Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 70, No. 29, Ed. 3 Saturday, March 14, 1959 Page: 1 of 5
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Greater Oklahoma City: 600,000 in ’Sixty
FOURTEEN PAGES—500 N BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY, MARCH 14,1969
VOL. LXX, No. 29
Bailey Offered State Road Directors Post?
Highway Board Reform Bill
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Fugitive Wounded
Trio Captured
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With former Gov. Roy J. Turner
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Jet Crash
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Skidding Mercury
To Cluise Out Spring
Car Rams Truck
Near Ponca Citv
5 Men Hurt
As Car Flips
Auto Cartwheels
Northeast of City
Pressure Slated
To Shift Away
From Governor
Teen-Ager?
Boy Says He May
Have Flipped Fuel
Switch in Swoon
Police said burglary tools were
found in the car. One of the men
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LOS ANGELES IP -An air
force investigator says a teen-
“I’M SO THRILLED,” beamed pretty Brenda Bowyer,
chosen yearbook queen at Oklahoma City University
Friday night. Willis Weeks, press club president,
crowned the Midwest City beauty at the conclusion
of the Keshena Kapers. A member of Gamma Phi
Beta sorority, she' is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wren Bowyer, 400 Draper drive. (More pictures,
Page 2.)
the announcement Satur-
day after Gov. William F.
Quinn of Hawaii called on
Eisenhower.
The Hawaiian governor visited |
the White House to thank the
president on behalf of the people
in the Panhandle and thun-
derstorms in the eastern
section.
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WASHINGTON (P — President Eisenhower will
sign the Hawaiian statehood bill early next week.
Presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty made
Mrs. Mae Weedman. su-
perintendent of Girls Town
at Techumseh since 1955,
resigned Saturday. Carl
Bates, chairman of the
state board of affairs, said
she would be replaced by
Mrs. Lodiska H. Cowan, as-
sistant superintendent at
the state training school
for girls four years.
SEMINOLE (ITI) - A
3-year-old girl burned to
death and her parents and
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Three Port Worth, I exas, men suspected of staging His choice by the governor’s
a series of recent service station robberies here were new highway commission, if it
Eisenhower If ill Sign
Hawaii Bill Next Week
Amusements ........
Bridge...........
Church Page .......
Classified Section
Comics .........
Crossword Punic
Sports ..............
TV Key ............
Times Talk .........
Vital Statistics .....
Women’s Page .....
earlier-predicted pleasant weekend in Oklahoma.
Instead, the weatherman says there will be: Skidding
thermometer readings throughout the state, light snow
By HUGH HALL
H. E. Bailey, along with
Gov. Edmondson a foe of
the Gary road program, is
understood to have been ap-
proached to become the
new administration’s high-
way director.
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mile* an hour by mid-morning.
Five men were injured early The weatherman said in many
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normal session has slipped bx:
Although Edmondson must still
take a stand in the all-importaht
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approval of the district attorney
plan. . , .
It appears that Edmondson 1
aides will have considerably
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older brother were critical-
ly injured in an early morn-
ing fire Saturday which
finance field, legislators can "P M
longer say they aren’t familiar ■
with his reform bills.
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that he did it intentionally.
Engine Stalls
The plane crashed March 3
while the pilot, Maj. Gerald E.
Neuberg. 36, was practicing ap-
proaches to March air force
base. Neuberg said the jet en-
gine stalled.
Neuberg and Thomas Bishop,
10 of Lompoc, Calif., bailed out
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, ... . . chairman of the new commis-
ing the fleeing trio was sion Bailey is high
on the po-
wrecked when it struck tential list since he was highway
They were identified as Warner The cold front was expected to!
Barber jr., Charles Mack and teach the central section of the
Ronald Moore. all of Guthrie, state early in the afternoon, and
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Orbit Calculated
MOSCOW (UPI-The newspa-
per Izvestia reported Saturday
that Russia’s artifical planet has
completed one-sixth of its 712.5-
million-mile annual orbit around
the sun and is now about 10,625,-
800 miles from the earth.
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Choice Would Not
Come for Three
Months, However
of the islands for the part the
administration played in pressing
for admission of Hawaii as the
50th state.
Quinn will have 30 days after
formal notice of Eisenhower s
approval to issue an election
(See HAWAII—Page 2)
time as a second lieutenant.
The jet was based at Norton
AFB, near San Bernardino.
Dorney. president of the acci-j
dent investigating board at Nor-
ton, said Bishop may have flipped
off the fuel by accident. He
added that the youth is not
blamed officially for the crash.
Bishop is a Civil Air Patrol
cadet at Vandenberg AFB. Air
force spokesmen said he got a
flight suit from a supply office
at Norton while there to get some
uniforms for the CAP. Neuberg
took him aboard, thinking he was
an air force lieutenant.
'I Don't Remember’
"I don’t exactly remember
turning the fuel switch,” the boy
said Friday night. "An air force
safety officer said I may have
suffered from hypoxia (lack of
oxygen). I don’t recall telling the
pilot anything about bailing out."
One report—published in a Los
Angeles newspaper — said the
youth flipped the switch and then
wisecracked to the pilot: "This
is it, daddy-0; we’re bailing out."
1 riously, when their car over- to 60 miles an hour during the
1 turned six or seven times along day.
a block-long stretch of the Guth- Blowing dust was expected to
rie cutoff, 14 miles north of he widespread in the western por-
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CREWS were searching the wreckage Saturday for
more victims of seven runaway freight cars which
killed one person and injured 16 when they crashed
through the depot, two cafes and an automotive shop
in Olympia, Wash. The cars broke away from their
engine about a mile from the station. They hit a
Only On* Victery i
So far. despite the big major-
ity by which Edmondson was
elected, he has secured passase
I of only one major plank in his
program—a bill calling for a pub-
lic vote on repeal next April 7
Legislators have ducked prek
sure in recent weeka by com
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two parked cars. , director when Turner was gov-
Police. sheriff’s officers and emor.
captured Saturday after a high-speed chase sparked comes. would not become effec-
with gunfire. Ove for perhaps three or four
One of the men was wounded by a stotgun blast mon S
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safely.
Because Bishop was wearing a 1 La-
flight uniform with officer’s bars | ;
on the shoulders, he was identi-1
fied in an official release at the ।
left by C. A. "Bud" Stoldt when
the latter resigned at the end of
Raymond Gary’s administration
early in January.
Bailey would not comment on
possibility he might again be-
come director. However, his
friends understand he would be
available.
Bailey, who feuded with Gary
two years, charging Gary had
run the highway department mil-
lions into the red, is credited
with feeding Edmondson much of
his ammunition for attacking the
Gary highway program in last
year’s gubernatorial campaigns.
Former City Manager
Bailey resigned as highway di-
rector almost 10 years ago and
became manager for the Oklaho-
ma turnpike authority under Tur-
ner, a post he held until the
Turner turnpike was completed.
Bailey, former city manager
here, then went with DeLeuw,
Cather & Co., consulting engi-
neers for construction of both
(See BAILEY—Pag* 2)
Williams received gunshot
wounds in the right shoulder, but
they were not believed serious.
He was treated at Mercy hospi-
tal, then taken to police head-
quarters for questioning.
The chase began about 4 a.m.
- . - when police attempted to stop
age youth, hooking an unauthor- the driver. He sped away.
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jible rammed the rear of a pick-1
up truck, sending both vehicles
careening down a sharp em- 1
L bankment.
Dead are:
JACKIE GERREL DAVIS, 21.
Ponca City, a passenger in the
convertible.
LIZZIE HOMERATHA, 73. Red
Rock, a passenger in the pickup.
Trooper Taylor Lane said the
accident happened at 11:55 p.m.,
two miles west of Ponca City on
Gn U. S. 60.
The officer said the convertible
H was driven by Stanley K. Vick-
■ ery, Ponca City, an 18-year old
I student at Oklahoma State uni-
fl versity.
He is in a serious condition in
I Ponca City hospital, along with
H two passengers They are Dickey
| Bryant, 19, and Don Lyles, 20,
I both of Ponca City,
fl Also in serious condition in the
(Se. TRAFFIC—Feg* 2)
I BULLETINS
B destroyed their
, NE 63. tion of the state during the day,
-rame All were taken to Mercy hos- with the possibility it would be
liams was arrested after being
shot. Carmichael was taken into
custody later at a motel.
Dick Powell Better
SANTA MONICA, Calif. IUPI
— Dick Powell, actor-direc-
tor, was reported "improved’’
Saturday at St. John’s hospital
where he is being treated for a
bronchitis attack.
, "w-" - -------------- house near here. The vic-pital where they were being mixed with snow in the Panhan-
* WRECKING CREW is shown tearing down what remains of the Flake home for tim was Jeanie North. The --l i end -• X-rav -- -• "—
mentally retarded children that burned in Warr Acres last Thanksgiving day, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gene
5 taking five lives, With public contributions of more than $17,000 in the till, oper- North, and son, Teddy, 6.
j ators hope to start rebuilding by April 1. The home, operated by Mrs. Mary were taken to an Oklahoma
4 Flake and her sister, Mrs. Harvie Prince, was at 5901 NW 52. 1 City hospital, I
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the senate.
It may run into more opposi-
tion in the upper chamber. •
Ogden said that as soon as the,
house completes action on the.
merit system proposal, the ad-
ministration will attempt to gain
problems, legislators no longet l
can contend they haven’t any; I
thing to get their teeth into. . I
Edmondson a "reform” pro I
gram. contained in a big variety I
of bills, calls for broad changes ■
in administration.
His highway commission plan I
would provide for the people te ■
vote on a change in the consti- I
tution that would create a high- B
.way commission which each supi B
ceeding governor could not ret B
place at will.
Other Bill* Hang Fire
A similar measure already haa B
been introduced to create a con- B
stitutional public safety commiie B
sion, aimed at taking the high- l
way patrol out of politics.
Also hanging fire are adminis I
tration-backed measures for I
creating of a merit system for I
state employes and for creation I
of a district attorney system I
across the state.
i Another big reform bill calls 5
for transfer of financing four B
state welfare functions from the B
general revenue fund to the state ■
welfare fund. This bill appar M
ently will be either killed or ap- ■
proved by the senate next week, I
Merit Plan Du* Action
The house Monday will take up ■
Edmondson’s merit system plan ■
Floor leader Frank Ogden 4 ■
Guymon predicts the lower ■
chamber will pass the measure I
without difficulty and send it t ■
Winds over most of the state (__
early Friday were from the south- ’ —
west, but they were changing to
moved in.
Guymon. in the Panhandle, re- GAgEAi
ported north winds of 25 to 40 < | j
Strong winds, blowing dus,
perhaps rain—and maybe eveh
snow in the Panhandle. (Deteils
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speed of about 60 miles an hour before crossing a
busy street and smashing the buildings. (AP Wire- more .__..
photo) I through the district attorney
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may have caused it to crash by
turning off the fuel. was carrying a Beretta pistol.
Col. Paul Dorney added, how- Lucas was captured first. Wil-
ever, that there is no evidence
two highway patrol units joined ( Bittle Fills In
in the chase, which centered in' Gomer Bittle, career man in
the vicinity of NW 32 and mili- j the highway department, now is
I ary ave. ! acting director filling the spot
The three suspects were iden-
tified as George Elder Williams,
26, John Earnest Lucas jr., 21,
and Frank Junior Carmichael, 27,
all of Fort Worth.
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E By WAYNE MACKEY I
A bill aimed at taking the |
E state highway commission I
B out of politics will be intro- I
520% duced into the legislature I
•2 Monday by Gov. Edmond- I
II son's legislative leaders. I
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32 with finance, the highway com- I
7 mission bill is the last of the I
E governors so-called reform ef- |
E forts its introduction possibly I
E will mark a slight swing of pres- l
mE sure off the governor onto the I
• legislature
His Bread Changes Seught < I
Tu* Although he will still be under
ka pressure to decide soon what
should he done about a tax In-l
crease and other big monetary
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STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1959 to date, 100; March, 21. (
1958 to date, 1U; March, 21.
Two persons were killed and J
four injured late Friday night i
near Ponca City when a convert- 1
(See COLLISION— Page 2) 1 (See WEATHER—Page 3)
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