Cluttered Corner By Milt Phillips OKLAHOMA’S LEGISLATORS are hearing proponents and opponents of the “Equal Rights” amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If 36 state legislatures approve the proposal it will become an amendment to, and a part of the U.S. Constitution. We have noted on teevee and read in our state newspapers, some very emotional pleas to legislative committees to approve the amendment. We have also viewed on teevee, and read in the newspapers, some very sound arguments against the proposed amendments. It seems to us the opponent of the “equal rights” amendment have made the more sound, sensible arguments. The proponents and supporters seem to depend more on emotion. We recall watching one lady attorney appear before a legislative committee with the teevee cameras grinding. Her presentation was calm, made sense to us, and contained logic rather than emotion. On the same teevee program we noted one of the lady proponents make an emotional speech, seemingly attempting to elicit sympathy for an “abused, minority, ill-treated group” of women in the USA. Somehow this appeal didn’t ring true to us. When one lady we watched on teevee as she appeared before the Oklahoma lawmakers, she insisted the women do not want special treatment “as a weaker sex” under state and federal laws. They wanted EQUALITY she insisted. We don’t believe that. Women are entitled to have, and should have the protection state and federal laws provide for them. They bear the children. They own the sensitive nature of the human being to a far greater extent than the male. They have been accorded a high place because they deserve such a place in enlightened society. These are the views we see and read are being presented by the opposition to the so called (and we think misnamed) “equal rights” amendment. We want our wife and daughter and granddaughter and daughter-in-law to have more than “equal” rights – we want them to have preferential rights. We hope our state legislators agree with the sound presentations of opposition, such as that being made by a prominent lady legislator from Edmond, Jan Turner. We hope our State Representative and our State Senator from this district vote a resounding “No” when this comes to a vote in the state legislature, if it does get that far. -oOo WA S H I N G TON (UPI) – For years former United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle and his two top aides rode around in big, shiny Cadillacs.

Now, with Boyle voted out of his job and a new president, Arnold R. Miller, installed, the three Cadillacs are being auctioned off to the highest bidder. One of Miller’s campaign promises was to get rids of them.

You have to be a UMW member to bid, and you have to start with a minimum of $1,125 for a 1967 model, $2,350 for a 1969, and $3,425 for a 1970.

An ad in the upcoming issue of the UMW Journal says the 1969 model has “never been exposed to the wear and tear of coalfield driving.”

Miller has leased two Chevrolets to get around. He says he will have no full-time chauffeur as Boyle did.