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THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN The State Newspaper Since 1907 20c WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1979 72 PAGES OKLAHOMA CITY, OK Ardmore Area Tornado Kills 2, Hurts 3 rr i pital and released. Bob, who apparently was delivering a load of cement for a pump-house structure the Bearden family was building, apparently was killed instantly when a portion of the mobile home struck him on the head, investigators said. It was first believed Bob was the only vic sons on the scene. Also injured when the mobile home was struck were Mrs. Bear-den's 14-year-old son, Pat Gorman, and a family acquaintance, Ceorge Pasinn.24.

Gorman, who reportedly suffered a broken leg, was reported in fair condition at Ardmore Hospital. Pasina was treated at the hos- tim at the mobile home site of the storm, investigators said. However, Mrs. Bear-den's husband arrived and asked ambulance and law enforcement authorities, "Where is my wife and mother-in-law?" When told they had not been seen he said, "They are here some-See TORNADO, Page 2 rushed to Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma in Ardmore. The body of Mrs.

Carroll and her daughter, who appeared unconscious, were found together in the debris of the mobile home just after the storm had passed, said Lone Grove ambulance attendant Leo Potts, who was one of the first per By Jim Etter Staff Writer NEWPORT An autumn tornado dropped down on this, quiet rural Carter County community Tuesday, killing two persons and injuring three, one of them critically, as it demolished a mobile home. The mid-morning twister destroyed two more homes and dam outside the trailer, authorities said. The dead persons were identified as Mrs. Teresa A. Carroll, 59, one of the.

persons inside the mobile home, and Jlmmie Lee Bob, 41, Ardmore, the driver of the cement truck. Critically Injured was Mrs. Carroll's daughter, Mrs. Sadie Bearden, 35, who was aged about 10 others, doing an estimated $120,000 in damage as it skipped through the areas of Newport, Lone Crove and Woodford. The tornado, swooping down at about 10:15 a.m..

bowled over a double-wide mobile home, killing an invalid woman inside and a truck driver who was pouring concrete just Blizzard Blasts Into Panhandle and all Boise City schools were declared closed today. A spokesman for the Cuymon school district, however, said schools there would be open. The poor visibility forced state Department of Transportation workers to give up efforts to clear the roads. "It's so bad, we've called everybody in. said field clerk Walt Smith.

"It's bad enough there isn't anything we can do about it." In southern Oklahoma, two rural Carter County residents were killed and three others injured when a funnel cut a path of destruction 10 miles long and a quarter mile wide northwest of Ardmore. The tornado passed through rural Carter County just after 10 Sec BLIZZARD, Page 2 ported out in all Panhandle towns except Keyes, Boise City. Guy-mon and Texhomn. Most area highways were closed, including U.S. 64.

U.S. 287 and all highways into the Panhandle from Kansas and Colorado, the patrol said. Boise City School Superintendent Bill. Terry said he ordered buses to take students home early in the afternoon AFT Comes Out on Top; Suit Mulled SUH Pholo By David Longltr Judy and Eddie Kyle survey the debris left when a twister struck near their Carter County home. Another photo, page 16.

WORK COULD BEGIN IN 1982 AN EDITORIAL Enough Is Enough STATE income taxes for Oklahomans have more than tripled since 1972 when former Gov. David Hall and the Legislature hoodwinked the taxpayers into thinking they were getting a tax reduction. Since then, income taxes paid by Oklahomans have risen from $91.6 million to a staggering 3301.1 million a year. The Legislature is wallowing in mountains of money that could be better used in taxpayers' pockets than in unneeded and extravagant government programs. Oklahomans can put a stop to this legalized thievery by voting "YES" next Tuesday on State Question 539.

Just as the tax eaters in California fought the famous Proposition 13, groups dependent on taxpayers' money in Oklahoma are banding together to defeat the state question that would force them to justify their expendi- Central Expressway Pact Signed By Joyce Peterson Violent storms swept across Oklahoma Tuesday, spawning a tornado that killed Iwo in southern Oklahoma and a blizzard that paralyzed sections of the Panhandle with 70 mph winds and up to a foot of snow. A blinding snow storm advanced across the Panhandle during the day, closing roads and schools and knocking out power and phone service, and snow was still falling steadily at 10:30 p.m. A Continental Trail-ways bus that left Boise City for Springfield, around 11 a.m. Tuesday, was reported to be stranded just across the Colorado state line at 10 p.m. Emergency workers manning snowplows made several efforts to get through to the bus and other motorists marooned on U.S.

287, but were turned back by the 90 mph winds and shifting snowdrifts, a Colorado Highway Patrol spokesman said. Officials said they are confident the bus has enough fuel to keep its heater working until rescuers get through. Continental Trail-ways officials in Amar-illo, Texas, from which the bus was dispatched, declined to say how many passengers were on board or comment otherwise. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported 12 inches of packed snow on the roadways west of Boise City. During the afternoon, authorities said, winds from 60 to 70 mph whipped snow into a blinding curtain across Cimarron and western Texas counties.

"We're pretty well burled," a dispatcher for the Cimarron Sheriff's department said late Tuesday. "It doesn't look like its getting any better." A spokesman for Southwest Public Service Co. said approximately two-thirds of the rural residents living west of Beaver were without electricity late Tuesday night, and the storm was preventing workers from repairing the downed lines. Power was also re "This is an important milestone in the development of Oklahoma City. The Central Expressway is a key part of the revitalization of downtown," said Sen.

David Boren, Seminole Democrat, of the Central Expressway agree- By Vivian Vahlberg Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The planned Central Expressway in Oklahoma City cleared a very important hurdle Tuesday as state and federal officials signed a conciliation agreement which had been the subject of intense negotiations for the past six months. And backers of the proposed West Bypass received categorical assurances from top federal officials that the fates of the West New Plan Needed Page 17 Bypass and the Central Expressway are not and have never been linked and that the West Bypass will be considered on its own merits. TODAY Nuke Plant Perils Cited Voters have the opportunity to take control from the tax hogs with a "YES" vote next Tuesday. Solvadoran Mob Storms Embassy Cloudy skies and showers are forecast for Oklahoma City today. The high will be in the upper 50s.

The low tonight will be near 40. Details, Page 8. Suicide Blamed on Scandal mcnt signing. "11 now looks like we're on our way to moving forward." Oklahoma City Mayor Patience Latting said: "This is good news toward completion, of the Central Expressway. It is a very important step in providing access to the downtown and medical center areas." City Manager Jim Cook said: "I'm very, very excited and pleased that they have worked out the obstructions" to finalizing the concilia-lion agreement.

"This gets us off of dead center, so we can move forward with the project." And on the West Bypass, Boren said Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt expressed interest in. Boron's suggestion that Goldschmidt set a definite date for deciding whether the federal government will fund' the West Bypass. The West Bypass is planned to go from the end of 1-240 at NW 39 north lo Memorial, skirting the east shoreline of Lake Hefner. "He appears the kind of person who likes to Sec ROAD, Page 2 The family of French Labor Minister Robert Boulin says he committed suicide because of a press expose of a purported real estate scandal. "Honesty doesn't pay," Boulin's widow says bitterly after his body Is found In a forest.

Boulin allegedly bought Riviera property at one-third the market price. He denied any wrongdoing. Details, Page 3. By Jim Killackcy The American Feder-ation of Teachers scored a 200-vote victory over its arch-rival teacher union, the Association of Classroom Teachers, Tuesday in an election to determine the bargaining representative for Oklahoma City public school teachers. The APT received 1,088 votes to 891 for the ACT.

Forty-four teachers voted for neither organization. The results are unofficial and won't be certified until Friday. The AFT victory apparently gives the AFT the right to bargain collectively for the school system's 2,300 teachers with the Board of Education. Challenge Due School officials indicated Tuesday they most likely will challenge in court the AFT's right to negotiate because of the union's participation in this fall's city teachers' strike. If the AFT victory is not challenged, the AFL-CIO-aftiliatod union will have the right to represent teachers for two more years.

"The teachers are telling the school board that its unreasonable attitude towards them won't be tolerated," AFT President Mike Barlow said. Defeat Accepted ACT President Mary Hepp said the Oklahoma Education Association-affiliated union will continue to represent teachers as best it can. Of the defeat, Mrs. Hepp said, "The teachers in Oklahoma City have decided to gamble one more time with the AFT." ACT leaders, she said, have given no thought as yet any court challenge of the AFT's bargaining rights. School Board President Paul English, though, said the schoo panel will be "back ir court" to contest the legality of the AFT's Future plants be built in remote areas and current plants near populated areas be required to adopt stricter safety requirements.

No new construction permits or operating licenses be issued unless the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved state and local plans for dealing with a possible nuclear emergency. Operator training be upgraded. The panel said there was no evidence of "a systematic attempt at a "cover-up" as the accident unfolded, although reporters at times received information not supported by facts. the embassy building for a few minutes and they may have hurled a Moiotov Cocktail on the western side of the building," said embassy spokesman Vitas Dambrava. In Washington, Stale Department officials said one Marine guard was wounded slightly when a bullet grazed his ear.

They said the Marine probably was saved by his helmet. No details were given about the second injured Marine, but the Washington officials said his wound was not serious. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) About 300 militant leftists attacked the U.S. Embassy Tuesday, firing guns and screaming "We will take the embassy!" authorities reported. They said U.S.

Marino guards and Salva-doran troops used tear gas to repel the invaders who climbed the embassy fence but wore driven back before they could force their way into the building. Two Marine were reported to have been slightly wounded. "They surrounded Cultures Clash in Trial Two Vietnamese refugees go on trial for murder in a Texas case involving a clash of cultures over fishing rights. Details, Page 6. WASHINGTON (AP) The presidential commission on Three Mile Island called Tuesday for "fundamental changes" in the way nuclear plants are built, operated and regulated, but said adoption of its recommendations still would not "assure the safety of nuclear power." The commission told President Carter a broad range of deficiencies made an atomic accident "inevitable." The panel said health effects probably were limited to "severe mental stress" to area rest-dents.

It may never be possible to detect whether the March 28 accident near Harrlsburg, will cause additional cases of cancer among those who live near the. facility, the commission said. Carter said the recommendations -will be studied very carefully." Among the recommendations the panel presented to Carter were: The five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission be abolished and the job of regulating the industry be placed in a. new agency under the executive branch and headed by a single admlnis-trator. Theory Unnerving in Two Deaths Photo of Note -Page 17 Mussolini Widow Dies Quietly Rachele Mussolini, the wiry little widow of Italy's World War II dictator and staunch defender of his memory despite his legendary Infidelities, dies of a heart attack at her home in Predapplo, Italy, Tuesday at age 89.

Details, Page 4. Inside Features musements 24,25 TV Log 16 Landers 12 Women's News. 12,13 liUNlness-OII 26 280,908 Classified Ads 31-31 Dkily Pald circulation Comics Mornlng-Rvenlng Editorials Average for Last Week Horoscope 31 Delivery Service 239-7171 Obituaries 31 want Ads 235-6722 Public Records 36 VJjKbther Calls 232-3311 Sports 21-24 Entire contents copyright 1979, The Oklahoma Publishing Box 25125, Oklahoma City, Oklaho-stp. 73125, Vol. 88.

No. 299. body of Stevenson, a 52-year-old concrete finisher, was beneath the sheet of his bed, shot in the hand, shoulder and head. By the dead man's side, atop the sheet, was his wife of two months, dead of a single shotgun wound to the chest. Investigators sealed off the area 12 miles from town and began sifting through the evidence.

Monday's mail at the Seminole Producer broughSthe chillinp; death letter, typed on the stationery of Stevenson's business. By then, some quirks had arisen, some things that made investigators suspect that everything was not as it might seem. And by late Monday, weary lawmen were awaiting the results of autopsy they believe will support their unnerving theory of the slayings that Dottle herself was the killer and that she sent the See DEATHS, Page 2 the isolated house had taken place how the front screen had been cut above the Intch to get access to the front door, which was unlocked. How the couple was "sound asleep, arm in arm." How both were then' shot, first Dottle and then Gus. The killer aflirmed how much the couple loved each other and explained why they hud been so coldly executed: "I could not stand to SEMINOLE With the smell of gunpowder still fresh in the house and blood soaking through a sheet in the bedroom, the murderer sat down at the typewriter.

The killer typed: "I want the world to know, that (I) murdod Gus, and Dottie Stevenson. This is A fool proof MURDER." The killer continued, in a coarsely typed account, to describe exactly how the bloodbath in the bedroom)n see Gus and Dottie so Happily in love, I hate Both of them for that reason so I killed them." The murderer then mailed the letter to a local newspaper. Sunday afternoon, a relative of the Stevensons who wondered why they bad not shown up for a visit stopped by the bouse and found the bodies. Tbe pajama-clad.

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