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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORICAL BUILD!HQ
OKLA. CITY, OKLA. 73105
Back Tha Chiefs
Sapulpa’s Chieftains seek their
fourth win of the season tonight
when they travel to Bartlesville
for a game with the rugged
College High Wildcats.
Sapulpa Daily Herald
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By Ed Livermore
Eugene Patterson .editor of the
Atlanta Constitution, has written
a piece for National Newspaper
Week which we think puts this
business in proper perspective.
We re-print his column below.
Newspaper editorials get
things done. At times, I’ve
wondered what. By now, I think
I know.
They get people to think.
They may think the editor is
an idiot. The Atlanta Consti-
tution is rich with readers who
hold that opinion. In order to
arrive at it, however, they must
(1) read his unsatisfactory argu-
ment, and then (2) justify their
own. This is apainful experience
on both counts, which may
account for the soreness they
exhibit in letters to the editor.
But they have had to think about
the subject.
And the longer I live, the
more I believe the value of an
editorial is not so much to
carry the day.toconvinceevery-
body, or to comfort the eood
and convert the evil.
To achieve those goals the
average editor would have to
be a lot smarter than he is.
The true and lasting value
lies in getting people to think
for themselves, to talk and to
argue, and finally to decide what-
ever they want to decide. The
process of thought may have
adjusted their decision some
small distance toward the side
of right, wherever that is.
"I guess a man’s job,” Wil-
liam Percy’s father told him,
“is to make the world a better
place to live in, so far as
he is able— always remembering
the results will be in-
finitesimal— and to attend to his
own soul.”
An editorial is, of itself, no
better than the incentive it pro-
vides the reader to attend to
his own soul, I think. Whether
the editorial opinion itself is
accepted is secondary to that.
The people will find their own
way when they think.
The race issue in the South
was editorially muffled for many
years. The primary contribution
of editors like Hodding Carter
and Ralph McGill and Lenoir
Chambers lay not so much in
convincing all Southerners that
segregation was wrong; they ob-
viously failed, had that been
their purpose. Primarily, they
encouraged people to talk about
it— to break the muffling silence,
to stop fearing discussion of
it, to speak the unspeakable and
think the unthinkable, and to
realize it was a subject they
could argue.
This breaking of silent fear,
this beginning of talking and
thinking, is the goal and editor
shoots for in a frozen situation
where minds have ceased to
question. Hie editorial doesn’t
have to be right. But it does
get things done.
It gets the people to think.
At Teacher Raise
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Gov. Dewey Bartlett, warning
that finances next year will be
the toughtest of his four-year
term, said Thursday he still
hopes teacher salaries can be
increased.
Bartlett said he had not yet
completed his program for the
1968 legislature.
“I am hopeful we can make
some meaningful improve-
ments in government,” he said.
“I am hopeful teachers can re-
ceive a proper salary and I
will work in that direction.”
Bartlett did not say what he
considered a “proper salary”
for teachers.
Asked whether he thought
there was a danger the Okla-
homa Education Association
and National Education Asso-
ciation would again impose
sanctions if teacher salaries
were not boosted substantially,
he said, “No comment.”
Vol 52 — No 26 — 1 Section — 10 Pages
Sapulpa, Oklohomo, Fridoy, October 13, 1967
Weather Forecast
OKLAHOMA — Clear to part-
ly cloudy through Saturday.
Widely scattered showers east
this afternoon. Cooler tonight
and east and south Saturday.
Weekdoys 5c — Sundays IQc
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MEN IN
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Port Raids Intensify
US Pressure On Reds
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CHRISTMAS is still more than two months away, but for
Sapulpa Waiting Wives who are preparing yule stockings for
men in Vietnam, time is scarce before the mailing deadline.
Two Waiting Wives look on as Fred Garcia, Sundown Lions
club president, and Mrs. Bonnie Harper, president of the
American Legion Auxiliary, add to the cause.(Staff Photo)
Justification
For Vietnam
Policy Ottered
WASHINGTON (UPI>- Pres-
ident Johnson’s Vietnam policy
finally has been cast in starkly
simple terms, designed to serve
as an effective basis for the
administration in its mounting
battle with its critics.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
a principal architect of the
policy, was the official selected
to do this. He took care of the
job with considerable skill and
with what was, for him, unusual
fervor in a long news confer-
ence Thursday.
In essence, the justification
for the administration’s uncom-
promising stand on Vietnam
boiled down to this:
— The United States is fight-
ing to prevent the possible
domination of “hundreds of
millions of people in the free
nations of Asia” by a nuclear-
armed Communist China that
will have a population of one
billion within the next 10 to 20
years.
— Critics who cast doubt on
the determination of the United
States to stand by its commit-
i. ent in Vietnam subject
America to “mortal danger."
The, could lead the Commu-
nists into miscalculation that
would result in “catastrophe for
all mankind.”
— It is childish to quibble over
whether the United States
should cease bombing North
Vietnam in an effort to get
peace negotiations. Hanoi has
made it clear, publicly and
privately, that it is not
interested in sincere talks based
on mutual give and take.
Sapulpans Hurt
in Auto Mishap
A car and pickup truck collid-
ed at the intersection of Linden
and Lincoln Thursday afternoon,
knocking the pickup Into autility
pole and injuring the driver.
Taken to Bartlett Memorial
Hospital for observation and
treatment of facial lacerations
was Norm a Jane Young, 12 Wood-
land Road, wife of District
Attorney David Young.
Police said her pickup was in
collision with a car driven by
Jackson T. Alexander of Tulsa,
who was treated for abrasions
of the head and leg and released.
Alexander was charged with
failure to yield right of way.
The wooden utility pole on the
southwest corner of the inter-
section was snapped in half by
the impact.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★*
For Servicemen In Vietnam
Yule Effort Grows
A project to send Christmas
stockings to servicemen inViet-
nam gained momentum today
with the announcement Hie
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
had joined the effort.
The project was announced last
week by the Sapulpa Waiting
Wives, an organization of women
whose husbands served in the
armed forces overseas.
American Legion Auxiliary,
Sundown Lions club, Noonday
Lions and the MAM club have
announced their support of the
campaign, and VFW spokesman
Leonard Garner said the VFW
Hall has been made available
as a clearing house for pre-
paring the packages.
VFW members also have start-
ed collecting items tor the yule
packages, Garner said.
Collection point for those who
want to help is Bob’s Service
Station, 300 E. Dewey, where
a large box has been prepared
by the Waiting Wives.
Among the items most request-
ed by GIs are shaving equipment, from Bristow have been noted,
foot spray, shampoo in plastic A benefit is scheduled Oct
bottles, pen-size flashlights, in- 26 in the VFW hall to help with
sect repeUant, small jigsaw postage funds, the spokesman
puzzles, first-aid kits, key said.
chains and cases, ball-point
pens, writing materials, med-
icated cleansing cream, small
face towels, small sewing kits
handkerchiefs, powdered or
canned milk, hard candy, paper-
back novels, raisins, apricots,
magazines, canned soft drinks.
Packages must be mailed by
the first week in November.
A spokesman said about 300
paperbacks have already been
donated, and some contributions
FDA Calls
Back Fills
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) announced Thursday it
was recalling 30 million tablets
of an anti-coagulant pill which
physicians prescribe for some
heart patients.
The pills were identified as
Coumadin tablets produced by
Endo Laboratories of Garden
City, N.Y,
FDA Commissioner James L.
Goddard issued the following
statement in connection with
the withdrawal:
“The recall was requested by
the Food and Drug Administra-
tion because assays of samples
showed that some tablets were
above or below required poten-
cy levels—but the variations
found do not pose an imminent
danger to the health of the user.
It could be more hazardous to
abruptly halt use of the
medication. The safest course
the patient can follow is to
continue the medication his
doctor has prescribed.
"The recall covers 16packag-
ing lots of Coumadin tablets in
three dosages. For the informa-
tion of physicians, 2 milligram
and 2.5 milligram Coumadin
tablets being recalled were
slightly below allowable potency
levels. Only the 5 milligram
tablets were found to be above
the allowable potency limit,
ranging in strength from 5.49 to
5.56 milligrams.
“Excessive potency is likely
to be more hazardous than
subpotency with this particular
drug but the variations found in
this case do not represent an
immediate hazard to patients
for whom the drug has been
prescribed.”
Dewey Wants
Out-Of-State
Travel Clamp
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Out-of-state trips made up
about one-sixth of total state
travel expense during Septem-
ber, Budget Director Carl Wil-
liams said today as Gov.
Dewey Bartlett called for a
crackdown on out-of-state tra-
vel.
Meanwhile, Tom Dowd, Bart-
lett’s press and legal officer,
said Bartlett had turned in ex-
pense claims to the state for
only $552.70 since he became
governor last January. He esti-
mated Bartlett had paid $2,500
out of his own pocket for trip
expenses. Dowd said a state-
owned airplane was used for
four of the trips.
Dowd said $448.16 of Bart-
left’s expenses was for indus-
trial tours and $104.54 for “oth-
er” trips.
Williams said travel claims
for September for all state em-
ployes totaled $505,000 for in-
state and $95,000 for out-of-
state trips.
Leaves For Dallas
Bartlett went to Dallas today,
starting a trip that will keep
him out of the state the next
week.
Bartlett said Thursday that
the state’s travel bill was run-
ning about $600,000, with “an
extravagance in first class tra-
vel.” He defended his own fre-
quent out-of-state trips as well
justified because they were
aimed at bringing industry to
Oklahoma.
The governor’s legal aide,
Tim Dowd, said in reply to a
newsman’s question that Bart-
lett had spent 24 “working
days” on industrial develop-
ment in the first 276 days of
his administration.
Dowd said Bartlett also had
spent nine days at governors’
conferences and seven days on
vacation in California.
Bartlett said he would attend
the University of Oklahoma-
Texas football game Saturday
and make some speeches dur-
ing his two-day stay in Dallas.
He said he would be accompan-
ied by aide Jay Wilkinson, son
of former Oldahoma football
coach Bud Wilkinson.
Jurors Return
$60,000 Verdict
Federal Freeze
Will Hit Colleges State Gets
Cool Front
MIAMI, Okla. (UPI) - Re-
gents for Oklahoma State Uni-
versity and the A&M Colleges
learned Thursday that five col-
lege building projects totaling
$2,6 million will be delayed by
a federal freeze on grant funds.
The board said it would be
unable to accept bids Oct. 24
for a new administration build-
ing costing more than $500,000
at Cameron State College in
Lawton.
The other projects include a
library addition and industrial
arts building at Panhandle
State College in Goodwell cost-
ing $750,000 and a fine arts cen-
ter and gymnasium at North-
eastern A&M in Miami amount-
ing to $1.4 million.
The board was notified of the
freeze by the Fort Worth re-
gional office of the U. S. De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare. There was no in-
formation on how long it would
last.
Board members, during their
two - day meeting at Northeast-
ern A&M, also authorized all
the eight colleges and univer-
sities under their supervision to
invest and re-invest earned in-
come from bond enterprises as
soon as hinds are available.
Langston University and its
president, William Hale, were
authorized to revise and renew
an application for a new water
system to serve the university
and city of Langston.
President Richard Burch of
Cameron received approval of
a loan agreement for two dor-
mitories, a cafeteria and mar-
ried students housing project
costing $6 million.
Murray State College in Tish-
omingo, at the request of Pres-
ident Clyde Klndell, was author-
ized to begin a study of how to
strengthen its technical educa-
tion program in association
with Southeastern State College
in Durant.
. District Court jurors Thurs-
day ruled on two civil damage
suits, ruling for the defendant
in one and awarding the plain-
tiff $60,000 in the other.
A total of $354,073 had been
Stop Light
Almost Up
Signal light installation at Main
and Dewey is nearing com-
pletion, a state highway depart-
ment official said Friday.
The contractor, Randall H.
Sharpe of Oklahoma City, has
yet to receive the control mech-
anism, which is the only remain-
ing piece of equipment to be
installed.
Sharpe said as soon as the
controller arrives he will put
up the mast arms and finish
the job. The controller must
be wired to control the signals
to fit the particular situation
at the intersection.
Sharpe estimated the lights
would be working the same day
he is able to get the controller
and mast arms into position.
Wiring the controller is unique
in itself because the intersec-
tion has only one left turn signal.
Pedestrian signal heads al-
ready are installed.
The existing signals will
continue to operate until the
new ones are in operation. The
highway official cautioned
motorists to be aware of the
present signal lights while the
new heads are being installed.
Sapulpa provided funds for
the slurry seal which was spread
to smooth the pavement surface
for plastic lane alignment mark-
ings.
sought in the two suits.
In one case in Judge
John Maley’s court, jurors ended
a three-day hearing at 8 p.m.
Thursday by awarding Jack M.
Hancock of Bristow a $60,000
judgment against Lonnie Sparks,
but ruled that two co-defendants
were not liable.
Hancock had sued C. W. Strad-
ley, doing business asStradley
Supply; Bobby Bennett and
Lonnie Sparks for $215,
357 damages as a result of
injuries sustained in a fall from
an oil tank at Bristow Oct. 18,
1966.
Hancock, 42, was working for
Sparks at the old Wilcox Oil
Refinery site, but alleged in
his suit that the three defendants
were engaged in a joint venture
of dismantling tanks for scrap.
The jury ruled that there was
no joint venture, and that only
defendant Sparks was liable in
the accident which occurred
when a hoist gave way.
In a case tried before Judge
Kenneth Hughes, a jury returned
a verdict for defendant Samuel
J. Yocham, who was named in
a $138,716 suit filed by Indi-
ola Crawford.
The suit alleged Mrs. Craw-
ford suffered injuries in a two-
car accident in Sapulpa on Jan.
1, 1967.
Another case Thursday, a con-
demnation suit by the town of
Depew against EthelbertC. Ham-
by, was passed for this term of
court.
No cases were originally
scheduled for Friday, but a jury
convened in Judge Hughes’ court
to hear a case carried over
from Thursday’s docket, a
money judgment suit by Michael
Lee Bradford against Cloda La
Farlette, et al.
Two Shipyards
Hit By Navy
Carrier Pilots
Informant Says
He Heard Shots
By United Press International
A dry cold front swept
through Oklahoma today, leav-
ing cooler temperatures behind
it.
Its effects are expected to be
short-lived, however. The wea-
ther bureau said the cooler air
would spread into all sections
tonight, but a warming trend
would move into western Okla-
homa Saturday.
There was little prospect for
rainfall with the front, except
possibly a few showers in the
west this afternoon.
Forecasters said tempera-
tures would reach highs today
from 66 in the northwest to 84
in the southeast, lows tonight
in the 40s and highs Saturday
mostly in the 70s. Lows early
today were in the 50s and 60s
and highs Thursday ranged
from 91 at Guymon to 79 at Mc-
Alester and Tinker Air Force
Base.
MERIDIAN, Miss. (UPI)- An
FBI informer testified Thursday
that he was a lookout on a
Mississippi sideroad on a June
night in 1964 and heard three
young civil rights workers shot
to death by his fellow Ku Klux
Klansmen.
The man, James E. Jordan,
41, was the key government
witness in the trial of 18 white
men on charges of consipiring
to kill the youths whose bodies
were found beneath an earthen
dam on a farm near Philadel-
phia, Miss.
The government was expected
to rest its case late today.
Jordan, a short balding man
who talked in a monotone, said
he had left the Klan for $3,000 in
cash and $100 weekly payments
to become an FBI informer and
has been in hiding for the past
10 months. He was the third
informer to testify for the
government, which contends the
Klan set up an elaborate plot to
kill Michael Schwerner, a white
New Yorker and that Andrew
Goodman, also a white New
Yorker and James Chaney, a
Negro from Meridian, died only
because they happened to be
with Schwerner.
One informer, Delmar Dennis,
titan (administator) of the
White Kniehts of the Ku Klux
Klan, said Schwerner, a white
New Yorker, was marked for
"elimination” by the Klan
because of his civil rights
activities.
Jordan, who testified for more
than three hours Thursday, said
Klansmen were rounded up by
their leaders and were in
Philadelphia when the youths
were released from the Neshoba
County jail. Among the defen-
dants are the county sheriff and
deputy sheriff.
Jordan said the youths were
driven down state highway 19
southeast of Phiadelphia and
then cut off on a dirt road.
Jordan said he was posted as a
lookout on the highway and did
not actually see the slayings.
“I heard car doors slamming
and loud voices. I could
distinguish the voices. I heard
some shots,” he said.
He said he walked down the
dirt road to where the
Klansmen were gathered and
saw the bodies of the three
youths.
Jordan said the bodies were
put in the youths’ station wagon
and driven to a farm where the
group waited for a bulldozer
operator who buried the youths
beneath an earthen dam. FBI
agents later discovered the
bodies after an intensive search.
Manned Orbitals May Be Put In Deep-Freeze
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI)—The United States may
have to suspend manned
spaceflights for as long as five
years in the 1970s after landing
on the moon and three space
station earth orbiting missions,
space agency Director James
E. Webb said Thursday.
Congress’ failure to pass the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s fiscal 1968
was “almost a
crisis,” Webb
space budget
constitutional
said.
He said the Apollo program’s
main objective still is a landing
on the moon but originally,
several lunar landings were
planned.
The space station missions in
earth orbit are part of the later
Apollo applications program
(AAP), which originally was
much more ambitious.
It once included plans for
astronauts to spend a year in a
space station orbiting the earth.
The trouble, he said, is in
NASA’s rapidly diminishing
money.
Congress cut the fiscal 1968
budget request of $5.1 billion by
10 per cent and the budget
remains unpassed even though
the fiscal year Is a third gone.
The budget is at present in a
congressional conference com-
mittee.
Its trouble is not only a lack
of money to pay for specific
objectives, Webb said, but the
fact that as the money
diminishes, the whole space
program loses momentum and
it could take a long time to get
going again even if funds
started flowing.
Webb said the decision to
delay until later the planning of
a manned flight program to
follow Apollo, coupled with the
shortening of AAP to three
flights, would result in the
suspension of manned missions.
He said unmanned missions
face the same difficulty.
“My judgment under present
conditions is that we will have a
stoppage in (light, both manned
and unmanned,” Webb said.
SAIGON (UPI)-U.S. Navy
warplanes, tightening pressure
on North Vietnam, bombed two
shipyards in Haiphong for the
first time and left their
drydocks and other facilities a
mass of raging flames, a U.S.
spokesman said today.
The previously Immune ship-
yards were among five targets
hit in steeped up raids Thursday
against the vital port area.
Pilots also bombed a military
complex where Soviet helicop-
ters and other war weapons are
being assembled. The raid was
before dawn, when there was
less chance of killing Soviet
technicians believed to be
working there.
The American raiders, flying
from 7th Fleet carriers in the
Gulf of Tonkin, also hit the Cat
Bi MIG base taken off the
restricted target list and
bombed for the first time
Tuesday, and hammered the
Uong Bl thermal power plant
which furnishes electricity to
the port
Enforce Rusk Statement
The Pentagon declined to call
the raids an “escalation” of
war. But it clearly was part of
the policy of gradual intensifica-
tion outlined in Washington by
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
on Thursday as one of the
strongest “incentives to peace”
and getting Hanoi to the
negotiating table.
The two shipyards, 1.2 and 1.6
miles from the center of
Haiphong and less than two
miles from the port’s main
docks, still Immune because of
third naton shipping, were the
latest of a recent series of
targets taken off the restricted
list by President Johnson and
his advisers.
Even as warplanes slashed
through three layers of thick
clouds and heavy antiaircraft
fire, South Vietnamese Pres-
ident-elect Ngueyn Van Thieu
was offering a bombing pause.
He said when he is sworn into
office Oct. 30 he will send a
letter to North Vietnam’s
President Ho Chi Minh and
invite him to face-to-face peace
talks.
Most observers doubt that
Hanoi will accept.
The Soviet technicians repor-
tedly have been working in the
military complex one mile south
of the heart of Haiphong as part
of the expanded military aid
agreements Hanoi signed with
the Soviet Union and Commu-
nist China.
Believe Heavy Damage
The complex, and other
targets, were hit in wave after
wave of Navy A4 Skyhawk and
A6 Intruder jet attackers during
the day’s 143 missions.
Incidentally
An interesting sidelight to the
Sapulpa & Sand Springs Junior
High football game Thursday
evening is that the coach for
Sand Springs, MIKE TAMENY,
is nephew to STELLA BLAKE
. . .WILLIE MCKINNEY recent-
ly received a special birthday
surprise at the store., .JERRY
MILLER Is never too busy for
a friendly “howdy” to friend or
stranger alike. . .JOHN SHU-
MATE tells us he seldom wants
for something to do. . .BRUCE
ANDERSON reports Sapulpa is
the friendliest place he’s ever
lived. Bruce recently moved to
Sapulpa to assume manage-
ment of the local J C.
Penney store. . .TED FISHER
is sportin’ a new ’68 these
days. . .BILL MILLER says
it’s good to have parking at the
store again since striping of
street markings have been com-
pleted in the unit block of East
Dewey. . .the Herald invites
. . .EDDIE CARSON and guest
to see "Tarzan and the Great
River”, showing tonight at the
Criterion. . present this clipp-
ing at the box office.
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