Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 28, Ed. 2 Tuesday, March 24, 1970 Page: 1 of 4
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tween 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
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Nothing to it. It just
came down to locating the
"big wheel.’’ Actually, R.
L. Robinson, office man-
ager, explains that the dif-
ficulty was a small wheel
in the computer machine.
It since has been replaced
by a larger wheel "and we
don’t expect this wheel to
give us near the trouble,"
he said. The payment has
now been made to the hos-
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Wheels Center!
In Integrating Schools
(See NIXON—Page 2)
‘Innovative’ Ideas Encouraged
Nixon Likes Cluster Plan?
Sharp Cold Front Looms
Better Bask Quickly!
lems.
Nixon said his aim is to
make school desegregation
easier and more effective^
to raise the standard of
black
The sun-basking warmth
of the past two days is
about to end, the weather
bureau cautioned today.
Strong winds and tem-
peratures as much as 30
degrees colder than to-
Wednesday.
A cold front which al-
ready has brought stock-
—“Financing of innova-
tive techniques for provld-
day’s forecast highs in the including Kansas and Colo-
70’s and 80’s are likely for rado, will move into north-
ern Oklahoma and spread
southward during the day
men’s and travelers’ warn- Wednesday, the weather-
ings in the northern Rock- man said.
ies and north plains states,
ed administration actions
as signaling an effort to
turn back the clock on de-
segregation.
"We are not backing
The
constitutional mandate
will be enforced."
Nixon also unveiled a
plan for federal aid to “ra-
schools
— North and South — and
proposed a two-year
spending of $1.5 billion to
from 1.25 in the' first year help them with their prob-
to a top of 1.50 per cent in
the sixth year.
ed schools."
Setting forth administra-
tion policies on the deseg-
regation front, the Presi-
dent said, “In devising lo-
cal compliance plans, pri-
mary weight should be
given to the considered
judgment of local school
boards—provided they act
in good faith, and within
constitutional limits." He
said that while federal ad-
vice and aid will be availa-
Nixon said.
The President’s 8,000-
word statement was the
most extensive ever made
by a chief executive on the
subject of school desegre-
gation.
In it, Nixon restated his
opposition to compulsory
student busing to achieve
racial balance and urged
that school boards facing
desegregation decisions be
given wide latitude provid-
ed they act in good faith to
carry out the law.
The President said some
ing interest to teachers Persons have mislnterpret-
who withdraw their own
contributions to the pro-
gram before reaching re-
tirement age.
Under the plan, monthly
won formal acceptance by
a joint legislative commit-
tee which drafted it today.
Originally considered a
stumbling block to early
legislative adjournment,
the measure now is ready
for final acceptance first
by the house, then by the
senate.
It’s ‘a Credit’
Sen. Al Terrill, D-Law-
ton, and Rep. Martin
Odom, D - H11 c h 11 a, co-
chairmen of the joint com-
mittee which jammed out
the compromise plan,
termed it "a credit to the
state."
Terrill said it will cost
$15 million to finance in
the year beginning July 1.
However, he said, ear-
marked revenue will cover
most of the expense.
All to Benefit
The plan would spread
increased retirement bene-
— "taking children out of
the schools they would nor-
mally attend, and forcing
them instead to attend oth-
ers more distant, often in
strange or even hostile
neighborhoods" — as the
only alternative to "mas-
sive racial isolation." He
offered the following possi-
ble option:
"For example, rather
than attempting disloca-
tion of whole schools, a
portion of a child’s educa-
tional activities may be
shared with children from
other schools. Some of his
education is in a single
’home-base’ school, but
some outside it."
If children could be
brought together on "neu-
tral" ground, he suggest-
ed, friction might be dis-
pelled and pupils would
have "an additional educa-
tional experience within an
integrated setting."
Smith said, "The basic
difference as I see it is he
(President Nixon) is indi-
cating bringing children to
a central location that
would not be a homebase
school for one group.
"This is somewhat relat-
ed to our cluster plan. But
under our plan, children
will not necessarily be
brought together on a neu-
tral ground," Dr. Smith
said.
However, Dr. Smith said
educators here and else-
where have been asking
the courts to lay down a
set of g u I d e 1 i n e s that
would uniformly apply to
all areas of the country.
If that is the intent of the
President’? message to-
he said, "immediate infu-
sions of money can make a
real difference in terms of
educational effectiveness.”
—Helping fill “the spe-
cial needs of those dis-
tricts that have the fur-
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eral funds for racially-im-
pacted areas, Nixon said
one basis for distributing
the aid would be to finance
"innovative techniques for
providing educationally
sound interracial experi-
ences for children in ra-
cially isolated schools.”
Nixon spoke of this con-
cept as a potential alterna-
tive to busing.
The President said that
some see massive busing
Local: Fair to partly
cloudy and mild tonight,
much colder Wednesday.
Overnight low near 40.
High Wednesday in mid-
50’s. (Details, Page 17.)
Oklahoma City school sys-
tem, said he could not tell
from scant preliminary in-
formation whether the
President was endorsing a
system similar to the
city’s cluster plan.
But he said he could see
some similarities as well
as differences in the Presi-
dent’s proposal and the
city’s cluster plan.
In proposing added fed-
President Nixon’s state-
ment on desegregation to-
day, proposing that chil-
dren be brought together
"on neutral ground,” could
give valuable assistance to
the Oklahoma City school
district if it is meant to be
an offering of national
guidelines, a local school
official said.
Dr. Tom Smith, assist-
ant superintendent of the
retirement benefits of $6.50 away>” he declared,
for each year of service or
a percentage of the aver-
age of the five highest
year’s paid, to a maxi-
mum of $7,800 "whichever cially-lmpacted”
is highest" would be paid.
■Hie percentage factor
would gradually increase
basis of four priority un-
dertakings:
—M e e 11 n g "special
needs of desegregating (or
recently desegregated)
districts for additional fa-
c i 1 i t i e s, personnel and
training required to get thest to go to catch up edu-
the new, unitary system cationally with the rest of
successfully started." the nation."
—Assisting racially-im-
pacted schools where de
facto segregation persists ing educationally sound in-
because of neighborhood terracial experiences for
housing patterns. There, children in racially isolat-
Part Is Offered
ROME (AP) — Director
Federico Fellini has of- predominantly
fered Charles Cahplin a schools and to promote in-
part in his first television terracial contact for pupils
venture, a film on the cir- in predominantly white
cus and clowns. schools.
He laid claim to dramat-
ic desegregation progress
during his first year in of-
fice, saying:
"In the past year alone,
the number of black chil-
dren attending Southern
schools held to be in com-
pliance has doubled, from
less than 600,000 to bearly
1,200,000 — representing 40
per cent of the Negro stu-
dent population."
In broaching his $1.5 bil-
lion spending plan, the
President said that “While
raising the quality of edu- ‘
cation in all schools, we
shall concentrate especial-
ly on racially-impacted
schools, and particularly
on equalizing those schools
that are furthest behind.”
He said he will ask Con-
gress to divert $500 mil-
lion, previously earmarked
for other domestic pro-
grams, for his racially-im-
pacted school project in
the 1971 fiscal year that
begins July 1.
"For fiscal 1972," he
said, "I have ordered that
$1 billion be budgeted for
the same purposes."
Nixon said the money
would be distributed on the
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Nixon today ad-
vocated a cautious, delib-
erate approach to desegre-
gation problems.
"If we are to be realists,
we must recognize that in
a free society there are
limits to the amount of
government coercion that
can reasonably be used,"
he said.
"In achieving desegre-
gation, we must proceed
with the least possible dis-
ruption of the education of
fits over a 6-year period, die nationjs c h i 1 d r e n,”
after which all teachers
will have substantially
higher benefits than they
would under the present
law.
It will require an appro-
priation of about $4.5 mil-
lion out of the state gener-
al revenue fund the first
year, but money from that
source will drop to around
$3.5 million on the sixth
year, Terrill said.
Interest Restored
The compromise also re-
stores a provision —
stricken earlier — for pay-
Strong northerly winds
under mostly cloudy skies
will usher in the colder
temperatures, forecasters
said, and Wednesday’s
highs will be mostly in the
40’s and 50’s.
Rollo Davis, fire weath-
er meterologist, said the
strong, gusty winds com-
bined with low humidity
add up to extreme fire
danger over all of Oklaho-
ma today.
Monday’s overnight low
readings varied from 27 at
Guymon to 46 at Ft. Sill,
with 40 in Oklahoma City.
Forecast overnight lows
range from the 30’s north-
west to 40’s and lower 50's
in the south. President’s message
The Oklahoma City fore- day. Smith said, the Nixon
cast includes an overnight statement could be benefi-
low around 40 and a high cial to the whole country.
Wednesday in the mid-50’s.
Crowley, bom in El Paso, Tex., arrived In the Do-
Gunmen Rob
Get $30,000
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cash and an undetermined
number of government
bonds.
The getaway car was
found abandoned on U.S.
62 about two miles west of
the Jackson County town
of 350 population a short
time later. The holdup trio
apparently switched to an-
other vehicle there, offi-
cers said.
A bank spokesman said
all three robbers appeared
to be in their 20’s or early
30’s. One was reported to
have brandished a nickle-
plated revolver upon en-
tering the bank.
Jackson County Sheriff
Joe Boakiin said the tags
on the abandoned getaway
car had been reported sto-
len from another car four
days ago.
The trio locked the door
(See ROBBERY—Page 2)
Bank at Duke,
By Shorty Shelburne
DUKE — A dozen per-
sons were held at gunpoint
today |>y three young hold-
up men as they ransacked
the vault and teller cages
of the Farmers A Mer-
chants Bank in Duke and
fled with an estimated
$30,000.
Four bank customers re-
portedly were forced to
stand against a wall and
the bank’s staff of about
eight employees, including
the president, Bob Alexan-
der, were told to lay on the
floor. No one was reported
injured and no hostages
were taken.
Witnesses said the hold-
up men parked their 1970
model getaway car beside
a fireplug at the curb in
front of the bank and
turned off the engine. The
trio emerged a few min-
utes later and fled with the
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persons arrested today would become part of Crowley’s
ransom.
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released is Maximiliano Gomez, secretary general of a
pro-Chinese Communist group, the Dominican Popular
Movement. Gomez has been in jail for two months on
charges of killing an enlisted man in the army and
wounding a police captain in April 1969.
Police said the kidnappers warned that any other ’ plan’providing at least 8.75
per cent Increased benefits
for all retired teachers
Police said a group calling itself the United Antire-
election Command took credit for Crowley’s kidnapping,
saying the diplomat was being guarded by 50 armed
men at a hiding place in the city.
The name of the organization refers to its opposition
to the re-election of Balaguer, the leading candidate in
May's presidential election.
Ihe kidnappers said that among those they wanted
Retirement
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Already approved by
Gov. Bartlett, a teacher
retirement compromise
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U.S. Attache Kidnapped
minican Republic in May 1968. He has a wife, Nancy,
three daughters and a son.
Hie field where he was kidnapped was the site of the
initial landings of UJS. troops, who entered the Domini-
can Republic in 1965 on the orders of President Lyndon
B. Johnson in the midst of civil political strife.
Previously the U.S. ambassador to Brazil and the
U.S. labor attache in Guatemala were kidnapped. Both
were freed after the governments released political pris-
oners.
Little Carol, a 1,600-pound Asian elephant, touches
up a painting as Joan Embery, a worker at the San
Diego Zoo, gives an onlooker’s advice. Twelve of Little
Carol’s paintings go on display Saturday in a one-ele-
phant show. (AP Wirephoto)
Painting
For Peanuts?
who also were called up on
the President’s orders,
were held in armories and
were to be sent to the post
offices after lunch.
In Washington, the Pen-
tagon said it was making
preliminary plans to with- last holdout in Pennsylva-
draw the 2,600 regular nla.
on President Nixon’s or-
ders.
The Pentagon denied re-
ports that troops who
worked in New York post
offices until 1 a.m. had
been ordered to delay their
By Santo Domingo Gunmen
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -
The air attache of the U.S. embassy here was kidnapped
today, the third American diplomat kidnapped in Latin
America since September.
A group that opposes the re-election of President
•Joaquin Balaguer claimed responsibility for the kidnap-
ping and demanded the release of a score of political
prisoners in return for Lt. Col. Donald J. Crowley who
was seized on a polo field near the Embajador Hotel.
The U.S. embassy said Crowley was grabbed by
gunmen at 7:40 a.m. as he was on his way to play polo.
All of Connecticut’s ma-
jor postal centers were
back at full operation ex-
cept Hartford, where
clerks were picketing and
scheduled to vote. Carriers
had voted not to cross
clerks’ picket lines.
Workers returned in Jer-
sey City, Asbury Park,
Morristown, Red Bank,
Lakewood and New Bruns-
wick, N.J., while in New-
ark a vote was scheduled
later in the day.
While operations were
returning to normal in De-
troit, postal workers at
Lansing, Mich., made good
their threat to strike if the
president called in troops
in New York. Several De-
troit suburbs also contin-
ued to strike.
Officials of the Chicago
branch of the National As-
sociation of Letter Car-
riers led the return in that
city. A post office spokes-
man indicated that the
men had returned at 32 of
troops as National guards-
men and reservists ar4 •
able to take over.
Normal mail deliveries
resumed in Philadelphia
as 3,000 letter carriers re-
turned to work in that city,
* NEW YORK (AP) -
Striking postal workers re-
turned to their jobs in Chi-
cago, Detroit, Philadelphia
and much of Connecticut
and New Jersey today.
' There were hints of a
break in New York, where return this morning. How-
federal troops sorted mail ever, National Guardsmen
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In Oklahoma, within recent months, there have
been cases of basketball "fans" being armed with
knives and guns. It is a dangerous situation that of-
ficials are trying to cope with, but solutions are not
readily available. It all seems to be a part of a
growing decay of sportsmanship and Frank Boggs
reports it on Page 13.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 28, Ed. 2 Tuesday, March 24, 1970, newspaper, March 24, 1970; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1785550/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.