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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 2

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Wednesday, July 1. 1981 THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN 4f Circle Suit Everett Prom Page 1 said. "I'm operating on what I have in my pock- Bailey, snapping questions and sometimes smiling grimly at theanswers, did determine that Everett has spent in excess of since filing the bankruptcy The 26-year-old "wkeeler-dealer admit-iehe received $17,000 from oil company lease holdings and $26,000 fromj the sale of stock by a Houston broker. He said the money from Marlin Oil Co. lease" royalties went to meet expenses and proceeds from the stock sale actually were paid to his brother-in-law.

He also said he sold a Chevrolet Corvette to a Midwest City auto dealer for $11,000 and sold two Cadillacs for $20,000. Everett said he gave the money to a friend he identified as Jerry Devine. "He was in a bind and station we have in the Dallas area allows our show to be seen up into Arkansas. "The, only, reason we put th- Circle together is to get; the show shown inas many markets as possible, I want the student athletes and their mamas and daddies to see it. I don't wh'o else gets it." Other, universities also have organizations such as the Inner Circle, said Swltzer, to raise money for similar programs.

"Do you think Freddie Akers (University of Texas football coach) can get (TV) sponsors in Oklahoma City?" asked Switzer. Gerald Turner, executive assistant to Dr. Bill Banowksy, president of the University of Oklahoma, said the Inner Circle funds are handled through the OU Foundation and audited annually. "That money is audited just like other gifts to the university," said Turner. "We use an independent auditor and we account for every penny." know.

"I did what tab there was," Everett responded. Everett testified he did not lose the money gambling, but was unable to explain what happened to the $50,000 accumulated in Las Vegas. He said he did not often lose during his visits to the gambling spa. Everett said if his gambling winnings and loses were tallied, "I'd be on the plus side. I can't tell you where that $50,000 went." Everett conceded he has been known to carry that amount with him as pocket money.

Among other expenditures brought out by Bailey was the entire bill for a group of "eight or nine" friends to travel to the Orange Bowl football game by chartered Lear jet and 14 motel rooms rented for his softball team during a road trip to Ada. needed it," Everett said. Tracking down various sums Everett admitted passed through his hands in recent weeks, Bailey at one point demanded, "That's $32,000 in one month and it's gone?" "Yes it is," replied Everett. Pressed repeatedly about his spending habits, Everett told Bailey he obtained whatever money he needed from whichever bank account contained it. He said he couldn't remember specifics.

"There's been two or three things happen in my life in the last 60 days," Everett said. He did recall, however, spending almost the entire month of April in Las Vegas where he had at one time $50,000 on account in a casino. He said he was joined at various times during his stay by different groups of friends. "Who picked up the tab?" Bailey wanted to knowledged the original story was incomplete and could have given readers' the" erroneous impression there was a fund In operation; "OU officials could have prevented the story by 'explaining; the, fund to our reporter when they were Standard said. "But the story should have been checked further.

AH in all, it was not one of our best journalistic efforts." Switzer said local sponsors buy time for the hour show within the state, and Inner Circle money is used only to sponsor the show in out-of-state markets. "I don't know what Jack (Jack Taylor, who wrote the article) thinks he has," said Switzer. "There's nothing there." "We try to get into every market possible," he said. "Most of the time we go to the independent stations or cable outfits, which are cheaper and can offer prime time. The cable From Page 1 Lawton.

Switzer also said Inner Circle money is used only, to support the playback show and not "The Barry switzer Show," a 'half-hour pro-V gram seen only in Okla-, homa City, Tulsa and? Amarillrj; 'Texas. The. Okiahoman article had said Inner Circle money' 13 used to, umdurwf ne the production costs of both shows. "Kerr-McGee Corp. totally sponsors 'The Barry Swltzer Show, said the Oklahoma coach.

"The Inner Circle has nothing to do with that." "The 'Barry Switzer Show' has been a Kerr-McGee project since it went on the air in Bud Wilkinson's days," said Howard Newman of the Lowe Runkle advertising agency and the co-host for the program seen on Thursday nights in Oklahoma City. "Everything is bought and paid for by Kerr-McGee." Jim Standard, managing editor of The Okiahoman and Times, ac The government's petition, filed in U.S. trict Judge. Fred! Daugherty's court, asks the court to, "Oceanside from conducting a con-; cert on Indian land and; from attempting to introduce? or possessing any in- -toxicatlng liquors in-3 eluding beer in Indian Country." Flanagan said a hearing in the case probably will be scheduled for early next week. "They're going to have to move it," she declared.

Flanagan said the case was precipitated by James Walker, an Indian agent from Shawnee. She said the government has a "legal duty" to pursue the matter. Although she said the "Oceanside Oklahoma" lease for its water park property is properly executed, it would be a violation of the agreement to use the park's administration building to "house" entertainers during the show. The park site, a mile from where the concert is planned, was leased from the Absentee' Shawnee Tribe to "con From Page 1 That's" the main The government contends a lease agreement executed with Indians for restricted land is not valid unless it is approved by the Department of Interior. Flanagan said such approval has not been obtained for the property where the concert is to be staged, although "Oceanside Oklahoma," a corporation promoting the cdncert, has obtained a proper lease for nearby land to be used for a water-oriented amusement park it plans to open next year.

"The law is very clear," said Flanagan. "They know that. They got one lease under the same statute in March." The lawsuit also contends it would be a violation of federal law to sell alcoholic beverages on Indian land. Concert promoters said earlier they planned to order 1,000 kegs of beer for a crowd they hope will reach 50,000 during the day-long show. "We will sell beer if the purchase agree-, ment with Elliott Gal-laher is worked out," said Cate.

i' struct, maintain and operate a public outdoor water recreational facility and related businesses for profit." "She said because of improvements current-' iy being made on another section the belijeves -the concert promoters Intend to use.a'tra'ct al-loted to an In'dian named Billy White'ora' parking area, but Cate denied any agreement exists with White. The government concedes Galleher has applied for a fee patent which would lift restrictions from the 40 acres at the concert site, but contends un-der usual procedures it would be impossible to obtain it before the July 10 concert date. The government also expressed fear that the 200 security men the promoters planned to hire could not control the crowd and damage to the graves of several (tribal chiefs buried in the area might result. In addition to Barbara Mandrell, perhaps the top country peform-er in the nation, the concert lineup includes Larry and the Gatlm. Brothers Band, Johnny Paycheck, and Johnny -Rodriquez; Police Pay Talks Drag Storms afternoon.

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. spokesman Dave Raybern said only scattered power outages were reported in the Oklahoma. City area Tuesday-after noon, however. Baseball fans weren't so lucky. Rains- can-, celed a game between the Oklahoma City 89ers and Wichita Aerps.

A flash flood watch remained in effect for western, northwestern and central Oklahoma Tuesday night. High's today and Thursday should range from 88 to 96, with lows ranging from the 60s in the northwest to mld-70s in the south. 11 Staff Photo i by Rtim Lynn loser in county commission race. Bill Bishop From Page 1 a while, but service was restored Tuesday evening. Unofficial reports indicated two inches of rain fell in one hour there.

Rainfall amounts reported by the National Weather Service included 1.92 inches at Fort Sill, 2.64 inches at Vance Air Force Base in- Enid and half an inch at Guymon. In the Oklahoma City area, rush-hour commuters went home the same way they came to work at a crawl. The weather service said about 1.1 inches of rain fell on Oklahoma City between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., on top of the 1.2 inches that slowed travel in the Street flooding arid numerous accidents were reported during the morning rain, and a similar scenario was repeated around 5 p.m. "We're having a whole bunch of problems," an Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office dispatcher said.

"We've had three injury accidents in the past 10 minutes." Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers worked 10 accidents between 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m., while Oklahoma -City, police reported accidents between 5:20 p.m. and 6:05 p.m. One of the biggest was a multi-car pileup with injuries at I-240N and NW 23. Authorities said four or five cars were involved, but details were sketchy.

Besides accidents and low visibility, southside commuters leaving the city had to contend with flooding at the underpass at 1-35 and SE 15. The sheriff's office reported the area clogged with stalled cars that tried to navi-j gate the three feet of water and failed. Lightning from the storm struck a transmitter at KOMA radio In Moore, knocking the station off the air for a few minutes Tuesday 1 in I mum mmmim County mi From wi DOWNtOWN WINDSOR H1US WtN.Mrr. 23rdfcMei.d!on 2K-EfC! 755-4040- Negotiators late Tuesday still were try-: ing to hammer out dis- putes in contract talks between the city and the 'Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police; The current contract for city policemen expired Tuesday night, and union negotiators worked much of the day trying to forge an agreement which would Include a 10 ft percent increase in wages. The union's membership has rejected a contract proposal which would have given all officers a $133-a-month raise, about a 9 percent increase for most.

Negotiators for' both sides were still at the bargaining table and were not available for comment Tuesday night. FOP President Ray Clark said Monday he was snot optimistic a '-'passable" agreement could be reached before the contract expired. On June 19, a union negotiating team had accepted a contract, but it was rejected 475-50 by the FOP membership on Friday. Officers said they voted down the contract because they were disappointed with the si2e of the proposed pay increase and a provision in the contract giving a vote to the city manager's disciplinary review board representative, Dark said. Clark said the FOP is also seeking a $20-a-year increase which would boost the uniform allowance to $370 annually.

Page 1 day marred by heavy rains shortly after the polls opened and shortly before they closed. Buchanan; narrowly lost to Democratic Commissioner Ralph Adair in a District 1 race in 1978, but his residence was shifted into District 2 when boundary lines were later changed. Fashion Starts Here! NORTH PARK MALL 122nd N. May "P'm Says: said. "It just occurred to me I was playing a whole new ballgame and everybody knew it but me." He said the fact that Democrats offered no assistance to his campaign "certainly didn't help." "1 just had to do the best I could with the 3,000 friends that I had," he said.

Bishop, who represents south Oklahoma City on the council, will continue to serve in that post. He has held the job since 1964. Buchanan was unopposed in the Republican primary, while Bishop had five Democratic opponents in the June 9 election. Bishop breezed Into the showdown with Buchanan by gaining 61 percent of the votes. Buchanan picked up 53 percent of the total Tuesday on an election "STOP iNS FUMBLE ON VACATION with a SOLIGORI" IK PRE-JULY 4th CLEARANCE Be Here Early For Best Selection CD 28-80mm 1 LENS 1-H AND OPERATION FOR TELE TO WIDEANGLE! (Plus MACRO, too!) I $280 PRE-SEASON INCENTIVE PRICED 100 PURE CASHMERE COATS Mgnod; SoUoor'a ftnoat.

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