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oi 56 — No 90 — 2 Sections — 22 Poges
Sopulpo, Oklahoma 74066, Sunday, December 14, 1969
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By ED LIVERMORE
It appears the agenda for the
^coming session of the legis-
lature will be loaded with ump-
teen proposals for collection,
handling, etc., of taxes.
i The members bad better act
quickly on setting fall hunting
season before the bird hunters
get lost in the shuffle.
One of the most far-reaching
proposals will come from the
Raymond Gary Committee on
constitutional revision of cer-
tain tax laws.
The former Governor, admit-
tedly an authority on state fi-
nance, recommends the personal
property tax be abandoned in
favor of increased sales tax
and perhaps increased income
tax. Gary says the present law
is impossible to administer and
unfair to those who make their
declarations honestly.
If Gary’s suggestion is fol-
lowed, it will reduce income
in Creek county by some $458,
306.00. Assessments are on
the books in this county against
15,281 pieces of improved pro-
perty, wherein would be found
the personal property assess-
ments. Gary’s plan would re-
move only the personal pro-
perty of individuals and busi-
ness firms from the tax rolls
but keep the utility and public
service provisions as they now
are.
Assessments in Creek county
are slightly above the state aver-
age. Most of the counties in
the state are less than average,
with some of the counties run-
ning as low as 11 per cent of
valuation. It only follows that
county government, and school
systems, are hard put to exist
in those counties with the lower
percentage assessments.
Gary has a good point in his
contention that financing county
government and the schools
should not be the responsibility
of only the property owner. We
could add the same for retiring
city bond issues.
Whether Gary and his tax sub-
committee will re-write the ad
voloreum tax laws remains to
be seen. But a lot of attention
has been focused on a problem
that has existed since state-
hood. Ways must be found to
guarantee the uniform assess-
ment of property in this state
or substitute other legislation
that will produce the income
on a more equitable basis.
9 State Deaths
In Fires. Fumes
By United Press International
Fires and gas fumes claimed
nine lives in Oklahoma Satur-
day, boosting the 36-hour total
to 13 in four incidents. Eight of
the latest victims were chil-
dren.
Four teen • age girls died
when flames swept through a
two-story frame house in north-
west Ardmore about 4 a. m.
Three children were asphyxi-
ated by natural gas fumes from
a faulty floor furnace in their
home on Tulsa’s north side ear-
ly Saturday. Six other persons
were hospitalized in serious to
critical condition.
A Lawton woman and her
young granddaughter were kill-
ed about 10 a. m. when their
home was consumed by flames.
Four men died late Thursday
night when a faulty flue on a
wood - burning heater ignited a
house near the McCurtain Coun-
ty community near Wright City.
Names of the victims in the
Ardmore fire were withheld
pending notification of next of
kin.
Victims of the gas fumes in
Tulsa were Anna Marie Jack-
son, 5; her sister, Angela, 7,
Local Sales Tax
and their step - brother, Ken-
neth Gilliman, 12.
Mrs. Ada Erwin, 38, and ber
young granddaughter perished
in the Lawton fire. The little
girl, about fife -3 years old, was
the daughter of Mrs. Pam Er-
iwin of Lawton. Firemen said
the small frame house was en-
gulfed in flames when they ar-
rived.
Killed in the McCurtain Coun-
ty blaze were Jim Stout, 59,
owner of the house, Marion
Thomas, 47; Truman Perrin,62,
and Willie Joe Claborn,39.
Italy Hunts
Bomb Raid
Revenue On Rise Tcrrorists
Sapulpa received $18,529.56 in
revenue this month from the
one-cent city sales tax collected
by local merchants in October.
It was a gain of $970 over the
same period last year.
It was also a $602 increase
over the previous month.
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Chairman ClarenceDeWees said
191 cities and towns in the state
now collect the 1 per cent local
revenue.
Other Creek county towns re-
ceiving payment this month in-
cluded Bristow, $5,864, down
$103 from last year; Drumright,
$3,503, up $445; Mannford
$1,061, down $431, and Mounds
$330, down $4.
Kellyville received $308 and
Oilton $1,232. Neither collected
the tax a year ago.
Some other amounts include
Okmulgee $20,430; Sand Springs
$14,266; Stillwater $39,765; Me-
Alester $28,548; Broken Arrow
$U,1S7; Cleveland$4,013; Jenks
$2,828 and Pawhuska $7,242.
Hero Of Midway,
Spruance, Dead
★ Weather ★
OKLAHOMA - Fair but not
quite so warm Sunday. Highs
Sunday 58 northeast to 70 south.
Lows Sunday night upper 20s
extreme northwest to lower 40s
southeast.
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.
(U PI)—Admiral Raymond A.
Spruance, 83, mastermind of
the Battle of Midway and the
greatest American naval tacti-
cian of World War II, died
Saturday of arteriosclerosis.
Spruance was commander-in-
chief of the Pacific Fleet after
the Japanese surrender, and
later ambassador to the Philip-
pines.
He was called by naval
historian Samuel Eliot Morison
“one of the greatest fighting
and thinking admirals in
American Naval history.”
Spruance died at his home in
Pebble Beach, 125 miles south
of San Francisco, where he had
lived quietly since leaving the
ambassaorial post in 1955.
At one time the Navy’s
youngest full admiral at 57,
Spruance was drafted on short
notice as the commander of
U.S. NAval forces in the
historic Midway battle in June,
1942.
When Vice Adm. William F.
Halsey was hospitalized with a
skin disease, Pacific Fleet
commander Chester Nimitz
appointed Spruance to succeed
him as head of the Midway
task force.
His forces inflicted the worst
defeat in 350 years on the
Japanese Navy in a battle
which ranged over a vast
stretch of the Pacific and was
regarded as the turning point of
the war in Asia.
Morison called Spruance’s
performance “superb.”
"...Keeping in his mind the
picture of widely disparate
forces, yet boldly seizing every
opening, Raymond A. Spruance
emerged from this battle one of
the greatest fighting and
thinking admirals in American
Naval history," Morison wrote.
At Midway Spruance com-
manded three carriers, eight
crusiers, 15 destroyers, 12
submarines and 353 aircraft
against an awesome Japanese
armada of 700 airplanes and 200
ships.
Lean and grey-eyed, Spruance
was, Morison once wrote,
“tried by experience and
unspoiled by victory.”
ROME (UP1)-Police raided
offices of nine extremist
political organizations Saturday
in search of clues to the
terrorists who planted bombs
that killed 14 persons and
injured 108 others in Milan and
Rome Friday.
The raiding squads searched
headquarters of Fascist, an-
archist, Trotskyite and pro-
Peking Communist organiza-
tions. They carried off files and
also detained more than 100
known political activists and
extremists for questioning.
Many were released later after
giving statements.
There was no indication,
official or otherwise, as to who
was responsible for the bomb-
ings, which shocked and out-
raged opinion throughout Italy.
The heaviest toll was taken
by a blast in Milan’s crowded
National Bank of Agriculture,
just behind the cathedral. It
killed 14 persons and injured 90
others, eight of them critically.
Another bomb exploded in a
passageway at a Rome bank
three blocks from the American
Embssy, injuring 14 persons.
Almost simultaneously, two
bombs exploded at the huge
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in Rome’s Piazza Venezia,
injuring four persons, including
a soldier guarding the tomb.
In Milan, police averted a
bomb tragedy at another bank
by detonating a 22-pound bomb
left in a locked briefcase.
During a parliamentary de-
bate Interior Minister Franco
Restivo pledged “everything
will be done to identify and
punish the criminal murderers,
and we will be inflexible
against whoever may have
played a direct or indirect role
in preparing and carrying out
such a savage crime.”
Restivo said all of Italy was
shocked by “a crime commit-
ted with cool, beastly determin-
ation, which brought death and
pain to innocent citizens.”
Troops Smash
My Lai Area
Red Position
SAIGON (UP0-U.S. troops
smashed into a Communist
base camp in the My Lai area
Saturday and reported killing 52
North Vietnamese in a five-
hour battle one mile from the
place where American infantry-
men allegedly massacred civi-
lians 21 months ago.
F ield reports said three
Americans were slain in the My
Lai action Saturday. Many of
the North Vietnamese were
buried alive as American
armored vehicles ripped
through the camp and infantry-
men followed hurling grenades
into bunkers.
•The enemy was really
pouring out the firepower,” said
Lt. Ralph LaFaver of Fountain
Valley, Calif. “We hollered for
them to come out, to surrender.
But they wouldn’t. So we went
and got them.”
Intelligence analysts said the
North Vietnamese involved in
the My Lai fighting Saturday
may have been trying to get a
trap for numerous officials who
have been streaming into the
area to investigate the reported
massacre.
Spokesman said the fight
started at 9:30 a.m. Saturday
when American Division helicop-
ter pilots saw a uniformed
North V ietnamese soldier burn-
ing documents near a woodline.
The helicopters opened fire,
and the soldier was killed. U.S.
troops then landed to check the
partially burned documents and
immediately drew heavy fire
from the wooded area.
Capt. David L. Miller of
Bloomsdale, N. Y., headed into
the woods with his 100-man
unit. An armada of armored
jjersonnel carriers, each spew-
ing bullets from three machine
guns, led the attack.
The advance was hazardous.
Another outfit, Charlie troop
commanded by LL LaFaver,
requested permission to assist
from its position several
hundred yards away.
LaFaver and his “top kic,”
Sgt. Irvin Jenkins of Cincinnati,
Ohio, received permission
quickly.
By 3 p.m., the survivors of
the North Vietnamese force
broke contact and slipped
away, leaving their comrades
in the crumpled bunkers.
LaFaver and his men
dragged out the bodies and flew
up the fortifications.
Slim Agenda
For Council
Discussion of water rates for
rural water districts and final
consideration of an ordinance
setting fees for fire department
runs outside the city limits are
on the Sapulpa City Commission
agenda Monday night.
The meeting is at 7:30 p.m.
in the commission room, third
floor of City Hall.
FRUIT BASKET UPSET was the name of the game at Sapulpa High school Saturday when a semi-trailer load of cttnis fruit was unloaded tor distri-
bution by vocal music students. (Staff Photo)
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SOLOISTS for Handel’s oratorio “The Messiah,” to be pre-
sented at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Sapulpa High school auditorium
are shown with pianist Linda Walkup. Soloists are (rant row,
from left, Gerrl Miller, Gloria Maynard and Pam Magee;
second row, Phyllis Jones, Liz Batcbelder and Vicki Van-
Landingham; third row, Richard Hankins, Mike James and
Mark Sumner. Not pictured is tenor Steve Morgan. The per-
formance by the SHS Advanced Mixed Chorus, under direction
of VeDoa Law, is sponsored by Security National Bank and
is open to the public without charge. (Staff Photo)
Mitchell Blames Congress
For War On Crime Delay
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (UPI>-
Attorney General John N.
Mitchell told Republican gover-
nors Saturday the Nixon
Administration’s war on crime
was “substantially hamstrung’’
this year by the Democratic -
controlled Congress.
He also reported that Pres-
ident Nixon’s new budget next
month would ask tor about half
a billion dollars—double the
amount for the current fiscal
year—for grants to the states
for improving their law en-
forcement systems.
Mitchell’s criticism of Con-
gress came at the closing
business session of the semian-
nual meeting of the Republican
Governors’ Association. It was
part of a pattern of attacks on
Congress that emerged from
this conference from adminis-
tration spokesmen and GOP
governors, who are preparing
for the 1970 state and congres-
sional elections.
Asked if such attacks were
central to GOP strategy for
1970, Republican National
Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton,
a Maryland congressman, told
a news conference that the
Democrats in Congress “have
invited the attack by footdrag-
Yule Fund
Given Lift
Sapulpa’s Salvation Army
Christmas fund stood at $1,338
.14 as of Friday, according to
Capt. Stanley Melton.
Collections F riday totaled $ 131
.50 including $97.16 at the down-
town kettles and $34.34 collected
by youth volunteers. High ket'le
for the day was $26.72 collected
by Northside Chamber of Com-
merce.
Capt. Melton reminded that
some civic clubs this week are
designating “Toy Day” with
members bringing small wrap-
ped toys tor Salvation Army dis-
tribution.
Volunteers Monday include
Jaycees at Kress, First Bap-
tist church at Reel Drug and
the Sapulpa Future Farmers of
America chapter at Humpty-
Oimpty.
ging on legislation. ’ ’ tion had sent more than 20
Mitchell went beyond his major anti-crime bills to
prepared text to tell the Congress this year and that
governors that the administra- none had been passed. Budget
★ ★ ★ ★
Fred Gigs Spiro
As Name-Caller
WASHINGTON (UPI) - De-
mocratic National Chairman
Fred Harris said Saturday the
Nixon • Agnew administration
had reduced debate on tax
reform “to the level of name-
calling and personal attacks.”
Referring to Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew’s criticism of
the Senate's version of the tax
legislation in a speech to
Republican governors in Hot
Springs, Ark., Harris said:
“It is unseemly to say the
least for the presiding officer of
the Senate to attack members
of the Senate—and elected
majority—as ‘parasites’ and to
question not only their actions
but their motives.”
The partisan jousting con-
cerns the most comprehensive
tax reform legislation in the
n a t i o n’s history. Differing
House and Senate versions of
the bill will be reconciled by a
joint conference committee
which begins work on Monday.
The Senate version carries
two items President Nixon says
he cannot accept—increasing
the personal tax exemption
from $600 to $800 by 1971 and
raising Social Security benefits
by 15 per cent. Those are the
provisions on which Agnew
centered his criticism at Hot
Springs.
Agnew, referring to the
Senate bill as a “Rube
Goldberg toy,” attributed it to
“certain careless men to the
Senate’ who had "tinkered"
with the measure.
2 Would-Be Hijackers
First Slain In Flight
ATHENS (UPI) -An Ethio-
pian jetliner flew home Satur-
day with the bodies of two
would-be hijackers killed in
flight over Europe by security
men.
The gunbattle on the Boeing
707’s Madrid to Addis Ababa
flight Friday night marked the
first time hijackers were slain
in the air. Madrid reports
indicated the shootout might
have been averted.
In Syria, the slain hijackers
were identified as members of
a movement seeking the
independence oi Moslem Eri-
trea from predominantly Chris-
tian Ethiopia. The movement
has previously attacked Ethio-
pian aircraft.
In Madrid, sources close to
the Spanish Interior Ministry
said airport police had tipped
off three Ethiopian security
guards aboard the jetliner to
the presence of two “suspicious
characters” on the list of 14
passengers.
The sources did not explain
why police let the two men
board the aircraft in view of
their suspicions. Madrid Airport
police Wednesday arrested Ah-
men Mohammed Ibrahim, 24,
after a pistol and bomb
equipment were found on his
person.
“Apparently the shooting took
place when the three Ethiopian
security guards attacked the
hijackers with daggers,” the
sources said.
increases for existing pro-
grams, he said, were deferred
because Congress had passed
none of the appropriation bills
containing them until this week.
“As far as our war on crime
is concerned,” he said, “we
have been substantially ham-
strung by this Congress.”
Before going into a private
luncheon session with Morton,
the governors concluded their
public meetings by electing
Gov. Raymond P. Shafer of
Pennsylvania to the chairman-
ship of the Association to
succeed Gov. Ronald Reagan of
California.
Shafer announced plans for
an expanded national campaign
organization in behalf of
Republican gubernatorial candi-
dates in 1970.
The association elected its
new officers without contest
Gov. Louie B. Nunn of
Kentucky was elected vice
chairman.
Incidentallyj
If you haven’t seen the beau-
tiful white Christmas tree at the
Jackson Agency do. . .its all
in red, white and gold and
features real red candy apples,
drums, angels and red velvet
candy canes. . .thrilled is the
word for ALICE JONES when she
won one of the cashmere sweat-
ers with mink collar at Humpty
Dumpty. . and another lucky
recipient is FRANK ROMINE,
whose gift was an afghan at
Sacred Heart Mother’s Club
Christmas luncheon. . .need a
cute pet? a kitten needing a
good home is temporarily stay-
ing at BA 4-6022. . .Sapulpan
S/5 WALLACE N. NEWPORT,
JR., has written he has receiv-
ed lots of Christinas cards from
the Herald’s card shower and
really appreciates them. . .like-
wise, a letter from SGT. STAN-
LEY E. OZMENT expresses
gratitude for the cards from
home. . .PAT SONTAG, a soph-
omore at Northeastern State Col-
lege was among those on an
art field trip recently to
museums and exhibits in Dallas
and F ort Worth. .
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