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fruits and vegetables went up repair mission.
But the BIS said the price 3.7 per cent last month.
The two-and-a-half-day count-
Merchants Name
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JIM WHITE
MISS SUSAN WATSON
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Two Students At OSU
Work This Summer
At Extension Center
Historical
Society Meets
Elight directors struggled to
control Skylab's too hot and too
Hospital in Bluefield, W. Va., served as senior class president,
and in 1968-69 was an ad- four years in Student Govern-
4-H Club for eight years and
served on the yearbook staff.
Miss Watson is a member of
OSU’s Block and Bridle Club and
is currently serving as co-editor
game between some old timers
and young ladies scheduled this
Sunday. . . Raymond Parish,
talking about the strong winds in
Chickasha Monday night. . .
Jerry Weaver, among the
merchants attending a meeting
this morning at the Chamber of
Commerce office. . . Chester
Simons, in a conversation with
James Hicks and Troy Cox.
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Partly cloudy with chance of
showers and thunderstorms
through tonight. Fair Wed-
nesday. Cooler. Local tem-
peratures: 12 noon today 75;
Monday high 94; Monday low 68.
Precipitation, .10 inch.
by Wednesday, but another highs Monday were from a siz-
round of showers and thunder- ding 101 at Altus to 86 at Me-
storms might be in store for to- Alester.
night.
the crewmen will be able to
free one of Skylab's jammed
power wings to give the station
enough electricity to support
three crews for 20 weeks in
space.
head it off, McCord said, he
wrote a letter to an old friend,
ex-White House aide John J.
Caulfield in late December
“It was couched in strong
language because it seemed to
me at the time that was the
only language the White House
understood," he said.
"It said in substance ... 'Dear
Jack, I am sorry to have to
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used cars and gasoline, the 1967 base period cost $13.07 last
government said today. month.
"Oklahoma's Most Interesting—And Most Readable—Daily Newspaper"
public place."
It graphically described parts
of the body that could not be
shown in public.
Rep. Don Cavness, D-Austin,
dodged reading the amendment,
but said it would apply "if you
appear completely nude, you
know, with everything showing."
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Invites
GENE DUNIVAN
to the Washita Theatre to see
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8:00 a.m. and 12 noon on
Saturday, or 7:00 and 8:30
a.m. on Sunday,
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were in Huntsville, Ala., today 271-mile-high space station Angered at this “ruthless
for their final underwater under control by constantly attempt" and attempting to
Help Push Living Costs High
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Con- —representing a rise of 5.1 per
sumer prices rose 0.7 per cent cent in the 12-month period,
in April, mainly because of This meant that goods and
higher prices for food, clothing, services which cost $10 in the
City His religious preference is
Presbyterian.
Gillespie has worked on
beginning phases of new 225 bed
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by Nixon at the end of March April to a level 23.4 per cent for the
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Increases were particularly down begins at 8:30 p.m. EDT,
large for onions, lettuce, green aiming toward a blastoff at 9
peppers, bananas and strawber- a.m. Friday. Project officials
ries. Prices also went up for said they were confident they
eggs, beef, ham, bacon, frank- could complete the Skylab
furters, bologna and liver repair tools and techniques in
sausage. But they declined for time to meet the schedule.
intern at Bluefield Sanitarium A 1972 graduate of CHS, he Watson was a member of Verden
in the ship's shaded airlock
module was 34.2 degrees—
dangerously close to the freez-
ing mark.
The flight directors fought to
cold temperatures in orbit
today while ground crewmen
prepared to start the countdown
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launch of three
WIND DAMAGE There were no tornadoes reported in the this car There were other reports of wind damage in the oreo At
ChickashaoreoduringMondoynightsstormactivity.However.it Lake Chickasha a mobile home owned by Larry Sevier was
took a pretty strong gust of wind to do damage such as this. Heavy reported demolished by the strong winds and another mobile
damage was done to this automobile at 17th and Oregon when o home owned by Don Newman was blown over
large free was uprooted and thrown against the house and atop
During the summer of 1966 and Park He is a sophomore at OSU. school. She is a 1971 graduate of
1967 he was an administrative majoring in radio and television. Verden High School Miss
aboard the Skylab presented Director Milton Windier called
flight controllers in Houston it "one of the great juggling
with a dilemma. The gas in the acts that's been around."
living quarters was an almost The main items of concern
unbearable 121 degrees this were food in some of Skylab's
morning while the temperature unrefrigerated lockers and
aluminum water coolant pipes write you this letter, but if
in the airlock module. Food Helms goes and the Watergate
locker temperatures were re- operation is laid at the CIA's
corded at 121 degrees today, feet where it doesn't belong,
and officials said if the heat every tree in the forest will
remained that high there was a fall.
chance that up to 10 per cent of "It will be a scorched desert.
Skylab’s food might spoil. The whole matter is at the
Controllers worried that the precipice right now Pass the
coolant line might freeze in the message that if they want it to
shaded section and break the go there, they are on exactly
pipes.                               the right course."'
Once the three astronauts get Reports of McCord’s letter to
aboard Skylab and erect a huge Caulfield first surfaced last
parasol, flight directors expect weekend in a sworn pretrial
the temperature problems to be deposition of a White House
eliminated. And there is hope lawyer, Fred F. Fielding, who
On Wednesday
A special membership
meeting of the Grady County
Historical Society will be held at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the
Chickasha Public Library. The
board of directors will meet at 7
p.m.
A report is expected to be
presented on the progress of the
Independent Study project at
OCLA in which several students
are involved in doing research
and writing a history of Minco.
It is hoped committees can be
completed at the meeting, said
Miss Annie Hampton, president.
All committees are open to
interested members. Mem-
bership is $2 per year for Grady
County residents; $5 for those
who reside outside Grady
County and 50 cents for school
children through high school.
This month is kick-off month
for the Memorial Roster of
deceased Grady County people
Mrs Fred Voigt of Tuttle is
chairman of this committee.
Names and donations may be
sent to the Grady County-
Historical Society, Box 495,
Chickasha, 73018.
has been assistant administrator This summer he will be for the yearbook
of South Community Hospital,  working with 4-H and other This summer she  will  be
Oklahoma City. He is also a  youth in the areas of first aid,  assisting with clerical duties at
hospital consultant for Jones,  various types of recreational  the county 4-H  office,  said
Hester, Bates and Riek Ar-  activities, conservation, small  Shultz
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"Into Watergate Probe
Se 9      E Ee   WASHINGTON (UPI) —Bug-  its own man and blame  that after the break-in, '"a  eteers’’ and that it related to
Ek3W   ging conspirator James W.  Watergate on the CIA.          Howard Hughes plane would be  their exercising "control" over
\          Wo%:  M.ord. today charged the    McCord said he considered it  standing by to fly them into a  the unidentified candidate.
\     %   "2-2370  White House with a "ruthless  part of a continuing plot in the  South American country so that  Later, he said, he came to
eh 4 r 2  attempt to blame Watergate  White House to effect “political  they would not be in the  believe there was "some other
78X0 on the CIA, and said he was  control" over the supersecret  country when the break-in was  reason for wanting to get into
Kd*.2z   told aid was enlisted from  agency.                         discovered." Hughes has been a   Greenspun’s safe."
“83 mystery billionaire  Howard    He also interjected the name  contributor to President Nixon’s    He did not give any further
EK5 378  Hughes to fly political spies out  of Hughes into the inquiry for  election campaigns.               details. The break-in apparently
-t of the country after another  the first time. McCord said he    According to McCord, Liddy  never took place.
I  Planned break-in,                had been told by co-conspirator  said that Greenspun had "tn his    Reading from a previously
„? Me Co rd, testifying for a G. Gordon Liddy that there was possession blackmail material" prepared memo, McCord said
F second day at televised Senate a plan to break into the safe of on an unidentified Democratic he had been told that James R.
hearings into the Watergate Hank Greenspun, the publisher presidential hopeful that then- Schlesinger, who replaced
bugging, also said he was of the Las Vegas Sun, because Attorney General John N Helms as CIA chief, "would go
he was said to have damaging Mitchell, later Nixon's cam- along" with the White House
material about a Democratic paign manager, wanted to get. plot to blame Watergate on the
presidential candidate.              McCord said he was told the CIA.
McCord said Liddy told him information related to "rack- McCord. a former CIA agent,
said he felt "this smacked of
the situation which Hitler’s
intelligence chiefs found them-
selves in” in the 1930s and
1940s. "when they were put in
the position of having to tell
him what they thought he
wanted to hear" instead of
P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz— keep temperatures aboard the what they really believed.
said Caulfield had called him
on Dec. 31 to say he had gotten
such a “trees in the forest will
fall" communication anony-
mously in the mail.
McCord testified he was
subjected to intense pressures
to go along with the plan to
blame Watergate on the CIA,
particularly at two late-Decem-
ber meetings last year with his
then-attorney, Gerald Alch. But
McCord, a 19-year CIA veteran,
said he refused to go along out
of loyalty to the secret
organization.
Caulfield was expected to
follow McCord to the witness
table at the Senate hearings,
perhaps later today.
rehearsal of spacewalk proce- adjusting its angle to the sun.
(lures they might have to use to A mission control spokesman
shade Skylab. The astronauts reported that the temperatures
fly to Die launch site tonight, "appear manageable" by trial
The temperature problem and error methods. Flight
A tornado touched down in _ . _ N .
open country northwest of Mus- Jed is Named
tang Monday night and radar A c i. .
indicated possible funnel clouds AS Lonsuitant
newrndormnanand’rrokensome For Watergate
windows at El Reno, and large WASHINGTON (UPI >— For-
hail was reported at Geary, mer Oklahoma Congressman
Lawton and Altus. Numerous Jed Johnson Jr. was hired Mon-
strong thunderstorms were re- aay as a special consultant to
ported in western and central die U. S. Senate Watergate In- IV/     C
Oklahoma during the after-  vestigating Committee.            W 0  30000
noon and evening,                  Johnson, 33, said he could not                                    imposition of "strong, enforcea-
Moist air hung over the state  discuss his job presently, but  LMSs-srortri"totrdsaback  ble" wage and! price controls.,
todav keening conditions ripe  would work with long - term  nome om aIriP t0 Texasa I do not like the idea of
for additional scattered rainfall  problems brought out by the  Mrs. Joe Johnson looking  controls, but I  believe the  College
in conjunction with the approach  Walergate scandal and its “long-  forward to having her son,  American people will accept    In professional activities, he is
and passage of a weak cold front  term implications.”             Scr?.’ astuden at ent ort   them and support them if they   a member of American Hospital
Johnson said he would work  Military Academy, home for the are fair and equitably adminis-  Association, nominee to    Two Grady County students at  engines and woodworking, said
...            with "new legislation" to pre-  weekend. . Mrs. Edah Belle tered,"the Oklahoma Democrat  American College of Hospital  Oklahoma State University have   Charlie Shultz, director of 4-H
3kinnydiPping       vent a recurrence of such a sit-  Cole, attending a party Tuesday said in a speech Monday to the  Administrators, vice president  been employed this summer in  programs
A.l.TAN N.G,     uation                        night. .. Bill Weller, making a board of directors of the  of Central District Oklahoma  the Grady County OSU Ex-    Miss Watson, the daughter of
VuuaWed near       He is one of three such con- stop at the post office while on National Association of Home  Hospital Association and on  tension Center. They are Jim  Mr. and Mrs. Ray Watson, is
Canitol Of Texas sultants.                      his way to work this morning. . . Builders.                      Oklahoma City Area Hospital White, a graduate of Chickasha also a st.phomore at Oklahoma
•                             Johnson spent much of the  Mrs. Joe McIntosh, still wearing "The  President  made a  Council and on various com- High School, and Susan Watson,  State University, majoring in
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI)— The  day Monday arranging for ere-  a sunburn acquired while at- dramatic turnabout nearly two   mittees of the University of  a graduate of Verden High  animal science
Texas legislature has approved   dentials that would allow him  tending a track meet Saturday in  years ago when he reluctantly   Oklahoma Medical Center as, School.                            She received the biological
a bill to outlaw skinnydipping in   access to the meeting room and  Oklahoma City.                 used the power Congress gave   well as an instructor at Oscar White is the son of Mr. and  science award and the American
a lake area near the state capi- Offices He said security restric- Mrs. Paul Arnold, in a him to  bring the  economy   Rose Junior College.              Mrs. Donald E. White, 1316  legion Award while in high
tol known as “Hippie Hollow" tons t protect the probe were telephone conversation. .. Bill under control,” Albert said. "     "           "            "
The measure would make it fantastic »                      Neil, talking about a baseball
disorderly conduct for a person
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Martinsville, Va. Since 1969, he graduation speaker for his class.
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During the first three full The 0.7 per cent increase in
months of President Nixon's the Consumer Price Index in Group To Work
Phase III economic controls-  April followed advances of 0.9  A v  i ■>
February through  April-the  per cent in March, 0.7 per cent  •n I ule 1 rogram
cost of living increased at an in February and 0 3 per cent in Troy Cox appointed a com-
annual rate °'92 percent, the  January. The relaxed Phase III   mittee.of Chickasha merchants   pork chops, roasts and chicken.     The   space   repairmen
Labor Departments Bureau of controlsbeganJan.il.         to study a Christmas decoration   Among nonfood items, used  Charles “Pete" Conrad, Joseph
Labor Statistics (BIS) report-   The BIS said that while food  program for the holiday season  car prices increased 3.2 per
ed.                              prices went up 1.5 per cent in  during the meeting this morning  cent, while new car prices rose
That was nearly four times  April, it has  the smallest  in the Chamber of Commerce  0.3 per cent last month They   4                       •T            •     ■
the administration's 2.5 per increase in four months. Food office .    .             usually decline in April. Prices LOHHIV HlosntAI
cent price guideline, and more prices rose 2.6 per cent in Serving on the committee are: for gasoline and motor oil rose                      J              O H- -- "
than three times its goal of March, 1.9 per cent in Joe Risner, chairman, Bill 1.5 per cent and men’s and                            .
reducing inflation to 3 per cent February and 2.1 per cent in Miller, Bob Meyer, Mrs. Mildred boy's clothing prices increased   A mI m l n Ief w. a 1 A w.
or less.                  January.                 Hooper, James Hicks, Jerry lpercent                 HAUIIIIIIIBUI d UOI
The Consumer Price Index   Officials said that the smaller Weaver, Marvin Coker of the The BLS said the prices for
> (CPI) rose in April to 130.7, food price increase in April was shopping center and Chester services increased 0.3 per cent, T "T                J FIT I
compared to 124.3 in April, 1972 due in part to ceilings ordered Simons, city manager        mainly because of higher IS % dOC | OOdV
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l                                    . .                        morning, C. T. Mize of services, recreational services, William A Gillespie, an chitectural firm of Oklahoma
Hamn ante  Ilf GtArm    Oklahoma City, a representative personal care services, dental  assistant administrator at South
IUUIIIIIdII U>  UI  NUUI 111   of L C. Williams Co. of Houston, fees, auto repairs and clothing  Community Hospital in
showed a series of slides on services like cleaning.           Oklahoma City, has been named
T naapinA  Im  G+.1A       Christmas decorations, both for Despite the higher cost of  administrator of Grady
HIIIHCI UIS'  III Old IC        intersections, cross street and  living, the BUS said wages for  Memorial Hospital to succeed
.1DeC            .. .     , l then for entire shopping center the average worker more than Bob Parmeter who has resigned,
BYHnitedsPressinterretiona  movingtesoutheastward through  malls.as well  as interior  kept up X inratonmo        said wilson Srithen, chairmar
r nui l              ve tne state.                        decorations.                        Average weekly earnines of of Grady Memorial Hospital’s
parts o Oklahoma today, rem-    Only minor changes in tern-    He explained types   of  factor^ workers^increased $1 2  board of control
nants ofa severe storm system peratures were forecast, with decorations, on poles or Tn Arri) t $14172 due to a Gillespie will assume his new
th at produced hail, high winds  anticipated highs today and  streamers and  methods of  sigF increase in "the average  duties as of July  1. added
andtoradoes said mostly fair  Wednesdayin Ms 805 and lows  financing, outright purchase or  Wok week ' and a             smithen He was among ap
‘ ,           .      • tonight in the 50s and 60s, leasing as well as turn-key jobs, increase in ayerip, Lmi, plicants interviewed recently by
SaslighE ZE weather elowseariytodayrangedfrom Christmas decorations can becf           .82.66 hourly Uieentire board of conlrol> ’
would spread across the state 59 at Gage to 69 at Tulsa, and various price ranges, $400 to That more than offset the Gillespie is married and they
$1,600 for elaborate cross street increase in consumer prices, have one child. He is a graduate
or intersection streamers with giving the average worker a 0 4 of Greenbrier Military School in
bells or chandeliers.              per cent increase in purchasing Lewisbury, W Va., holds a
He noted that the life of a power of his weekly earnings.    bachelor of science degree in
decoration, usually five to 10 This was only the second economics from Hampden-
years, depends on the care it tune in the last six months that Sidney College, Hampden
receives while being put up and the workers’ wages had showed Sydney, Va., and has a masters
taken down and the treatment a real increase in purchasing degree in hospital ad-
received in storage the power. Over the past 12 ministration from Medical
remainder of the year.           months, weekly earnings regis- College of Virginia at Richmond,
index for meats poultry and tered a 0.9 per cent increase in graduating in 1969
fish, went up 1.8 per cent in purchasing power.                 He is a member of South
House Speaker Carl Albert Oklahoma City Chamber of
joined a growing number of Commerce, the South Oklahoma
congressmen calling for die City Rotary Club, South
Oklahoma City YMCA and on
the advisory board of South
Oklahoma City Community