Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 143, Ed. 2 Tuesday, July 31, 1962 Page: 1 of 10
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U. S. COURT STUDIES
School Bus
Decision
Attacked
1965 APPURTIONING
Debate Opens
100 Colombia
With Surprise
Towns Shaken
From Bench
in badly-hit Pereira, May- lie facilities for religious pur-
or Mario Delgado Echever-
123 injured. The 99-year old
Friends,
Bus Fares
Lady Driver
of official mourning
Enemies
and ordered the work of re-
Are Hiked
Jam Court
Stops Traffic
heavy electrical storm and churches were the buildings
Over State
By Mike Flanagan
reapportionment of the state
shower and sharp gusts of of the other buildings in the
the
in the state.
Commission chairman Har- chaos she left behind.
ince were hit by the quake.
was
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State Water
of public schools for
use
ported at about the same
worship during non-school
mission notified major cities Senate interior subcommit*
The governor's attorney, are hoping that any ruling
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Classified Section ... 17-20
was ruled unsafe for
habitation Monday night.
Sports......
I don't know why the
it
a day.
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Tell Me Why! ........ 5
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ervoir is estimated at $7 mil-
(See APPORTION-Page 2)
by Suqday drivers.
lion.
day.
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Heavy Rain,
Lightning
Hit State
day. Little temperature
change. Highs. 85-98. Lows
87-72. (Details on Page 11.)
lombia.
Delgado
The state corporation com-
mission announced approval
Tuesday of a 5 percent bus
tangle of cars which piled
up behind the accident. Traf-
hardest hit, and thus most of
the casualties were women.
। A dozen churches were de-
"I don't think the federal Clubs, Citizens for Constitu
court has the power to di- tional Reapportionment, Ok
rain flooded low spots. Both
Cherokee and Watonga re-
ported .64-inch of rain.
preme Court extended half-
fare privilege the old Okla-
Amusements
Business ....
Bridge .....
case, the courts have re-
fused to confirm that the
(See ABORTION—Page 2)
tee approved Tuesday a bill
to authorize construction of
Murrah and Ross Rizley, U
S. district judge and a mem.
ber of the special court
tion of all children within its
boundaries is the affair of
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a favorite
Federal
for each 100 miles traveled
in the state.
Approval of the increase
Court Building Tuesday.
The courtroom was packed
a.m.
OJO.
a.m.
000 about 100 miles north-
west of here, leaving the
city without wter.
Chairman Dies
LONDON OR - Sir Mat-
thew Drysdale, 69. chairman
of Lloyd's for six years, died
at his London home Mon-
3 Miners Killed
SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) -
A fire in the entry to the
Lota coal mine in Concepcion
province killed at least three
persons and injured eight
Monday night.
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would mount, however, be-
cause many of the estimated
300 injured were reported in
serious condition.
moved eastward across Ok-
lahoma early Tuesday.
Cherokee reported a
poses.
Cited was the 1912 case in
This cement truck blocked all three lanes of southbound traffic on I. H. 35
Tuesday morning.
handed to Steve Morris,
superintendent of Good Sa-
maritan Hospital, shortly
after midnight read:
state separation.
It said public and church
schools discharge the same
functions, even though the
latter include the element
of religion.
Comie Page.....
Oil Reports .....
Our World Today
Denmark also offers le-
gal abortion, for medical
or social reasons.
Russia keeps the price
of abortion high to discour-
age the practice, but there
are no legal restrictions.
dicate just how it believes
the lawmaking body should
be apportioned.
Opponents of reapportion-
ment were following a wait-
and-see policy as the hear-
ing got under way. They
A similar bill has passed
the House.
The project would provide
water for Ardmore. Davis,
of the state.
Proponents of equal rep-
By Henry Burchfiel
Second-guessing a 3-judge
It also would provide flood
control, fish and wildlife, and
recreation benefits, including
provisions for a 1,275-acre
national wildlife habitat.
Arbuckle dam and reser-
voir would be built on Rock
Creek, a tributary of the
Washita River, about 6 miles
southwest of Sulphur. The
earthen dam would be about
1.870 feet long.
The reservoir storage ca-
pacity would provide about
16.5 million gallons of water
Mullins' cement i ruck ‘candidates to a general elec-
overturned between NE 41tion.”
casualties or serious dam-
age there.
Early reports said at least
eight of the Pereira shirt
factory workers were killed
and many more trapped in
Had she looked back, she
would have seen the demol-
ished car of a man who
tried to help her, a 36-ton
truck overturned across all
three traffic lanes and miles
of fuming motorists.
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courtroom bar. This space
is reserved for lawyers and '
their clients.
Well represented were ths
League of Women Voters
it public or church-related."
Cited also was a U. S. Su-
preme Court ruling permit-
ting parents of parochial
pupils to be reimbursed for
bus fare by a public school
board.
The Florida supreme
The Diagonal funnels hun-
dreds of Tinker Air Force
Base employes off the ex-
pressway each morning. The
Tinker motorists were off
schedule and off route Tues-
day.
Policemen detoured south-
bound traffic at NE 23 street
and a gigantic traffic jam
resulted. It was almost 9
a.m. before the mess was
cleared.
BOGOTA, Colombia (UPI)—The Colombian govern-
ment Tuesday rushed relief supplies to the scene of Mon-
day's earthquake in Caldas Province, the worst here in 10
years. Nearly 100 towns were shaken.
Authorities listed 35 dead but local newspapers report-
ed fatalities between 40 and 50. It was feared the death toll
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15-16
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Toll Increased
Other casualties in Per-
eira increased the known toll
there to 11 dead and 126 in-
jured seriously enough to re-
quire hospitalization. Anoth-
er 50 persons received first-
aid treatment.
The west tower of the
great Gothic cathedral in
Manizales, Columbia's big-
p.m.
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private citizens interested in 1
5 the reapportionment battle f
’ assembled from all comers
cuit Court of Appeals, and
udges Ross Rizley and Fred
Daugherty of the federal
district court opened another
historic court session in Ok-
lahoma City.
Many Show Up
Legislators, attorneys and
ing province of Antioquia and
the Cauca valley also were
damaged.
Panic Spreads
For two dreadful minutes
at mid-afternoon, the earth
heaved and shook, causing
panic that spread far beyond
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Sherri Finkbine
Sunday Drivers Thick
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We always knew it but — the
state resources department
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"Despite medical and
psychiatric opinions in the
By Leonard Jackson .
Thirty-six Oklahoma doctors apparently received
supplies of the controversial drug, thalidomide, for clini-
cal testing, it was learned Tuesday.
Their names and whether they have actually pre-
scribed any of the drugs to their patients could not be
determined immediately.
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration gave a
state-by-state breakdown of the number of doctors who
received the drug. It is suspected of causing deformities
in chilgen born to women who took it.
The William S. Merrell Co., Cincinnati, manufactur-
er of the drug, told the Times it cannot divulge the
Doctor Heroine Will Testify, Page 4
AMA to Open Study of Drug, Page 6
Britons See Abortion Plea, Page 6
names of doctors participating in clinical testing of ex-
perimental medicine.
Names Made Available
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It said the firm gave the names in April to the
FDA, which made them available to local or state
health authorities on request.
The state health department said it was not aware
of this and no such request had been sent to the FDA.
The Merrell firm said it asked early in the year for
all doctor* participating in clinical testing of thalido-
mide to return unused quantities of the drug or to de-
stroy it themselves.
The doctors were warned not to prescribe the drug
for women of child-bearing age, the firm said.
Previously the University of Oklahoma Medical Cen-
ter said a check of its normal research units indicated
(See STATE—Page 2)
have to unload its contents 1
of dry cement before it could
be removed from the ex-
pressway.
It was the resulting traffic
jam that frayed everyone's
nerves. The point of impact
was just north of where the
Tinker Diagonal intersects
with I. H. 35.
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asm
By Bob McMillin and Hugh Hall
A legal bombshell fell in federal court Tuesday when
Judge A. P. Murrah told reapportionment litigants that
proof must be submitted as to why the court should not
permit legislative reapportionment to wait until 1965.
The hearing drew an overflow crowd as the special 3-
judge court met to dear out legal underbrush and pre-
pare for implimentation of the historic June 19 decision
that declaed present apportionment laws "invidiously
discriminatory.”
Four points of procedure were spelled out by Judge
Murrah as the hearing got under way.
"As we set here today, we see no reason why re-
apportionment should not be left to the 1963 legislature
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Softenod
old Freeman said the in-
crease granted eight bus
served by the bus lines
when the request for an in-
school bus doors to parochial
pupils.
Oklahoma City and Tulsa
lawyers representing parents
of Midwest City parochial
pupils told the court it should
strike down a district court
order barring buses to the
children.
Although the order applies
to Midwest City public school
buses only, should it be over-
turned, the result would ap-
ply statewide.
Basis Cited
After the Midwest City rul-
ing, the state board of edu-
cation halted similar prac-
tices in other districts.
Basis of the district court
order is Oklahoma's constitu-
tion, it says public funds
cannot be used even indirect-
ly for sectarian institutions.
In their brief Tuesday, at-
. torneys for Midwest City’s
I St. Philip Neri parochial
) parents traced a line of cases
permitting some use of pub-
Fifty others in the neighbor- duty in requiring attendance
at an accredited school, be Curb,
A woman driver who
blithely drove off after her
car stalled on busy I. S. 35
early Tuesday morning will
probably never know what
Norman Reynolds, warned.
"Choas will result if some
action is not taken here to-
day.”
Murrah remarked from
the bench that he did not
commission.
At the hearing held by
CURB, witnesses for the
stroyed in the city of
Weatherford had a brief Pereira, and three-quarters
Manizales, a provincial cap- Ergi
ital with a population of 200,- TV Time
lahomans for Local Gov ■
emment and others ig,.m
One of the early arrive It I
was Jack Kirton.' Bartles ■
ville, first vice-president o)l
(See FRIENDS_Page 2) 1
the federal court makes
won't effect the 1963 legis-
lative session.
Crowd Orderly
The crowd was orderly as
the 10 benches in Judge
state. Assuredly the educa- companies will amount to 1.4
mills per mile or 14 cents
rect the governor to call a
special session,” Rizles de-
clared. i
the area of major damage, court, the brief stated, held
Minor earth shocks were re- •-
resentation in the legisla-
only proof I can offer is the ture speculated the court
would adopt a formula or in-
200,000-population city were
reported damaged or lean-
ing.
Among the dead was
rancher Jesus Maria Botero
of Pereira. Only last week he
was kidnaped and paid a
$1,200 reward for his free-
dom.
Almost all of the 50 towns
tended to public school pupils
to include parochial pupils.
It related that the Oklaho-
ma legislature in 1939 adopt-
ed a law permitting parochi-
al pupils to ride on public
school buses.
That law was struck down
by the supreme court in 1941
as violative of the church-
state separation clause.
‘Duty Fulfilled'
Five years later, the brief
said, the high state court
permitted a sectarian or-
time in nearby Venezuela, hours did not offend church-
but there was no report of
wind.
The weather bureau said
another line of thunder-
storms will continue to move
into western portions of Ok-
lahoma Tuesday with mod-
erate to heavy rains and
electrical storms.
Temperatures were ex-
pected to range from the
80's in the northwest to 90’s
in the southeast and over-
night lows in the 60’s and
70’s.
Rainfall amounts reported
early Tuesday were Butler.
2.30; Canadian, 2.29; Claude.
.58; Lipscomb, 1.29; Miami,
.88; Panhandle, 1.46; Okla-
homa City, .21; Tulsa, .75;
Mackie, .87; Weatherford,
.59.
Several points reported
from a half inch to an inch
of rain and moderately
strong winds.
Weather for the next few
days is expected to be part-
ly cloudy with no important
temperature changes and
widely scattered showers
Heavy rains and lightning
and electrical activity days
civil right and that he has
been invidiously discriminat- federal panel, now studying
weeks ago. He said no pro- reclamation project near
mostly in the west and north ..
nmuj . » the of the factory.
portions during the late aft- ----
emoons and at night.
and villages in Caldas Prov- the state, and the state in
some measure fulfills this
decreed three
tests were filed with the Sulphur, Okla.
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phans home to receive state
aid on grounds “the state is fare increase for travel with-
Oklahoma Su-
who 10 days ago heard com-
pany officials testify to the
need’ for more passenger
revenue
The companies had been
permitted to charge 2.82
cents a mile, and the in-
crease makes the base fare
2.96 cents.
Freeman said the com-
Fifteen Oklahoma City po-
recommended by Earl licemen driving 14 units had
commission referee to be summoned to untie the
unless some proof is offered
to the contrary," Murrah de-
clared.
A murmur of surprise
swept through the courtroom
as Murrah made his state-
ment.
White Object*
Sid White, reapportionment
proponent, objected to any
further delay of constitution-
al reapportionment, declar-
ing. “I insist my client has a
city is a bastion of the Ro-
man Catholic church in Co- homa City Railway Co. ex-
scattered showers and thun-
der storms through Wednes- city
Project OK’d
WASHINGTON ( -A
Partly cloudy with widely gest church, tumbled in
- - ruins, and a convent in that
the Congress of Parents and
i- Teachers, the council ol
Democratic Neighborhood
companies told of reduced
revenue, increased cost of Sulphur. Wynnewood, and
operation, efforts to in- the Kerr-McGee oil refinery.
reported Monday that 80 per- on t know wnj
Cost of the dam and res- cent of the mileage driven in chief judge (Murrah)
.. . Wisconsin was accounted for
Legal Abortion Haven Sought
PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) _ bility her child has been mark, or the Soviet Un-
—Sherri Finkbine gave up deformed by a drug, thali- ion.
her battle for a legal abor- dotnide, which she took in Other states in the Unit-
tion in Arizona and an- the early stages of her ed States have laws sim-
nounced early Tuesday _ ‘ ilar to Arizona. A ruling
she will go elsewhere for PenanE by a court or state attor-
the operation. Finkbine said after a ney general would be nec-
The decision was re- conference with her attor- essary to authorize the op-
leased by her husband, neys and doctors they eration.
Robert, through the ad- would “seek help in a But in Japan, about 1,000
minstrator of the hospital more favorable legal di- foreign women have abor-
where the operation was mate.” He refused to say tions yearly. There are no
to have been performed, where that might be. legal restrictions, the op-
Doctors have recom- Mrs. Finkbine's chances erations are generally per-
mended the young mother for an abortion without formed under clinical con-
of four undergo the abor- risk of prosecution might ditions and the price is
tion because of the possi- be best in Japan, Den- about $50.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
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ry reported 13 dead, three
missing and feared dead and which the
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By Hugh Hall
A legal blow was struck in
the state supreme court
Tuesday to open public
crease was filed several the $13.3 million Arbuckle
construction to start im-
mediately.
The shirt factory and
and NE 10 and blocked all | When Murrah pressed for
three lanes of south-bound proof. White replied: "The
traffic. Neither man was in- ( -
jured, but Brock's car wascourt’s opinion of June 19.
heavily damaged. Owners of At one point it appeared
the truck said they would that Gov. Edmondson would
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Oklahoma City Times
VOL. LXXHI No. 143 22 PAGES-500 N BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1962 HOME 5 CENTS
fic had to be routed around ed against.
the expressway for almost! "This court has no power legislature, was
3 hours to delay reapportionment pasttime at
Marvin Brock, 20, of 1418 further. nothing can
NE 22, tola policesthen chaos heenentruste legislature "m^ long before A. P. Murrah,
m Kanphenbman andvdondlient stands deprived of due chlt judge or the iolh CiP-
thought to be in distress. process 0 f law. , . ,
s I “We say that the time for
As he pulled over, a trucktemporizing has passed. I
driven by Tom Mullins of tried to stop theoriginal pri-
Tulsa hit his car on the mary elections, but was un-
right rear fender. Mullins able to do so,
said he was trying to pass Opinion Used
Brock on the right and got "I urge that the state hold
caught between the auto and primary elections at large
the guard rail, and submit the legislative
Finkbine's statement,
The earthquake also
wrecked an aqueduct in
fulfilling a duty to needy
children "
"Assuredly," the brief
said, “providing for needy
children is an affair of the
crease non-passenger rev-
enues and to reduce op-
erational costs.
The. increase was granted
to Greyhound Lines. Ada
Transportation Co., Conti-
nental Panhandle Lines, Mid-
Continent Coaches, M. K. &
O., Continental Central and
Dixie Lines and the Oklaho-
ma Transportation Co.
notice that it had not.
Reynolds indicated he
would call the governor as
a witness, which led to a
sharp exchange between
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Women’s Page ...... 10-11
know why a special session Rizley’s courtroom were
was not called, but noted filled. Every available seat
that the court took judicial also was occupied inside ths
be called to explain why he
did not call the legislature
into special session to write
a new apportionment law.
‘Chaos’ Feared
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 143, Ed. 2 Tuesday, July 31, 1962, newspaper, July 31, 1962; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2006020/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.