European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse . City s underground kept Busy making tools. And marriage Between High school or College and graduate school Between Jen what you might Call a classic dropout said in who is 30 and divorced. I worked for firm and started my own business in e a lot of Money but i decided i could r worked for room and Board at a Utah ski1 his hand at beating the system in be i spent five months sailing the Caribbean. Sloop living primarily of the sea. I interested in testing my capabilities we atrium requirements for living really Are i said. L Wisdom said that she took the coarse a she b into spiritual awareness get i touch with myself and who i she Isi of divorced and the Mother of a Small .-.hamilton, a 24-year-old former College High dlr is an excommunicated member of the of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints Sheds using her time in survival school to con her she wants to go Back to the Church More than 125 Miles of hiking the groups of women reunited at a Clearing in the aspens Sant Creek below the Summit of Boulder in the Dixie National Forest. The nearest was Boulder Utah 25 Miles away. _ Rushing Waters of pleasant Creek the sur butt a Camp and settled Down for nearly a by erected a couple of Indian style shelters Long poles raised like the supports for a tee covered with Long strips of bark. The wheat into hour and made fishing Hooks out and line out of milkweed fiber. They put outbid made with Sticks and rocks. Was there that Terr Ferons killed Thep. Houston told the group that the sheep kill a teaming experience in a primitive sur they were instructed on How the animal in its groups were assigned to make sausages organs and intestines to prepare bread in stomach to strip and dry some meat As Jer i the hide and to roast the shoulders in a pit. I Mutton roast was their first and last m the trip. A their Mutton Jerky some smoked fish hand our and Cornmeal they set out from pleas on the final 10 Days of their had to drop out for medical reasons. Of amp now numbered 32. They divided into five or so and went in different directions Polhe desert canyons that drained into the is Juver. Then for four or five Days and nights a was on his own alone in the desert. A a 22-year-old Brigham Young senior it. N.j., looked Forward to the Solo Peri i never really been alone for More than a in whole life he said. 17, 1978 by John a Crewdson new York times when summer arrived in Oklahoma City residents of the steamy City prepared to go underground. Literally underground be cause "o.k. City As it likes to be known is really two cities in one. Above ground Are the shining Glass and steel towers monuments to Oklahoma s accelerating economic Boom. Below Are the tunnels blocks and blocks of winding air conditioned passage that connect most of the major downtown buildings. Thus it is possible for anyone who works downtown to avoid the summertime altogether. He leaves an air conditioned House in the morning drives to work in an air conditioned Auto Parks in an underground garage walks through the Cool subterranean Maze to an air conditioned office building and then reverses the process at the end of the is not even necessary to go outside at lunch time to grab a bite or do a Little shopping. The brightly painted softly carpeted tunnels Are lined with restaurants and a variety of shops jewellers Banks Barbers florists an opticians. There Are also a couple of bars but there is no telling How much longer they will be in badness. Liquor by the drink is still illegal in Oklahoma and forthe last couple of months state agents and the local police have been working overtime to close Down the saloons by arresting bartenders and cocktail waitresses and hauling them and their liquor of f to jail. For some reason the raids seemed to intensify after the news reached Here in Early june that North Carolina had finally gone wet and left Oklahoma to carry the Banner of Temperance alone a fitting tribute to a state that did not repeal prohibition until 1959. Since repeal it has been permissible to take one sown bottle along to dinner or to Purchase a drink at a. Private club but the Law is widely flouted. Saloons in the Guise of clubs Are everywhere and the Only criterion for admission to most of them is to not look like a member of the vice squad. to close them Down has provoked much muttering not just about the inconvenience caused to three Martini lunches but also about selective enforcement of the liquor Laws. The preserves of the powerful such As the Petroleum club in Tulsa and the watering holes frequented by state legislators in Oklahoma City so far have been untouched As have downtown hotels. Curiously most of the raids have taken place in okla homa City and Tulsa which have overwhelmingly voted wet whenever the liquor Issue has appeared on the ballot while the bars in the heavily fundamentalist Rural coun ties which have always voted dry have managed for the most part to operate unmolested. The liquor Issue has created some fear that the promis ing economic futures of Tulsa and Oklahoma City both certifiable Boom towns May be curbed by the provincialism of the surrounding Countryside where the requisites of modern growth and the need to Cater to outsiders May not be fully understood or accepted. This May or May not prove to be True but it is in disputable that there Are regional differences in the. Way outsiders Are viewed. In the cities a foreign accent whether from the East coast or the Middle East and there Are More of both All the time passes without comment in the country anyone who looks or talks differently is certain to be asked eventually though in a disarmingly Friendly manner where he is from what he does and Why he is the questions Are prompted by curiosity and caution not distrust or dislike they have their roots inthe history of Oklahoma As a place that nobody wanted and that was settled by people who had nowhere else Togo. Early in the last Century thousands of Cherokee Indi ans were driven there from North Carolina on foot to make room for the White Man along the expanding East pm Seaboard. They were followed in reconstruction by freed stave who flocked Here to establish All Black towns a handful of which survive today. The eighty liners who descended on Oklahoma in the fabled land Rush were mostly poor Whites looking for a better life. And close on their heels came the outlaws who turned the Cimarron bad lands into a Retreat for hunted criminals. Having used the state in the last Century As a kind of sociological damping ground the outsiders began this Century by treating Oklahoma As though it existed merely to give up its resources to the rest of the country not just its Gas and Oil but everything from race horses to baseball players. The last is still a sore Point for the state that produced greats ranging from Mickey Mantle and Allie Reynolds to Johnny Bench and Bobby Murcer has never had a sections on the St. In his Long last however Oklahoma s time seems to have come. The absence of development Over the years Haslet it with abundant Clear water to the East clean air everywhere and a population density that is a tenth of that of the Northeast. With the added Factor of highly preferential tax treat ment it has become a Magnet not Only for major Industry a big general motors Plant is the latest Plum but also for Commerce As Well. Southwest emers have always taken Pride i having had enough sense unlike the people in Boston and new York to keep their horses off the downtown streets. But recently the Oklahoma City police department announced that it was considering a plan to put some of its of filers Back on horses. A department spokesman said the move was intended not just to save gasoline but also to help the officers a never in the downtown area which he said had become so congested that the motorized patrols simply cannot get As in Boston and new York he might have added. The stars and stripes Page is
