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crctary of the airforce Harold
_ alt)ott told investigating senators
s(|loday he is getting out of the man-
agcment consultant firm of Paul
EU>. Mulligan and company.
Tp! ■ Even as Talbott was giving this
P* s<word to the senators, President
i!ieEisenhower was telling a news con-
ference he will decide after the
J I(,senate inquiry ends whether Tal-
oott has used his office improperly
1”^ and should be fired.
|| V Eisenhower said that in general
ri(fhe actions of a public- official must
llcfipe impeccable from the standpoint
K.ipf both law and ethics, and should
|r n a void giving any impression of
T . | wrongdoing.
J/'j Writes to Partner
l£' j Talbott told the senate investiga-
tions subcommittee he decided five
! lays ago to get out of the Mulligan
c firm from which he has received
pa(132,032 in profits since becoming
• ,‘pirforce ^secretary in early 1953.
t The air secretary said he has
“ already written his partner, Mulli-
* n;an, saying he is taking legal steps
afo divest himself of his role in the
f! partnership.
It was Talbott's partnership in
® ,he firm which led to the hearings
tlby the subcommittee on the propri-
oty and legality of Talbott’s role
*t(in private business enterprise,
tj. Clients Have Contracts
The Mulligan firm is a manage-
, | ment engineering concern. It spe-
cializes in instructing businesses
in ways to cut costs in record keep-
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In Bulgaria; 57, Including
Americans Feared Dead
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Jig and clerical hire.
|AC Some Mulligan clients have gov-
1'5 ?rnment contracts.
. ., Talbott told the oommittee he
.‘jjfS convinced he had done nothing
»J,uilegal or unethical in connection
_,v.lwith the company but that he now
j ], -ealizes he was "mistaken” in al-
L-1 owing his Pentagon office to be
I lsed for letter writing dealing with
mVlulligan activities.
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H,n Eisenhower indicated that what
Vdecision he makes about Talbott
1,4*01 turn on ethical considerations.
Ike Praises Record
(to Eisenhower said there has been
10 suggestion Talbott has been
>l,guilty of fraud or wrongdoing in
n,.,i legal sense. lie also said the air
I, .eeretary has performed his offi-
4,’fial duties almost brilliantly.
•(| But Eisenhower said the senate
«;Knquiry into Talbott's private busi-
ly less activities while in government
fi*', .ervice raises the question whether
na proper standard of ethics was
/iolated.
h, He said it also must be decided
luwhether Talbott used his office im-
1| iroperly or merely used his per-
sonal influence in a manner di-
vorced from the office.
Eisenhower said so far as he Is
|l.0-oncerned the matter in temporari-
l(ny in abeyance. He said he would
pl^nake a thorough study of the mat-
fer and then would make his de-
JiV'ision.
Waurika Raises
Reservoir Fund
House Studies
Bill on State
||i< Military Fund
;.w WASHINGTON, July 27 —Of!—A
| r(.ienatc approved bill, carrying $30
i(TiillionK for Oklahoma military
i’,n>ases including land extension at
I'lj^ort Sill, went to a house-senate
J?r(.’onference committee today.
P|d The senate passed the bill yester-
l\tday after a long fight over the
ylrf°rt Sill expansion proposal.
Lv Oklahoma Senators Robert S.
f, Kerr and Mike Monroney defend-
■' 1,'d the Fort Sill project over ob-
Liections of conservation groups.
K,js The bill appropriates $3,053,000
r, j'or Fort Sill, of which $2,216,000
I,PJwill be used to acquire some 31,000
I ,sicres of land. Of this, 10,700 acres
j\10vill be annexed from the Wichita
t, wildlife refuge and 20,320 acres
rrwill be purchased from private
owners.
! s The house recently knocked out
1 lltill of the military expansion mon-
ey, and the conference committee
must now approve the senate
:hanges for it to clear congress.
In addition to Fort Sill, the bill
ncludes these projects:
Tinker airforce base $205,000,
/ance airforce base at Enid $871,-
>00, Altus airforce base $8,586,000,
Dlinton-Sherman airforce base $10,-
i!08,000, Ardmore airforce base $6,-
800,000.
HOT TOT GETS CHILL WARNING—Patrolman Jim Ken-
nedy tells little David Brzowski to get out of the nude at a
bathing beach in Cleveland, Ohio. The 2V£-year-old put on
a pair of trunks rather than argue whether or not adult
laws make sense on a hot day.
Road Policy Unchanged; Alarm
Is Quelled by Two Legislators
A brief flurry of alarm over the future of Canadian county
highway projects was quelled today with clarification of state
highway department policy by State Senator Jim Rinehart
and State Representative Jean Pazoureck.
Concern, particularly over prospects of U. S. 66 improve-
ments, had been expressed by Jack Burmeier, chamber man-
ager, after he had been notified that the state would not in
the future pay 50 percent of the cost of purchasing right-of-
way for federal aid urban road
projects.
However both state legislators to-
I day erased this fear, with Rine-
hart pointing out that in any case
city right-of-way for the proposed
| U. S. 66 work is already secure
since the city owns parkings along
the route.
WAl RIKA. July 27—flp)—Citizens Little Change Sean
of this often-flooded city had col-1 Both stressed that joint resolu-
lected $8,516 today in their drive tion No. 43, passed by the state
to promote a $17,000,000 reservoir legislature, means little change for
on Beaver creek above the city. the state and was designed prin-
Fmance Chairman O. W. "Cot- cipally to insure policies already
ton” Thorn said he was gratified followed by the highway depart-'
and amazed by the contributions ment.
and estimated the fund would pass Pazoureck declared that the res-
$10,000. j olution embraced matters “which
He said one mother gave $12 she \ have been the policy of the state
had been saving for a telephone highway department all along,”
call to her soldier son in Japan, and advised local road backers
that "it won't affect urban pro-
jects here at all.”
Provisions Itemitsd
The resolution provides, among
u„,.„ „„,i i« , .. | other things, that no contract for
C t.zcns here and in several other construction, reconstruction, main-
southwestern Oklahoma communi- tenance or any tv of highway
ies have formed the Beayer-Cow work ^ advL’rtlswi fo* bids
^‘\nrW.a'er^"d station to unless a„ rights.of.way have beon
for.i k dam . . . secured by the state or local units
It would be constructed six miles of governnient
northwest of here. Its uses would
include water for municipal use,
He said a laborer gave 50 cents
and announced he was skipping
lunch that day so he could contri-
bute.
Association Formed
industry, irrigation, flood control
and recreation.
It stipulates that in the ease of
urban projects the city will furnish
all necessary rights-of-way, clear
...... of all obstructions, within the city
Construct^ has been yecom- Umjts without cost l0 the state.
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Rebels Advance As
Buffalo Forfeits
El Reno’s Legion Rebels took an
?asy step toward the state AAU
funior Olympics baseball cham-
>ionship today when their initial
natch scheduled tonight against
3uffalo was forfeited by the west-
•rn Oklahoma team.
The Rebs will take advantage of
he "free” game for a rest tonight
ind return to Enid's Failing park
Thursday evening against today’s
vinner of a Lawton-Mangum 14-
/ear-old game.
mended by the Arkansas-White-Red
river inter-agency study, but it has
never been authorized by congress.
Would Mako Hugo Lake
The proposed dam would create
a 227,000 acre lake, approximately
half again as large as Lake Mur-
ray.
The cities of Comanche, Lawton,
Ryan, Terrel, Duncan, Temple,
Addington and Hastings, and Wich-
ita Falls, Tex., are backing the
project.
Money from the fund drive will
be used to finance delegations to
congress and to buy auto bumper
stickers and lapel buttons with the
slogan:
“Let’s put flood water to work.
Build the Waurika reservoir."
Notice of the policy was sent to
the chamber of commerce in a let-
ter from C. A. Stoldt, state high-
way director.
Ike Considers
Inviting Red
Aerial Surveys
WASHINGTON, July 27 —ur*—
President Eisenhower said today
he believes he would allow peace-
ful foreign planes to fly over any
area of the United States to carry
out his Geneva proposal for ex-
change of military blueprints and
aerial inspection.
The Eisenhower proposal was
made at the Geneva meeting, con-
tingent on agreement by Russia
to allow the same inspection and
provide the same full information
this country would give.
At the outset of his news con-
ference this morning, Eisenhower
said he thought it was needless
to take so much time in attempting
to emphasize the importance he
attaches to his week at Geneva.
Start Toward Paace
But for one week of argument
and debate which sometimes was
intense, he said, there never was
a recurrence of the old method of
resort to invective and nationalis-
tic abuse.
That, he said, is a great gain he
hopes never will be lost.
He said there was no atmosphere
of glowing promise offering hope
for a new era starting now. But
he said there was a beginning, and
if we are wise enough to do our
part something for the great good
of man may grow out of it.
The first question asked was
whether Eisenhower would extend
the privilege of aerial reoonnais-
sanee to cover atomic energy in-
stallations.
Few Prohibitions
Eisenhower said he wouldn’t
want to give complete details of
what he has in mind without con-
sulting professionals and techni-
cians. But he said the blueprint,
the layout of military establish-
ments he has proposed to exchange,
should be complete. He said that
does not necessarily include manu-
facturing and production plants.
Nevertheless, he said, he would
place a minimum of prohibition on
areas to be inspected. He said he
thought he would allow peaceful
planes to fly over any particular
area they wished.
Only in this way, he said, can
others be convinced that such areas
hold nothing capable of fostering
imminent attacks.
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MIDDLECOFF DEFEATED—Cary Middlecoff, left, helps his
victor, PGA champion Doug Ford hold the big cup which
Ford won Tuesday in his 4 and 3 defeat of the golfing dent-
ist on the Meadowbrook Country club greens in Detroit It
was the first major title Middlecoff ever lost.
Junior Golfers
Place in Tourney
Four young El Reno golfers fail-
ed to emerge in the championship
brackets, but all won medals Tues-
day in the state AAU Junior Olym-
pic golf tournament held on Okla-
homa City’s Hillcrest Country club
greens.
In the 14-15 year group, Ronnie
Morris won fourth place; Victor
Ashford won second in the 12-year-
old playoffs; and Jerry Bass and
Dick Maxey won third and sixth
in that order in the 11-year-old
brackets.
Aw, Shucks!
LOS ANGELES, July 27-dPV—
The police commission quickly
cancelled yesterday its order
for “2,000 pounds of beer” for
city jail inmates.
The commission said the or-
der was a typographical error
and should have been "beef" in-
stead of “beer.”
Road Readied
For Pavement
At Piedmont
County residents living east of
Piedmont will have smoother sail-
ing on their trips to El Reno, if
work underway by Commissioner
Ray Tech goes off on schedule.
Tech, district 1 commissioner to-
day, said he has received a work
order to construct grading and
drainage for 4.7 miles north and
east of Piedmont. Blacktop paving
is slated to follow under state con-
tract.
The road work includes seven-
tenths mile from Piedmont north,
and four miles east. The strip will
link paving on State Highway 4 to
the Edmond road, Tech said.
In addition, county equipment
will be used to haul all materials
for the work, Tech said, which
will save money for the county.
He estimated cost of hauling,
grading and drainage at approxi-
mately $16,500,
In an effort to get the road pav-
ed as quickly as possible, county
machinery already had started
grading the stretch before the
work order was processed.
Federal Road
Plan Rejected
WASHINGTON, July 27—OPL-The
house today rejected 184-178 Presi-
dent Eisenhower's plan for a mul-
ti-billion dollar roadbuilding pro-
gram financed through long term
bonds.
The standing, party-line vote,
was subject to a possible later roll-
call which conceivably could ro-
verse the outcome.
But it pointed toward probable
acceptance instead of a rival Dem-
ocratic proposal for a highway
program to be paid for through
$15,423,000,000 in added automotive
taxes over the next 16 years.
200 Kids Set
For 4-H Camp
At State Park
AN estimated 200 Canadian
county 4-H boys and girls
are preparing today for their
annual two-day camp Monday
and Tuesday at Roman Nose
park.
They will leave in privately-
oyvned cars and trucks at 9:30
a m. Monday from the west side
of the courthouse and have lunch
at their camp grounds.
In addition to general handi-
craft work and other demonstra-
tions scheduled for the camp, the
youngsters will be in line for
dally swim sessions, in addition
to such activities as fly-fishing
lessons for the more active an-
glers — and plain, old hook-and-
sinker loafing for others.
Crowning feature of the 4-H
camp will be a big chicken din-
ner at 6 p.m. Tuesday, before
returning home. El Reno’s Ro-
tary club will be host at the din-
ner and co-sponsor of the entire
two-day event.
Adequate adult supervision has
been arranged by the county
farm and home demonstration
agents for all activities.
CASE DISMISSED
LOS ANGELES, July 27 —up_
Longshoreman Carl Krueger won
a fast acquittal yesterday on a
petty theft charge of stealing and
eating a peanut candy bar. Krue-
ger showed the court he has only
five teeth and none of them meet.
PREPAREDNESS
HART, Mich., July 27—IW—The
Michigan Christmas tree associa-
tion met here today to discuss
plans to promote the sale of Michi-
gan evergreens during the Yule-
tide. The temperature was expect-
ed to be in the 90 s.
Evidence Hit In
Doctor's Trial
McALESTER, July 27 —up>— At-
torneys for Dr. Ben T. Galbraith
today attempted to toss out some
of the state’s most important evi-
dence in his upcoming trial for the
murder of his wife and three chil-
dren.
Fred W. Whctsel and Jim Rine-
hart, counsel for the 36-year-old
heart specialist, filed a motion ask-
ing district court to suppress evi-
dence uncovered in the ashes of
the fire-gutted Galbraith home.
Search Called Illegal
The attorneys contended Sheriff
Dee Sanders and others searched
the house illegally because they
had no search warrant.
In sifting the ashes, officers
found a broken wine bottle and
determined the house had been set
afire deliberately. They also found
a cloth used to gag one of the
doctor’s three children.
District Judge W. A. Lackey set
a hearing for August 2 on the mo-
tion. The murder trial is set for
August 8.
Confession Signed
Galbraith’s attorneys also filed
notice of intention to seek a change
of venue on a motion to be filed
later. They said it would be based
on grounds he can’t get a fair
trial here.
Dr. Galbraith has signed a writ-
ten confession that he struck his
wife in the head with a wine bot-
tle, injected arsenic into his three
small children and set their home
afire to destroy the evidence.
His attorneys have based their
defense so far on insanity. A jury
last month ruled Galbraith was
sane enough to stand trial.
Weather
Partly cloudy Panhandle to fair
except for afternoon cloudiness
elsewhere through Thursday. Scat-
tered evening thundershowers like-
ly in the Panhandle. Continued
warm. Low tonight 67 to 77, high
Thursday 95 to 102.
Crusading Justice of Peace
Charged With Whisky-Stealing
CHICKASHA, July 27 _OB_
Countering charges hurled at
him, Grady County Attorney Wil-
son Smithen today accused Jus-
tice of the Peace Calvin Strother
of holding back nine bottles of
whisky confiscated two years
ago.
Smithen said he has photo-
graphic evidence that Strother
turned in only half of the 18 bot-
tles he and his vigilantes grabbed
on a 1953 raid.
Smithen was called before the
Grady county grand jury to pre-
sent his information at 11:30 a m.
today. He is scheduled to testify
again this afternoon.
Strother denied the charges,
saying Smithen couldn't have
“any pictures of me stealing
whisky because 1 didn’t steal
any.”
The justice, who led the at-
tempt to disqualify Smithen from
conducting the grand jury probe,
said he has a surprise witness
who wiU testify on whisky activi-
ties. He identified the witness
as a former deputy sheriff.
Smithen and Strother have
been feuding since four special
constables sworn in by the jus-
tice staged a July 4 raid and
confiscated $10,000 worth of
whisky. Strother contends the
county attorney’s arrangement
to split fees with a former as-
sistant, John Paul Walters, is il-
legal. Smithen and Walters claim
no law was broken.
Tax Returns
Check Delayed
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 27—IUV-
The state tax commission won't
photostat federal income tax re-
turns for comparison with state
returns this year, but violators
still stand the chance of getting
caught later, Commission Chair-
man Joe Dunn said today.
Dunn said the commission will
wait until next year and photostat
the 1954 and 1955 returns at the
same time.
The reason, he said, is economy.
It costs about $25,000 to make the
photostats of one year’s returns, he
said, and the cost is about the same
if two years’ returns are included.
“Of course it pays pretty well,”
he said, from taxes collected from
citizens who did not pay all their
state income taxes.
The statute of limitations on tax
returns expires after three years,
he pointed out, so the state will
be able to collect due taxes on
returns only two years old.
Flaming Israeli Craft Falls
In Rugged Hills Near Greece;
Only One of 58 May Be Living
ATHENS, Greece, July 27—(7P1—An Israeli airliner was
forced down in flames in Communist Bulgaria today. Greek
authorities said Bulgarian antiaircraft gunners shot it down
near the Greek border and that all but perhaps one of the
58 persons aboard must be considered dead.
Four of the passengers were Americans.
Israel, alerted that the Constellation had crashed from
some cause, said it had no official information that Bul-
garians fired on it. A foreign ministry spokesman in Jeru-
salem said the Israeli legation in Sofia has been instructed
urgently to investigate circumstances of the crash.
Plane Headed From London
A special Greek government statement, based on ob-
servations of soldiers of the 10th Greek army division in
Macedonia, said the four-engine, American-built craft of the
El A1 lines was felled north of Petritsiu on a flight from
London to Lydda, Israel.
Ihe crash was in rugged territory of Bulgaria, a member
of the Communists’ Warsaw military alliance.
The first word that anything was amiss with the Con-
stellation, which took off from Vienna’s Schechat airport at
4 a m. today on the Vienna-Istanbul leg of its southward
journey, was an SOS intercepted by the airline operations
office and Rome monitors. The message said the plane was
going down in flames.
More Passengers Taken On
Then came an announcement by the El A1 office in Lon-
don that the plane, which took off from London last night,
was believed to have gone down, afire, near the Greek-
Bulganan border. A crew of seven and 15 passengers were
aboard when the plane left London. Other passengers were
picked up in Paris and Vienna.
Hospital Cooler
Father Must
Answer For . .
Jeep Mishap Near Completion
Two traffic charges have been
filed in county court as aftermath
of two automobile accidents, both
on Foreman road.
A. L. Barrett, El Reno route 2,
was charged with allowing an un-
licensed person to drive his jeep,
following an accident Monday in
which five of seven teenage girls
riding in the jeep were hut.
The information filed in county
court said Barrett had permitted
Patricia Ann Barrett, an unlicens-
ed person, to operate the jeep. The
driver was unhurt when the car
went out of control and flipped in
a roadside ditch.
In the other case charges ofi
reckless driving were filed against
Winfield Elzick Lawson, 24, of
329W West Wade, whose car struck
a large water hole as he attempted
to pass another car Sunday, about
four miles east of El Reno on
Foreman road, and overturned ini
a bar ditch.
Complaints in both cases were
made by Trooper Joe Dunn.
Louisiana Man's
Freedom Is Brief
A Louisiana man is being held in
the Canadian county jail under
$2,000 bond after being taken in
custody by Sheriff Tiny Royse fol-
lowing his release from the El
Reno reformatory.
Bond was set Monday by County
Judge Sam Roberson,
The man, named as Edward
Baptiste, alias James Golman alias
Roger Banks, was picked up here
on a felony warrant from New
Orleans, La.
Jim Garrison, assistant district
attorney at New Orleans, wrote
county officials that the man, sen-
tenced there on two theft convic-
tions, had escaped with 18 months
and 22 days of his sentence still
owing.
DRIVER PAYS FINE
William C. Wire, Chicago, 111.,
accused in a complaint by Trooper
Joe Dunn of driving to the left side
of U. S. 66 in a no-passing zone
about 10 miles west of El Reno,
has been fined $5 and $10 costs in
the court of J. H. Craven, justice
of the peace.
Patients and employes at Park
View hospital were heartened to-
day by news that final shipment
of equipment has been received for
air-conditioning the rooms and cor-
ridors, and that the new cooling
system is expected to be in oper-
ation “by Tuesday or Wednesday.”
City Manager C. A. Bentley said
the delayed shipment of necessary
materials arrived last night, and
that workmen were to resume in-
stalling the air-conditioning imme-
diately.
Funds Still Needed
Meanwhile, Park View Founda-
tion, Inc., is concerned with rais-
ing some $1,709 still needed to pay
for the air-conditioning.
Lon C. Booth, foundation presi-
dent, said $4,790.50 was on hand
today, and that efforts would be
increased to obtain the balance
needed.
Donations Deductible
“Our first concern was to ge$
the air-conditioning installed at
quickly as possible, and now thl
it's practically ready to go we caL
concentrate on paying the billA.
Booth said.
He said any size contribution
would be accepted and appreciated,
and that all checks should be made
out to Park View Foundation, Inc.
Booth also pointed out that do-
nations to the air-conditioning fund
are deductible on income tax.
MAN DENIES CHARGES
Thomas Denver Rogers, charged
in county court in a case filed July
14 with omitting to provide for his
minor children, entered a plea of
innocent Tuesday before Judge
Sam Roberson and was admitted
to $500 bail.
VFW, DAVBid
For Seats On
State Board
OKLAHOMA CITY, July Tl-un—
A bid by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and Disabled American vet-
erans for equal authority with the
American Legion on the war vet-
erans commission was launched
today.
The effort to equalize authority
on the board, historically domi-
nated by the Legion, came at a
hearing of the legislative council
veterans committee. The hearing
centered on a dispute over Don
Davis director of the commission.
Harold Potter, Chandler, former
state commander of the VFW, de-
clared “we charge the two Legion
members of the commission are
not fair and impartial.”
Carl Longmire, Pryor, Mayes
county judge and state command-
er of the DAV, said his organiza-
tion recommends that the Legion,
VFW and DAV each have one
member.
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