Word: okey
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...financed. When the center was proposed a decade ago, university spokesmen told the legislature they did not want it unless both building and operating costs could be separately financed and guaranteed. It must not, they insisted, be dependent on the legislature's appropriation whims. Then-Governor Okey L. Patteson pushed through a penny-a-bottle "pop tax." Every man, woman and child in the state who has gulped down a soft drink since July 1951 has put up 1? for the center. The tax has yielded $25 million of the $30 million that the center has cost thus...