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CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1968
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City voting at time of check
Ward 1, Precinct 2,
and authorizing legislature to
lization
Czechoslovakia.
The details of the withdrawal
understanding of and suppodt
which marched into Czechosio-
poverty, slums, > unemployment,
ship of the Czechoslovak Com-
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(UPI)—
WASHINGTON
the
Marxism-Leninism,” the
com-
leader Alexander Dubcek.
munique said.
proce-
We Saw
Czechoslovakians Welcome
Dubcek Home from Mose
ow
confinement in bed, the gener-
card bearer
must
certain gate.
Delegates,
for
go in the newsmen’s gate, and
were killed in incidents involv-
attend a
shortly after dawn that Soviet
Dr. R. H. Mayes, medical di-
most of them are busy people.
ex-
mem-
pected to require considerable
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Health Screening
Meeting Thursday
Convention Entry
Near Impossible
The report went on to say:
Despite his long period of
Eisenhower
Rests Well
MOSCOW (UPI)—The Soviet
Union and four Warsaw Pact
200,000 occupotion troops. But
the need of occuation was mark-
edly lighter with the return of I
equality in selection
dures.”
They warned against
any
re-
"Oklahoma's Most Interesting—And Most Readable—Daily Newspaper"
Forecast Says
Democrat Platform Group
Endorses LBJ War Policies
Dr. Mayes pointed out that
15 to 20 minutes are required
for each person taking the tests,
and a system of pre-appoint-
ments has been worked out to
help save the time of those
apparently healthy persons since
The terms and dates of the
withdrawal of the Soviet bloc
such recent reforms as freedom
of the press and allowing non-
Communist political groups to
function.
cast.
In addition to local, state and
national candidates on the bal-
Soviets, Allies To Remove
Units From Czechoslovakia
74; Precinct 3, 68; Precinct 4,
63; Precinct 5, 42; Precinct 6,
83. Then in Ward 2 P3 there
were 98 votes and in Ward 3.
P2 there were 73 and in Ward
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create board by statute.
No. 456 — To permit salary
of appointive official to be
changed during his term.
No. 457 — To require more
signatures on grand jury peti-
tions.
No. 460 — To repeal intan-
gible tax on cash wealth.
No. 461 — To change budget
balancing law to permit appro-
priation of estimated growth
revenue.
No. 462 — To create board of
laymen to set legislative salar-
ies.
horns, sounded factory sirens
and even touched off burglar
alarms.
In the midst of celebration
the Czechoslovak government,
crushed by invasion eight days
ago, began going back to work.
I gunners gave evidence of the
occupation.
the election, a 1962 executive
order by President John F.
Kennedy allows it to negotiate,
like private labor unions, for
collective bargaining contracts
with the federal employer.
The AFGE, formed in 1934, is
growing at a rate of 4,000 mem-
bers a month, Smith said.
northeast of Saigon, bringing to
about 7,500 the number of Reds
killed in the past nine days,
military sources said.
organization.
Organizing this pre-appoint-
ment plan and planning the
necessary publicity is the pur.
pose of next Thursday’s meet-
ing, in order that the service
to their own physicians for di-
agnois and treatment if neces-
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NEW LICHTS—H. R. Franks, an em-
ployee at OCLA, is shown doing prelim-
inary work for the new campus outdoor
lighting system. The incandescent lights
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Friday.
Included were measures
“aimed at the speediest norma-
The secretary urged all voters
to go to the polls which close
at 7 p.m.
No report was received from
any of the rural areas as to
the size of vote but here in
Chickasha a sizeable number of
voters had turned out. Voting
locally is usually the heaviest
after 3 p.m. until the polls close
at 7 p.m.
newed barriers against world
trade. But they promised
additional help to U.S. industry
and labor unfairly hit by foreign
competition.
They came out for “reform”
convention’ 110-member plat-
form committee handed dele-
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fought their way inside and
helped drive off the Commu-
nists in fighting that cost 59
men killed, including six Ameri-
can special forces troopers, and
17 wounded, 12 of them
Americans.
McCormack, who was not
happy about the mixup, was
assured he would have a
nique said the Czechoslovak
leaders outlined their “planned
immediate measures” to the
e
SAIGON (UPI (-North Viet-
namese forces shelled the U.S.
“Green Beret’’ camp at Duc
Lap five times today in a
resurgence of attacks since its
Pope, visiting The Daily Ex-
press office . . . Bill Melton
Jr., watching an airplane in
the sky . . . John Taff, talk-
ing to O. J. Smith ... Ed
Davenport, hurrying down the
street.
return to isolationism or
forces were not specified. The
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OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) —
Tinker Air Force Base em-
ployes will vote Sept. 25 in the
largest labor election in the his-
District Weather
Partly cloudy and scattered
thundershowers in central and
western area tonight and Wed-
nesday. Local temperatures 1
p.m. today 76. Monday high 96,
Monday low 68.
eyed machine before he can
enter.
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Radio Informs Czechs
Radio Free Czechoslovakia
told the nation at breakfast-time
that Dubcek and Svoboda, the
heroes of resistance against the
eight-day-old occupation, had
returned and gone into confer-
ember 13. The mobile unit will
be equipped and staffed to check
for signs of diabetes, anemia,
overweight, high blood pressure,
pulmonary and heart disorders
in men and women, and far
uterine cervical cancer in wom-
en.
Persons whose tests indicate
abnormalities will be referred
number of Soviet, East Ger-   The Cuimunque sala both ua uie uccupyng
man, Polish, Hungarian and sides agreed to “implement and ‘he Czechoslovak
Bulgarian occupation troops at “
200.000.
evening at the Chickasha-Grady
County Health Clinic, near Gia-
dy Memorial Hospital, to hear
details of a proposed program
to screen apparently healthy
people for symptoms of chronic
disease.
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No. 44 — Authorizing school
funds to be deposited in banks,
etc. in amounts up to that
which is federal insured.
No. 444 — Authorizing legis-
lature to base state income
taxes on percentage of federal.
Viet Cong.
On other points the platform
drafters in their 17,000 word
policy statement pointed with
pride to Democratic accompli-
shments at home and abroad
since 1961 and promised more
of the same with revisions as
needed. They admitted past
“occasional error” but said the
only way to rule out mistakes is
to take no action at all.
On the ticklish "law and
order” issue they came out for
“justice and law”—a euphe-
mism designed to avoid what
some members called racist
overtones of the phrase more
commonly used—and said “we
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803 Communist by ward and precinct follows tional pardon and parole board
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The commu-
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conduct of the war along
present lines, fer an uncond
that were formerly used have been re-
moved and new mercury vapor lamps
will be installed.
so on.
Upon entry, each person slips
his card into a slot in the
machine. If it is good, a green
light flashes. If it is phony, a
red light blinks and an angry
buzzer sounds.
All delegates made it through
except McCormack. The 76-
year-old speaker, who was
chairman of the last Democra-
tic National Convention, earlier
planned to come as an “honored
guest.” But on Monday, the
Massachusetts delegation made
him a delegate.
McCormack arrived at the
amphitheater in a limousine
Monday night and marched
toward the delegates’ gate like
the delegate he was. But
although his status had chang-
ed, his card hadnit.
When McCormack presented
his “honored guest” card, red-
faced security men had to turn
him away, toward the “honored
guests” gate.
CHICAGO (UPI)— It's easier
Io get into the Kremlin than the -u. gave, velegaves, ror
heavily guarded hall where the instance, are required to use
Democratic party is holding its the delegates’ portal, reporters
convention.                     go in the newsmen’e eo ..d
ing some of the estimated
must not and will not tolerate
violence” as an outlet for
dissent.
As Republicans did in the
platform they adopted at Miami
Beach on Aug. 6, the Democrats
promised further attacks on
No Russian would have a
prayer of seeing the Democrat:
at work. Even for the most
loyal of Americans, it’s a chore.
No less a patriot than House
Speaker John W. McCormack
was temporarily turned away
on opening night by the
convention’s super-security sys-
tem.
A driver to the International
Amphitheater where the conven-
tion is being held passes
beneath armed policemen on
overpasses, spots more guard-
lurking in the nearby stock-
yards, and goes through at least
five police road checks—three
more than it takes to get into
East Berlin.
The crowning touch—and Me-
of the situation” in
A number of community lead-
ers from throughout Grady
County have been invited to
ready to give it
embracing minority but divisive support.
Doves Opposed Policy
T he McCarthy -McGovern
plank would have put the party
on record against continued
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enter a
Underground radios said So-
viet forces were evacuating the
Defense Ministry and other key
erupted buildings they occupied upon
last Tuesday’s invasion The
. Dubcek radios called for care lest
joy
more
gates for action tonight a plank
lauding Johnson’s statesmanship
and initiative in current Paris
I peace talks and supporting his
refusal to halt all bombing of
North Vietnam without recipro-
, cal action by Hanoi.
A dovish substitute proposed
jointly by supporters of Sens.
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social ills. Despite the implica-
tion of increased federal spend-
ing on these and other
programs they said "our goal is
a balanced budget” with effi-
ciency and essentiality the
continuing test of government
outlays of tax money.
Beset here bv dissident youth
groups, the Democrats sought
to gridge generaticn gap with
promises to put young advisers
on government commissions, to
ernment.
The 3,000 employes at the
base will vote on whether to
join the American Federation
of Government Employes, a
300,000-member AFL-CIO affili-
ate.
A crew of 10 from AFGE’s
Washington, D. C., nation office
is in Midwest City for member-
ship recruiting and campaign-
ing before the election.
The AFGE already has 8,000
members at Tinker and needs
60 per cent of the votes, or 14,-
000, to become the official bar-
gaining group for base em-
ployes.
The Tinker election will in-
clude both wage board (blue
collar) and classified workers
and is unique in this respect,
according to William J. Smith,
national AFGE director of or-
ganizations.
Smith said if the union wins
"p
Bill Richey, in a kidding
conversation with a group of
friends . . . Judge C. c Col-
Uns, out taking care of busi-
ness early this morning . .
Bob Hunter out for a cup of
coffee with a friend . . . Mrs.
staying busy . avincnaetruble ByRICHARD C. LONGWORTH .around his neck. Each class of
group of tired junior high foot-
ball players . .. Gene Cun-
ningham and Coleman Wel-
born, having early morning
coffee . . . Mrs. H. E. Hay-
den, downtown with her
daughter, Mrs. A. S. Mitchell.
defenders broke a
quadrennial test in November. «
They did not specify what kind
of reform but said steps should
be taken to assure that the
wich salesman—must show to
enter the amphitheater.
Each person carries one of
i these cards on an elastic string
Prague. Later, according to
diplomatic sources, the Soviets
allowed Dubcek, arrested early
in the occupation, and other
rector of the Grady County The pre-appointmert plan is
Health Department, said that "
■tate health department mobile
laboratories have been made
available to screen Grady Coun-
tans for certain chronic diseases
from September 24 until Dec-
safety and their continued
defiance of the Soviets. They
rang church bells, blared auto
PRAGUE । UPI (-Communist I resuming office
party F irst Secretary Alexander
Dubcek came home from
Moscow captivity today and his
Soviet-occupied nation
in a bedlam of joy.
Informed sources said Dubcek l radios called
and.President Ludvik Svoboda Czechoslovaks in their
a8reed inKremlin talks pay provoke the invaders into
a heavy political price to rid violence.
Czechoclosvkia of Soviet bloc a message from corn:
occupation forces.               thanked thepeope
But when underground radios active participation in the past
spread the news of their days and for your loyalty to the
leaders return, Czechoslovaks Czechoclovak Socialist Repub-
signaled their joy for Dubcek’s lie.”
Voting Normal In Labor Vote
Scheduled At
23,17 a crrr,oza.
Still Time To Vote In Election Today, Polls Close At 7 p.m.
The observers said
tanks and troops almost eva-
cuated downtown Prague in the
hours before dawn. Only a few captive Czechoslovak reformers
pairs of strolling submachine to join the discussions.
bodies have been found around by ward.
hilltop Duc Lap. 125 miles ---------
of the electoral college, which
some political scientists fear
may be about to Hunk its
can be made available to as
many citizens as possible.
Bill Burk, of the Chronic Di-
sease Division of the State
Health Department, will be at
the meeting to explain details
of the mobile screening tests
and to help with promotional
planning. Dr. Mayes said.
Security men say even
President Johnson, if he comes,
must have a card for the two-
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PRICE A V
At least
tional halt to -the bombing of rEiATdisorimsraune
North Vietnam, and for applica. racial discrimination,
lion of pressure on Saigon to
deal with the political arm of
al‘s spirits remain remarkably
popular will is “fully reflected,” good
troops for the first time since
the invasion had vacated the
parliament building.
No Official Word
There as yet was no official
word here or in Moscow on
what was decided in the
Kremlin talks begun Friday
when Svoboda flew from
In Moscow and Prague,
informed sources said the
Kremlin agreed to a slow
pullout of forces provided
Dubcek and Svoboda eliminate
sary. There will be no charge
meeting next Thursday for the screening tests.
Mrs. Ralph Brite, making
plans for a club dinner at
her home . . . Mrs. Gerald
According to the clandestine! Rogers, taking care of some
radios, up to 86 Czechoslovaks business downtown ... Dr.
A. W. Wallace, heading for
the bank . . . Woodrow Bow-
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consistently the practical steps” forces would establish contact
agreed on at the talks in to work out measures to
the Moscow which began last I prevent clashes
Allied losses for the same
period were 65 killed and 2,200
wounded, with no breakdown
available as to how many were
Americans, the sources said. .nACA
i f * dno; consider the figures platform
An American newsman or
diplomat can infiltrate impor-
tant public m e etin g s in
Moscow’s red-walled citadel
with a quick flash of a press
card of official invitation.
Cormack's downfall—is an elec-
tronic sentry with one red eye
and one green eye. Its job is to
validate the magnetic cards______
which everyone - delegate delegate card today,
newsman, spectator and sand- "   -         -
Camp Draws n .
Enemy Fire Primary Election
By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr.
there have been no major
disturbances since Saturday
evening.”
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ers, stopping off at the post
office . . . Members of Jim
Sheerer’s Sunday School class
DiLC.I                 ” ”| kidding him about their hav-
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Radio Free Prague announced his rules since he owned the
Bnptl       -— .. . - . t net and ball . . . Mrs. Ruth
Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s doctors expressed
“cautious optimism” over his
condition today despite the
persistence of heart irritability
and abnormal extra beating.
In a mid-morning bulletin
from Walter Reed Army
Medical Center the doctors said
the irritability and rapid heart
action which have recurred
during the past several days
“persists to a varying degree.”
But they said there have been
no major disturbances since
Saturday evening, and the 77-
year-old general's spirits were
"remarkably good.”
“General Eisenhower spent a
restful evening,” the bulletin
said. “Although heart irritabili-
ty persists to a varying degree
remain the rule in
Oklahoma the next few days
the weather bureau said today
forecasters said a few scat-
tered afternoon and evening
thundershowers might occur in
the extreme west the next cou-
ple of days. Elsewhere, the out-
look was for clear to partly
ence in hilltop Hradcany Castle.
The underground radio report-
•.   ------- ed party and government
Premier Oldrich Cernik, arrest- officials including cabinet mem-
ed by the Russians with Dubcek bers flocking to the castle to
and also allowed into the hear details of the Moscow
Kremlin talks later, announced talks. For the first time since
the invasion last Tuesday night
the presidential guard in green
helmets and golden cord per-
formed its changing of the
guard ceremony at the castle.
As if to clear the way for a
Czechoslovak celebration, Soviet
"1/4p
support a constitutional amend-
ment lowering the voting age to
18, and to back a lottery system
for picking draftees “to ensure
The Chickasha Express
invites
WILLIAM S. HARRISON
to the Washita Theatre to see
“THE BIBLE”
This coupon good for two
tickets to see the above
picture.
Eugene J. McCarthy and
George McGovern was turned
down on a 62-35 vote, with 13
members abstaining.
The rejected peace plank,
viewed by McCarthy and
McGovern forces as the last
weapon in their arsenal against
the prospective nomination of
Hubert H. Humphrey, will be
offered at the convention's
second session to delegates who
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occupation troops would pull out
of ‘he cities and towns and stay
allies have agreed on conditions in camps and barracks in the
for pulling their troops out of countryside.
Czechoslovakia and have prom- The communique, which re-
ised not to interfere in the i ferred to the “temporary entry
internal affairs of the country of the five Socialist countries,”
while the withdrawal is carried said the agreement was worked
out, an official communique ( out in four days of talks
announced today.                 between Soviet and Czechosio- not spellthese out.
of the Soviet and other troops it said the talks took place understanding side, stated its
which marched into czechoso- "in an atmosphere of frankness, for Ihe“posnonfornd suppodt
vakia a week ago today was not comradeship and friendship." ship of the Czechoslovak Com
spelled out in the communique. Almost all the members of munist Party and the CecLoem.
According to informed obser ‘he Soviet Politburo, including vak Socialist Reoublic which
vers some Warsaw Pact troops Communist Party leader Leonid intends to proceed from the
will be maintained indefinitely Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosy-| decisions passed at the January
along the borders with West gin and President Nicolai and May plenary metinan        q,  U/   it
Germany and Austria. Mos-  Podgorny, took part in the with a view to'improving’the   Good  Weather
cows concern over security of ‘a ks. There were 13 Soviet methods of guiding siet  Bv Unsteg p,   ,
the frontier was one reason officials involved.                  developing socialist society,    Ze-nited  Press Inertnational
given by the Soviets for moving The Czechoslovak side was and strengthening "thdemorasy thereawtifullat .summer wea-
last Tuesday against the reform represented by 19 leaders. system on the bash o Oklahoma
regime of Czechoslovak Party including President Ludvik Svo-               ! •          3 of n
leader Alexander Dubcek. boda, Dubcek and Premier
It was believed, however, that Oldrich Cernik. Dubcek and
the reduction in the size of the Cernik were denounced by the
Warsaw Pact occupation forces Soviet press at the height of the
would begin immediately. crisis as “traitors’’ to commu-
(Estimates in Prague put the nism.                          communique said the comman-
The communique said both ders of the occupying forces cloudy skies.
3, P3 there were 72 ballots
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siege Sunday.
U.S. military sources said
Red mortarmen hiding in the
mountains around the battered
base, half overrun during the
siege, fired 59 rounds into the
camp, wounding 12 South
Vietnamese soldiers.
American B52 bombers and
1,500 South Vietnamese rein-
forcements lifted the siege
Sunday. The reinforcements
Shortly before noon today 573
voters in Chickasha had voted
in the primary election. This is
in keeping with the trend over
the state as reports indicate
an average number of voters
stopping off to make their choice
of candidates known.
Mrs. Carolyn Longanacre, sec- .AI
Quick Glance At Questions
lot, there are eight questions
to be voted on, added Mrs. tory of the United States
Longanacre.
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CHICAGO (UPI (—Democratic I appeared
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Soviets but the communique did M disclosures came as U.S. policies, today set up the I
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‘hat guns in North Vietnam a televised bloodbath on how
Monday fired 214 heavy shells best to make peace.
onto U.S. outpusts on South On 8 sharply split vote, the
yietnam ‛s northern tier, killing
five Mannes and wounding 23.
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