Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 115, Ed. 2 Monday, July 3, 1972 Page: 1 of 9
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VOL. LXXXIH, NO. 115
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CITY AREA STORMS
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Allies More
Cluster Bombs
Steak Is Costlier
Prices Go Up on Nixon
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Impromptu pond mirrors Will Rogen swings.
Spiritual Festival Has Problems
Piano Role
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We have a sewer line
problem In the alley In the
2500 block NW 16. The odor
ia no bad that we can’t
stay out in our back yards
dinner at Chasen's, one of his favorite
restaurants here.
When he ordered hobo steak—a large
New York sirloin he frequently chooses
there—the waiter told him the price had k
gone up the night before, from $9 to J9.25.
The President flew from the Western
White House at San Clemente Sunday for
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highest amount measured
at Prague brought warn-
ings that streams in some
areas would overflow their
banks.
Bird Creek was expected
to flood from above Avant
down to Catoosa. It was
the biggest threat to cause
property damage.
The heavy rain in the
Prague area did no major
The marines reported
the North Vietnamese at-
The spokesmen said five
marines were killed and 17
were wounded.
Thirty miles to the
south, 30 rounds of heavy
artillery fire hit Hue, mili-
tary spokesmen said, but
there was no immediate
report of casualties.
Nearly 70 shells crashed
into the former imperial
capital Sunday, killing 12
civilians and wounding 53.
It was the first shelling of
the city since the North VI-
(See WAR—Page 2)
flood damage, officials
said. Lightning struck a
bam and caused it to burn
on the Ernest Sestak place
seven miles southwest of
town but there was no oth-
er major storm damage.
The latest drenching
came in the second wave
of turbulent storm activity
which broke out Sunday
and caused heavy damage
in central areas of the
state.
Lindsay in the northwest
comer of Garvin County,
the community of Mayo’s
Comer 11 miles west of
Purcell and the Oklahoma
City area were the hardest
hit by the damaging
winds, blinding rain and
hail. Heavy downpours
early today added to the
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smashed by flying debris
and a large steel ventilator
from a base building land-
ed 150 yards away.
Several plate glass win-
dows were shattered and
roof shingles peeled away
in Midwest City. A large
sign was blown down at
(See STORM—Page 2)
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LOS ANGELES (AP)—President Nix-
on got a first-hand demonstration about a
topic of the minds of many Americans
the past few days: the rising prices of
beef.
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Women’s News
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already heavy burden of
problems facing many
storm victims where the
damage was the heaviest.
Rainfall amounts of up
to two inches were com-
mon this morning across
the state with much of it
coming in almost flash
flood fashion. The highest
official amount for the 24
hours ending at 7 a.m. was
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es.
“I don’t know how much
more fell,” she said. “I be-
lieve it was the worst
storm Lindsay has had in
all the years I have been
here. The wind was so
high that it just blew the
rain around so that the
gauge couldn’t get all of
it.”
Pawhuska’s official
time in the future and that
in the meanwhile, the rep-
resentatives of the two
sides will meet to discuss
further the normalization
of relations, including the
questions of repatriation of
prisoners of war and civil-
ian internees, a final set-
tlement of Jammu and
Kashmir and the resump-
tion of diplomatic rela-
tions.”
Excluding Kashmir, In-
dia during the December
of Moore was hit at 3:18
p.m.
Oklahoma Qty's street
department crews were
working this morning to
clear snapped tree limbs
from streets which were
blocking traffic.
gauge at the city power
plant showed 2.82 inches
which fell early today. The
area was spared from
storm damage, however.
Stillwater police report-
ed generally 2 to 2.50 inch-
es in that area.
Holdenville was soaked
with 2.35 inches and had a
(See RAIN—Page 2)
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I do piano work. Back in May, 1971, I did wine work
on the pianos for the Tinker Air Force Base Service
Club, and I have been unable to receive payment. No
one will help ns. A. E. —cjty section just north
Oh, we can sing a pretty tune for you now. We found
somebody to help in the
Tinker office of informa-
tion. The records were
checked, and sure enough,
there was that unpaid bill
of yours. The Tinker fi-
nance office is mailing it
strictly allegro. (Webster
says that’s the musical in- I
struction for a brisk, lively
manner. ----- —
You should be able to
take the evening air in
comfort now. We hit up the
city water department about this, and we now hear that
pollution control workers have given the line a good
flushing out.
PIANO fOR UK ■
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The official rainfall
count at Will Rogers World
Airport hit 2.88 for the 24
hours ending at 7 a.m. to-
day.
Weather Service officials
said that is the greatest
amount received since
Sept. 23 and 24 of 1970,
when 7.68 inches fell at the
airport in a 24-hour period.
SAIGON (AP) - South
Vietnamese marines, sup-
ported by U.S. fighter- tacked them on their east-
bombers dropping cluster
bombs on fleeing North Vi-
etnamese troops, i
forward today toward Vietnamese and their afr
Qua ng Tri Qty.
Associated Press corre-
spondent Holger Jensen
war seized a total of 5,139
square miles of territory
in West Pakistan, while
PAistan took 69 square
miles of Indian territory.
In Kashmir, where the
troops will remain in posi-
tion, India took 480 square
miles and Pakistan occu-
pied 53 square miles.
The agreement said the
troops withdrawals would
take place within 30 days
after ratification by both
governments.
ern flank with a force of
infantry and tanks. But
moved spokesmen said the South
Today’s News
Police reported the
heavy early morning rains
flooded intersections in
several parts of the Qty.
Edmond with weekend
rainfall of 5.80 inches
topped the Oklahoma City
area, but Draper Lake had
a total of 4.15‘inches and
Tinker Air Force Base re-
ported 3.30 inches.
5.59 inches at Prague.
Barnsdall had 3.87, and
3.30 inches fell at Tinker
Air Force Base.
The Lindsay area likely
had as much but Mrs. W.
C. Sawyer, official weath-
er observer there, said the
storm Sunday evening
damaged her weather
gauges and she was only
able to measure 2.50 inch-
8TATE- Cloudy and
cooler through Tuesday
with thunderstorms de-
creasing tonight. Lows to-
night 50’s to 60's. High
Tuesday 70's to 80's. (De-
tails. Page 11.)
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But disenchantment was
the word for many by Sun-
day afternoon as hundreds
began the steep, rocky trip
down from Strawberry
Lake.
“It was supposed to be a
festival of light,” said one
youth who had packed up
and was heading out, “but
they aren’t teaching any-
one anything.
“You don’t have to go to
the top of a mountain and
kill your lungs with smoke
to meet beautiful people,”
complained another on his
way out.
The smoke came from
campfires and cooking
fires, hundreds of them. It
blanketed the forested
area surrounding
meadow like a fog.
Smoke, however,
just one irritation. Food
jr-
and artillery support drove
off the attacks, killed 100
of the North Vietnamese,
reported from the northern destroyed four tanks and
front that the North Viet- captured another,
namese were fleeing in
small groups before the
steady movement of the
marines, apparently hop-
ing to escape the U.S. air
strikes and the shelling of
American Navy ships off-
shore.
U.S. B52 bombers flew
13 missions around Quang
Tri Qty, striking ahead of
the marines tp within
three miles of the town's
southeastern edge. U.S.
fighter-bombers hit the
North Vietnamese with an-
tipersonnel cluster bombs.
and water were in short
supply, sanitation facilities
consisted of open trenches
and many people were ill-
prepared for nighttime
lows near freezing, sleep-
ing beneath plastic sheets
and parachutes.
One young man with
acute appendicitis was air-
lifted from the meadow by
(See FESTIVAL—Page 2)
By Shorty Shelburne
'• Heavy downpours of rain
ranging up to more than
5* 2 inches soaked wide sec-
tions of Oklahoma early
today as sometimes vio-
lent thunderstorms contin-
ued to lash areas of the
state.
The cloud bursts in
amounts of more than
three inches and up to the
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womaa raises her arms skyward daring one of several religious ceremonies at Strawbagpy Lake. (AP)
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More thunderstorms are
likely for the v Oklahoma
Qty area, ripped Sunday
and overnight by winds
and rains which damaged
roofs, downed power lines
and flooded streets.
The weather service said
a slow moving front, work-
ing its way across the
state, was expected to
bring more thunderstorms
through tonight, with the
city probability of rain de-
creasing to 40 per cent to-
night.
Sunday's storm, which
brought winds clocked up
to 103 miles an hour in
Norman and swept
through a mobile home
park and the Midwest
Qty-Tinker Field area with
roof lifting force, was fol-
lowed by heavy overnight
rains that flooded city
streets.
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India, Pakistan Agree
SIMLA, India (AP) —
Prime Minister Indira
Gahdhi and Pakistan Pres-
ident Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
reached their first peace
agreement early today and
promised future negotia-
tions on the other issues
between their two nations,
including Kashmir and the
Pakistani POWs in India.
The agreement, which
came after five days of
talks in this Himalayan re-
sort, said Indian and Paki-
stani forces will withdraw
from the territories they
seized last December
along India's western bor-
der except in Kashmir.
There they will maintain
the cease-fire line estab-
lished by the two-week
war in December.
The pact also contained
a pledge to settle all dis-
p u t e s bilaterally and
peacefully, and said steps
should be taken to restore
and normalize relations,
which Pakistan severed
Dec. 6 when India recog-
nized Bangladesh, the for-
mer East Pakistan.
The agreement gave no
timetable, but called for
measures to resume com-
munications and air links,
promote travel between
their countries, reopen
trade, and carry out scien-
tific and cultural ex-
changes.
It said Mrs. Gandhi and
Bhutto would meet again
“at a mutually convenient
Deluge Details
Here are 24-hour rainfall
totals as reported from
throughout the Oklahoma
Qty area as of 7 a.m. to-
day:
Moor*
Scmaay
Th* VIIIom
Will Roton
Tinker
MmonS
NW U S »Mr 1.:
Hotnor
phone Co. reported 1,300
telephones still out in the
Oklahoma Qty area this
morning after working
through the night to get a
similar number back in
service.
Oklahoma Gas and Elec-
tric Co. officials reported
things in “pretty good
shape” today, but several
areas were without power
Sunday afternoon after
lightning swooped down on -
transformers.
Norman apparently had
the greatest electrical line
damage.
Robert Clinesmith,
OGAE's district superin-
tendent, said storm dam-
age was “the worst we’ve
had in a long time, at least
four years.”
A spokesman for 0G4E
said a wide area of Nor-
man from Santa Fe west
to Berry Rd. and from
Main south to Brooks was
without power from 4:30
p.m. to 9:47 p.m. Sunday.
Ihe first outage occurred
in far north Oklahoma Qty
near Edmond at 2:16 p.m.
and as the storm moved
south it took the power
with it in south parts of the
Disenchantment Setting In
GRANBY, Colo. (AP) -
“Astrologically, it's very
spiritual time,” said a
member of the Rainbow
Family of Living Light.
Spirituality may have
been the keynote Saturday
when some 10,000 young
people jammed into a
marshy Rocky Mountain
meadow near here for a
religious festival staged by
the Family.
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Wide Sections of State Soaked in Wild Thunderstorms
INCH RAINS
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High water debris clogs picnic area at Will Rogers Park on the eve of July 4
outings. (Times Staff Photos by Joe Miller)
Su nd ay's windstorm
ripped through parts of
south Oklahoma City at 70
miles an hour, overturning
trailer homes at the Cas-
cade Trailer Park, 2200 SE
44, and ripped large sec-
tions of roofing from hous-
es at Tinker Air Force
Base.
Car windows were
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