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Pawhuska
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Pawhusha, Osage County, Oklahoma
Tuesday, August 31, 1982 Vol. 73 No. 172
Sunday 25* Daily 20‘
Poles defying
ban on protests
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TALENT WINNERS-Joel Holcombe of Avant, standing, won the junior division
talent show at Osage County Fair Monday night for his guitar, fiddle, banjo and
mandolin medley. Accompanist David Christianson of Tulsa, seated, was the sole
entrant and therefore the winner in the senior division, playing the dobro. (Photo by
Bill Adams).
SECOND PLACE WINNER-Finishing second In the junior talent show at the county
fair Monday was Andrea Robinson of Shidler, a ventriloquist who performed a
complex vocal duet with her two puppet friends of the country and westerr. hit
"Elvira." (Photo by Bill Adams).
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Thousands
of demonstrators defied martial law and
marched through Warsaw, Gdansk,
Wroclaw and Nowa Huta today to mark
the second anniversary of Solidarity.
Police fired tear gas, water cannon and
what appeared to be concussion
grenades at the protesters, witnesses
said.
Police called through bullhorns
demanding that a crowd marching on
Warsaw University disperse, then fired
tear gas when they refused. Witnesses
said the marchers, who chanted
Solidarity slogans, dispersed and then
regrouped at several points and resumed
marching through a blue haze of tear
gas.
Solidarity leaders who went un-
derground with imposition of martial law
Dec. 13 called for the demonstrations as
a key test of whether the Communist
martial law regime has managed to snuff
out the independent union and prevent
protests. The country’s military leaders
warned that demonstrations on the
anniversary would not be tolerated.
Witnesses said police firing tear gas
grenades dispersed about 5,000 people in
Wroclaw but that the crowd regathered
and began marching through the city 190
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miles southwest of Warsaw. They said
the crowd was swelled by the addition of
onlookers
There was no information on the size of
the crowd in Nowa Huta, near Krakow in
southern Poland.
Meanwhile, witnesses in Gdansk, the
Baltic port where Solidarity was born,
said police using what appear to be
concussion grenades dispersed about
2,000 people who marched to the central
railway station and chanted
“Freedom!” and “Return Lech!” Lech
Walesa is the interned leader of
Solidarity
The witnesses said the demonstrators
raised a Solidarity banner and flashed
victory signs at the station before they
were routed. They chanted “Lift martial
law!” “Free internees,” "Soldiers go
back to your barracks,” "Zomo (riot
police) go back to work,” “and “We shall
win.”
They also chanted, “We want the pope.
We want the pope,” referring to Polish-
born Pope John Paul II, who has put off a
visit originally scheduled for Aug. 26 to
mark the 600th anniversary of Our Lady
of Czestochowa, Poland’s holiest icon.
The witnesses in Gdansk said about
4,000 to 5,000 people had marched from
the Lenin Shipyards but the crowd
diminished to about 2,000 by the time it
got to the station. They said police did not
use tear gas because of winds blowing in
their direction, and that the crowd
dispersed after police set off concussion
devices which made a loud noise like
firecrackers.
At the Ursus tractor factory outside
Warsaw, the scene of major strikes in
1976, workers leaving the plant in the
afternoon were greeted by about 600
police and army troops The workers
dispersed without incident
McKenzie
THIRD PLACE FINISH-Brian Cox of Shidler tickled the ivories in a couple of fast-
paced numbers to play his way into third place and the final money prize in Monday's
Osage County Fair talent show, junior division. (Photo by Bill Adams).
Reagan labor secretary
says he’ll be cleared
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Embattled
Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan
says he’ll be “fully cleared” of
allegations he had ties to mobsters as a
New Jersey construction executive
before joining President Reagan’s
Cabinet.
Donovan confirmed through a
spokesman Monday night that he had
met privately over the weekend with
special prosecutor Leon Silverman in
New York. Silverman is investigating
fresh allegations involving Donovan’s
conduct as executive vice president of
Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus,
N.J.
Earlier this week, Silverman con-
firmed that he had asked the FBI to
investigate the gangland-style slaying of
Nathan Masselli, the son of reputed
mobster William Masselli, who once
headed the Jo-Pel Construction and
Trucking Co., a prime subcontracting
firm for Schiavone on New York City
building projects.
Spokesman Vernon Louviere said that
Donovan and his attorney, Dean Burch,
met for about 2% hours with Silverman
in New York on Sunday.
On June 28, Silverman concluded in a
1,025-page report that there was “in-
sufficient credible evidence” on which to
prosecute the labor secretary. It had
been alleged by various FBI informants
Weather
High temperatures across Oklahoma
were expected to soar above 100 degrees
again today.
A weak high pressure system, com-
bined with a southerly flow, will produce
temperatures up to 105 degrees this
afternoon.
A few scattered showers and thun-
derstorms were expected tonight in the
northwest as a weak cold front moves
into the state.
The Oklahoma forecast calls for clear
to partly cloudy skies through Wed-
nesday. Widely scattered showers and
thunderstorm were predicted for the
northwest tonight and Wednesday It will
be a little cooler in the northwest late
tonight and Wednesday.
that Donovan witnessed a payoff to a
union leader and associated with
organized crime figures.
Donovan has steadfastly denied those
charges, and he hailed the June finding
as an exoneration.
In the statement made in his behalf
Monday, Donovan said: “I am fully
confident that Mr. Silverman’s report
will be as favorable as the previous one
— which is to say I will be fully cleared of
these newest allegations.
“As I have said repeatedly, there is
absolutely no substance to these charges,
and that is the way the final chapter will
be written.”
Silverman was concluding his in-
vestigation and preparing a final report
on the Donovan case when new
allegations of past wrongdoing surfaced.
He has not said what specific allegations
are involved.
Meanwhile, authorities in New York
said the FBI is investigating possible
links between two Brooklyn shootings
and the slaying of Masselli's son.
Water service
to be cut off
The city will be installing a new water
valve and fireplug in a Pawhuska neigh-
borhood Wednesday, resulting in about a
three-hour water shutoff to the affected
area, according to a water department
spokesman.
The work will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Residents on Rogers Street between 7th
and 10th, Ninth Street between Lynn
and Prudom, and on 10th Street from
Leahy to Rogers will have their water
supply curtailed during the project.
Temperatures
Bi-hourly temperatures courtesy of
City Light Plant.
Monday: Noon 83; 2p.m. 89;4p.m. 95;
6 p.m. 97; 8 p.m. 93; 10 p.m. 87; Midnight
83.
Tueaday: 2 a.m. 78; 4 a.m. 78; 6 a.m.
78; 8 a.m. 73; 10 a.m. 84.
Rainfall past 24 hours 0 inches.
TAP-DANCE TALENT Jennifer Quillin, left, and Christina
Surrett, both of Pawhuska, performed a tap-dance duet at
Monday's county fair talent show and finished tied for fourth in
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the junior division. Behind Surrett is Bill McKenzie, president of
The Players, who, with his wife, Carla, manages the talent show
each year. (Photo by Bill Adams).
DRUMMER TIES FOR FOURTH- Eddie Baugher of Prue tied for fourth in the junior
talent show at the fair, along with a pair of tap dancers. (Photo by Bill Adams).
resigns
The Osage County Housing Authority
Board of Commissioners has “regret-
fully accepted" the resignation of
William P. McKenzie as executive
director
McKenzie was associated with the
Housing Authority of Osage County for
seven years. When McKenzie was first
employed, the Housing Authority had
only 85 units. There are now 285 units for
low-moderate income and elderly
housing.
June Ratliff has been appointed as
acting executive director Ratliff has
been associated with the Housing
Authority as projects manager for ap-
proximately eight years. McKenzie was
out of town today and could not be
reached for comment
The offices of the Housing Authority of
Osage County will be open for business
Monday through Thursday from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until further notice.
Execution by drugs
gets judge’s assent
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal
government should guarantee that drugs
used to execute criminals are swift and
painless, says an attorney who is ap-
pealing a court decision upholding the
right of states to administer lethal in-
jections.
“I thought what you do for dogs you
would do for humans,” said David E.
Kendall, a lawyer for death row
prisoners in Oklahoma and Texas
Kendall said he would ask the U.S.
Court of Appeals to overturn the decision
Monday by U.S. District Judge Norma
Holloway Johnson.
She upheld the position of the Food and
Drug Administration, ruling the FDA
was not required under the law to ensure
that drugs used for executions by states
are effective for that purpose.
The judge, in her opinion, said the FDA
could not be compelled to get involved in
the controversy over drug executions
The FDA’s major reason for not getting
involved was that states should make the
decision on whether to use lethal drugs
“Whether the (FDA) commissioner
might have reached a different decision
in light of the political, scientific and
ethical controversy surrounding the use
of prescription drugs to cause death by
lethal injection is of no moment; the
salient point is that under established
authority the decision was his to make,”
Judge Johnson said.
“The court is not prepared to dictate
FDA enforcement priorities or otherwise
interfere with the commissioner’s
performance of his discretionary, in-
vestigative functions...”
The prisoners, Kendall said, submitted
affidavits from doctors contending that
laboratory tests indicated drugs
designated for use in executions would
not cause a swift and painless death.
Kendall said he is not aware of any
prisoner executed in the United States by
a lethal injection. The American Medical
Association and medical societies in the
four states that have passed laws
requiring death by drug injection have
said doctors should not administer lethal
drugs for executions
He said 194 prisoners are under death
sentence in the four states: 146 in Texas,
39 in Oklahoma, five in Idaho and four in
New Mexico. Kendall represents five
prisoners in the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary and three in the Ellis Unit of
the Texas Department of Corrections.
Individual prisoners have filed
separate suits contending that execution
by injection is unconstitutional, he said.
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