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Tuesday, July 16, 1968 OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
Sooner Capsule*
Bartlett Picks
3 for Boards
Police Experimenting
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Gov. Bartlett reappointed a member of the Oklaho-
ma Turnpike Authority Tuesday and announced appoint-
ments to fill vacancies on the alcoholic beverage control
board and the teacher retirement fund board of trustees.
John Kilpatrick of Oklahoma City, a member of ihe
turnpike authority since August, 1959, was reappointed to
a new 8-year term.
Clinton Beard of Bartlesville was named to fill the
remainder of the 7-year term of Archie Stout of W'ewoka
on the ABC board. Stout resigned recently. Beard's term
will expire June 23, 1970.
Bartlett named Mrs. Juanita McDaniel of Oklahoma
City to serve the remainder of a 5-year term on the
board of trustees of the teacher retirement fund. She
succeeds Mrs. Lolia Lovejoy of Norman, who died last
December. Mrs. McDaniel's term will expire in July.
1971.
If Checks Could Jingle ...
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Pay checks city em-
t ployes receive Friday will
i include the salary in-
f .creases that were ap-
proved by the council ef-
fi-fective July 1.
£•; Nate Ross, city finance
;• director, said early ap-
Li.proval of the budget by the
/MMinpfi hue allowed the
council has allowed the
\ pay raises to begin with
jr the first paycheck after
f July 1, rather than August
5, as he had originally pre-
dicted.
\ Ross earlier had said the
first effects of the pay
raise would be on August 5
when employes would get
the extra salary retro ac-
tive to July 1.
Most city employes are
getting a pay increase of a
minimum of in percent of
their former salaries. Only
those whose salaries were
above that proposed in a
new classification plan or
those for whom a 10 per-
cent increase would put
them above their classifi-
cation are receiving less
than the 10 percent.
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Taping a phone message Tuesday at police headquarters is Sgt. Robert
Pierce, while dispatcher Sharon Robinson talks to caller, (limes Staff Photo
by (ieorge Tapscott.)
By Bill George
The hysterical voice of a
woman screams over the
telephone that her son is
trying to kill himself.
She babbles an address
and hangs up.
On the other end of Ihe
line is a police dispatcher
who wants to send scout -
enr officers to her aid. Bui
the frantic caller didn’l
give the dispatcher much
to go on. And if she calls
back — it may be loo late.
Sometime soon, Sgt.
Robert S. Pierce and all
others in the police com-
munications division hope
they’ll have such a call on
tape. Then they can quick-
ly play it back, get the ad-
dress, and have a scoutcar
on its way.
Right now, Pierce, Capt.
Harold Loyd, division com-
mander, and several dis-
patchers are working with
a recorder and taping a
few of the calls that come
in.
"It's something we must
have. It would help us to
especially it
situations.'
community,
emergency
Pierce said.
The officer said most cit-
ies as large as Oklahoma
City are using the record-
ers.
exact time the call comes
in and in most cases the
voices are clear and dis-
tinct.”
give better service to the
OCC Adds 6 Faculty
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Six new faculty mem-
bers have been named to
the Oklahoma Christian
-College faculty for 1968-69,
Dr. Stafford North, dean of
instruction, has an-
nounced.
Terry Johnson, who
holds a doctor's degree
from Southern Methodist
University, will teach
classes in business and so-
cial science. He earned
bachelor’s degrees from
Oklahoma Christian Col-
lege and SMU.
Kenneth Martin, who at-
tended OCC before going
to Abilene Christian Col-
lege for his bachelor's and
master's degrees, will
teach accounting.
Directing the OCC cho-
ral groups will be Allan
Lewis, who received his
bachelor's degree from
Abilene Christian and his
master's from East Texas
State University.
George Mastick will join
the speech department as
drama director. He is a
graduate of Sterling Col-
lege and has a master's
degree from the Universi-
ty of Oklahoma.
Roland Schultz, who has
a bachelor’s from Mankato
State College and a mas-
ter's and Ph.D. from the
University of Iowa, will
teach chemistry.
Instructing classes in
physical education will be
Mrs. Valerie Hampton,
who earned a bachelor’s
degree from Oklahoma
State University.
Libraries
Chalk JJp
Increase
JV'o Candidates Wit ltd ran-
Cleveland Races Set
To Buy or Not to Buy .
The regular meeting of the board of commissioners
of the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority was to
be held Tuesday at the downtown office.
James B. White, executive director of the OCURA,
said several resolutions covering contracts and acquisi-
tions were the main agenda items.
He said acquisition of property on three projects —
the Medical Center, John F. Kennedy and the 1-A down-
town program — were up for discussion.
Peace Corps Tests Set
Four Oklahoma cities
Saturday will be the sites
of tests for Sooners inter-
ested in joining the Peace
Corps.
The tests, which are
non-competitive, are used
to determine an appli-
cant’s general aptitude
and ability.
Peace Corps programs
that begin this fall will uii-
lize persons with back-
grounds in education, agri-
culture, health and com-
munity action to work with
the people of emerging na-
tions in self-help projects.
The placement examina-
tions will be given at 1:30
p.m. Saturday in Room 607
of the Leonhardt Building
in Oklahoma City, in the
Norman and Enid post of-
fices, and in Tulsa’s Fed-
eral Building.
July Getting Wetter
Partly cloudy skies, warmer temperatures and more
thundershowers are predicted for Oklahoma through
: Wednesday, the weather bureau said Tuesday.
Sufficient moisture aloft is expected to cause a few
widely scattered thunderstorms over the west and north
* 7 portions of the state through Wednesday.
Some rain fell overnight across the state. Amounts
ranged from .02 inch at Altus Air Force Base to .48 inch
;7 at Ponca City.
The weather bureau is calling for partly cloudy skies
• and winds gusting up to 20 m.p.h. over most sections.
Overnight lows will range generally in the 70V
! Highs Wednesday will be 88 to 98.
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A 15 percent increase in
book circulation by Oklaho-
ma County Libraries was
chalked up for the fiscal
year 1967-G8. Mrs. Betty Lou
Townley. libraries director
reported Tuesday.
Mrs. Townley said the in-
crease for the year ending
June 30 followed a 30 percent
increase in circulation dur-
ing the 19‘>6-67 fiscal year.
Increase Figured
Total circulation for all
county libraries for the fis-
cal year just ended was
1,626.311 books or more than
200,000 above the previous
year when 1.4 million circu-
lation was hit.
Mrs. Townley said adult
circulation totaled 876,441 — j
a 19.6 percent increase — \
while circulation of chil-
dren’s books reached 759.870
for a 10.7 percent increase.
Trend Reversed
The Main Library re-
versed a downward trend of
several years with a circula-
tion increase of 6 percent for
the year. Circulation there
was 193.637 books for the 12-
month period, ranking that
library third behind the
bookmobile division and
Belle Isle Branch.
Both the bookmobiles and
Belle Isle reported circula-
tion losses of 8 and 16.3 per-
c e n t respectively. Mrs.
Townley attributed this to
the opening of another li-
brary branch.
Circulation Dips
The Warr Acres branch,
which opened last Septem-
ber. circulated 94,642 books
through June 30.
The Capitol Hill branch,
closed for six weeks, had an
11 percent drop in circula-
tion but a new branch in the
south part of lown. Southern
Hills, reported a 51.3 percent
increase. The Village branch
had circulation of 109,937 for
a gain of 74.4 percent.
Totals Given
The circulation totals with
the percentage gain or loss
in parentheses follow:
Bookmobilw - J44.3«3 (4); MM 1*1*
— 242.709 l-t6 3); Main — 193.437 'VO h:
B«1h«n* - 122.0*5 (UP 14.3); Southern
HilU. 120.205 :up 51.3); Village - 109.937
(uo 74.41 Caoi'ol Hill — 104,30* (-11);
Del City _ 99,330 (uo 47.7); M,dw*»t__Clty
NORMAN — None of the 21 candidates
filing for Cleveland County offices with-
drew’ before the 5 p.m. deadline Monday.
Mrs. Vera Burnett, county election
board clerk, also reported no protests
were made. Primary election is August
27.
The passing of Monday's deadline left
seven persons in the race for District 2
commissioner. The county's only Republi-
can candidate, I. A. Spann, will face one
of six Democratic candidates.
Democrats seeking ihe District 2 com-
missioner's office are Leslie L. Chandler,
Hershey L. Craig, Charles E. Duffy. Max
Fischer. Marvin Rollins and Leroy Wheel-
II •
Contesting for District 1 commissioner
are Kenneth Ayers, Emil O. Fox and in-
cumbent C. L. "Jack” Turner. Incumbent.
Augustus E. Berglan and Thomas B. Mor-
ron are seeking the District 3 post.
Challenging incumbent county assessor
Ray W. Isom is John M. Lydick.
Opposing Sheriff C. W. Bill Porter is
Clifford G. Phipps.
Five incumbents drew no opposition:
Mabel Gilmore, county treasurer; Helen
Jansing. county clerk; Dess Burke, court
clerk; Ethel B. Burkett, county superin-
tendent, and E. H. Durkee. county sur-
veyor. ____
"As far as most police
stations are concerned, it s
(the recorder) a new piece
of equipment. However,
military installations have
used the system quite a
while," the sergeant said.
Other benefits derived
from a recorded message
include the documentation
of calls that deal with crit-
ical situations.
"Sometimes we get calls
from persons who jump all
over us for not sending of-
ficers to a certain location.
They said they called an
hour ago and wonder what
the heck is causing the de-
lay.
“We check all dispatch-
ers and ihcy say such a
call never came in. If we
had a recorder we would
know’ for sure if it was us
or the callers that, caused
the delay,” he said.
"We make mistakes just
like anyone else, but in a
few instances, especially
in emergency situations, a
person ihinks someone
else has called the police,
when in reality, we have
not been notified.”
Sgl. Pierce said a re-
corder also would slop
many of the crank calls
dispatchers receive all
hours of the day and night.
"We gel a real bundle of
crazy calls that take up
our time, and if we could
get these callers' voices on
tape, it would help us to
identify them.
"These tapes record the
The sergeant said dis-
patchers know all too well
the voice of one Oklahoma
City woman. She calls 1ft
or 15 times a day, and
screams into the tele-
phone.
"Her problem is some-
thing we can't do anything
about. It's strictly domes-
tic. but I'll guarantee you
she lets us know about it."
Pierce said.
"She uses the dirtiest
language i m a g i n a b 1 e
throughout her loud tirade.
We now have a couple of
her calls on tape."
Pierce said the station is
receiving more calls every
year.
"People call us when
they have no idea who
they really want to talk
with. Sometimes we can
help them, sometimes we
can't."
He said the bulk of calls
involve domestic trouble
and a recorder could docu-
ment just what disposition
was made in each matter.
"A recorder also would
help us when there is an
armed robbery. The vic-
tim would just have to
give us the robber's de-
scription once, and wed
have it ready for transmis-
sion to the officers in the
field."
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Two Oklahoma County filed for office last
slate representatives, E. W. pulled out. forfeiting
Smith and Ray Trent, won't
have to campaign for re-e-
lection this year. Their only
opponents withdrew
the race.
week, M e A 1 e s l e r, Distriet IS;
adults only
Shows: 4:00-1:15-10:15
their
filing fees, before the 5 p.m.
Monday deadline
All of those who withdrew
from were enndidates for state
| representative except Rich-
A total of 12 persons who arrt Wells- Oklahoma City
peace justice, who backed
lout of seeking the Republi-
i c an nomination for corpora-
1 lion commission.
Police
Dogged
George T. O'Neal, Antlers,
District 19; Terry Lee Pow-
ell, Sapulpa, District 30; Don
L. Dycus, Norman, District
44; Robert E. Nathan, Tulsa,
District 71; Doyle C. Scott,
Oklahoma City, Distriet 85;
C. C. Gibson, Oklahoma
City, District 93; Joe Tilly,
Del City, District 94; Myron
E. Brass, Oklahoma City,
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Stev* McQueen
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Trent, both Democrats,
I three other incumbent state
representatives lost their
■ only opponents in the with-
SEATTLE (AP) — Police drawal period,
detective John Dermody gotj Reps. William Skeith (D-
into trouble with a police dog McAlester), Warren Green
In addition to Smith and District 97, and Calvin B.
Lupcr. Oklahoma
trict 98,
City. Dis-
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Monday when the German
shepherd jumped into the
open window of his car while
the officer was away from
the vehicle.
"I tried to coax him out,”
Dermody said. "And when
(R-Tulsa) and Martin Odom
(D-Hitchita) are all assured
re-plection.
Following is a list of the
persons who withdrew from
legislative races:
G. W. Hunter, Checotah,
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that didn't work. I ordered District 15; Stanley R. Cole,
him out. That didn't work ei-
ther. He just curled up a lip
and remained in the bacK
seat like he owned the car.”
Dermody called other po-
licemen to help. They didn't
get anywhere with the
pooch, either. Finally, the
embarrassed police officers
called Humane Society dog I
catchers, who took the police
dog to the pound and called;
its owner.
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j: Two Stabbed in Fight
Two men were stabbed
11 early Tuesday in a parking
lot fight at a southside tav-
ern.
Police said Jackie Bent-
ley Harrison, 28, Jones,
suffered a 14-inch gash in
his stomach and another
wound in the left side, and
Garner Reece Bates. 35, of
2117 SW 47, received cuts
in his arm, side and back
during an argument at the
Keno Club, 3812 S Pennsyl-
vania.
Harrison was in critical
condition following sur-
gery at Mercy Hospital.
Bates was admitted to St.
Anthony Hospital.
Meanwhile, police issued
a bulletin for the arrest of
Lawrence Lee Hallford. 25.
Oklahoma City, in connec-
tion with the stabbing.
Patrons of the club told
police the three men left
the club arguing.
Police said they identi-
fied the third man from
witnesses identification
and a birth certificate left
at the scene.
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