Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 207, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 19, 1982 Page: 1 of 8
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Pawhuska
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Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma
Tuesday, October 19, 1982 Vol. 75 No. 207
Sunday 25‘ Daily 20‘
Council passes
increased fine
for loose dogs
CITY'S DOING ITS PART-City
Manager Harvey Massey said the city's
been asking property owners to clean up
the brush on the side of the hill between
Kihekah and Grandview.
In conjunction with those im-
provement efforts, city employees have
been assigned to sweep off the steps on
the hillside.
The employee above with the broom is
Earl Radford, and the man carrying the
brush up the hill is Chester Ward.
Loading the truck at the top of the hill
is Paul Spencer.
Not pictured is Jim Sweeden, head of
the street department, who is super
vising. (Photo by Nancy Williams.)
By LORI GROF
The city will be taking a tougher stance
on chronic offenders of the dog leash law,
penalizing them with a $35 fine. The usual
$10 fine will be reserved for first of-
fenders.
At Monday’s City Council meeting,
City Manager Harvey Massey pointed
out that repeat offenders show a lack of
regard for their neighbors.
Massey pointed out that in many cases,
neighbors complain that a dog is running
loose in their yard, but don't want the
offender to know they complained.
Massey said that unless the people who
are complaining give their full
cooperation, “it’s very difficult" to fine
offenders
City Attorney Bob Wilson said there’s
"no deal on Williams Park residents, no
deal on Lynn Addition residents", that
exempts their animals from the leash
law.
Wilson said residents have dogs, cats,
chickens, calves and goats in those
areas, and that those animals will not
bring about a fine unless neighbors
complain.
Several bids were opened for new or
rebuilt transformers for poles from the
Food Hut west of town to the site on
which the new Wal-Mart store is being
constructed. The voltage will be changed
from 4,160 to 7,000 volts on each pole to
allow more voltage for the Wal-Mart
No decision was made as to where the
transformers would be purchased
However, the council did not hesitate to
annex the Wal-Mart site into the city
limits. The area was accepted and added
via a city ordinance, and the site will
become a part of Ward Three.
“There’s no money in the budget right
now,” Massey told the council, regarding
needed improvements on city water
tanks.
Mike Oxford, a field representitive
with Midwest Tank Company of Pitt-
sburg, Kan., examined the 50,000 gallon
tower located at Williams Park, as well
as the two-million gallon ground level
reservoir located nearby.
According to Oxford the tower is rusted
in the interior and is beginning to flake
The tower’s exterior is still in good
condition.
Oxford said he was not familiar with
the type of tanks such as the ground level
one and could not make an accurate
examination, although he said the tank
needs to be cleaned. The last time the
tank was cleaned was in the early 1950’s.
Oxford also examined the tank at the
fairgrounds, which he said was “in sad
condition" and was rusted throughout.
Massey said the tanks will be restored
in the near future, when funds are
available.
The council also approved the cost of
parts and labor for the city’s 1976
Caterpillar bulldozer in the amount of
$2,869.02.
Wells won’t appeal,
will accept prison
ylenol manhunt intensifies
CHICAGO (AP) - Investigators in the
Tylenol poisoning case say they may
have an "extremely significant” clue in
a surveillance photo that may show a
prime suspect watching one of the vic-
tims buying the tainted drug.
The photograph, made public Monday,
was taken by a surveillance camera in a
Chicago drug store where one of the
victims, 35-year-old Paula Prince,
bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol
containing cyanide-tainted capsules.
In the photo. Miss Prince is standing
near a checkout counter in the store. In
the background, looking toward her, is a
bearded man resembling Theodore
Elmer Wilson, who along with his wife,
Leann, was described Monday as a
“prime suspect” in the case. Miss Prince
later died.
Sources close to the investigation, who
declined to be identified, said such a
photo could be the case's first real
homicide clue — an indication the culprit
was interested in its outcome and its
victims.
The couple is the target of a nationwide
search. Authorities say Wilson has used
more than a dozen other names, in-
cluding James W. Lewis and Robert
Phone system planned
tor county courthouse
A new telephone system, which em-
ployees believe will aid the public in
better communication with the Osage
County Courthouse staff, is expected to
be installed there on Dec. 1.
John Lewis, a Southwestern Bell
Telephone representative, came before
the Osage County Board of Com-
missioners Monday at 11:15 a.m.
following the commissioners’ routine
meeting.
The commissioners approved the in-
stallation of the Horizon System, which,
unlike the present system, will be
operated by a switchboard.
According to courthouse employees,
the calls will be transferable from one
department to another, rather than
having the caller hang up and dial a new
number.
Also, the system is able to have per-
sonnel, as many as five at a time, come
on one line to speak with an outside
caller.
In other business, commissioners
approved easements for telephone cable
to be installed in the District 2 area.
Richardson. He was known as Richard-
son in Chicago.
He faces federal charges in a $1 million
extortion plot connected to the killings.
His wife has been charged with using a
fraudulent Social Security number in
applying for a job.
Wilson was indicted in a 1978 murder in
Kansas City, but the charges were
dropped, officials say.
Chicago police Superintendent Richard
J. Brzeczek said today that investigators
have positively identified the woman as
Miss Prince, but that the identification of
the man as Wilson is “very tentative."
Wilson's former landlord, Tom Kline,
said when shown a greatly enlarged copy
of the photo by a television reporter,
“I’m very doubtful it is him.”
Illinois Attorney General Tyrone
Fahner, heading the Tylenol poisoning
task force, said the picture would be an
“extremely significant” clue if the man
in the picture is identified as Wilson.
“If it turns out it is, it's dramatic as
hell, if you put it together with the $1
million extortion letter, the connection to
the murder in Kansas City and the fact
that this guy used 17 aliases,” Fahner
said Monday night.
“It could be a tremendous stroke of
irony that the person (in the pic-
ture) turns out to be Paula Prince and
behind her it turns out to be the man who
salted those capsules,” Fahner said.
Investigators have other photographs
that provide a clearer image of the man
in the published photo, Fahner said.
Experts are using computer techniques
to enhance and enlarge the images, be
said.
“If the photo has Wilson in it, that’s
big, important stuff,” Fahner said. "If it
turns out not to be, we’re right back
where we started."
Earlier Monday, Fahner said in-
vestigators had no direct evidence to link
the couple to the seven deaths, but,
"They are prime suspects at this point in
time by anyone’s definition of what a
suspect is.”
Fahner said the couple was in the
continental United States and "more
than one credible sighting” of them was
reported over the weekend He declined
to say where the couple was seen.
Investigators assume Wilson has
shaved the beard he wore in Chicago,
Fahner said. The attorney general
distributed an airbrushed picture
showing what Wilson would look like
without a beard.
Although former Osage County
Commissioner Charles Wells’ McAlester
attorney, Warren Gotcher, said prior to
Wells’ guilty verdict on Sept. 9 that he
would appeal such a verdict, no appeal
will be made.
Wells' other attorney, Tony Laizure,
also of McAlester, said Wells stated he
now wanted no such appeal. Laizure gave
no explanation for the decision during a
telephone conversation on Monday.
The federal marshall’s office, located
in the Tulsa federal building in which
Wells was tried, could not say what
prison Wells would be taken to until after
he’s taken into custody following his 30-
day grace period.
The marshall’s office did say that
Wells would be eligible for parole after
having served one-third of his three-year
sentence, which would be one year.
Wells was given a three- year sentence
Oct. 15 for the first of ten counts of mail
fraud, and a three year sentence for each
of the other nine counts. Each of the
sentences are to be served concurrently,
resulting in one three-year sentence
Osage County commissioners who
served with Wells prior to his conviction
and suspension, Fred Jordan of District 2
CHARLES WELLS
and Paul Allen of District 3, had “no
comment” Monday regarding the three-
year prison sentence.
Carpenter, Harper,
Strahm win prizes
‘Oktoberfest’ Thursday
"Oktoberfest" begins Thursday
morning at 9 a.m., and, according to
Daphne Wise of the Pawhuska Chamber
of Commerce, about 30 booths have been
rented and more groups are calling for
booths.
Wise said additional groups joining
the festivities include the Pershing Head
Start, which will be decorating the
Triangle Building.
Also, the Bluestem 4-H group will set
up a popcorn stand on the north side of
the Triangle Building.
Wise said a booth has been rented by a
man from Independence, Kan., who will
be offering for sale a variety of
leathercrafts.
Wise added that a booth will be used to
display and sell "old time country ar-
ticles” during Oktoberfest to be held
Thursday through Saturday in the
downtown area.
Lawmakers’ pay hiked
The phantom picker did it to ’em again
Surely by now the Journal-Capital has
achieved an NCAA record-most ties
picked in only seven weeks of nine-game
“grid guess" ballots.
Three Pawhuskans submitted perfect
ballots this week except for the OSU-
Colorado and Missouri-Iowa State tie
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
Legislative Compensation Commission
today boosted the annual salary of the 149
members of the Oklahoma Legislature
from $18,000 to 120.000 for the next two
years.
The action came on a 5-3 vote on a
motion by Tom Rogers of Enid, former
House member. It is an 11.1 percent
increase.
Chairman Joe Jones, president of
Phillips University, had suggested the
82,000 raise as a compromise after
motions for larger increases were turned
down.
Some commission members objected
to giving any increase this year. “For the
life of me, I can’t see any justification for
an increase today,” said the Rev. Robert
Cocke.
Rogers had made a motion to increase
the salary by 13,140, saying that would be
a cost-of-living increase of 17.4 percent,
or 8.7 percent per year, based on the
Labor Department’s Consumer Price
Index.
Jones rejected as "unreasonable”
arguments that no increase should be
granted.
Briefs
CIRCLE MEETS-Naomi Ruth Circle of
the Methodist Church will meet at 2
p m Thursday at the home of Mrs.
Phillip Reed, 1424 Boundary St.
LINLEY RITES-Graveside services
were held today at Pawhuska
Cemetery for William B. Linley, 72, of
Midwest City, who died Friday. He
was a welder at Tinker Air Force Base
until retiring in 1975. He is survived by
his wife, Audra
games For both OSU and Missouri, it
was the second straight week they played
a tie, which is also a bit rare.
Carl Carpenter, 112 East 12th St., came
closest to the tie-breaker so he wins $15.
Oscar Harper, 112 Mosier St., finished
second and won $10.
Sandy Strahm ended up third with a $5
prize By the way, Carpenter and Strahm
had picked OSU and Missouri to win,
while Harper picked Colorado to upset
OSU and Iowa State to beat Missouri.
There were only three ballots picking
Kansas to beat Oklahoma, proving that
area fans haven’t given up on the Sooners
yet.
However, only six entries picked
Pawhuska to beat Skiatook. The Huskies
almost made that minority famous by
coming within two points of an upset
This week’s ballot is on page 2, and the
Harmon Forecast to help guessers is on
page 8.
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