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DL €Aur\Harry S Truman Dead At 88
Age Overtal ;es ‘Man Of Independence’
WE COULD hardly believe it,
but there it was in black and
white
DISTRICT Attorney David
Young told the Herald he would
prosecute no more cases
wherein City Judge Tom Lucas
I was appointed by the court to
| defend persons taking a
pauper's oath and requesting
| court-appointed counsel
THE STORY was an
outgrowth of an incident
reported in the Herald on Nov
22
LUCAS-not to his wtshing-
was appointed to defend a
person arrested on a felony
latcas is the Sapulpa city Judge
AT THAT tune Young didn't
proceed in the case at hand
because he didn’t approve of
Judge Clyde Patrick appointing
: lucas to defend the opposition.
When the district attorney did
( not come into court to prosecute
the case. Judge Patrick had no
> alternative but to dismiss the
> charge and the accused walked
out of the courtroom acott free.
YOUNG SAYS since Lucas is
the city Judge his serving on
such cases would put him in
Jeopardy with city police of-
ficers, or that the officers might
be affected in their testimony.
YOUNG told us-in connection
with a conversation on this
situation-that he previously
went to the former mayor and
city manager and objected to the
former city Judge acting as
defense counsel in criminal
matters in district court and that
said Judge (L.G. Hawkins) at
that time discontinued taking
such cases
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)
Harry S Truman, the fiery man
from Missouri and America's
33rd President, died today of a
failing heart at the end of a 22-
day fight against age and
disease. The world mourned the
passing of the tt-year-old “Man
of Independence "
“Our hopes today for a
generation of peace rest in large
measure on the Arm foundation
that he laid," said President
Nuton. “Hi1 will be remembered
as one of the most courageous
presidents in our history."
Death came as Truman lay in
a deep coma in a sixth-floor
room at Research Hospital He
had fought with his usual
courage since Dec. 6 against an
ordeal in which, one by one, his
vital life signs and body organs
(ailed.
"The honorable Harry 8
Truman, 33rd President of the
United States, died at 7:50 a.m.
(CST),” the official medical
statement said. "The cause of
death was a complexity of
organic failure causing a
collapse of the cardiovascular
system."
Bess Truman, 87, the former
chief executive's childhood
sweetheart whom he married
more than half a century ago,
was at their stately white
mansion at nearby Independ-
ence when her husband died. She
had been at his bedside almost 12
hours Christmas Day.
Nixon ordered a period of
national mourning for the man
who made some of this nation's
toughest and most important
decisions during this century —
the atomic bombing of Japan,
the Berlin Airlift, the dispatch of
U.S. troops to Korea and many
more.
"Recognizing the new threat
to peace that had emerged from
the ashes of war. he stood boldly
against it with his extension of
aid to Greece and Turkey in 1M7
—and the Truman Doctrine1
thus established was crucial to
the defense of liberty to Europe
and the world," Nixon said from
the Florida White House at Key
Biacayne
"He was a fighter, who was at
his best when the going was
toughest," Nixon said "But
friends and opponents alike were
unanimous in respecting Mm for
his enormous courage, and from
the spirit that saw him through,
whatever the odds."
Truman’s funeral was sche-
duled for Thursday He will be
buried in the ground he loved —
“in the courtyard, near the rose
garden" of the Truman library
at Independence, Ms hometown
The body will lie in state for
public viewing for 24 hours
beginning at 11 a.m. CST
Wednesday
“It is with affection and
respect that a grateful nation
now says farewell to the Man
from Independence’ —to its 33rd
Sapulpa Daily
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Vol. 59 - No. 88 - 10 Pages
Tues., Dec. 26, 1972
President. Harry S Truman."
Nixon said in his eulogy
Age simply caught up with
Truman He was hospitalized
with what his wife thought was a
head cold on Dec. 5. But in-
fection was found in his lungs,
and his health steadily
deteriorated He did rally
enough to whisper to his wife and
daughter. Mrs. Margaret
Daniel, that “I'm ail right"
But he slipped into a coma four
days ago and never regained
consciousness
Lyndon B. Johnson, now the
only living former U.S. presi-
dent. praised Truman in a
statement from his IJJJ Ranch
in Texas
“A 20th Century giant is
gone," said Johnson, 64. "Few
men of any time every shaped
the world as did the Man from
Independence President Tru-
man presided over the destiny of
this century during one of its
most turbulent eras, never
flinching in the face of crucial
national choices. His decisions
changed the course of human
events throughout the world.
"He had his critics and
detractors, but history ls Just
and Harry Truman will live n in
the memory of free people a im
of the greatest men to cad
freedom's cause."
Truman outlived most of Umar
with whom he shared a place in
history —Stalin, Churchill, de
Gaulle. Mac Arthur. Eisenhower
and even Thomas E. Dewey,
whom he defeated for the
presidency in one of the most
stunning upsets in American
political history
Sapulpa, Okla. 74066-Single Copy 10c
Raids Resume
SAIGON (UPI) -The U.S.
command announced today U.S.
bombers had resumed their
raids over North Vietnam after a
38-hour Christmas halt, and the
North Vietnamese delegation in
Paris said B52s were Mtting
Hanoi, Haiphong and other
cities.
The Christmas halt in the
bombings that the Communists
said Mt North Vietnam with
40,000 tons of bombs last week —
double the explosive power of
the atomic bomb that fell on
Hiroshima —waa believed or-
dered by President Nixon in
hopes the Communists would
return to the peace table.
Neither the U.S. command in
HOLIDAY SEASON FIRE at this residence. 1334 E. University,
destroyed all the possessions of the Glen Jacobs family. Fire
officials believed a Christmas tree light was the source of the
Maze. (Herald Photo I
YOUNG SAID he approached
Judge Patrick's bench on the
day and date In question and
requested Patrick to withdraw
from the case because if Ms
appointment of Lucas. Young
says he left the courtroom to
prepare an affidavit which he
filed later in the morning
seeking Patrick’s withdrawal
and while so doing Patrick
dismissed the case.
PATRICK says Young made
no such statement or inference,
and appeared at the Judge's
bench after the case had already
been dismissed for lack of
prosecution. Records In the
District Court clerk's office
would seem to verify Patrick’s
statement to the Herald. The
case waa railed at 10 a.m.,
Young's motion to disqualify
waa filed at 11:17 a.m.
YOUNG'S CONTENTION is
that permitting a city Judge to
defend criminals in district
court might possibly serve as a
gentile reminder to the criminal
element that the city Judge in
Sapulpa is a good man to know.
Young's position is that Patrick
can appoint counsel from the list
of 40-or so attorneys in Creek
county without going to the city
Judge. Further, he feels a city
judge should not be defense
attorney in another court
Family Chased
By Home Blaze
Crews Level -
Quake Block
XZZZZt Yule Relatively Quiet
HOWEVER sincere Young's
• oncern, we disagree with the
manner in which he proceeded
We, as a
w as protecting our position when
I* permitted an alleged drug
violator to walk out of the
courthouse, without prosecution.
WE THINK Young should
■ve gone to court, used legal
»venues of delay available, and
then filed Ms motion. In the
meantime the alleged crime was
•till on the books and subject to
I prosecution
POLICE OFFICERS risk their
Mves in making arrests. We do
not want to see their efforts th-
warted because of some
philosophical disagreement with
the law of the land on the part of
tt>« District Attorney
★ Forecast ★
lahoma — Fair tonight and
iy. Warmer Wednes-
High today 45 to 55. Low
it 30a. High Wednesday 56
An electrical short in a string
of Christmas tree lights was
blamed for a Saturday night
blaze that caused an estimated
$3,000 in damages to the house of
Glen Jacobs. 1324 E. University.
Assistant Fire Chief Bob
Alberding said an electrical
short ignited the blaze in the
living room of the home shortly
after 10 p.m. and spread quickly
to the kitchen
Jacobs, his wife, and three
children, all girls aged seven,
Pilots Seek
Hoad Safety
Pilot Chib, Inc., of Sapulpa L>
sponsoring a holiday safe-
driving effort.
The dub has placed a sign on
the county courthouse lawn with
the notation that for every high-
way fatality within Creek county
during the period Dec. 24-Jan. 1,
a light on the signboard will be
turned on.
No road fatalities had been
recorded in the county as of
Tuesday noon.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI)
— Demolition crews today began
tearing down the ruined houses
in this earthquake ravaged city.
A spokesman for the fire
department said a 320-square-
nine and II, were awake at the b,ock had been designated
time and escaped from the house “contaminated and would be
unharmed leveled to become the tomb of
Sapulpa fire units were able to those who died in the temblor,
save the majority of the looting was widespread in
building, but fire damages were what remained of Managua and
estimated at $2,000 and smoke authorities were doing very little
damage to the contents of the 10 stoP if in a city largely
house was set at $1,000 destined for further destruction,
The Jacobs family was tMs time by the hand of man.
relocated to 111 S. Mounds and But ““ looUn« "»
food and additional clothing was ^caning of items left from the
gathered by the Salvation Army, wholesale looting of Christinas
Day.
Many Permits
Need Renewals
Year’s end signals renewal
time for a number of Sapulpa
city licenses or permits, city
officials reminded today.
Permits due as of Dec. 31
include:
Beer licenses (taverns) $20.
Beer i package) $10.
Dog tags-$l for male or
spayed females; $2.50 for un-
spayed females.
Domino tables-$10 per table.
Trailer park-$25 for up to 25
trailers.
Dance hall-$25
Permits may be purchased at
the water collections office, first
floor of City Hall, according to
Virginia Williams,
manager.
Clouds of dust and smoke
fumes hung over Managua this
morning and small fires still
burned in various parts of the
city where thousands died. Fire
Department Li Miguel Gonzalez
said some of the fires apparently
were set by looters to distract
official attention so they could
steal more.
Among some of the principal
buildings that will have to be
destroyed are the 18-story
modern Central Bank Building,
which is leaning like a Tower of
Pisa, the 16-floor Social Security
Building and the Blood Bank
Building, a modern structure
that was badly damaged Others
included one tower of the cen-
turies-old cathedral and the
Palace of Justice.
Fire trucks were on the streets
with limited water supplies but
they were virtually powerless to
do anything against fire.
Kiefer Light
Champs Named
Saigon nor the Florida White
House in Key Biacayne would
comment on this report, and the
U.S. command would not say
whether the bombing resumed
today was aimed at the Hanoi-
Haiphong area or was as in-
tensive as last week's bombing
—the moat Intensive of the war
But in Paris the North Viet-
namese issued a statement
saying, “The Nixon administra-
tion, in the night of Dec 24 and
of Dec. 26 has multiplied raids
by B52s and various other types
of aircraft with a view of razing
to the ground Hanoi, Haiphong
and numerous other towns and
populous areas of North Viet-
nam."
During last week s raids the
U.S. command gave few details
of the bombing and the reports of
vast destruction to Hanoi and
Haiphong came only from
Communist news agencies or
from diplomats in Hanoi.
More Fair
Weather Due
By United Press International
Oklahoma basked in winter
sunshine today and tempera-
tures climbed toward the 50s.
Forecasters said the fair wea-
ther trend would continue at
least through Thursday.
Temperatures were expected to
reach highs today from 45 to 56.
lows tonight in the 30s and highs
Wednesday from 55 to 65.
Sooners
Praise
Truman
By HARRY CULVER
UPI Capitol Reporter
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) —
Former Oklahoma Gov. Roy J.
Turner, who served as chairman
of the Truman-Barkley Clubs in
the 1948 election campaign, said
today the late President Truman
was a man who “got greater
every year ”
Democratic Congressman Ed
Edmondson labeled him as one
of the "seven greatest presi-
dents.’'
Gov. David Hall described Mm
as a man who “lives immortally
in history.”
"I have lost a friend,” Turner
aakl of the former president’s
death. He was president aE
four years I was in office He
was very helpful to me in my
dealings with Washington
departments.
“He got greater every year.
He was a very determined man
Once he made up his mind on
something, he stayed with iL”
Turner, who served as gover-
nor in 1946-1950. said President
Truman had to make "some
terrible decisions tike Hiroshima
and Korea."
Edmondson, who began his 20-
year career in Congress as Tru-
man was leaving the White
House, said, “I think we have
lost one of the great Americans
of all time.”
In late years.
Did What
Had To Be’
Yule Road Toll
Nears Estimate
Christmas was relatively quiet
from a law enforcement stand-
point in Creek county. Sheriff
Brice Coleman reported
Tuesday.
Twelve prisoners spent the
day in county jail, fewer than
normal. They had a holiday
meal of “turkey and all the
trimmings,’' Coleman said.
Three persons were booked
into city jail, two of them
brought in by the Highway
Patrol for transfer to the county
Jail.
One incident was reported
during the weekend on a rural
road northwest of Sapulpa, with
Donald Tabor, 30, Rt. 3, being
arrested. Assistant District
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Attorney George Coryell said
several charges were pending
against Tabor, who was accused
of running a motorist off the
road, then getting out and
assaulting the motorist.
The Weldon Hicks residence
was named winner of the
office Christmas lighting contest
sponsored by the Kiefer lions
club.
Second place went to Bernard
Barnhart, and third to C.B.
Rushing
Selected for honorable
mention by a judging committee
were the residences of Benny
Glen
Ellis, Billy Allen. Richard Smith
and Arthur McGuire.
Persons living within the
Kiefer school district were
eligible for the contest.
Dogs must have been vac-
cinated witMn the past six
months before purchase of dog
tags, she noted
Permits are required for
mobile homes within the city,
even if they have not previously a ^7 Anson
been licensed, Mrs. Williams
said.
Several other city permits,
such as liquor and pool table
licenses, expire June 30.
By Unite*) Press International
The Christmas holiday week-
end traffic death toll climbed
today within the range of the
pre-holida> estimate set by the
National Safety Council
The council estimated be-
tween 550 and 650 persons would
die in traffic accidents during
the 76-hour period which began
at 6 p.m. local time Friday and
ended at midnight Monday.
A count by United Press
International at 8 a.m. EST
showed 550 persons had died in
traffic accidents.
A United Press International
count at 10 a.m. EST showed 575
dead in traffic ac-
of accidental
persons
cidents.
A breakdown
deaths:
Traffic 575
Planes 9
Fires 50
Other 33
Total M7
California reported 45 traffic
fatalities. Texas had 42 and
Pennsylvania 34.
Three states, Alabama, Mon-
tana and Vermont, and the
District of Columbia reported no
traffic deaths during the holiday
period
Nixon Landslide Shy Of LBJ
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres-
ident Nixon's landslide re-
election victory—now officially
tabulated—falls short of the
most one-sided presidential
election in U.S. history.
Official vote canvasses from
the 50 states and the District of
Columbia showed Monday that
Nixon did not quite break former
President Lyndon B. Johnson's
1964 record of 61.6 per cent of the
total popular vote. Nixon’s
percentage was 60.9, just .1
higher than FranklinD.
Roosevelt's landslide in 1936.
In numbers of votes, however,
the tally showed that Nixon won
the 1972 election with a record-
breaking 47,186,390 votes, nearly
4 million more than Johnson’s
43,129,464 in 1964, the previous
popular vote record.
Sen George S. McGovern got
29,169,565 votes. 18,186,390 less
than Nixon. His percentage of
the total popular vote was 37.7.
Rep. John Schmitz, the
American party candidate, ran
third with 912,(02 votes, 1.1 per
cent of the total. Seven other
candidates, led by Dr. Benjamin
Spock of the Peoples’ party, got
a total of 216,532 votes, or .3 per
cent of the total.
The total turnout was 54.8 per
cent of the Census Bureau's
estimated 139,563,000 voting-age
population. That was the lowest
turnout since 1948, when 51.3 per
cent of the voting-age population
went to the polls.
In carrying 49 states with 521
electoral votes on election day,
Nixon also came in second to a
Democrat. Franklin Roosevelt
got 523 electoral votes in 1936.
carrying 46 states. Nixon’s
recorded electoral vote will be
520 because one of Virginia’s
electors last week cast his ballot
for John Hospers of the Liber-
tarian party, who got 1,537
popular votes.
McGovern got 17 electoral
votes, 14 from Massachusetts
and three from the District of
Columbia.
The popular vote totals of the
other six candidates
Spock—70,972 in eight states.
Linda Jenness. Socialist
Workers—60,795 in 13 states
Louis Fisher, Socialist Labor
—44,385 in nine states.
Gus Hall, Communist—23,209
in 11 states
E. Harold Munn, Prohibition-
ist -8,789 in 2 states.
Evelyn Heed, Socialist Work-
ers—6,392 in three states.
All of the presidential figures
are based on official vote can-
vasses, the last of which were
not completed until West
Virginia certified its results on
Friday afternoon, Dec. 22.
National vote totals published
before then were, of necessity,
based on unofficial figures.
By United Press International
The abilities of Harry S
Truman, 33rd president of the
United States, were anything but
common, but to many of his
countrymen he had the common
touch not always associated with
high office.
The “man of Independence"
molded the destiny of the United
States with unprecedented
decisions —the atomic bombing
of Japan, the Marshall plan, the
Berlin blockade airlift, the
dispatch of U.S. troops to Korea
—and many more.
“I did what had to be done," he
once said
That is the way the fiery little
Missourian wanted to be
remembered
Fate permitted Truman to
outlive most of those with whom,
as president, he shared a place
in history —Stalin. Churchill, de
Gaulle, MacArthur and
Eisenhower.
Simple Epitaph
He once said that a man could
have no better epitaph than one
he saw inscribed on a frontier
grave in Arizona It said:
"Here lies Jack Williams; he
done his damndest."
Truman truly was a man of
Independence. It was his way of
life as well as his Rome town.
He was vice president the day
that Franklin D. Roosevelt died
on April 12, 1945, and found
himself holding the reins of the
mightiest nation in the world, in
one of the most critical periods
in history. He served until Jan.
20, 1963, the day Gen. Dwight D.
Elsenhower succeeded Mm in
the White House.
During his years of decision
and consequence, not only for
the nation but the world as well.
he gave order to drop the atomic
bomb that ended the war with
Japan in the Pacific
He gave the go-ahead for the
development of the hydrogen
bomb, called Russia's bluff in
Berlin and ordered an airlift to
keep the city supplied with food
and medicine despite a Soviet
blockade
His most difficult decision,
Truman said, was ordering
troops into Korea in a "police
action" that kept Communist
troops from advancing past the
38th parallel.
He enunciated the Truman
Doctrine to keep Russia out of
Southern Europe, supported the
Marshall Plan for keeping
Russia out of Eastern Europe,
presided at the birth of the
United Nations and was a key
mover in creation of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO).
Truman devised the Point
Four plan of technical assis-
(See TRUMAN On Page 19)
I mitlrntallv
We hear popcorn poppers were
a popular item for CMistmas.
Norma Graason and Paul
Edward* are among recipients
...Cera Martin says her house is
unusually silent since all of her
children left after Christmas
visits.birhhday greetings to
Jennifer Housley, who is 3
today...and belated greetings to
Shery Evans...and a speedy get-
well to Rhonda Wood* in Bartlett
Memorial Hospital, anniver-
sary greetings to Pot and Betty
Corgen who celebrate their 26th
Wednesday ...
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