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...Trojans are good, but the best team that they will play all year is Oklahoma--the same Oklahoma that is now 4-2-1. When, and if, USC goes to the Rose Bowl, all it will have to do is beat a team from the hapless Big Ten--an effort that hardly merits a national title...
Humorist Will Rogers, Oklahoma's favorite son, once joshed a former U.S. Treasury Secretary: "Mac, knowing you was manager of Uncle Sam's Treasury so long, I thought you'd be well heeled." Rogers' homespun irreverence about official greed may be timeless, but Oklahomans today are not laughing. A three-year federal investigation of the state's elected officials has found that graft is routine and nearly ubiquitous in Oklahoma county government, and has added as much as $10 million a year to the state's road-maintenance costs. Only one county commissioner...
Cecil Parker, a former commissioner who will plead guilty, speaks of the corruption with a candor bordering on nonchalance. "This thing's been happening since they made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between...
...estimate or a new tax reform at the drop of a camera- have also become folk heroes of a sort. Republican Pete Domemci of New Mexico is enhancing his image as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Another star is James R. Jones, the pleasantly determined Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma who chairs the House Budget Committee. In the battle over figures that now commands the front pages and more time than the Join Chancellors probably would like to give it on the nightly news, Jones has been particularly prescient and responsible. He saw the budget crunch coming back...
...identified from photographs as participants in the August attack have been arrested on charges of criminal damage to property, mob action or aggravated battery. (All are free on bond.) Kerr-McGee President James G. Randolph, 51, a retired Air Force major general, flew to Galatia from corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City and ordered work resumed. The chain-link fence has been rebuilt. A score of bright yellow bulldozers, scrapers and earthmovers are growling back and forth, tossing up giant dust clouds as they level the site for shaft sinking. At night, the construction equipment is drawn up in a cluster...