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THIRTY-SIX PAGES—500 NBROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1958
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Fund ‘Raid’
PayRollIs
Protested
12 Months of School
Air Traffic
FBI Calls Off
2 % Hours Search; I
Crank Blamed
college of Emporia, speak-
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five-man teams of draegermen-
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On Strike
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pay roll claim with Smith's and
Soldier Dies
In Car Crash
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Tinker Helps With $101,637
United Fund Passes
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Second biggest chunk recorded
on SH 19, 6% miles west of1 Delbert Helm, 800 SW 52, in be-
tional debt, taxes will be lower
1958 goal.
the manhole cover caved in with
boy. walking along the shoulder
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Hope Slim
For Miners
Cops Blast
Retirement
Bomb Tip
Halts Tulsa
Two-Way TV Too?
Crystal Ball Shows
Proposal Would
Cut Injured Men
Off City Pay Roll
In Deep Pit
91 Are Trapped
By Violent Slide;
. Gas Bars Rescue
'Understanding Necessary'
"Too many Americans are not
homa City’s United Fund-Red j
Cross fund drive reached $878,-
498 Friday—58.8 percent of the
"Administrative roles will tend
to be assigned for periods of a
(See CONVENTION_Page 2)
airforce base, representing 83.3
percent of the goal set for the
Tinker division headed by CoL
Related news and
pictures, Page 4, 13
to improve the quality of in-
struction lean heavily on awaken-
Science will return to the dig-
nified position it held in the 1920s
and 1930s, but will still take a
back seat to the humanities.
Instructors will be able to teach
county commissioners.
Maurice Rench, 4313 SE 13,
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charged.
"Youth must be given an un-
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ing.
He also said there will be less
emphasis on the three Rs, but
that youngsters will know the
three Rs better and earlier.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.
(UPI) — Double slayer
Bart Caritativo went calm-
ly to his death after re-
ceiving one postponement
Friday in a series of des-
perate attempts by his at-
torney to save him from the
gas chamber.
TULSA {/P) — Robert
Neil Selsor, 36, former
Tulsa elevator operator,
A 10-year-old Seminole
county boy, Joseph Wolf,
Maud, died in a Seminole
hospital early Friday after-
noon a few hours after be-
ing struck by a car.
STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1958 to date, 539; October, 49
1957 to date, 569; October, 58
A 25-year-old Fort Sill soldier,
Tony Jiron, Taos, N. M., was
killed early Friday when his car
crashed into a concrete culvert
predicted.
The teacher will become more
— The trial of former Tul-
sa police radio dispatcher
Gus DeMoss, 53, Friday
was recessed until Monday
after the defense closed its
case.
juries.
Meanwhile, a 10-year-old Maud
By LARRY CANNON
A proposed city ordinance—if
passed next Tuesday—will dip
into the police retirement fund
to pay hospital and nursing ex-
penses of any officer injured in
line of duty.
Another proposed bill will cut
any such officers off the pay roll
and put him on temporary re-
tirement in case of any such in-
jury.
The proposed ordinances, copies
A little cooler through tonight
Mild again Saturday. High 77,
low 80. (Details, Page 9).
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
C. E. Jung.
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Argument Avoided
When reminded that the city
claims fire department personnel
retirement funds have been pay-1
ing similar expenses since 1953,
one 25-year member of the po-|
lice force said.
"I certainly don’t want to start]
an argument with the firemen.]
We are co-operating agencies on]
friendly terms, and I want it to
stay that way.
"But there is a slight difference
in the two agencies. The fire]
department is not an income-1
producing agency.
"The police department annual-
ly is one of Oklahoma City's ma-
jor revenue-producing arms. The
general fund takes in hundreds
of thousands of dollars each year
from the various operating de-
partments of the police.”
Currently, the officer said, all
medical and hospital expenses
above those not covered by in-
surance, are paid from the gen-
eral fund.
Detective Lieut. Harold Loyd,
chairman of the welfare and pen-
sion board, said he would call
an emergency meeting of his
group to consider the two pro-
posed measures.
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Gas Blocks Rescue
A company spokesman belated- $
ly announced that six supervisors i •
were with the men still trapped 1
hours after tons of rock and coal K
ure of hope.
'Looks Pretty Grim'
A company spokesman, Arnold
Patterson, talked with some of
the survivors and told newsmen:
Greek to 20 youngsters in 20
counties at the same time—and
they’ll be able to talk back to
him—through educatibnal televi-
sion.
Mothers will be able to wash
dishes while tuned in on their
children’s first-grade recitations.
These were main features of
what King said he believes Okla-
homa’s school system will look
like in the 1990s or early 2000s.
Of Slayer Is Victim
LINCOLNTON, N. C. (A) — Three housewives were
shot and killed near here Friday and a teen-age girl was
wounded by a frenzied farmhand.
About 50 officers, with bloodhounds, searched the
rolling hills of the Northbrook section while residents
barred their windows and doors.
Police sought Roy Cook, 28-year-old farm laborer
recently released from prison.
One of the three victims was Cook’s wife, 21-year-
old Rachel; another was his sister-in-law, Mrs. Webb
(Jeanette) Cook, 18; and the third was Mrs. George
Smith, mother of a girl Cook’s younger brother was
courting. The Cook women were sisters as well as
sisters-in-law, daughters of----
hear the protest at 9 a.m. Mon-
day.
Mrs. Stubblefield allegedly re-
signed her courthouse job Sep-
tember 15 and took a 2-week va-
cation before going to work Oc-
tober 1 as private secretary for
the manager of Kerr’s depart-
ment store.
Salary Too Big?
Smith filed his pay roll claim
for the entire month of October
on October 16, claiming that $500
was due Mrs. Stubblefield for the
30-day period beginning Octo-
ber 1.
Smith told newsmen last week
Mrs. Stubblefield drops by the
assessor’s office mornings on her
way to work on her new job
and consults with him concern-
ing secretarial duties in the as-
sessor’s office. Betty Long was
promoted to the $500 job October
1 after Mrs. Stubblefield left for
other employment.
Rench, the protestant, informed
commissioners he believes the
salary claim of Mrs. Stubblefield
is “illegal, fraudulent and an un-
(See ASSESSOR—Peg* 2)
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Women, Wounds Girl;
advance gifts canvass which had
a four-week head start, posted a
$524,819 total at the campaign’s
first report meeting Friday noon.
That’s 89.1 percent of his di-
vision goal.
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OEA delegate William I. Mathews, Carnegie history teacher, gets “hard sell"
on profession from two future teachers, Kendra Alsip, 1213 SE 21, left, and
Wanda Therforde 1410 8 Florence, Crooked Oak highschool senior, (Staff Photo
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BUSY MAESTRO Fred Waring leaves special plane at
Downtown Airpark, after flight from Fayetteville,
Ark., to make two appearances here. He was a star
guest at United Fund report luncheon, and will lead
his Pennsylvanians in a “Hi-Fi Holiday” show for the
Oklahoma Education association convention in Munici-
pal Auditorium Friday night.
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for those on the third level.
Rescue workers have deter-
mined the location of 55 men
trapped by fallen rock. But they
have been unable to find the
। October pay roll claim was
cold drizzle through the night as I lodged Friday with the board of
five.mon foame nt Hranrarmen . .
Oil Reports .......
Sports ............
Times Talk .......
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Vital Statistics ...
Woman's Pages ...
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j Teamster Tie-Up,
Contract Ojectives
I Drivers hauling central Okla-
l homa milk to market were on
I strike Friday In a move to join
I Teamster, union local 886 and
[demand a formal contract.
The fast-developing stoppage
came Friday morning, after a
। Thursday night meeting in which
the drivers laid new wage and
hour proposals before the Cen-
tral Oklahoma Milk Producers
I association.
Frank Booher, sales division
representative for Local 886, said
union and association leaders
were to meet later Friday to dis-
j cuss the situation. B. S. "Chee-
bie” Graham, association execu-
tive secretary, was not available
for comment.
[ Meanwhile. local distributors
. were advised that milk deliveries
, to city dairy docks might be de-
layed, but would continue under
a hauling arrangement made by
producers themselves. The strike
(See STRIKE—Page 2)
hopeful, of course."
A company official said a bar-
rier of gas prevented rescue
Pictures on Page 3
crews from reaching 55 of the
men who had been working 13,-
000 feet from the pithead. The
others were believed scattered in
other parts of the mine.
Through the night and into the
morning, survivors trickled out
of the mine portal and through
lines of waiting, anxious rela-
tives.
One miner said he saw eight
other bodies in his shaft, but this
was not confirmed hours later.
Silent Crowd Shivers
Some of the survivors were
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Greatest Paid Afternoon Circulation in Oklahoma
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ping half a million dollars, Okla- Friday was $101,637 from Tinker
and community colleges.
Transportation laws may be
revamped. Quick shuttle air or
ground transportation may carry
youngsters from Sallisaw to Okla-
homa City for a special type of
program.
It will all cost more, he
acknowledged. But with no $30
billion defense budget and no na-
Your next flight has a bomb
on it."
Combs said Mrs. Willis has no
Most will be county-type units,
as the county becomes even
stronger as a district of socio-
geographic area and government,
he said.
Included will be libraries, rec-
reation programs, adult educa-
tion, area vocational schools
the Cook home. He went to the
scene and encountered Roy Cook
enroute.
"We met him coming down the
road. He was carrying a shotgun
and didn’t have a shirt on—just
pants and shoes."
Lincoln county Deputy Sheriff
Jack Scronce was at the Webb
Cook home investigating the
deaths of the Cook women at the
time Mrs. Smith was slain and
her daughter wounded in a cot-
ton field about a mile away.
Mrs. Smith’s husband was work-
ing in another part of the field
and escaped the hail of shotgun
fire.
Tulsa Woman
Is Recaptured
TULSA IP-A Tulsa woman
awaiting trial in federal district
court on a charge of stealing a
letter from the leather pouch of
an unsuspecting postman, es-
caped from county jail but was
recaptured about an hour later
as she walked along a west
Tulsa street.
Sheriff Glenn H. Brown said
the woman, Mary Gladys Duck-
worth, 33, escaped from matron
Estella Guise when the matron
took a group of women prison-
ers to a clinic.
ie >k t . t uu . surance desk at 10:25 a.m. and ।
ng the interest of children to told Mrs. Peggy Willis:
the world around them through "Get this and get it straight!
news reading programs. - w
that for insurance and informa-
tion.
Six planes wefe - searched,
Combs said, and another was in-
spected at Oklahoma City and
then permitted to fly here. He
Asked by Editor
other 38, and it is for these that •
there remains some small meas-! By LEONARD JACKSON
Girl, 7, Tumbled
into Manhole,
Mother Claims
The eerie plight of a 7-year-old
girl came to light Friday as her
mother filed a- $61.50 claim
against the city. She said the
child tumbled 20 feet through an
open manhole and into a storm
sewer.
The claim was filed by Mrs.
50 Officers Start Hunt
The levels where most of the ;
miners are trapped was de-'
scribed by a company official as
a rubble of rock, coal and
wrecked mine machinery.
Miner rescue squads coming to
the surface said gas—or fire-
damp—was so bad that even men
with respirators could not go into
the wrecked areas.
Official Is Tearful
A 10-point program for improving instruction, hit-
ting even at the traditional “blocks-paint-and-clay” cur-
riculum of kindergarten, was laid down Friday for
Oklahoma teachers.
Ray Dusek, chairman of the leers will have their next
Ambrose Hoyle. There was
no apparent reason for the
slayings.
Marjorie Smith, 16-year-old
daughter of Mrs. George Smith,
was shot twice. A doctor at Gor-
don Crowell Memorial hospital
In Lincolnton reported her condi-
tion was "not too serious.”
Child Was Crying
Lee Reep, a mechanic who
works ndarby and one of the first
persons at the scene of tile slay-
ing of the Cook women, said:
“Roy’s wife was laying in
a road about 200 yards from the
house. She looked like she had
been running. A litle kid, about
1% years old, was there with her.
The kid was pulling at her and
crying.
"We called the ambulance and
the law. We didn’t go right in
the house, but when the law came
we went in and found the other
girl (Mrs, Webb Cook) shot in
a corner of one of the back
those of 61 other deputies and elementary schools of the nation.
And her 10 "concrete steps”
Community-type school districts, high-paid teachers
and a 12-month year were predicted Friday for Okla-
homa’s educational future—50 years from now.
The forecast was made by John E. King, president
of Kansas State Teachers f------
lenged as "illegal and fraudu-
lent” the $500 salary claimed by
Mrs. Mary Stubblefield, former
private secretary to Cragin
Smith, outgoing assessor.
Vacation Pay?
Her name was listed on the
employes. Commissioners will
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in American education.”
Miss Johnson, onetime Oklaho-
ma schoolteacher, presented her
program in an address at the
third general session of the Okla-
homa Education association con-
vention.
Crowd Grows
The session was sponsored by
the classroom teachers’ depart-
ment, largest in the OEA.
Two-thirds of the total attend-
ance expected had checked in
late Thursday, and OEA officials
predicted registration would pass
15,000 sometime Friday.
The publication which Miss
Johnson now edits is a current
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Should today's school
kids run errands, practice
twirling and take debate
trips during class hours?
Parents who object stressed
strong opinions on this and
other problems in The
Times’ informal education
poll. Turn to Page 5 for the
final report on the parental
poll.
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interested in the great problems connection with any of the five
today and lack essential infor- airlines using the field and that
mation to think about them," she her counter's phone is listed as
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Forum Page
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El
j accounting at a second report
. meeting Wednesday noon in the
Skirvin hotel Persian room.
They're shooting for a $1,493,626
fund to support 35 health and
welfare agencies.
SPRINGHILL, N. S. (P)
— A violent rock shift left
91 men trapped deep in a
coal mine Friday with vir-
tually no hope of survival, a
Three bodies had been recov- |
ered and 78 men had staggered "
to safety through the debris, j -
Seventeen of the survivors were S
cleared rock and debris from j . ,
dust-choked tunnels, an insurance salesman.
The draegermen wore respira-
tors. One of the first survivors
to come out said the "bump"—
the miners’ name for under-
ground rock shifts of explosive
force-had smashed the mine
ventilation system and pockets of
deadly gas were forming.
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The mine is the No. 2 colliery
of the Cumberland Railway and
Coal Co., a subsidiary of the Do-
minion Steel and Coal Corp.
Cumberland No. 2 adjoins the
now-closed Cumberland No. 4,
where an explosion and gas killed
39 persons in November, 1956.
Two draegermen lost their lives
in the rescue of 86 men after
that disaster.
The worst mine accident in this
town of 7,000 persons near the
New Brunswick border was an
explosion in 1891 that killed 125.
Canada's worst mine disaster was
(See MINEPage 2)
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of SH 99 south of Seminole, was the girl, dropping her to the floor
of the sewer 20 feet below. She
, . County Units Seen
said schedules were delayed from He said there will be 150 pri-
45 minutes to an hour. mary and 50 intermediate dis-
The airport was put on an tricts—each a tax unit covering
emergency basis while city po- a village or town or city and
lice aided the FBI with the surrounding area and having a
searches. school board.
important and the administrator
less important, he went on.
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TULSA IP-An anonymous re- ciation of School Adminis-
port of.sa.bomb,aboardaanair trators at a breakfast meet-
liner touched off a systematic
search of incoming planes at Mu-
nicipal airport Friday but no ex-
plosives were found.
Federal bureau of investigation
agents called off the inspections
at 1 p.m. after traffic at the field
had been disrupted for two hours
and a half.
"We can only presume the call
was from a crank,” said airport
manager Pat Combs.
Combs said the unidentified
caller telephoned the airport's in-
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ing. It looks pretty grim. We are I My Weekly Reader, declared the time has come for “in-
telligently radical reform
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Apache. (half of her young daughter, Gail.
A highway patrol spokesman The woman is seeking payment
said Jiron apparently fell asleep ol doctor bills incurred as a re- uula. u.J, .un.o ... J
while driving. The victim wassultofsthe child s plunge into | and school costs no burden, King
dead on arrival at the Fort Sill the dark sewer.
post hospital from multiple in- • The mishap took place July 27
in the 5600 block S Shartel. Mrs.
Helm, in making her claim, said
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rooms.
"There were three or four kids
in the house, all crying. All of
them were too small to know
what was going on." of which were being circulated!
Was Carrying Shotgun at the police station Friday, have
Reep said a neighbor had tele- (he department in an uproar,
phoned there was a shooting al Board to Moot
Confusion over whether the pro-
posals are legal resulted in aj
called meeting of the police wel-
fare and retirement board.
The ordinances will be sub-
mitted by city clerk Earle M.
Simon. In a letter to the city
manager, mayor and council, he
said the supreme court held that
a pension law could not dictate
terms of employment by a city.:
Veteran officers call the pro-
posed measures "a raid on funds
that is highly unethical if not il-
legal.”
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