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VOL. LXXIX, NO. 141
28 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1968
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Glass flew into the living but he did
not see or hear:
who window of a northwest Okla-
backed the petition — said
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that in a flower bed beneath the
any time an act is to be done window, broke out the win-
or a paper filed and an office
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what he termed the serious
business of drafting the par-
ty’s 1968 policy document.
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GOP presidential nomination
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in a special Vietnam state-! And he joined Michigan's
ment submitted in his behalf Gov. George Romney, who
to Republican platform writ- has dropped out of the White
someone waiting at Rogers
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ernoon Thursday.
“The law provides
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headquarters office in Wash- Office Department.
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ting in his living room when
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after midnight.
He said eventually it would
mean a cutback to four-day
mail delivery.
Despite cries of blackmail,
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Business News
Classified Section
Comics
National Affairs
Oil Reports
Our World Today
Sports
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Women’s News
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not have been filed in the or-
dinary sense of the word.
Capitol observers expected
Republicans not only to ap-
pear with the petition within
the deadline, but to keep
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The nation’s small-
er steel producers began falling in line Thurs-
day behind a price hike parade started
Wednesday by the three biggest firms.
Despite sharp criticism from President
Johnson, the companies indicated the price
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Pittsburgh Steel, ranked 14th in produc-
tion, said it was increasing prices from $3 to
$10 a ton August 8 on all its products except
two types of pipe.
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a straight-party voting law.
Thursday is the last day
Republicans have to file the
petition, aimed at suspend-
ing a law banning straight-
ticket voting in Oklahoma
and Tulsa Counties.
No Reason Given
Without advance warning,
Rogers called the capitol
pressroom Thursday morn-
ling and announced his office
would be closed Thursday
and Friday.
He gave no reason for
closing the office, which nor-
mally is open until 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Anonymously, one of Rog-
ers' office employes report-
ed Rogers had threatened to
fire him if he showed up for
work Thursday.
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dow and a glass storm door
is closed, you have until the and knocked several eaves
girls who had, unfortunate-
ly, become pregnant, and
the parents of the mother
and the parents of the
father desired the immedi-
ate marriage of this teen-
age boy and girl.”
Young people from Tex-
as naturally wound up in
Durant, he said, because
“they did not care to have
their marriage publicized
in their local paper, so
room but missed Rushing,
police said.
Rushing told police he did
not see anyone after the ex-
plosion and did not hear any-
thing outside his home prior
to the blast.
A neighbor, Everett Turn-
er, 4229 NW 16 Terr., heard
the blast and called police.
for Gov. Bartlett
Durant Judge Sweats Out Courts Fint O—ter Trial
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"Marriage Mill9 Defended as Haven for Pregnat^t ^Teef^sy
“our full support" to the ad-
ministration s efforts for
peace through U S-North
Vietnamese talks at Paris.
would follow the lead of the big three — U. S.
Steel, Bethlehem and Republic, which raised
prices Wednesday only a day after United
Steelworkers union won its richest contract
ever.
Johnson called Bethlehem’s nearly 5 per-
cent across-the-board hike “unreasonable”
and said at a Washington news conference that
it “just should not be permitted to stand.”
Johnson made no mention of the earlier
price hike in U. S. Steel Corp. tin mill prod-
(See STEEL—Page 2)
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Progress Made in Detroit Strike
DETROIT (AP) — Publishers of Detroit’s two news-
papers Thursday reached tentative agreement on a new
contract with the mailers, (he only union still striking
the papers.
A ratification vote on the new contract has been
scheduled for Monday.
$12,000 Seized by Flashy Trio
BOSTON (AP) — Three “wildly attired” men with
snub-nosed revolvers took $12,000 from the Roslindale
Co-Operative Bank Thursday after leaving seven cus-
tomers and two employes handcuffed in the bank’s cel-
lar. No one was hurt in the robbery, police said.
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day mail deliveries and
curtail other service starting
this weekend.
The only postal 'functions
closed until next Monday, lieved the bombing might
obviously the petition would have been linked to a burgla-
ry hearing in which his wife.
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There is an old derrick sticking out of the water in I
Lake Hefner near the Portland Ave. arm I has smali 1
flasher lights on It, but it is stiu a to bealen. I
Could some better lights be installed an ft? e. B.
ington with 1,930 employes
and regional offices which
now have about 3,200 work-
ers. The department has
about 730,000 employes alto-
gether.
Postmaster General W.
Marvin Watson told congress
Ellen, was a prosecution wit-
ness.
Rushing, 45, a Leeway Mo-
tor Freight employe, told
detectives Mike Huckaby
Frank S. Taylor, water department director, says .
this tower was used in a water evaporation program and
take it over soon as a beacon tower and a large rvolyy- I
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is blocking the view of the interseetion and -erenihe a
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Local: Partly cloudy and
warmer with chance of
scattered thundershowers
through Friday. Overnight
low 68. High Friday 91.
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job Saturday well in advance
of next week s nominating
convention.
Advance indications were
that the Republican platform
will call for a smaller U. S.
role in the war, but will say
American forces should not
be pulled out without a satis-
factory settlement. It will
also bear down hard on
crime, call for new ap-
proaches to poverty prob-
lems and deplore deficit
budgets and inflation.
Romney told the platform
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in Claymont, Del., Phoenix Steel Corp.,
one of the industry’s smallest operations, said
it would increase the price of carbon steel
plate by $7 a ton, effective Saturday.
The price rise was necessary, a spokes-
man said, “to offset increased labor costs
provided for under the new union contract.”
Phoenix Steel, with sales of $58 million in
1967, also is studying possible price adjust-
ments for other "products, the spokesman said.
Other producers hinted strongly that they
By Hugh Hall
Democratic Secretary of
State John Rogers closed his
office Thursday in what
could be an attempt to
thwart filing of a Republican
referendum petition against
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an attempt would be made Thursday shattering glass
to file the petition at mid-aft-
A black powder bomb ex-
Tim Dowd, legal ofifcer ploded beneath a picture
ment painted Sharpe as a
money-hungry judge doing
a wholesale business in
'waivers of blood test and
waiting period laws.
Berry said Judge Sharpe
issued some 1,332 waivers
in a 2-year period j
“This became known in
the southeastern area of
Oklahoma and adjoining
areas in Texas.” Berry
said
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anything unusual before or
after the bomb, police said.
Mrs. Rushing was a prose-
cution witness June 10 in the
preliminary hearing of a
man charged with burglary.
Rushing told detectives he
and his wife received tele-
(See BOMBING—Page 2
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A desire to help preg-
nant teen-agers legitima-
tize their unborn children
led to “marriage mill”
charges against Bryan
County Judge Glenn J.
Sharpe, the state court on
the judiciary was told
Thursday.
That was -part of Judge
Sharpe’s defense as the
state’s first ouster trial
since creation of the new
Illinois. (hairman of the
platform committee which
opened hearings Monday,
announced the group would
buckle down in closed ses-
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Public Housing Zoning OK'd
A city planning commission approved by a 6-3 vote
Thursday zoning for a public housing project at SW 15
and Grand Blvd. The zoning, which has been hanging
fire for several months, must be approved by the city
council before it becomes effective.
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By Jim Standard
Stott Writer
MIAMI BEACH - Okla-
homa missed by one state
holding a dubious distinc-
tion at the Republican Na-
tional Convention at Mi-
ami Beach.
The Sooner delegation is
not the farthest away from
the convention hall.
Pennsylvania gets that
distinction. Oklahoma is
next, headquartered in the
Golden Gate Motel.
Oklahomans who re-
member plush wintertime
vacations to the Orange
Bowl may be in for a sur-
prise at Miami Beach in
the summertime
it’s not all palms and
white sand.
Palm-lined Collins Ave-
nue. running north and
south the length of Miami
Beach, can be more aptly
described as a sewer line
this summer.
Construction crews are
laying a large new sewer
pipe along Collins Avenue
and Oklahoma drivers will
have to dodge construction
workers, heavy equipment
and pipes if they hope to
drive to downtown Miami
Beach and the convention
site.
Even in nonrush hour
traffic, the trip can take 45
minutes from the Okla-
homa headquarters hotel.
The Golden Gate is north
of Miami Beach. In fact, it
(See 8OONERS—Page 2)
court opened at 10 a.m. in
the state supreme court
chambers.
Sharpe is accused of
loose handling of marriage
laws and money, plus oth-
er offenses under general
charges of gross neglect of
duty, corruption and op-
pression in office.
Howard K. Berry sr. of
Oklahoma City, prosecu-
tor, in his opening state-
this brick wall has now been removed.
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My son Is in Vietnam and he asa’t received an
mall in a month. Wo got his matt, but he never gets ours.
Mrs. R. R.
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We sought the assistance of U. S. Senator Mik* Mod-
roney, a member of the senate post office committee, j
and he has been in touch with Army-Air three I
Service requesting a epripler - .
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(See ACTION L
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The house sent to President
Johnson Thursday a bill ex-
empting most postal em-
ployes from the congression-
al order for a cutback in the
number of government
workers.
they came to Oklahoma.” had not violated the law,
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Sharpe had been told by a ‘ When he found ou;
previous county attorney it those in authority frowned
was legal to accept “gra- upon this practice, he dis-
tuities" for his inconveni- continued it, Johns said,
ence of being called upon Johns charged that "pol-
at his home late at night, itical animosity between
1 . ,. ’he district attorney and
He said Sharpe was told the county judge" led to
by the state attorney gen-
eral in July, 1967, that he (See JUDGE—Page 2
House race, in telling the sion Thursday afternoon to
“It was simple to go to of them from Durant, at-
Durant and see this man tended the trial in the
and obtain waivers to per- sweltering, closed-window
mit a quick marriage.” courtroom, which has no
He said he would present air conditioning and only
evidence that Sharpe cus- one electric fan.
tomarily received $10 for a Charles Hill Johns, chief
waiver and told applicants defense attorney, drew an
this was part of the court entirely different picture
fee — but that the judge of Judge Sharpe.
kept the money for him- Most of the waivers the
self. judge issued, Johns said,
About 50 persons, many involved “young teen-age
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writers at their final open
hearing that “if we only
vaguely generalize, pussy-
foot or mince words on the
Vietnam war issue, the
American people will not
turn to us for leadership, nor
will we deserve it."
The Michigan governor
said an enlargement of
South Vietnam’s role in
carrying out the war effort
should be accompanied by
“a positive program for
peace."
And the United States is
now making the mistake of
"proceeding unilaterally in
seeking peace just as we act-
ed unilaterally in taking ini-
tial military action,” he told
a packed hearing room.
Nixon, whose Vietnam
views were submitted in a
prepared statement rather
(See ESCALATION—Page 2)
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MIAMI BEACH. Ela. (API
— Richard M. Nixon called
Thursday for a dramatic
step-up in non-military ef-
forts to end the Vietnam war
“rather than further escala-
tion on the military front '
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next day the office is open,”
Dowd told newsmen.
“We are going to make a
formal attempt to file it with
the secretary of state by
going to his office and
knocking on his door with
the necessary papers in
hand."
Rogers’ surprise action
could put the referendum pe-
tition in a legal tail-spin
even before it could be at-
tacked as insufficient by
Democrats who oppose it.
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from the roof of the home of
James Clyde Rushing, 4226
NW 16 Terr.
Technical investigators
said residue samples of
black powder, cord, pieces
of metal and what appeared
to be packing in a bomb
were found in the flower bed
and on the wall of the home.
Detectives took the sam-
ples to the state crime bu-
reau laboratory for chemical
tests.
Rushing told police he be-
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