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VOL. 76—NO. 176
United Press International
11. 1968
Price 10 Cents
Campaign, Czechs, Soviets
PARIS (UPD—U.S. Ambassa-
The enrollment
in recent widespread
About 12,000 Communist sol-
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Czechs Hesitant
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Humphrey also said that he
Police Check
WASHINGTON
(UPD)—-
Saigon
overran
suburbs east, west and south of
lasted
officials
ered dish luncheon at the Sal-
capture the city.
and
assaults by region force and
meeting with Agnew, said he
season
settlement 6,000 years old, the
LATE BULLETINS
We Saw
Advisers To Be Quizzed
today voted to question Defense
Unemployment Rote Down
Canadian Plane Hijacked
Moncton, N.B., to Toronto,
TV Debate Bill Approved
M. Nixon.
passed
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About Fleeing
From Country
French Jetliner
Crash Kills 95
High School
Football Rally
Set Thursday
North Korea
Wanting More
Than Apology
from
was
Senior Citizens
Luncheon To Be
Held Thursday
Senior citizens will hold their
However, President Johnson
told American Legionnaires in
New Orleans that there would
be no troop pullout until there
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The rally is open to the pub-
lic, Powell noted.
UPI correspondent Nat Gib-
son reported from Tay Ninh
that by 7 p.m. the Viet Cong
remained entrenched in three
of Calumet, and Chris Cramer
of Tulsa, presidents of the sen-
ior, junior and sophomore class-
es, respectively.
The 24 members of the board
and their wives or husbands will
be at the theater Thursday
night to serve as hosts to OC-
LA personnel.
es to be in front of Nellie Sparks
dormitory at 6:30 p.m. Llovd
Null and Dr. Robert L. Martin
PATIENT RECOVERING
SAPPORO, Japan (UPI)-
Nobuo Miyazaki, 18, Japan's
first heart transplant recipient,
got out of bed and walked for
the first time Tuesday, 32 days
after the transplant. Doctors
said he went 60 feet, smiling all
the way.
16 Courses
Are Offered
Af Fort Cobb
Enrollment Monday and Tues-
day night in the adult night
classes at the Vocational School
of the door.
The missing radio was des
cribed as a tan table model
about 18 inches by 5 by 5.
(Continued on Pace TWO)
ferent classes being oftered. Ad- | theater,
ditional enrollment in the classes
country before it is too late or
to see how severe the Commu-
nist crackdown will be.
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miss sendee may get theis
Express by calling CA 42000
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Weekdays and 7:00 and 9:30
a.m. Sunday.
low of 3.5 per cent, the Labor
Department announced today.
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plication and planting dates of soybeans.
The station also carries out extensive re-
search on cotton plus field tests on grain
sorghums, sunflowers, small grains, al-
falfa and bermuda grasses. Work here is
in connection with test programs con-
ducted through Oklahoma State Univer-
sity at several other locations over the
state.
ton and Mrs. Gladys Gardner,
checking on correct spelling
of some names.
Roy Poag and Cecil Neville,
seeing about some irrigation
planing . . . Gage Mocre, on
the business end of a shovel
. . . Chauncey Goetting, mak-
ing a midmorning trip to the
post office ... Don Martin,
glad to be back to work after
a trip to Hawaii . . . George
Langcaster, stopping in at the
Express office . . . Mrs.
George Evans, taking care of
some business downtown . . .
Elwood McMahan, going out
of town on some business.
Generally fair and a little
warmer through tonight, Thurs-
day. Local temperatures: 12
noon today 79; Tuesday high
79; Tuesday low 50.
SAIGON (UPD—A force of
1,000 Viet Cong striking from
bases within Cambodia attacked
Tay Ninh city northwest of
SOYBEAN TESTS—Testing programs be-
ing carried out at the Cotton Experiment
station of interest to Grady County farm-
ers includes the tests on soybeans, a rela-
tively new crop for this area. Tests of
three major varieties include both dry-
land and irrigated soybeans- Ed Oswalt,
station superintendent, noted that tests
include row spacings of seven, 14 and 12
inch, plus tests on rates of fertilizer ap-
David Meyer, carrying a
big box down the street . . .
Mrs. Euola Mutzig, in a con-
versation with several friends
who were walking down Chick-
asha Avenue . . . Everett
Hulsey and Woodrow Bowers,
talking about bowling ... Mrs.
at Dorval International Airport
where the 17 passengers and
two stewardesses aboard were
permitted to leave while the
hijacker held the captain and
men to
vation Army center this Thurs-
day.
All senior citizens in the Chick-
asha are invited to attend
and bring a covered dish of their
choice. Coffee and tea will be
furnished.
Following the luncheon color-
ed slides of the 49th annual
other White House advisers
before voting next Tuesday on
the controversial nomination of
the town. Heavy fighting raged
tonight in the midst of a to
torrential monsoon downpour.
very sensible
Eastern Europe, noting that the
Russans have shown much less
interest in Vietnam since the
invasion of Czecholovakia.
Both factors held little chance
for a change in the hard-line
Hanoi bargaining position in the
next two months, these sources
said.
The North Vietnamese also
approached the 22nd session
without the direct support they
expected from President
Charles de Gaulle at his news
conference Monday. The French
leader said he did not comment
on the Vietnam War because
the talks were in Paris.
The diplomatic sources said
Hanoi was worried that the
Russians may pressure North
Vietnam into a deal with the
new U.S. administration next
January to show that the Soviet
Union still favors a detente with
the West.
Another factor in the invasion
of Czechoslovakia that con-
deadlock which has
through 20 meetings.
Rusk and other
MONTREAL (UPI)—A mar
pulled a gun on a stewardess
aboard an Air Canada flight
today and demanded to be flown
today and
popular force troops.
Other Viet Cong units were
holding out on the southeast and
northeast fringes of the city but
they were giving ground.
UPI correspondent Ray Wilk-
inson reported meanwhile from
Da Nang that construction of
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City Extends Hand Nixon Carries
phrey’s ticket-mate said in St
Louis that stopping the bombing
of North Vietnam would be a
“valuable risk" for the United
States to take in seeking peace.
But, in an interview with UPI,
Muskie said any such action
should be taken only after a
careful study of both the
military situation and the status
of the talks with the North
Vietnamese in Paris.
DISCOVER RUINS
BELGRADE (UPD—Archeo-
logists in central Yugoslavia
have discovered a stone age
rice field on Saigon’s southern
doorstep. U.S. military spokes-
men said at least 48 Commu-
nists had been killed by
nightfall as fighting continued.
The second attack on Tay
Ninh in three weeks appeared to
be a determined one. South
proposal" U.N. Secretary Ge-
neral Thant's suggestion that
Vietnam be neutralized in much
the same way Austria was
following World War II.
Nixon was given a warm
welcome and an enthusiastic
introduction by Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller before addressing
about 7,000 cheering, stamping
supporters.
Humphrey, on the other hand,
was shunned by some of his
party’s top leaders both in
California and Texas.
In other developments:
Spiro T. Agnew—The GOP
vice presidential nominee
charged in a speech in the
nation's capital that Humphrey
had adoptel a "peace at any
price" stand on Vietnam. “I
think he’s a Neville Chamber-
lain,” the Maryland governor
sources said
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The fall betwren Hubert H. Hum
House Commerce Committee phrey and Richard M
today approved a bill paving the The Senate already has
I way for televised debates this the measure.
coming home by late this year France Caravelle jet with
or early next year.              engine in flames encountered a
sudden storm on a flight from
Corsicastoday and plunged into miles out to sea near Cap
the Mediterranean 11 minutes ! D'Antibes and a company
out of Nice, killing all 95 spokesman said there were nc
persons aboard.                  survivors. Rescue craft report
It was the worst air disaster ed stormy seas in the area.
since a South African Airways --twas.notiknown immediately
Monin. im . ,             11 any Americans were aboard
Boeing 707 crashed at Wind I but the plane was
Brooks will welcome OCLA
annual theater party personnel and will introduce
was in 16 dif- Thursday night at the Washita Miss Debbie Stephens of Ryan
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for other flights at Nice
France’s second largest airport
The Caravelle, one of the
the liberalization program.
The latest move to bow tc
these terms came Tuesday
when the hesitant Czechoslovaks regular monthly “pot luck”, cov-
bound their economy irrevoca-
bly to Russia for seven years
Czechoslovaks were still trying
to decide whether to flee the
South 3rd, after a burglary critical of their homeland
there during the night. then decided to return.
Police rereived a report at The government statement,
7:50 a.m. Wednesday, and learn- signed by the top leadership,
ed that someone apparently en- indicated laws soon may be
tered the building through an passed ending the right to
unlocked window, then left by | travel in the West. Czechoslo-
Belgrade newspaper Borba said nors sdtvsflerightshrtberazover
LOday •
hide title.
J. O. (Bob) Eskridge. 1 Cher-
ry Drive, told nolice a radio,
about $5 worth of postage
stamps, and a handful of pen
nics were the only items mis-
sing from the Farm Supply
Company Store, 1701 South Four
th, after a cruising policeman
found evidence of a burglary
there while patrolling in the
area at 5:55 a.m.
Someone reportedly broke a
glass from a door on the south
OKLAHOzA
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flower show held in New Yorn
possible cjty will be shown.
world's first medium-range jets
reported to into active service, was
designed and built by the
French Sud-Aviation company
and was used on virtually every
airline in Europe. It first
to Cuba.
The plane, bound
This has complicated the
secret negotiations between
American and North Korean
representatives at Panmunjom.
U.S. officials said today it was
impossible to predict just when
there might be a break in the
will ti th h-----------It The event, for which the th“‘ Wh in turn “wdintprsenietion. peace in Vietnam.
will continue through next Mon- ter has been leased, is sponsored Martin, OCLA president.           Nixon Tuesday carried his sending their young
Jack Brewer will be in charge  Republican campaign into White death in recent w
.                            of the drawing for door prizes i Plains, an affluent suburb of attacks in South Vietnam.
“The purpose of the Greater presented students. He will be  New York City, where he said . A ' Coh. —
ctA Committee 1. * e"ne assisted by Ken Thomas of residents of such areas "make diers have died in nationwide acuua
Chickasha, Miss Margaret Sink up a large part of what I call fighting since the Reds stepped i taken a
the forgotten Americans." UP the tempo of the war Aug.'casualties.
Brooks pointed out today that
some 125 Chickasha citizens and
businesses support the activities
of the Greater OCLA Committee.
The annual opening of school
theater party is just one of a
number of ways in which Chick-
asha. through the Greater OCLA
Committee, supports OCLA.
It will be over in plenty of
Gibson reported U.S. infantry, tme                          “
men were brought by helicopter Moore for the freshman season
into landing zones just north of opener against the Moore Jun-
the Tay Ninh suburbs as ior Lions.
cerned the North Vietnamese
was the possibility that arms
and economic aid destined for
Hanoi would be shipped to East
Europe instead. The Russians
supply Hanoi with their deadly
surface-to -air antiaircraft mis-
siles and other key war
material.
says that Communist North
later Korea wants more than just an
with “apology" as the price of
releasing the 82 crewmen of the
many beautiful captured U.S. intelligence ship
‘ ~f +-----Pueblo.
warning devices the line had
degenerated into a series of
outposts.
Tay Ninh would be vital to a
third Communist offensive
against Saigon.
Tay Ninh City sits astride the
lowland jungle trails that
comprise, for the Communists,
Secretary Clark Clifford and te justice of
side of the building to gain ac unemployment rate for August
cess to the latch on the inside
day night, said Fogelstrom. by Chickasha's Greater OCLA
The classes include: Typing Commitee.
I and II, business machines, "T ______ ... u..u.0.
short hand I, bookkeeping I, , OCLA Committee is to support
unit records, electronics, car- the college by every means pos-
pentry, auto mechanics, weld- sible. These people are a very
ing, machine shop, art, aviation I integral part of our community,
ground school, aviation instru- It is one of the ways Chick-
ment training, power mechan- ’ asha has of saying we are glad
ics (beginning deisel), and in- you are here,” Curtis Brooks,
terior decorating,                presidentof the committee said
Fogelstrom said over 500 today.
adults and high school students | The movie “Salt and Pepper”,
are enrolled in the daytime | starring Sammy Davis Jr. and’
classes at the Fort Cobb Voca- Peter Lawford, has been secur-
ional School, located at the ed by Horace Clark, manager
northwest edge of the commun- l of Chickasha’s theaters, for this
ity;                                    special event.
The director said that there The party is scheduled for 7
will be enrollment next Monday p.m. Transportation will be fur-
and Tuesday nights for two ex- nished OCLA students, with bus-
tension courses from the Uni-
considered “a
18,the ambassador said. North Vietnamese negotiators
ine 77-year-old chief Ameri- entered the latest session wih a
can negotiator said he would wary eye on the American
"call atttention to the increased political scene and the occupa-
violence in South Vietnam" tion of Czechoslovakia.
since Aug. 18 and tell Hanoi Diplomatic sources said the
"there have been no gains on North Vietnamese were increa-
the part of the North Vietna- singly concerned about the
mese and Viet Cong forces, but direction away from fully
very substantial losses,” committed "peace” candidates
Also, he said, he would bring in the American presidential
up the increase in terrorist campaign
action in the cities" which has The sources said the Commu-
1 a high toll in civilian nists also have become unhappy
_____ about the turn of events in
The Chickasha Express
invites
W. G. PLEMONS
to the Washita Theatre to see
"HANG ’EM HIGH”
This coupon good for two
tickets to see the above
picture.
“Theirs is a quiet demonstra-
tion,” he said, "and it doesn't
make the headlines. But it is
this quiet demonstration of faith
in the American system that
moves America forward."
Humphrey, in campaign ap-
pearances in California and
Texas, sought to win over
Democrats who opposed him on
the Vietnam issue at the
Chicago convention. He conti-
nued to stress his hope that
American troops might start
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
Reports Of
Burglaries
Chickasha police checked a
burglary at John Alexander's
Barbecue Stand, 101 East Idaho,
reported at 8:10 a.m. today.
Police report someone broke
a lock from a door to gain en-
try to the building, then took
money from a cigaret vending
machine and a juke box after
breaking them open. Attempts to
break open a candy machine
and a soft drink dispenser were
not successful.
Several briskets were missing
from Alexander’s barbecue pit
along with some sauce, accord-
ing to the report. The theft
occurred between midnight and
7 a.m.
A title of ownership for a
1963 Chevrolet pickup was the
MCE. France.to. .West, Africa, last laden with tourists. Authoritiee
one April 20, killing 123 persons, said 13 of the 89 passengers
A search party found pieces were children. There were six
of the twin engine plane 12, crew members.
It was believed that many of
the passengers may have been
planning to make connections
was nothing less than “an
honorable, stable peace" in
Vietnam.
WASHINGTON   (UPI)—The!
Senate Judiciary Committee
--------, .— first officer at gunpoint in the
diverted to Montreal. It landed I pilot’s compartment.
at Fort Cobb reached 235, ac- of welcome to Oklahoma Col- portation committee
cording to Joe Fogelstrom. di- i lege of Liberal Arts personnel
rector.                             at an
PRAGUE (UPI)—Czechoslo-
vak Communist party sources
said today half of the 600,000
Warsaw Pact occupation troops
"are on the move in Czechoslo-
vakia" but that they did not
know if the forces were leaving
the country.
Moscow laid down a stiff
series of demands on the
government of party leader
Alexander Dubcek as the price
of withdrawing the troops-
except for a force along the
West German border.- This
included a return to tota'
Communist rule and an end to
Tuesday the government ap-
pealed to them not to leave. It
. .0:     .2            , warned those who already had
only thing which could be mis- fled that they faced i ' •
sed at Joe McKee’s garage, 901 prosecution if they turned
C.4L. 9. ~Cin. . »».... *
unlocking a front door from the vak political
inside. The office was ransack ~
ed by the intruder, but nothing
was missing except the ve-
O. M. Hamed, visiting with
her neighbor, Mrs. E. J. Val-
dropped to the post-Korean War' entine • • • Al Hulme, making
low nf 35 ner aent *1______ a business trip to Oklahoma
City Tuesday . . . Tom Whar-
versity of Oklahoma. Both, he
said, are in the Education 300
series.
At 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dr.
James Meyer will be present to
enroll a gorup in guidance
counseling. At the same time
Tuesday night. Dr. Jack Parker
will be present to handle the
enrollment for a course in
school administration.
A minimum of 20 students is
needed for each class, said
Fogelstrom.
___________ hamlets 700 yards west of
Edward W. Brooke—The Ne- downtown Tay Ninh, a city of
gro senator from Massa- 80,000, after beating back three
chusetts, after a one-hour
232 omders late Tuesday cmLksPwiFnday-dhsRahtiw’
saturated the countryside near Outlaws in the first game of
Tay Ninh with two million the season for the charges cf
P°unds of bombs in five raids.‘Coach Bill Watkins.
Vietnamese defenders aided by
U.S. jets threw the Communists
back from the city limits but
were unable to kep them out of
the suburbs.
Tay Ninh is 55 miles
northwest of Saigon and con-
trols invasion routes to the
capital. let has been the site of
repeated Communist defeats, a direct side door strike channel
Iast.month he Communists into Saigon.                     A football rally for the Chick-
men in trying to to Tay Ninh attack came as asha High School Fightin’Chicks
U.S. infantrymen fought an . ]Hh ! at , p.m. Thursday
estimated 400 Viet Cong in a atlth and Washing ton, accord-
6 mg to L. J. Powell, dean of
students.
indicated Tuesday that the
United States might be willing
to offer some form of apology
to assure the return of the men
and the vessel—although Wash-
ington continues to regard the
seizure as “illegal.”
However, Rusk told newsmen
on Capitol Hill, after discussing
a number of international
matters with lawmakers, that
the Communists also want
commitments by the United
States regarding future U.S.
activity on the high seas and in
the Sea of Japan.
Other officials said the North
Koreans had been insisting all
along that the United States
promise to keep its naval
vessels out of a considerable
area of the Sea of Japan—which
clearly would be beyond any-
thing that might be considered
Communist territorial waters.
North Korea charged after
seizing the Pueblo Jan. 23 that
the vessel had encroached on
her waters for purposes of
spying-
In Tokyo, Japanese newsmen
said the North Korean foreign
ministry had arranged for
crewmen to appear at a news
conference in Pyongyang Thurs-
day. It would be the second
such session for the men, one of
whose shipmates died of inju-
ries in the capture.
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To OCLA Students HisCampaign
At Theater Partv Into Suburbs Concern To Hanoi Delegates
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Chickasha will extend it's hand are co - chairmen of the trans- Richard. M. Nixon is making a dor-at-large W. Averell Harri-
--------    “      “          cnairmen the trans big bid for suburban votes in man went into the 22nd session
I the early going of the presiden- of the Vietnam war talks today
tial campaign, while opponent with this message for the North
Hubert H. Humphrey continues Vienamese negotiators:
hitting hard on the issue of "I am pointing out to them
that all they are achieving is
Viet Cong Attack
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City Of Tgv Ninh Thetiat modesaa matndle
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plane was equipped with a drag SeorzapApa,,. nAI-5!,
the so-called McNamara line chute for emergency use on ’ y          Dean Rusk
had all but been abandoned. The short runways. The 1
barrier across a 40-mile stretch models were equipped with
of Vietnam just below the reverse-thrust engines
Demilitarized Zone was pro- Corsica, with many.....
nosed last fall by then Defense beaches, is one of the more
Secretary           McNamara popular Mediterranean vacation
touthalt. North Vietnamese spots and attracts tourists from
inwtatnon. pog a , throughout Europe but only a
Wilkinson said instead of an comnarativelvf.W AWI-io.
elaborate barbed wire barrier comparatively few Americans,
with mines, and electronic
pariamentary debate on the
laws could begin before Friday,
with the Soviet Union pushing
for quick passage.
“We shall pass certain
unpopular laws," a Communist
party presidium member, de-
nek Mlynar, warned Tuesday.
Thousands of Czechoslovaks
already have gone to Austria
and West Germany since the
Aug. 20 invasion
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Edmund S. Muskie—Hum