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Ring Righted
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between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday
and ask for “Action Line.’’
At the Sunset School, 3105 Sunset Blvd., the flag hal-
yard bangs against the flag pole and keeps a lot of folks
awake at night. Will yon see if you can get It tied down?
B. N.
We discussed this noisy problem with Dr. Wallace
Smith, director of buildings and grounds for the Oklaho-
ma City school system, and this noise has now been
eliminated. .
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The traffic signal light at NW 47 and May does not
work properly. Can you get it fixed? B. W.
We reported this to the office of traffic control and a
malfunction was found in the light. It has now been re-
paired.
Can you get rid of some vicious dogs In the 1700
block N Jordan? T. R.
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We asked Poundmaster Royald Burris to check this
area, but he reports he was unable to locate any stray
<dqgs.
1 called sometime ago about N Phillips between
(Seo ACTION LINE—Page 2)
- Warden Joe Harp and chapel built during his ad-
ministration. (Times Staff Photos by Bob Albright)
Earl Fish hand tools one of many brief cases
made in the leather shop as part of rehabilitation pro-
gram.
New Car Law
Rules Drawn
By Jim Standard
“Basically, the depart-
ment wants to eliminate
areas that are matters of
judgment,” t h e governor
said.
The department of public
safety will recommend mas-
sive changes in the state’s
Controversial vehicle inspec-
tion regulations in an at-
tempt to avoid a suspension
of the law.
Gov. Bartlett disclosed
Monday that the recommen-
dations will be presented to
a legislative committee
Tuesday.
The state senate already
has called for suspension of
the law until the legislature
has time to consider changes
in the legislation that has set
off a storm of public protest.
Bartlett said the depart-
ment of public safety wants
to eliminate more than one-
half of its check list for in-
specting vehicles.
As an example, he said,
Inspection stations would
still check for missing bolts
and screws on suspension
systems, but would not de-
termine whether there was
too much “play” in shock
absorbers.
“One would be a matter of
fact and the other a matter
of judgment,” the governor
said.
Bartlett remained commit-
ted to some sort of vehicle
inspection law, pointing out
that 19y2 percent of fatal ac-
(See LAW—Page 2)
irrantie inter naienes tie
ince I1
pmg
(See WARDEN—Page 2)
to school to
and write,”
be amazed
they show
The Institutional school
bears the name of Lake-
side High School and is
state accredited. It is, by
an act of the legislature,
an Independent school dis-
trict. Credits received
there do not bear the stlg-
atory. The average age at
Granite is under 25.
A school was established
at the reformatory and
Warden Harp points with
pride that it was the first
school in Oklahoma to be
fully Integrated.
By Bob McMillin
After 9,000 prisoners, 20
years and seven gover-
nors, Joe Harp announced
Monday he will retire July
1 as warden of the state
reformatory at Granite.
Harp has served longer
than any other warden in
the history of the state's
two penal Institutions.
Harp, 75, was appointed
warden Aug. 1, 1949, by
former Gov. Roy Turner
when they do learn. The
first thing they want to do
is write a letter home and
let their folks know they
have learned.”
In addition to the school,
the reformatory offers vo-
cational training in plumb-
ing, carpentry, laundry
and dry cleaning, cooking
and baking, farming and
ma of a penal Institution.
All inmates under 21
who are not high school
graduates must go to
school at least half a day.
Those older may go if they
choose.
“We try to get all the il-
literates to go
learn to read
he said.
“You would
at the pride
‘We can teach a man a trade while he is in prison, but
unless we can change his way of thinking, he will work at
his trade in the daytime when he gets out and steal at night/
“As a matter of fact we
violated the state's Jim
Crow law by having white
and Negro Inmates go to
school together, but it
worked, and it still
works,” Warden Harp
said.
and has been re-appointed
by each succeeding gover-
nor.
A long-time proponent of
rehabilitation and proba-
tion, Warden Harp is a for-
mer Caddo County sheriff
and pardon and parole
board director.
Harp and his wife,
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Today's
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Today
Maude, will move back to
the family home in Ana-
darko following his retire-
ment.
He took over as warden
in 1949 after the reforma-
tory had been racked by a
prolonged and expensive
riot.
NIXON VOWS NEW
He took the job with the j
understanding that it
would be a “reformatory
and not just a cage to con-
tain men," he said.
“When I became warden
the only thing they had lor
the inmates to do was to
TACTICS FOR PEACE
take them out to Granite
Mountain and let them
make little rocks out of big
rocks,” Warden Harp said
Monday.
“They would give them
a little hammer and on a
good day one might pro-
duce 15 cents worth of usa-
ble rock aggregate.”
The state reformatory
was created by the legisla-
ture in 1909, but the legis-
lative act made no provi-
sion for the type of prison-
ers to be committed there.
Ag a result, judges in
western Oklahoma sen-
tenced men to the reform-
atory with little considera-
tion of age, past criminal
record, seriousness of the
crime or length of sen-
tence.
“The result was bloody
riots and prison breaks,”
the warden said.
“Prisoners were trans-
ferred indiscriminately be-
tween the pententiary at
McAlester and the reform-
atory just to keep the pris-
on population from becom-
ing top heavy in either of
the institutions.
“As a result, mal-adjust-
ed inmates were shuffled
back and forth between
McAlester and Granite
without regard to rehabili-
tation. Some of the most
vicious and hardened
criminals in the state were
transferred to Granite
from McAlester,” he said.
In 1949, Gov. Turner ap-
pointed a committee to
study the two institutions
and efforts have been
made to make Granite a
reformatory in reality.
All state felons are now
sent first to the state peni-
tentiary where they are
classified.
Most first offenders and
younger prisoners are then
transferred to the reform-
Ice Slips
Into Act
A great, gray curtain
hung over Oklahoma early
Monday as fog and mist
combined to create prob-
lems for travelers.
In northeastern Oklaho-
ma, the mist became ice
as thermometers dipped
below the freezing mark.
The weatherman said the
Ice was expected to melt
before noon.
The highway patrol re-
ported several minor acci-
dents on icy US-64 across
the Arkansas River bridge
at Webbers Falls.
Sequoyah and LeFlore
Counties reported light ic-
ing conditions.
Heavy fog in Oklahoma
City caused problems for
air travelers.
A Will Rogers World Air-
port spokesman said Fron-
tier and Branlff Airlines
had shut down operations
completely, with TWA
having two planes unable
to take off. The spokesman
said an American Airlines
plane was circling the field
and probably would fly on
to Tulsa.
Fog in the Guymon area
(See WEATHEIL-P^ 2)
Democrat Decisions
Due Re-examination
Nine Are Jews
Iraq Hangs 15
Year’s Toll Hits 51
Crashes Clai
Israeli
Three Sooners
CLOUDY
a.m.
Budget Changes Due
What’s Inside
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Nixon said Mon-
day he wants to cut former
President Lyndon B. John-
son’s 5195 billion budget but
attention, Nixon said that
during his first week they
have concerned foreign
policy.
He said the National Se-
curity Council has had two
metings and he has spent
hours at night reading for-
eign policy papers. He will
be briefed at the Pentagon
later Monday.
But he said beyond that,
the problems of the cities
and economic problems re-
quire urgent attention and
both have been discussed
with the appropriate offi-
cials.
It is hard to name one
problem above another, he
said, but added that for-
eign affairs claims atten-
tion because this is one
Reformatory leather shop is famous for cowboy
boots. Here, Ted Lane stitches boot.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Nixon promised
today “new tactics” in the
quest for a Vietnam settle-
ment and pledged an ur-
gent effort to cool the mid-
east situation lest it lead
to “confrontation of the
nuclear powers.”
Nixon, at his first White
House news conference,
recalled his oft-stated ob-
servation that the nation
can have but one president
at a time — and made
clear, now that he is the
man, every facet of the
government is under Re-
publican scrutiny.
He stood before a single
microphone in the White
House East Room, right
hand often in his coat
pocket, left hand gesturing
for emphasis,
dared his new
re-examine all
slons” left by
crats.
The White House said
456 newsmen attended the
conference. Mrs. Nixon
and their older daughter
Tricia watched it on televi-
sion elsewhere in the exec-
utive mansion, a spokes-
man said.
Vietnam was the most
frequently raised topic as
Nixon answered 15 ques-
tions in 28 minutes. But he
spoke with urgency, too, of
the middle east.
Nixon said that region is
a powderkeg—and if an-
other explosion occurs
there it could pit the inter-
ests of the United States
and the Soviet Union one
against the other.
“I believe we need new
initiatives and new leader-
ship on the part of the
United State’s in order to
cool off the situation in the
middle east,” Nixon said.
He said next Saturday’s
session of the National Se-
curity Council will be de-
voted to the problem.
The initial question: His
plans for a legislative pro-
gram? “I shall have a ma-
jor legislative program to
present to the congress
this year,” Nixon said.
He added he will decide
within two weeks whether
to offer it in a State of the
Union adress or in a se-
ries of special messages.
Asked to list problems
requiring his most urgent
area where the president
must make the decisions.
Nixon said he has noted
expressions of interest on
the possibility of admitting
Communist China to the
United Nations.
He said his administra-
tion will continue to oppose
admission.
He said China had ex-
pressed no interest in join-
ing, abiding by the UN
charter and continues to
call for expulsion of Na-
tionalist China from the
United Nations.
In the jammed news
conference, broadcast live
from the White House,
Nixon said he favors the
nuclear nonproliferation
(See NIXON—Page 2)
STATE TRAFFIC TOLL
1969 to date: 51
1968 to date: 42
’69 Deaths under 21: 23
Three Oklahomans, Includ-
ing two teen-agers, died in
separate traffic accidents
late Sunday, the highway pa-
trol reported Monday.
The victims:
WILLIAM T. BOWMAN,
44, Depew.
DONNIE JONES, 18,
Page.
BARBARA MANFIELD,
18, Erick.
Bowman died shortly be-
fore 11 p.m. Sunday when
the car in which he was rid-
ing went out of control and
struck a bridge abutment on
the Deep Fork River. The
accident occurred on the
Turner Turnpike near Chan-
dler.
The car’s driver, Herbert
H. Harrington, 42, Depew,
was treated and released at
a Chandler hospital.
Jones was fatally Injured
late Sunday when the car in
Premier Levi Eshkol
was reported preparing to
condemn the action in a
statement to Israel’s par-
liament.
The death sentence of a
16th man was commuted
to life imprisonment.
Two soldiers were given
(See IRAQ—Page 2)
MMMMN
State: Mostly cloudy and
cool through Tuesday with
chance of isolated thunder-
showers southeastern por-
tion through Monday
night. Overnight lows mid
20’s Panhandle to upper
40’s southeast. Highs Tues-
day 45 to 55. (Details,
Page 9.)
_ HOURLY
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP)
— Fifteen Iraqis convicted
of spying for Israel were
hanged in the main
squares of Baghdad and
Basra at dawn Monday,
Baghdad Radio an-
nounced. Nine were Jews.
Baghdad Radio said
200,000 people, shouting
"Death to all traitors”
took to the streets in Bagh-
dad as soon as the execu-
tions were announced and
converged on Liberation
Square. Eleven of the bod-
ies were hanging there,
each wrapped with a pos-
ter bearing the text of his
death sentence.
Four others were hanged
in Basra, the southern port
city.
They were convicted
nearly two weeks ago by a
f o u r - m a n court. Their
death sentences were ap-
proved Sunday night by
President Ahmed Hassan
El Bakr.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli
newspapers were outraged
by the execution of the
nine Jews.
and de-
team “will
past deci-
the Demo-
in good condition at Quanah
Memorial Hospital.
Cole is reported in fair
condition. A passenger in
Cole’s car, Betty Sue Jones,
16, Eldorado, Is reported in
good condition with head and
$rm injuries.
which he was riding struck a
bridge rail, bounced back
onto the highway and hit an-
other car, the highway pa-
trol said.
John Henry Gordon, driver
of the car in which Jones
was a passenger, was hospi-
talized in LeFlore County
Hospital with internal inju-
ries. His condition is listed
as good.
Driver of the second car,
David Kent Salsman, 16,
Howe, was treated for shock.
A passenger in Salsman’s
car, Carol Sue Cast, 16, is re-
ported in good condition aft-
er treatment for cuts and
bruises.
The accident happened on
US-59 in the Heavener city
limits.
The highway patrol report-
ed Barbara Manfield was
killed and five other persons
injured in a two-car crash
southwest of Eldorado at a
county road intersection.
Investigating officers said
the victim's car collided
head-on with a car driven by
Gerald Cole, 18, Eldorado.
Two passengers in the
death car, including the vic-
tim’s brother, Chester Pow-
ell, 16, Quanah, Texas, were
injured. Also hospitalized
were Jimmy Hamby, 16, and
Johnny Daugherty, 17, both
of Quanah. All were reported
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Second, because “we'd
like to leave room for some
of the new programs of this
administration.”
Nixon disclosed that he
does not Intend to ask indus-
try and labor to submit to
now wage-price sidelines
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11:
First, because the new ad- against Inflation, although
ministration would like to re-
duce the overall spending to-
he said the price rise must
be controlled.
“Inflation cannot be con-
trolled by exhorting labor
and management to follow
certain guidelines,” ho told a
questioner.
Unions and businesses, he
said, must be guided in their
economic decisions by inter-
ests of the organizations
they represent.
tai.
of Quanah. Air were reported eannot yet predict where re-
ductions can be made.
Nixon told his first news
conference that Budget Di-
rector Robert P. Mayo has
directed all departments and
agencies to seek savings in
the Johnson budget for two
reasons: ,
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