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TV Tidbits
Vital Statistics
Women’s News
Need help? Write to Oklahoma City Times, P. O.
Box 25125, Oklahoma City 73125 or telephone CE 2-3311
between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Burley Walker, head of the state health depart-
ment’s food and drug division, says it is only illegal to
dip milk from an open container, not to serve it in the
manner you describe. As a matter of fact, he says this is
probably more sanitary than pouring milk from a bottle
into a glass. The milk is prepared at an inspected dairy
and placed in inspected containers. Any suspected viola-
tions may be reported to him at GA 7-6561.
How long before the new bridge over the Arkansas
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Royal Burris, city poundmaster, says there is no city
ordinance concerning stray cats because it has never
been considered a problem in the Oklahoma City area.
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John Holt, of the highway department’s information
office, says there are two new bridges involved over the
Arkansas River in this area. The one now under con-
struction on I. H. 40, three miles south of Webbers Falls,
is eight percent complete and should be finished in the
spring of 1968. A contract will be awarded in January or
February for a new bridge on U. S. 64 over the Arkansas
River and this will take about two years to complete.
The bridge on I. H. 40 will cost $2,441,648 and the one on
U. S. 64 will cost $1,605,000.
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My widowed mother has been unable to find the
proper procedure to get welfare assistance from the
state. She is physically unable to work and her belong-
ings were lost in a recent fire. The welfare department
told her to sell all she had left and maybe they’d be able
to get her $10 a month. D. W.
Action Line has talked with Mrs. Janet Sawicki at
the county welfare office. She said if you will contact her
at CE 2-2407 she will make every effort to see that your
mother gets the assistance due her. Keep us posted as to
the progress of the case.
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of the popular vote.
The three-judge court rul-
ing barred a choice by the
legislature between Demo-
crat Lester G. Maddox and
“We were south of Puer-
to Rico in Hurricane Inez,
flying just above the 50-
and 70-foot waves, when
we got a continual buffet-
ing from terrifically high
winds.
Is there anything that can be done to rid the city of
so many cats? There are a lot of stray cats in the area
between NW 1 and NW 4 and between Pennsylvania and
Villa. I recently saw 12 to 18 cats in one yard. C. W.
For ‘Happy Hunter’
four college divisions of
OSU.
These colleges, arts and
sciences, education, busi-
ness and home economics,
have more than $4 million
in research contracts cur-
rently in force through the
foundation, which was es-
tablished in 1944.
Total research outlays
on the OSU campus last
fiscal year approached $6
million, Edmison said. Of
(See FUND—Page 2)
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: Research facilities and their
profitable use are conceded to be one of the prime fac-
tors in the economic development of Oklahoma. Two of
the state’s major universities have such facilities and
have been working more than 20 years on projects. Yet
talk has arisen that the state needs additional research
installations instead of improving the ones in existence.
This article, the first of six parts, examines research ac-
tivity at Oklahoma State University).
There’s nothing wrong
with research at Oklaho-
ma State University that
money wouldn’t help.
Not only money for ex-
tending research activity
but money for scientists to
travel to learn more of
what kinds of research are
needed, says the OSU Re-
search Foundation direc-
tor, Dr. Marvin T. Edmi-
son.
That is one of OSU’s ma-
jor problems right now,
Edmison believes.
Please return coupon with stamped, self-
addressed envelgpe. Tickets will be issued
onfirst-come,first-served basis, so mail
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jected. He was told the
agency needed a study of
titanium oxides, not tin.
The scientist was dis-
gusted because his special-
ty area would have made
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gee; Jimmy Frank Smith,
18, Oklahoma City; William
Marth, 21, Muskogee; Wil-
liam Paul Falconer, 24, Fort
Gibson, and John Castillo
jr., 18, Mount Pleasant, Tex-
as.
Undersheriff Lloyd Nichol-
son said the men must have
sawed on the bars several
hours or, perhaps even days.
He said he does not know
how they got the hack saw
blades, which were left, «
scattered about the cellblock
State: Partly cloudy and
warm through Tuesday.
Turning cooler in Panhan-
dle and northwest late
Tuesday. Overnight low 38
in Panhandle to 58 south-
east. High Tuesday 70 s in
northwest to 80’s else-
where. (Details, Page 7)
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
Money Most Painful Thorn in OSU Research
leorgia constitution provi-
ion that the legislature
hoose between two top can-
By Mary Goddard
For a onetime Oklahoma
Bityan who daydreamed
hrough school yearning
Uor far islands and the sea,
here’s a wonderful way to
make a living:
Welch said he will confer
with his attorney, V. P.
Crowe, who was out of the
city and unavailable for
comment.
The 74-year-old former
jurist was sentenced in
1964 to three years impris-
onment and a $13,500 fine
on charges of evading
about $13,000 in taxes for
the years 1957 through
1961.
Welch has been free
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(check, cosh or money order)
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pending appeals. The U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals
previously denied Welch's
appeal.
The decision by the U. S.
Supreme Court not to re-
View the case refers the
conviction back to the cir-
cuit court opinion, which
held Welch must serve his ,
sentence, Potter said.
In his appeal, Welch ,
had alleged a combination
(See WELCH—Page 2)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — didates when no candidate
"he supreme court stayed for governor gets a majority
Monday a three-judge feder-
on November 17
unconstitutional a
Republican Rep. Howard
"Bo" Callaway.
The supreme court said an
appeal from the three-judge
court ruling had been filed
by Ben W. Fortson, Georgia
floor.
Officer Stunned
DEATH CAB is viewed by New Orleans police and bystanders in which three
LSU students were killed and two others critically injured. The shattering
three-vehicle collision happened Sunday night on the Airline Highway. The stu-
dents apparently were on their way back to Baton Rouge after the LSU-Tulane
football game. (AP Wirephoto)
The escaped
were identified
also asked that the lower
court judgment be stayed'
pending final action by the'
highest tribunal on the sec-
retary's appeal.
(ESSA) uses for weather
research.
Chief navigator for
ESSA’S Research Flight
Facility is William R.
Fitch, son of Mrs. Lewis
W. Fitch, 1728 NW 13.
Hunting Hurricanes
He is happily hunting
hurricanes in the latest
chapter of a storybook ilfe
in which he:
—Worked as an Oklaho-
ma City taxi driver and oil
The U. S. Supreme Court
refused Monday to review
the federal income tax
evasion conviction of a
former Oklahoma Su-
preme Court justice, Earl
Welch.
Welch, contacted at his
home in Oklahoma City,
said he does not know
what the next step will be
in his attempt to overturn
his three-year sentence.
However, U. S. District
Attorney B. Andrew Pot-
I am under the impression that it Is against the law
for a public eating place to serve milk from bulk contain-
er. At a place where I eat breakfast, I see the milkman
bring in boxes with a protruding plastic tube which he
sets down any place handy while preparing the container
for the transfer. This tube slips into a mechanism which
dispenses the milk into a glass. It looks far from sani-
tary to me. I no longer drink milk there. E. R. R.
The 54-year-old "ex-or-
ganic chemist," as he calls
himself, gave an example
of how more money for
travel might help the OSU
research effort.
An OSU scientist submit-
ted a proposal to a federal
agency seeking a grant to
study oxides of tin, and it
was rejected.
Later, the scientist met
the agency’s grant coordi-
nator at a professional
meeting and asked why
the proposal had been re-
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duty in 1950 and was shot
down in flames over North
Korea. He bailed out and
landed with a broken left
leg. He was captured,
robbed, shot and left for
dead.
—Recovered after a dar-
ing helicopter rescue and
nine months in air force
hospitals, and navigated
for the 435th Troop Carrier
| Group which dropped sup-
l plies and troops in Alaska,
j Northern Greenland and
the Caribbean area.
—Retired to become a
reserve lieutenant colonel
and spent four years as a
commercial fisherman and
skindiver in the Florida
Keys.
Boat Blown to Bits
He joined the new re-
search flight project at Mi-
ami in 1960 just in time to
fly in Hurricane Donna
and watch on radar as it
destroyed his fishing boat.
Fitch brought ESSA’s
DC-6 Forty-Charlie to Ok-
lahoma City last week for
an aircraft display at an
unprecedented national
conference on instruments
for atmospheric research
planes.
After global research ex-
peditions and flights into
the eyes of more than 400
hurricanes, has the 51-
year-old adventure seeker
had enough?
"Not yet," he smiles.
Go Native
"Those islands in the
Caribbean are just won-
derful. I want to take a
long trip down there in a
shallow-draft boat, and
live on fish and lobster
and cocoanuts.
"You never know what
(See PILOT— Page 2)
man and Times, P. O. Box
25125, Oklahoma City,
73125.
Handel’s memorable
choral work for the holi-
day season will be directed
by symphony conductor
Guy Fraser Harrison.
Four guest soloists will be
used plus members of
choirs from churches, col-
leges and high schools.
The total number partici-
(See CONCERT—Page 2)
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What’s Inside
agencies that need re-
search done especially
federal agencies. And
more travel money is part
of he answer.
The foundation, only one
of three research sponsor-
ing agencies at OSU (the
others are the Office of
Engineering Research for
the college of engineering
and the Agricultural Ex-
periment Station for the
colleges of agriculture and
veterinary medicine), han-
dles research activity in
"We were right on the
edge of. being out of con-
trol. II anything had hap-
pened so close to the wa-
ter, we’d have been fin-
ished."
‘Anything’ All Bad
"Anything" might be
loss of an engine, or a
lightning strike that
knocked out the instru-
m e n t s, boiled smoke
through the cockpit and
damaged the plane in an
ear-splitting explosion.
The DC-6 was one of the
flying laboratories the En-
vironmental Science Serv-
field roughneck before
World War II.
— Flew 25 missions as a
lead navigator with the
Eighth Air Force in that
war, returning with the
Distinguished Flying Cross
and other medals.
—Returned to active
clashed with Grunitzky re-
cently on the military budg-
et.
Revolution Reported
First reports of an upris-
ing came from London. An
unidentified speaker on the
radio at Lome, the capital,
said a revolution had broken
out in the tiny west African
republic.
“My dear countrymen,"
Grunitzky said in his broad-
cast, "some instigators of
trouble have come into the
radio station and had a pre-
pared tape recording broad-
cast. It was meant to trouble
your minds and call the pop-
ulation to disorder. These in-
stigators of trouble have de-
ceived you by pretending
that the army was solidly
with them.
Calmness Urged
"I protest indignantly
against this insult to the
army, our national army
which is sticking to i s du-
ties.
“Energetic measures have
been taken to put an end to
the disorder. I invite you to
remain calm and carry on
with your occupations.”
The broadcast heard in
London said:
it just as easy for him to
study titanium.
So, Edmison said, one of
the biggest problems is
communication between
scientists at OSU and
p ■
“We didn’t
loists and a large choir
perform the Christmas
masterpiece.
There'll be 800 persons
participating in the per-
formance, an elaborate
production being staged as
a “Dollar Concert" spon-
sored by The Daily Okia-
nied by a stamped self-ad- were out until we a call i
dressed envelope. from Smith wanting us to
The mailing address: ----- —- —i— •• •
Dollar Concert, Oklaho-
ter, who prosecuted Welch,
said the refusal by the
high court clears the way
for the U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in Denver to is-
sue a mandate and for
Welch to begin serving his
sentence.
“This is the first I had
heard of it," Welch said
when contacted by a news-
man Monday morning. "I
just don’t know what the
next step will be."
homan and Oklahoma City
Times.
Twelve thousand tickets
are now on sale by mail
order. Orders are being
filled on a first-come, first-
served basis.
During the Crystal Pal-
ace Handel Festivals of
the Victorian era, “The
Messiah" was performed
by 3,000 voices and heard
by an audience of 20,000.
Tickets are $1 each and
orders should be accompa-
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788 Other calls CE 23311
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PARIS (AP) — Insurgents
were reported to have seized
the Togo national radio sta-
tion early Monday but Pres-
ident Nicolas Grunitzky la-
ter announced that "ener-
getic measures have been
taken to put an end to the
disorder.”
Grunitzky's broadcast,
heard in Abidjan, Ivory
Coast, indicated that Grunit-
zky has probably regained
the upper hand in the civil
disturbances during which
his resignation was demand-
ed. It was not clear who was
leading the opposition.
An earlier report from the
French news agency quoted
travelers arriving at Coto-
nou, Dahomey, as saying
that thousands of demonstra-
tors ringed the presidential
palace. The palace was
being protected by troops
under chief of staff Lt. Col.
Etienne Guassingbe Eyade-
ma, who has reportedly
"The Messiah,” by
George Frederick Handel,
designed for large scale
presentation and to be
heard by large audiences,
will get that kind of treat-
ment at 7:30 p.m. Decem-
ber 17 at the State Fair
Arena when the Oklahoma
City Symphony, vocal so-
The escape was the first in
nine years from the Musko-
gee County jail, housed in an
old warehouse.
Nicholson said the men
sawed two bars out of the
cellblock window, walked
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BULLETIN t
NEW YORK (AP)—The
stock market took a steep
loss in moderate trading.
At noon, the Dow Jones
, average of 30 Industrials
was off 12.75 points at
himself up."
Nicholson said Newton got
the phone call from Smith
and was "so surprised” he
had checked the cellblock
before sounding the alarm.
Smith was picked up by
police as he walked along a
road on the northeast edge
of Muskogee.
Squeezed Through Hole
Sheriff Bill Vinzant picked j
up Parks at a northside
Muskogee home after receiv-
ing a tip on his whereabouts.
By F ugitive
By Jack Taylor *,
(Of the State Staff)
MUSKOGEE — Five pris-
oners at the Muskogee Coun-
ty jail sawed their way
through two sets of bars and
escaped early Monday.
Jailers a few feet away
didn’t discover they were
missing until one of the pris-
oners telephoned the jail two j
hours later, wanting to give
himself up."
Blades Smuggled
A sheriff’s spokesman said
the men used hack saw
blades apparently smuggled :
into the jail to saw their way ;
through bars in a cell win- ?
dow, then through bars in a i
window leading from the
run-around to the outside.
The escape occurred about
1:15 a.m. while head jailer !
Earl "Chief” Newton was on
duty in the jail office located
next to the cellblock but out I
of sight.
Another jailer, Mack Her- i
rington, was working at the 1
rear of the cellblock.
Fugitives Identified
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