Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 70, No. 256, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1979 Page: 1 of 8
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Pawhuska
Tues.--Fri. 20' Sunday 25’
Daily
Journal-Capital
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1979 "USPS 423720
Vol. 70 No. 256
Clergymen meet with Iranian foreign minister
Khomeini says Iran should be ready for boycott
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini said today the U.S.-
Iranian crisis "likely” could turn into
military war and that Iran should be
prepared for the possibility of an
economic blockade.
He called the conflict “a struggle
between Islam and blasphemy.”
“Now we are at war, a political and
economic war," Khomeini told members
of an Islamic anti-drug addiction society.
“It is likely that the military war will
also come along.”
Khomeini made the remarks in a
speech about Iranian problems resulting
from the country’s association with
"foreigners" and colonialism.
■'Foreigners can easily make us
surrender by just closing their exports to
us if our economiy is a dependent one,”
the ayatollah said.
"Now they have threatened us with an
economic boycott Many governments
have approved this. But the peoples do
not approve.”
The United States is expected to go
before the United Nations Security
Council sometime in the next few days to
request it impose sanctions against Iran.
“While, in my view, these noises have
no reality, if we give a very weak
probability to this, we should be equip-
ped. You are in a war situation, an
econmic war which is in itself a struggle
between Islam and blasphemy.”
Earlier, three American clergymen
met for more than two hours with
Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
following the emotional Christmas
services they held for the U.S. Embassy
hostages that raised questions as to
whether 43 or 50 are being detained.
But the clergymen slipped out a back
door of the Foreign Ministry, eluding
reporters Their spokesman, Warren
Day, said they had been told they would
meet with Iranian religious leaders this
afternoon but that details of that session
and the meeting with Ghotbzadeh were
not immediately available.
Day also said the U.S. clergymen were
scheduled to give interviews tonight with
each of the three major American net-
works. “They want to do something with
television as a way of communicating
visually to the (hostages') families as
soon as possible," he said, without
elaborating
in addition the embassy hostages, the
clergymen met with three Americans
held separately at the Foreign Ministry
since the embassy was taken over 53
days ago — Charge d'Affaires L. Bruce
Laingen, Michael L. Howland and Victor
L. Tomseth — and reported they found
them in good health.
The Revs. William Sloane Coffin,
Thomas Gumbleton and William Howard
met for five hours Tuesday with separate
groups of hostages at the embassy,
praying, singing and talking about
football “There were tears in their eyes,
there were tears in our eyes,” Coffin
said
Howard said he met with 21 captives.
Coffin with 16, and Gumbleton with six,
including two women hostages,
Elizabeth Ann Swift, 39, of Washington,
D.C., and Kathryn Koob, 41, of Jessup.
Iowa.
Gumbleton, who was joined in con-
ducting services by the French-born
Algerian archbishop, Cardinal Etienne
Duval, said the woman captives were in
“good spirits.”
Coffin said the students who seized the
hostages Nov. 4 in a bid to get President
Carter to send the deposed shah back to
Iran told them the 43 captives they met
with represented the sum total.
He said under the ground rules of the
visit, which was filmed by the militants,
that they were not allowed to ask the
hostages or the captors about the State
Department's contention there were 50
hostages
The militants offered the film to ABC,
CBS and NBC, but the major American
TV networks turned them down because
the captors wanted more than 821,-000
from each and tried to dictate how the
film would be shown.
Coffin, of New York's Riverside
Church, Gumbleton, auxiliary Roman
Catholic bishop of Detroit, and Howard, a
Baptist from Princeton, NJ, later vis-
ited the Americans at the Foreign
Ministry for three hours, then returned to
the embassy Tuesday night.
They said the student captors handed
them photocopies of handwritten
messages from 33 of the hostages to their
families, and the clergymen telephoned
them to unidentified colleagues in New
York who were to contact the hostages'
relatives The clergymen also got at least
six verbal messages from the hostages
Other captives said they had just written
to their families.
Meanwhile, Tehran Radio reported one
of the hostages, who was not identified,
balked at shaking hands with Ayatollah
Hossein-Ali Montazeri of Tehran who
went to the embassy in the evening to
convey Christmas greetings to the
captives
“I am asking to shake your hand
because we do not have any special
n
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Holiday greeting
Travelers through Pawhuska are greeted each holiday season by the city's
decorations on Main Street. The lights adorning the streets have been providing
animosity towards you,” the broadcast
quoted Montazeri as saying
The students holding the hostages and
Iran’s revolutionary leader, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, have said that
unless Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is
returned to Iran the captives will be tried
as spies ___________________
pleasure to both Pawhuskans and travelers for years. (J-C Photo)
Police replace striking Kansas City firefighters
fighters planned a phased showdown,
beginning with the refusal to work
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Police
manned six firehalls today to replace 125
firefighters suspended for refusing to
work overtime, and the firefighters union
said members would refuse non-
emergency assignments to escalate
Chilean ship rescues stranded passengers
from vessel wedged on Antarctic reef
By The Associated Press
The Chilean Navy rescued more than
100 persons from the Swedish cruise ship
Lindblad Explorer, which ran aground in
Antarctica while filming a science fiction
movie about the end of the world, and a
skeleton crew remained aboard today
waiting for salvage tugs to pull the vessel
off a reef.
Kaw Lake
searchers
1. 1.
recover bodies
PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) - Lake
patrolmen assigned to Kaw Lake
resumed their normal duties Tuesday
after the bodies of two victims of a three-
fataility duck hunting accident were
recovered from the lake.
Rescue workers recovered the body of
James Hopkins, 25, of Ponca City, about
2 p.m. Tuesday, said Lake Patrolman
Jim Daniel. The body of Michael Glaser,
25, also of Ponca City, was found about
3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A search of the lake Sunday turned up
the body of David Allen Welch, 25, of
Ponca City.
Welch’s body was found in the north
end of the lake about 3 a.m.
He was wearing a life jacket, but the
vest was unbuckled, Daniel said. The
apparent cause of death was drowning.
Searchers found the duck hunters' boat
by using a plane Monday
Authorities said Welch and his two
companions went hunting about 5 a.m.
Saturday. They were reported missing
by worried relatives about 9 p.m.
Saturday.
pressure for a new contract.
Mayor Richard L. Berkley summoned
the City Council to a special meeting to
consider the union's latest step as well as
the city’s response to the union’s refusal
to abide by a court order to end the job
There continued to be conflicting
reports on the exact number of people
aboard the Explorer when it ran aground
about noon Monday, and how many were
evacuated.
The ship's radio operator said 70
passengers and 35 crew members were
transferred in lifeboats to the Chilean
No sign of ore carrier s crew
spotted after sh ip, raft located
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia
(AP) — Searchers spotted a life raft but
saw no sign of the 30 crew members of
the 741-foot Lee Wang Zin after the ore
carrier was discovered floating upside
down in the stormy, cold waters off this
northern port, officials said.
The search began Tuesday for the
Taiwanese crew of the vessel, loaded
with iron ore for Japan, when authorities
here received a weak and garbled radio
distress signal. The ship, its hull torn,
was found in the debris-strewn waters of
Dixon Entrance.
The search for survivors was
suspended when winds rose to 45-60 miles
per hour, pushing waves up to 20 feet,
said Lt Cmdr. Dick Pepper of the Res-
cue Coordination Center in Victoria.
At Prince Rupert, tugboats and
Canadian Coast Guard cutters waited in
port for daylight and a break in the
weather to resume their search for survi-
vors, Pepper said.
Dixon Entrance, known for its frequent
storms, lies between Prince of Wales
Island in Alaska and the Queen Charlotte
Islands of British Columbia
action.
And City Council member Edward B.
Quick, a former fireman, warned that
the citizens of this Midwest city of 507,000
"are going to pay a terrible price” for the
troubles with the 900 firefighters.
naval vessel Piloto Pardo They were
expected to reach Punta Arenas, Chile,
about 700 miles from the reef, late today
But Chilean Lt. Cmdr. Rodrigues Solar
said in Punta Arenas that 108 passengers
and 34 crew members had been evac-
uated.
The radio operator of the Lindblad
The accident was one of three off North
American waters. And off the coast of
Antarctica, dozens of passengers of the
Swe dish cruise ship Lindblad Explorer
were rescued by the Chilean navy after
the ship went aground.
Pepper said a radio distress message
was received at 9:25 a.m. from the Lee
Wang Zin, owned by Japanese interests
and registered in Panama.
The mayday consisted of the same
message repeated three times - “SOS.
SOS. Three Echo Sierra Sierra (the
ship's call sign),” said Lt. Tom A. Nies of
the U.S. Coast Guard in Juneau, Alaska.
“That’s all they were able to make out.”
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter spotted
the vessel and a life raft about 23 miles
north of Rose Spit in the Queen Charlotte
Islands.
Crew members reported seeing
“debris ... widely scattered by the
weather” around the vessel and a life
raft, but no bodies, Nies said.
He said the crew reported “a crack or
gash in the starboard side (of the hull)
about 6 to 10 feet long” and “a similar
gash or crack in the port side.”
The slowdown plan calls for members
of International Association of
Firefighters Local 42 to answer all fires
and emergencies as usual but to perform
no other duties, such as training and
inspections.
Explorer told an Australian newspaper
by radio telephone Tuesday that the ship
still was firmly wedged on the uncharted
reef but was in no immediate danger of
sinking.
The Lindblad also ran aground in the
Antarctic in 1972 off St. George Island in
the South Shetland Islands.
Nies said there was no indication how
the hull became torn.
Meanwhile, a British freighter
steamed slowly toward Galveston,
Texas, early today after taking on water
and listing 20 degrees, the Coast Guard
said.
The 268-foot freighter Eagles Cliff
began to heel over and called for help
during a run from Mexico to Houston, LL
John Byrd said. The Coast Guard
dropped pumps to the stricken vessel,
and the cutter Point Monroe was
dispatched to escort it to safe anchorage.
Officials were not sure immediately
what had gone wrong.
And in Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan
harbor, the E.M. Ford, a 428-foot
freighter carrying 7,000 tons of dry
cement, was partially submerged after
strong winds broke the vessel from its
moorings and battered it against s dock.
Five crewmen keeping watch aboard
the freighter, which was to have been
unloaded later in the week at a cement
company terminal, were safely evac-
uated early Tuesday.
•We cannot allow firefighters to ar-
bitrarily determine when and where to
work," said Berkley. “You can’t have a
judge issue a temporary restraining
order and ignore it”
There were no major fires Tuesday
when police on 12-hour shifts covered six
of the city’s 33 fire stations. The officers
were concentrated at a handful of
stations because during a 1975 strike by
firefighters, police and firefighters at the
same fire battled with hoses and the
officers were heckled by pickets, of-
ficials said.
The city last week offered a two-year,
15 percent wage increase costing about
$5 million. The union is seeking a 20 per-
cent raise when the department’s work
week expands from 40 to 48 hours under a
new shift arrangement. The old contract
expired Friday.
Starting pay for firefighters is $12,132
with a top base of $17,928.
The suspensions began Saturday in
response to union president John Ger-
mann's announcement that the fire-
Manslaughter charges
filed following accident
A traffic accident Monday afternoon in
northern Osage County that claimed the
life of an 18-year-old Tulsa girl has
resulted in the filing of manslaughter
charges against a Pawhuska man
Jennifer Howell, 18, died about 1:30
p.m Monday when the 1980 Datsun
pickup she was riding in went out of
control, and struck a concrete culvert
and overturned, said Oklahoma Highway
Patrol Trooper Ron Davis.
The driver, Lonnie Chester Carman,
City—
Briefs
MASONS MEET-Wah Sha She Lodge Nc
110 will meet Thursday, Dec. 27, for a
covered dish dinner and open in-
stallation of officers. Dinner will be
served at 6 p.m., followed by the in-
stallation All Masons and their wives
are invited to be present
overtime.
The City Council voted to suspend
firefighters who refused overtime and to
fire those who did so repeatedly. Ger-
mann said Tuesday the union is now
demanding amnesty for these
firefighters.
On Monday, Jackson County Circuit
Court Judge Lewis Lombardo issued a
temporary restraining order calling for
an immediate halt to the job action.
Berkley said the city may seek fines for
the union's refusal to comply
"We intend to prosecute violations of
the court order,” said Aaron A Wilson,
city attorney.
But Germann said the slowdown
seemed to be the only way to force the
city to reopen negotiations Nothing
else has been able to get them to the
table.” he said.
City officials have rejected arbitration
or mediation. "That's the chicken way
out," said councilman Joe Serviss.
31, Pawhuska, was westbound at a high
rate of speed on state Highway 10, 3%
miles east of S.H. 99, when the crash
occurred, Davis said The site is two
miles west of Bowring.
Charges of first degree manslaughter
were filed against Carman Wednesday
morning by the Osage County district
attorney’s office for "causing the death
of a passenger while driving under the
influence of intoxicating liquor," District
Attorney Larry Stuart said.
Arraignment for Carman will be held
as soon as possible after he is released
from the Pawhuska hospital, where he is
being treated for possible internal in-
juries, Stuart said.
Carman is under guard by Osage
County sheriff’s deputies at the hospital
a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said ’
Howell’s death was one of 657 lives lost
on the nation’s highways, and one of
state's 13 traffic deaths recorded over the
Christmas weekend
Services for her are pending here with
Johnson’s Funeral Home.
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