Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 72, No. 33, Ed. 3 Saturday, March 18, 1961 Page: 1 of 1
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VOL. LXXII No. 33
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Troops Rush
BURY ‘JIM CROW’ RALLY
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Whites Flee
BOLSTERS CITY SIT-INS
College Kids,
Babies Die
Space Escape In Mixup
Others Drive
By Joe Park and Jim Standard
formula at the Grey
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Teachers in Parade
Terrorists Running
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Wild Again in Congo
The brought back by mission-
LEOPOLDVILLE,
The Weather
Light snow central portion
Kivu Province in a new ter-
morning. Occa-
In Flood
people, the United Nations
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The kneeling youths repeatedly had been warned
earlier by their leaders not to block aisles or entrance-
ways during their demonstration at Brown's luncheon-
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Vital Statistics
Women’s Page
The warning came from E. Melvin Porter, local
Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
in a meeting at the Calvary Baptist Church, NE 2
and Walnut, just before the group marched down-
town.
The motorcade formed at Southeast High School and
wound downtown. It was to break up at NW 56 and
Pennsylvania.
Police, following the mobilized demonstration, said
no traffic citations were issued, although officers were
insisting that ordinances be closely followed. However,
police made one concession. Officers said the drivers
could sound horns.
An inch of snow was re-
ported at both El Reno and
Cherokee, and an unofficial
measure of three inches was
reported at Carmen, in Al-
falfa County.
Freezing temperature —
32 degrees — was reported
early Saturday at Oklahoma
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Friday night.
Dr. J.A. DuPont, medical
superintendent of the hos-
pital, said Saturday the ba-
bies became ill after being
given a formula which con-
tained boracic acid solution
instead of distilled water.
The motor parade, estimated to include 75 persons,
reportedly contained several teachers and students from
the University of Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma City
University.
The parade was led by a hearse and cars, follow-
ing in a mock funeral style, carried signs, “Let’s Bury
Jim Crow”—“Segregation is Only Skin Deep"—and “I
Didn’t Earn my White Skin, Did You?
Mrs. Clara Luper, youth advisor to the NAACP,
said the group might later march on Bishop's Cafe-
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Against City Policy
Sheldon Stirling, city manager, said the permit was
not issued because it is against city policy to issue such
a permit to an indivudual. The permit was requested by
Gene Matthews, attorney and Village councilman. Mat-
thews led Saturday’s parade.
Bill Clifford, president of the Young Christian Work-
er's local region, said another request was made by
his organization and the Oklahoma Cityans for Human
Rights Friday afternoon.
Police Chief Ed Rector said Saturday the request
was not submitted in time for proper action to be taken
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A joint force of UN Malay
troops and Congolese sol-
diers is preparing to set out
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About 50 racial demonstrators kneeled in front of
j John A. Brown's downtown store here Saturday morn-
ing as others, many of them from out of town, paraded
in 30 cars down W main.
LUANDA, Angola (Portuguese West Africa) IP
—Portuguese troops have been flown northward to the
Angola-Congo border area where tribal terrorists have
been hacking to death and mutilating any whites they [
find on remote Angola plantations. At least 30 persons
were reported slain.
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Porter appeared particularly concerned that the
group not block any entranceways or aisles. The dem-
onstrators received a set-back earlier this week when
a district court injunction was issued after 13 persons
were arrested at the Cravens Building last Saturday.
Saturday’s mobilized demonstrators said they tried
earlier this week to get a permit for Saturday's parade,
but were refused.
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Police Chief A. G. Cookson
said one baby died Saturday.
The name was not released.
Cynthia Jody Beck, 6-day-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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Racial demonstrators mobilized Saturday morning
when more than 20 vehicles poured into Oklahoma City
from Norman to protest segregation in local cafeterias
and restaurants. The parade formed at Southeast High
School (as shown above), wound through the downtown
section and was scheduled to disperse near NW M and
Pennsylvania. Three police cars followed the motorcade,
a mock funeral procession, to enforce traffic laws.
Portuguese colonial rulers here turned to armed
might in hopes of ending the Mau-Mau style slaughter-
ing. The same planes that rushed in troops brought
back terrified settlers.
Faced with the prospect of growing Congo-like mas-
sacres, colonial authorities here in the capital said
Saturday they are confident they can put down the
bloody anti-white uprising despite the hindrance of tor-
rential rain.
Negroes swinging machetes have killed and hacked
up countless men, women and children in the past three
days.
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To Angola;
D. White
Saturday morning. Guymon
and other Panhandle points
still have snow on the
partment directive giving
the air force a virtual mo-
nopoly on space would not1
change the status of the
navy's Polaris missile and
the army's Nike-Zeus mis-
sile defense system.
Roles Clarified
The air force commander
told the house science and
astronautics committee look-
ing into the effects of the
Pentagon order the direc-
tive was mainly a clarifi-
cation of the future roles of
the three services in space.
White also assured the
committee the air force was
not even remotely consider-
ing moving into the space
exploration field occupied
by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
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Lindsay Man
STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1961 to date, 121; March, 82
1960 to date, 93; March, 15
A Lindsay motorist be-
came the state's 121st traf-
fic fatality of the year Sat-
urday, and the fitst to die
in Grady County in 1961.
Tinker Air Force Base.
Traces of snow were also
reported in Grant County
and other northern state
points.
However, temperatures re-
mained at about 33 or 34,
and the frozen moisture
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The parachute was set to open at an altitude of
of 10,000 feet.
A powerful Little Joe rocket, with the empty capsule
poised on its nose, was fired at Wallops Island, Va.
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Two of America's seven astronauts, air force Capt.
L. Gordon Cooper and Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn,
witnessed the firing. Glenn is one of three who may
take the first ride in a Redstone rocket.
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Kivu had agreed to help
United Nations forces to
bring back law and order to
the area. Kasongo is nearly
200 miles from Kindu and it
recent defense De- escape rocket fired satisfactorily after 35 seconds of
flight, and the main parachute was seen to open.
aries the Kartelites are
armed with bows and ar-
rows and wear a band of
leopardskin around their
day prevented rescue work-
ers from reaching 26 per-
sons trapped underground
in a coal mine in Kyushu.
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hospital's nursery, about
half of them on bottle feed-
ings. There was no report
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boracic acid mixture
Inquest Ordered
Dr. DuPont said distilled
water for the baby formula
is kept in the same store-
room as the boracic acid
solution. The distilled water,
he added, is kept in clear
bottles; the boracic acid in
brown bottles, and the hos-
pital is investigating how
the two became mixed.
“It appears the distilled
water was prepared about
Larry B. Hooker, 33, died
of injuries received Friday1
when his car struck the rear
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neonle the United Nations ‘Kill All Whites'
spokesman told newsmen.
The spokesman said the
Kindu Congolese population around
also is in fear o’f
up to 2 inches at Enid,
where it still was falling ending in
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One report said 28 persons were murdered at a big
coffee plantation near Quitexe, less than 150 miles north-
east of this coastal city. A young girl was reported cut
in half near viege. One mutilated settler died after
being evacuated here.
(This dispatch did not mention any outsiders
among the attackers, but Portuguese news agency dis-
patches received in Lisbon said the terrorists were
"foreigners", or came frpm The Congo, Some of these
reports said Negroes and whites alike were attacked.)
Soldiers and paratroopers rushed to the north faced
the job of flushing the raiders from hiding places in
dense forests.
Emergency Airlift Rushed
Africans who work the plantations and belong to
central African tribes were reportedly quiet while the
northern tribesmen attacked homes and sabotaged roads
and bridges.
Commericial airliners touched down at Luanda air-
field in a huge refugee airlift. Fleeing settlers crammed
truck after truck for the ride into Luanda, where they
told how Negroes hacked to death every white they
saw.
The raids were similar to the Mau-Mau attacks that
plagues British-ruled Kenya a few years ago Hundreds
of tribesmen descended suddenly during early morning
darkness Wednesday, slashing and murdering with their
long knives in planters' homes near Maquela, Uige,
Quibayi and Quitexe.
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traditional practice of grow- Thweatt's suggestion.
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the town.
Number Not Known
The UN spokesman said it
was not known exactly how
many white people still re-
main in Kasongo but there
are thought to be about 30.
It was not known whether
the Kartelites have any con-
nection with the dreaded Af-
rican cult of "leopardmen,"
who will kill their victims
with steel claws imitative of
a leopard's. They believe
that by killing they gain su-
perhuman strength.
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The decision giving the
air force such a dominant
role in space drew a pro-
test from Gen. Lyman
Lemnitzer, an army officer
who is chairman of the joint
chiefs of staff. He reported-
ly said the ruling goes too
far and was rushed along
without giving the military
chiefs a chance for proper
study.
Gen. White said in addi-
tion to leaving the Polaris
and Nike-Zeus alone, the
air force would not inter-
fere in any way with the
communications and navigt-
tion space projects now un-
der the army and navy.
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in extreme north afternoon
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of lawlessness.
A UN spokesman de-
scribed the fanatics as a
"terrorist group several hun-
dred strong,” concentrated
around the Kivu town of
Kasongo and are known as
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ery and blooming fruit trees
flashed a signal, winter-like
weather hurled a spring
freeze threat at Oklahoma
Saturday.
Temperatures lowered to
freezing early in the day
ver part of northern and
central Oklahoma, and a
new Pacific cold front head-
ing this way is expected to
bring even lower tempera-
tures by Sunday night.
Freeze Felt
Snow and sleet hit Okla-
homa City and the surround-
ing area, with rain and driz-
zle turning to frozen precipi-
tation just after I a.m.
Snow was reported piled
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(UPI) — Boats and helicop-
ters were sent into a swampy
area near here Saturday in
a search for two teen-aged
boys feared drowned on an
overnight camping trip.
The boys, Wallace Bour-
geois, 15, and G. E. Maur-
igi, 16, were last seen swim-
ming in flood waters, caused
by a sudden thunderstorm
i late Thursday.
a week ago by a male
nurse," he said. "The borac-
ic acid was prepared a few
days ago by an unqualified
female assistant.”
Coroner Dr. J. M. LeBol-
dus ordered an inquest.
Boys Lost
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