Ada Evening News, The (Newspaper) - April 8, 1973, Ada, Oklahoma A friend compares footing af modern art to frying fo follow the plot in a of alphabet soup THE ADA SUNDAY NEWS 70TH YEAR NO 22 40 PAGES SUNDAY EDITION OF THE ADA EVENING NEWS ADA OKLAHOMA SUNDAY APRIL 8 1973 CENTS WEEKDAY 15 CENTS SUNDAY Old-Fashioned Ride Photos By Don Cook Military Surplus loophole System Exposed WASHINGTON AP The Defense Department lias given away large amounts of surplus military equipment to make up for cuts by Congress in foreign military aid appropriations cording to a General ing Office study Between 1964 and 1969 the value of the excess materials furnished the foreign countries was million greater than what Congress had been told would be given away And the report added some of the cles may not have been truly excess The study was made for the Senate Foreign Relations Com- at the request of man J W Fulbright who made public the watchdog agency's re- port Saturday Fulbright said the tion shows a need for drastic overhaul of the laws controlling U.S military aid policy Regardless of what Con- gress does to tighten tions on this program tive branch officials seem to be able to find a convenient Fulbright said in a ment There are too many pipelines and too many under which military aid can be given to foreign tries The GAO found that military aid to 65 foreign countries totaled billion for fiscal years 1965 through 1972 and that grants of arms and ment classified as excess and loans of ships came to lion The magnitude of this sistance was not readily ent to anyone including the committees of the Congress because some ance flows through pipelines outside the regular funded the GAO report said Appropriations for military assistance amounted to lion or more annually from 1950 through 1966 but began to drop sharply in 1967 The Defense Department said it is coincidental that increased supplies of surplus articles from the Vietnam war became available after 1966 but the GAO report said the ment viewed the extra supplies as a means of offsetting re- in military ance appropriations The GAO found other faults City Must Decide On Parker Reservoir Use By GEORGE GURLEY The Parker Reservoir located east of Ada has moved a step closer to reality Also coming closer is the time for Ada to decide if the city wishes to participate in any of the water provided by impoundment City Manager Jim Cook re- ported Monday to Ada's City Council on a meeting he had attended late in March in Del City The meeting was attended by representatives of the ma Water Resources Board the Corps of Engineers and of various central lahoma cities The Corps of Engineers has now completed engineering dies and is ready to proceed toward securing appropriations if a demand for water at the reservoir is assured The dam site for the Parker Winners Named For This Year's Science Fair Winners from the 183 entries in the annual Oklahoma State Science Fair were announced Friday night at the awards quet closing the two-day meet Junior high and high school dents entries were judged in six regularly offered categories of physical biological earth and space engineering mathematics and and sociological New aspects of the 1973 fair included a gory for group projects in both junior high and senior high Highlighting the awards pre- was the announcement of the two students who will be sent to the International ence Fair in San Diego Calif May They are Cathy Craig Moore and Bill Smith gee In addition the East tral Environmental Award was presented to Bobby Dorries Special awards from and other organizations Kodak Award Dallas Ray Shell Claremore NAZA phen Nowakowski Harrah G Doerner Duncan Kevin Vaughn Mustang and rich T Elliott Tulsa homa Veterinary Medicine sociation Auxiliary Cindy Shaffer Guymon American Speech and Hearing Association Phillip Doerner Duncan Donna Graybill Ardmore and Richard Walker Muskogee Medical Laboratory Doug McQuain Duncan Cindy fer and Leslie cius Tulsa Oklahoma tors Dennis Jenkins Ardmore Keith Garrett homa City Phillip Carlberg Ponca City Carl Alan Henry Putnam City Stanley Lewis Heavener Gordon McDonald See Top Page 2 Reservoir would be across dy Boggy just west of Hwy 75 The vast bulk of the lake would lie between Hwy 75 and Hwy 48 The lake would provide a total of acre feet of storage with the top of the flood control pool ing approximately acres The Corps will construct the reservoir but it will not finance delivery of water to And that's where some deci- sions will be made At the present time Midwest City and Norman together have reserved the entire water out- put of the lake The Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District Ada and Shawnee have also reserved the entire er output These reservations are not definitive at this time and are made in the advance stages of planning to insure will have a piece of the action if they desire Actual allocation of the water will be made by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board But in the not too far dis- tant future a city which is actually interested in Parker water will have to put-up or shut-up A city which wants to exercise water rights will be required to contract for water storage over a basis This is now estimated to cost five cents per gallons Cities can re- serve on a two-thirds and one- third basis Once the structure is completed cities must begin paying for two-thirds of the wa- ter they have reserved Within a period they must be- gin making payments on the remaining one-third City Manager Cook informed councilmen he believes homa City will wind up with the water from Parker He also pointed out that Ada could also probably secure some of the supply if the city decides to move in this direction for tional water Oklahoma City has several things going for it It can de- monstrate a need for the water Officials in Oklahoma City mate they will need the bulk of Parker production by 1980 Oklahoma City's deep interest in the reservoir also lends weight to the ty of construction The reservoir is calculated 10 supply gallons a day Oklahoma City has another big point in its favor It dy has the ty pipeline in operation which could also be used to handle the full Parker flow if sary without additional trans- mission facilities Other cities interested in the Parker would be required to construct transmission es which would represent a staggering outlay at today's gures Ada's city manager believes most of the communities in tral Oklahoma outside ma City will be extremely to exercise their water rights because they would be required to construct pipelines He feels they may elect to ble on another project the tral Oklahoma canal This is a long-range program frequently discussed in recent months designed to move water from southeastern Oklahoma by open canal to areas Central Oklahoma communities hope such a system would be See Reservoir Page 2 Juvenile Crime Increase Forecast OKLAHOMA CITY People too young to prosecute may be committing 75 percent of all serious crimes in the state's capital by next year Oklahoma County prosecutors say Boys between 16 and 18 ready commit half of all crimes in the county says Dist Atty Curtis Harris juvenile age now es to of them must be referred to Juvenile Court be- fore they can be prosecuted Harris and one of his ants Mrs Marti Hirst paint a grim picture of a soaring crime rate among juveniles in homa County the state's gest population center The new juvenile law is only partly to blame said Mrs Hirst Mrs Hirst said crimes by so far this year have about doubled over the same period of 1972 She cited figures from police department records because Juvenile Court records by state law are secret During 1971 police referred cases to Juvenile Court and the figure rose to in 972 Mrs Hirst said If the rate of increase shown in the of this year continues she said the total could hit This takes into consideration that from April to December in 1972 the Police Department dded four new Juvenile Court counselors to screen out many of the cases al the department so they won't overload the court so much she said Last year they handled delinquent acts which never reached the court In fect the number of crimes increased 100 per cent last year and is increasing more rapidly this year It is soaring geometrically Mrs Hirst said only misdemeanors and ies are referred to the Juvenile Court Public defenders sented 406 juveniles in 425 criminal acts last year she said and 222 of those were serious crimes that would have brought charges against adulis Only two she said were Wildlife Commission Kills Proposed Study Of Timber Cutting Technique OKLAHOMA CITY You've got the money We've got the time You cut our hardwood We'll burn your pine Wildlife Commissioner dol Fry as he tried to persuade the Wildlife Commission to study clear cutting of forest land in southeastern Oklahoma He saw it he said on a sign in the area of the vast Co holdings some acres which includes a large paper mill and other facilities His motion to approve a study of the company's practice died for lack of a second The proposal is to be considered again at the meeting May 6 Clear-cutting is the lumbering practice of cutting all trees in large areas of a forest rather than cutting only selected trees The practice is being debated by lumbermen and con- throughout tiie country Commission Chairman liam Morgan of Wetumka said the commission needed more information and suggested that former Paul Roeber of Idabel be asked to attend the May meeting In response to questions from other commissioners Fry said he doubts the commission could make Weyerhaeuser stop since it is privately owned land He said some changes might re- sult however if the sion could make the study and confer with Weyerhaeuser They've also got to get along with the local Fry said referring to the sign Wildlife Department Game Chief Dick Williamson had re- quested permission to apply for a federal grant to con- duct the study The state would be required to add to the federal funds Fry said Lumber Co which sold out to ser had made studies of the of clear cutting but he said the commission needed an objective study Fry noted that southeastern Oklahoma is the state's pal deer hunting area The posed study would involve about acres of privately owned land on which public hunting is permitted by ment with Weyerhaeuser as adults That is less than one per cent Mrs Hirst says there is in- creasing frequency of older persons using juveniles The cases in which an adult and a juvenile cooperated have increased dramatically Mrs said indicating we have morf situations where an older person plans a crime and a venile executes it Then we have difficulty ting the juvenile even to testify and the professional criminals and juvenile offenders are using this new law to escape There are numerous causes she said but babysitters booze and barbiturates have a great deal to do with it Ada Camp Fire Girls To Hold Projects Fair Ada Camp Fire Girls show their wares Friday Sponsored by the Ada cil the fair is scheduled p.m at the armory on N Broadway The Camp Fire Girls Fair is designed to let parents and members of the general public see what various groups are doing the program and what special projects are available to hern More than 300 girls will representing all the Ada schools as well as schools in Latta and Homer This year he focus is on creative arts and Mrs Doyle Johnson director for the fair said a wide ranse of programs and exhibits will be featured See Project Page Z with the use of excess military articles in connection with for- eign aid The auditors calculated that million might have been saved in 1971 by using such ex- cess stocks such as trucks in- stead of buying new ones to meet military aid orders They said the U.S embassy and military mission in Taiwan were unable to account for 105 of the 146 ships loaned to the Republic of China since 1954 HOWARD C SOMMER Sommer To Give Annual Chamber Banquet Address Howard C Sommer divisional vice president in charge of strial sales for General Tire and Rubber Co Akron Ohio is the featured speaker for the annual Ada Chamber of Com- merce banquet The banquet is scheduled ril 17 at East Central Suite College in the Student Union Ballroom The president's reception is set for p.m to give ber members and guests an opportunity to meet the General Tire executive The banquet be- gins at 7 p.m and reservations should be made at he Ada Chamber of Commerce General Tire is now in the process of opening a new duction facility in Ada Sommer has been associated the industry for 43 years He has been an executive of the industrial products division since 1958 A native of Chicago he is a graduate of Northwestern Uni- versity He joined the company as sales manager and in 1964 was advanced to a vice dent's post Since he began his association with the company General Tire has nearly doubled industrial products sales This has expansion of divisional with new plants in and Ind Fort ith and most recently in Ada Sommer is active in civic and community activities in sh Ind where he ters in his capacity as of his division He is on the Board of Trustees of the Wa- bash County Hospital He also serves as a deacon of the Church Sommer and his wife live on a farm near W abash where thoy raise quarter horses and Angus cattle Teaching Degree No Longer Offers Much Security One of the nicest things about being young is casting caution to the wind and hitching a ride from a friend only problem here is that Julie Mitchell didn't select a sturdy steed Her friend Shelly Jones stumbled and both girls took a tumble The girls are second graders at Hayes School By ERNEST THOMPSON Once upon a time not long ago a teaching degree was like a security blanket If a college student intended to go into real estate used cars or insurance he would still go through the motions of getting a degree in education just in case there was a depression or something The country would always need teachers right? Wrong There is no surplus of ers anywhere except in a few teaching elds In fact the ket For teachers is glutted and this sonny's graduates may find it extremely difficult to find jobs people have expected this for some time When a state junior college recently opened up a position in history it is said 160 people applied most of whom had ad- degrees Spokesmen at East Central State College verify the age of jobs for teachers Dr Wendell Altmiller head of the education ment puts it We have to admit the job shortage is serious in general Merle Jamison director of student placement reveals that interviews with public school recruiters is down from 69 just four years ago to eight this year In other words just four years ago 69 school tems and a few private arranged interviews with graduating seniors It has de- creased about 80 per cent In job openings the decrease is also dramatic Last year the were overflowing with schools seeking math art and social studies teachers This year the list is almost For some reason entary jobs are still about the same as a year ago Also ial education posts are plentiful But for most part the trend is definitely downward Miss Jamison admits the al in job placements She also sees a bright side It may not be as bad as it she says If a graduate is fairly mobile he or she can usually get a ing job If they are willing to go to other states or other parts of Oklahoma they might be successful Altmiller echoes that theme We are faced with Oklahoma students and even East Central he said Several years ago many of our f headed for New Mexico California Colorado or Texas because of the higher wages Now Oklahoma wages have im- proved and the students want to stay closer to home There is where the rub is In the inner-city systems there is still a shortage of teachers There has been a sort of flight of teachers from the big cities Also special cation people are still in de- mand But in the average school system they're just not hiring Altmiller mentioned a ed federal cutback in some areas as a definite factor Right here at home for example Ada is not hiring because of ed cuts from the federal ment Altmiller noted one other problem The schools for several years have considered ing programs but they said they couldn't find qualified teachers in certain fields Now we have the qualified people but it is doubtful if the people are willing to pay more taxes to provide for additional grams What does this do to East Central See Grads Page 2
