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6 Monday, October 2, 1995 THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN Regency Residents Begin Return to Downtown Today the blast, although six resi- 1 dents died elsewhere in the bombing. The apartment building, which was heavily damaged, is among the first structures near the bomb site to be re- stored. Repairs to the build-ing have cost $5 million. Move-in is expected to last throughout October. 1 since the blast.

"These are not your typical apartment dwellers," a building spokeswoman said. "For many. Regency Tower is a permanont home. Residents held tvguUr tenant meetings as a way to keep the group informed. They put out a newsletter." When the bomb went off Murrah Federal Building will begin the long-awaited move back to the 273-unit apartment tower, where sacks of groceries already are lined up to restock their refrigerators.

For some it will be a return not only to homes of their own but to a sense of community that has been missing outside the Murrah Building, 263 of The Regency Tower apartments were rented mostly by retirees, young professionals, students or downtown workers. Residents of 165 apartments begin moving today. Many of the uprooted residents were placed in hotels, where they continued to live as a micro-community. But one elderly man thought the situation was a perfect chance to realize his fantasy of living in a cabin in the woods. He soon found life lonely, and will be among the first wave of residents returning, said Nancy Retherford, an American Red Cross spokes woman.

The Red Cross and other relief groups have paid for 14,723 nights in hotel rooms and $247,189 in rent for those displaced by the bombing. Victims are eligible for up to $1,000 per person from the Red Cross. No one who was in The Regency Tower was killed in The Associated Press Residents of The Regency Tower in downtown Oklahoma City have spent the last five months in motel rooms, the homes of friends and family, even a cabin in the country. Today, many of those displaced by the April 19 bombing at the nearby Alfred P. Choctaw Sheriffs Faced Similar Problems Quilt Show Set in Duncan This Weekend According to federal indictments, Buchanan took office in January 1975 and a year later allegedly started growing, storing and distributing marijuana along with another man until the fall of 1977.

Trapp was named in federal indictments last week in connection with conspiring with three men to manufacture and distribute marijuana in four states from 1987 to gal drug, bootlegging and gambling operations. Specifically, the indictment alleges he accepted $2,500 in bribes to protect illegal gambling, drug and alcohol sales at a Hugo nightclub, the Party Palace. State investigators lauded Buchanan as a hero after his undercover work in 1978 led to the seizure of more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of 37 people in southeast Oklahoma. Trapp helped state and federal authorities this summer eradicate thousands of cultivated marijuana plants in Choctaw County. Buchanan resigned in May 1979, almost a year before the indictments were issued.

In a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Buchanan pleaded guilty to one charge of obstruct ing criminal prosecution in connection with the liquor theft. The other charges were dismissed. Buchanan was sentenced in May 1980 to five years in federal pris- on and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. Trapp is facing up to life imprisonment and $4.25 million in fines. Choctaw County com- missioners will discuss his status as sheriff at a Tuesday special meeting.

1990. Buchanan was indicted for allegedly concealing illegal gambling at the Texhoma Club, a rural Choctaw County bar, during his tenure as sheriff. He also was accused of obstructing criminal prosecution in the 1977 theft of 907 cases of liquor. Trapp is accused of receiving and soliciting more than $165,000 in bribes for protecting ille By Mark A. Hutchison Staff Writer James Clifford Buchanan and J.W.

Trapp have more in common than their law enforcement background. Call it coincidence, fate, or whatever. But in 1980, it was Buchanan facing criminal charges for his activities while Choctaw County sheriff from 1975 to 1979. Today, it's Sheriff Trapp. Veteran Under Watch After Waurika Ordeal Neighborhood Dispute Led to Standoff The Stephens County Historical Museum will have its 17th annual quilt show Saturday and Sunday in Duncan.

The museum is in the old National Guard Armory in Fuqua Park, U.S. 81 and Beech Street. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 3 p.m.

Sunday. In addition to the quilt show, exhibits of the Southwest Tractor Club and antique equipment will be on display, as will vehicles from the Oldies but Goodies Car Club. All events are free to the public. A semiannual Kiowa Indian Council meeting will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Red Buffalo Hall, State Highway 9 West, in Carnegie.

The Kiowa Business Committee is required to All About Us compile the agenda and the tribal chairman leads the meeting. Participants are urged to prepare their issues in advance and have them ready for presentation to the council. For more information, call the tribal headquarters at (405) 654-2300. The fourth annual Hog Wild Car Show will be Saturday at Stroup Park in Holdenville. Holdenville's Cool Classics Club is sponsoring the event.

It is held in conjunction with Hog Wild Days. More than 40 trophies will be awarded, along with a Mayor's Choice award, a Best In Show and a People's Choice honor. Nineteen classes of competition will be held, ranging from pre-1950 vehicles to present-day entries. Admission is free, but an entry fee is required to compete. Legends of Terry's Texas Rangers will be revived Saturday when a unit carrying that name will present a Civil War cavalry reenactment at Fort Washita Military Park.

The Terry's Texas Rangers reenactors will present a. cavalry encampment from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., said Raymond Scott, who manages the Fort Washita Military Park for the Oklahoma Historical Society. Terry's Rangers are based in Texas, he said, and this will be their first encampment in Oklahoma. The encampment will be open to the public without charge.

Fort Washita Military Park is operated by the historical society. It is 11 miles east of Madill and 12 miles from Durant on State Highway 199. For information, call Scott at (405) 924-6502. Fort Worth actor Steve Abolt will lead the 7th Infantry reenactors Saturday in presenting a Mexican War living history fall encampment at Fort Gibson Military Park. Abolt, who also makes uniforms for reenactors, and his unit will provide an authentic look at army life in Indian Territory during the 1840s, said Richard Ryan, who directs the military park for the Oklahoma Historical Society.

The presentation will be staged from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an admission charge of $1 per person, Ryan said. Abolt's unit is particularly appropriate, because the U.S. Army 7th Infantry built Fort Gibson starting in 1824, said William Lees, director of historic sites for the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Fort Gibson Military Park is on State Highway 80 in Fort Gibson. For additional information, contact Chris Morgan at (918) 478-2669. From Staff and WIra Reports the home during the standoff. Her husband played Army cadences loudly and fired periodic rounds during the first 12 hours of the standoff, Allen said. "It's hard to count how many shots he fired from 100 to 200, shots through the walls, outside, just shooting at random," he said.

Allen said Hodges was using a high-powered rifle or assault gun. A former member of the Army's special services, Hodges had a stash of weapons in the home. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was injured when the gunfight sent debris flying from a cinder block building he used for cover. The patrol began negotiations with Hodges about 2:20 p.m. At one point, Hodges told a deputy that authorities would have to shoot him.

"He'd been watching (tapes) of that Ruby Ridge deal," Allen said, referring to a standoff in Idaho during which federal agents fatally shot the wife and son of a white separatist. "He kind of wanted it to happen that way, he kind of wanted to make somebody kill him. He didn't really care which way he went. Of course, we didn't want to shoot him." A relative convinced Hodges to release his daughter about 6:50 p.m., and authorities continued to talk with him in the home. "Finally, we talked him into going to get some help," Allen said.

The sheriff did not know how long Hodges might remain at the mental health center. He will be released to the custody of the Jefferson County courts, Allen said. WAURIKA (AP) An Army veteran remained under observation at a mental health center Sunday, hours after authorities coaxed him from his bullet-riddled home. A neighborhood dispute that began late Friday escalated until Michael Hodges, 42, took his 18-month-old daughter hostage and held authorities at bay with gunfire. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was slightly injured before the standoff ended about 10:45 p.m.

Saturday. "He was evidently having some kind of depression-type problems to start with," Jefferson County Sheriff Don Allen said, adding that Hodges had complained of financial difficulties. "Little things become major things One thing led to another and it just (grew)." Hodges was arrested on a warrant in connection with shooting with intent to kill. Instead of jail, he was taken to the Taliaferro Mental Health Center in Lawton for evaluation. The neighborhood dispute apparently was touched off Friday when Hodges became upset about children on his property, Allen said.

Hodges' wife, Misty Hodges, said a neighbor stood outside the couple's home, brandished a knife and yelled that he wanted to fight Hodges, who walked out into the yard and fired a gun. "He wasn't going to shoot anyone; he wanted to scare them," she said. "But when they threaten to burn down your house, it's scary." Police were called, and Misty Hodges gave a statement. She remained outside Staff Pholo by Roger Klock Sky Riders Sunshine glints through the spokes of the midway Ferris wheel Sunday at the State Fair of Oklahoma. Clear skies and a temperature that reached 78 helped lure thousands to the fair on its final day.

Ballpark Work Contract on Deck Campaign Reform Bill Shelved Agenda The Oklahoma City Council on Tuesday could consider awarding contracts to Sewell Bros. for preliminary site excavation for the $21 million Bricktown baseball park at Walnut and California avenues. Funds for the demolition not to exceed $506,312 will come from the $285 million Metropolitan Area Projects plan. The council meets at 8:30 a.m. in the third-floor council chambers at City Hall, 200 Walker.

Dilapidated The following structures could be declared cial building; 831 NE 5, house; and 728 NW 21, garage. Claims The following claims were recommended for payment: Martin Surfacing $387; Michelle Matthews, $535; and Tracy L. Smith, $650. The following claim was recom mended for denial: Joel Hamilton, $644. Travel The council could consider a resolution to' pay travel expenses for Ward 2 Councilman Mark Schwartz to attend a National League of Cities seminar in Denver, Oct.

19-22. dilapidated and slated for demolition: 3011 Spitler Drive, mobile home Lot 2353 NW 1, house; 3740 NW 28, house; 1632 SE 36, house; 4204 SE 45, shed; 1600 Agnew, commer GOP Followers' Faith Put to Test Over Powell WASHINGTON (AP) The House will not take up gift and campaign finance reform this year, House Majority Leader Dick Armey said Sunday. "I don't want to do something that looks like a Band-Aid approach on that subject," Armey, R-Texas, said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I still am hopeful and optimistic we can do something next year." The issue of gift and campaign finance reform has divided the Republican leadership and GOP freshman who say they came to Washington with a mandate for immediate changes in the way lawmakers accept gifts and political contributions. Freshmen are now leading an attempt to push through legislation that would limit lobbying by recipients of federal grants. Their action is tying up passage of a 1996 spending bill.

But Armey said the Republicans this year must first complete their broader policy objectives before they can begin moving into other areas. Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota argued that campaign finance reform can't wait. Police Seek Assailant In Killing Police were looking Sunday for a man who beat and killed a pedestrian at a northwest Oklahoma City intersection. Witnesses told police the driver of a white Honda or Toyota jumped out of his car and attacked Joseph Thomas Jefferson, 29, of Oklahoma City, at Park Place and Blackwelder Avenue about 12:18 p.m., Capt. Bill Citty said.

"The man was beaten, to death with a brick," Citty said. The driver and two passengers in his car fled. Their identities and whereabouts were unknown late Sunday, Citty said. Police do not know why Jefferson was attacked. WASHINGTON (AP) The allure of Colin Powell to Republicans hungry for an inspirational standard-bearer has ignited squabbling among party conservatives, who are deeply split over whether to welcome or disparage the popular retired general.

Powell's emergence also revives a debate over whether the GOP should be a "big tent" welcoming a variety of views, or whether the party should hold to a firm conservative ideology that was solidified with the GOP's takeover of the House and Senate last fall. Even though Powell remains cagey about whether he will actually run for president, many Republican activists are aghast that fellow conservative stalwarts are urging him into the party's nomination process. Eyeing opinion polls that show Powell would run strongly in the GOP field, they worry he might attract Republican voters who don't even agree with him on issues like abortion, affirmative action and welfare. Powell has expressed moderate views on those questions that appear out of step with the party's congressional momentum. But some conservatives seem willing to overlook that in their quest for a strong candidate.

Their embrace of the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman is prompting a pre-emptive campaign against Powell by more rigid conservatives. "I'm taking some heat from some friends on the right," said former Education Secretary William Bennett, who has not formally endorsed Powell but is a friend and said he would consider it. Bennett, author of the best-selling "Book of Virtues," astonished many cy. Arianna Huffington, a party activist and wife of unsuccessful California Senate candidate Michael Huffington, lavished praise on him last week. Huffington accused the GOP front-runner, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, of "political hack-manship." She said in a Wall Street Journal column that even though she doesn't agree with all of Powell's views, he "has made it impossible to continue accepting a lackluster standard-bearer for the Republican Party." Spearheading the countercharge is Gary Bauer, head of the Focus on the Family group.

"It's curious to me that some Republican leaders are flirting with a candidate who has positions the exact opposite of what have been the winning issues," in last year's elections, Bauer said. He faxed a memo to Republican leaders last week saying that despite Powell's leadership and military record, his views "contain enough ammunition to rattle economic and social conservatives alike." Others share his opinion of Powell. "All his views are out of step with the coalition we have built over the years," said Paul Wey-rich, a leading conservative voice and president of National Empowerment Television. He made that case last week at his weekly luncheon with conservative activists. He is worried because "people see something" they are seeking in Powell, Weyrich said.

He described talking to an Ohio conservative activist who was excited about Powell. "He disagrees with everything you worked for," Weyrich told her. "She said that's not important. What's important is that he's a strong leader, and he's a moral person." The Powell debate puts conservatives generally in one of three camps: They want to freeze him out because he is not one of them. They will compromise some ideological principles because they see him as a strong candidate to run against Clinton.

They profess to be unconcerned because Powell is too moderate to win the nomination. In the latter category, Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly said the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman "appears to have disdain for the people whom the media call the religious right." She cited the fact Powell "coolly advertised" abortion rights support. Colin Powell conservatives when he suggested he could overlook Powell's support of abortion rights and focus on his other qualities leadership, family values and patriotism. "I think he could wallop Clinton," Bennett said. Former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and GOP conservative analyst William Kristol also have urged a Powell candida.