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"Oklahoma's Most Interesting—And Most Readable—Daily Newspaper11
Vol. 73—No. 311
CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1966
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Several years ago a similar
Opens Talks
A resolution to be forwarded
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that a
I City Clerk Donna Jones point-
June 1.
city coffers.
waged chopper out of the area.
Masher-White
Honolulu
Humphrey
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Declaration
Under Fire
stepped
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We Saw
welcome Humphrey, who ar-
To Be Guest Conductor
Guillermo Espinosa, who was Nin-Culmell, guest conductors, I E
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HI POCKETS
Council Approves Zoning
For Apartment Dwelling
1,300 Kids
Welcome
O'Bar Takes
City Council
Delegation
Ends Tour In
Clinton Area
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demand the departure of three
military leaders ordered abroad
a month ago by Provisional
. food and other items, but that
sales tax on new machinery
Horace Stringer, winding up
his first term as a city council-
FLAT TIRES—A scrap metal truck headed
south on U.S. 81 this morning literally cover-
ed the highway with metal shavings, which
were blamed by area motorists for more
than 20 flat tires. Cars with flat tires lined
the highway from Chickasha north to Pocas-
Greia Godoy directing them to
follow Caamano into “exile” at
from
Hector
to
re-
Only one candidate has filed
for the Ward 3 council seat un-
der the new realignment. Nolan
Methvin is that candidate.
The 10-day filing period will
close at 5 p m. Friday, Feb. 18.
In the March 1 election, in
strike” Thursday to protest the
shooting at the “White House,”
but its effectiveness could not
be determined immediately.
items in the proposed one cent
sales tax which will be voted
upon at the March 1 city elec-
tion.
He stated that the farmers
in the area are not objecting
i to the tax on their clothing,
sion, which included a 30-min-
ute recess.
and Oregon) from R-1 (single
family unit) to R-3 (multiple
family dwelling) was approved
unanimously by the six coun-
cilmen on the measure’s third
reading.
An easement covering a city
water line under property at
Fourth and Georgia was accept-
than 40 wounded Wednesday,
the day the current outbreak of
violence began.
District Weather
Increasing cloudiness tonight.
Precipitation ending in south-
west Saturday afternoon. Colder
Saturday. Local temperatures:
2 p.m. today 47; Thursday high
50; Thursday low 28. Precipita-
tion trace.
mayor of Chickasha.
Mayor Paul Miller reaffirmed
Thursday night that he is not a
candidate for reelection.
Guillermo Espinosa
his custom to include a large
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The realignment of the ward
boundary lines within the city
limits brought about the change
the city’s financial situation by northeast of Saigon. The first
voting on a one cent sales tax wave of troops landing by
proposal. It is estimated to put helicopter was pinned down by
some $200,000 annually into the enemy fire, but air strikes and
The violence was accompa-
l nied by a partially successful
general strike called by leftist
fertilizers, feed and used ma-
chinery are exempt under the
sued by President Johnson and
South Vietnamese leaders only
three days ago has come under
fire for being out of step with
from Ward 4 where he will be,
opposed by William H. Rose.
. . . Miss Karen Blanchard,
working on
lege of Liberal Arts Inter-Amer- ; ductor, was born in Cartagena
lean Festival February 19-24 de Indias. He began his musical
by the city manager, upon was never used because there
recommendation by the library was no follow-up on the matter,
board, will be effective on was approved by the council.
per year for one third of the
coverage. They held the policies
which expired on Wednesday.
Councilman Joe West charged
mismanagement in the city’s
affairs, claiming that the in-
surance coverage should have
been brought to the council’s at-
tention earlier to avoid a period
without coverage. West said the
charter states the council must
The Chickasha Express
invites
RAY OSBORN
to the Washnta Theater to see
“KING RAT’
This ccapon good for two
tickets to see the above
picture.
near Bien Hoa Air Base while Thieu, during a visit to the Gia television and could take $720,-
Vice President Hubert H. Long Palace, "and more 000 every five years from the
Humphrey was touring hamlets important what beautiful community’s economic picture,
nearby under the protection of people.” | Both letters were accepted
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The Community Antenna Tele- ed out that the money was
vision (CATV) question arose never in the city treasurer,
when Burton read a letter from That the fund would have been
Ben K. West of KOCO-TV,1 available only if the city pro-
1 which stated that a joint effort ceeded with plans to erect the
of several firms including Cim- structure.
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set. The above picture shows the metal cov-
ering the highway, shortly after the truck
driver reported that the tailgate came off
the truck. The inset shows an enlarged view
of the metal shavings.
The outbursts followed a night
| filled with the rattle of,
1 school children and a percus-'
sion band turned out to
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urday, minor changes rest of
period. Precipitation will aver-
age less than .10 inch west, .50
to .75 inch central and east, oc-
curring as rain or snow most-
ly on Saturday.
■ TO GIVE CONCERT
LONDON (UPI) -Band lead-
er Duke Ellington will give a
concert in Coventry Cathedral
| Feb. 21 and will include the
first European performance of
a work he composed called “In
(the Beginning, God,” it was
I announced Thursday.
Bob Bennett, who
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about Methodlst Men's Sweet- ' ietnamese children scampered of American States, will be the
heart Party scheduled at 6 ,30 onto his lap, and walked I inauural sneaker: and the wel-
p.m. Monday at the church
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against the Viet Cong today
while U.S. 7th Fleet destroyers
I heavily bombarded coastal
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EUALASCE!
Harold Gibson and James O.
Wood Jr. are the two candi- *
dates for the Ward 2 council 3
seat. Sam Hill. Incumbent, is
not seeking reelection.
J. Franklyn Elliott, a former'
councilman from Ward 3, filed
notice with the city clerk this
morning as a candidate for
nists also shot down a UH1D
helicopter just east of the
village, but the four-man crew
was rescued immediately and
the shooting started again as
soon as they withdraw.
The trouble started when
police fired into a mob of
unruly teen-agers outside the
Dominican “White House” Wed-
and liberal groups to protest
the palace incident and to
At Tan Phu. about 1,300
up their
SANTO DOMINGO (UPI) -
1 The violence gripping this city ■
sa' spread today and sporadic'
3 bursts of gunfire could be
" heard In several new areas.
Salary for a new city librar- by the council and filed,
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| The series of shooting in-ly who was shooting at whom,
cidents was prompted by the or whether there had been any
national police opening fire on’new casualties.
an anti-American demonstra- Two policemen and three
I tion Wednesday by left-wing other persons—all Dominicans
' students in front of the, -were killed here Thursday
National Palace. 1 and 17 persons wounded. Ten
ready had their policies re- writ- Klan: Members of the House
ten for the adidtional five years. Committee on Un-American
making them effective as of Activities spent their second
Wednesday. straight day looking into the
--------------------------------I activities of the Ohio Ku Klux
Klan. The group was described
a helicopter lifted
Communist terrorists struck you have,” the vice president stated that the CATV system
close to Saigon, killing an told th6 Vietnamese chief of could turn free television, as
American construction worker state, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van it now exists, into a “You Pay”
’ machineguns and the thud of
; bombs.
There was no Immediate
air war
John R. Mosley, who filed on j
Wednesday, the first day of the \
10-day filing period.
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on South 17th, were handled Commission ruling on control
by the city Council Thursday of CATV and to obtain more state sales tax code.
Fulbright said the declaration mal east. Normal high 48 north
to 61 south, low 23 northwest to
Monday night the Dewey City
viion (CATV), rezoning, rodeo Council tabled a similar pro-
contract and a propoal to in- posal pending the outcome of
coverage. The three firms, I family planning.
Brooks, Wiley and Wood had al- Other congressional news:
The earlier
As a conductor, Guillermo . amount of music of the Amer-
Espinosa is active in both Eu-1 ica’s on his programs.
tor, and Espinosa and Joaquin rope and the Americas. It is (Continued an Page TWO)
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persons were killed and more 43,
by one as the "weirdest” the
panel has come across in its
investigation of Klan activities.
Labor: Senate GOP Leader
Everett M. Dirksen. DL,
against unemployment compen-
sation and minimum wage bills,
both high-priority measures on
organized labor’s legislative
list. Dirksen led the filibuster
which defeated legislation to
nullify state “right to work”
laws.
proposal was presented
The councilmen approved a Chickasha city council and
salary of $6,000 per year for jected.
Contests In the upcoming
March 1 municipal election
were beginning to shape up to-
day with the filing of three
more candidates, including one
for the mayor’s position.
Curtis Hodges, incumbent
Ward 1 councilman, filed his
notice to seek reelection on
Thursday afternoon with City
Clerk Donna Jones.
Hodges is being opposed by
continued them in Europe. He 1 g
was a pupil of Giuglio Cesare |
Paribeni in Milan, and of Renzo | E
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in Berlin he founded the Sym- H
phony Orchestra of Foreign I
artillery routed the Reds.
The first strike was by a
battalion (about 830 men) of
the U.S. Army s 1st Air Wing Operation involving
Cavalry Division which was division of U.S., Vietnamese
flown into action near the and South Korean troops killed
village of Phu Xuan in 1.541 Viet Cong with light to
Operation Eagles Claw." a moderate Allied losses. Most of
new phase of an
thing short of "what can be
called victory” in South Viet
Nam would be a betrayal of the
U.S. commitment to the Saigon
government.
Mrs. Mary Lee DeVilbiss of ( A proposal from Public Ser-
Norman to be librarian at vice Company to install 42
Chickasha Public Library, sue- 20,000 lumen street lights on
ceeding Mrs. W. S. Corbin, who South 17th from Alabama to
5 Day Forecast
Vietnamese at a time when OKLAHOMA — Temperature
efforts toward negotiation are Saturday through Wednesday
hanging fire in the United will average 2 to 5 degrees be-
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opened. I shipments to needy countries to
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LwmyBrooks Sy Insurance’^ legislation called, for
Agency and J. O. Wood Agenev, combined useof.U.S. farm
each submitted bids of $1,042 products andknowi howt fight
a world war on hunger.
Johnson, in his message to
the lawmakers, recommended
steps to insure adequate food
reserves at home while at the
same time helping to feed the
rest of the free world. It was
the first time steps to increase
production had been urged
since 1954.
Rep. Paul H. Todd Jr., D-
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w has retired. Idaho for $3,360 was referred |
D. , ^8 hE —n City manager Lee Burton told to the street and alley com-
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and holds an A.B. and Masters to the Federal Works Agency
; rocket-firing helicopters, Thev degree in library science.
was no indication Humphrey, Mrs. DeVilbiss’ appointment building study grant of $3,984
was in danger. - .. ..
a121 . < .1 streets of violence-ridden down-
Although the tone of the town Santo Domingo, and a few
disorders was violently anti-; minutes later the Shooting
American at the outset, the1 started.
U.S. troops here have scarcely _ ’ . „ . ... .
- - . been involved in the outbreak. Supporters of the leftist
President Hector Garcia-Godoy. American paratroopers re-rebels responsible for last
Adversaries Uncertain stored order in the downtown 'years revolt called a general
It was not certain immediate- area for a time Wednesday, but
a Federal Communications
wait 48 hours before awarding a Peace prograha “shond For
contract on a bid item. I coupled with birth control
City Attorney Owen Vaughn programs abroad to cut down
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Nam since the bombing of the rocket and machine gun-armed television servicemen in Okla- , ask that the city dads consider ; ject all bids. 1 world’s population. He suggest-
North resumed 12 days ago.1 “choppers." , homa, protesting any franchise exempting new farm machinery But O’Bar came to the coun- ed some of the funds from food
The pilo twas lost. "What a beautiful capital city1 in Chickasha. The information and repairs from the taxable cil’s rescue by withdrawing his sales abroad be made available
bid so the council could retain to the nations involved for
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Declaration of Honolulu” is-
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man from Ward 3. filed his, |“ - 2jj
notice on Wednesday afternoon! L. -(22
to seek reelection to'the council' *. | 9a
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Downtown Santo Domingo
was at a standstill through the
day, but street violence ap-
peared to be the main reason
for the shutdown.
Rebel spokesman Hector
Aristy told newsmen that
“violence is likely to continue”
until leaders of the armed
onio his lap. and walked inaugural speaker; and the wel-
through the main market. come will be by Gov. Henry Residents and the German-Latin
- __________________ During the long day, he Bellmon. Fernando Laires, con- j American Music Society (1928). I
n a junior high club traveled both by helicopter and 1 cert pianist and artist-in-resi- 1 in 1936, he founded the Nation-
. . . Miss Marilyn car, motorcading through Sai-1 dence at OCLA, is organizer al Symphony Orchestra of Co-
Manning, with a friendly gon’s teeming streets jammed and director of the festival. lombia in Bogota, which he con-
greeting for a visitor at the ' with bicycles, motorcycles, At 8:15 p.m., the Oklahoma ducted for many years.
. Harley scooters, ox carts, autos and City Junior Symphony, with T.
anxious to get out of every other form of convey- Burns Westman, musical direc-
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Mobs screaming “kill all
Yankees!” swarmed into the
maron Cable System, Griffin I An ordinance changing the
Leake TV. Vumore and KTUL- zoning regulation on Lots 5 and
TV, in Tulsa is proposing a 6 in Block 165 (located at Eighth
c. ,, «»• , cable television system in the
. operation the Viet Cong tied inw the identIGAMber PL. oKlhomaccity and its metro-
amted a, dnvmg Viet Cong out jungled hills. , conferred with U.S. and1Vietna- Pheletterstated that the plan
Increased Air Action 1 mese officials today, then was is to initially add more chan-
U.S. and Vietnamese planes taken by helicopter on visits to nels of reception for subscrib-
" ' three hamlets near Saigon, ers and to improve color re-
You have many, many friends tion by using the cable
in America,” he told one group system
of peasants. , The firm proposed that ap-
Humphrey first visited the propriate franchise contracts stated that a new service sta-
village of Tan Phu (New be negotiated with the city tion was to be erected at that
Prosperity) five miles from council. j location.
A U.S. spokesman disclosed Saigon. He later went on to two, Mayor Paul Miller read an ' Glen Barrington, president of
that a ninth U.S. warplane had other nearby hamlets, his information sheet from Don Grady County Farm Bureau,
been shot down over North Viet helicopter escorted by other Pinkston, head of radio and appeared before the council to
SAIGON (UPI) —The U.S. (of the Bong Son area,
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alignment moved the line south
to Minnesota.
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky who Inter-American
earlier had talks with Hum- sented by the Pan-American music by Inter- American com- 1
phrey, accompanied him to the Union in Washington, D. C., in posers. Nin-Culmell will con-
er INTON /rrpr a Wacii targets. Some of the actions
CLINTON (UPI) - A Wash- presumably were taken in
ington, delegation headed by support of the new offensive.
, Don Bradford, director of the
the nation s quest for peace in Office of Economic Adjustment
Viet Nam. wound up its tour today of
Former Ambassador George; towns that will be affected bv
F. Kennan and Sens. J. William the closing of Clinton-Sherman
Fulbright, D-Ark., and Wayne Air Force Base.
IL Morse, D-Ore., joined, Businessmen and officials of
Thursday in criticizing the six western Oklahoma commu- [
declaration issued after this nities went with the group,
week s mid-Pacific summit pointing out area assets. Rep.
conference. . . Jed Johnson, representing the
The setting was the Senate area in Congress, also went on
Foreign Relations Committee s the tour. Bradford is seeking a
hearing on U.S. policies in Viet way to ease the economic blow
Nam. Kennan, a former I S. the area expects when Clinton-
envoy to Russia and Yugoslavia Sherman is closed in 1970.
and an architect of America s The group visited Clinton,
policy of containing” Commu- Burns Flat, Cordell, Hobart,
nism after World War II, was Sentinel, Dill City and the Foss
the day s only witness. The Reservoir Thursday. They were
committee plans to resume the scheduled to visit Elk City,
wide-ranging examination after Sayre and Canute today, end-
the Lincoln Day weekend ing with a news conference at
recess. Clinton-Sherman.
Kennan told the committee
Thursday that the Honolulu
declaration emphasized “solida-
rity of purpose” with the South
Organizer Of Festival
, rived in the capital Thursday. •
Mrs. Goldena King talking ' Their orderly ranks were
about the Womens Bowling briefly thrown into confusion
tournament being held Satur- when the rotor blast from the
day and Sunday at Grady | vice president’s helicopter blew
Bowl . . . Elmer Steelman, the red hats from the heads of
relaxing, while drinking a cup the tiny bandsmen. . organizer and director of three the Oklahoma City Junior Sym- i
K ; ’ f Norman Frey, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. who Inter-American Festivals pre- phony will play a concert of i
"un a cheerful greetingas . aeliem hnr •alke “mrith Laa--- - 1 I
11 vwalkeddown_the street. ’ piey, accumpaiueu n™ w me union in Washington, D. C., in posers. Nin-Culmell will con-
a Valentine cake zhowing village. You have many, many recent years, will be a guest duct the orchestra in playing
home ec students at daby friends in America," . said conductor for the opening night’s one of his compositions.
high school Leon Hill ad Humphrey as he shook hands concert of the Oklahoma Col- 1 Espinosa, the Colombian con-
mringga desk henhdtudt with Vietnamese village llege of Liberal Arts Inter-Amer- , ductor, was born in Cartagena
1 Off Own Hook
For a time Thursday night it
appeared there would be no in-
1 surance on the four hangars at
Municipal Airport for another WASHINGTON (UPI) —Rep.
. 48 hours. | Harold D. Cooley, chairman of
proposed community Bids for insurance coverage the House Agriculture Commit-
were opened at the Thursday tee said today he wax “de-
night meeting, but the old poli- lighted” that President John-
cies had expired on Wednesday. | son s views on the world food
Three firms submitted bids for situation coincided so closely
one third each of the coverage at 1 with his own.
$1,042 per year premium, mak- The North Carolina Demo-
ing the total cost over a five- crat’s panel opens hearing
year period amounting to some . Monday on the issue. Johnson
$500 more than the lowest bid sent his program for food
. . . Curtis England, busy
with office work. , .-- -— —..-I
Bill Filmore taikino .L.. government housing project for For the opening night’s pro-
the days wherer.talkingsabout refugees but has grown into . gram, starting at 7:30 pm.
Army Mrs M H Os model village on Saigon s Saturday, Feb. 19, Miguel Aran-
born: fixing a batch of coffee outskirts. Humphrey visited the guren (Colombia), director of
village kindergarten where public information, Organization
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