The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 51

SATI KDAV OKLMIOM TIMKS February 1979 9 Over Gridiron Roast Review Miskovsky Simmering in bis best law bonk language. with a trio singing. a loser, and sn's Tnnv ni ml MR. VUTKK: Noi only Ihal, t's hilling below the belt. A reporl on the pi'i Tnrmnm-c published in The Oklahoman has Miskovsky once mine screaming foul.

kovjiky. who ultended the per ince, apparently has no quar-ith ihe Gridiron script, which (pointing I Boreal bo I he one Mr PYRON: Giiveinoi nobrulv ill that belie ii fear MISKOVSKY: Wei voter anoints." Il continued thi. (Points whi.spe lo Miskovsky The Oklahoma Citv attornov. a labels him "schnoek" includes longtime polit it-ton, "Arfndy K'milar eferenc-flled a S25 million libsFsttil g'ninSU. l's- The Oklahoma intbHshlngSCo.

Vk, Whiti angers Miskovsky is a para-connection with eatJter OkJatiomSJh. jjjSjj'aph in the newspaper story which and Times edilori.commem.sfcn?; who then renddresscs Boren MISKOVSKY: Now, gov wouldn't be the one to stai bin this fellow Points says the played hy perennial Grid-, Dyer, made it to the tBoi oils) Now MiHicm'sth, Ihe newspaper's Gridijfi By Covey lli-un George Miskovsky once again is complaining he is being Heated uir fairly for his rule in last year's U. S. Senute campaign (luring which he aired allegations by fellow candidate Anthony Points labeling Gov. David Boren a homosexual.

This time Miskovsky is upset about a news story reviewing an Oklahoma City Gridiron skit, which poked fun at the campaign episode. Both Miskovsky and Points were buried in the election by a backlash after Miskovsky called upon Boron to answer the charges. The governor went on to win the Senate seat; Miskovsky went to the courthouse and Points went into hiding. The Gridiron, an annual political spoof staged in conjunction with a meeting of the Oklahoma Press Association, took note of the whole affair during its show last weekend. heard it.

1 thought il was que'i PYRON TO BOREN: You juM oughta ignore il. BOREN: Bin how will ihal link? HOLIDAY: Don't worry about that; George i.s a real schnook. PYRON: (Song). MISKOVSKY: I didn't say ii was GAY LORD (Edward L. Oajiofd, president or OPUBCO am) editor and publisher of The Oklahoman and Times): Your tongue has too many joinis.

MR. VOTER: Oklahoma politics has just reached one of ils lowest i before having t'u an- glocted to make it obvicrtf ih, swer sex-related charges leveled hy Polnls, not Miskovsky. Anthony Points anil the subject of sex inlo the Senate1 'tfeorije Miskovsky, as played by Da- PYRON! (Rob Pyron. Boron's press secretary I Tlml's such a lor-rible lie. it's simply awful.

HOLIDAY (Dave Holiday, Boren aide): You'd better shut up, for it's also unlawful. MISKOVSKY: Fairy late, is it true; is it true. sir. thai you are gay at heart? Fairy lale is it so that "men cause you to glow us Points has vid'Averill." "Ceriainly." Sweeney, "the actors in the Gridiron performance of Feb. 17.

1U79, did not portray George Miskovsky as having made race. The former candidate's lawyer. Everett J. Sweeney, demands a retraction. "I believe the matter in the article herein complained of is not an accurate portrayal of the Gridiron performance and is, in fact, false and defamatory matter," says Swee- nl.s.

'X-reiaieu cnargos against David Af Ihe Mr. Voter dialogu Bore said? ds he Miskovsk "booby pri; HOLIDAY: Stun il Geo that's A script of Ihe Gridiron shows the Miskovsky-I'oints segment began Miskovsky steaming. lowest blow you'i evei'OtjaiL wie li face. Dismissed Police Officers Protest ten ordered to run "private errands for individual members" of the incil. city By Jim Etter BROKEN BOW The fired Broken Bow-chief of police and his top officer filed a protest in district court Friday alleging they were dismissed in part because the black assistant raised the ire of city officials by arresting "prominent white citizens of the community." The action was filed by former Chief Mike Adams and former police Lt.

E.L. "Jack-Hall claiming they were wrongfully terminated and seeking reinstatement, Idabel attorney Gary Brock said. The officers in their petition also allege they were dismissed one day before a collective bargaining meeting police had request ed with city officials and that they were of- ELDERLY INVOLVED Insurance Fraud Probe Expands Associate District Judge Tony Benson set a hearing for Wednesday for city officials to show why the officers should not be reinstated, McCurtain County District Court officials said. Broken Bow City Manager Paul O'Keefe denied allegations involving collective bargaining and declined comment on other charges "until I've seen the petition." He said he had received a letter from the officers requesting the meeting, but that he had replied with a letter stating that the Fraternal Order of Police group was "not recognized as a bargaining unit." "From the city's standpoint, it had nothing to do with it (the firing)," O'Keefe said. O'Keefe said Broken Bow officials will resist reinstating the two offi- Adams and Hall were fired Feb.

15 because of what O'Keefe called "conduct and altitudes" that were "reflecting adversely on the police department, on the city council and the city government." One city council member, Garfield Johnson, said the firing was because some Broken Bow citizens, including Svmbo IC Tel9 many yester- This photograph of Bill Cody's statue which highlights the National Cowboy c' wll. thhe uU B'H stands out on Per- Hall of Fame was taken as fog shrouded the floodlight-lit monument to the Simmon Hill for those traveling ihe trail of Northeast Expressway to see, wild and wooly heritage of Oklahoma and the rest of the West ing Victim Strychnine Defendant Admits Sex With Man's Widow, Says He Wasn't Lover ByMlckHinton The state Insurance Commission is expanding its Investigation of an apparently' ficticious firm, Action Insurance Sales, which has had as many as four agents selling bogus policies to the elderly throughout the state. John Hovey, commission investigator, said Friday elderly residents In three more communities, Cyril, Pauls Valley and Lindsay, have purchased the policies in the past two months. Beckham County officials are holding Tarek Hammncl, an Egyptian national, in connection with a similar case involving an Elk City woman. The retired teacher also had written a check for $42,900, "but an alert bank teller stopped the check before it was cashed," Hovey said.

The fraud scheme apparently has been working out of a post office box number in Chickasha, Hovey said. "From what we can tell now, there wore probably 15 cases involving mostly elderly women," Hovey said. He estimated the fraud scheme may total $50,000. "We want people to report any dealings with Action Insurance Sales agents," the investigator said. "We want people to know that we can help." Persons with any Information are asked to call the state Insurance Commission's legal office in Oklahoma City at521-2746.

The dark-haired, mustachioed defendanl said he never saw any poison during his several visits to the motel after he moved, but admitted Mrs. Yancey told him she had arsenic on hand to kill rats and gophers. The prosecution asked repeatedly if Haynes didn't' consider himself a "ladies' man." He hesitated and then said "I don't want to brag, but I never have any trouble getting a date." The defense rested Us case after calling several relatives of Mrs. Yancey as well as those of the poison victim. lationship wiih Mrs.

Yancey, but insisted she was not jealous. He also uvltl of a visit from the girl while he was drinking beer in an Okcmah club a few hours after Yancey was found dead. He said Debbie was upset because her mother had telephoned him after her husband was found dead instead of first calling Ihe (laughter who was leaching in a local church Bible school. "When she left ihe club." he said, "she turned hack and yelled. 'Thanks for killing my hiir issued elf.

eath Trial Testimony in Poisoning Case when the defense attorney tisked the judge lo strike three of his instructions he had prepared for Ihe jury and one of the possible degrees of punishment. Ciithey had objected to the judge's recom mending a blai ice and a ty jail -semen blank fine. Prosecutii By Robert 11. Allen Staff Writer OKEMA1I Murder defendanl John Jonah Haynes testified Friday he had sex "once or twice" with the wife of a poisoned motel owner, but denied slipping strychnine into the victim's coffee. Hayne's testimony came shortly before the defense abruptly rested its case at late afternoon without calling Norma Jean Yancey, who along with her alleged lover is charged with first-degree murder in ihe June 21, 1978, death of Jerry K.

Yancey. The attorney for the -15-year-old widow. Ron Collier, Hennessey, said his client wasn't in very good shape. "I don't think she could have made it through cross-examination," Collier said. District Judge Jess 1.

Miracle said he hopes to hand the case to the six-man, six-woman jury before noon today. The prosecution in seeking the death penally. The 44-year-old Haynes. a former Okemnh hospital security officer, said he know nothing about any poison that might have boon used to kill Yancey, but said once while he was drinking heavily he engaged in sexual relations with Mrs. Yancy.

Later, on cross-examination, he admitted he might have had sex twice with the woman nt ni home. Under direct examination hy his lawyer, Gary Snow, Holdenvilie. the defendent insisted he was a close friend of the Yanceys and had been a guest at their motel several days last year. He said they had helped him when he was, short of finances but insisted he had never had any role in a conspiracy to kill Yancey. He testified he was a good friend of Mrs.

Yancey, but said he was not having an affair with her. He said he was going with another woman and that "I never told Norma Jean thai 1 loved her and she never showed thai kind of affection for me." Under cross-examination by District Attorney David Young. Haynes denied he had listed a Norma Jean Williams of the Circle Motel as his nearest relative or responsible person when he was hospitalized June 17-18. But Young walked to the witness and handed Haynes a copy of hospital records bearing the defendant's signature. It listed a Norma Jean Williams as the relative or responsible person.

The Yanceys operated the eight-unit molel hero. An autopsy disclosed after Yancey's body was exhumed in July that there were quantities of arsenic and strychnine present, with strychnine Identified as the primary cause of his death, which apparently came after he suffered convulsions and collapsed in the laundry of ihe motel. Haynes refuted that he had ever offered Mrs. Yancey's daughter a new sports car if she would "bump off" her stepfather. He admitted he talked to the lfi-yenr-olii girl in the presence of her mother, but it was she who offered lo get rid of Yancey if she could get a He said he felt the teen-ager, Debbie Williams, was jealous of him because he used the Yancey car on several occassion.

He admit led his regular girrTriend, Wanda Beaver, asked him nboyt his re tcslir By John Clift DURANT Both skies rested Friday in the second-degree manslaughter trial of former exterminator J.D. Jones of Durum. Final arguments were set for Monday. Jones. 28, is charged in the March 1SJ76 deaths of three Durum youngsters who allegedly ate cookies saturated with rat poison lakon from his truck parked at an apartment complex.

Associate District Judge John Allen Phillips II judge overruled a motion for a mistrial by defense attorney G. Wendell Cat hey after the slate rested. He overruled Cathcy again had not identified either a coffee can or square can of poison as ever having been in their possession. Duranl detective Bob Hendrix and Capt. Odell Hondrick both testified to the con-Both sides brought the same witnesses in rebuttal to reiterate their position on this key point in the lesti- Thc elder Jones testified he had never used anything in his 12 to 15 years as an exterminator strong enough to kill a human- He said mostly they use sprays for insects and only used rat bait "when a customer ordered it." ex-wife on March 20, 197C.

Jones testified they arrived at the Garden Villa Apartments at about 11 a.m. and that Tate remained in the truck. About 15 minutes later, he testified, Tale came upstairs and they both left before noon. The state contends Jones was negligent in leaving the poisoned bait cookies in his unattended truck. There was little variance in either state or defense testimony on Ihe time Jones spent at Ihe apartment complex.

However, there was a major difference when both Jones and his father testified they Officials Probe Baby's Death DAVIS Authorities are investigating th.o death of an 8-month-old baby girl who apparently dfed in a car early Friday after her family stopped along 1-35 for the night, officials said. The family had been traveling over several states looking while the father looked for work. The baby. Angel June Kight, apparently died sometime between 1:30 and 7:30 a.m. while the parents, Mr.

and Mrs. James Gary Kight. 32, of Tarrant City, and five other children were sleeping in the car, investigators said. Family members told investigators they stopped on their way from Dallas to Oklahoma City, The engine ran for about two hours while they slept, said Highway Patrol Trooper Roy Rogers. When family members awoke, they could not arouse the baby girl, who had lain on the floor in the front, investigators said.

The child was pronounced dead at Arbuckle Memorial Hospital in 'Sulphur. The body was sent to the state medical examiner so an autopsy could be performed. There were no wounds found on the boby and the death was apparently accidental, officials said. Man Enters Guilty Plea, Gets 10 Years to Life unnecessary speeding tickets. Baby Died Of Exposure ELK CITY A baby boy whose frozen body was found in an Elk City yard Monday was alive when abandoned, police said Friday.

Officers declined to disclose details of their Investigation, but said medical reports indicate the baby died of exposure after being placed in the yard. Police said their investigation indicates the infant's mother is "a juvenile who might have been afraid of her parents or from a broken home." They said they did not know whether the infant's mother or some other person left the baby in the yard. "We're working on the chance that the mother is a juvenile, maybe a lC-year-old. Maybe the kid Is scared and has nobody to talk to," said police officer Gary Woodrow. The nude baby, apparently "full term" but not more than a few days old, was found dead about noon Monday by an Elk City woman while she was walking through her yard.

The body was about six feet inside the yard, which is surrounded by a 4-foot wire fence. ny ended shortly before noon. The defense put both the defendanl and his father. Junior Jones, on the stand in the afternoon. The younger Jones was on the stand only briefly.

Under quest ion-ing by Cathey, he testified he and his employ, ee. Stephen Tate, had gone to Ihe home of his Hart Trial Delay Refused PRYOR AP) A judge refused Friday to ortler a 30-day delay in the first-degree murder trial of Gene l.eroy Hart, leaving the trial scheduled to gel under way March 5. fiarvln Isaacs, Hart's chief defense attorney, hail filed a motion Thursday asking for another delay in the trial to enable defense attorneys to examine confidential investigative reports. Bui District Judge William Whistler denied the motion at a Mayes County District Court hearing Friday afternoon for Hart, charged in Ihe slaylngs of three Tulsa-area Girl Scouts June 13. Whistler also denied Isaacs' motions seeking lo forbid photographing or identification of lurorsin Ihe case.

The judge also refused to block the 900 prospective jurors from viewing media coverage of the pre-trial process, indicating only jurors seleclet for the trial will be shielded from coverage of th trial. Isaacs was successful in obtaining the permission for a psychologist to sit with the de Tense team and participate in questioning of pro spective jurors. Isaacs had asked that Hart's trial be delaye until April 5 because of a possible state Court Criminal Appeals itling next week giving Isaac access to several hundred pages of confident1! invpsltcilivj rmrk WAGONER A 35 year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday In the slaying of a Coweta youth and was sentenced lo 10 years to life Imprisonment. S0B-r Layton Jr. entered his plea after the charge was reduced from first-degree murder.

Layton, who was. charged in the slaying and sexual mutilation of Mickey Lee Foster, 18, was taken to the penal facility at Lexington for processing..