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Uhe Chirkasha Baily ExpreE
District Weat her
istry
"Oklahoma's Most Interesting—And Most Readable—Daily Newspaper"
Vol. 75—No. 121
Eight Pages
CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1967
Price 5 Cents
United Press International
State To Decide Court
Questions At Election
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Middle East Issue
State Guard
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Disturbances
McNamara Hints
Hot Weather
Assault By River
In Forecast
Miss Forston
Summary Of Fires
Within City Area
More Troops
To Vietnam
Boy Scouts
Honor Court
City Woman
Among Four
Fatalities
Speaker For
Kiwanis Meet
American Pilots Virtually Destroyed
Vietnam Fuel Dumps Near Haiphong
sians
such
Oklahomans will train
1,600 airmen from 41
during a pair of two-
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week sessions, July 15-29 and
July 30-Aug. 14.
The 137th has used the train-
ing program for the past two
years. The classes are design-
ed to train air guardsmen who
are not fully qualified in their
military assignments. A total of
41 subjects will be taught.
Brig. Gen. Doyle W. Hastie,
137th commander, will be com-
mandant of the school.
dy Hubbard, Roy Carmen, Carl
Lightfield, Joe Wenniger.
Life Scout — Bill Nimmett.
Rifle Club Membership—Greg
Seamans, Cary DeHart, Mark
DeHart, Randy Wigley, Robin
Morgan, Bob May, Bill Minnett,
Randy Hubbard, Stan Newberry
and Gary Boyd.
Mile Swim — Bill Minnett,
John Bryan, Paul Harrison and
David Townend.
Totin Chip Cards — Paul Har-
rison, John Bryan, Greg Sea
mans, Mike Terry, Gary Boyd,
Bob May.
Citizenship in Home — Chris
Fitzpatrick.
Fingerprinting — Carl Light-
field, Stan Newberry andVerlyn
Ratzlaff.
Hiking — Greg Alt.
north of the center line of Grand
Boulevard, west of the center line
of Fifth Street to the center line
of 12th Street, Fifth Street to Sixth
between Virginia and Alabama.
J. H Winder home — 1228 South
11th Street.
W I P s — South of the cen-
ter line of Missouri Avenue, north
of the center line of Grand Boul-
evard. west of the center line of
12th Street to center line of 18th
Street, Mrs. Homer Bailey, 1601
South 16th.
W I P 4 — South of the center
line of Missouri Avenue north of
the center line of Grand Boule-
vard. west of center line of 18th
Street to the west city limits, 21st
and 23rd Streets between Grand
(Continued on Page TWO)
lahoma. The group left Chickasha Mon-
day at 11:30 a.m. and are scheduled to
return Wednesday, July 12 at 4:30 p.m.
P
Miss Your Paper?
Chickasha subscribers who
miss service may get their
Express by calling CA 4-2600
between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Weekdays and 7:00 and 9:30
a.m. Sunday.
-- BOMB or —
OAlahoma College et LIberal arts
Set Tonight
Boy Scout Troop 306 is hold-
ing a court of honor program
at 8 tonight in the First Chris-
tian Church fellowship hall, ac-
cording to Jack Alt, Boy Scout
troop official.
The awards include advance-
ment in regular Scout rank,
plus a number of awards earn-
ed by some of the boys who
attended summer camp.
Tenderfoot — Bob May.
Second Class — Richard Car-
man, Joe Wenninger, Robin Mor-
gan, Robb Hayes, Doug Epper-
son, Randy Wigley, Paul Har-
rison, John Bryan, Greg Sea-
mans.
First Clas — Greg Alt, Gary
v
pge
Sunny and continued warm
through Tuesday with southerly
winds. Local temperatures 1
p.m today 95, Sunday high 97,
Sunday low 72.
State Question 447 — Yellow
ballot: To provide for appoint-
ment by the governor of appel-
late judges — state supreme
court and court of criminal ap-
peals. Citizens would vote at
the end of each judge's six-
year term on whether to retain
him for a new term.
State Question 448 - White
wide election on two court con-
stitutional amendments.
Polls will be open from 7
a. m. to 7 p. m. in city and
country precincts alike under a
new law passed by the 1967
legislature. In the past, coun-
try polls have been open only
The Chickasha Express
invites
BEN CLEVELAND
to the Washita Theatre to see
Deadlier Than The Male
Phis coupon good for two
tickets to see the above
picture.
4-H CAMPERS—Members of the Grady
County 4-H prepare to load buses en-
route to their annual 4-H Camp at Quartz
Mountain State Park at Lone Wolf, Ok-
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used on the calls for the month
of June plus the Chief was at the
scene 11 times and the Assis-
tant Chief three times.
Captain Bill King and fire-
man William H. Snider attended
the Oklahoma State Firemens
Association convention at Okla-
homa City June 8-9-10, 1967 as
delegates.
Fire inspection of over 350
business buildings in the busi-
ness area plus all churches,
which was started in April, was
completed in June.
The Fire Department report
for June for Outside the City
Limits has also been completed.
There were two calls made
for a total of 264 blocks travel-
ed; Time spent on the calls
was estimated at four hours
and 1 minutes; Booster line
used, 1; A total of 800 ft. of
hose line was used.
The two fires consisted of one
garage and the other a house
trailer, with the causes being
a backfire causing the fire in
the garage and an overheated
skillet causing the fire in the
house trailer.
A total of four firemen were
used on the calls outside the
city limits. The Chief was at
both fires.
The loss estimated done to
the garage and house trailer
was $7,600.00.
The loss involved in the fire#
within the city limits was esti-
mated at 11,760.33.
Miss Helen Forston, county
assessor, will be speaker at the
luncheon meeting of Chickasha
Kiwanis Club at noon Tuesday
in Chickasha Hotel Coffee Shop.
Blair Nelson, program chair-
man, said Miss Forston will talk
on the subject of “How Taxes
Affect Us on the Economy of
Grady County”.
This is the first of a series
of programs being scheduled by
Nelson for Kiwanians. All are
related to the economy of the
area and are to be informative,
added the program chairman.
ture and abolish justices of
peace and provide for continu-
ed election of all judges.
A simple “yes” majority is
all that is needed to pass ei-
ther question. However, 447
may take effect only if 448 also
passes.
CITY PRECINCT
W ! P 1 — South of the ces-
ter line of Missouri Avenue, to
Grand Boulevard, east of the cen-
ter line of Fifth Street to the
east city limits, Washita Valley
Park, East Idaho to East Florida
on new street one-half block east
of Douglas, and Fifth to Third be-
By United Press International
The mercury got an early
start on its expected trip past
the 100 -degree mark today as
the humidity continued high.
McAlester reported an over-
night low of 78, and the weath-
er bureau said afternoon highs
over the state would range
from 93 to 103 today and Tues-
day. Lows tonight should be
from 70 to 77.
Top readings Sunday were
from 70 at Clinton Air Base
Base to 97 at Hobart.
A few thunderstorms are ex-
pected in the Panhandle to-
night, and over the northwest
and north Tuesday afternoon
and evening.
A weak cool front is expect-
ed from the north late Tuesday
or early Wednesday.
The weather bureau said tem-
peratures through Saturday will
average from one degree below
normal in the northeast to two
degrees above normal in the
southwest. Normal highs are
from 90 to 97, and lows from 63
to 75. Precipitation will aver-
age .25 to .50 inch, occurring
mainly as scattered showers to-
ward the end of the week.
in Saigon's Chinatown. The
hotel is the five-story home of
U.S. enlisted men and the
largest makeshift barrack for
Americans in Vietnam.
,Am.
Blaire Nelson and Charles
Allen, walking down the street
together . . . Carl Hopkins
and Paul Pitchford, in a
friendly conversation . . .
Larry Whitener, with a crick
in his back ... Mr. and Mrs.
Charles I. Miller, back in town
after an enjoyable vacation
. . . Russ Moody, looking for
an air conditioner and buy-
ing a stove . . . Robert Mer-
ritt, attending to some busi-
ness downtown . . . Rny
Pierce, with a friendly greet-
ing for a neighbor . . . Miss
Edna Boles, grocery shop-
ping.
In Hong Kong
By CHARLES SMITH
HONG KONG (UPl)-Three
hundred Communists stormed a
bus in the heart of the Kowloon
tourist section today, smashing
windows and beating the bus
driver.
The attack marred an uneasy-
quiet in the British crown
colony and followed a weekend
of bloody violence that killed
nine persons and injured scores
of others. Riot police broke up
the disturbance.
British army troops, rein-
forced by a battalion of tough
Gurkhas, patrolled the Shatauk-
ok border area where machine-
gun fire from the Communist
Chinese side killed five Hong
Kong policemen Saturday. A
British army commander ap-
pealed to his Chinese counter-
part to help prevent further
border fighting.
At least four other persons
were killed Sunday when police
and Communist demonstrators
battled in the western part of
Hong Kong.
in Moscow announced
from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The two proposals on
statewide ballot are:
advance. To observers
Grady County voters, along first time, in Tuesday’s state ballot: To overhaul court struc- ter line of MIssuri Avenue,
with the rest of the state will .....
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By W.ALTER LOGAN
United Press International
The United Nations at last
stepped into the Middle East
crisis as a peace keeper today.
But on the Arab side a mighty
Soviet war fleet sailed into the
war zone and on the other side
the Israelis set up a lighthouse
“presence” in the disputed Gulf
of Aqaba.
At the United Nations, the 15-
country Security Council took
advantage of a Russian diplo-
matic retreat and empowered
Secretary General Thant with
broad authority to establish
peace keeping supervision along
the hot Egyptian-Israeli cease-
fire line on the Suez Canal.
It was the first U.N. peace-
keeping action since the cease-
fire last month.
No Veto
The Soviets had insisted on
Thant spelling out details. But
after the Indians called a recess
0o2 the Sovisayi,5.3vined their
diplomatic predicament, Rus-
sian envoy Nikolai Fedorenko
let the council act without
exercising his veto.
The U.N. action followed
Egyptian claims that Israeli
planes bombarded Port Said
and Port Fuad at the Mediter-
ranean end of the canal during
the weekend. Israeli authorities
said a land mine killed one
Israeli soldier and injured two
more Sunday on the eastern
side of the canal.
At Jerusalem, the Israelis
also reported they were setting
up a lighthouse in the Straits of
Tiran, the gateway to the Gulf
of Aqaba on the Red Sea and
DMZ (the border Demilitarized
Zone) as they could in the
Central Highlands or in the III
Corps (Coastal Highlands area)
where the population is locat-
ed,” the secretary said.
In the Delta McNamara
watched a DC47 transport limp
in with its fuselage riddled by
Viet Cong ground fire. He
visited a Special Forces Green
Beret camp under threat of Viet
Cong attack. He inspected the
special mobile barracks of U.S.
Infantrymen in the Delta which
is the rich prize an dViet Cong
stronghold ofVietnam. It is also
the future campaign site for the
thousands, 100,000 at least, of
extra troops U.S. generals are
requesting.
McNamara got frank reports
on the pacification drive, that
all-important Allied campaign
to enable the Vietnamese
peasant to work better and free
of guerrilla harassment. He
heard of the progress and the
and the positive but slow’
uccess.
Elsewhere in the war zone
U.S. Air Force B52s struck near
Saigon and in the Central
Highlands against three major
Viet Cong troop concentrations.
Two of the eight-engine jets
collided Friday. The accident
cost the life of a major general
and five other airmen. Another
of the big bombers crashed
near Da Nang killing five of the
six crewmen.
In a terrorist raid Viet Cong
stormed aboard a iVetnamese
civilian bus near the great
Marine northern bastion at Da
Nang and mowed down the
passengers. Twenty-two ietna-
mese were killed and 11 other
passengers wounded.
And a huge blast Sunday
night rocked the Capitol Hotel
meaning appeared clear.
The Russians lost $3 billion in
arms aid to Arab nations when
Israeli forces crushed the
armies of Egypt, Syria and
Jordan last month. The Soviet
vessels, like the Fedorenko-led
anti-Israeli campaign in the
United Nations, were designed
to bolster Soviet influence in the
Arab world and also serve as a
quiet if velvet-gloved warning to
Israeli generals.
At Moscow, observers said
any Israeli gesture against the
go to the Polls Tuesday to vote
on two state questions listed as
court reform programs. A light
vote is expected here, noted
Mrs. Carolyn Longanacre, coun-
ty election board secretary.
The Chickasha Daily Express
and station KNDR are comgm-
ing facilities to bring county
residents the results of the elec-
tion locally and also over the
state.
Residents may call CA 4-2600
at 7 p.m. for results or listen
to station KNDR for results as
they come in. The Expres is
keeping it wire services open
for the election results.
Rural residents will have an
extra two hours to vote, for the
Possibility
SAIGON (UPI)—Defense Se-
cretary Robert S. McNamara
today looked into the possbility
of sending more American
troops into the Mekong Delta
where the army is experiment-
ing in integrating U.S. and
Vietnamese into joint strike
forces.
McNamara visited the bar-
racks ship USS Benewah in the
Saigon River 20 miles south of
Saigon for a first look at the
mobile river assault force, a
combined Army-Navy operation
which uses waterborne mobility
to attack the Viet Cong.
Later, he stopped at two U.S.
units which are making the first
experiments in running military
operations by integrating Amer-
ican and Vietnamese troops
down to the squad and fire
team level. The U.S. units are a
battalion of the 9th Infantry
Division and a company of the
199th Light Infantry Brigade.
Both visits raised the possibi-
lity more Americans would be
sent into the Mekong Delta, one
of the most troublesome Viet
Cong strongholds in South
Vietnam, but his only comment
was the problem was “using the
people we have fully effective. .
.that is not to say we do not
need more people.”
Army-Navy river strike force—
the first of its kind since the
Civil War—which is conducting
"search and destroy'' opera-
tions in the Delta.
McNamara authorized the
new warfare concept last year
and this was the first time he
had a chance to see it..
Two Army battalions live on
the air conditioned Benewah, its
sister barracks ship, the USS
Collection, and a barracks
barge. Attacks are carried out
by troop-carrying river assault
boats attached to the barracks
boats and supported by armored
gunships called “monitors.”
Newsmen asked McNamara if
the riverine force would be
expanded.
“I suspect that we will
expand the riverine forces,” he
.•“id.
“It's a relatively small force
in terms of numbers of men but
in terms of potential and
effectiveness it’s very large
indeed,” he said.
The defense secretary said it
was too early, however, to say
whether the United States
planned to expand its overall
forces in the Delta.
By ROBERT KAYLOR
Aboard USS Benewah in the
Mekong Delta, (UPI)—Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara
today indicated that the United
States will expand its river
assault forces in the vital
Mekong River Delta south of
Saigon.
McNamara said the war
against the Communist’s hard
core “main force” units was
‘going very well” but that the
pacification effort—the “other
war” to win the loyalty of the
peasants and drive out the
small guerrilla units and
political cadre—was proceed-
ing very slowly.”
McNamara flew to this
barracks ship in a muddy river
20 miles south of Saigon for a
brief, one-hour visit in the
coure of a whirlwind tour of
the delta area. The tour
included stops at a Special
Forces camp near the Cambo-
dian border which has been
stacked by the IVet Cong four
times since March.
The barracks snip USS
Benewah is the command
center of the American mobile
riverine force, a combined
SAIGON (UPI)—American pi-
lots slicing through vicious anti-
aircraft fire bombed and
virtually destroyed two North
Vietnamese fuel oil dumps on
the outskirts ow Haiphong, an
American spokesman said to-
day. Two planes were shot down
and both pilots lost.
Other American raiders
teamed up with thre U.S. Navy
cruisers in the Sunday attacks
to bombard North Vietnamese
artillery positions inside the
Demilitarized Zone -ID M Z)
where at least 1.000 Commu-
nists have been killed in the
past eight days.
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara, who flew over the
area and watched the bombard-
ment from a helicopter, shifted
his battlefront tour to the
Mekong Delta today. He visited
a U.S. Green Beret camp
threatened by Viet Cong attack
and the barracks ship command
post for the new mobile
American river assault forces
in the area.
Terror Attacks Intensify
Communist terror attacks
continued to intensify during
McNamara’s visit. At least 30
persons were killed and 45
more, including 14 American
were injured in a series of Viet
Cong strikes.
The worst was near the U.S.
Marine bastion of Da Nang
where a civilian bus hit a Viet
Cong mine. Then terrorists
leaped from ambush positions,
entered the bus and mowed
passengers down. A spokesman
said 22 Vietnamese were killed
and 11 injured.
The planes shot down brought
the number of jets lost over
North Vietnam to 602. Some of
the pilots said the flak around
Russian fleet could
dangerous results.
Air Program
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
A military training program
conceived and planned by the
Oklahoma Air National Guard
will begin on a national level
Saturday.
About 150 members of the
137th Military Airlift Wing,
headquartered in Oklahoma
City, will staff the Air Guard
Institute of Technology at Tra-
vis Air Force Base, Svannah,
The Israelis showed no sign of
challenging the Soviet fleet. No
one expected them to. The
Russian fleet was hardly
expected to sail down the Suez
Canal U.A.R. President Gamal
Abdal Nasser closed when
Israeli troops advanced to its
eastern banks.
tween Virginia and Alabama.
1501 South Henderson Aven-
ue.
W I P 2 — South of the cen-
Haiphong was the heaviest they
had ever seen.
The pilots teamed up with the
mighty guns of three American
cruisers—the Boston, St. Paul
and Providence—to hit the
Communist artillery sites. It
was part of this barrage that
McNamara, accompanied by
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
watched from a helicopter
flying 2,000 feet above the area.
The Marines, whose generals
told the secretary the Leather-
necks would never be routed out
from frontier fortreses by units
of five North Vietnamese
divisions facing them, uncov-
ered 50 more Communist bodies
in the area. It brought the toll
to 1,000 since the Leathernecks
began smashing the second vain
North Vietnamee invasion
drive in three months.
Leathernecks losses were 143
killed and 718 wounded for the
eight days, spokesmen said.
McNamara, who later flew to
the Mekong Delta in quest of
how many more American
troops he may send to iVetnam,
surveyed the border area. He
praised U.S. troops for driving
the Communists to switch their
main battle arena from the
guerrilla jungles of the Central
Highlands to the muddy border
where Marines were cutting
them down.
"Obviously they (the Commu-
nists) are paying a price for
that movement because they
cannot put as much pressure on
the government of Vietnam in
that Godforsaken area near the
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the site of Egyptian action in
May that Israel claims helped
lead to the June 5-10 war Israel
won. ,
Still Claim Straits
The Egyptians have never
ceased to claim sovereignty
over the straits where their
blockade of Israeli shipping was
smashed by their defeat in
June.
At Cairo, the Egyptians hailed
the coming of the Soviet
warships reported to include
missile cruisers. The Russian
vessels were to pay calls at
Port Said and Alexandria.
Never before have the Rus-
We Saw
Mrs. John Harris, back from
a trip to Washington and Cal-
ifornia . . . Wilbur Shaw,
sweeping the sidewalk this
morning . . . Sidney Hancock,
doing some early morning
work in his yard . . . Leon-
ard W. Phelps, Rt. 2, Pocas-
set, stopping off at The Daily
Express . . . Rev. and Mrs.
Joe Capps, being surprised
with a “pounding” after
church services Sunday night
. . . Mrs. Frarcis Rotrammel
and Charles Roberts, busy re-
arranging some furniture.
Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Crawford was a passen-
ger in a car which ran under
a truck at the intersection of
S. H. 82 and 33 east of Locust
Grove. The highway patrol said
the car, driven by Leona Hipp,
56, of Tahlequah, ran a stop
sign and into the side of the
truck.
The Arnold child was struck
by a car and knocked 99 feet
as she rode her bicycle on S.H.
34 on the outskirts of Sharon,
in Woodward County.
Mrs. Mecoy’s car struck the
rear of a parked truck along-
side U. S. 81 three miles south
of Chickasha.
Bonaparte's clar slammed in-
bring to a utility pole in northwest
• • Oklahoma City.
By United Press International
Four persons were killed in
separate traffic accidents Sun-
day, raising Oklahoma’s 1967
road toll to 450, compared with
396 a year ago.
The dead:
Mary Jo Crawford, 55, Tah-
lequah.
Donna Kay Arnold, 6, Shar-
on. j
Mildred Estee MMecoy, <2,
Chickasha.
Joshua Bonaparte Jr., 27,
“goodwill” visits
The summary on all fires and
their causes for the month of
June has been completed by
Chickasha Fire Chief Norman
Heilman.
Total calls made for the month
of June was 22: Blocks travel-
ed were totaled at 573; The
time the firemen spent on the
calls was 10 hours and 59 min-
utes; A booster line was used
six times in extinguishing fires
and a total of 700 feet of hose
line Six fires were reported
out on arrival; A resuscitator
for first aid was used three
times; One safety call was made
in the month and one false
alarm was turned in.
The different types of struc-
tures of the fires were; Houses,
2; Nursing home, 1; Apartment
building, 2; Cars, 5; Hotels, 1;
Pickup, 1; Service station, 1;
Out building, 1; Grass, 3; Safety,
1; Resuscitator, 3; False alarms,
1.
The causes determined for
the fires and other calls were;
Electric short, 2; Cigarette, 2;
Back fire, 2; Burning wood
chips, 1; Undetermined, 2;
Sparks, 2; Safety, 1; Faulty
home incubator, 1; overheated
transmission, 1; Children play-
ing with matches, 1; Trouble
in alarm system, 1; Flammable
liquid ignited from hot water
tank, 1; Resuscitator, 3; Arson,
1; False alarms, 1.
A total of 80 iremen were
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