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IMPROVING the City of Sapulpa’s street equipment is this new
roller operated by Omar Winfield. The roller is used in the
hard-topping program currently underway in which at least 50
blocks will be completed this year. (Staff Photo)
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By ID LIVERMORE
More and more there appears
to be a division of philosophy
and thought between Sen. Fred
R. Harris and Sen. Bobby Ken-
nedy.
This is something new, if it be
the case, because Harris was
best remembered by the voters
last summer for his affiliation
with Kennedy and his pack of fol-
lowers. The relatively slim 50^
000 margin Harris piled up over
an unknown, non-campaigning op-
ponent apparently set the man
from Walters to thinking.
On a tv program Sunday Har-
ris spelled out in dramatic de-
tail another different view he
holds from that of Kennedy. It
had to do with the Sept. 3 elec-
tions in South Vietnam.
Kennedy has viewed the elec-
tions as a put-up job, as a mili-
tary takeover which he vows to
regard as nothing but adictator-
ship. Harris, on the other hand,
pointed out that nothing could be
further from the truth.
Quoting from memory, Har-
ris told his audience the sooth-
sayers predicted the V ietnamese
would never go to the polls to
select a Constitutional Assem-
bly, but they did — some 85
per cent of the elgible voters;
the distractors said the people
would neither vote nor approve
the constitution which is set-
ting up the September vote, but
they did by overwhelming major-
ities; further, the distractors
said the election was a put-up
job and no one but military can-
didates would file, wherein act-
ually a total of 14 candidates
are running for the top office,
most of them making a deter-
mined campaign.
Harris sees the result of the
election as the formation of a
democracy in the path of Asiatic
Communism. Kennedy sees it as
another slight-of-hand takeover
by the military.
Additionally, Harris emphas-
ize his point with a side-take on
the writing and acceptance of our
own constitution which was
something less than an exercise
in democracy. As Harris point-
ed out, we are not in position to
criticize the evolvement of the
Vietnam elections, and the for-
mation of a new government.
Group Backs
Border Road
POTEAU (UPI) - Boosters
of the proposed Industrial Park-
way, a toll road running down
the eastern border of Oklaho-
ma, will organize an associa-
Ciation at a ^peeling in Poteau
Sept. 12.
The toll road would run 220
miles from the Will Rogers
Turnpike near the Kansas and
Mis ;ouri borders to Texas.
Elementary School
Enrollment Tuesday
Sapuipa elementary school stu-
dents will enroll Tuesday, with
school officials expecting about
2,250 in the city’s seven schools
this year.
Enrollment begins at 9 a.m.
at the individual schools, al-
though it is another week —
Tuesday, Sept. 5— before class-
es begin.
Dr. Tom Palmer superintend-
ent of schools, said parents
enrolling a student starting the
first grade should bring the
child’s birth certificate. The
pupil must be 6 years old by
Nov. 2 to start school.
Palmer said a slight increase
in elementary enrollment is an-
ticipated. Last year, after five
days of school, 2,211 students
were enrolled in the elementary Creek to district boundary line,
grades. At the same time, there Grades 1 through 5 only.
were 1,079 in junior high and
1,006 in senior high.
Enrollment will be in the
school where the child is to at-
tend class. Boundaries are as
follows:
Garfield andBrookerT. Wash-
ington — all territory north of
the Frisco railroad, including
west of Main and north of Dew-
ey.
Jefferson — all territory south
of Dewey, west of Main, north of
Rock Creek and west of the
district boundary line. >
Liberty — North of Denton,
east of railroad. Grades 1 thr-
ough 4 only.
South Heights — South of Rock
Washington — South of Frisco
railroad running east and west,
west of Frisco running north and
south, north of Rock C reek and
east of Main street.
Woodlawn — South of Denton
street and east of Frisco rail-
road running north and south.
Fifth and sixth graders liv-
ing in the Liberty district will
go to Woodlawn, and sixth grad-
ers in the South Heights district
will go to Jefferson, Palmer
said.
Children living one and one-
Ky Heckled
On Buddhist
Link To Reds
SAIGON (UPI) — Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky made his first
political campaign appearance
Monday and promptly tangled
with hecklers over whether he
said South Vietnam’s militant
Buddhist “struggle movement”
was Communist.
Ky, running as vice presiden-
tial candidate to Chief of State
Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu,
suggested the voters “sg>ply our
opinion in your right to vote” if
they did not agree with him.
Ky wore a blue civilian suit
and cream colored shoes
instead of his traditional black
flying uniform when he ap-
peared with 10 other presiden-
tial and vice presidential
candidates before the rally in
the ancient imperial capital of
Hue in northern South Vietnam.
Ky was heckled time and
again by members of the
audience of about 5,000 that left
little doubt they opposed his
reign as one of South Vietnam’s
military leaders.
One heckler asked Ky when
he said the Buddhist movement
was Communist. Ky denied he
ever did.
"Yes, you have,” came the
reply from several of his
listeners.
“It was in Hue that Ky’s
paratroopers and combat police
put down Buddhist-inspired riot-
ing and disorders that verged
on civil war in the spring of
1966.”
Ky was greeted with a shout
of "down with Nguyen Cao Ky”
when he appeared. He seemed
unruffled.
His running mate offered
Sunday to meet and talk peace
with Communist Viet Cong
political lexers if they accept-
ed certain conditions.
Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu,
the nation’s chief of state and
leading presidential candidate,
told a political rally of 5,000 he
would meet with National
Toll Up As Reds Spur
Pre-Election Terror
Hospital Horror Unfolds
In Mekong Delta Attack
By RICHARD V. OLIVER
CAN THO, Vietnam (UPI>-
The Communists killed some
patients in their beds.
They got some, terrified,
limping toward the hospital’s
rusty wrought iron gate. They
killed some babies in their
mothers’ arms.
The blood of 46 dead
Vietnamese and 222 wounded
has undone this hospital in the
Mekong Delta. A GI medic
stood with clenched fists.
“There’s something rotten
about blowing up a hospital,” he
said.
"It’s like pumping bullets into
a dead man.”
The terrorists came Sunday,
shortly after midnight, sneaking
up from the rice paddies and
meandering brown rivers
around this provincial capital.
They lobbed in mortar shells
and then got down to murder in
the wards. The riddled walls
were painted with blood and
somehow only five Americans
were wounded. They were
fighting back. The wounded and
ailing Vietnamese had no
chance.
Lt. Col. Earl W. Fletcher of
Moultrie, Ga., chief of staff for
the IV Corps area which
includes the delta, said he
thinks the
aiming tor
here.
Chisholm, Minn.
An Army doctor, Maj. John
Proe of Albuquerque, N.M.,
looked up after 16 hours trying
to repair human damage, said
he remembered he had called
for blood donors. “Right away,
we got units from Americans,”
he said.
He looked down at a small
child whose mother had been hit
by shrapnel in the head and
chest. Proe said, "You know,
Communists were people who say Vietnamese
the American base don’t cry—that they are stoical
— should have been here. These
“There was a strong west-to- people are hurting,
east wind. This shifted the Not all the children could cry.
rounds by 50 yards to the jn ward 9, where some patients
military hospital,” he said. vainly sought shelter under
But the bullets hit the hospital their beds, lay the body of a
and the shells too. "They fom- year old girl who had been
mortared all over town,” said visiting her wounded soldier
nurse Betty Stahl, 26, of father. He lived. She did not.
15 Feared Dead
In Jump Tragedy
By DALY SMITH
HURON, Ohio (UPI) -
Fifteen skydivers who jumped
from a plane from 20,000 feet
through a thick cloud layer and
landed by error in Lake Erie,
miles off target, were missing
and feared dead today in the
worst disaster in sports para-
chute jumping history.
The bodies of two other
half miles or more from their L1|)eration Fron( (NFL) leaders .sky(jjverSj including the only
school are entitled to bus trans-
portation, with the buses sche-
duled to run the first day of
class, Sept. 5.
Americans
Off To See
Elections
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres-
ident Johnson send a specially
chosen delegation of 22 prom-
inent Americans tonight to
Saigon for observance of the
upcoming South Vietnamese
presidential elections.
Accompanying the group as
chief adviser and coordinator
will be Henry Cabot Lodge,
former U.S. ambassador to
Saigon. The President also is
sending a panel of experts in
the electoral process to assist
the observers.
William P. Bundy, assistant
secretary of state for East
Asian affairs, said Sunday that
the government that emerges
from the Sept. 3 election "will
be in a stronger position to
speak for South Vietnam.”
Bundy conceded, however,
that with 11 candidates for
president and vice president in
the field there is little likelihood
of any candidate getting a
majority of the votes. He said
the election would be decided by
a plurality with no run-off.
Report On Probe
To Be Released
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
The Senate Investigating Com-
mittee’s bulky record of its in-
quiry into the Oklahoma Cor-
poration Commission will be
turned over to the attorney
general and other agencies
within a few days, Sen. Roy
Grantham, D-Ponea City, com-
mittee chairman, said today.
Hearing Clinic
Opportunity Set
Appointments are being ac-
cepted at Creek County Health
department for a hearing clinic
to be held Friday. Both child-
ren and adults will be tested
at the clinic.
Dr. Howard Hackworth of the
University of Tulsa Mabee
Speech and Hearing clinic, will
conduct the tests.
Clinics are scheduled each
Friday in September, health de-
partment officials said. Persons
desiring their hearing tested
may call BA4:5531 for an ap-
pointment.
"They’re ready now, and we
will proceed with distribution,”
Grantham said.
Grantham said he had felt it
necessary to obtain approval of
senate president pro tempore
Clem McSpadden to release the
records, some of which have
not been aired publicly. He
said Grantham granted permis-
sion.
Four Month Study
Copes, Grantham said, will be
given to the attorney general,
the state Crime Bureau Oklaho-
ma Bar Association, Dist. Atty.
Curtis Harris of Oklahoma City,
the Senate and House. The
chairman said it would take a
few days to get the records to
those designated.
They include a 2,700-page
transcript of the testimony,
only:
— If they ask for the meeting.
— If they come (apparently to
Saigon with good conduct
passes) as individuals and not
as an NFL official body. Thieu
said he still refuses to recognize
the Communist group.
"They will be given safe
conducts to go back to their
places after the discussion,” he
said. Thieu’s statement in the
rally in Cholon, Saigon’s Chi-
nese quarter, was as far as
Saigon leaders have gone in
offering to talk peace with the
political arm of the Viet Cong
guerrilla army.
Observers did not expect the
Communist politicians hiding in
the jungles to take Thieu up on
his offer.
Saturday Thieu appeared to
step back a bit from an earlier
statement he favored a bombing
pause against North Vietnam.
woman, were recovered from
the lake’s choppy waters.
Four of the 21 parachutists
who leaped from the plane, a
converted B25 World War II
bomber, Sunday through thick
clouds in wind gusts of more
Arab Summit
Threatened
Suspect (aught
In Break-In
A rural Sapuipa man was
charged with second degree bur-
hundreds of exhibits and the giary today after his arrest late
committee’s 5,000-word report. Saturday night at Grandpa John’s
The committee conducted a
four-month investigation of the
commission.
Atty. Gen. G. T. Blankenship
said he has been waiting for
the committee’s report and rec-
ords to determine whether he
should file ouster action against
at least two commissioners.
bargain barn north of town.
Creek county sheriff DeeAus-
mus said the suspect, Vernon
Lake, was in the store when of-
ficers arrived. A front door
glass had been broken.
Highway Patrol trooper Bob
Shultz and two Tulsa county dep-
uties investigated the break-in.
Johnson Urged To Trim Spending
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sen.
William Proxmire, chairman of
the joint Congressional Econom-
ic Committee, today joined
House Republican leader Gerald
R. Ford in urging the Johnson
administration to .cut back
federal expenditures enough to
avoid a tax increase.
Proxmire, in a prepared
Senate speech, said the Pres-
ident could easily trim his
budget requests to a point
where a tax increase would be
unnecessary.
Ford said Sunday that neither
"President Johnson or his
advisers have made a case for
a tax increase” and said a
reduction in federal expendi-
tures is a better answer.
"A tax increase could hit the
economy at the wrong time,”
Ford said.
He spoke in a television
interview (Issues and Answers
-ABC).
"I would not vote for a tax
increase based on the justifica-
tion or attempted justification
made by the President.”
Proxmire also pointed out
that a tax increase likely would
not take effect until January
and that the "economic outlook
for two years beginning Janua-
ry 1 cannot be clearly foreseen
by economists with the clearest
crystal ball.”
The House Ways & Means
Committee, meanwhile, was
continuing hearings today on
the administration's tax propor-
sals.
The National Grange, in a
statement made public prior to
today’s hearings, said it sup-
ported the tax increase “in
approximately the magnitude
proposed by the President.
"We are convinced that a
failure to support a tax increase
at this time invites the clear
certainty of putting our federal
government back into the
money market to borrow such
substantial sums of money that
interest rates would again rise
as they did one year ago,” the
grange said.
"Agriculture is in no position
to accept that sort of alternap
five.”
By MURRAY J. BROWN
By United Press International
Threats of a boycott by two of
the most militant Arab leaders
today cast shadows over the
scheduled summit conference
called to plan strategy to
“eliminate the consequences of
Israeli aggression” and punish
alleged supporters of the Jewish
state.
Both Algerian President
Houari Boumedienne and Syrian
President Nouredden A1 Atassi
were said to be angered by
what they felt was the growing
influence of the moderates in
the Arab bloc.
A government controlled
weekly in Algiers said Sunday
that the differences among the
Arab leaders were so deep the
summit meeting in Khartoum
would amount to little more
than "organized travels.”
Hard-Line Position
Atassi also has taken a hard-
line position. Damascus Radio
announced last week that the
ruling Ba’ath party had been
..called into special session to
discuss the Middle East situa-
tion. As party secretary, Atassi
would have to attend the
congress which generally last
from one week to 10 days.
The Arab chiefs of state
meeting is scheduled to open
Tuesday.
There has been no official or
press reaction thus far In the
Arab capitals to the repeated
call over the weekend by
Tunisian President Habib Bour-
guiba to his fellow leaders to
adopt a more "realistic” policy
toward Israel. His original
appeal in 1965 brought imme-
diate denunciations of "traitor,”
and led to a feud which was
dropped only during the June 5-
10 Middle East war.
than 50 miles per hour survived
the jump. Two were rescued
from the lake by a boat and two
landed safely on ground.
Federal investigators were
unable to say why the plane,
guided by radar, was off course.
Early today Coast Guard
search boats found clothing and
equipment—nine helmets, boots
gloves, chutes and "other odds
and ends’—but no sign of
the missing men.
An official of the United
States Parachute Assn. (USPa)
said the parachute jump was
made contrary to Federal
Aviation Agency (FAA) regula-
tions.
"I guess everybody was at
fault,” said Ray Stanres, editor
of Pilot-Chute Magazine. "All
these people were experienced
jumpers. It is against FAA
regulations to jump through
clouds.”
“It’s the worst single disaster
in history,” Starnes, director of
the USPA’s Mideast Conference,
said. "Nowhere in the world
have more parachutists been
killed in a jump from one
plane.”
There was a report the F AA’s
Oberlin control center gave the
jump plane an incorrect posit ion
report prior to the parachute
leap, but the FAA denied this.
Thirteen Coast Guard boats,
two helicopters and a search
plane were aided by hundreds
of small pleasure craft in a
search over 185 square miles of
lake waters.
At first it was believed there
were 20 skydivers aboard the
plane, but the Coast Guard later
said there was one other
parachutist who did not sign the
plane’s manifest.
Sapulpan
Reports
$200 Loss
Vivian Rutherford, 900 S.
Park, told police Friday $200
was missing from her purse
when she started to purchase
groceries she had selected.
Mrs. Rutherford said she was
shopping at a grocery store and
was ready to be checked out when
she went back to pick up one more
item. Police said she told them a
woman offered to help her find
the item and when Mrs. Ruther-
ford returned to the checkout
stand she noticed $60 in cash and
a check made payable to her for
$171.90 was missing.
Mrs. Rutherford told police the
Negro woman volunteering to
help her was dressed in a bright-
ly colored blouse and wore pink
trousers.
Deserter Suspect
Nabbed By Police
Police picked up an Army
AWOL suspect Monday and turn-
ed him over to military author-
ities.
Edward I. Adney, on orders
from Ft. Bliss at El Paso,
Tex. since July 23, 1967, to re-
port to Fort Knox, Ky., was
picked up by police at the La
Vern Apartments in Sapuipa,
police stated.
Officials noted Adney had left
an airliner he was riding at Dal-
las, Texas, and has been report-
ed AWOL since July 23.
★ Weather ★
OKLAHOMA - Clear to part-
ly cloudy through Tuesday.
Widely scattered thundershow-
ers northwest Tuesday. A little
warmer tonight.
Smallest
Starts School
Among the first graders start-
ing to school at Kiefer today
was 6-year-old Vela Beth Mas-
sey, who at birth was the small-
est baby ever born atSapulpa's
Bartlett Memorial hospital.
Vela tipped the scales at 1
pound, 12 ounces when she was
born June 25, 1961. At the time
doctors gave her about 1 chance
in 100 of surviving.
But now Vela shows no ill ef-
fects whatever from her feeble
start. And, she said Saturday,
she Is quite eager to start school.
Vela is the daughter of Mrs,
Thelma Hoover, formerly of Sa-
puipa but now living in Kiefer,
US Ship Hit;
Alert Status
Clamped On
By EUGENE V. RISK EH
SAIGON (UPI) -Communist
forces today followed up a
weekend of nationwide terrorist
raids with artillery and rocket
attacks on four U.S. bases.
North Vietnamese gunners also
scored hits on the American
destroyer Dupont.
At least 11 U.S. servicemen
qere killed and 117 wounded in
the shelling of three Marine
frontier outposts at Con Thien,
Gio Linh, Dong Ha, the Marine
helicopter base at Monkey
Mountain, and the destroyer.
Viet Cong terrorists, who
killed or wounded more than 500
Vietnamese, mostly civil. ,
over the weekend continued
their raids today in an attempt
to disrupt next Sunday’s r es-
identlal elections.
American commanders or-
dered all troops and gr i
ment-employed civilians an
assassination alert. ML.tary
passes were canceled and serv-
icemen permitted to leave their
posts only when essential and
told to travel in pairs.
U.S. air and ground forces
struck back at the Communists
in the North and South. B52
bombers flew two mlssons early
today in the demilitarized zone
and along its fringes where an
estimated 35,000 Communist
troops were reported posed for
an invasion of the South. U. £.
Marines also launched a ground
offensive against communists
threatening northernmost Quang
Tri province.
Used Artillery
U.S. officials reported the
North Vietnamese used their
biggest artillery — the Soviet-
made 152 mm which can fire
107 pound shells up to 15 miles
— against the Marine outposts
along the southern end of the
DMZ.
The Dupont, patrolling off the
DMZ, was hit four times by
North Vietnamese coastal gun-
ners. One sailor was killed and
three wounded. The destroyer
fired 21 rounds of counterfire
but results were not known.
Damage to the ship was
reported as "minor.”
Four Marines were killed and
80 injured when the Commu-
nists attacked the Marine
helicopter base on Monkey
Mountain, south of Da Nang
with rockets. Nine helicopters
were destroyed or damaged,
and the runway and buildings
hit.
The marine outpost at Dong
Hai, about eight miles sc- «f
the DMZ, was the target of
about 100 rounds of 152mm fire.
Six Marines and Seabees were
killed and 25 wounded in the
early morning attack. Two big
helicopters and six trucks were
destroyed, a major fuel dump
blown up and two transport
planes damaged.
Incidentally
Sapuipa Jaycees turned out in
force Sunday at the Lakeview
Golf Course for the first Jay-
cee golf tournament, among
those displaying lots of enthus-
iasm were TOOKERLELE,SAM
BARR and DON BEASLEY .
HOBART ROBERTSON, JR el-
ways appears to have places to
go and things to do. .LOGAN
SENEKER tells us his favorite
sport is fishin’ dispite the feel
sometimes the catchin' isn’t :J-
ways up to par. . .JOHN STE”P
reports world series is just
about his favorite season of
year. . .HOWARD STROUP re-
ports fishin’ only fair. . .RAY
SCHWER always displays a big
smile for friend or stranger
alike . MIKE TYLER teUs us he
seldom misses reading "Inci-
dentally” in the ‘ole reliable.
the Herald invites DWIGHT
DUNHAM ami guest to see "The
Way West”, showing tonigtt a-
the Criterion. . .present thin
clipping to the box office.
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