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VOL. 84 — NO. 86
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PRICE 15 CENTS
CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1976
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Nuclear Site Has
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -
A joint force of Syrian and
Libyan troops arrived in Beirut
today and took over the shell-
battered international airport in
a bid to enforce the latest truce
and stem fighting that flared
with the U.S. evacuation of 263
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Faulty Bridges
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Highway and turnpike officials
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patients suffered cutbacks, but ployes they risked loss of their
jobs if they joined the strike.
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Chickasha Man Among
7 McAlester Escapees
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five former workers at the employes of the Hanford Plant As the predictions were
Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons in Richland, Wash., and one ex- made, officials began releasing
plant have died of cancer in the worker at the Mound I a bora to- first results from Senate races
past five years, according to ries in Miamisburg, Ohio, showing the Christian Demo’
figures released during the Newton and Norwood said the crats and Communists running
weekend. autopsies found cancer in 11 neck-and-neck.
SUCCESSOR NEEDED
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) _
The selection of a successor to
retiring NAACP Executive Di-
rector Roy Wilkins will high-
light the annual convention of
the nation's oldest civil rights
organization June 28-July 2.
Wilkins, 67. is stepping down
after 40 years of active civil
rights work. The NAACP’s
board is screening applicants
for the organization's top job.
____Robert Nelson, 40, and William
_ Morris, 39, both sentenced to
AT 150-year terms for armed
%OWS r>rieiS • • • robbery -n Oklahoma County
and Leonard Boyles, 31, of
By United Press International gation” and a drop in "quality Chickasha, sentenced in
WASHINGTON (UPI) - education." Oklahoma County to 10 years for
Lawyers who kept the Ford Jones said he doubts “we unauthorized use of a motor
was being
Chamber vote
The Christian Democrats
were expected to do better
against the Communists in the
Senate race than in the
Chamber of Deputies vote. The
administration from cutting off would be able to maintain a
food stamp benefits to more desegregated situation with the
than four million people predict legislation" the President is
no further court action will be considering to place a five-year
Nash Library
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Kansas Farmer Losing $30^000 On This Year’s Wheat
’ WELLINGTON, Kan. (UPI)- n 11 harvest time for Ervin "Wheat's Just a plant that will roll with the punches," says Urban. figured it weuld amount at least a $30,000 loss and maybe higher, the next and 15.8 on the one after that The elevator will assess
-rbansw interwheat . the sooner the Urban family can get "It’s just a hardy old crop,” depending on wheat prices and foreign buyers like Russia. It is a big penalties above 15 per cent.
. Hou ottheneids «nd into the'trucks and down to the grain elevator A fall drought, a winter freeze and spring bugs pummeled this bite, but it follows two good years in which the family grossed about They need dry weather now to keep the crop dry enough to cut in
“ the sooner they wil know nothing else can go wrong. At least until year's crop 1-2-3, but on a sunny day last week the stands looked 8100,000 each year. the afternoon of their first cutting day there is hardly ai cloudinthe
nX yean unscathed to citybred eyes - the golden heads full and rippling "We lost it to just a little bit of everything this year,” Urab said sky, but the forecast is for thunderstorms, and Urban is anxious to
Urban's farm southwest of Wellington is in the heart of the heart softly in the steady south wind, with a good natured smile, get more cut before the rain.
• of wheat country in south central Kansas. Sumner County is the But the experienced eye of the tall, lean farmer knew better. But while he could take the crop’s various misfortunes with a grin- “If we have a heavy rain, we’ll lose two pounds of test weight (per
, leading wheat-growing county in the nation's top wheat producing "This field I’d estimate 25 bushels, maybe 30," Urban saidas he and-bear-it attitude, as the harvest comes closer Urban has become bushel land two points of protein," he said "It just works that way
“ state, and the license tags on pickup trucks say, "Wheat Capital Of scanned the flatness. “We've been used to better yields. It’s been more concerned. The sun comes out the next day and it just bleachs out the protein.”
The World, Wellington, Kan." yielding 39 bushels per acre.” "Things don’t usually bother me, but the harvest, it does. You’re So after dinner he tucks his billed cap onto his balding head and
But it has been a bad year for wheat Urban and his sons David, 22, and Mark, 20, are cutting with their just50 close and yourdon’t want anything to happen. ” drives back out to the field for more cutting Some nights they wil
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estimated 280 million bushels P cutworms and the drought. The remaining stands are thinned. Pam. who drives the truck to the elevator. speeds down the dusty road. The rain is approaching, one more
Estimating the loss conservatively at 10 bushels per acre, Urban The moisture content was high, 13.7 per cent on one load, 14.7 on small mishap for an unlucky crop.
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positions around Beirut airport British embassy on Beirut's Libyan supervision. fighting canceled plans for a
as the new cease-fi8 uptown western coast. Heavy fighting Bared in the land convoy.
reached through Libyan media- Leftists reported that Libyan airport area overnight as The evacuation by a US
tion - went into effect Premier Abdel Salam Jalloud Palestinian and Syrian forces Navy landing craft came off
following heavy overnight fight- met with Syrian President exchanged of rocket and without a hitch - but diplomats
ing. , . Hafez Assad in Damascus for mortar fire, chided what they called Wa-
Scores of Syian army trucks three hours Sunday night and Sporadic fighting also con- shington’s “overly dramatized
roued up the Khalde Highway worked out the new truce tinued in downtown Beirut and presentation" of the dangers
Americans and Europeans from carrying troops in white hel- formula for a very "limited" across the lines between involved in evacuating a
Lebanon. ments and flying white flags. withdrawal of Syrian forces Moslem leftist and Christian fraction of the 1 400 Americans
Witnesses confirmed the first The renewed fighting during south of Beirut around the rightist forces in the eastern here
contingent of a 1,000-man the night left another convoy of international airport. suburbs. Some here dubbed the
advance peace-keeping force about 50 foreigners seeking to They said the plan called for President Ford ordered the evacuation Operation Iowa
arrived at the airport at 1:30 get out via an overland route to a reopening of the facility by naval rescue of 116 Americans Primary" - a reference to
p.m. (6:30 a.m. EDT) and Damascus stranded at the Tuesday under joint Syrian- and 147 others Sunday after Ford's attempts to pick up
began taking up positions delegates in his bid for the
between Palestinian and Syrian . — Republican presidential nomi-
Massachusetts Workers
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of Libyan and a battalion of fl • Til l UVI 11 j LD 8 Leaders
Begin Illegal Walkout In Elections
morning and moved unopposed BOSTON (UPI)— Thousands There were scattered reports officials said adequate care was
southwest across the Bekka of state employes staged an of violence, but no reports of provided. For Italians
valley to Sidon and then along illegal strike today demanding serious injuries or arrests. About 160 non-union employes , <1<111<111B
the main coastal highway into higher wages — the first There was no immediate at the University of Massa- ROME (UPI) — The Chris-
the capital from the Syrian- walkout in Massachusetts his- indication if Labor Relations chusetts Medical School hospi- tian Democrats grabbed an
controlled approach at Khalde. tory. Commissioner James S. Cooper tal walked off the job in inconclusive early lead over the
From there they moved into I ess than four hours after the would ask the court to fine or sympathy with the strikers. ( ommunists today in Senate
start of the strike by the state's imprison union officials. Scattered incidents marked returns from Italy s national
50,000 unionized employes, the Court action followed Gov. the beginning of the strike elections.
Labor Relations Commission Michael S. Dukakis' determina- which was called Sunday by the Scattered and incomplete
asked the Superior Court for an lion to seek an immediate Alliance, a coalition of unions retur ns from 676 of the nation s
injunction to force employes injunction to end the strike, representing organized state 73,178 Polling places gave the
back to work. There were indications the employes. State law two years 1 hristian Democrats 41 per
walkout had expanded to some ago gave state employes the cent of the Senate vote, the
rpn c r» non-union state employes, while right to collective bargaining Communists 33.7 per cent and
1 heftkeports some union employes worked, but banned strikes. “ 'he Socialist party 10 per cent.
I, Corrections officials declared State Police were called to First returns from the more
Cliven Palioa a “state of emergency" in state the Monson State Hot, ital when important C hamber of Deputies
" ,E. I W“,, prisons to allow an involuntary pickets reportedly hit two cars races, which will determine the
Two thefts were reported o holdover of guards on the with baseball bats shape of the next government,
ca Police is wee en , wi i nightshift. Critical services for Dukakis went on statewide were to be announced several
the state's more than 10,000 television on the eve of the hourslater.
1. eoc .. . mental and physically ill walkout warning state em- Italians voted in record
Ann Johnson of 1028 S. 2nd was natiente euffamaa hal. k„, ninuae tha. -iad i,™ ae i numbers in the two-day voting
— one of the country's most
crucial postwar elections.
necessary in the case. time limit on the Jurisdiction of
Government attorneys are courts in busing cases,
expected to appeal last week's .
ruling which postponed indefi- LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Highway and turnpike officials Mrs. Rowena Denney and Avenue,
mtelv-the effective date of new Roman Catholic church officials called a joint news conference Mrs. Irma Holcomb, with a
rules oroDosed by the Agricul- in Southern California plan to today to discuss the status of friendly greeting Anthon A r 13 9s F ■ 5 6 4 •V 1 A n) w 1
mre Denar tement turn a government order to two faulty bridges in eastern Fuller, back from an out-of-town A ■ (6) ■ •06TOL H ll ndig A nA KavaalarI
ture Departement. bargain with a teachers union Oklahoma . trip ..Noel Byrum, waving to a -"—WN \ Y “U -- —I-M AIC INUVUIUU
But Ronald Pollack, head of into a court test on the Highway director Richard friend while driving down the c-HAwiTTE. N (UPI) funds were personal and lions in another part of the Louisiana and Alabama.
the Food Research and Action separation of church and state. Ward and turnpike director W. street . . Earl Pettigrew, busy Secretpolitical funds existed in voluntary. state or in another state. The funds were also kept in
Center of New York, predicted D. Hoback were to review the ordering some merchandise ... at east 15 states within the Bell But the Observer reported The transfer of funds at times Western Electric and at the
that before the legal proceed- ' I he issue here is whether status of the Indian Nation Pete Mosley, busy at work . . System between the 1960s and that corporate money was used involved crossing state lines. AT&T headquarters in New
ings are finished a new the church will survive as an Turnpike bridge and the inves- Mrs. Jean Lee, in a telephone early 1970s, the Charlotte to make political contributions According to the Observer, York City, according to the
administration may decide to institution free of government tigation into the U.S. 75 bridge conversation, Observer reported Sunday. in at least five of the 15 states the identical political funds executives.
drop the Ford plan or Congress intrusion ” a spokesman for the collapse near Calvin that killed Bailey McCalla, glad for the According to a copyrighted mentioned. existed in Missouri, Texas, The Observer said although
may pass a milder food stamp Los Angeles Archdiocese said, two truckers dry weather while he was cut- story in the Observer, the funds The newspaper said there Oklahoma, Kansas. Arkansas, (Continued on Page Three)
reform bill. The National Labor Relations The turnpike bridge which ting wheat . . Dr. R. R. Coates, also existed at the systems were times when more than one North Carolina, South Carolina
----- Board ruled last month the was declared unsafe recently, making a trip to the post ottice.. corporateheadquarters at fund existed in a state. Money Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Ken-
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A archdiocese and adjacent has been reopened to limited Mrs. Clem Heidlage, stopping American Telephone and Tele- from one fund was sometimes tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,
group of school superintendents Orange Diocese must bargain traffic. Both bridges are on the inat the Daily Express office ... graph Co. (AT&T) and within transferred to another fund to
and principals met with Presi- with a union representing lay South Canadian river. Carl Sikes, talking about an ice its manufacturing subsidiary of supplement campaign contribu-
dent Ford during the weekend teachers in Catholic high officials said they would also cream social the Chickasha "estern Electric.. .
to discuss busing as a remedy schools. ' discuss State Mine Inspector Rotary Club is holding as a qhe Observer said it spoke to
for school desegregation, and Monsignor Donald Montrose Ward Padgett's allegation that project for the Chickasha High curren or former Bell Distriet lipfithor
some disagreed with alternative said the church will seek a another eastern Oklahoma high- School library . . Duane Meth- executives in Sey en states he
legislative remedies the White judicial review of the decision, way is about to collapse and a vin, waving to a friend who was gutessaid undreds of top- Fair and a little warmer today
House has suggested, claiming acceptance would give trucking magazine editor's walking down the street.. .C. A. Ve company executives con- and tomorrow, gust south winds,
Roland Jones, superinthdent ••the government a right to statement that tourists and Lewallen, taking care of some thU 6 an average of $50 to 12.22 mph Sunday high 86,
of schools in Charlotte-Mecklen- interfere and entangle itself in truckers are bypassing Ok- business downtown . . . Brenda 1 per month to the company- Sunday low 56 Monday high 89,
berg, N.C. told Ford "an end to the internal affairs of the lahoma for fear bridges are Doshier, in a telephone con- managed funds. . . Monday low 58 Temperature at
busing would result in resegre- church." unsafe. Carl Riley. Chickasha. An AT&T spokesman said the 1:00 86.
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cut two fence sto escape from bombing death of Bristow said. "We have been working to
the Oklahoma State Peniten- school teacher Fern Bolding, make more space to relieve
iary: th ■ ■ 1 j- . whose husband was to testify overcrowding, but we have to
The other six, including bomb against Brinlee in an auto theft do the renovation ourselves."
slayer Garland Rex Brinlee and trial. He said there were not
two other murderers, remained The other slayers who es- enough guards to closely
at large. □ , U caped Saturday night were supervise work crews all the
Police found Delbert Harmon cousins William Franklin, 33, time, and although he did not
Garmon, 38, walking in a and Edwin Jones, 29, serving consider the situation an alibi
residential area within a half- life for the 1971 shootings of he felt it was a factor in the
mile of the prison early today. Fountainhead State Park Supe- escape
Officers said he started to run rintendent Leo Newton and “It's one of several factors." Romh Rlast
but obeyed an order to halt and Highway Patrol Trooper Bill Maynard said. "I couldn't •-d9-
• did not resist arrest. He was Walker. blame any particular thing for Im:.rAc (na
unarmed. Authorities said too many allowing inmates to escape. If -IIJ—I ——3 IIC
Garmon was serving 15 years inmates and too few guards certain people had done certain 1oWEII Mass (UPI) — A
for a Blaine County robbery, were factors in the escape. things along the line it wouldn't custodian was injured and the
He also had served time in a Deputy Warden Gary May have occurred. wundovr "nd "urr the
federal prison for an 18-day nard said attempts were being "I‘s easy to look back and Woldi Superior Courthouse
crime spree through Texas and made to renovate a riot- say we should have had shattered by an bomb early
Oklahoma in 1965 in which he ravaged portion of "F cell- everyone locked in cells yester- sldy authorities said
took 26 hostages. block to help alleviate over- day and not allowed anyone to Lowell,
be out on work crews,' he said, who was opening the front one local resident suffering a
Brinlee was part of a crew doors of the building as the loss of $1,647.
assigned last week to work in a bomb went off shortly after 6
long, narrow utility tunnel, a.m., was lifted off his feet and the victim ofa daytime burglary
cutting the main steam line hurled backwards by the blast, sometime between five anil
from an old boiler Assistant City Manager Robert eight p.m. Saturday at her
Saturday night the escapees Gilman said. home. She reported several
wiggled 150 yards through the There were reports that a Hems missing, including a color
cramped tunnel to a point in an bomb threat had been made by TV, Sewing Machine, stereo, a
industrial area outside the telephone about midnight but set of diamond earrings, a
prison walls, then cut through police declined to confirm man's diamond ring, two piggy
wo cyclone fences to obtain them banks, and a man’s watch
tenreteedom... Osmond was taken 10 St Ray Bullock of 508 S. 5th also
ficials said the escapees Joseph’s Hospital where he was ( ailed police this morning when
ere considered dangerous and reported in good condition with a white male, who had been in
aw enforcement agencies a numtier of puncture wounds his home earlier that evening,
throughout the region had been of the body. took $35 from his wallet. The
Aned. , „ Police said the bomb was suspect has not yet been found
Another escapee, Delbert rigged to the front door and
Harmon Garmon Jr., 37, was pieces of an explosive device Sehocl Claims
serving a 15-year sentence for were found nearby. The explo-
robbery and had served time in sjOn also shattered the windows Due June 30th
federal prison for an 18-day of a church rectory across the
crime spree through Texas and street and rattled the windows
lahoma in 965 in which he of a nearby housing project,
took 20 hostages. -
The other escapees were
DENVER (UPI) Twenty- Flats workers; eight former counted later.
Rockwell International, which former Rocky Flats workers, The Senate vote is expected
operates the suburban Denver two former Hanford employes to be more conservative than
weapons plant, said there have and in the lone Mound employe, that for the chamber of
been at least 33 cancer deaths Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director Deputies, since only persons 25
Any firm or individual having among employes and retirees of the Public Citizen’s Health years of age and older were
a claim against the Chickasha since the plant opened in 1953. Research Group in Washington, allowed to vote for the Senate
Public School system must bill The figures were released in D.C., said he disagreed with the sssiinve
The bombing came two the school by Wednesday, June Sunday's editions of the Denver authors of the study. He said S-AME:
months after a powerful dyna- 23. Post which pointed to a report the 42 autopsies "reveal more LAKE Bl ENA VISTA, Ha.
mite bomb ripped through the According to state statutes, based on the autopsies of 42 than the usual amount of (U) - Susan Fordplummet-
second floor of the Suffolk the school district can not pay former plutonium workers cancer among plutonium wor- ed down a 260-foot water flume
County Courthouse in Boston, out of one fiscal year for ser- across the nation. That report kers." Sunday to officially open River
injuring 22 persons. vices or materials received the showed at least a third of those Wolfe said the autopsies Coun r 11 new attraction at
The state police bomb squad previous year. examined had died of cancer, revealed the cancer death rate "a Disney World.
and a demolition team from The fiscal year for Chickasha Or. W D. Norwood and C.E. among plutonium workers was 11 ls super, a ittle scary.
Fort Devens Army Base in Public Schools terminates June Newton, who conducted the 1.6 times greater than among Nu supen. Miss Ford said as
Ayer were called in to search 30. The board of education must study, warned against drawing the white male population. Mickey Mouse brought her a
the building as police blocked approve all claims before any link between cancer and Newton and Norwood coun- pienic uneh and she planted a
off Gorham Street to pedestrian payment can be made. plutonium. They said 42 autop- tered that not all members of kl“ „s nose.
and auto traffic, A special meeting for this sies were “too small a the general population had ", iVer J ountry attraction
_ purpose will be held at 7:30 p.m. number" to draw any conclu- undergone autopsies, and if WI be opened to the public
6 A Tuesday, June 29, in the board of sions. they had, their rate of cancer todaz I < overs about five
W C 3aW education offices, 900 Choctaw The study as based on the would have been higher, ac res and hasa cove ju tting off
autopsies of 33 former Rocky 1 the arge Bay Lake.
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