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Race riot kills
2 men in small
Oklahoma town
United Press International
IDABEL, Okla. — Six thousand
people live in Idabel; just under
2,000 of them are black. The state
human rights director says commun
ity relations have been a nagging
problem.
But the deaths of three people in
two days — two of them during a
night-long riot — made the assess
ment sound disturbingly low-key.
Idabel, which lies in the south
eastern corner of Oklahoma, was
quiet Monday night, but not because
the town’s problems had been
solved, but because most people
were afraid to go outside.
Nearly all businesses had closed
before dark. More than 50 Oklahoma
Highway Patrol troopers patrolled
the area, along with about 100 city
and county officers.
Townspeople gathered in small
groups Monday to discuss the situa
tion, and one said he planned to be
ready for trouble if it came.
“I’m certainly not going over to
their (the blacks’) part of town, but
they had better not come over here,
power plant worker Bill Self said.
‘T’ve got five guns and they’re all
loaded.”
Grocery store owner Bob Voyles
pointed to bullet holes in the front of
his store and said he would be clos
ing “as soon as it gets dark. I’m not
worried about myself, but I’ve got
some women that work here.”
The violence that erupted Sunday
night followed a several hour march
on City Hall be nearly 100 blacks
demanding an immediate arrest in
the slaying of a black teen-ager near
an all-white nightclub.
Authorities said Henry Jackson,
15, was killed Saturday night while
he and several other black youths
were apparently burglarizing autos
in the club's parking lot.
Anthony DeShazo, 29, of Hora-
tion, Ark., was arrested at De-
Queens, Ark., Sunday night and
murder charges were filed Monday.
Authorities said the suspect would
be returned to Oklahoma, but would
not say where he would be held.
Killed in Sunday night’s confron
tation between an estimated 200
blacks and nearly 300 law enforce
ment officers were former Idabel
police officer Ruben Farmer and
William Mack Jr. of Tom, Okla., a
black man whose body was found in
the riot area Monday morning.
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Four other men were injured, or
of them hospitalized in stable cond
tion.
The mayor met Monday afternoo
with representatives of the blac
population in what one observe
terms a hostile confrontation. Meye
Helms, however, said he “felt w
had some positive results.”
The Rev. Ralph White, minister e
the Westside Baptist Church, said
meeting of black community leader
was scheduled today at his church
“We don’t have a quarrel with th
police department,” White said
“Sometimes we don’t think the;
come as quickly as they should. ”
However, one black man, win
would not give his name, was mon
blunt.
“There is no trust here in th<
police department or any law en
forcement agency in McCurtir
County,” he said Monday.
Oklahoma Human Rights Com
mission Director William Rose
headed a five-man team sent tc
Idabel to attempt to mediate the
situation.
“There is a serious problem in
Idabel,” Rose said. “We have re
ceived several complaints from that
area over the past several months,
but they have all been the kind that
were not formal complaints and just
indicated poor community relations
existed.”
Survey shows
farmers intend
to expand croj.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A survey in
which farmers said they intend to
increase 1980 corn acreage by about
4 percent over last year was taken
prior to the embargo of grain to Rus
sia, but officials say the results are
still valuable.
Released Monday, the survey was
virtually completed by Jan. 4, when
President Carter announced an
embargo of 17 million tons of grain
and 1 million tons of soybeans in re
taliation for the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan.
Agriculture policymakers consi
dered the survey an indication of
whether a probable crop might be so
large that farmers should be paid not
to plant a portion of their feed grains
crop this spring.
In addition, policymakers are
studying reports that indicate
domestic demand for grain.
Farmers indicated they would
plant about the same amount of soy
bean acreage as last year, the Agri
culture Department said.
The report showed that farmers
plan the same amount of cotton
acreage as last year.
The preliminary January report
surveyed 20,000 farmers in 34 states
where more than 95 percent of the
crops are grown.
The report showed farmers in
tended to plant 81.6 million acres of
corn in the 34 states.
Total planting of all livestock feed
grains — corn, sorghum, barley and
oats — was put at 119 million acres,
up 3 percent from last year.
Soybean acreage was projected at
70.7 million acres.
Durum wheat acreage is expected
to be 4.85 million acres and other
spring wheat acreage is expected to
be 15.7 million acres.
Farmers indicated they would
plant upland cotton on 13.8 million
OCAW seeks
court order
United Press International
A lawyer for the oil workers union
Tuesday accused Texaco and Port
Arthur police of collaborating against
peaceful picketing outside the oil
company’s largest refinery and asked
a state district judge to allow the
pickets to proceed without interfer
ence.
Judge Jack Brookshire of
Beaumont scheduled a hearing for
Friday on the restraining order re
quest.
Brookshire last week granted Tex
aco’s request to restrain the union
from mass picketing and violence.
An estimated 20,000 Oil, Chemic
al and Atomic Workers union mem
bers across the state have walked
off their jobs since the strike started
Jan. 8 when negotiations for higher
wages and larger company health in
surance contributions broke off.
The union complained that
Texaco:
— collaborated with the police to
interfere with lawful picketing.
— conspired with the city of Port
Arthur to “cause undue police ac
tion” to be taken against strikers.
— authorized the illegal use of
firearms and weapons by Texaco
security forces.
— authorized the false imprison
ment and illegal arrests by Texaco
security forces of OCAW members.
— conspired with the city to use
strikebreakers.
— drove cars and trucks through
picket lines at high speeds, endan
gering strikers.