Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 80, No. 199, Ed. 3 Thursday, October 9, 1969 Page: 2 of 12
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New Tactic Attempted
To Slow War Critics
Reds
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received telephone
from western Mis-
including several
Willow Springs,
150 miles southeast
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cease-fires to facilitate the
process of mutual with-
drawal. He has supported
the proposal of the (Sai-
gon) government . . . for
free elections organized by
joint commissions under
international supervision.
He has also made clear
that the (Saigon) govern-
ment and we . . . are pre-
pared to accept any politi-
cal outcome that is arrived
at through free elections.”
apparently those inform-
ing his office had assumed
he would accept the re-
sponsibility of releasing
the news.
He pointed out he would
not hesitate to delay re-
lease of news where Its
early release might wors-
en a situation endangering
the public peace, health or
safety.
He cited as an example
the need for the National
Guard. He said he certain-
ly would want the guard to
reach the scene before
crowds of curious had a
chance to make ft difficult
for the troopers to take
over.
“I don't want blood on
my shoulders,” the gover-
nor said.
He said his office simply
‘‘goofed" in not making
Immediate release of news
of a disturbance at the
penitentiary last week.
In that case, newsmen
were told at the prison
that any statement on the
incident would have to
come from the governor’s
office.
"We don’t want to be in
the position of managing
the news,” the governor
said today.
He nodded agreement
with the theory that unless
the people know what is
going on, they cannot in-
struct their legislators
what law they want passed
to bring about the results
they desire.
Public Safety Commis-
sioner Bob Lester earlier
in the day said there has
been no change in his de-
partment's open policy on
news Involving the high-
way patrol.
"The policy has not
changed,” Lester said. "It
always has been that we
kept you people informed
in every way possible in
those matters that affect
the highway patrol.
"My responsibility has
always been understood to
mean the public does have
a right to know about any
matter of public safety,
public life or property."
Lester personally hand-
ed out facts Wednesday
about a Langston Universi-
However, he said he had
seen numerous meteors
fall and what he saw this
morning "was a thousand
times bigger than anything
he had seen.”
The Cushing police offi-
cer said he first sighted
the object at 2:17 a.m. and
the light lasted for 30-40
seconds.
The Oklahoma City
Weather Bureau said it
had received no reports of
the light in the sky.
The Missouri Highway
Patrol said calls had been
received from Des Moines,
Iowa, to Arkansas. "Peo-
ple reported a tremendous
flash and a loud explo-
sion," the dispatcher said.
"And at all the
added, "each
flash was dir
their heads.”
The police dispatcher at
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Nixon’s Republi-
can supporters have
turned to passive resist-
ance in their effort to
avert any major Senate
uprising against the ad-
ministration's Vietnam
policy.
Their latest tactic: When
doves rally on the Senate
floor stay away, and if you
do talk, try to agree.
Republicans did both
Wednesday, a day Viet-
nam policy critics had
planned to make a major
stand against current (J. 8.
policy.
The critics spoke out but
with few on hand but their
adherents, there was no
challenge and therefore no
real debate.
Is Clarified
Sens. Harold Hughes, D-
lowa, and Thomas F. Eag-
leton, D-Mo., began the se-
quence by introducing a
resolution urging U. 8.
withdrawal from Vietnam
if the Saigon government
does not agree within 60
days to a series of reform
moves—including accept-
ance of a new caretaker
government.
Hughes said the Nixon
program now is at an im-
passe with the administra-
tion hardening its "al-
ready tough line on the,
war.”
All of this drew a state-
ment of qualified praise
from Senate GOP Leader
Hugh Scott, who had de-
nounced a withdrawal bill
sponsored by a Republican
attention to is safety. Nel-
son says he must make
sure every youngster is
seated before the bus
starts forward again after
stops.
Bob Trotter. 21, takes
Dewey area students to
Northwest Classen. He,
too, says there have been
no discipline or racial
problems.
While not as enthusiastic
as Nelson, he thinks the
children are not upset
about being bussed.
"Most of them seem to
like it okay,” he said. "I
haven’t heard any com-
plaints.”
Jerry Jones, also 21,
takes 18 passengers — all
white — from the Nichols
Hills area to Northeast
High School.
There simply are no ra-
cial problems, he says.
"Several of the kids
have colored friends and
they wave to them when
we leave school," he says.
"Every so often, I’ll see
someone with a bumper
sticker that says, 'No Bus
For Us,’ and they just
wave.”
The bus drivers inter-
viewed were for the most
part in their first year of
school bussing, and they
said they enjoy the work-
They do not know how
far from their homes the
riders have to come to
meet the bus, but make
between six and eight
stops each way on their
routes.
The first youths are
picked up around 7:45, and
the last are returned short-
ly after 4 p.m., they say.
The number of youths
using the busses has grad-
ually picked up since the
first week of September,
they said.
Cuba Economic
Picture Bright
UNITED NATIONS, N.
Y. (AP) — Cuba told the
U.N. General Assembly
Wednesday that despite
economic blockade and,
isolation by others in the
Western Hemisphere, it
has 4‘recovered its wealth
and eliminated unemploy-
ment.” ‘
(Xiban Ambassador Ri-
cay<fo Alarcon Quesada
said .sugar production this
year would exceed 10 mil-
lion tons.
(Continued From Pago 1)
Robinson, director of traffic control. He says your sign
has now been replaced — post and all.
colleague as a "bugout."
Unlike the earlier pro-
posal of Sen. Charles E.
Goodell of New York call-
ing for a total U. S. pullout
by Dec. 1, 1970, the Hughes
resolution proposed no
firm deadline, only "all re-
sponsible haste" and with-
drawal if Saigon does not
swiftly reform.
"This is the kind of con-
structive debate which I
had hoped would emerge,"
Scott said of the Hughes
- speech. "My suggestion
that we hold down our dif-
ferences to the quiet and
reasonable consideration
of alternatives has been
respected."
Sen. Frank Church, D-
Idaho, and Mark O. Hat-
field, R-Ore., Introduced
still another withdrawal
resolution, again, with no
specific deadline.
The Imperative Is that
we get out," Church said,
describing Nixon troop
withdrawals as a token
move to hold off critics of
the war.
"It would appear that
President Nixon, like Pres-
ident Johnson, Is becoming
preoccupied with politics
to the neglect of policy,"
Church said.
His audience: six, some-
times eight Democrats,
most of them allies, who
interrupted him periodical-
ly to agree and praise his
speech.
Republican Hatfield, co-
sponsor of the resolution,
was not on hand. For most
of the 90-minute Vietnam
discussion, no Republican
was.
Instead of escalating,
the oratory mellowed.
Hatfield sent a state-
ment describing his posi-
tion as one of support for
Nixon’s peace efforts and
saying he hoped for total
U. S. withdrawal by the
entf of 1970.
Senate Democratic
Leader Mike Mansfield,
said Nixon has moved in
the right direction by re-
calling 60,000 U. S. ttoops,
"I only wish more could be
withdrawn more expedi-
tiously," he said.
People have gone off and left their cah in the 5000
block N Warren while they were on
pound says it will not pick up cats because It doesn t
have facilities. What can be done? E. McG.
Poundmaster Royal Burris, a man of considerable
personal courage, says when a stray .doe8
to be picked up it resists strehuousiy. And, unfortunate-
ly, Oklahoma City has no ordinance concealing stray
cats as it does stray dogs. Thus, the pound has no au-
thority to pick them up. We suggest you put out a few
saucers of milk and learn to love them.
I was supposed to receive workmen’s compensation
for being hurt on the job. The business and
company are giving me the run around. I need some h-
gal help The state Industrial court waa supposed to send
me some forms, but never did. G. H.
We checked with the state industrial court and their
records don’t reflect that you have ever notified them of
your injury. But the papers have been mailed to you for
filing of your claim.
25,#SS-Yc«r-OW Skill
Dr. Arturo Romano, director of the Mexican Na-
tional Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, exam-
ines a human skull believed to be only 1.000 years
younger than that of Peking Man. The skull, found re-
cently In the State of Mexico, is described by Mexican
experts as having a size and form similar to those
found in the Chou-Kou-Tien caves and classified as
being more than 25,WO years old. (AP Wirephoto)
I understand the Will Rogers Park tennis courts
have been finished for three months, but are not jet
open. Could we get these courts open soon? R. C. G.
R. R. “Pat" Murphy, director of the Parks and Rec-
reation Department, says a manager is now being em-
ployed and the courts will be open for play sometime
this month.
Continued From Page One
ty disturbance that oc-
curred the night before
and that the patrol had
been aware of as early at
9:45 p.m.
He said the patrol had
been called to stand by
when 100 students gath-
ered on the Langston cam-
pus, but was not needed
because the situation
"cooled off.”
The governor said he
learned of the Lanston in-
cident Tuesday night when
called by a newsman, and
asked Lester to get the
facts about it.
The governor said he
had gone to bed after mak-
ing the request to Lester,
and that when the public
safety commissionr called
the mansion later that
night to report, "they” did
not awaken the governor.
The governor said he did
not personally learn what
the Langston facts were
until Wednesday moming,
and immediately instruct-
ed Lester to make them
public. i
The Langston disturb-
ance apparently was a
protest to the wounding of
a student leader by a cam-
pus security guard who
questioned his presence in
front of a girls’ dormitory
at midnight.
Continued From Page One
Nevada, Mo., near the
Kansas border, said she
had
calls
souri,
from
about
near the Arkansas border.
Many of the callers said a
bright body broke up in
the sky and fell earthward,
the dispatcher said.
Among the many calls
received at Nevada, the
dispatcher said, was one
from a local resident who
reported it appeared some-'
one was flashing a light in
her bedroom window.
Russell in Brace
WASHINGTON (AP)
Sen. Richard Russell, D-
Ga., was fitted Wednesday
with a back brace to ease
pain caused by a cracked
vertebra.
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New Hotel Seen
For Hong Kong
HONG KONG (AP) —
The Texas owners of the '
Hong Kong Hilton Hotel '
are considering building
9219 N. Pennsylvania Avenue
In Casady Square Shopping Center
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|iim |i.n They also are consider-
ii.m i.n ing expansion in other ma-
jor cities in the Far East,
O. Paul Corley, Dallas, a
director of Wynncor Ltd.
said. Wynncor owns the
800-room Hilton, which is
operated by Hilton Inter-
national under a mange-
ment contract.
fashion
Just Arrived
trend
scented
candles
and giant
rounds; a
few of our
Be it a swingin' bachelor's pad,
a dull dorm room that cries for
help, a young couple’s own
groovey thing or just an accent
piece in conventional surround-
So it is that we strive to select
home furnishings for trend set-
ters.
Californian's
Injuries Fatal
A 66-year-old California
man died late Wednesday
night In Wichita General
Hospital, Wichita Falls,
Tex., from injuries he re-
ceived in an accident on
H.E. Bailey Turnpike Mon-
day.
The highway patrol said
• Weldon F. Vedder* of Sac-
ramento, Calif., was fatal-
ly injured when hie car
crossed the center median
and'Struck a truck driven
by Floyd R. Sroder, 53,
Oklahoma City.
Vedders’ lone passenger,
his wife Joan, remains In
satisfactory condition in
the Texas hospital. Sroder,
the highway patrol said,
was uninjured.
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I wonder if you can help me get my w*te1’
straightened out? 1 am repeatedly being charged with a
112.82 bill that han already been paid. A. P.
Nate Ross, city finance director, says the reason you
are still being billed for the $12.82 Is that you paid the
bill with a rubber check. This dates back to Nov. W
1968 and the check was returned from the bank twice
for insufficient funds. If you are sure you have paidjthe
bill Ross suggests you gather up your cancelled checks
and come to his office at City Hall. He says he will be
happy to straighten everything out for you.
Action Line wants to protect every cltlxen’a right to
fair treatment by government agencies or any other
community organization. We consider every request *ent
to us and publish the most interesting and helpful an-
swers. We regret we cannot answer, or even acknowl-
edge, individual requests.
Chicago
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police reported that the |
groups of demonstrators |
had been scattered. The
area of the disorders ap-
peared peaceful.
The "Weathermen" fac-
tion emerged from the
SDS convention in Chicago
in June with control over
the national office.
"Weathermen" say their
national demonstrations
here will be the "most mil-
itant in the history of the
New Left."
Earlier Wednesday, j
spokesmen for the minori-
ty Revolutionary Youth
Movement II faction of the
SDS disavowed any part in
the national action. They
were joined by a spokes-
man for the Black Panther
party.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 80, No. 199, Ed. 3 Thursday, October 9, 1969, newspaper, October 9, 1969; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1708624/m1/2/?q=del+city: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.