Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 12, 1968 Page: 2 of 20
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2 TUMdiy, Mar. 12, 1M* OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES g g
Cityans Digging Their Way Out of a Snow-Blown Cnsi
___________. ______itihar trafNi' offioer. concentrated on intersections ap- 40 between Tinker Air Force Base and the downtown ""T, bus„ were attempting to f
Shawnee and Sapuipa. Bell added extra operators to
handle a "terrific load" of calls. And the ONG service
department reported only five out of 30 scheduled men
made it to work on time.
Maj. S. W. Stephens, police traffic division com-
mander (who got stuck in his own driveway), said only
10 of the 20 men normally on duty in the morning man-
aged to report on schedule.
other traffic officers concentrated on intersections ap-
proaching hills, where traffic lights were turned off un-
der a standard emergency plan.
The city’s snow ordinance, forbidding parking in the
city's heart, was invoked at 6 p.m. Monday. But the par-
alyzing damage already had been done throughout the
metropolitan area. . „
Interstate highways were especially hard-hit. Sever-
Union Bu, Sutt., «#*
School near NE 63 and Air Depot. booked *Pace for them.
4(1 between Tinker Air Force Base and the downtown
area.
Refugees from 1-40 were shuttled In the snow-filled
dusk to such havens as Carl Albert High School, where
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Free-style ‘-slaloms’ were in vogue Tuesday at Oklahoma City sites like this
oae ia the 460# block of MV 23. (Staff Photo by George Tapsootf.)
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night attempting to rescue
stranded motorists.
Electric power in Clare-
more went off at 9 p.m. Mon-
day and service still had not
been restored Tuesday
morning.
The Public Service Co. in
Tulsa reported all electric
power off in Vinita, Afton,
Jay, Grove, Bernice, Chou-
teau, Strang. Big Cabin, Lo-
cust Grove and Salina.
Howard Cowan, Public
Service vice president, said
crews had been working all
night, but were stymied by
snowdrifts five to six feet
depp. He said trucks became
stalled and bulldozers were
attempting to free them.
Planes Help
Cowan said about 250
workers were on the job
Tuesday. Two planes were in
the air. trying to locate
areas whore lines were out.
Blackout
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Manager William Gill jr.
and W. H. "Pat" O’Bryan.
an Oklahoma City account-
ant. said they expect to be
asked about Stipe s financial
affairs.
Gill said an Internal Reve-
nue Service agent asked him
several months ago to prod-
uce checks issued to Stipe in
connection with the $50 mil-
lion pipeline connecting
; Oklahoma City with Lake
Atoka.
Gill was an official of
' OKATOKA Constructors,
which built the pipeline.
Stipe Was Cmnollant
‘•The only thing it could be
where f would be involved at
* all is that during the Atoka
. pipeline project, we em-
ployed Stipe as a labor rela-
tions consultant when an at-
tempt was being made to un-
ionize parr of the project "
. Gill said.
O'Bryan said he didn't
know what the investigation
concerned, but added, "the
only thing I could have any
knowledge of is that I pre-
pared income tax returns for
Whit Pate over a certain pe-
riod when he was involved in
a partnership with Gene
Storm Havoc
For Hundreds
(Continued From Page l)
Stipe in owning a little build
ing in Oklahoma City.
Pate, a disbarred lawyer,
testified before an Oklahoma
Bar Association investigat-
ing committee three years
ago that he and Stipe shared
a 1150.000 legal fee in con-
nection with the Atoka pipe- hundreds of cars still
line. Stipe flatly denied re-! stalled in and around the
ceiving such a fee. ! city. At Pryor, nearly 100
homa bus with 16 passen-
gers was stalled in a snow-
bank northeast of Chelsea
for several hours. It was
about to run out of gas
when Civil Defense and
highway patrol rescue
units cut a path through
the snow and took the
travelers to a Claremore
cafe.
Police switchboards
were jammed with calls
from anxious relatives re-
porting dozens of persons
missing.
"This part of the country
is paralyzed,” a Vinita po-
liceman said.
A Talala housewife,
about to give birth, tele-
phoned police she was
starting out at 11 p.m. for
a Claremore hospital. 20
miles away down US-169
and S-88.
The roads were closed
with heavy drifts, and the
housewife had not been lo-
cated by mid-day.
Hotels Jammed
Police said relatives and
rescue units could not get
through the snow to search
and were hoping she had
found refuge at a farm
home.
Tulsa reported motels
and hotels jammed and
‘•It’s a matter of getting
trucks and equipment to ihe
scene," he said. "It also de-
nends en whether poles are
broken,"
Power failures also were
reported at Broken Arrow,
Coweta, Haskell and parts of
Muskogee and vicinity.
Oklahoma City’s Oklaho-
J nta Gas and Electric Co.
Tuesday sent two crews to
j restore pow-er in Shawnee
cars were stalled on US-69 jand one crew t0 work on
lines in Sapuipa.
Sun Peeps Through
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says this was a water department paving cut. A tempo-
rary patch has now been placed on it and a permanent
repair will be made in about a week.
Ob Feb. 25, 1966, I borrowed $2,656 from a loan com-
pany. I signed a three-year note for $3,112.26 making the
interest $462.36. Later I decided to pay off the last 14 pay-
ment* at one time, hut I was told I would get only a *50
Interest rebate. 1 feel I am entitled to much more than
thh. L. W. J.
We asked Don Cunningham, assistant district attor-
ney, if he saw a criminal violation here and he said he
did not. Your only recourse appears to be in a cfvil court
of law.
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Thera are same trees belonging to the city In front of
my bouse la the 1166 Meek NW It. How can we get them
trimmed? Mrs. R. G.
Jim Cansler, superintendent of planning, forestry
and maintenance for the city park department, says the
trees do not belong to the city. It will be up to you to
have them trimmed.
Ply *na applied for Gl benefits so be can finish
■chool. Hn has written the Veterans Administration, but
hne not received his money yet. Mrs. C. H. Bagla CKy.
Tim Turnbull, service officer for American Legion
Post No. 35. contacted the VA office in Muskogee and
your son’s check for $130 has now been mailed to him.
north of the city.
At Marlow, county com-
missioners’ pickup trucks
rescued several motorists.
Ambulance Stalled
At Wichita Falls, Texas,
and in neighboring south-
western Oklahoma, dozens
more cars were reported
stalled, including 100 be-
tween Burkbumett and
Wichita Falls. Most of the
motorists were lodged
overnight in private
homes.
Motels also were over-
flowing at Shawnee, but
police reported most
stranded motorists — 100
on 1-40 between Shawnee
and Oklahoma City —
wore staying in their cars.
Police estimated more
than 1.500 cars stranded at
Oklahoma City.
At Okemah an ambu-
lance carrying a heart at-
tack victim was stalled for
several hours.
A Long Trip
At Lawton, a similar
case was reported. An am-
bulance carrying a heart
victim transferred the pa-
tient to a pickup. The pa-
tient then was transferred
to an army 2l ’^-ton truck
and later a highway patrol
unit before making it 13
miles from Cache to a
Lawton hospital.
Two highway patrol
units also wre reported
stuck in five-foot drifts
while trying to rescue mo-
torists. US-62 near Lawton
was jammed with strand-
ed cars and army wreck-
ers from Fort Sill joined
private wreckers in the
painfully-slow job of
freeing them.
A spokesman said ice-cov-
ered lines, blown about by
high winds, knocked togeth-
er, causing the failures.
Oklahoma City reported
an official six fetches, but
stiff winds piled the white
stuff into two and three-foot
drifts in many areas, mostly
outside the perimeter of
downtown.
At mid-morning, the sun
was shining in most of cen-
tral Oklahoma and the
weather bureau said the
snow had ended statewide.
Forecasters said remain-
ing slush and snow will re-
freeze Tuesday night as tem-
peratures dip from 14 in the
north to 26 in the south.
Wednesday's afternoon
temperatures are forecast
from 46 in the east to 65 in
the west.
1,500 Stay at Tinker
Two American Red Cross disaster unit* plied
through the night, serving food at the emergency shelters.
At Tinker, 1,500 workers elected not to try the trip
home and spent the night there. About 100 carloads tried,
but straggled back to the base by midnight.
A base cafeteria remained open all night. Some 180
persons who slept on emergency cots in a service club
were fed at a mess hall Tuesday morning.
Three morning shifis were advised not to report to
work until noon Tuesday.
Anything with a four-wheel drive was pressed into
service at Ihe height of the emergency, including nation-
al guard trucks, jeeps and station wagons.
One ambulance, carrying a pal lent under oxygen
treatment, was stuck nearly an hour on Northwest High-
i way, until someone with a jeep pulled it free.
Rescue Workers Stuck
Another ambulance, also trying to reach Baptist
Hospital, was stymied until a doctor passed by in a sta-
tion wagon.
Lee Carson and Lewis Pope. Edmond funeral direct-
ors. spent the night in a ditch 2‘a miles west of Ed'non
after picking up a deceased man. A city fire truck got
stuck in the rescue attempt, and another unit finally
solved the dilemma about 5 a.irt.
The snow was a special nightmare for long-haul
truck drivers, and a number of big rigs jack-knifed on
arteries surrounding the city.
At one of the city’s biggest truck service stations, a
spokesman said. "We had standing room only - mostly
drivers coming south on US-66 out of Kansas.
Around 25 truckers left at dawn, but 40 to 50 re-
mained at the site in a monumental traffic jam, he said.
Most, city wreckers remained stuck in assorted drifts
Tuesday morning, officials said.
Bus Passengers Stranded
The highway patrol began canvassing service sta-
tions, requesting them to provide chains for wreckers
and to send gasoline and diesel fuel to the vehicles
stalled on 1-40. Many had exhausted fuel in the fantastic
tangles late Monday.
Not only people were stranded. Three trucks loaded
with cattle and hogs were stranded on Northwest High-
way blocking travel between MacArthur and Meridian.
Travel was all but immobilized. Will Rogers World
Airport, where 50 travelers spent the night, wasn t
Carriers Battle Snow
on Ice
News
‘•We’re sorry if you didn't get your newspaper or
get it on time." Helge Holm circulation director
The Oklahoman and Times said Tuesday.
• But in any case, we hope you won t blame it on
vour carrier boys. They did a groat job. under the
L Mo,U Nature «« really •«•»*
us last night and this morning. . k ,-ouldn't
Holm said many paper-carrying ruc^ couWn t
get through a. all las. night. As a result, deliveries
the carriers were late in some instances.
In some areas outside the city, carnets
delivering both The Daily Oklahoman and the Okla-
homa Citv Times when they carry then rou
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soon as it’s humanly possible, Holm pledged.
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1-40 Trip Is Costly
An Oklahoma City man. The jury agreed unant-
mous v on hp stiff punish-
ho entered an extt ramp ^ only nme ju-
and traveled the wrong wa>[rors (,an convict a defendant1
along 1-40 last February 4 and assess his punishmentOn
must spend six months in | such misdemeanor cases,
jail for the trip. , The 12 also ordered Trippt
James B. Tripp. 42. of 2469 ,0 pay a $25 fine, and this
NW 39 was found guilty of was added to the jail
drunken driving by a com- The jurors deliberated 45
' mon pleas court jury.
minutes.
4 Men Jailed
In Sex Crimes
MUSKOGEE (AP) — Four
men were in jail at Musko-
gee Tuesday as officers in-
vestigated a series of re-
ports of alleged sex crimes
in the Muskogee area.
An 18-year-old girl told of-
ficers she was seized on a
Muskogee street Sunday
night by two young men who
forced her into a car and
drove into Wagoner County
where she was assaulted.
Earlier, an elderly Musko-
gee woman said a man as-
saulted her in her home aft-
er binding her with strips of
a towel.
Housing Code
Violator Jailed
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
landlord convicted of leaving
tenants in his 16-unit apart-
ment without heat, hot water
and e 1 e c t r i c i t y for two
months this winter was sen-
tenced to 10 days in jail
Monday.
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