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News Strike
Remain Open
Pact Studied
on the east-west German
power air safety meeting recently ordered American
legislature. These
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Poll Tax Repeal Sought
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The possibility that a spe-
cial prosecutor might head
an upcoming Oklahoma
County grand jury was
raised Saturday, on the eve
of the jury’s inauguration.
on the last day of his visit.
Kennedy was talking about
Moscow Communist in-
fluence in the western hem-
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of homeward bound
ists.
Taking the stroll
President Kennedy
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troduced by Rep. William
R. Burkett (R-Woodward).
Burkett said no city or
town is now collecting the
tax, but any one could im-
pose it by a vote of the
town trustees or city coun-
cil.
He explained the state
constitution left the way
tions.
Police and firemen from
Nice used heavy equipment
to clear away debris and
search for victims.
Police said two bodies
were pulled from the wreck-
age of one of the crushed
houses.
The slide blocked the Vesu-
bie Canal, and its rising wa-
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As the firing started to subside, Gen. Stilwell picked
up a wounded government soldier near him and carried
him to a helicopter which had landed under fire.
Gen. Rowland and Gen. Timmes helped carry the
wounded American to the helicopter.
Two helicopters that initially brought Americans in
were called to land two hours after the engagement
started.
The American generals then flew off to continue
their routine inspection trip.
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open for the legislature to
pass the laws allowing for
the city tax. The legisla-
ture implemented the pro-
vision years ago.
The law applying to
towns is tacked onto a pro-
vision for the levying of a
tax on dogs. Included in
taxing powers is the right
to: . ,
‘Anger’ Cited
It also protested Kenne-
after a swift note from Cuba
saying the Russia n-built
fighters ‘ probably fired in
error." The ship was not hit.
Explanation Due
Tension over Thursday
night’s Cuban MIG attack on I
Red Troops Are Beaten Off
"The ground fight was hot and heavy for about one
hour," a military spokesman said. The three American
generals, who weve unarmed, took cover and stayed
down as fighter bombers zoomed in to pound the guerril-
las.
charge of s
The communists attempted to encircle the position
but were beaten off with heavy losses by the government
force of about 200 men which was later reinforced by a
company of Rangers.
The guerrillas left 45 dead on the ground, the mili-
tary spokesman said. An American captain was wounded
in the stomach and one government soldier was killed
and 12 wounded.
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to be impaneled at 9 a m
Monday before District
Judge Clarence M Mills.
A courthouse spokesman
said the county attorney and
his staff could be excluded
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strong forces of police and
troops surrounded the Do-
maine de la Trappe.
The decree was read to
Borgeaud, who recently said
in a television interview that
he had no intention of leav-
ing the former monastery.
asked the district court
judge to call a grand jury.
However, when the call was
issued, Judge Mills made it
plain that the investigative
body would be authorized to
probe not simply what the
petition asked, but “to inves-
tigate everything."
Should such a move devel-
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BERLIN (UPD-The Unit-
ed States has rejected Soviet
protests aimed at imposing
new restrictions on the use
of Allied air corridors to
West Berlin, American offi-
cials said Saturday.
They said the Russians
made a series of protests
against use of the corridors
by U. S. aircraft which do
not land in West Berlin be-
cause they are on familiari-
zation flights or naviga-
tional-check flights. The
communists say these planes
should land and then take off
again.
Officials said U. S. rep-
resentatives at Berlin’s four-
Partly cloudy and cooler,
with scattered thunder-
storms. High 82, low 48.
(Details on Page S).
was wrecked
Harrod, Staff?
to 82 with overnight lows
from 48 to 64.
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urday, a special prosecutor
would be called in from the
Oklahoma Attorney gener-
al’s office.
Exclusion Possible
If such a move developed,
neither County Attorney
James H. Harrod nor any
person officially associated
wth his office would be per-
mitted to be present during
the grand jury probe of that
office.
This statutory provision
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old one, but the argument
over U. S. guards is new.
Soviet border guards at
the Marienborn checkpoint
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The students demonstrated A note delivered by the
. One student students said they were an-
There’s a bill in the leg-
islature now to repeal the
poll tax which most people
didn’t know we have in Ok-
lahoma.
It’s not a state tax, but a
law that gives cities and
towns the right to impose a
poll tax on citizens, that is
up for repeal in the bill in-
gry over Kennedy’s "insult-
But as two H21 helicopters carrying them started to have been due to misinter-
land, a bullet slammed through one of the craft narrowly pretation of Kennedy’s re-
missing Gen. Rowland. [marks in a speech he made
The generals jumped to the ground and the helicop-
ters flew away as guerrillas opened up with automatic
weapons fire and mortars on position.
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ing references" to Spanish
The embassy was all but (colonialism in Latin Ameri-
to Spanish closed for the weekend. Only ca. They said he made the
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A grand jury is scheduled from the grand jury room,
should an investigation of his ters hampered r e s c u. ef-
office be requested. forts. Authorities said the
blocking of the canal may
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border, officials said.
The dispute on planes is an
NICE. France (UPD—A mass of mud and rocks tore
loose from a mountainnoid 15 miles west of here Saturday
and thundered down on the village of Plan-du-Var, killing
at least three persons.
The avalanche crushed several homes and at least
temporarily blocked a highway, a rail line and a canal it
struck the village at 8:30 a.m. while many villagers were
at breakfast.
The three persons known dead were a schoolteacher,
her husband and one of their children, all of whom lived in
a school building which was crushed by the slide. Their
other child was visiting his grandparents.
Residents of Plan-du-Var, where children attend
guards off station platforms
but the Americans remained
as long as necessary "for
security reasons," an Ameri-
can spokesman said.
Saturday the U. S. Army
ended a week-long battle-
group rotation by sending
259 soldiers in 52 trucks and
jeeps into West Germany.
A spokesman said there
were no incidents or delays.
The army began sending big
convoys over the Berlin-
Helmstedt highway across
East Germany after the Ber-
lin wall went up to stress
Wester naccess rights to the
divided city.
States accepts no restric-
tions on use of the three 20-
mile wide corridors over
communist-held East Ger-
many. The most recent Rus-
sian protest occurred last
Monday, it was reported.
The U. S. army also has
rejected a Soviet attempt to
prevent soldier guards from
patrolling outside American
"Levy and collect an-
nually a tax of one dollar
on each male dog, and two
dollars on each female dog
owned and kept within
such town; also to levy,
and collect one dollar poll
tax on all male able bodied
residents of the town, over
21 and under 50 years of
age."
The decree authorizing
military trains when they property seizures was signed
halt at the Soviet checkpoint by the government during
the night. Before dawn,
Scattered showers and
thundershowers broke out in
parts of central and south-
western Oklahoma Friday
night and moved eastward
Saturday.
Precipitation Friday night
was generally light with .06
inches reported at Hobart,
•04 at Altus and .11 at Fort
Sill.
Saturday morning thunder-
showers were reported
around Fort Cobb, Cordell,
Hobart, Altus, Frederick,
Clinton, Okeene and Hen-
nessey. The shower line was
moving northeastward tow-
ard Oklahoma City where
rain was expected during the
day and night.
Temperatures are expect-
e d to be a little cooler
through Sunday as the rain
suggested by the striking
op, the spokesman said Sat- Photoengravers union to end
dents chanting "Yankee go
home" demonstrated in front for 15 minues. c.. iuea..
of the American consulate threw a stone that broke a
here Saturday to protest window.
President Kennedy’s "insult-
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insults in his speech to the
intra-American presidents’
meeting in Costa Rica.
"That was not the best
way to get Spain’s friend-
ship," the note said.
"We consider that Spanish
[America is a vivid example
i(of Spain’s work in Latin
America) and we must re-
mind (Kennedy) that the ol-
dest universities, courts and
cathedrals of the American
continent were built by the
Spaniards," the note said.
isphere and said:
"We will never be secure
in our hemisphere until the
Soviet Union goes the way of
George III, the Spanish con-
q u e r o r s. Maximilian and
William Walker. Indeed it
must and will.”
middle of highway 202.
A semi-liquid mass of mud
and rocks flowed into sever-
al houses near the school- _ ____________
house. an American cargo ship, the
Police said recent torren-Floridian, dropped sharply
tial rain caused the slide.
came bounding down the
mountainside. Another boul-
der rolled down a country
lane, smashing in the front
walls of several houses be-
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President Kennedy and King Hassan II stroll along
Pennsxivania Avenue- (AP Wiraphoto) ____
Syeeeh Termed IntuMng
Spain Student Mob
moves eastward. Highs Sat- . .
urday were forecast from 72 jury laws passed by the 1961
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Police Startled
Startled city police
dashed to the middle of the
avenue, and halted all traf-
fic so that the party could
cross. They also tried,
without much luck, to keep
the growing throng from
turning the walk into a
procession.
Apparently oblivious to
the commotion trailing in
their wake, Kennedy and
Hassan chatted as they
strolled along in the warm
spring sunshine.
Kennedy accompanied
was one of a series of
amendments to the grand
WASHINGTON IP—T h e
VA LENCIA, Spain history In a recent speech in I three employe*
(UPD—A mob of 300 stu------ — 1
create a mild sensation,
surprise the press, startle
the police, delight passers-
by and cause a traffic jam
school on Saturday, were
thankful that the avalanche
occurred before school
hours.
“An hour later it would
have been a catastrophe.”
said one bystander. looking
at the wrecked building and
the schoolyard filled with
mud, rocks and debris.
School Wrecked
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. blackout.
The photoengravers alrea-
dy have scheduled a vote ra-
tification meeting for Sun-
day. but this apparently de-
pends on what the publishers
will do.
Acceptance of the peace
pact by the union’s members
would mean the end of the
prolonged shutdown of eight
major dailies.
The photoengravers reject-
ed the original settlement
terms proposed by Mayor
Robert F. Wagner by a vote
of 191-111 last Wednesday.
Early Saturday the union's
negotiators suggested to
Wagner a “rearrangement”
of his terms.
After studying the sugges-
tion, the mayor told the
union he would recommend .
the changes to publishers la-
ter Saturday.
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Titan Missile Fired
VANDENBERG AIR
FORCE BASE, Calif. (R—
The air force fired aloft a
Titan intercontinental mis-
sile early Saturday in what
was described as a routine
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land—and, said Kennedy,
“We hope more will pull out. (
“The month of March is
not finished yet and we
should have a clearer idea
as to what the total numbers
should be in the coming
days "
400 Leave
Since then about 400 more
Soviet military personnel
have departed, according to
unofficial reports. But Ken-
nedy, who considered the Cu-
ban situation at a meeting of
the National Security Coun-
cil executive committee Fri-
day. has kept silent on the
count.
The quick cooling off of the
shooting incident indicated
both Havana and Washing-
ton wanted to avoid any new
crisis in the trigger-happy ,
atmosphere around Cuba.
The state department dis-
King Hassan II of Morocco
who was winding up an of-
ficial three-day visit.
Car Ignored
They emerged from the
White House at about 5
p.m. Friday and, ignoring
Hassan’s waiting lim-
ousine. started down the
long driveway to Pennsyl-
vania Avenue.
Startled newsmen and
photographers fell in be-
Governor Comes
Gov. Pierre J. Moatti of
A l p e s maritimes province
went to Plan-du-Var to take
a l v a g e opera- Informants in Havana said
Friday night that Prime Mi-
nister Fidel Castro has
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ning—seemed to have all
but passed over Saturday. I
And U. S. officials turned
fore it came to rest in the again to a more lingering
NEW YORK tP— Publish-
ers consider Saturday a re-
vised settlement formula
made in a petition which
problem: The thousands of
Russian troops still in Cuba.
No Request Made
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promised to deliver an ex-
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hind the official party
Instead of halting at the
gate and bidding his royal
guest farewell, Kennedy,
with King Hassan at his
side, headed up Pennsylva-
nia Avenue toward the
Blair House, the guest
house for official visitors.
Passersby were delight-
ed and fell in behind the
official party, the news- I l g 1 *
T and the photogra- H rohers to Bar
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the king into the Blair
House to say good-bye.
Then, esccorted by Ahmed
Balafrej, t h e Moroccan
foreign minister, and Ali
Bengelloun, Moroccan am-
bassador to the United
States, he walked back to
the White House — still
trailing newsmen, photo-
graphers and general pub-
lic.
‘We Made It’
As the president re-enet-
ered the White House he
grinned at the newsmen
and photographers and re-
marked:
“We made it and
brought a few people along
the way with us."
Protocol officer Angier
Biddle Duke told reporters
the walk was Kennedy’s
idea, that when he asked
the king if he wanted to
walk, Hassan replied that
he would be delighted, that
it would be the happiest
thing he had done during
his visit.
Police were still unsnarl-
ing the traffic jam half an
hour later.
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planation to the United
States on the strafing.
They said Castro had con-
tacted the Swiss embassy,
which represents American |
interests in Cuba. The em-
bassy declined comment.
But time was approaching
for what President Kennedy
said would be a new look at
Soviet troop strength on the j
island
More Expected
At his last news confer-
ence, March 21. Kennedy
said that about 3,000 Rus-
sians had left Cuba since So- .
viet Premier Khrushchev
promised to withdraw sever- l
al thousand. That left an es-
t i m a t e d 14.000 on the is- !
SAIGON (P—Three American generals who were
caught in a vicious firefight against communist guerril-
las in south Vietnam’s Mekong Delta helped carry dy‛s alleged “reference” to
wounded to helicopters even though guerrilla snipers "the plunder of the gold of
continued firing, the Americas made by
_ . _ Spain” and said U. S. policy
Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding general, towards Latin America in
U. S. Army support group here and son of "Vinegar Joe” modern times "has always
Stilwell, who commanded troops in Burma in World War been met with anger and in-
II, commented, "the worst thing was keeping down in dignation among the Span-
that hole while the fight was in progress. It was hot in ish-American peoples "
there- It was not immediately
Brig. Gen. Robert K. Rowland, chief of the air force known whether police made
section, military assistance advisory group, said, "You any arrests An eyewitness
sure appreciate quick fire support when you are in a sit- said the demonstrators di-
uation like that,” spersed peacefully after the
note was delivered
The other general officer in the incident, Maj. Gen. Banners Waved
Charles J. Timmes, chief U. S. military assistance advi- The students first gathered
sory group in Vietnam, was not available for comment at the Alfonso el Magnanimo
but aides said he was unperturbed. Square in the central city.
Then, waving banners and
Bullet Narrowly Misses General shouting, "out with the bas-
, . . es" and "Yanks go home”
.. The three generals flew into the command post of they marched to the consu-
the 21 division search and clear operation at noon late
Wednesday with a battalion commander. They had been American newsmen who
making a routine inspection tour A military spokesman attended the meeting of the
said situation was quiet when the generals made presidents at San Jose, Costa
their trip to the command post 30 miles southeast of the Rica, earlier this month
delta city of Can Tho. . the students’ discontent may
WASHINGTON (—It
was a nice day, so the
president and the king
walked.
It wasn’t a particularly
long walk — from the
White House to the Blair
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ALGIERS (UPD-The Al-
gerian government took over
two big vineyards near Al-
giers Saturday and ousted
their French proprietors in
what may be the prelude to
wholesale seizures of
French-owned property.
An announcement said the
Domane de la Trappe, one of
the country’s most important
vineyards 10 miles east of
here, had been nationalized.
Troops surrounded the estate
—formerly a Trappist mo-
nastery — and informed
Henri Borgeaud, the owner,
that it now belonged to the
state.
Outside Law?
Shortly after, reports
reached here that the Chai
de Monchy, another vine-
yard. had been seized.
Both seizures appeared to
be outside the scope of a law
announced Friday under
which property vacated by
French emigrants was to be
nationalized.
Unconfirmed reports said
some property was seized a
week ago, without the use of
troops, at St. Germain near'
Oran.
Decree Signed
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 74, No. 37, Ed. 2 Saturday, March 30, 1963, newspaper, March 30, 1963; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1843674/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.