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It Takes Only One Year
Bellmon Wealth Jumps by $11,722
are vital to our national wel-
to fix the rate as high as 414
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Police said the firemen were unable to get closer
than 50 yards because of the heat.
The explosion lifted the 100-foot-long roof off the re-
finery’s main building Fragments of metal and rock
were hurled 300 yards
The blast cracked walls of houses and could be felt
three miles away
A highway and a railroad nearby were closed be-
cause of the danger of more explosions. Shipping on the
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HANDING OVER his commission as Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment to Robert C. Weaver is President Johnson. Weaver is the first Negro cab-
inet member in history. The White House ceremonies Tuesday also saw Robert
C. Wood, right, sworn in along with Weaver. Wood will be undersecretary of
the new department. (AP Wirephoto)
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ripped through the huge U S -owned Caltex Oil Refinery
on the outskirts of Frankfurt Tuesday and police report-
ed one man killed, another missing and 68 persons in-
jured
A resulting fire threatened nearby propane and hy-
drogen tanks before firemen brought it under control
three hours after the blast
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members of the December
26 party were committed to
appeared on
All supervised gambling
at the State Penitentiary
has been halted by warden
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homa City lawyer who rep-
resents six of the youths and
has been asked to take three
others as clients, said he will
as the council set for public
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where rates available on a
this institution ' he
quoted Monday morn-
- 'transportation vehicles and
public parking facilities
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Officials estimated damage at about $1 million Po-
lice said they believed the original blast was in an ethyl-
ene tank
He said the instruction is
part of his considerathon for
serving as their counseh-
Miskovsky said all have
agreed to abide by this re-
quirement.
Miskovsky said he has ap-
tion system apparently is not
feasible because of the wide
area of development in Okla-
homa City, lack of concen-
trated population and high
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ing the consultants remarks
He said the headline left
the impression public transit t
was a thing of the past and
“that is not the case at all ”
The trust indenture would
establish a seven-man board
of trustees with authority to
lacquire and operate public
Actor Elected
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor
Walter Abel has been elected
president of the American
A huge cloud mushroomed over the $56 million plant
as hundreds of firemen and police tried to check the
blaze
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Oklahoma students arrested
December 26 in an off-cam-
pus dope and sex raid will
have their tresses sheared to
"normal” length, their attor-
ney said Tuesday
George Miskovsky, Okla-
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nancial condition a year ago last No-
vember after he said he was target of
charges made against my integrity
The “charges of which he com-
plained related to disclosure he had
borrowed $13,000 from the federal farm
housing agency to build a home on his
farm
The remains of the dead man were found outside the
grounds of the complex, apparently blown there by the
force of he explosion that was felt in villages three
miles away.
Earlier, police reported three persons were killed
and 90 injured But after the confusion died down they
revised this
of automobile owner
headline w hu h
a storv regard-
is always carefully
FRANKFURT. Germany (AP)
Dr Harry Deupree Ward
3 councilman and chairman
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
former Ku Klux Klansman
related Tuesday that he and
others hurled dynamite
bombs at the homes of some
Negro civil rights workers in
the McComb, Miss . area.
“I lobbed one,” Billy Wil-
son told the house committee
on un-American activities as
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ants for the downtown urban] been allowed or tolerated,
renewal project told council- and even encourased since
men that public transporta-1 1909
. The current uproar over
tion program the president mgs bonds is 3′1 percent
Seven of the arrested stu-
dents were charged with
possession of marijuana, and
others were charged with
misdemeanors involving pos-
session of drugs or lewd con-
duct.
Miskovsky said his clients
have been advised to with-
draw from the university “in
the best interests of the uni-
versity. the student body and
these students."
could tell, were traced to a
personality conflict that
carried over from a previ-
ous administration," the
Long-haired University of and hair fashion,"
clean-shaven
was stopped. He
it as a gray
governor said
He declined to pin-point
the remark about a perso-
nality conflict When told
he left the remark up in
the air, he said "It will
just have to be left dan-
gling
When he turned to dis-
ry Irwin Abrams, 22, Wich-
ita Falls; Robert Dean Wil-
liamson, 21, Ardmore; Paul
Leslie Chestnut, 22, Bartles-
ville, Ronald Wayne Elliott,
22, Altus, and Michael Cary
Bried, 19, of 240 NW 34.
He said he has been asked
to represent John A. Bate-
man, 19. Duncan; David
Russell Herr, 19, of Norman,
and James Gregory Ryan.
20, of Suitland, Md.
require the young men to to Central State Hospital in
conform to “normal dress Norman for observation.
The three longest-haired
survey report stated
“No administration has
been willing to eliminate it
for fear of trouble on the
part of the gamblers and
other inmates
"It started years ago be-
cause of lack of recrea-
t inn a I facilities Since
Ray Page. Gov. Bellmon
said Tuesday
in his first public re-
marks about the situation
since publicity about gam-
bling and other irregulari-
controlled and under my
administration," he was
Parole Association.
ties the governor said an
investigation he made sev-
eral months ago showed
some of the reports were
true
He said it was found
deputy warden Clint Glad-
den had been selling shoes
to prisoners but that the
seems to boil down to
whether big money
changes hands %
The dispute has WardeA
Ray Page jumping
We simply do not have
Officials of Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co. report-
edly appeared under blank
subpenas at a recent fed-
eral grand jury and there
was speculation that a fur-
th or grand jury investiga-
tion is imminent
Earlier this week. FBI
agents seized five of the
devices in Oklahoma City
and Norman.
“You would normally
expect to find these de-
vices in the hands of gang-
sters, but these were in
point ments Tuesday
three of the arrested
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der soon He did not specify variety of alternative forms
• date of savings have moved
Fowler gave no indiation above the rate now paid on
of how large an increase If S. Savings Bonds At the
was being considered How - same time we are at a point
ever Johnson has authority where maximum savings
from the president as say-
ing:
“We are again At a point 1C
Students Curbed
JAKARTA (AP) — The
Indonesian army has banned
student demonstrations in
Jakarta against rising
prices, the official Antara
news agency reported Tues-
d-y.
newsman was selected to
hold the money
Later. Sullivant checked j
and discovered he had con-
ducted a limited survey on
the Wheeler-Wickersham
race while polling western
Oklahoma sentiment on
the presidential race Bid
he said his poll showed
Wheeler was gaining on ,
compared with $73,794 for the previous
year The governor's salary is $25,000 a
year.
Among a total of $225,405 assets were
listed his farm near Billings, as well as
the livestock, machinery and other as-
sets that make up a farming operation.
The governor began disclosing his fi-
future
“Another increase in rate
told the luncheon of top cor-' on those bonds is now time-
porate executives involved* ly. 1 he present interest
in the savings bond deduc-|rate on series E and H sav-
quoted a little later in the
day
A report on the last sur-
vey of State Penal and
Correctional Institutions —
released Sept 26, 1958 —
devoted several hundred
words to prison gambling
Made by the Oklahoma
Citizens Committee on De-
lnquency and Crime of the
National Probation and
the rate of return in order to
keep its interest yields on
the securities at a par with
interest rates elsewhere in
the economy.
Fowler quejed a letter
summer of 1964 Wilson end-
ed up under a heavy sus-
pended sentence for his ac-
tivities
“We didn't mean to hurt
anybody,” Wilson said of the
bombings.
“You only meant to terror-
ize or frighten them?" he
was asked
“Yes, that's right,” he re-
plied.
Wilson said he was
charged in October 1964 with
three counts of illegal use of
explosives and one count of
conspiracy in the use of ex-
plosives. He said he pleaded
guilty to three counts and no
defense to the other. All of
the charges grew out of Klan
detivities, he said.
legislation.
The treasury secretary
Miskovsky said his firm
he told of the incidents in the rpresents. “Ir Pran
Ry Hugh Hall
It s no news to Oklaho-
hearing next Tuesday a trust mans that gambling is
indenture which would es- going on in the State Peni-
By Jim Standard
The results of a secrecy-
shrouded investigation into
a sophisticated device that
allows a telephone user to
escape charges on long
distance calls are slated to
be presented to a federal
grand jury, it was learned
Tuesday.
U. S. District Attorney
B. Andrew Potter con-
firmed that his office and
the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation are investigat-
ing use of the device.
Gov. Bellmon, who says
he has contempt for politi-
cal polls, won a $5 bet
Tuesday from a political
writer who conducts such
polls
At a news conference,
Bellmon and Otis Sullivant
of The Daily Oklahoman
ident Johnson Tuesday or-
dered Treasury Secretary
Henry H Fowler to boost in-
terest rates on U S Savings
Bonds.
Fowler said in an address
prepared for a savings bond
luncheon here he would im-
plement the president s or-
tentiary at McAlester
An investigator eight
years ago reported it has
balance of the
as far as we
most questions to law en-
forcement officers.
The spokesman said the
device has been under in-
vestigation a long period
of time.
The spokesman said us-
ers of the device place
long distance calls and es-
cape paying charges.
It was learned that the
device, a box about the
size of a small book, is
Hearing Set
The assurance was given
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By Kay Dyer
The continuation of public
transportation in Oklahoma
I City was promised Tuesday
by city councilmen despite
predictions by urban renew-
al consultants that it may
not be feasible
of the transportation com-
mittee. said the city will do
"everything possible' to
keep a public transit system'
in operation
cussion of gambling be-
hind the prison walls, the
governor appeared to
make a conflicting state-
ment
"The decision was
made, he said to stop
this practice as quickly as
possible
Then he said "In con-
versation with the warden
(Monday) these supervised
games of chance have
been stopped — they will
be no more “
He praised Page 8 per-
formance as warden and
said he has an extremely
difficult assignment . . .
He has under his jurisdic-
tion the most difficult
group in Oklahoma to su-
pervise
The governor then told
newsmen he would have
no further comment on the
prison situation until com-
pletion of a Pittsburg
County grand jury probe
of the matter to start Feb-
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Halted, Bellmon Says
Clear to partly cloudy,
warmer and windy
through Wednesday High
46. low 26 High Wednes-
day 48 (Details, Page 16)
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
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engaged in a lively debate
on whether Sullivant made
a poll on Fa congressional
race five years ago.
Bellmon claimed Sul U-
vant's “silly poll” cost Re-
publican Clyde Wheeler
support in his race against
Democrat Victor Wicker-
sham Sullivant replied he
did not make a poll on the
race, but that he had writ-
ten several articles on it.
Sullivant offered to bet
the governor $5 he didn't
make the poll in question
You just got yourself a
bet. Bellmon said slap-
ping a $5 bill down on the —pI
table Sullivant produced a H”A(oe(
like amount. and another ( I IUUI,UUA
Gov Bellmon iner eased his net
worth $11 722 in a year, his latest fi-
nancial statement showed Tuesday.
For the second time since he became
governor, he released a statement
showing his assets and liabilities.
His net worth was shown as $85,516,
National Theater and Acade-
stu- my.
dents who were committed
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the possession of what I
would term business con-
cerns." said Lee O.
Teague, head of the FBI
office in Oklahoma City
He emphasized that pos-
session did not indicate the
firms had been using the
device.
"It might have been an
individual within the firm,
or there might even have
been no connection," he
said.
A spokesman for the tel-
ephone company referred
Aid Possible
Dr Deupree said the trust
is seen as the best way for
operation of a public transit
system which would be eligi
ble foi federal financlal as
sislance
The city is fared with the
likelihood that the privately
owned City Bus Co. will go
out of business belote the
end of this year.
Service offered by the
company already has been
cut drastically during the
last several months. The
company is operating with-
out a contract with the city
ship
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