The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1978 318 PAGES OKLAHOMA CITY, OK Fumbles: They Just Happen Nebraska 17 Iowa St 28 Tulsc 27 OU 14 OSU 15 Wichita 13 Penn State. 19 Notre Dame. 31 Missouri 48 N.C. State 10 Tennessee. 14 Kansas 0 Houston 10 Kansas St.

20 Alabama. 31 Texas 7 Colorado 10 LSI! 10 yet. But fumbles come most, often when the hitting is hardest and the action is intense. And that was the situation Saturday as Nebraska beat Oklahoma, 17-M. Hitting was hard.

Action was. intense. And fumbles were crucial. Oklahoma fumbled 10 tim'es and lost the ball six times. If they had fumbled one less time, they'd probably still be.

unbeaten, top ranked in the country and well on the way to a Big Eight title and Orange Bowl appearance. But they lost six But leave us pause in See Page 2, Column 1 Also risky is talking too much about fumbles, testifies Oklahoma fullback Kenny King. That promotes negative thinking. "Fumbles," said King, "are something that just happen." Which is probably the best description Bylloh Hurt Staff Writer LINCOLN, Neb. Fumbles are not funny, not planned, not coached and not un-coached.

But today will come up with that old line about a Sooner-trying to commit' suicide, but he fumbled the gun. Coach Barry Switzer says fumbles are not' a part of the same plan. Yet, they arc a natural result of what Oklahoma does on offense. "Option football is a good offense," philosophized Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, "But it is risky." $ii3iia and Snow PeSt Panhandle 5 Feared Trapped In Rubble of Hotel Avoid Area, Motorists Are Advised By Judy Fossett Old Man Winter's frosty fingers reached into the Oklahoma Panhandle Saturday, covering Cimarron County JOPLIN. Mo.

(AP) The front of vacant nine-story hotel collapsed Saturday, one day before ii was to be demolished with dynamite. Authorities said as many as five workmen were trapped under the rubble. "There was no way they could have escaped," one witness said. "It looked like the ground opened up and let her in. She was just gone.

The cloud of dust looked like an atomic bomb." said Evelyn Maupin, who watched the hotel collapse from an 144 blocks away. Rescue workers using bulldozers and cranes, and some with their bare hands, labored into the night 10 clear wreckage from the 70-ycar-old landmark Connor Hotel in down- town Joplin. Lights were hung from poles to illuminate the area. "It looks lifce a brickyard with steel girders sticking out or it," said police Capt. Don McAfee.

Firemen and police, building company crews and a National Guard construction battalion joined in the effort, slowed by the difficult task of cutting twisted steel beams. Several hundred spectators also got in the way. and police roped off a four-block area. The search was halted twice during the afternoon as workers with sound devices listened for sounds in the rubble, but there was no response to their calls over a bullhorn. Harold McCoy, Joplin public works director, said he scoring threat which had been set up by Basil Bank's recovery of a Nebraska fumble on the NU 13-yard-line.

OU lost six of 10 fumbles in the 17-14 upset at Lincoln on Saturday. The football is jarred loose from University ol Oklahoma quarterback Thomas Lott and bounces toward a Nebraska idelender. Nebraska scooped up the fumble to thwart an OU IRANIAN REBEL LEADER ARRESTED 6th Victim fAmtf ent lot 'Oilf ields, Down County Clerks Having It Tough By Robert B. Allen gerously low," she said. highways with a glaze of ice and giving residents their first snowfall nf the season.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported four weather-related traffic accidents in Cimarron County as motorists contended with sleet-slick roads. One person was seriously injured and four others were treated for minor injuries. A fine mist fell in eastern Panhandle counties during the afternoon as the tern-Storm sweeps Rockies Page 26-A perature stayed just above the freezing mark. But the patrol reported bridges were wot and slick. Boise City resident Jim Brandt said the weather appeared to be warming a little late in the afternoon in Cimarron County, and for a short time the sleet turned to snow flurries.

But the weatherman had more bad news for the area in the form of a travelers' advisory issued for Saturday night and early today. Temperatures in the Panhandle and extreme northwest were to drop into the 20s by early this morning, turning scattered rain-rnll into sleet and some light snow. Motorists were advised to avoid the area. More rain is in the forecast for all of Okla-Sce Page Column 2 million. But officials of the National Iranian Oil said production had risen to 2 "million barrels and was expected to reach between 2.7 and 3 million barrels in the next few days as armed forces technicians moved into the fields.

The order for the military to help get the oil industry back on its feet came after negotiations with the strikers had reached an Impasse. The industry's 37,000 employees are demanding poll! ical concessions including an end to martial law, release of all political prisoners and a return to civilian rule. rejected the Idea of ne-gotiations with, the to defuse the polii crisis. A National Front member said Saturday's Sanjaby news conference was scheduled to announce that opposition politicians would call on the shah to leave the country, paving the way for a provisional government that would hold a referendum on, whether to abolish the monarchy. The oil strike, which began Oct.

31, has deprived Iran of about $G0 million a day in oil revenues. Production had dipped from 6 million barrels a day to 1.5 country to escape harassment by striking Iranian oil workers. Police and soldiers arrested Karim Sanja-by, 71-year-old chief of Iran's major political opposition group, the National Front, at his home as he prepared to hold a news conference. Sanjabyhad returned only Friday to Tehran from Paris, where he had conferred with other Iranian opposition, politicians" and Ayatullah spiritual head of Iran's 32 million Moslem Shiltes, a symbol of the campaign against Shah Mohammad Rev.a Pnhlavi's government. On his return, Sanjaby TEHRAN, Iran (AP) The military government, in a double blow against anti-shah dissident forces, arrested a key political opposition loader Saturday and ordered troops in to work Iran's strike-bound oil fields.

Violence between protesters and the army flared anew in the southern oil-producing region. Witnesses soldiers In the oil city of Ahwaz shot and killed two persons during a brief demonstration. Other reports said American oil workers in the Ahwaz area wore sending their families to Tehran or out of the understood the men had been inside dismantling steel girders in preparation for dynamiting this morning. Police said some men got out safely, but at least three and as many as five were believed trapped. Joe Newman, the president of a bank across the street said he was standing on the roof of his building when the hotel section caved in.

"All of a sudden wo hoard a rumble and looked in that direction. It started like it was just slow motion, but then there was a big rush, and it came tumbling down," said Newman. Newman, who heads an association which had bought the hotel to have it demolished to make way for a public library, said dust from the collapse was so thick he could not see a companion standing two feet away from lilm on the roof. The demolition was under contract to Coy Blagg Wrecking Co. of Tulsa.

Court clerks across rural Oklahoma say they're becoming so disenchanted and disgusted by mounting work loads and delayed salary increases that a few have resigned and others are contemplating quitting their elected jobs. Jean Deaton of Duncan, president of the Oklahoma Court Clerks Association, says unrest among her clerical colleagues is spreading at an alarming rate, prompting some fears that the present clerk system on a county-by-county basis may be abolished in favor of a regional substitute. "We're all understaffed, and many of us are working 10 to 12 hours extra a week without additional pay. Wherever you look, county funds are dan In Love County in southeast Oklahoma, Clair Ann Dula resigned last summer as court clerk after serving less than half of her term, and Omadoll Walker quit last month in Johnston County because of low pay and "constant addition" of more duties and responsibilities. Mayes County Court Clerk Eloise Gist at Pryor, one of more than a dozen such officials who admit seriously considering throwing in the towel, says she is unhappy with a critical situation that saw business in her office jump 20 percent this year.

She said there has-been a constant Increase each year since she first was elected in 1965, but recently was Set; Page 2, Column 7 LOS ANGELES (AP) Another Skid Row found st bbod -t a doa I Sa r-day. in.downtown Los Angeles, police said, the sixth such victim in three weeks. The unidentified body was found at a parking lot at Main and Winston Streets, within the square-mile area where five other men have been found stabbed to death since Oct. 23. Although police are still looking for a link and possible motive among the half dozen deaths, comparisons are being made to the "Skid Row Slasher" killings that claimed the lives of nine men in the winter of 197-1-75.

Man Convicted Orrin Vaughn Greenwood was convicted in 1977 of eight of the earlier ritualistic Skid Row slashings and is serving a life prison sentence. His trial for the ninth murder ended in a mistrial. "There is nothing to say yet about whether there is or isn't a connection (among the six stabbings)." said Capt. Walter Stevenson. Singer Slain In Mansion Old Soldiers Salute With Pride When the Western sun drifts over the Oklahoma City horizon, homeward-bound commuters clog streets for the evening flight home, forfeiting the night to different animals who emerge to claim the dark hours surrendered by most.

Page 33-A You might call them Tom Stood and the seven ncwcomcrs.The eight members of the Oklahoma. delegation to Congress will have a new look in January. Page 31-A From the lime Uavld Boren was a little boy and met Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he wanted to be a U.S. senator.

His time has arrived. Page 35-A Larry Derrybcrr.v' acknowledges that he would be "lesp than honest" if he said he had no interest in political races in two or AW years. But that is far away. Page 27-A Business News Despite the dismal' picture being painted elsewhere, Oklahoma City's housing industry loaders say the outlook for new homes'liere is bright because of stabilizing costs of construction and rising prices of existing homes. Pngc 38-A 34 I "NEW ROCHELLE, M.Y.

(AP) Detectives searched a 10-room Tudor mansion Saturday for clues in the apparent bludgeon slaying of country and 'western singer Linda Scott. Police said the body of Miss Scott, 28, who sang under the stage name was discovered by her two' daughters, Tammy, 10, and Candy, C. A spokesman would not comment on whether a weapon had been found or on the time of death. Police said the woman's body was lying in bed. She had several head wounds.

Miss Scott, a divorcee, had lived in the house with her daughters and her business manager, George Osscrman, since last June. The couple had become engaged to be married the day before the slaying, police said. said Miss Scott returned home late Thursday night from a six-week singing tour in several states. There was no evidence of a struggle and no in-din the. room had been ransacked.

Ity Mlok flliiion Attired in a trim Marine Corps uniform, the old soldier shows off his relics from World War I. "This Is my gas mask," he motioned. "I used to be able to get it on in just seven seconds. 1 doubt if I could do that now." Otto Osburn, 8-1, proudly displays other paraphernalia to all who pass by while waiting Saturday for the annual Veterans Day memorial services to begin in the House of Representatives chambers at the state capitol. The longtime Oklahoma City resident says he can't remember ever missing a Veterans Day memorial service.

"I just wouldn't miss it," he said, explaining he served in "both wars" World War 1 "There surely could be, when you have knife wounds. That's the connection." Officers Work Stevenson said the same investigators has been working on all the cases. He said they have not yet determined whether robbery was involved in any of the earlier deaths. He said robbery was ruled out in Saturday's killing because "someone like that wouldn't have anything to steal." Dempsey said the recent stabbings arc not like the "slasher" murders, in which the victims' throats were cut car-to-ear. -It's a different type Jot assault," said Ste-'fvenson.

"These are S'stabbings and not mutilations." In the Oklohomons Grandma's a real "now" person. Edmond's Viola Thompson leads a busy social life that keeps her going strong despite her 88 years. Obituaries Discussion Page -33-A Editorials 34-A Public Records Otlo Osburn happened yesterday. "I was a doughboy In the first war and served 200 kilometers outside of gay Paree. That was CO years ago See Page 2, Column 1 27-A 17 2S-A Laut Sunday Gallup Poll.

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