Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 203, Ed. 2 Saturday, October 12, 1968 Page: 1 of 5
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holding it.
While upholding internal
Invaded and Czechoslovaks
demanded they get out.
las, Tarrant and Denton
counties. The she. of-
fice arrested most of the
others, all from the same
area, Bertler said.
"There w e r e n’t very
many students arrested at
all,” Bertler said. "Most
of the arrests were of mi-
nors, some of whom had
the folks in his hometown.
But Chris wanted none
of that and by his own ad-
mission became a naviga-
tor when he was 14.
But Chris was stubborn
and kept trying to peddle
his idea of reaching the
east side of the world by
sailing west. Most folks,
who figured the earth was
flat, thought he was a nut.
He tried to borrow a few
a? .• hrl t H r ' <
Showers
of Commerce and Akard
streets, annually the scene
of some of the wildest cele-
brating.
The police force, using
eight paddy wagons, kept
revelers flowing to jails
faster than they could be
booked.
The old county jail was
(See DALLAS—Page 2)
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warm through Sunday
with chance of widely scat-
tered showers north por-
tion through Saturday.
Overnight lows 53 north-
west to 68 south. Highs
Sunday 76 central and east
to 88 northwest. (Details,
Page 8.)
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
By Bob MeMillin
In 1492, Columbus sailed
the ocean blue — miles
and miles of it. He did so
for 70 days, without an up-
to-date road map or hav-
EMa
What’s Inside
Mostly cloudy skies and
mild temperatures will pre-
vail in Oklahoma this week-
end, the weatherman pre-
dicts.
Forecasters said there is a
slight chance for scattered
showers in the northern part
of the sate.
Light showers skipped
through that area overnight,
but rainfall amounts were
.10 inch or less.
Sunday's temperatures are
expected to range from the
upper 70’s in the south and
central regions to 88 in the
Panhandle after overnight
lows of 53 in the north to 68
in the south.
Oklahoma City’s forecast
is for partly cloudy skies and
a slight chance of showers
through Sunday.
were friendly. Then they
found out the merchandise
he was using to trade them
out of their real estate was
pretty shoddy.
After that they were not
so friendly and Chris got
reported to the Better Bus-
iness Bureau.
But on this October 12,
476 years later, we might
all pause a moment to give
thanks — or otherwise —
that old Chris made the
trip.
However, when we look
around and note what has
happened to the New
World in the past 476 years
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control the on-board heat rival at a Caney hospital:
and mission control said it Her husband died several
Maybe something like
the Detroit Tigers? f
The best history availa-
ble says be Vas born in
Genoa on this day in 1451.
SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON (AP) — Apollo 7 com-
mander Walter M. Schirra jr. awoke Saturday to find his
spacecraft with several small, but irritating problems.
Schirra and civilian astronaut Walter Cunningham had
gone to sleep around 2 a.m. Oklahoma time, leaving air
force Maj. Donn F. Eisele awake to monitor the systems.
Eisele reported during his watch the temporary failure
of an electrical circuit and the inability of the inertial
I measuring unit — a sort of directional speedometer — to
align itself.
The problems were not considered serious enough to
end the planned 11-day mission or to cancel the rendezvous
exercise planned later in the day. The astronauts also
were to make their debut on space television.
2 Raiders Killed
SEOUL (AP) — A South
Korean army patrol report-
ed killing two North Korean
raiders in a brief firefight
Friday.
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have stayed in Genoa and
made threads for the Gen-
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booth.
Now, folks complain if
they can’t drive from the
south end of the Broadway
Extension downtown with-
out having to stop for a
signal light at NW 23 and
Robinson.
All in all, Old Chris was
quite a sailor, or else he
was the luckiest cuss in
town.
PLAGUE APOLLO 7
BULLETIN
NORMAN — A multi-
million dollar U. S. Post
Office Department train-
ing program will be oper-
ated through the Universi-
ty of Oklahoma’s College
for Continuing Education,
it was announced Satur-
day morning by Dr. J. Her-
bert Hollomon, OU presi-
dent.
much controversy over se- hockey, rowing, volleyball
lecting Mexico City with and soccer. Weightlifting,
hours later.
Officers said the car was
equipped with seat belts, but
they were not in use.
So far this year, 623 per-
sons have been killed on
Oklahoma streets and high-
ways, compared with 704 in
1967.
Ing to come up with man who made threads for
change for the toll road
went out of control, and
landed in a Creek bed, troop-
er Bill Dunlap said.
Mrs. Dean was dead on ar
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trict organizations, the pa-
per said.
Although responsible to
the party, Czechoslovakia’s
press and radio have not
made public a single petition
or resolution backing last
’ PRAGUE (AP) - Wide-
spread workers’ demands
for Soviet occupation troops
to leave Czechoslovakia
were reported Saturday aft-
er Communist Party chief
Alexander Dubcek had
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attended our state fair.”
Bertler said Dallas busi-
nessmen had urged strong-
er police protection to
avoid last year’s property
damages. He said property
damage was slight as com-
pared to 1967’s annual
classic on the streets.
Both Bertler and a Dal-
las newsman reported no
disturbances at the rally of
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nation’s Central Trade Union
Council "is receiving at
present resolutions whose
contents and salient ques-
Prace said a new element
of the resolutions is that they
also object to “false infor-
mation provided by the
press and communications
media of the Warsaw Pact
(Soviet bloc) countries.”
The resolutions are flow-
reforms launched last Janu-
ary as the only course for
Czechoslovakia, Dubcek de-
voted the major part of a
speech Friday to the need
for full coordination of rela-
tions and ideology with the
Soviet Union and four other
Warsaw Pact nations which
invaded this country in Au-
gust.
The popular party leader
said:
"As Communists, interna-
tionalists, we cannot proceed
differently than to formulate
a policy in the strategic aim
of all-around cooperation
with the U. S. S. R. and the
other socialist countries. It
is obvious that people with
(See CZECHS—Page 2)
urged citizens to accept Mos- ____ ________________
cow’s view of the world and ing in from factory and dis-
be patient instead of protest-
ing.
The Trade Union Daily —
Prace Work — reported the
modern pentathlon, boxing
and tennis also are sched-
uled.
The U. S. basketball
team, which has never lost
in 66 games during Olym-
pic competition, opens
against Spain while the U.
S. volleyball squad takes
on Japan.
Striking students from
the University of Mexico
and the National Polytech-
nic Institute said they
would not stage any public
demonstrations that might
endanger peaceful conduct
of the games.
A •
week’s agreement with the
tions are identical with those Soviets to sign a troop-sta-
received after the 21st of Au- tioning treaty or the Czecho-
"et" — hen e—it *----Slovak party declaration up-
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Alva Man’s I
MEYPIWN? BOrwHOJA
MY NAME KA BY BACK
IF YOU
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Even in Columbus ‘ Time Taxpayer Footed the Bill
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miles northeast of the Spe-
cial Forces camp in jungled
foothills 27 miles southwest
of Da Nang.
Surprise Sought i
The enemy force, of un- D--,
known size, apparently tried L UTIUITLCI/
to take advantage of pre-
dawn darkness and overcast PANAMA (AP) _ A mili-
skies that hampered U. S.. _,, .. ..
jet fighter-bombers in strik-tary coup overthrew the 11-
ing back. ' day-old government of Presi-
A U. S. spokesman said dent Arnulfo Arias Friday
the enemy troops attacked night and rebel leaders con-
with machine guns and solidated their hold on the
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The way things are to- pecting taxpayers and
day, this seems a lot more some borrowed money,
logical. Government trips still
Although Lyndon is load- are financed like that.
ed with Texas cash, it History books tells us he
doesn’t seem likely he finally sighted land on Oct.
would dip into his own till 12, 1492, after floundering
to finance the proposed out in the Atlantic since
flight to the moon. August 3.
Another bit of history is It was a rough trip and
that Columbus did put in the sailors got a little
500,000 Maravedis to help peeved at their skipper be-
pick up the tab. but that he cause he didn't seem to
borrowed the money from know just where it was he
a ship builder named Mar- was going, or what he was
tin Alonso Pinzon. going to do after he got
Anyway, it seems appar- there.
ent that the trip was really But he did get there and
financed by some unsus- for a while the natives
MEXICO CITY (AP) —
The 19th Olympic Games
opened Saturday with the
usual pomp and circum-
stances as an army of sol-
diers and police stood by
to keep the peace.
The opening ceremonies
included the march in of
124 teams, largest ever to
compete in the games; the
release of 6,200 doves, and
the lighting of the Olympic
torch for the first time by
a girl, Enriqueta Basilio
Sotelo of Mexico.
Finally dispelled were
(
SAIGON (AP) — North Vi-
etnamese troops attacked U.
S. marines in bivouac Satur-
day near the embattled
Thuong Duc Green Beret
camp but were beaten back
within 100 yards of the
Leathernecks' defensive
lines.
The enemy troops lost 31
dead in 3%2 hours of fighting,
the U. S. Command said, but
killed 8 marines and wound-
ed 20.
The fight raged three
-
The wildest night in Dal-
las — the night before the
OU-Texas game — erupted
into an all-time arrest re-
cord Friday night, with 653
persons being collared by
authorities.
But Oklahomans can be
proud, a Dallas police de-
partment spokesman said,
because few of those ar-
rested were Sooner8.
Texas law enforcement
agencies turned out the
biggest force ever to pa-
trol downtown Dallas —
some 1,025 city, county
and state officers.
The 653 persons were ar-
rested between the hours
of 4 p.m. Friday and 4
a.m. Saturday, most of
them for drunkenness and
fighting.
Most of those jailed were
from Dallas, Tarrant and
Denton Counties, an offi-
cer said.
Last year, 466 revelers
were arrested.
Lt. George Bertler, jail
supervisor at the Dallas
jail, said: “All in all we
haven’t had too much trou-
ble from Oklahoma people
down here. Most of the
trouble came from local
willy heads who used the
football celebration as an
excuse to let off steam.”
Bertler said Friday
night and Saturday morn-
ing were “generally quiet-
er” than in times past.
Included in the police
contingent were 500 Dallas
police, 350 police reserves,
the Dallas County sheriff’s
office and some Texas
Highway Patrol officers.
Some 370 arrests by Dal-
las police came from Dal-
k
SZKiS he nor his brother
the bulk of the enemy force was deputy chief of the nyanose. ..
' Earlier, the spacemen re-
(See WAR—Page 2) 1 (See PANAMA—Page 2) | ported the primary environ-
mental control system,
which keeps the crew from
freezing or frying in the tem-
perature extremes of space,
was freezing outside the
spacecraft. The pilots cut to
the space radiator system to
rumors that the games its 1%-mile altitude for the
might be canceled by the Games.
recent Mexican Student Track competition be-
riot. that resulted in at ginsSunday.with.trials in
. j - the men s 100-meter dash,
least 50 deaths. the shot put, the 400-meter
And before that the hurdles, the 800-meter run
games, in which Mexico and the women’s javelin
has invested $150 million, and long jump. The only fl-
were threatened by a 30- nal will be the 10,000-meter
nation boycott over the ad- run.
mission of a team from se- The first day of actual
gregated South Africa. competition in the two-
U. S. Negro athletes also week-long games also
threatened to boycott the starts the team sport com-
games and there was p • t i 11 o n in basketball,
saw or heard the car before
the accident. Mrs. Green- _
wood said she did not see the
men until it was too late.
The Kansas couple was fa-
tally injured when Dean’s
car missed a curve on US-75, E
bucks from the King of Chris three ships — the
Portugual to make the Nina, Pinta and Santa
trip, but this old gent kept Maria.
his hand on his wallet. But, says the Encyclope- )
Finally, Columbus dia Britannica, this part of
wound up in Spain trying the story is pure hokum,
to put the bite on Kig Isabella did not put the
Ferdinand and Queen Isa- arm on the loan company
bella. to help Chris raise the
The popular story is that dough; we just all like to
Ferdinand would have no think that she was instru-
p a r t of his get rich mental in helping him get
scheme. his hands on the loot.
That is when, according The real story seems to
to school boy history, Isa- be that Isabella and Ferdi-
bella took her jewelery nand did put up 1,000,000
down to the Friendly Fl- Maravedis worth of tax-
nance Co. and hocked payers’ dough to finance
them for enough to buy old the deal.
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VOL. LXXIX, NO. 203 18 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1968 Ten Cents (Single Copy Price) LATE STREET
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Clearing the streets, police try to keep Oklahoma- Commerce and Akard in downtown Dallas Friday
Texas football crowds on the sidewalks at the corner of night. (Staff Photo by Bob Albright)
Eisele told mission control
during the early morning
hours that an electrical cir-
cuit failed. He said he turned
off the warning light and the
system continued to operate. I uv t ii mV y
Instrument Works Walk Ends I
The air force major also
reported he could not align T m 1
the inertial instrument In eat h
small arms and did not usecountry Saturday by naming I which measures the direc-
mortars to cover their as- a two-man junta. tion and degree of velicity garymomnn0 walk I
29010 +L0i 4. a A-c . change. Mission control or- An eany-morning w a i K I
saultas they often do. Arias, 67, vowing to re- dered a short burn of reac- proved fatal Saturday fora I
They were trying to turn, took refuge in the U. ton control thrusters to de- 20-year-old Alva man and a I
achieve surprise,” he said s.-controlled Canal Xine if Kan., couple died I
They tried to sneak up and with most of his cabinet min- termith devimepsr bekS Friday night in an accident I
got cpught" w !ST- It was the third time properiy ded in anbn near Copan, the highway pa-
Planes Give Support in three decades he had been P j I . trol reported
The marines fought back deposed by the national board computer. •
with small arms and ma- guard Panama’s army Later, mission control said -ne..cumhs:
chine guns, and artillery Lt. Col. Omar Torrijos the burn proved the inertia! .DAHIEL RAYMOND COL- I
units opened up on the identified himself and Maj instrumen worked well -ns,.
charging North Vietnamese Boris Martinez, commander. Eisele also had a continu- HUBERT B. DEAN, 63, I
troops. Some American of the Chiriqui Province mil-ing problem with a harness Caney, Kan. ■
fighter-bombers were able to itary zone, as coup leaders of biomedical instruments KITTY E. DEAN, 61, his I
streak in to support the ma-orris accused Arias of which measure his heart- wife.
rines but the poor visibllltiy . . . .. 1 beat, respiration and other Ij qg,, g.
a .__t-l planning a dictatorship. . . ’ 1 P; . „ Investigating officers said
prevented saturation strikes r data. Mission controllers re-le,iing Hie W+Le P"L1 9
of the enemy positions. Heading the new two-man ported that the biomedical Collins andh is brother, Rob-
. ----- Air force World War II junta isCol -Bolivar Urrutia, Signais from Esele had been erttJoe, 18, were walking
nominees Richard Nixon, t w i n - e n g l n e c-47 cargo named by Arias only Thurs- cutting out. down / east “ AlVA
-------------- - • planes converted into gun-day to head the national ShirFaKassnirrles abnutlamawhentheacch
shipszalsoeattackedumithrap- communique that had re- Before he went to sleep, The victim was struck by I
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Marines sweeping the bat- Torrijos told a reporter L"1 advised him to take a wood, 25, Cherokee, officer. ,g
tiefield at daybreak Satur- U r ru 11 a and the second decongest nt," Dr. Joh nz e- • i
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