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DAILY JOURNAL-CAPITA
Pawhusha, Osage County, Oklahoma
Tuesday, December 27, 1985 Vol. 74 • No. 255
Sunday 25% Daily 20‘
Pawhuskan
dies of burns
Christmas Day
TEMPORARY HOME GUTTED-Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Sweeden, who Hvo
near Nelagoney, escaped injury in a fire which gutted their temporary home
- a garage - at 10:45 p.m. Sunday, Christmas Day. The Sweedens were
living in me garage preparatory to moving into meir new nome nearby. New
carpeting and furniture, among other items, were destroyed in the blaze.
(Photo by Richard Gibson, Jr.)
Reagan takes blame on slaughter
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Reagan today took responsibility for
permitting 241 U.S. servicemen to
become victims of the Oct. 23 truck-
bombing of a Marine Corps
headquarters building in Beirut.
At a meeting with reporters
shortly before starting a vacation
trip to California, Reagan said local
military commanders should not be
punished for failing to provide
sufficient security because they did
Briefs
NEW YEAR'S EVE-The Pawhuska
Golf and Country Club’s New Year’s
Eve party and dance begins at 9
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, with music
provided by the Urban Alley Band.
The club opens at 7 p.m. for the
event which ends at 1 a.m. Sunday,
Jan. 1, 1984.
Admission is $25 per couple and
reservations are requested.
Temperatures
Bi-houly temperatures courtesy of
City Light Plant.
Monday: Noon 16; 2 p.m. 21; 4
p.m. 20; 6 p.m. 20; 8 p.m. 20; 10 p.m.
19; Midnight 20.
Tuesday: 2 a.m. 21; 4 a.rn. 21; 6
a.m. 21; 8 a.m. 19; 10 a.m. 23.
Decline in oil production
bottoms out, magazine says
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A two-year
decline in world oil production
appears to have bottomed out in
1983, the Oil and Gas Journal
reports.
After declines exceeding 3 million
barrels a day over the past two
years, the Journal reports that
world crude oil flow increased by
67,000 barrels a day this year — or
0.1 percent.
The weekly business magazine, in
its annual report on worldwide
petroleum production, estimates the
1983 average at 53.26 million barrels
a day compared with 53.19 million
barrels a day in 1982.
World production continues to
hover near its lowest level since the
50.8 million barrel a day average
during 1972, the magazine said in its
Dec. 26 edition.
The Journal said while overall
world production is slightly up,
production in non-Communist
countries continues a slow decline —
down 0.4 percent to 38.31 million
barrels a day.
That compares with 38.49 million
barrels a day in 1982 and is the
not fully understand the threat
posed by terrorists.
“If there is to be blame, it should
rest in this office and with this
president,” Reagan said. “I accept
this responsibility."
A report issued last week by the
House Armed Services in-
vestigations subcommittee blamed
all levels of the chain of command
for permitting the lax security. It
particularly singled out Col.
Timothy J. Geraghty, then com-
mander of the Marine peacekeeping
unit, for “serious errors in judgment
in failing to provide better protec-
tion for his troops.”
But, without naming anyone,
Reagan said it was unfair to punish
local commanders for not “fully
comprehending” the threat posed by
terrorists.
Reagan said a report issued by a
Pentagon-appointed commission
noted that by tradition and training,
U.S. military forces have not been
prepared to deal with attacks by
terrorists, “and I heartily agree."
But the president said this should
not compel the United states to pull
out of Lebanon, saying, “the
problem of terrorism will not
disappear if we run from it."
Under questioning, Reagan also
said he did not want the loved ones of
the servicemen killed in the blast to
think that the lives had been given in
lowest level in 13 years, the Tulsa-
based magazine reported. But the
decline of 0.4 percent compares to a
7.5 percent, or 3.11 million barrel a
day, plunge from 1981 to 1982.
Production in the United States
ends the year with an increase of
20,000 barrels a day or 0.2 percent to
8.67 million barrels a day, the
Journal said, mostly as a result of
heavy drilling in 1981 and 1982.
Crude flow from members of the
Organization of Petroleum Ex-
porting Countries was down 6.3
percent to 17.49 million barrels a day
in 1983, the Journal said, reducing
its share of non-Communist output
to 45.6 percent.
In the peak year of 1976, OPEC’s
share of non-Communist production
was 68.8 percent.
Saudi Arabia accounted for most
of the OPEC decline. Its crude flow
was down 1.49 million barrels a day
while the cartel’s total decline
amounted to 1.17 million barrels a
day, the Journal said.
The Journal said crude and
condensate production in Com-
munist areas rose 1.6 percent to
vain.
He also said there were signs that
the Marines “were laying the
foundations for peace" in Lebanon
and said the nation “is on the verge
of national reconciliation.”
The Reagans left Washington and
headed west for their traditional
year-end holiday in Los Angeles and
the desert resort town of Palm
Springs, Calif.
The Reagans, who spent the
Christmas weekend at the White
House with their son and daughter,
had no events on their public
schedule for the 5% days they will be
in California and planned to spend
their time visiting with friends.
However, a decision on one key
issue — continued participation by
the United States in the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization — is due by
the president by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, Reagan’s aides are
continuing to work the fiscal 1985
BEIRUT AIRPORT SHELLED*AGAIN
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Ar-
tillery shells slammed into Beirut
airport near the U.S. Marine base
today, panicking some travelers and
sending the Marines diving into
bunkers.
No casualties were reported at the
airport, but in the port city of Sidon
14.95 million barrels a day.
The Journal said its survey also
revealed:
—World reserves of crude oil and
condensate have declined in 1983 for
the first time in many years. The
total was down 887 million barrels,
or 0.13 percent, to 669.3 billion
barrels.
—World natural gas reserves
were up 176.4 trillion cubic feet to an
all-time high of 3.2 quadrillion cubic
feet. Non-Communist gas reserves
rose 3.4 trillion cubic feet to 1.75
quadrillion cubic feet. A 160 trillion
cubic foot gain in the Soviet Union
pushed the Communist reserves
total to 1.45 quadrillion cubic feet, up
12.6 percent.
—World refining capacity was
down 2.5 percent or 1.93 million
barrels a day to 75.2 million barrels
a day. Non-Communist capacity fell
3.75 percent or 2.26 million barrels a
day to 58 million barrels a day.
Communist capacity rose by 327,000
barrels a day or 1.94 percent to 17.2
million barrels a day.
federal budget, which the president
will send to Congress in early
February.
Reagan was said by aides to have
completed most of the key decisions
on the spending side of the budget,
although tax-related issues are
awaiting final discussion after his
return from California on Jan. 2.
Reagan has said he will not ap-
prove any tax increase in 1984. But,
while his distaste for a tax increase
in 1985 is clear, it is less certain none
will be sought.
“I would assume he would take a
long, hard look at any tax increase
proposal,” White House spokesman
Larry Speakes said recently.
The Reagans’ year-end trip to
Palm Springs has become a
tradition over the past decade. After
spending two days in Los Angeles,
where they will stay in a hotel, they
will fly to the desert resort to be the
guests of Walter and Leonore An-
nenberg.
in southern Lebanon, an Israeli
soldier and three guerrillas were
killed in a shootout after an Israeli
patrol came upon guerrillas who
were laying explosives.
The Marines at the Beirut airport
went on their highest state of alert
because of the shelling. Maj. Dennis
Brooks, a Marines' spokesman, said
it sounded as if three shells hit near
the runway south west of the ter-
minal building.
“Incoming and outgoing
passengers panicked. There was a
stampede from the tarmac for cover
and many just dove on the ground,”
said the airport-based reporter for
the state radio.
BY MORT GLASSNER
An 80-year-old Pawhuska woman burned to death in a fire which occurred
at about 6 p.m. last Sunday, Christmas Day, in the first of five blazes an-
swered by the Pawhuska Fire Department through 6 a.m. today.
Dead is Rachel Holbrook of 310 Midland Street.
According to firemen, Mrs. Holbrook was sitting near an open-face gas
stove when her clothing ignited. She was “heavily wrapped up” at the time
of the fire and had a blanket around her. The woman was seated in a small
chair when she ran a blanket across the front of the open fire. The blanket
ignited and engulfed Mrs. Holbrook in flames.
Mrs. Holbrook’s husband threw water on his wife in an attempt to douse
the fire and then ran across the street where he phoned the Fire Department
and ambulance service.
No property damage was reported in the four-room frame home.
Firemen were at the scene for 20 minutes.
Funeral services for Mrs. Holbrook will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the
Johnson Funeral Home Chapel here, with interment in Pawhuska City
Cemetery.
Mrs. Holbrook was born Sept. 1,1903, in Sugar Grove, Ark., the daughter of
James C. and Martha A. (Scott) Wilkins. She was married to George E
Holbrook on July 15,1963, in Rockwell, Texas. She was a Baptist
Survivors, in addition to the widower of the home here, include four sons,
James Henry Millard, Roy Calvin Millard and William Lloyd Millard, aU of
Pawhuska, and Revis Kenneth Millard of Dardenelle, Arlk.; four daughters,
Chessie Tarketon of Arkansas, Tressie Chronister and Lillia Ann Hastings,
both of DardeneUe, and Anna Bee Masters of Enid; a sister, Della Walker of
Orange Grove, Calif., and a brother, Joe Wilkins of Sugar Grove, Ark.
At 11:15 p.m., also on Christmas Day, firemen received a call for mutual
aid from Shidler volunteer firemen in connection with a fire in a one-story
building which formerly housed a beer parlor.
The building, gutted in the fire of undetermined origin, is located im-
mediately north of the Shidler Review, a weekly newspaper owned by Lu
Horn. She and her two sons live on the second floor of the newspaper
building. One of Mrs. Horn’s sons aroused her from sleep and the three fled
the building without injury.
The structure destroyed is believed to be owned by a Ralston resident.
Pawhuska firemen, half way to the scene, were requested to return after it
was learned that Shidler firefighters had the blaze “under control."' The
Fairfax Fire Department received a call at 10:57p.m. from a police officer in
Shidler, with the request, “Send anything that you have because we’re going
to need it.” Apparently, there was fear at that time the fire would spread
northward.
However, Fairfax firemen were unable to leave their station because the
truck’s engine was frozen.
At 10:45 p.m., again on Christmas Day, firemen extinguished a fire in a
garage occupied by Mr. and Mrs. 0. J. Sweeden near Nelagoney. The couple
was living temporarily in the garage and preparing to move into a new home
adjacent to the garage
A metal flue pipe burned through a single wall in the garage, firemen said.
The Sweedens escaped injury, but new carpeting and furniture, among
other household items, were destroyed in the fire, as well as the garage.
There were no vehicles in the garage at the time of the blaze.
Firemen were on the scene for one hour, 50 minutes.
At 12:55 p.m. Monday, minimal damage was caused to a six-room frame
house at 1705 Big Chief. Firemen said an occupant was using ignited papers
to thaw pipes under the house. The floor then caught fire. Firemen were at
the scene for only 10 minutes.
“Very minimum” damage was caused to a pickup truck at 6 a.m. today in
a fire at 511 East Main. Firemen said a backfire through the carburetor
caused the blaze.
County sales tax?
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An
attorney general’s opinion has
delayed plans at many county
courthouses in Oklahoma to call for
votes on instituting county sales
taxes.
And some officials say the state's
financial problems are threatening
their chances of getting their taxes
EXACT HOW LONG HAN ETHESE
PEOPLE BEEN FIGHTING
HERE ANYWAY?
approved by the voters.
The elections can’t be held until at
least February, Attorney General
Mike Turpen said. The new law that
allows counties to impose the taxes
doesn’t go into effect until 1984, and
there must be a 30-day waiting
period between the day the election
is officially announced and the day
citizens vote
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