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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 58

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Oklahomans Beginning Energy-Saving Actions marked Oklahoma's progress throughout the state's GO-ycar history, we are switching off this part of the celebration." At Lawton, thermostats in city and Commanchc County buildings were ordered set at GS degrees in the daytime and at 60 degrees i weekends and holidays. The city also directed that no electric heaters be used except in an extreme emergency, and that electric lights be turned off when not Downtown Lawton stores agreed to close at p.m., instead of the normal p.m., during the Christmas shopping season. In Stillwater, the city got four bicycles out of the police property room and put them at city hall for city employees to use on errands in the downtown area. Drivers also were told to obey the 50 m.p.h. speed limit and to pool trips to Oklahoma City in city cars.

City a ji a Allan Bates of Nowata said ther set our thermostats at 68 degrees "Security officers will make their rounds earlier and turn off any lights that might have been left on inadvertently. College-owned vehicles will be restricted to the 50 m.p.h. speed limit." Weatherford City Business Administrator George Wilkinson said the city had directed the "curtailment of all unnecessary use of vehicles, cutting the speeds and cutting off lights wherever possible. mostats would be turned down to 68 degrees in city offices. He said Nowata also will put out fewer Christmas lights this year.

Bates also urged commuters to join car pools. At Southwestern State College in Weatherford, President Al Harris said all lights would be turned off "whenever and wherever possible." He said the college also would decrease the length of time the boilers are kept on. "Where possible, we will buildings and reduced lighting and possible reduced gasoline consumption by 15 per ccht for all citv departments. In Oklaho a City, meanwhile, plans for the nighttime lighting of all downtown buildinps on statehood day Nov. 16 were cancelled.

Jim Dennen, chairman of Die Oklahoma Statehood Day Committee, said there was enough energy to have the lighting, "But in the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that has fer employees 25-rido bus passes at reduced prices. The City Commission ordered drivers of city vehicles not to exceed 50 miles an hour except in emergencies. The commission also asked for reports within two weeks on other possible conservation measures including possible lowered speed limits on streets and expressways, offering preferred parking space in the city underground lot to drivers of car pools, lower temperatures in all city was turned off in the offices and the temperature in its large warehouse is being lowered to the GS degree level requested by President Nixon. Utiea Square Shopping Center will reduce the number of hours and days of its Christmas lighting displav 1o save usage by 25 per cent for that purpose. On the transportation front.

Fred Gillam, acting director of the Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority, reported several firms are offering or plan to of TULSA (AP) New erects of President Nixon's tleu- for reducing use of mergy appeared Friday in Tulsa and oilier areas of Dklahoma. Oral Roberts University announced that tcmpcra-itres of water in the honing swimming lools and for domestic use ire being lowered. The injversity, which reduccil lighting a month ago, topes to cut its gas consumption by 5 per cent, nnnoxincod the lot water heating system Seen Mideast Scene nger Rat Poison Jail Escapees Field Trip Set By Rep. Jones He's Appointed To House Unit On Israeli Aid Group Will Visit Both Sides, May See Front Lines KyJcff Uolladay "So you had a rat problem. You bought some rat poison.

You used it. Then you put it up. did vou? If you didn't, you may bear the responsibility for tne poisoning of vour own child. It happens dozens of times every year because of careless parents, a state Health Department pesticide safety officer cautioned Friday. "If you have to use a rat poison around your house, use, the anti-coagulant type-not the arsenic or phospno-rousbase type," warned Robert L.

McAlistor also urged parents to put up fertilizers, pesticides and other toxic matters that they may have set in their garages but not put out of the reach of children. "It is not going to be long before many mothers are going to want their children to play in the garage, he said. "But often, during the summer, some of these toxic items have been placed in the garage but not properly stbred out of the reach of children." children rarely die from ingesting rat poison, it. 'is one of the most common types of poisonings, McAlistor noted. "Rat poison probably contributes to as many hurried trips to the emergency room as anything else for children." he said.

"We have a dozen or so every year in Oklahoma City, and of course we have dozens more throughout the state." deadly nre pesticides and fertilizers. Chemical sprays (pesticides or insecticides) or fertilizer should never ho left out where a child can get into them, generally, the youngsters who ingest poison are apt to bo little boys under 5 years of age," he said. "Generally, they are playing around ihe house, in particular the garage, when these things happen." McAlister suggested other alternatives than rat poison be tried if a family with small children has a rodent problem. stripping and tightening up places where rodents can enter one method, he said. Many grocery and retail stores carry both kinds of rat So the burden of making the distinction falls on rtie buyer.

A clerk or store manager can usually help a user to find out if the rat poison he wants is an anti-coagulant or an arsenic- compound. the arsenic compounds are clearly labeled as containing arsenic. Paneling on a bottle warns the buyer that it is not to be used in or stored around a house only around barns and industrial areas, McAlistor said. lie said the problem of children eating rat poison was more prevalant in lower socio-economic groups and often resulted because the families could not afford better Man Found Guilty of Rape Garriott Making Quick Enid Trip ENID Native son and astronaut Dr. Owen K.

Garriott Jr. will zip into town next Thursday for a busy one-day round of activities, including the presentation of an honorary doctorate of science degree from Phillips University. Garriott is a 191S graduate of Enid High School, his wife is also a native of Enid and his parents still live here. Ho is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and received his doctorate from Stanford University, where he once was a faculty member. The astronaut's day will begin with a breakfast hosted by Phillips University President Dr.

Thomas E. Brocc and attended by persons who will be participating in the day's events. He will be conferred the honorary doctorate at 10:45 a.m. Thursday in Briggs Auditorium on the Phillips University campus. Garriott will then be honored at a luncheon at Vance Air Force Base before speaking to a science seminar for students during the afternoon at the Enid Public Library.

In the evening, a special visual presentation of his flight aboard Skylab 2 will be given. It will be folowed with a brief cpjestion-and-answer session. Larry Gis'n, Siillwaror city manager, shows one of the four bicycles available to city employees for short errands to Max Hanson, a member of the city planning commission. AP Wirephoto! Bigger o-Tech Budgets Asked Bv Charlotte Gav PAWHUSKA Charges of robbery by force were filed Friday against Jour Osage County prisoners who escaped from the county jail Thursday. Three escapees were captured late Thursday.

The fourth was picked up without resistance early Friday as he attempted to hitch a ride, officers said. A spokesman for the district attorney's office said the charges were filed against the four for taking a deputy's gun, billfold and other personal possessions during the mid-morning escape. Authorities were still investigating the shooting of former Pawhuska police chief Frank Hoskctt, apparently by one of three after the escape. Other Counts Due '1 1 be other charges filed," the spokesman said. The three inmates, identified as Tommy Lee Benson.

21, Tulsa; Billy Gene Marshall, 19, Claremore; and Roy James Frye, 22, also of Claremore; split with Kenneth Robertson, 23, of Fairfax, before the shooting occurred, police said. Heskett, 69, was shot in the right eye at his homo. Hospital personnel at St. John's Hospital in Tulsa said the retired lawman was in fair condition. Meanwhile Friday, the search for three escapees from the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at Hutchinson was called off in the Terlton area in Pawnee County.

Roadblocks Hcmoveil The highway patrol said roadblocks in the area had been removed as well as a large contingent of officers searching for the throe. Three men fitting the descriptions of the Kansas escapees were spotted in a pasture Thursday in the Terlton area. The three escapees, identified as George Gene Van Bebcr, 34; Carl Lcc Bergeron, 2L; and his brother, Willie James Bergeron, 20, broke out of the reformatory Sunday. They abducted a woman after their escape and drove to near Pawhuska where they released their hostage, officers said. A search for two escapees from the Eastern State Hospital at Vinita also con-tinned in northeastern Oklahoma Friday.

Airline Requests WASHINGTON (AP) -Pan American World Airways asked the Civil Aeronautics Board on Friday to let It carry its charier passengers on 1 a 1 scheduled flights for the next three months because of Ihe fuel shortage. Back Car Tax Reported in Works By a Staff STILLWATER Regents for Oklahoma Colleges were told Friday night that educational budgets will have to be expanded because more students today are enrolling in vocational-technical programs. In appealing for assistance for increased funds, President I). D. Creech of Northeastern Oklahoma College at Miami said the vo-tcch courses are more expensive than most of the academic programs.

Creech said that with about 50 per cent of the students on his campus now enrolled in vo-tcch programs, he has asked the State Regent for Higher Education to up his dict against James Jett, accused of assaulting two teen-aged girls last Labor Day. The jury recommended a 20-year sentence, Formal sentencing is scheduled before Dist. Judge Donald Powers at It) a.m. Nov. 27.

'SHAWNEE A guilty verdict was returned by a jury hero Friday in the trial ot a Pottawatomie County man charged with first-degree rape. The jury of six men and 'six women deliberated a )')Ulc more than hours before returning their ver Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Tulsa Rep. James R. Jones will go to the Middle Fast next week with a congressional subcommittee studying requests for more aid to Israel. Jones, a member of the ouse Armed Services Committee, was appointed Friday by Armed Services Committee Chairman F.

Edward Hcbert, to a special subcommittee on Middle East legislation. The group will leave Nov. 16 and return Nov. 21. They will visit both Egypt and Israel and Jones said, "I have been led to believe we will bo able to move around the front lines and visit with military and political leaders." Attitudes on Fncrgy "It will be a fact-finding tour to determine the military hardware needs of Israel and the altitude of the two sides to the recent dip-1 a i moves," Jones said.

"Personally, I'm going to try to find out the Arabs' future attitude on energy supplies." "I'm going with an open mind. I think it's important that wo do whatever is necessary to create a stable situation in the Middle East and to guarantee the national integrity of Israel," Jones said, "It's obvious some sort of aid is necessary to Israel," Jones said, but he was not sure how much or what kind. Look-See' Wanted The chairman of the special subcommittee, Rep. Samuel Stratton, said Friday that the subcommittee will determine "the general state of out-own equipment, how our weapons have performed and how our airlift performed. "We want to have a look-see at the military situation, and find out how it's going.

The whole question of rcsupplying of Israel is a matter for the armed services committee. 'We Need to Know' "There have been stories recently about possible requests for increases In our defense budget as a result of the Middle East war. We need to know what's happening," Stratton said. The administration has asked for $2,2 billion to cover military aid to Israel, and may ask for more. It will bo the first overseas trip for Jones since entering Congress, although ho went to 40 countries when he was an aide to former president Lyn don Johnson.

benefits would be derived over the next few critical years." Richard Hess, director of communications for the Interstate Oil a Commission, issued a statement Friday clarifying the retroactive angle. W. Timothy Dowd, executive secretary of the commission, is a co-chairman of the conservation committee. He was out of town Friday. "This foe should not be retroactive," Hess said in the statement, "and should affect only those automobiles purchased after this recommendation is adopted, if and when it is adopted." It presumably 1 have to bo adopted by the legislature.

The present system of taxing automobiles is based entirely on the man-u fncturor's delivered price. The initial registration fee staris at $15 ioi- a vehicle on which the delivered price is 5G00 or up. It goes up for each $100 in excess of the $G00. Nobody is proposing a retroactive policy of taxing intended to encourage the use of more economical automobiles, a spokesman for the energy conservation committee said Friday. That point seems to he getting more public attention than any other raised in suggestions made Thursday to the Oklahoma Energy Advisory Council.

The spokesman said the suggestion was general in nature and no figures were available on suggested schedules, effects on tax income or other factors. Neither did the suggestion recommend whether the now fee policy would bo effective only at the time a new automobile was purchased or on a continuing basis, The suggestion said in its entirety: "Using progressive taxation (registration fees) as a moans io encourage (ho use of smaller, more effi-c I automobiles. The greatest effect would be more long term, but some t3 Writer budget more than SI million for 1974-75. Northeaslern's 1973-74 budget represented S2.1 million compared to the new request of more than S3.1 million. Dr.

Creech said the new budget proposal did not include funds available from special vocational-technical education programs. At the present, a new formula for the allocation of funds is being developed by state regents. In the future, funds are expected to be awarded on the basis of programs offered by the college. Before adjourning their lengthy meeting, the College regents gave approval to affirmative action programs introduced by Connors State College at Warner and Panhandle State College at Goodwell. Both schools said they were making attempts to push employment a i that are non-discriminatory.

Presidents of the two colleges said the basic intent of their plans is to pursue employment practices with equal, treatment regardless of race, creed, color or sex. The second phase of a campus master plan for Cameron College also received approval at Friday's meeting. President Don said the first six priorities have boon approved by stale regents, amounting to more than $525,000. He said $140,379 will go for instructional equipment on Ihe Lawton campus with the remaining money to be used for renovation of several existing structures, Including both the biology nnd fine arts building. The total program, estimated at more than $4 million, calls for several new structures, a on them a library and new fine arts building.

The board also heard reports of routine business matters by Dr. William Sims of Including salary adjustments for college personnel. Julie Visits Show WASHINGTON (AP) Julio Nixon Elsenhower paid a visit Fjiday to the Soviet Youth sfiovv. Grass Just Grows On Ity Nancy Slnlil One of the saddest misconceptions about gardening is that, while shrubs and trees arc constantly demanding mulch and clamoring to have their terminal buds scratched, grass is simply laid clown like wall-to-wall broad- and for- PROGRAM VARIED Fairview Gears for Fly-In gotten. It would hoi of course, if once a 1 a was laid out flat, it remain instead of sinking in some places, in crs, and genor-'ra.

1 1 carrying on like a harpooned whale. fast-running mower up to the handles. One of the first problems of lawn care is whether to leave the clippings on the lawn or remove them. Half your neighbors will maintain that the clippings provide the lawn with nutrients; the other half will insist thiil accumulated clippings deprive the lawn of necessary sunshine. Whatever your inclinations, do not argue with anyone wielding pruning shears.

If you do choose to remove the clippings, you will need a grass catcher, which Is a piece of striped awning material hooked onto the mower. When it is not falling off, the catcher collapses periodically and must be kicked along with your free foot. This flattens the grass nicely so that the mower rolls harmlessly over, accomplishing nothing but raising a blister on your thumb, Actually the disposition of clippings is rarely a problem as, more often than not, the green grass doesn't grow nil around. Instead of forming a verdant carpet under the elm tree, it concentrates exclusively on poking itself up through cracks In the front walk, and your entire lawn maintenance program will consist of digging it out with a fish fork. Nancy Slab I received by Friday.

The flight club sponsors and oversees operation of the annual event. A fly-in breakfast will precede Sunday's ait-show, which will feature three stunt flyers, parachute drops and pylon racing by radio controlled model airplanes. A tradition to bo rontin-tild at this year's show is the awarding of a turkey to the pilot of cvcrY, 10th plane to arrive. here in H070, before being killed in a crash. Activities are to gel under way at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday with the start of the Fly Lndv Derby, a women's air race from Fair-view to Pauls Valley to Gushing, then back to Fairview. Dr. Louis Bolter, who will become president of the Fairview Flight Club for 1073-74 at a banquet Saturday night, said more than 20 entiles had been FAIRVIEW Some 200 private airplanes loaded with fly-In fans from all over the western United Stales are expoclod here Saturday and Sunday for the 22nd annual Fairview Fly-In, Fly Lady Derby nnd Harold Krirr Memorial Alrshow. The air show portion nf Ihe (all gathering has been named for the world-famous stunt flier who often performed al the show and gavo hls final performance concealed hol- invariably contain potential hazards; more than one mower has been summarily abandoned with the dog's beef bone or leash jammed ir-'" revocably between its blades. To make matters worse, someone in the family always Insists on installing ponds at the bottoms of Inclines, ponds just deep enough to engulf a.

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