewing's
husband, was apparently uninjured.
Earl Eddings, chief of police of
Shidler, said that the residence was
located in an area known as Big Bertha
Camp. He said the home was completely
destroyed in the blaze, but that there are
no damage estimates at this time.
Eddings said the Shidler volunteer fire
department responded to the alarm but
arrived too late to save the house or its
contents
1CCity-----
Briefs
CHRISTMAS CONCERT-The Pawhuska
High School band will present its an-
nual Christmas Concert at 9:30 a.m
Friday in the high school auditorium
The public is invited to this special
assembly
K
Area-
Briefs
SANTA IN WYNONA Santa Claus,
under the sponsorship of the City of
Wynona will be handing out treats
during the Wynona’s schools’
Christmas program at7 p.m. Thursday
at the school.
Just what he wanted
Somehow, Santa knew just what Michael Todd has been
wanting so bad for Christmas. And Wednesday evening--to the
shocked amazement of Michael (center) and the delight of
Annie Todd (left)--Santa came through, presenting the boy with
the neatest puppy dog a kid ever got. Santa will continue his
visits in downtown stores Friday from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m (J.
C Photo)
Panamanian students
protest Shah s stay
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) —
Hundreds of Panamanian students
ignored the government ban on
demonstrations and for the fourth time in
two days protested the deposed Shah of
Iran's stay on Contadora Island
Some 300 students demonstrated
Wednesday night at the University of
Panama Many waved large posters
protesting Shah Mohammad Reza Pah-
lavi's presence on Contadora. One read,
“Merry Christmas. Fight The Shah!"
The demonstrators also set up
barricades along the street skirting the
university But national guard troops
surrounded the campus, fired tear gas at
the demonstrators and tore down the
barricades.
Witnesses said several persons were
beaten by guardsmen swinging pieces of
rubber hose, wooden nightsticks and
pieces of cane, but none appeared
seriously injured.
Police on motorcycles drove at the
crowd, firing tear gas. Other police fired
shotguns from a distance of about 200
feet. Police finally dispersed the
students, then rounded them up and
herded them back into the school.
Reporters were not allowed to see the
shah and no statement was issued on his
condition
Osage Indian survey
approaching completion
The Census Survey now being con-
ducted in all areas of Osage County by
workers assigned by the Osage Planning
and Feasibility Study is now approaching
its end
The Osage Tribal Council is urging all
persons of Indian descent-any tribe and
any degree of blood-residing in Osage
County to be sure they and their families
are included in this count
The census is important in future In-
dian health matters and may be of value
to other programs beneficial to Osage
County Indians.
Indian people not yet contacted by
survey workers may call or see the
Community Health Representatives in
their respective ares for aid in being
included in the count.
The CHR addresses and phone num-
bers are:
Pawhuska Area-Planning &
Feasibility Study office-White house
adjacent to Osage Agency (North) Phone
(918) 287-1332.
Hominy Area-Soptua Lookout, CHR
office located upstairs above Hominy
Fire Station (918) 885-2858.
Fairfax area-Frances Rhodes, CHR
106 W. Elm, (918) 642-5165
Skiatook Area-Mark Hopper, CHR,
1600 W. Will Rogers (918) 396-3191.
OPEC ministers hold what may be final session
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - After
three days of deadlock, the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries began
its fourth and probably final session
today without an agreement on new
prices for crude oil.
A. K Hart, chairman of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Co., said the session
this morning might set loose limits with-
in which each of the 13 countries could fix
its own prices. But any upper limit would
not be observed for long if a hard winter
in Europe and the United States or a cut
in production by a major producer
resulted in as big increase in the demand
for oil.
Return handgame match
scheduled for Dec. 28
The Osages, with a long tradition of
successful warfare against the Pawnees,
are not taking a small defeat here last
Sunday as a major loss, according to Dan
Cass, Osage tribal member.
The Pawnees crossed the Arkansas
River Sunday into Osage Country, Cass
said, to participate in a challenge hand-
game.
The two-teams battled all afternoon. It
seems that the Pawnees won the first
game in the best-two-out-of-three series.
The invading tribesmen commented that
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SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT!
Saudi Arabia’s Sheik Ahmed Zaki
Yamani, who called the oil ministers into
more than 12 hours of secret talks
Wednesday, said he did not expect any
unfied price structure to emerge from
today’s meetins.
If limits were set, the bottom basic
price was expected to be $24 a barrel, $6
above OPEC's previous minimum set
last June and the price Saudi Arabia said
it would charge for the first quarter of
1980
The upper limit was expected to be
well above $30, the present maximum
base price, which Libya is charging. The
Libyans urged a minimun base price of
it was "nice to start out a winner .”
The Osages said that some of the
regular Osage hand-gamers were out on
the circuit and this hampered the Osage
team a good deal.
The Osages won the second game but
alarmingly the Pawnees won the third
game, giving them a win in the 2-out-of-
three series.
Undaunted, the Osages issued a
challenge to a play off. It is scheduled,
the return match, Dec. 28th. It will be
played on the opposition's battleground.
The handgame is scheduled for the
gym of the old boarding school at
Pawnee, starting at 7 p.m. The game will
be preceded by a dinner at 6 p.m.
An observer at the games here said
things were going well for the Osages
until the third round dance when tow
Pawnees surrounded the Osage guesser
during the dance.
The Osages are working on their hand-
game strategy and will be ready for the
second challenge match at Pawnee on
the 28th. Cass said participants should
take dishes and chairs to Pawnee for the
dinner and game.
$34 for a 42-gallon barrel. But any ceiling
will be junked, just as the $23.50 top set in
June was, if the demand for oil exceeds
the supply or buyers begin anticipating
shortages.
The meeting’s host, Energy Minister
Several more families still need
adopting in Operation Helping Hand
With only four days until Christmas
there still are eight families-several
with children-which have not been
adopted yet in “Operation Helping
Hand.”
Wednesday, one new family was
added to the list to bring the total to
54; and 26 adoptions were noted, most
of them made by anonymous donors.
The Osage County Sheriff's
Department adopted two families;
No. 22-a young man with a wife and
one-year-old child living on a low
income, and No. 46-an older couple
Future of energy assistance program
for working families is now uncertain
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional
delay in writing a “windfall-profits" tax
has wiped out any chance millions of
American working people will get quick
federal help in paying soaring fuel bills.
Congress already has enacted
legislation providing energy assistance
this winter for an estimated 18 million
households that qualify for welfare. But
nothing in that bill would help working
families whose incomes, though
Humberto Calderon of Venezuela, said
OPEC would probably meet in March for
another try at a price agreement
We have to wait two or three months
and see how the market develops," he
said late Wednesday night after more
with health problems.
The newest addition, Family No. 54
which included five children was
adopted anonymously as were
Families 4,5,7,8,10,13,14,15,16, 20,
21,23,25,28,35,36,42,43,44,45,48,51
and 52.
In addition, the Pawhuska Lions
Club has bought clothing for children
in Families 17, 20 and 52.
One Pawhuska woman
crocheted several afghans and has
donated them, anonymously, to a
number of families on the list.
squeezed by rising fuel prices, exceed
welfare levels.
The Senate, in passing its version ol the
windfall tax, allowed an income-tax
credit of $20 to $200 a year for families
with incomes under $22,000. The size of
the credit — which would be subtracted
directly from taxes owed - would be
based on a family’s outlays for home
heating.
Senate and House conferees seeking a
than 12 hours of wrangling
Some observers thought it more likely
that the hard-liners would reduce
production, as Libya has said it would.
But Saudi Arabia, the cartel's biggest
producer, said it would continue to
Ninetta Potts, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, which is
handling the adoptions, said that the
chamber has also received
anonymous donations for the Martin
Casebolt and Tony Kills Crow
families.
Mr. Casebolt was injured by an
electrical shock when working at his
home at Foraker Saturday and has
been hospitalized in the burn center of
Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa.
The Kills Crow family had their
Pawhuska home destroyed in a fire
compromise between the two tax bills
agreed Wednesday that even if the
heating credit is kept in the final version,
taxpayers will not be allowed to claim
the credit when they file their 1979 tax re-
turns starting next month.
That does not necessarily close the
door on allowing a 1979 credit to be
claimed — along with the credit for 1980
— when tax returns are filed early in
1981.
produce 9.5 million barrels a day, a
million more than it was producing a
year ago, and this would tend to offset
cuts by some of the other countries.
The ministers met for more than six
hours Wednesday
last week.
While neither of these families are
on the actual Helping Hands list, Mrs.
Potts said she was handling these
anonymous donations and turning
them over to the families.
Persons or organizations wishing to
see that Operation Helping Hands is a
success this year may adopt a family
by calling the Chamber of Commerce
office. In addition, cash donations
may be made through either the
chamber or the Journal-Capital.
However, the fate of the credit, which
would last three years and cost $4.8
billion, is in doubt because it is opposed
by Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore., chairman of
the House conferees.
The committee was told that since the
Internal Revenue Service is preparing to
mail packets of tax forms to 82 million
homes a decision would have to be made
quickly on the credit if it were to become
effective this year
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