Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 81, Ed. 2 Wednesday, May 24, 1972 Page: 1 of 18
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few minor repairs which the builder promised to fix. To
date, he has not taken care of any of these problems.
Paid Ctfoulatldn
Average in April
copters landed a second
battalion about four miles
treme southeastern Okla-
homa, where heavy show-
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Other totals included .80
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jury in Baltimore and a
state grand jury in Prince
Georges County, where the
shootings occurred.
In a Moscow street scene, residents crowd around a
sidewalk display board to look at photos taken during
“That’s a peculiarity of the system—the
government has moved mountains to dem-
onstrate a willingness to help you," he said.
Armstrong, who celebrated his 20th birth-
day behind bars, said, "It's the greatest
thing. I learned a great lesson in jail: You
can't do wrong and get away with it. Now
I’m going to repay the community for what
it’s doing for me . » . ”
“I’ve always been interested in medicine.
I guess it’s from being around people. It’s a
way to contribute to the community—to re-
pay people for being nice to you."
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BALTIMORE (AP) —
Arthur H. Bremer is to ap-
pear tn U.S. District Court
today for arraignment on
PTA Delegates
Back Busing
NEW YORK (AP) -
Delegates to the National
Congress of Parents and
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Our World Today
Sports
TV Log
Vital Statistics
Women’s News
nothing. Mr*. J. W., Yukon.
Robert H. Breeden, director for the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, said his inspectors
checked the house and pointed out certain repairs to the
builder. Breeden said the builder promised to fix them,
so you should be home free by now. However, just to
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Sepe ordered Armstrong released Tues-
day from the Dade County Stockade. Today
he starts a job as a student X-ray techni-
cian at North Miami General Hospital, a job
Sepe helped obtain.
In releasing Armstrong, Sepe warned:
“I’m going to be watching you carefully,
and so will the rest of the community.
“Society has accepted some of the respon-
sibility for the crime you committed, but it
will not do that again,” the judge said. "I
would say you have been treated better
than a person who has never violated the
law.
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By Shorty Shelburne
PONCA CITY - A 37-
year-old Tulsa truck driv-
er met a fiery death early
today when his tanker
transport truck loaded
with aviation fuel over-
turned and burst into
flames on U.S. 177 three
miles south of Ponca City.
John M. Trussell, a driv-
Soviet Unknown Soldier of
World War II.
Nixon in effect was pay-
ing tribute to the millions
of Soviet citizens killed in
one of history’s most terri-
ble bloodbaths. As the
President noted within
hours of his arrival here,
the United States and the
Soviet Union were allies in
Patrolman Al Bruneau
was at something of a loss
when it came to ticketing
the 17-year-old Malabar
youth. He finally came up
with a citation — improper
backing.
BOKCHITO—A 25-year- Tuesday in Ardmore, alter
old native of the Bokchito
area who has been living
good general rains, with along the roadway.
(See RAIN—Page 2)
MOSCOW (AP) — Presi-
dent Nixon stood today on
hallowed soil outside the
Kremlin Wall at a spot
where other American
presidents are likely to
stand if Nixon’s summit
talks in Moscow succeed.
The visiting chief execu-
tive left the Kremlin for
the first time since his ar-
rival Monday to place a
wreath at the tomb for the the battle against Hitler’s
gun was found in Lay-
mon’s car.
Brimage said he and the
other investigators went to
Ardmore to talk to Lay-
mon after it was reported
a shotgun had been stolen
from the home of the sus-
pect's father in Bokchito
recently.
The sheriff also said
Laymon had been seen in
Bokchito Tuesday before
the officers went to Ard-
more to question him.
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the May 15 shooting of Ala-
bama Gov. George C. Wal-
lace and three other per-
sons.
The 21-year-old Milwau-
kee man was named Tues-
day in indictments re-
turned by a federal grand
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through Thursday Over-
The FHA gave the builder notice, but he still 'has done ni6ht lows mid-50’s Pan-
handle to mid-60 s south-
east. Highs Thurday 80’s.
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ask for “Action Line.’’
the sheriff and state crime
bureau agents investigat-
in Ardmore was in the ing the slaying were led to
Bryan County jail today as
a suspect in the shotgun
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veteran Bokchito deputy
sheriff.
Sheriff Joe Brimage
identified the suspect as
James Edward Laymon,
who was arrested late
I . SAIGON (AP) - U.S.
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Copters landed nearly 2,000 inland, and a third battal-
South Vietnamese marines
on an end run into enemy
| territory north of Hue to-
day. Scores of Ameri-
can planes blasted North
Vietnamese industrial
plant* in the Haiphong
area in a new phase of the
bombing campaign.
The U.S. Command an-
nounced that one Army
! helicopter was shot down
supporting the landing and tanks
another was downed 15
miles west of Hue on a
supply mission for other
government troops. Nine
American crewmen were
reported missing in the
two crashes.
The 7th Fleet landing
craft put one marine bat-
talion ashore about 10
miles east of Quang Tri
City. Carrier-based heli-
er for the Hugh Breeding
trucking firm in Tulsa,
was trapped in the flaming
wreckage as hundreds of
gallons of the high octane
avaition fuel blazed about
the truck and along the
highway.
The highway was
blocked for three hours as
firemen from Ponca City
The tanker then turned
over, started spilling its
load of fuel and skidded
another 167 feet as the
Other stations reported burning liquid was spread
A spokesman for the
Tulsa trucking firm said
Trussell had been a driver
for the company about two
years.
It was not immediately
determined what caused
the driver to lose control
of his truck.
Traffic on U.S. 177 had
to be rerouted during the
three hours the flaming
wreckage was blocking the
highway.
Trussell was the 286th
person to be killed on
Oklahoma highways this
year, compared to 285 on
the same date last year.
Shephard Hopes High Slaying Sunday night of
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -
Veteran astronaut Alan B.
Shephard Jr. says a joint
manned space flight with
the Russians may be a
reality by 1975.
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ion was airlifted in to the
south to act as a blocking
force.
The South Vietnamese
command said the ma-
rines clashed with North
Vietnamese forces seven
miles east of Quang Tri
and with air and naval
gunfire support killed 133
enemy troops, destroyed
two PT76 amphibious
and captured 40
weapons and 20 tons of
rice.
The command said first
reports listed two South
Vietnamese killed and nine
wounded.
There were no reports of
any American casualties.
The landing was made in
the coastal strip of scrub
(See WAR—Page 2)
For several years, I have been getting checks from
the Arizona State Industrial Commission. Starting in De-
cember, I didn’t get a check and haven’t received tone
since. I have written several times and get no reply a*
to why they’ve stopped. I was supposed to get the checks
: the rest of my life. J. L., Blanchard.
That lifetime offer was good as long as the State of Ar-
izona knew your whereabouts, says Robert L. Kley, di-
. rector of the Industrial Commission. When you moved to
, Blanchard from Chickasha, the check mailing depart-
» ment lost trade of your address. Kley said the checks
Tare now being mailed to your Blanchard address, sup-
plied by Action Line. ,
and the Continental Oil Co.
fought the inferno with wa-
ter and foam.
Highway Patrol troopers
who arrived minutes after
the truck overturned, said
the driver never had a
chance to escape or be res-
cued. They said the heat
from the blazing fuel was
so intense it was impossi-
ble to get anywhere close
to the wreckage for a res-
cue attempt.
Trooper Curtis D. Hug-
gins, Ponca City, reported
the tanker truck, which
had come out of Kansas
loaded, was headed south
when the crash occurred
at 1 a.m.
Huggins said the driver
lost control of the trans-
port and it ran off the
highway into a ditch. The
truck traveled in the ditch
for 255 feet, went back up
on the shoulder of the road
for 153 feet as Trussell
fought to regain control,
then jackknifed and went
into a 103-foot slide down
ported lightning knocked the pavement.
out a transformer on a
power line, leaving por-
tions of the city in dark-
ness for a while.
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—When Joseph Arm-
strong pleaded guilty to armed robbery last
month, Criminal Court Judge Al Sepe called
it an “environmentally motivated crime.”
The same judge found him a job and
freed him from jail when he discovered
Armstrong’s wife and two daughters living
in a rat-infested house.
Armstrong, a Vietnam veteran, had been
out of work for two months when he was ar-
rested for robbing a liquor store of $205 at
knife-point Feb. 29. The clerk recalled the
robber saying, “I need the money. My fami-
ly is starving.”
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Heavy rains fell in por-
tions of southeastern Okla-
homa early this morning,
-but weather forecasters
said the clouds that pro-
vided the showers were on
-theirway out of the state.
- Most of the rainfall was
under one inch as the thun-
derstorm squall line drift-
ed southeast.
The heaviest amounts
reported were from Hugo,
which received 1-35 inch,
Dustin with 1.27 and Han-
na with 1.43.
Weathermen said re-
ports were not in from ex-
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him by their probe.
Brimage said he had
signed a complaint against
Laymon and that a charge
of murder was being pre-
pared accusing him of the
slaying of Deputy Carlee
Hart, 69, Bokchito.
Hart was shot down late
Sunday night as he
stepped from the back
door of a Bokchito cafe to
begin making his night's
rounds. Officers said he
was killed by two shotgun
blasts fired at point-blank
range.
An Ardmore police
spokesman said Laymon
had been working at a
wholesale candy and drug 302-296 to support busing to
Germany and have never
been wartime enemies.
The tomb, topped by an
eternal flame at ground
level, lies beneath the an-
cient crenelated Kremlin
Wall, close to a circular
brick tower pocked with smoothing
gun ports.
As two military aides
slowly carried the enor-
mous wreath toward the
a few paces behind, fol-
lowed by a group of Soviet
officials that included Ana-
toly Dobrynin, the ambas-
sador to Washington.
Nixon helped place the
wreath on a gilt standard.
j the red and
white ribbon that said in
Russian and English:
“The President of the
United State of America.”
Then he stepped back
and stood facing the grave
at attention, head slightly
bowed, for nearly a min-
ute.
The President turned
and walked quickly to his
waiting limousine, return-
ing directly to his quarters
in the Kremlin.
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INDIALANTIC, Fla.
(AP) — Teen-ager Hank
Tidwell was late Jpr a date
Tuesday as he rusned out
to his car and hopped in
only to discover it wouldn’t
budge except in reverse.
Undaunted, Tidwell
drove hi* auto backward*
for more than two miles,
before a disbelieving offk
cer did a quick doubletake
Teachers have voted and pulled him to the side
, of busy four-lane U.S.
achieve racial integration Highway^L
in schools.
The vote came after a
fiery, hour-long debate on
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MOSCOW (AP) - Presi-
dent Nixon and Soviet
leaders have virtually
reached agreement on an
arms limitation accord
curbing erection of defen-
sive antiballistic missile
sites and freezing offen-
sive nuclear missiles at
their present levels/ in-
formed sources reported
today.
As President Nixon met
. for the fourth time in the
Kremlin with Communist
party chief Leonid Brezh-
nev, the sources said the
negotiators hope to be
ready for the signing Fri-
day of a treaty covering
the ABM curb and a less
formal agreement for the.
freeze on offensive mis-
siles, both those based on
land and those on subma-
rines and surface ships.
The agreement appar-
ently would not bar either
country from installing im-
tomb, Nixon walked alone proved missiles at existing
launch sites.
It is expected that the
agreement will provide for
the use of reconnaissance
satellites to verify that
missile emplacements are
not being increased by ei-
ther country.
In Helsinki, the U.S.
chief negotiator in the
strategic arms limitation
talks was preparing to
leave Thursday for Mos-
cow.
The announcement today
of the departure of Ambas-
sador Gerard Smith came
after he and the chief Sovi-
et envoy met in a 60-min-
ute session at the Soviet
Embassy in Helsinki.
The talks have been un-
der way for 2% years.
White House Press Sec-
retary Ronald L. Ziegler
said Nixon and Brezhnev
met for nearly two hours
this morning, and dealt
primarily with European
affairs. No details were re-
vealed, but Secretary of
State William P. Rogers,
Presidential Adviser Hen-
ry Kissinger, President Ni-
kolai V. podgorny, Pre-
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firm there for about two
months.
Brimage said Laymon
was located at his Ard-
more home Tuesday after the question Tuesday night
his employer reported he at the annual convention
was off for the day be- by delegates who repre-
cause he had said he was sent <5 million Parent
sick. Teacher Association mem-
The sheriff said a shot- bers throughout the nation.
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