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SAIGON (AP) — U. S. headquarters Friday said
American forces have begun shelling North Vietnam
with long-range artillery based in South Vietnam for the
first time in the war.
Oklahoma City's Tinker Air
Force Base.
18-year-old wife, Francine,
are typically proud parents
though still somewhat
awed by their tiny three-
some, who arrived minutes
apart on February 6.
Gwin is a native of Le
Flore, and his wife is from
barded the North Vietnamese coast for the last five
months.
The first artillery shelling of North Vietnam took
place Wednesday, a U. S. spokesman said. He acknowl-
edged there had been prior artillery barrages inside the
six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone which separates North
and South Vietnam.
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An American military spokesman said U. S. artiller-
ymen fired into the Demilitarized Zone and north of it
with 175-millimeter guns, the biggest in Vietnam. They
have a range of 20 miles.
The announcement came as 45,000 American troops
pushed behind tanks through jungles of the Communists’
war zone C, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, in the biggest
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Asked if the International Control Commission which
is charged with supervising neutrality of the Demilitar-
ized Zone, had been notified of the new U. S. step, the
spokesman said: “Not that I know of.”
The spokesman said the U. S. guns fired from an
“artillery plateau" called Camp Carroll, a marine base
11 miles south of the demarcation line running through
the center of the demilitarized zone.
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offensive of the war. They failed to find Communist units
of any size.
A U. S. military spokesman said the Communists
may be attempting to escape across the nearby Cambo-
dian border.
“The use of artillery is designed to supplement air
strikes against military targets in the DMZ area, partic-
ularly at night and in periods of bad weather," a special
communique said.
U. S. planes have been bombing North Vietnam for
two years and ships of the U S. Seventh Fleet have bom-
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This meant that the big guns could fire eight miles
into North Vietnam at the most.
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.
The spokesman said the only targets shelled in North
Vietnam so far were anti-aircraft gun positions.
Attorney General G. T. Blankenship ruled Friday
that voluntary prayer in Oklahoma public schools is per-
missible, but immediately ran into a threat of a court
challenge.
Don Emery, attorney for a group of Oklahoma City
ministers opposed to mixing religion and schools, said a
court test of Blankenship's opinion is probable.
Nesbitt Sees Court Test
Nesbitt, now a private attorney in Oklahoma City,
had only this comment on Blankenship’s action, when
told of it:
“I feel confident Mr. Blankenship will have occasion
to defend his opinion in court ."
Nesbitt said he was now referring to any action on
his part, but that the ministers had indicated to him
(See SCHOOL_Page 2)
I would like to know why the Choctaw grade school
(See ACTION LINE—Page 2)
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I took my driver test on Nov. 25, 1966, and passed it,
but I have never received my license. Why? R. B.
Charles Hughes, chief of the central files division of
the department of Public safety, says he is unable to lo-
cate your license in the department files under the name
you gave me. If you will contact Hughes at the safety de-
partment, CE 2-1261, and give him your name as it ap-
pears on the license as well as your birth date, he will
find the license. Hughes says the department has 1,-
400,000 names in the central files and there are too many
similarities to locate a single file without additional in-
formation.
I have not received my federal income tax refund for
1965. I have received my refund check from the Oklaho-
ma Tax Commission, but have been unable to learn any-
thing about my 1965 federal return. R.M.I., Weatherford.
A spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service says
your return is still being processed at the IRS regional
service center at Austin, Texas, and the Oklahoma City
office is unable to determine its status at this time. The
IRS promises you will be contacted soon. If you are not,
write us again and we will try to get them off high cen-
ter.
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By Mary Goddard
Nearly one-third of Okla-
homa’s men and women 65
and older depend on wel-
fare checks to patch their
monthly budgets.
The army of 89,837 is the
largest group among 186,-
245 welfare clients who
have a stake in an open re-
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In Raynham, a town some
six miles from Bridgewater,
police were checking reports
that two cars had been sto-
len by burglars who broke
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Third of Oldsters on
June, 1962 and January, 1964.
People Lock Doors
Identified as DeSalvo’s fel-
low-escapers were Fred E.
Erickson, 40, of Brockton,
serving life for murder, and
George W. Harrison, 33, of
Westford, ifeder 15 year sen-
tence for armed robbery.
A Brockton resident, Rich-
ard Pickett, reported that
three men showed up at his
home between 1 and 2 a.m.,
asking to use his phone to
call a taxi. After they made
three unsuccessful calls,
Pickett said he offered to
call police to help them, but
they left hurriedly.
Residents of the 10,-
000-population town 25 miles
south of Boston, although or-
dinarily not too concerned
about escapes from the insti-
tution, quickly took security
measures. Children were or-
dered into the house by
mothers and doors were se-
curely locked.
Footprints in Snow
The hospital is a state in-
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) — Albert DeSalvo, 35,
self-styled Boston strangler, and two other mental patients
escaped from Bridgewater state hospital Friday, setting
off a massive police manhunt
With bloodhounds and a helicopter, state and local po-
lice and hospital guards swarmed through the area search-
ing for the trio.
Gov. John A Volpe, expressing shock at the triple es-
cape, ordered all available state police into the widening
search.
DeSalvo and his companions were discovered missing
about 6:20 a.m. when guards found dummies fashioned
from blankets in their beds. The three were in adjacent
cells.
There was no official word on how long the men had
been gone before their escape was discovered.
DeSalvo's attorney, the nationally known F. Lee Bailey
of Boston, recently described him as a sexual psychotic
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From the top, James,
Thomas and Carmen.
Decision Awaits Formal Killing
Emery, a retired oil company attorney now teaching
law at the University of Oklahoma Law School, said no
decision will be reached on seeking a court test until he
has had time to study Blankenship’s formal opinion.
Blankenship said the ministers’ position is that vol-
untary prayer and Bible reading would lead to abuses.
Blankenship's opinion, promised in a political talk
last October 7, reversed an earlier opinion by his prede-
cessor, Charles Nesbitt, which said the U. S. Supreme
Court would outlaw the Oklahoma practice if it ruled on
it.
gument that “since we are
agriculturally background-
ed, fewer people had a
chance to qualify for Social
Security insurance.
“But when you take the
national average, it in-
cludes many agricultural
states,” he said, express-
ing dissatisfaction with
that factor as the whole
answer.
The HEW summary lists
69.4 percent of the Oklaho-
ma retirement group as
Social Securty recipients,
only 7.1 percent below the
national percentage.
Neighboring New Mexico
pays 16.4 percent of its
senior citizens (9,993), the
1966 report shows. The
City) and other authors of
the amendment, which
would open the rolls with
safeguards assuring no
loss of federal funds.
“The people of Oklaho-
ma think there must be
abuses, but we don't know.
We can’t look at the rolls
and see what abuses there
are, if any,” he said. “We
need to clarify this.”
Sokolosky said he doesn’t
claim there are ineligible
_persons on the secret rolls,
‘ “but from these high fig-
ures all indications are
that there are some
abuses.”
Oklahoma pays a larger
percentage of its senior
citizens than do 46 other
states. Latest Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare depart-
ment summaries show only
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On Wednesday, the spokesman said, army 175-
millimeter guns fired 63 rounds against anti-aircraft gun
positions in the zone and north of if which had fired on a
small U. S. Air Force observation plane
a.m. Friday as the group
was returning home after
stitution for mentally ill with playing at the NCO Club at
My sister lives in the 3000 block SW 13 and the street
is not paved. When it rains the street is terrible. Who
would we talk to about getting it graded after a rain? J.
S.
Toby Akkola, assistant to the director of public
works, says unpaved streets are scheduled for grading
every 7 to 10 days as needed. In the event this street is
not graded 10 days after a rain, contact the city street
maintenance department, CE 1-2244, and tell them it
needs grading.
What’s Inside
smaller ranks draw a bet-
ter monthly average as-
s i s t a n c e payment, at
$83.77, than do Oklaho-
mans at $75.57.
Dale Mitchell, Oklahoma
welfare department re-
search and statistics su-
pervisor, said the average
varies slightly from month
to month. November, 1966,
state average was $75.80
compared with a $67.45 na-
tional average that month.
New Mexico's program
differs from Oklahoma's in
two major respects: Rolls
are open to the public, and
a relative responsibility
law requires relatives to
support relief applicants to
(See THIRD—Page 2)
Oil
Paid Circulation 296.666 A.M.-P.M, Daily Average, January 1967
I and “a completely uncon-
| trollable vegetable walking
I around in a human body.”
Rajley said DeSalvo had
admitted committing 13 slay-
4 ings of women in eastern
Massachusetts between
State: Clear to partly
cloudy through Friday.
Cloudy and a little warmer
Saturday. Overnight low 15
northeast to 28 southeast.
High Saturday in 50’s. (De-
tails, Page 3)
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
By Jay Turk
A staggering stork left
triplets and a wake of
hardship and hospital bills
with a teen-age Oklahoma
City couple early this
month.
Eldon Gwin, 19, and his
Actions of public housing (D-Heavener) introduced SB
authorities throughout Okla- 258, which would permit
homa would be removed fur- transactions, including bond
ther from public perusal un- sales and construction con-
dor a bill introduced this tracts, to be made by private
week in the state senate. negotiation rather than by
Sens. Finis Smith (D- public bids and would strike
Tulsa) and Clem Hamilton p r e s e n I requirement for
public notice of meetings of
authorities.
In addition, the proposed
changes in the state public
housing code passed two
years ago would weaken con-
flict of interest requirements
for housing authority mem-
bers and employes.
Under the proposed
amendments, an officer or
employe of a housing author-
ity could invest in property
affected by the authority af-
ter he has been off the job
for one year. Present law
states a former employe
must wait three years before
investing in affected proper-
ty.
The amendments also
would remove requirements
forcing authorities to offer
surplus property to the origi-
nal owners.
Under present law, the au-
thority must offer to resell
property to the original own-
er at the purchase price if
the property is not needed.
The change in the law
would allow authorities to
condemn property. Later, if
the property were not need-
ed, the authority could pick
the purchaser and name the
price.
The amendments would
end competitive bidding as a
(See SECRECY—Page 2)
Wilburton. They came to
Oklahoma City six months
ago to find work.
The triplets, James El-
don jr., Carmen Oneta and
Thomas Kevin, each
weighed in at less than
five pounds at University
Hospital. All three are still
in incubators.
Gwin is laboring to pay
the bills with wages earned
as a delivery boy for an
Oklahoma City florist. It’s
hard to do on just $1.40 an
hour.
The couple's friends had
earlier held a baby shower
for them.
“We got just about ever-
ything we needed for one
baby,” Gwin said. “We
were sure surprised to
have three! My wife is
tickled to death.”
After working an eight-
hour day, Gwin goes home
to the four-room apart-
ment at 2831 NW 40 to cook
dinner and clean house.
His wife can’t do these
things for another month.
The work load will in-
crease in another week,
when the first baby is al-
lowed to come home. The
others will follow when
they’re big enough.
“We’ll have to put ’em
on some kind of assembly
(See TRIPLETS—Page 2)
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STATE TRAFFIC TOLL
So far this year: 127
This date last year: 105
’67 deaths under 21: 32
Three members of a Wich-
ita Falls, Texas, dance band
called “The Misfits” died
early Friday when the car in
which they were riding
struck a bridge abutment on
the Pioneer Expressway in
the Lawton city limits.
The victims were Carmon
Flick, 20, Carl Flick, 22, and
James Poskey, 21.
The victims were dead on
arrival at Lawton Memorial
Hospital.
Jimmy Harris, 20, driver
of the car, suffered undeter-
mined injuries and was
transferred to a Wichita
Falls hospital.
Lawton city police said the
accident occurred about 2:30
duced in the state house of
representatives this week.
Old age assistance pay-
ments go to an estimated
30.3 to 31.3 percent of those
in the retirement years,
compared to an 11.5 per-
cent national ratio.
The sharp difference is
what bothers Rep. Jerry
Sokolosky (D-Oklahoma
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Superhighway speed
limits would be raised
to 80 mph on Oklahoma
roads if a bill intro-
duced this week in the
house by Rep. Walter
Hutchins (D-Lawton)
becomes law.
The measure, HB 789,
would increase the max-
imum speed in the state
from 70 mph on four
lane divided highways.
Other speed limits
would remain the same.
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