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ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED 1967 OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING CO , 500 N BROADWAY
VOL. LXXVIII, NO. 254
32 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967
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Sen. Charles Percy . . . Tells of escape. (AP Wirephoto)
TOLL ROAD IN CITY
Space Center
Draws Praise
Of Johnson
(See PIKE—Page 2)
Postal Rate9 Wage
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Hikes Are Approved
Court
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A frontier relic, this sod house was nearly destroyed by civilisation.
Historic Sod House Crumbling
3 Years of Protection9 Too Much
Sooner Senator Threatens Filibuster
pointment.
Harris Fights Security Bill
Train Cut Wanted
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Late Bulletins
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social security benefits 13
percent across the board, as
provided in the major legis-
lation.
This would allow higher
The society knew it had
a real find when the house
was acquired.
They said it was the only
original sod house remain-
ing from frontier days,
when at least a million
were built on the plains
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permission to discontinue its
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taining to toll roads, there
is no specific authority for
building a toll road within
a city without its consent.
He said previous court
decisions have not decided
the question and therefore,
it is a matter without prec-
edent.
The judge further stated,
“The law ought to be that
a county may not build a
20 feet of the 48-year-old senator, who is a potential Re-
publican presidential candidate, and four men inspecting
the village with him, but no one was hit. The group took
cover, and Percy got some small scratches on his arms
as he crawled behind some wood huts.
Mrs. Percy had remained in the group’s helicopter 75
yards away with the pilot and two crewmen. They flew
her to a nearby town and returned with an escort of
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To its dismay, the socie-
ty discovered that enclos-
ing the sod house cut off
moisture, which apparent-
ly dried up the mud and
grass building.
The two-room house is in
Alfalfa County five miles
north of Cleo Springs.
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SAIGON (AP) — Sen. Charles Percy, his wife and
seven other Americans escaped injury Tuesday when
Communist gunners opened up with mortars and small
arms during a spur-of-the-moment, unescorted, visit the
Illinois Republican made to the devastated village of
Dakson.
The council action Tues-
day, however, indicated that
the council is not concerned
so much with any single per-
sonality as it is with the en-
tire court structure.
Judges Equal
One of the ordinances pro-
posed would make all three
municipal judges co-equals,
with one of them a presiding
judge and chief administra-
tive officer.
The other ordinance also
would make the three judges
equal, but they would take
(See CITY—Page 2)
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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.
We have received a notice from Internal Revenue
Service that in 1965 we did not show enough proof our son
was a dependent. He was 18, he was in school, we paid
all his medical bills, bought all his clothes and supported
him in every way. We have proof of all this, and what
more do they want? Mrs. H. I.
We took this up with Clyde L. Bickerstaff, district di-
rector of Internal Revenue Service, and he has good
news for you. He says that on the basis of additional in-
formation you have furnished them, they are allowing
the exemption for your son. Proper action is being taken
to show this adjustment to your account.
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Otepka Demotion Confirmed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The state department offi-
cially confirmed Tuesday that Otto F. Otepka, its former
chief security evaluator, has been “severely reprimand-
ed,” demoted and reassigned.
The main charge against Otepka was that he gave
classified information to a senate subcommittee without
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Western Pacific Railroad cause a member of the muni-
will again ask the Interstate cipal counselor’s staff was
Commerce Commission for not present to prosecute.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Britain acted Tuesday
to get the United States to buy about $100 million worth
of extra British arms to cover overseas defense costs fol-
lowing devaluation of the pound.
First informal American reactions to the request
have cheered the British.
Marine General to Speak Out
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lt. Gen. Leonard F. Chap-
man assured senators Tuesday he will speak out on de-
fense issues as commandant of the marine corps, even if
his views differ with those of civilian superiors.
With this assurance, the senate armed services com-
mittee unanimously approved his promotion to four-star
rank and sent it on to the senate for indicated early con-
firmation.
armed army choppers to rescue the senator and his com-
panions.
“This is closer to action than I got in three years of
World War II," Percy, a U. S. Navy veteran, told a news
conference after he returned to Saigon.
Meanwhile, the U. S. Command announced that 471
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars — the equiv-
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THREE — Force 28 states,
not including Oklahoma, to
stiffen their regulations on
ADC payments where there
is an unemployed father in
the home.
Harris, a member of the fi-
nance committee which con-
sidered the legislation, met
Monday with some 14 sena-
tors or their representatives
and again Tuesday with
Mike Mansfield, the senate
majority leader.
He said he will move,
probably Thursday when the
legislation is expected to
move to the senate floor, to
postpone action on the social
security bill until two days
take no action, directly or
indirectly, to construct a
toll road through or within
the limits of Oklahoma
City.
The Harris ruling also
stated the court would not
permanently enjoin the
commissioners for the rea-
son that the foregoing con-
clusions of law make the
injunction unnecessary.
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built a $3,500 metal struc-
ture around the little sod
house — to protect it.
Now, after weathering
three quarters of a century
of heat, cold, rain, snow,
wind and neglect, the little
sod house is turning to
powder.
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after congress reconvenes
January 15.
If successful, he said he
will then move to amend a
minor bill so as to increase
The Florida speech will be
carried live by the ABC, CBS
and NBC television and ra-
dio networks and the Mutual
radio network.
Commissioners had been
temporarily enjoined since
September, pending out-
come of the lawsuit, from
proceeding with plans to
construct two toll express-
ways.
Judge Harris said in all
statutes pertaining to the
authority of the county to
construct roads and high-
way, and in the laws per-
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By John Bennett
There was this historic
little sod house, a vestige
of frontier Oklahoma.
It had lasted 73 years.
The Oklahoma Historical
Society decided to pre-
serve it.
Three years ago, they
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snow through Wednesday.
Overnight low 30. High
Wednesday 38. (Details,
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HOURLY TEMPERATURE
Fred R. Harris led a fight
Tuesday to sidetrack social
security legislation, and he
tacitly threatened a filibus-
ter.
His principal objections to
the legislation:
ONE. — That its welfare
provisions clamp a freeze on
the number of dependent
children who would receive
assistance, depending on a
state’s population.
TWO — Allow state wel-
fare agencies to require
mothers of small children to
go to work.
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: benefits to go into effect
while house and senate con-
ferees negotiated their
differences on welfare provi-
sions. In general, the senate
is much more liberal in its
treatment of welfare recipi-
ents than the house.
Harris noted that congress
has set a tentative adjourn-
ment date Friday and ac-
knowledged that any filibus-
ter action at this point would
be more effective than it
would be earlier in the ses-
sion. .
He said he has “considera-
bly more than 10” senators
on his side.
Asked if he has conferred
with White House and other
administration officials, Har-
ris admitted that he has, but
declined to say how deeply
involved they are in his
strategy.
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He acknowledged that
there is “no question that aid
to dependent children is sky-
rocketing" but he contended
that the social security bill’s
welfare provisions, as ap-
proved by house-senate con-
ferees, “would be disastrous
and most regressive.”
He held a sheaf of tele-
grams from various organi-
zations supporting his oppo-
sition, Including the Child
Welfare League,
Amusements
Bridge
Business
Classified
Comics
National Affairs
Oil Reports
Our World Today
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alent of a battle-ready bat-
talion — were killed in a
six-day battle that ended
Monday along the narrow
coastal plains near the piv-
otal town of Bong Son.
No Escort Sought
Allied casualties were 33
Americans and 30 South
Vietnamese soldiers killed,
and 147 Americans and 71
South Vietnamese wounded.
Percy had some time to
spare after a visit to a reset-
tlement vjllage and asked
the pilot of his chartered
white helicopter to give him
a look at Dakson, near the
Cambodian border, where
the Viet Cong massacred an
estimated 200 Montagnard
tribesmen last week.
The senator said he had
asked that he be given no
military escort for any of his
field trips and the thought of
an attack “never really oc-
curred to me.”
Discussion Planned
Accompanying Percy, his
wife and Smith were Scott
Cohen, Percy's foreign af-
fairs adviser, Fred Ward of
Look magazine, and Kenneth
Schmid, a friend of the sena-
tor from Chicago.
Queried by newsmen, a U.
S. Embassy spokesman said
someone will probably dis-
cuss Percy’s future schedule
with him and the possibility
of a security escort, “but he
is a senator and he has the
right to go where he wants.”
In addition to the wage
increases, the bill calls for
raising postal rates $900
million, effective January
7. The cost of mailing a
letter would go up from 5
to 6 cents, and airmail
stamps from 8 to 10 cents.
The house also passed
without debate Tuesday a
bill appropriating $1,612
billion to finance the
anti-poverty program for
the current fiscal year.
It was the 17th and last
money bill of the session.
The funds approved for
the Office of Economic Op-
portunity headed by Sar-
gent Shriver, which admin-
isters the anti-poverty pro-
gram were $370 million
less than congress had au-
thorized in an earlier bill.
The senate was expected
to restore some of the cut
made on recommendation
of the house appropriations
committee.
The three - stage pay
raise for the nation’s 3.5
million servicemen car-
ries an annual price tag
of $2.7 billion in 1969.
The final action came by
voice vote when the house
accepted a compromise
bill and sent it to the White
House. The senate passed
the measure last Friday
shortly after the confer-
ence agreement was
reached.
The first-year increase
was made retroactive to
October 1. Other increases
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toll road within a city with-
out that city’s consent.”
Harris said the county
commissioners are not
subject to criticism for
their actions, but on the
other hand should be com-
mended for their altruistic
attitude in initiating the
construction of a toll road
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Cook’s recommendations
came amid rumors that Mu-
nicipal Judge E. B. Lee was
to be fired for dismissing 151
traffic violation citations.
Lee said he dismissed the
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — President Johnson, talk-
ing Tuesday with the fervor of a political campaigner, told
space workers at the Michoud space center that they “en-
rich our lives, improve our economy and add to our
strength.”
“You have done more than paved man's road to the
star,” he told workers at a space material assembly facili-
ty near here.
He said the nation will advance in space to the extent
“that our people and their elected representatives are pre-
pared to pay the cost. We have started a journey from
which there can be no turn----------------------------
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ing back.” The president
planned to go to Miami
Beach later Tuesday to ad-
dress a labor convention.
It was at Killeen, Texas, at
the new Central Texas Col-
lege, that he departed from
his text and sounded like a
campaigner.
He fired away at complai-
ners, critics and doubters of
the administration’s goals
for progress and its cost.
“With your stomachs full,
he asked with sarcasm, “has The city council instructed
it pressed your heart out of the municipal counselor
position where it no longer Tuesday to draft two alterna-
cares?” tive ordinances that would
L,,___. revamp the city’s municipal
In the more formal part of court structure.
his speech at Killeen, he I
said, “The time has come 1716 ordinances were rec-
for those Americans who be- ommended by Councilman
lieve in progress to convince Rowe Cook, Ward 8, who
the doubters” also suggested that munici-
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Hood and civilian students . e action followed a
tore up the signs. closed-door meeting of the
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AIn Miami. Beach, where cilmen. It is a violation of
AEL.CIO officials had been state law to conduct such
hoping Johnson would stop meetings unless they are
off at their convention, a being held to discuss "mat-
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completed congressional
action on a companion to
the pay raise measure — a
bill to increase the pay of
military personnel.
President Johnson was
expected to sign the
postal-rate and pay-raise
measures promptly to per-
mit retroactive wage pay-
ments from October 1 to
be made to the three mil-
lion federal government
workers before Christmas.
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By Bill George
A district judge ruled
Tuesday that the construc-
tion of a toll road in or
through Oklahoma City
without the consent of the
city is not authorized by
law.
District Judge Carmon
C. Harris further directed
county commissioners in
their role as trustees to
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It had belonged to Mar-
shall McCully, who built it
in August, 1894.
When they finally ac-
quired the precious sod
hut, it was obviously suf-
fering from old age and
the batterings of cattle and
weather.
The society knew right
away it had to protect the
house. It constructed the
metal enclosure, then
opened the house as a tour-
ist site.
In October, curator Mi-
chael Bureman noted the
sod hut was crumbling. He
wrote the state highway
department’s research and
development division.
Immediately an engi-
neering team drove to the
sick house.
“It was obvious the
house could go to pieces
any time,” said Mitchell
D. Smith, physical science
engineer with the depart-
ment.
So Mitchell and engineer
Curtis J. Hayes recom-
mended spraying the hut
with a new preserving
chemical developed by
Oklahoma State Universi-
ty’s agronomy department.
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
The senate gave final
congressional approval
Tuesday to a bill to raise
postal rates next month
and give federal workers a
$2.7-billion pay boost in
three steps.
Next on the senate calen-
dar was an economy meas-
ure to force a $4.1-billion
cut in the national budget
this fiscal year.
The house meanwhile
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 254, Ed. 2 Tuesday, December 12, 1967, newspaper, December 12, 1967; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1847479/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.