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nam’s threatened northwest
corner after repeated week-
end attacks by a force esti-
mated to number 600 North
Vietnamese.
Marine commanders said
the decision for the with-
drawal was made because of
the danger that the North
the presidential nomination,
but New York Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller has become
increasingly popular among
Republican voters, the Gal-
lup Poll reports.
In the sampling made in
November, Rockefeller was
the choice of 15 percent, but
the latest poll, reported Sun-
day, gives him 27 percent.
Nixon remained steady at 42
percent.
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major clash inside the cap-
ital since the 1953 Korean
armistice.
The fighting began when
the Communists, in civil-
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between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
I live on SE 51 between S High and 1-35. This street
has signs saying it has a load limit of 1%2 tons, but there
are a lot of heavy concrete mixer trucks that are using it
and they carry about 15 tons. They are getting the street
in terrible shape. Can you help us? G. E. H.
We contacted Maj. S. W. Stephens, police traffic di-
vision commander, about this and he got in touch with the
concrete company. As a result they have quit using this
route, the major says, a
Last June 12 we used our hospitalization insurance
out of state. They still haven’t paid our bills and we can
find no one who can help us at their office. Mrs. J. R. R.
Bob C. Lamirand, director of claims for the state in-
surance commissioner, got in touch with the insurance
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The Pentagon said it had no further infor-
mation on the accident at mid-morning. /
There was no immediate word from the
Air Force on whether the nuclear bombs
aboard the B-52 were lost, or if recovered, how
badly damaged the weapons were.
Nor was it clear whether the B-52 had
plunged through the ice.
The B-52s normally carry several hydro-
gen bombs and orbit the fringes of the North
American continent continuously to be within
close striking range of the Soviet Union in case
(See CRASH—Page 2)
LOOKING FOR FOOD, these hungry refugees from the western Sicilian town of
Salaparuta run after a truck. The truck had been emptied earlier and the chase
was in vain. The region was rocked last week by disastrous earthquakes. (AP
Wirephoto) ___
Oughta Be a Law
Credit Card Safeguards?
Have you received credit cards by mail without
requesting them? L. R. Wallis, 624 N Midwest Blvd.,
thinks there oughta be a law against such mailings.
Furthermore, he suggests a protective law under
which credit cards would carry both the holder’s pho-
to and signature, sealed in plastic, and become inval-
id if the seal were broken.
Do you have an inspiration for a new law? Send it
to Oughta Be a Law in care of this column before
February 29.
the address on the claim, Middleton, Penn., on August 31.
Because this check is still outstanding, they have stopped
Payment on it and are reissuing you another check for
$100, which will be sent to you at your Oklahoma City ad-
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during interrogation at po-
lice headquarters.
Three South Korean
army divisions and the 2nd
The delegations he refer-
red to were persons who
boost him for the congres-
sional seat and who have vis-
ited with him at Stillwater.
The former OSU president
said he does not believe he
has “enough time” left in his
lifetime to do the job he
would like to see done.
“Any kind of legislation
takes several years to get
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ATOM BOMBS ABOARD
Dr. Oliver Willham, for-
mer president of Oklahoma
state pardon and parole
board recommended clem-
ency Monday for James
Edward Skinner, the mur-
derer of Oklahoma City de-
tective Bennie F. Cravatt.
The board, which turned
down an earlier bid for
freedom by the 34-year-old
life termer, voted 3-1 for
him at Monday’s meeting.
Charles C. Chesnut of
grenades at four passenger
buses, killing three civil-
ians and injuring two oth-
ers. Two more civilians
were killed in subsequent
shootings.
Police quickly deployed
in the general area, killed
five Communists and cap-
tured one. Another Com-
munist who was captured
was killed when a grenade
he was carrying went off
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him “to cease and desist”
in bothering a young girl
who is a wan'd of the court.
“The girl’s mother and
the girl both came to me
and asked that I do some-
thing about the boy who
was calling the girl up at
all hours,” the judge said.
“So I wrote him the letter
telling him i) effect that he
was interlcing with a
ently, it wouldn’t be fair to
the people I would represent
for me to run,” Willham
said.
Willham, who will be 67 in
June, says he believes Okla-
homa needs a young con-
gressman.
But Willham said he did
not want to say no in the
press, because he intends to
speak further to delegations.
“I don’t want to say no to
the chance until we talk
South Vietnamese defenders
abandoned the town of Khe
Sanh under pressure of
North Vietnamese army reg-
ulars Monday and several
thousand civilians fled for
their lives.
About two doezn U. S. Ma-
rines and 40 South Viet-
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SEOUL (AP) — About 30
North Koreans invaded
Seoul Sunday night in a
bold attempt to break into
the presidential palace and
assassinate high govern-
ment officials. Six Reds
and six South Koreans
were killed by noon Mon-
day.
Police searched for more
than 20 North Koreans still
at large. It was the first
rounds fell.
Miami cast the only dis-
senting vote.
Clemency was favored
by board Chairman Frank
E. Carey jr., Oklahoma
City; Dr. Robert B. Tay-
lor, Okmulgee, and Robert
Lockwood, Tulsa. The fifth
member of the board, Rob-
ert L. Bailey of Norman,
was not present.
Skinner, who has served
13 years of his life sen-
namese militiamen
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counties and the city of Ui-
were being airlifted to Da
Nang on the coast.
The huge eight-engine
Stratofortresses struck four
times in 24 hours around the
big Khe Sanh base.
Poll Shows
Nixon Ahead
day he has been approached
to be a possible candidate for
the new Sixth congressional
district.
Willham said, however, he
will not likely be a candidate
because of his age.
Willham was attending the
opening session of the 71st
annual convention of the
American National Cattle-
men’s Association in the
Skirvin Hotel.
One of the speakers at the
Monday session was U. S.
Sen. Fred Harris, who Sun-
day joined Oklahoma’s
congressional delegation in
praising Willham as a poten-
tial candidate for the new
congressional seat.
State: Cloudy and cool
with rain or drizzle ending
Monday night. Clearing
and cool Tuesday. Over-
night low 35 northwest to
50 southeast. High Tuesday
mid-50’s to low 60’s. (De-
tails, Page 13.)
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
court order protecting the
girl.”
Jones wrote back that he
would rather meet the
judge in a duel than com-
municate by mail, Sharpe
said.
"I don’t care if she was
under the jurisdiction of
Mars and was protected by
laser beams, I love her
and I’m ready to fight for
her,” Jones wro.
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the Thule defense area, Greenland.
The Pentagon said the plane was attempt-
ing an emergency landing but there was no in-
dication as to the difficulty.
The five known survivors parachuted from
the plane. The craft was assigned to the 380th
Bomb Wing at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, N.
Y.
No civilian property was damaged, the
Pentagon said.
An air force investigating team from Stra-
tegic Air Command headquarters at Omaha,
Neb., was sent to Thule to probe the cause of
the accident.
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The post ’ office is experi-
menting with transparent,
self-sealing plastic to help it
re-wrap the estimated two
million packages which be-
come undone in the mails
each year.
The commanders added
that 3,000 marines based at
the Khe Sanh combat camp
two miles outside the town
were spread too thin to pro-
vide reinforcements.
After the weeknd attacks
in the Khe Sanh area, the
enemy let up Monday but
continued to lob mortar
rounds into U. S. and South
Vietnamese positions.
Waves of B-52 bombers
pounded suspected enemy
positions in the Khe Sanh
Valley area.
Khe Sahn is seven miles
2 after th
year-old love-sick Durant
boy, who was ready to
fight for the right to see
his girl, wound up instead
Monday in the Bryan
County jail on a charge of
indirect contempt of court.
Arland D. Jones chal-
lenged County Judge Glenn
J. Sharpe to a duel "with
and 16 miles south of the de-
militarized zone dividing the
two Vietnams.
U. S. officials said the
North Vietnamese were
striking from staging bases
in Communist-held territory
in Laos in hopes of scoring a
spectacular military victory
for propaganda purposes.
Associated Press corres-
pondent Robert D. Ohman
reported from Khe Sanh resi-
dents of the town were
streaming into the marine
combat camp in the valley
with their pots, pans and
bundles of belongings.
They were forced to dive
into trenches on several oc-
"a
The judge received
Jones’ letter Monday and
noted that it had an "im-
mediate reply” requested.
Sharpe obliged by dis-
patching a deputy sheriff
who promptly returned
with Jones.
Jones was arraigned on
a charge on Indirect con-
tempt and he was jailed in
lieu of $1,000 bond.
chief prosecutor in the 1954
case.
The two officials call the
slaying "one of the most
cold-blooded killings in
Oklahoma County histo-
ry.”
Herbie Franklin Farris
was executived for his part
in the Cravatt slaying. A
third man, Raymond
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The state supreme court
was urged Monday to
knock out its own “ugly”
rule of law and deny a $6,-
000 pay raise for Lt. Gov.
George Nigh.
Attorney General G. T.
Blankenship told the court
the state constitution
means just what it says,
that “in no case” may an
official’s pay be increased
during his term in office.
The 1967 legislature
passed an act making Nigh
chairman of the state in-
dustrial development and
parks commission and giv-
ing him $6,000 more pay
for it. Previously, he was a
member by law.
Blankenship’s brief in
Nigh’s effort to collect the
$6,000 said the only legal
basis for approving it is
the court’s own "rule of
law which reared its ugly
head” years ago.
That rule permitted pay
raises during an officer’s
term if extra and different
An 18-
east of the Laotian border State University, said Mon-
who prepared Monday’s
brief.
The brief told the court
that none of the cases cited
in its original departure
from the no-pay-raise ban
came from a state which
had a constitutional prohi-
bition "such as our far-
reaching Article 23, Sec-
tion 10, provision which in
crystal clear terms says
‘In no case shall the salary
or emoluments of any
public official be changed
. . . during his term of of-
fice."
"When the framers of
the constitution said ‘in no
case,’ they meant that ‘in
no cas‛ means ‘in no
case,’ ” the brief told the
court.
Even if the court refuses
to knock down its rule,
then Nigh is barred from
the pay raise because the
added duty of chairman-
ship where before he was
only a member is not a
non-germane job, the brief
argued.
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The refugees less I am convinced differ-
U. S. Infantry Division
guarding the western sec-
tor of the Korean front
were alerted to help hunt
the Communists in moun-
tainous areas north of
Seoul.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew
wap proclaimed in three
tence, was one of three
men convicted for the slay-
ing of the Oklahoma City
detective during a super-
market robbery in 1954.
A strong protest against
clemency was registered
with the board by District
Attorney Curtis Harris of
Oklahoma City and Gran-
ville Scanland, an assist-
ant to Harris who was
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jongbu, north of Seoul, to
help block escape routes.
Seoul’s midnight-to-4 a.m.
curfew was extended two
hours to start at 10 p.m.
U. S. Army helicopters
were mobilized to help the
search.
A joint anti-espionage
operations headquarters
(See PLOT—Page 2)
pulled Vietnamese could overrun
Oklahoma skies may have
been dark Monday, but
farmers’ dispositions were
sunny as a million-dollar
rain soaked into Sooner soil.
Starting during the night,
the rain measured an inch or
less in most places by 8 a.m.
The weather bureau said al-
though the moisture will end
by Monday night, the accu-
mulation has been a boon to
state farmlands.
“It’s hard to say what the
rain is worth, but we could
call it a million-dollar rain,”
said Jeunes Ballinger, presi-
dent of the Oklahoma Board
of Agriculture.
Ballinger said this is the
time of year when Oklahoma
hopes to get subsoil mois-
ture, "which is badly needed
in all of the wheat area.”
Amounts Vary
He said western Oklahoma
remains below average in
rainfall although the eastern
portion is rated above aver-
age.
Stations reporting mea-
surable rainfall Monday in-
clude Fort Sill, .49; Duncan,
.60; Hobart, .25; McAlester,
25; Clinton, .28; Okarche,
Barnsdall and Paden, .20;
Gage, .16, and Enid, .03.
Vinson, in extreme south-
western Oklahoma, reported
.90 inch; Hugo, .77; Chatta-
nooga, .38; Erick, .58; Ran-
dlett, .47, and Willow, .55.
Skies to Clear
Oklahoma City’s Will Rog-
ers World Airport measured
20 inch and Tinker Air
Force Base recorded .04.
Forecasters said j
Tuesday’s outlook is tor ,
clearing skies and tempera- •
tures from the mid 50s to the
low 60s after overnight lows
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duties were imposed upon
him. He could not get a
raise for doing the same,
or germane, duties for
which he was elected, but
could for non-germane as-
signments.
"We urge the court to
re-examine the germane,
non-germane rule in light
of our constitutional provi-
sions and, we believe, the
court will then agree with
our position that it should
overrule its older cases
and follow the clear and
unequivocal language of
the Oklahoma constitu-
tion,” wrote Brian H. Upp,
Blankenship’s assistant
ian garb, fatally
machine-gunned Police
Chief Choi Kyoo-shik when
he challenged them less
than a mile from the man-
sion of President Chung
Hee Park.
The Reds then hurled
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A B-52 strato-
fortress carrying nuclear bombs crashed in
Greenland Sunday, the Pentgon announced
Monday.
A defense department statement said the
atomic devices were unarmed “so that there is
no danger of a nuclear explosion at the crash
site.”
Seven crewmen were aboard the air force
B-52, and five are known to have survived. One
body has been found and search and rescue op-
erations are under way for the seventh.
The Pentagon said the plane crashed about
3:40 p.m. Sunday on the ice of North Star Bay
some seven miles southwest of the runway at
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