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VOL. LXXIV. NO 139
16 PAGES— 500 N BROADWAY. OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY. JULY 27, 1963
Latin Rescues Berlin Sweetheart
NEW JOLTS PLAGUE
Low Car Fools Reds
QUAKE-RIPPED CITY
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Pittsburgh Damage High
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Gamblino
Even at this point I dreaded to think of what I
knew must be happening—an earthquake.
The vibrations were so fierce I knew the building
could not stand long. We expected any moment, that
the ceiling would be down around our heads. We both
knew at that moment what terror meant.
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John Daley. 51. was listed
in "fairly good condition"
by hospital spokesmen.
At least five of the 200
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PITTSBURGH (fl—A spectacular fire that struck a
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Approximately five hours later we were awakened
by a tremendous roar. My first thought was that an ex-
plosion had taken place. Billowing clouds of smoke rose
past our windows. The walls of the room were sway-
ing. Overhead the chandellier swung back and forth. Our
thermos bottle fell off the table and smashed.
Both of us rushed to the door Sam couldn't get the
key to turn. While we struggled with the lock the first
realization came to us that perhaps it had not been an
explosion after all For the vibrations did not stop Plas-
ter started falling off the ceiling and the windows fell
in.
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He saved our lives. For the next morning, when
the earthquake struck Skopje, the Hotel Macedonia went
down, entombing its guests.
After dinner in the garden restaurant at the Jadran.
my husband and I went to our room on the third floor
of the four-story building. We were asleep by midnight.
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nadian Country Club were
reduced to misdemeanors.
Dwight Siler, sheriff, who
accompanied state crime
bureau agehts in their raid
on the club, said the first he
knew about the reduction in
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the midnight shift apparent-
ly escaped injury.
Officials Blame Tank
H J Shear, plant man-
ager. estimated damages at
about a half million dollars.
Officials blamed the fire
on an overheated resin tank.
“They (workers) were try-
ing to agitate a kettle when
it flashed," Shear said. "The
miles from downtown Pitts-
burgh, was no longer danger-
ous.
The fire is expected to
continue for several hours
but the danger of explosions
has apparently passed.
There were no serious in-
juries reported, although one
worker suffered flash bums
of the face when the blaze
Partly cloudy. with widely
scattered thundershowers,
through Sunday. Not so hot i
northwest Saturday. High
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has been formally invited
to become the 22nd mem-
ber nation of the Organiza-
tion for Economic Co-opera-
tion and Development.
HOURLY TEMPE
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than that the car roared under the bar-
rier while border guards had taken shel-
ter from the storm.
The first sports car escape occurred
last May, also at Checkpoint Charlie. An
Austrian, Heinz Meixnern, rescued his
fiance and her mother in broad daylight.
Norbert used the last chance for such ;
an escape
Workmen have been welding steel bars
to the bottom of the barriers at other
crossing points. Shortly after the escape,
workmen also welded bars to the Check-
point Charlie barriers.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: An American couple, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Nocella, Willow Grove, Pa., survived the
Skopje earthquake. Nocella, 36, is a free lance photogra-
pher. In the following dispatch Mrs. Nocella, 35, tells
what it was like.
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went out there the next
day and saw for myself.”
The day after that he
contacted an air condi-
tioning engineer and got
his project under way.
Zlotogura first inquired
as to why the ward wasn’t
air conditioned in the first
place. He was told there
was no money appropri-
ated for it.
Zlotogura didn't bother
to ask the state for mon-
ey. it would take too long.
"It's hot NOW," he said.
"Those kids lying on rub-
ber sheets can’t wait."
And they didn't have to
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sons still trapped.
The official news agency
Tanjug said "official infor-
mation received by the !
government committee co-
ordinating the rescue work
placed the number of bodies
found as of 8 a.m. at 600.”
has finally won some time
off after working steadily
since March 15 on patch-
ing. sodding and the like.
The field looks good.
It's Bermuda grass, just
like your front yard, and
ihere's 122,500 square feet
of it.
Martinez, who has the
pennant fever worse than
(See 89 ERN—Page 2)
tion pays inmates fees, and
the convicts are granted
certain privileges.
Dr. Shuller quoted Warden
The fire posed a danger-
ous threat to adjacent Gulf
Oil Co. storage tanks, but an
airport foam truck was
tiary inmates.
Program Grows
Shuller said the research
started inside the prison
walls 912 years ago. It has
grown, he claimed to a
large and profitable venture.
He said t employs 24 per-
sons, most of them trained
technical personnel.
Under an agreement
charged Saturday that by
contracting with labora-
tories to take over a re-
search project at the state
penitentiary the state of Ok-
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BERLIN (fl — A young South American
rescued his sweetheart from Communist
East Berlin by driving a low-slung sports
car under the steel barrier at a crossing
point through the wall. '
It was the second time a sports car
had been used in an escape since the wall
was built in August 1961.
The South American drove through
Checkpoint Charlie in the dawn hours
Friday during a drenching rainstorm.
Police kept it secret until Saturday.
He was identified by allied sources as
Oskar Norbert, 23.
Police declined to give deatils other
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ticeable outbreak locally
for several years. But it
reached epidemic propor-
tions this week after our
boys took a doubleheader
from Portland Thursday
to go 21. games ahead
And they still held a half-
game lead Saturday.
The symptoms are all
around you. If you haven't
caught it yourself, you
A Surprise
By Bob Lee
The sheriff of Canadian
County apparently was as
, erupted at around 2
physician Saturday.
plasma-selling flame leaped to a warehouse
which fed it with chemical
pected to be found. The in-
jured total from Friday's
disastrous earthquake prob-
ably will run into the thou-
sands. the reports said.
100 Small Tremors
Tanjug said about 100
smaller tremors have been I
registered since the first I
shock.
Saturday morning's trem- !
or was called "minor” and
mild it did little more
than cause rescue workers
to look up from their shov-
els and picks and then re-
turn to their work, the re-
ports said .
The reports said Tito,
who led a guerrilla rebellion
during World War II and
turned the country into a
Communist but independent
nation after the war, re-
ceived an almost tumultous
welcome from the survivors
in the stricken city of 200,-
000.
'Model City’ Ruined
Skopje once has served as
something of a model of
what Tito's brand of nation-
al communism would do.
Sa'urday he stepped through
the debris-filled streets and
passed the crumbled walls
of earthquake-shat-
tered apartment houses and
government buildings.
He acknowledged the
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lahoma is "entering
business competition
private enterprise.”
Dr. E H Shuller,
With no reservations, we checked at the Hotel Mace-
donia to see if they had any rooms. None. They recom-
mended the Jadran Hotel, a stone’s throw away. We
didn’t realize at the time how big a service this night
clerk at the Macedonia had performed for us.
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-program among peniten-
and it was soon out of con-
trol.”
Blasts Fan Fire
Resin is a coal tar deriva-
tive used for the manufac-
ture of floor tile, paint and
tarring.
Minor explosions from va-
rious chemicals fanned the
fire in its infancy. Flames
shot hundreds of feet into
By Bill Pryor
Imagine lying in bed.
with the temperature 102
degrees outside — and no
air-conditioner.
It would be hot — but
not unbearable. A lot of
people don’t have air con-
ditioners.
But imagine lying
strapped down over r u b-
ber sheets. with no air-
conditioner. Imagine a
crippled child, almost
helpless, strapped down
over these rubber sheets,
a hot, sticky hospital ward
— because the state
couldn’t afford air condi-
tioning.
state is driving out an in-
dustry payroll. and causing
McAlester to lose several
families and two of its doc-
tors.
State officials deny Shul-
ler’s claim.
Dr. Shuller referred to the
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Saturday, 88-95. Overnight
day morning over northern lows in 70 ,. (Details
। understand it either.
"I thought we had a good
case," Goerke said.
। Reduction of the charges
was initiated by John V.
Whelan, Canadian County
attorney who could not be
reached for comment Sat-
urday.
Raid Recalled
The felony charges grew
out of a raid by state crime
bureau July 8. Four persons
were arrested, including
Charles Handley, co - owner
of the club. Seven slot ma-
chines, a large dice table
and two other tables de-
scribed as blackjack tables
were confiscated.
Charged with operating a
gambling game were Wil-
liam Johns, a dealer from
Hot Springs, Ark.; Charles
Archer, who has worked in
Las Vegas, Nev., and Stan-
ley Marcu Woodall, who also
has worked in Las Vegas.
The raid was one of sev-
eral carried out during the
stormy years of operation of
the club since 1957.
Double Jeopardy
State Attorney General
Charles Nesbitt said Satur-
day reduction of the charges
to misdemeanor charges
pretty well ends the most re-
cent attempt to stop gam-
bling at the club.
"It all depends on how of-
ficials in El Reno went about
it (reducing the charges),”
said Nesbitt. "But assuming
fines were paid, any further
action on the felony charges
would constitute double
jeopardy."
Goerke said he was disap-
pointed by the reduction of
the charges, and commented
that it was "frustration” to
plan and execute a raid that
in effect, amounts to nothing
more than arrests on vag-
rancy charges.
"We could have done that
any time,” said Goerke.
Storm Toll High
sections of the state and
are to spread to all sections
of the state by Sunday.
LOklahoma City is to re-
cord highs of 93 degrees late
Saturday and Sunday.
made the charges in a let-
ter to the Oklahoma City working at the 10 acre site on
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By Ed Montgomery
Flag fever spread over
Oklahoma as our 89ers
stayed ahead of the pack
in the southern division
Pacific Coast League
standings.
The same malady,
sometimes known as the
pennant plague, is preva-
lent in Los Angeles It is
chronic among fans of the
New York Yankees.
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Cloudy skies and scattered
showers and thunderstorms
will continue to bring Okla-
homans relief from torrid
temperatures that have fried
the state most of the week.
Relatively mild ther-
mometer readings will con-
tinue through Sunday, with
temperatures generally in
the upper 80’s and lower
90s, the weatherman pre-
dicts.
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SKOPJE, Yugoslavia
(UPI)—A "minor tremor”
rocked the center of earth-
quake-stricken skopje Satur-
day just as president Josip
Broz Tito began an inspec-
tion tour.
Yugoslav newsmen near ,
Tito reported the tremor ’
wobbled the earth a few sec- ,
onds after the grim-faced ,
leader stepped into the once i
proud, now ruined main
square that bears his name. 1
The old soldier did not '
flinch, the reports said.
600 Bodies Found
Tito, they said, walked on.
Intent on watching rescue
crews recovering bodies and
searching for the many per- .
As Charles Zlotogu-
ra put it: "I considered it
torture."
Zlotogura, manager of
a downtown clothing store,
found out about the lack
of air conditioning on the
second floor of Children’s
Memorial Hospital a little
over a week ago. Today
the ward has 12 air condi-
tioners with five more due
to arrive Saturday.
Last week Zlotogura was
talking to a friend who has
a sick child. The friend
told him about the situa-
tion in the hospital.
"I thought he was cra-
zy!” Zlotogura said. "So I
the charges was when "I
read it in the newspaper
this morning."
He added: "I don’t under-
stand it.”
Goerke Speaks
Earl Goerke. head of the
state crime bureau didn't
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must be suffering from a
bad fishing virus or gal-
loping golfitis.
Men who are about to
become proud papas sug-
gest to expectant mamas
that maybe they ought to
name the little fellow Gra-
dy Hatton Smith instead
of John Kennedy Smith or
Barry Goldwater Smith
The newspaper is he-
sieged hy callers who want
chemical plant in the midst of a sprawling complex of surprised as anyone Satur-
chemical and gasoline manufacturing and storage firms day when he learned that
on suburban Neville Island was brought under controlfelony gambling charges
Saturday after a six-hour battle. i against four persons arrest-
Fire fighting officials said the blaze at the Neville
Chemical Co., on an isle in the Ohio River about five
to know how the 89ers
made out on the coast
But out at the fair-
grounds, All Sports Stadi-
um stands empty, s u r -
rounded by enough park-
ing space to make your
mouth water.
There' s not even a
groundskeeper in sight
Owen Martinez, the 89ers
g e n e r a l manager, ex-
plains the four-man crew
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research project “is one of
the greatest things that ever
hit the penitentiary, from a
morale standpoint.”
Research Elsewhere
Stough-Wisdom also con-
ducts research in three Ala-
bama prisons, and has re-
vealed it may move its op-
eration to Alabama from
McAlester.
Gov. Bellmon and the
state board of affairs are
seeking to secure contracts
with the drug firms in-
volved, so that the state can
take over the research ef-
fort.
“How far . . . before the
state might feel it advisable
to organize a construction
company and use prison la-
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