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Digging against a sundown deadline, archaeolo-
gists seek evidences of early man in the California
desert. (AP Wirephoto)
churned over the southern
end of the Texas Panhan-
dle Thursday night east of
Lubbock. A funnel cloud
passed within sight of the
SOMETHING TO WOLF ABOUT will be a series of
proposed new canine quarters, pictured above, at
Oklahoma City’s Lincoln Park Zoo — and this time,
now near the end of their
third week of discussions,
and all they have been able
to agree on so far is when to
meet and when to adjourn.
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South Vietnamese bombers plastered Viet Cong
troops trying to push into the city from the northeast.
Aerial observers estimated the strikes killed as many as
200 enemy troops.
More serious than the guerrilla surge from the
northeast, however, was the infiltration of small squads
of Viet Cong into Cholon, the Chinese quarter in Saigon’s
western sector.
From the central highlands came reports that ene-
my troops had hauled 100mm Soviet-made artillery down
the Ho Chi Minh trail into Laos and Cambodia, and were
blasting allied bases from a range of possibly 13 miles.
ly Friday in suburban Gia Dinh, and they moved in tanks
to block the guerrillas' exits.
In a news conference Friday the second-highest Vici
Cong ever to defect, Col. Phan Mau, 38, said the Commu-
nist strategy was to keep up attacks on South Viet-
namese cities to improve the bargaining position in Par-
is cease-fire talks.
SAIGON (AP) — Viet Cong troops pressed hard on
two sides of Saigon Friday in a new outburst of fighting
in the capital. Other enemy forces trained big Russian
guns on allied bases in the central highlands.
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operations against the North
without reciprocity.
U. S. Ambassador W. Av-
erell Harriman made a new
appeal to Thuy to take a dif-
Frightened refugees streamed from their homes
through a hail of crossfire.
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Need help? Write to Oklahoma City Times, P. O.
Box 25125, Oklahoma City 73125 or telephone CE 2-3311
between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday
and ask for “Action Line.”
I am in the army stationed at Fort Sill and my legal
voting residence is in Booneville,, Ark. My wife is from
Tulsa, but hasn’t lived there in seven years. We have
had temporary residences in both Arkansas and Oklaho-
ma, and I have been told that I can vote by absentee bal-
lot in my old hometown. They say my wife must live in
the precinct 30 days, the county six months and the state
a year to be able to vote and she does not meet all these
requirements. What is the answer? J. L. P., Lawton.
Basil R. Wilson, state election board secretary, says
that under Oklahoma law, a wife can assume her hus-
band’s residential status and if the law in Arkansas is
similar, she should be able to vote by absentee ballot in
Booneville where you have your voting residence.
He says, however, if this cannot be done, there are
several possibilities under Oklahoma law — too numer-
ous to mention. If you will send Wilson your telephone
number in Lawton, he will contact you and help you
solve your problem. His office is in the state capitol.
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We have been having a lot of trouble with Internal
Revenue Service about our 1964 income tax. On Dec. 1,
1967, they told us we owed $954.86 more, but our auditor
did not agree with them. Then they came back and said
it was 1173.15, but our auditor still does not agree. He
says we do not owe any more taxes at all. Will you try
and see what this is all about? Mr. and Mrs. V. H. A.
Clyde L. Bickerstaff, district director of Internal
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PARIS (AP) — U. S. and
North Vietnamese negotia-
tors clashed Friday over
ways of de-escalating the
war in Vietnam but failed
again to make any progress
toward breaking their dead-
lock.
North Vietnamese Ambas-
sador Xuan Thuy rejected
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leaders worked out an
agreement with Pompidou
and industry chiefs early
Monday that called for a
10 percent wage increase
during the year and other
benefits.
But the workers, who
had started the massive
strikes without any call
from the top, refused to
accept the settlement.
They wanted more money
and other concessions.
The Socialist Workers
Force published a commu- 4
nique saying it hoped “the
talks will go ahead active-
ly in the sectors where
they are started, and that
Animals Increase
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The agrioulture department
says world hog and cattle
numbers are increasing.
By The Associated Press
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butcher and a 47-year-old
Argentinian businessman
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The weatherman said
overnight temperatures in
Oklahoma will reach 52,
The state high Saturday is
expected to be in the mid-
90’s.
coming the first transplant the patients are alive,
recipients in their coun- Twenty-one surgeons at
tries.                        the Montrea Heart Insti-
The. new operations  tute plaeed the heart of
brought the number of  Mrs Gerard Rondeau. a
YERMO, Calif. (AP) — Deep in the barren Mo-
jave Desert, archaeologists think they’ve found the
earliest evidence of man in the western hemisphere.
Now, the painstaking task of proving their find
faces a deadline — sundown Friday.
The work at the diggings in the Calico Mountains,
10 miles east of Barstow, halted when Glen S. Gunn,
a miner holding claims to the federally-owned prop-
erty, ordered the scientists off.
Gunn values his claims at $25 million and has of-
fered them to the scientists for that sum.
But the archaeologists say they'll resist his de-
mand for them to leave the land.
“We’ve moved all specimens, all notes and rec-
ords just in case we should have to grab our hats and
run,” said Ruth Simpson, expedition director. “But
our plan is to stay on at the site despite Mr. Gunn’s
ultimatum.”
Their belief that stone-age relics have been found
at the site, some 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles,
(See SCIENCE—Page 2)
night in a massive demon-
stration in his behalf.
It was too early to tell
the ultimate outcome, but
lines were drawn after two
weeks of chaos and ten-
sions appeared eased.
The 77-year-old chief of
state, rejecting leftist calls
for his resignation, had
said Thursday he would
remain in office to combat
an attempt by “totalitari-
an communism" to take
over the strikebound na-
tion.
Georges Pompidou, his
executive officer as head
of the government, stayed
on in the premiership.
ferent tack and told him
President Johnson is pre-
pared “to go far and fast” in
a common search for peace.
U. S. officials say private-
ly that they hope the im-
passe can be broken eventu-
ally. And while the North
Vietnamese are saying the
United States would be to
blame for any future failure
action to curb the conflict.
He said the United States
is the “aggressor" in Viet-
nam and must end the
Everyone seemed to be
waiting for the next move.
Georges Seguy, secre-
tary-general of the Com-
munist-led General Con-
federation of Labor, told a
news conference he was
not opposed to restarting
negotiations if government
and industrial leaders
showed signs of making
satisfactory concessions.
No mention was made of
any political conditions —
disappearance of the De
Gaulle regime — that had
become more and more in-
sistent in union statements
in recent days.
Seguy and other labor
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Attorney General G. T.
Blankenship has been asked
to rule on legality of the so-
called “pork barrel” bill, giv-
ing $32,250 of state revenue
to 31 civic celebrations
across the state, it was
learned Friday.
The question was raised
several weeks ago, and the
official request for an opin-
ion came from Bob Breeden,
state industrial development
and park director.
“Are such special appro-
priations legal . . . and may
this department legally ex-
pend funds pursuant to this
appropriation?” Breeden
asked Blankenship.
Legality Questioned
The celebrations — rang-
ing from food festvals to
snake hunts — were written
into $4.3 million appropria-
tion the legislature made
this year for Breeden’s de-
partment.
Constitutionality of the ap-
propriation was questioned
on the basis of a 1946 state
supreme court ruling knock-
ing out a similar appropria-
tion.
In that case the court
wrote that public funds can-
not be granted to private or-
ganizations promoting var-
ious events, even though the
activities might be of great
public interest.
No Private Deals
The court wrote that state
revenue must be expended
by state officers or em-
ployes, not by private organ-
izations.
The matter was called to
Gov. Bartlett’s attention two
weeks before he signed the
big appropriation bill. How-
ever, he did not have time to
seek Blankenship’s opinion
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High Saturday in mid-90's.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)
— The FBI questioned and
later released a man Thurs-
day after he told a Southern
Airways stewardess he
thought a bomb was aboard
the plane he was on.
Agents said the man ap-
parently was serious in his
suspicion and that no hoax
was believed involved.
Thundershowers will
usher in the first day of
June, the weatherman said
Friday.
The forecast came on
the heels of thunderstorms
that boomed across the
state, bringing good rain-
fall and scattered hail.
A severe thunderstorm
watch for north central
and a tornado watch for
the south central expired
at dawn Friday.
But, the weatherman
said, rain will continue to
fall in all sections through
arly Saturday. Cooler
temperatures are also ex-
pected.
Clouds sprayed slight
rainfall in the past 24
hours, with Ardmore re-
porting the largest
amount, .62 inches.
Oklahoma City recorded
47 inches of rain by early
Friday. Other amounts in-
cluded .28 at Fort Sill, .56
at Hobart, .40 at Clinton
and .27 at Altus.
Oklahoma City rainfall
is 3.29 inches above the
normal for the period from
January 1. The normal
rainfall from January 1 is
12.73 inches and Oklahoma
City has thus far recorded
16.02 inches.
Although hail was re-
they should be started
again where they have
been interrupted.”
The union said it was
against all street demon-
strations which, “in the
present conditions, could
only aggravate the situa-
tion.”
Some Mail Moving
Yves Guena, minister of
posts and telecommunica-
tions, asked postal work-
ers to get back to their
jobs and some were re-
ported heeding the appeal.
’ In Angouleme, mail was
delivered for the first time
in two weeks.
Reports of a back-to-
work movement came
from a number of small
plants across the country.
But in the big plants
there was no change.
Strikers at the Boulogne-
Billancourt factory of the
nationalized Renault auto-
mo b i l e works, for in-
stance, decided to stay out
and blasted De Gaulle’s
tough-line speech.
Talks Broken Off
The government and in-
dustrialists have shown no
inclination to try another
bargaining • session with
the unions.
Government talks with
civil servants and state-
run services such as gas-
electricity and the Paris
transportation system
have been broken off.
Pompidou worked Fri-
day putting together a new
cabinet.
Former Premier Edgar
Faure said he had been
asked to remain at the
Ministry of Agriculture,
and “I did not think I
could refuse.”
In dissolving the Nation-
al Assembly De Gaulle
said new elections would
be held if there was no at-
tempt at interference.
Seguy said the General
Confederation of Labor,
Frace’s biggest union or-
ganization, would not in
any way hamper the elec-
tions.
Seguy is a member of
(See FRENCH—Page 2)
into the chest of Albert
Murphy, who had suffered
three strokes since 1959.
Dr Paul David, the in-
stitutel director, said the
heart was beating at a
“satisfying rhythm” and
that he was optimistic for
the success of the opera-
tion performed by Dr.
Pierre Grondin, the insti-
tute’s chief surgeon.
Mrs. Rondeau’s kidneys
were also removed for use
in a possible transplant
later Friday, a hospital
spokesman said.
In Buenos Aires, about
50 physicians participated
in transplanting the heart
of Emilio Tomasetti, 54, a
union official, who died of
a stroke three hours before
the graft, into Antonio En-
rique Serrano.
Dr. Miguel Bellizzi, 42,
headed the team at Clinica
Modelo, a small private
hospital on the city’s out-
skirts. He had studied in
the United States.
The physician told the
patient’s 21-year-old son,
Hugo, that “all is going
well for the moment.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Leaders of the Commercial •
Telegraphers Union, AFL-
CIO, Friday ordered a strike
against Western Union to be-
gin at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) Sat-
urday.
“I don’t think they’re
going to operate very
much,” said union president
E. L. Hageman. “We went
on strike in 1966 for two days
and they didn’t send very
many telegrams.”
Hageman said the union’s
national negotiating board
voted to call the walkout to
coincide with the expiration
of the current contract after
they examined the compa-
ny’s latest offer Thursday
night and found it “insuffi-
cient.”
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PARIS (AP) — Presi-
dent Charles de Gaulle’s
firm stand in the French
strike crisis stirred up a
modest back - to - work
movement Friday. And un-
ion leaders said they were
ready to reopen talks on
wage hikes for still idle
millions.
De Gaulle’s appeal for
support, coupled with his
dissolution of the National
Assembly and institution
of temporary monetary
controls to protect the
value of the franc, sent
hundreds of thousands of
Frenchmen marching
through ■ Paris Thursday