The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 11

THE DAILY OKLAHOMANTIMES Thursday. June 28. 1984 11 Edwards Uses House TV Time to Appeal for Lost City Girl state Briefs From SlBtf and Wire Reports Found Near Edmond Body He urged anyone with information to contact the Oklahoma City Police Department. Edwards encouraged other House members to use the same device to find missing children from their areas, and 45 have expressed interest, he said. He is coordinating his efforts with the federally funded National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

He said he plans to make a similar presentation soon for Cinda Pallett and for children from Florida, Kentucky and San Francisco. He knows of no other missing children from Oklahoma at this time, he said. He made the appeal for Charlotte without contacting her parents. Edwards told the television audience, "Our lob will not be completed until all of the 160,000 children who are reported kidnapped each year are located and returned home." Oklahoma City Police Department Missing Persons Detective Ray Lira said the two girls are the only ones on the Oklahoma City missing children list. "We get information (relating to the two girls) about every day," he said, "but thus far nothing has panned out." Lira said it is after such programs as "Adam" and the Edwards' appeal that numerous calls are received.

Edwards said he is devoting the current issue of his regular newsletter to the missing children location effort. By Allan Cromley Washington Bureau In what Is believed to be the first use of televised House proceedings to, find a missing person, Rep. Mickey Edwards sought the whereabouts Wednesday of an Oklahoma City girl who was last seen at the State Fair of Oklahoma in September, 1981. During a House period designated for one-minute speeches about any subject of the rtsembcrs choosing, Edwards displayed a photo of Charlotte June Kinsey, who disappeared with another 13-year-old, Cinda L. Pallett.

Neither has been seen since, despite one of the most extensive investigations In the history of the Oklahoma City Police Depart ment. Both girls were among 55 missing children whose photos were shown during an attention-getting NBC network broadcast last October about two parents' search for their missing 6-year-old son, Adam, after whom the show was named. House proceedings are carried live by C-SPAN, the public affairs network, that claims to reach 17 million viewers across the country, including 100,000 in Edwards' district and 300,000 throughout the state. Edwards displayed a large photo of Charlotte and said that at the time of her disappearance she was 5 feet tall, 95 pounds, had blue-grey eyes and blond, shoulder-length hair. EDMOND The nude body of a man was found Wednesday in a field in rural north Edmond, a police spokesman said.

Sgt. Kerry Russi said the body of a white male about 25 to 30 years old, was found about noon in a field a half-mile north of Covell Road, on Santa Fe. The man was about 5-feet-10, 160 pounds, with reddish, orange hair, the spokesman said. Investigators were checking area missing persons reports in an attempt to identify the body. 2 Killed in State Accidents A Porter man and a Texas man were killed Wednesday in separate car accidents on Oklahoma highways, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Jack C. Knapp White, 61, of Porter, was killed in a three-vehicle accident on U.S. 69 and SH 51 in Wag-, oner County, the troopers said. Lloyd M. Lauritzen, 66, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was killed after he hit a dump truck half a mile east; of Interstate 35 on the Cimarron Turnpike in Noble County, the patrol said.

Rotary Club Installs President Jim Henderson, owner of JH Development a commercial real estate development firm, was installed Tuesday as president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City for the upcoming year, which begins July 1. Henderson, who lives in Bethany, served this year as the club's vice president. He succeeds outgoing president Oscar Heuser. English Plans Re-Election Bid For Sixth Term By Allan Cromley i Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Rep. Glenn English, Cordell Democratannounced Wednesday that he will seek election to a sixth term in Congress.

He is the second senior member of the Oklahoma congressional delegation. Rep. James R. Jones, Tulsa Democrat, is seeking his seventh term. English, 43, represents the sprawling Sixth District, which reaches from Oklahoma City to the far tjp of the Panhandle.

He has listened closely to constituents in his gen Purcell Clerk Faces Trial PURCELL City Clerk Mary Ellen Summers has been bound over for trial here on two embezzlement charges, McClain County district court offi-' cials said Wednesday. Mrs. Summers, who was suspended from her job in April, will be arraigned on July 16. She was or-, dered to stand trial Tuesday after a two-day pre--liminary hearing. The embezzlement counts against Mrs.

Summers stem from her son, Leslie's, city insurance. Witness-'. es testified that Leslie Summers' name appeared on; the insurance rolls even though he no longer': worked for the city. In one charge, embezzlement by a public Mrs. Summers is accused of embezzling $75,402.42 from the administrator of the city's insurance policy for her former daughter-in-law's medical bills.

The woman was never carried on the insurance as Summers' dependent, and Summers did not for the city when the claims were made. The second charge, embezzlement by trustee, accuses Mrs. Summers of using $504.92 in city funds to pay her son's insurance premiums for three months after he left his city job. Staff Photo by Joe Miller erally conservative district, and has piled up a voting record that sometimes puts their wishes over his own. He was labeled a member of the "boll weevil" faction that supported several important administration programs during the early Reagan administration.

In comparison with other Democratic House members from Oklahoma, he is usually ranked as the most conservative by special interest organizations that produce vote rating charts. He once worked for the highly liberal Democratic majority of the California legislature, but has often voted against the Democratic Party leadership in the House when it conflicted with sentiment back home. As a result, he lost a chairmanship of the Government Operations Committee to a Connecticut Democrat but later recouped by obtaining the chairmanship of the subcommittee on government information, justice and agriculture. In that job he has crusaded for stronger measures against importation of drugs into the United States and sided with the news media against Reagan administration efforts to weaken the Freedom of Information Act. His stance won him praise from consumer advocate Ralph Nader, which he did not go out of his way to advertise in his district.

As a member of the Agriculture Committee, he has been a cheerleader for his many farmers, departing from support of Reagan administration programs to fight for higher farm subsidies. He voted for the Reagan budget cuts in 1981, and was a force for decontrol of natural gas. He has not had dangerous opposition for re-election since he toppled Republican incumbent John N. Happy Camp, Waukomis banker, in 1974. In the Reagan landslide of 1980, Democrat English received 65 percent of the vote for re-election while Republican Reagan was receiving 64 percent in English's district.

English said that 1985 "promises to be a busy and important year as Congress undertakes the task of passing a new farm program." He said that agriculture is and always was "the cornerstone of Oklahoma's economy." He co-sponsored and voted for the amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would have required a balanced budget. He is a native of Cordell and graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University at Weather-ford. His wife, the former Jan Pangle, grew up in Del City. They have two children, Johnny, 11, and Tyler Janene, 7.

Dog Day Afternoon 'Tasrta' discovers one of the cooler spots under a table and in the shade at Lake Hefner Wednesday. Running Again Ex-Senate Leader Seeks House Seat Promotion Announced by DHS Danny Fitzgerald, administrator of the Depart-, ment of Human Services office in Carter County, has been promoted to assistant director of field operations within the department, officials said. Fitzgerald will assume the position on July 1 when the current acting assistant director, Amanda Rognas, retires. Mrs. Rognas has been with the department for 30 years.

Fitzgerald has been with the department since 1 970, serving as a social worker, a case worker and then county administrator. Fitzgerald's salary will be increased from $29,300 to $46,700. York Appoints Reform Panel Senate President Pro Tempore Marvin York appointed a seven-member committee Wednesday to make recommendations by Dec. 15 on reform in state government. The committee will be chaired by Sen.

Bill Dawson, D-Seminole. Other members will be Sens. Ber-nest Cain, D-Oklahoma City, Bob Cullison, D-Skia-took; Herb Rozell, D-Tahlequah; Bernice Shedrick, D-Stillwater; Stratton Taylor, D-Claremore, and Tim Leonard, R-Beaver. In a letter to Dawson, York said he was defining the term, reform, broadly, meaning any changes in state policies, procedures, management or law that would: Eliminate improper, duplicate or unnecessary state activities and their costs, based on either non-achievement of goals or on the relative lack of merit in program goals. Cut costs of existing state services or activities without jeopardizing essential public services.

Reshape, add or substitute activities and goals that can meet public needs more efficiently. "My strong preference is to focus on the practical ideas immediately," York said. This would include those things which could be done in the next two years, he said. The second purpose of this committee is to deal with the immediate, critical budget problems facing Oklahoma, including how to deal with a projected $110 million loss when the extra penny state sales tax expires Dec. 31, 1985, he said.

ment was adopted by a vote of the people in 1975. "Serving in the House is just as important as serving in the Senate, since it's all a part of the political process," Hamilton said. "If people elect me to the House, it would serve as an opportunity for me to rekindle my political career, and this new challenge is something I look forward to." So far, only one other person, Walter Carmack, a Poteau Democrat, has announced as a candidate for the House District 3 post. Hamilton and his wife, Nancy, live on a ranch north of Heavener. Their daughter, Melissa, is a junior at Heavener High School, and their son, Lance, is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and will enter the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine this fall.

By John Greiner Former Senate leader Jim Hamilton announced Wednesday he will seek election to the Oklahoma House of Representatives' post being vacated by Majority Leader Mick Thompson. Hamilton, a Poteau attorney who lives north of Heavener, will be running for House District 3 which covers most of northern LeFlore County. "Losing Mick Thompson is a blow to LeFlore County and eastern Oklahoma," Hamilton, said. The possibility of Hamilton making a bid to return to the Oklahoma Legislature was raised last week when Thompson announced he wouldn't seek another term in the House. "I was completely caught off guard by the surprise announcement that he was stepping down, and I'm totally unprepared for a campaign," Hamilton I've had a lot of contacts and calls in the last few days, which lead me to believe that we can be successful." Hamilton, a 48-year-old Democrat, served in the state Senate from 1967 to 1976.

He was the Senate President Pro Tempore during the 1973 and 1974 sessions. He was elected to the Senate in a special election held after the death of his father, Sen. Clem Hamilton. He resigned from the Senate in 1976 in the middle of his term. He later was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S.

Senate. Hamilton was one of the principal authors of a constitutional amendment to refine and make more conservative the system of estimating revenue available for legislative appropriation. That amend State's Reviving Economy Could Falter, OSU Expert Says 13 percent could cut short the state's recovery, he said. "Interest rates play such an important role in the construction area and all kinds of investment," Ireland said. "Right now we're in the time period where we're needing to see growth in manufacturing, new industry, new investment and that could have a very said Dr.

Tim Ireland. "Timing is so crucial here because we're just recovering now and so much of this could hit us and snuff it out." All Indications are that Oklahoma, which was late to feel the recession, now is catching up with the rest of the nation and beginning to show economic growth. But last week's increase of the prime lending rate to By Michael McNntt Enid Boreao ENID Oklahoma's rekindled economy could be smothered by a faster than expected increase in the national prime interest rate, an Oklahoma State University economist warned here Wednesday. "It could slow things down substantially," major impact, so we're very concerned." Oklahoma's real growth for the 1984 fiscal year that ends this week should show a 3.1 percent increase. The state's unemployment rate, which at one time was four percentage points below the national average, will close theyear at 7.1 percent.

Ireland said. Wartime Ace's Dream Comes True: Ada Air Museum to Open With Show ron of World War II trainers and artillery spotter planes such as the Piper L-4 Grasshopper and the two-winged Boeing PT-17 Kaydet, also known as the Stearman. Among the post-war planes in the collection is a sporty 1951 Grumman Albatross flying boat. The hangar in Ada also is home for a 1933 Lockheed Vega, the famous plywood mono-coque design, one of which was called the Winnie Mae by Wiley Post. Monocoque means the outer skin of the craft carries all or a major part of the stress.

The oldest plane in the museum is a re-verse-engined 1931 Curtiss-Wright Pusher. "Every one of the planes is flyable," said Donnie Canfield, the museum's director of maintenance, "except for a Stinson Gullwing. But we have one just like it that will fly Canfield and a crew of two aircraft mechanics have been working for four months to get the planes ready. "I worked around the airports in Oklahoma City for 20 years before I started this job," he said. "Some of the planes were flown in on a ferry certificate, good for one trip only.

"But we've got them all certified as flyable now." Pilots from Ada. Oklahoma City and Norman have "adopted" some of the planes, meaning that they maintain them and also fly them in air shows, he said. "Spare parts for the World War II planes are pretty plentiful. Mr. Thomas bought spare parts with the planes from the former owners whenever he could," Canfield continued.

"But some like the 1948 Luscombe and the Fairchilds and the Stinsons are hard to find parts for. We've either had to build parts or take the project to someone else to make a part." Planes which were all the rage in their day now seem limited. "The Curtiss-Wright Pusher is strictly a 4C mph plane," Canfield said. "The guy who flew it up from San Antonio said it was an eight hour trip. "Then there wasn't another pilot available so Mr.

Thomas flew up to Spokane, tc bring back the Fairchild 24 (a 1936 Army util ity plane). He was 21 hours in the air on th( way back to Ada." The planes will be on ground display start ing at 9 a.m. Saturday. Antique and bomebuil planes will fly by from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The Confederate Air Force and the muse urn's own planes will participate in a Worl War military airpowcr demonstration fror 2 p.m. lo 4 p.m. By James Johnson Aircraft mechanics are putting the finishing touches on planes in the Mid America Air Group Flying Museum in Ada in preparation for the museum's opening day and air show Saturday. All but one of the 38 planes in Oklahoma's only flying museum will be joined by Confederate Air Force planes from World War II and by antique planes for the day-long show which opens at 9 a.m. The museum is the culmination of the long-nurtured plan of Oklahoma City businessman Tom A.

Thomas, who spent years collecting the planes which he formerly kept scattered at airports around Oklahoma. The planes now have been moved to their new quarters at Ada from which they will be flying a couple of air shows per month in Oklahoma and nearby states. Thomas, a World War fighter ace, returned to the family concrete business after the war and retained his skill in the cockpit both as a reservist and as a civilian flier. Among the planes in the new museum are an old Aeronca the first plane Thomas owned and the Piper J-3 Cub in which he soloed in 1940. Another plane in the museum dear to the owner's heart is the Aero Commander which Thomas flew to Casablanca two years ago.

The flight commemorated his landing there as a fighter pilot 40 years earlier during the World War invasion of North Africa. World War II combat planes are well-represented in Thomas' museum by a North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport and a 1944 Grumman TBM Avenger, to name a few. Thomas also has assembled a short squad.