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TEN CENTS
> VOL. LXXXIII, NO. 195
Senator Seeks Delay, Claims Bonham Hatt 'Gone Bananas'
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Debate Off
Test of Plans Favored
Visit Behind
Senate Shelves Reform
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Enemy Line
Of Welfare Program
Unnerving
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Workfare
AGOG Still
Falls Short,
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was
Pumpkins
Amtrack Points Finger
each
came
(See HANOI—Page 2)
Edmondson Gets Low
Rating From Liberals
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(See ADA—Page 2)
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The Oil Well
Baker pleaded that the
(See BAGGETT—Page 2)
came by in their baggy green uni-
forms, their Ho Chi Minh rubber tire
sandals, their oversized pith helmets
emblazoned with the red star.
On the battlefields of South Vietnam
these were the enemy. As a reporter
with the Allied forces, I was fair game
for their bullets.
Now behind the lines in Hanoi, these
same soldiers walked by me with little
more than a curious look as they
humped their small canvas rucksacks
behind them.
I had another compulsion while I
was there with a delegation of antiwar
activists. That was to run away from
the American war planes that some-
times wheeled high in the sky above.
Many a night I had sat in the ward
rooms of Seventh Fleet carriers in the
South China Sea, or balanced drinks in
er a pre-trial conference
held by Jerome Blumen-
thal, attorney appointed as
special judge to conduct
the jury trial.
Blumenthal redessed the
hearing shortly before
noon, announcing he would
rule on the objection later.
Baggett, who was not
present at the sometimes
contentious hearing, mean-
while loosed a scathing
barrage at J. Ted Bon-
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■ 58 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1972
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will ask later for bar asso-
ciation disciplinary action
State Senate candidate J. Ted Bonham today bowed
out of a planned debate with Incambent Bryce Bag-
gett, raying it would be only "a game of words." Tues-
day, Bonham had said he would try to participate in
the debate, scheduled for Thursday.
ence between Blumenthal,
Baker and Jerry Fent, an
assistant municipal coun-
By Bill Kronholm
and Phil Schoch
State Sen. Bryce Bag-
gett, asserting that his op-
ponent has "gone banan-
as" and is prejudicing the
case, tried again today to
win postponement of the
traffic trial he faces Mon-
day — literally on election
eve.
Baggett's lawyer, Bob
Baker, voiced a formal ob-
jection to the trial date aft-
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just ahead of Republican
Rep. Happy Camp with a
zero rating.
The ADA picked 13 is-
sues, and rated Senators
and congressmen on how
EDITOR'S NOTE: Peter
Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize
winning Vietnam war cor-
respondent, recently re-
turned from a visit to Ha-
noi. In the following article
on the trip he tells about
the weird drama uf freely
traveling behind North Vi-
etnamese lines.
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selor.
They met in chambers
with the press excluded.
Blumenthal later said the
conference was closed be-
cause both sides were dis-
cussing evidence that may
or may not become a part
of the trial.
The hearing moved to an
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Cheers for pilots a mis*
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the officers' clubs of U.S. air bases in
South Vietnam, and heard the pilots
talking animatedly of their air attacks
that day against the North.
Now I was a visitor to the target
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started cheering the pilots at hamlets
along the way I felt that the North Vi-
etnamese sense oi forgiveness knew no
bounds, until I discovered that every-
one thought we were Russian techni-
cians heading south to help the war ef-
fort.
area. At one point I traveled a slow-
moving ferry across a river near Nam
Dinh with its bridge destroyed and I
started thinking about what would
happen if U.S. aircraft came over and
bombed us. I could visualize the bland
announcement later that day at the
military press briefing' in Saigon:
"Targets today included strikes
against a ferry north of Nam Dinh.
Damage heavy . . ."
The planes didn't near, but I could
see that the awareness of their de-
structive potential was shared by my
three travelling companions — Air
Force Maj. Edward Elias and Navy
Lts. Mark Gartley and Norris Charles,
prisoners of war just released by the
North Vietnamese.
By Peter Arnett
AP Special Correspondent
Vietnam is the first foreign war
where Americans have regularly gone
behind enemy lines to see what is hap-
pening and to write about it. Many had
been to North Vietnam before me, but
I was still not prepared for what I
found.
Liquor Flows Elsewhere, Court Told
mercials, including one in
which Bonham asks listen- he
ers rhetorically why Bag-
gett is trying to hurry the
election and then answers:
Maybe this is where the "Great Pumpkin” of Charlie
Brown story fame comes from. Lou Beaudreau, Wa-
terford, Conn., raised these. Some weigh 100 to 150
pounds, dwarfing 4-year-old David Goodman. (AP
Hirephoto)
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‘Targets today included
strikes against a ferry • . ♦’
Local: Fair tonight, in-
creasing clouds Thursday.
Continued mild. Overnight
low in mid -50's; high
Thursday mid-80's. (De-
tails, Page 14.)
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Oklahoma County, asked
to be excused from the
hearing today after Judge
Chandler failed to accept a
state challenge to ques-
11 o n s concerning state
lodges.
Jeff Hartmann, assistant
state attorney general, ob-
jected to evidence about
clubs at lodges in Carter
and McIntosh counties,
saying the question before
the court involved enforce-
ment of open saloon laws
only in Oklahoma County.
McKinney, leaving the
they voted on a scale from
9-100. A 100 rating for the
ADA would indicate the
legislator voted the ADA
liberal position on all is-
sues.
Edmondson voted the
ADA way only ope time.
Maybe this was because I had spent
nearly ten years looking at the North
from the vantage point of South Viet-
nam. My ten days visit was often un-
nerving.
I had to resist a compulsion to run
whenever People's Army soldiers
"It's because next week
faces trial and he
knows what the outcome of
that trial may do to the
voters."
Baggett charged, "He is
not campaigning the vot-
ers with these commer-
cials — he is campaigning
my jury.
"He is trying to win the
election by trying to preju-
dice my jury, thinking that
will help him."
As combat officers, they had been
much more conditioned to viewing the
North Vietnamese as enemies than I
was. The first Vietnamese Gartley
ever saw in his life was the farmer
who captured him after he was shot
down four years ago.
Now they were guests of the enemy,
comfortably riding old Russian sedans
and sipping warm beer as the ruins of
bombed railway sidings and factories
slid by the windows. When children
By Jim Jackson
Amtrak opened its
right-to-drink federal suit
against Sooner saloon law
enforcement today with
pointed reference to booze
flowing elsewhere in Okla-
homa.
The second witness in
the national passenger
train service's permanent
injunction hearing was
Jack Buchanan, director
of Oklahoma State Lodges.
Buchanan testified he
learned only recently that
the operator of a private
club at Lake Murray State
Lodge was charged last
February with illegal sale
of drinks.
The charge was filed
last Feb. 11, two days aft-
er Buchanan assumed his
present job, he said. He
said he did not know what
disposition had been made
of the charge.
"Have you done any-
thing about canceling the
lease?" asked Loyd Bene-
field, attorney for Amtrak. I
"Not yet," answered Bu-
chanan.
U. S. Dist. Judge Ste-
phen S. Chandler is con-
ducting the hearing, which
will determine whether a
temporary injunction is-
sued Sept. 8 becomes per-
manent and allows Am-
trak trains to serve drinks.
The first witness was
Don Ensz, Amtrak system
service director, who said
serving mixed drinks
aboard passenger trains
"is material lo our compe-
tition with other modes of
transportation."
James HTcKlftMJF.IllBIL1
ant district attorney for
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Senate voted today to
shelve welfare reform for
an indefinite period and to
provide instead for a test
of all the various proposals
designed to deal with prob-
lems of welfare families.
It adopted 46-40 an
amendment by Sen. Wil-
liam V. Roth, Jr., R-Del.,
to rip out of the bill the
tough Workfare plan writ-
ten in the Senate Finance
Committee and substitute
a test of it and all the rival
plans.
Oklahoma Republican
Sen. Henry Bellmon voted
for the amendment and
Sen. Fred Harris, Demo-
crat, voted against.
Other plans to be tested
would include President
Nixon's Family Assistance
Plan, passed twice by the
House, and a liberalized
version of it sponsored by
.Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff,
D-Conn., but rejected
Tuesday by the Senate.
If the Roth amendment
becomes law, the effect
could be to delay for five
to eight years any action
to reform the Aid to Fami-
lies with Dependent Chil-
dren program.
Meanwhile, the aid pro-
gram, which has tripled in
(See WELFARE—Page 2)
McKinney then gave Bu-
chanan a standard "advice
of rights" Warning.
Benefield, questioned
(See AMTRAK—Page 2)
M. S.
We asked Sam Shakely,
pollution abatement man-
ager for the Oklahoma
Corporation Commission,
what were the chances of
curing these hiccups. He
dispatched field inspector
Paul McBride, who ap-
plied a stethoscope or
something and agreed with
your prescription. Shakely
says McBride prevailed
upon the operator to muf-
fle the well’s pumping unit
engine, which should cut
the noise level sharply
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If the sense of forgiveness was natu-
rally enough restrained, the sense of
hospitality was not. The food was
sumptuous. Three-egg breakfasts
served with Hanoi-canned pineapple
juice, black bread and coffee from the
highlands began e^xday.
Three meat JKrses
WASHINGTON (AP) — cratic Action.
U.S. Democratic Senate Edmondson is tied with
nominee Ed Edmondson is Rep. John Jarman at an 8
less liberal than Republi- per cent favorable rating
can U. S. Sen. Henry Bell-
mon, and Reps. Page
Belcher and House Speak-
er Carl Albert, according
to a liberal study group,
the Americans for Demo-
Foe Tries to Prejudice Traffic Jury, Baggett Fu:
After an earlier motion
for a continuance was’ de-
nied, Blumenthal had or-
dered jury selection to
start at 8:30 a.m. Monday
for Baggett's trial on a
complaint of driving under
the influence.
Today's municipal court
development started as an
informal pre-trial confer- open courtroom, where
years to the day after the new 105-foot water tower
world famous folk singer proclaiming the message:
"Home of Woody Guth-
rie."
Ironically, the only dis-
senting vote on the five-
member board came from ,• j,
th® chairman, AHtaon Kel- :|
(See WOODY—Page 2) *
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ham, whom he faces Tues-
day in a special runoff pri-
mary for Senate District against Bonham.
Baggett referred specifi-
I think the man has cally to current radio com-
gone bananas," Baggett
said. MHe's a lawyer at-
tacking the courts and
trying to prejudice my
trial.
"He is either crazy or
the most outrageously
stupid lawyer in town,"
Baggett said, hinting he
Okemah to Becoynlze Folk Singer
A Water Tower for Woody
w cr
By Shorty Shelburne
OKEMAH—The Oklaho-
ma town which at times and songwriter died in
has seemed reluctant to New York of Huntington's
openly claim him has fl- Disease, the Okemah Utili-
nally decided to let all the ty Authority voted tq do it.
world know that Okemah By a 4 to 1 margin, the
was the home of the late members of the board
Woody Guthrie. passed a motion to have a
Tuesday night, some five sign painted on the town's
City Told
By Mary Jo Nelson
The Association of Cen-
tral Oklahoma Govern-
ments will lose its federal
certification Saturday as
scheduled despite Oklaho-
ma City's vote to rejoin
ACOG, a government offi-
cial said today.
At the same time, just
what sort of organization
of governments will
emerge from ACOG's ash-
es remained unclear to-
day, after the city coun-
cil's confusing action Tues-
day.
Robert Breeden, state
director of the U.S. De-
partment of Housing and
Urban Development, said
ACOG had several defi-
ciencies jeopardizing its
certification before Okla-
homa City's withdrawal in
August took away its popu-
lation requirement.
Meanwhile, it was dis-
closed that State Highway
Director Chester Brooks
was instrumental in ma-
neuvering to reorganize
ACOG, thought to be dead
until Oklahoma City's
abrubt about face Tues-
day. (Details on Page 8.)
Also, officials in several
suburban communities
said they woro stunned at
the Oklahoma City Coun-
cil's turnabout and are in a
dilemma. (Details on Page
28.)
Breeden said the organi-
zation can be recertified
later, provided it meets all
federal requirements. But
he said the agency is defi-
cient in at least three oth-
er categories. He named
these as water and sewer
grant work, open spaces
planning, and the metro-
politan area's "workable
program." The latter is a
blight-prevention program.
"We will recertify them
when and if they meet all
requirements, but they
have to work out their oth-
. er deficiencies firs t,"
Breeden said.
Meanwhile, Breeden
said the agency's certifica-
(See ACOG—Page 2)
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courtroom, said the dis-
trict attorney was ade-
quately represented by the
state attorney. The prose-
cutor earlier had insisted
Buchanan be advised of
his rights and warned
against self-lncrimination.
Judge Chandler said if
attorneys felt it was neces-
sary,'he would grant Bu-
chanan immunity. "I so
do," he said. • Reno and Grand Blvd. B.
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