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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Area Weather Forecast
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& Morning Press
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VOLUME 16—NO. 31
56 PAGES
THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1965
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Days Live
In Memories
On Viet Nam Moves
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Suspect Confesses
To Killing Girl, 14
Lake, Drowns
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Pronounced dead
McClung
disap-
trip soon to Viet Nam.
(AP Wirephoto)
North Ammunition Dump Blasted
month, making it the driest July
here since 1954
of the Hawaiian meeting said
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Ford and one of his
About 290 miles northeast of
members.
Russell
early Sunday in an apparent
near the dam.
to t
Aori
questioning in the Iversen case.
See DROWNING, ram 2, 4
Cityons Curb Water Usage
Our Reservoirs In Good Condition
minimum
for
terms
ARNETT (Staff) — Two per-
sumption
was
partly cloudy
cool.
More
month, the article said Soviet
trot said the
21 million gallon mark on
in
to parties in-
or indi
the Viet Nam crisis is
the belief that there is a chance
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“certain phases of implement-
ing the President’s announced
PFC Richard Cheeman of Sewell, N.J., a member of the 1st Cavalry Division,
sits among live mortar shells on range at Fort Benning. Ga., pondering his
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According to Weber. Linehan
confessed be led Barbara from
fishing for more than an hour
when he fell into the water.
was finished Dad put in one of
the first blacksmith shops in
•town, in the 300 block on E.
ment
stops
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by David
Johnny
Rev.
church
two
op-
ible ”
. Paul
north of here near Gran-
inn.
Long, 1102 Sullivan Drive, had
gone to Crater Lake before sun-
flicting heavy damage, a U.S.
spokesman reported Sunday
The four American F104 jets
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THE victim — Barbara Iver at U. S. Army Hospital was
son. blonde junior high school Sgt. 1C. James E. Taggart, M.
leer women—Mrs.
Nelle M. Peard,
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Temperature Chart
24-Hour Rongr Endine II »*■ setureev
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China accused the Soviet Union
Saturday of giving soft-glove
treatment to U.S. military ac-
tion in Viet Nam and took a
strong stand against the Soviet
ing at midnight Friday. Con-
sumption was below 20 million
Arnett. was a passenger.
The plane had been reported
overdue earlier and the Federal
Aviation Agency had started a
search.
Pentagon spokesmen told re-
porters the meeting would be
concerned with working out de-
gallons, an average of 20.395,000
gallons daily. In the same week
up to fish. They said Taggart
arrived later, parked his car
“line-on compromise and capitu-
lation'.”
point where Taggart fell in-
he lake, it was reported.
end I did not see him fall in.
but I heard the splash when he
hit the water. I got up and ran
to the east end of the dam.
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chair-
man of the joint chiefs of staff,
and Adm. U.S.G. Sharp, over all
commander of the Pacific, at
Sharp’s Hawaiian headquarters
a Pentagon announcement said.
Maxwell D. Taylor, recently
resigned ambassador to Saigon,
who is returning home to the
United States, made a stopover
in Honolulu on Saturday, but
Sharp said Taylor would not
attend the Monday conference.
Discuss Plan
pie’s Daily. signed by “Observ-
er” and broadcast by Peking
gallons on four days
in the same week last year,
water use totaled 29 million gal-
lons on one day. 23
pea red late the night of June
9 while babysitting for neigh-
bors.
Barbara’s body, clad in red
pajamas and one tennis shoe,
was found late Monday night
beside a dirt country road a
block from Linehan’s home—40
age is 2.90 inches, but totals night, he said, he dug the grave
have ranged from 14 inches in and had his wife help him car-
*-846.
Top-Level Military
Talks Set In Hawaii
I
Radio, charged that “Nikita
Khrushchev revisionists” ter
looking for excuses to “work forces of aggression,
hand in glove with U.S. imperi-
, Hawaiian conference of military i
leaders Monday will follow up ’
burglary and indecent assault.
Authorities said a conversa-
tion overheard in a tavern sub-
—"3
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league with some American del-!
egates” to promote Viet Nam
peace talks.
The People’s Daily writer said
signed to the Staff and Faculty
Battery, U. S. Army Artillery
and Missile School.
The victim’s body was recov-
ered at 8:40 a.m.. 1% hours aft-
er Taggart fell from the dam
at Crater Lake into water about
10 feet deep. Bill Stephenson. a
.diver dispatched by the Coman-
che County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment. recovered the body from
the bottom of the small lake.
woman, two
GAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP)
•7 .— U.S. and Vietnamese
planes dumped 20 tons of bombs
Saturday night on a North Viet-
During Steady U.S. Air Attacks
The Pentagon announcement - E
sequently led to discovery of
the body, and Linehan
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alism in order to push the
scheme for peace talks’ on Viet
Nam."
week’s total water con-
on arrival in Viet Nam,cewill meet with
crease in water consumption to of the succeeding six days
a timely rain and the coopera- ’
tionof local citizens in a plea
(AP) (UN)
—
copters and other heavy equip-
ment are moving by sea. more
troops will be on the way by air
transport.
Ne Details
Because Johnson reached his
final decision only on Wednes-
day morning, it had been impos-
sible for the military to work
out any details on deployment of
new forces in advance.
The influx of thousands more
men into Viet Nam will require
that the conferees in Hawaii get
together detailed timetables for
movement and arrival of units
Facilities to billet, supply and
feed the swarm of new men
must be ready.
Two Are Killed
In Plane Crash
able water can be shared by
all.
In the 24-hour period ending
at midnight July 24, Lawton
and Fort Sill water require-
menu totaled 24,529,000 gallons
Water use did not reach the
m night — 74 12:00 mm —
M a. m. — 71 1:00 •,m.—
M a. m. — n 2:00 m. —
00 *■ m. — 6 2:00 m. —
4:00 a.m.— 4:00 —
Commenting
World Congress
sinki Finland,
Also Mapped
By President
142,771,888 sons were killed Saturday night
when a small private, plane
crashed on a flight from Camar-
miles
during the past dy. M
nans of the Geneva agree-
provided the United Stat
WASHINGTON (AP)
“I kept hold of the heavy end
of the pole, and again held the
transferred to the jail here for utir said/^He^abbed' heemna
dirty sons in last — Lloyd and
. Earl and Eddie. The boys, are
gone now. Earl, who died last
year, was Lawton's longtime
street commissioner.
PIONEER WOMEN who came here by wagon and stage recall golden strug- sion.
gles of Lawton’s youth as city this week celebrates 64th birthday. Looking
down from front of Conestoga wagon in Old Corral portion of Fort Sill Museum,
are, from left, Mrs. Stella Deboy. Mrs. Maggie Childs. Mrs. Ed Barnes.
old babysitter to death on a
window-peeping tour and forced
his wife to help bury the body
beside a country road near
their home.
Chief Deputy Sheriff George
Weber said the man. Dennis
conferees would discuss
1
in Lawton
to succeed.
The approach
volved directly <
. India here this week.
---- ---- ----- . The source said that because
weather is expected in t h e of the Indian-Chinese conflict it
t8
of a of 2408 N. 42nd. who was as-
student and daughter
warehouse foreman —
first. because she said I was
usually a little cleaner than Jonuarv
my brothers ... I guess t h e Febryor
bluing really bleached us put. ’ Aorii"
Mrs. Christmas would put her Mav
__________ A heroic effort was made by
The figure. 2.48 inches below the home where she was baby- Rev Don Ford, 4220 Avondale, th.
the 94-year average brings the sitting, choked her in his car Sullivan Village Methodist
1945 total to 12 52 inches, or 6.31 to stop her screaming and hid Church pastor. to rescue the
below average her body in the wooded Carlos victim.
Until this past week, it ap- Avery game refuge north of
pearedstnatiuly wa destined Weber said confessed
to De comPiete Mi: he went home, told his wife.
Only traces of moisture were •Who couldn’t believe it.” and
received here between near the “told her she would have to go
end of June and July 24 at with him to dispose of the
which time .05 of an inch was bodv "
recorded
An additional .20 was received LINEHAN said the next night
on the 28th. and .19 fell on the he made his wife go with him
go to Arnett in western Okla-
homa
The Oklahoma Highway Pa-
a year ago, consumption to-
taled 153,798,000 gallons, an av-
erage of 21,970,000 gallons dai-
ly-
While city officials were
pleased with the reduction in
water use, they were even more
pleased by the condition of the
two reservoirs compared with
the condition a year ago.
The level of Lake Lawtonka
Saturday was 1,334.25 feet
above sea level. or 11.30 feet
below the maximum Hood gate
level. In the same week a year
“WE SAVED every drop we uary, have had under-average Linehan. who had a record of
could," Mr. Deboy said. anpountsing moistureakdown or romcatan, was areshea jEg
18 on Anoka County charges of
Christmas, and twice a week.
Mary Christmas would get out
her scrub board and wash
clothes. Everybody in town
bought water at 25 cents a bar-
rel
Arnett is about 28 miles west "two opposite lines have existed
for a long time in the world
tails on the expansion of U. S. and 10 Vietnamese propeller-
forces in Viet Nam from a driven Skyraiders left the build-
and“had”been present 75,000 to 125,000 No ings at Xam Rung. 75 miles
new steps nor any new actions northwest of the border, either
Many pioneers seem to agree
that there were about 20,000 to
25,000 in the new city. There
were soon 79 saloons, 130 feed
stores and five banks.
This is the week of Lawton's
64th birthday. There are still
71 members of the Pioneer
. Club. Mrs. Pat Shuman, pres-
Some port ions of Oklahoma the belief that there is a chance
received light showers Satur- of agreement on talks under
day. with Guymon receiv
.43 of an inch, .06 at Gage,
at Tulsa. and 81 at Enid
use the rinse water to bathe ... . -
us She'd always put me in 1965 rainfall.
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SINGLE COPY PRICE 15«
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warmer today. High today
88. low tonight M. high Satur-
day N, forecast overnight low
65.
for a high of 89, with a low of
65 expected early today. Show-
ers were forecast Saturday
night in the area, but failed
to materialise. i
“I was fishing at the west
end of the dam.” Rev. Ford
recalled, “and this fellow (Tag-
gart) was fishing at the east
them to a conference table. Ac-
cording to the source, this ac-
tion was agreed upon during
talks between Tito and Prime
I Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of
movement. These
are diametrically
“The only thing I found there
to try to reach him with was
his two-piece cane pole.” Rev.
Ford continued. “I held it out
for him to grab the end. but,
the pole came apart when he
grabbed it.
1888 to none in 1903. ry the body to it.
In the past 20 years, only 1954. Linehan’s wife and two child-
with .40 of an inch, has had a ren were in protective custody
drier July. in a downtown St. Paul hotel at
weekend talks by President
Johnson with his chief advisers
on the Viet Nam war.
During the day, the President
at his ranch home talked by
phone with Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara and Sec-
retary of State Dean Rusk and
summoned Arthur J. Goldberg.
U. S. ambassador to the United
Nations, for an on-the-scene ses-
on the leftist
of Peace in Hel-
earlier this
0fhepie, a white 33 Piper fleece
Cub. was owned by Jerome lines
Brown
M a m. — a S:00 ft. m. — 82
N a. m. — 47 6:00 »• m, — n
co a m. — « 7:00 p.m. — s
00am.-7 8:00 m. — 7
00 «. m. — 7 9:00 ».m — 7
00 < m. — M 10:00 P.m.—
M a. m. — M 1:00 D.m-n
(Ceurtesv Public service Ca.)
decision concerning Viet Nam.” namese ammunition dump in-
Peace Plans
heading south. ly wounding one Australian
All the planes returned safely, guard,
he said. The attackers met no
enemy ground fire or planes in Saigon, the Viet Cong attacked
the bombardment of the muni- three outposts on Highway 1
for water conservation wherever
Wayne Gilley com-
The first seven months of this her request. No charges were
year, with the exception of Jan- filed against her.
Sunday Weather:
Coo/ And Cloudy
day announcement that some
। flights as routine reconnais- dren. Earlier in the evening, a
sance missions in which the pi- grenade went off in an Austra-
lots searched for military traffic lian enlisted men's billet, slight-
—-
Lawton area today as a pass- was considered that Shastri
ing cool front moves across Ok- should not be involved in this
lahoma. diplomatic action and that Nas-
The forecast for today calls ser, who is on good terms with
the Chinese, has better chances
Lawton's two water reser-
voirs are in far better condition
than at the same time last
year, and water consumption
during the past week dropped
below the total use for the same
week in 1964.
City officials credited the de-
the 50,000-man increase in (J. 8.
. 15-page contession .nd AM
What a load off my mind. Wildiite Refuse lake while fish MMiwMb preparations are
Linehan,.muscular unem- ing from a dam eary satur- underway for the meeting in
Pehhdampraheajoverpldheofav dyumomningcana.arowned de- Ss top
dailygsince henburiedthe body hsheenan to rescue the Gen waiam C. westmore-
after the "kiiling day« soldier. land, chief of American forces
only 83 left.
BUT THEY stuck it out, and
reared their children here. Mr.
Childs' first job here was build-
ing the door and window
, frames in the old Keegan Ho-
tel. Mr. Childs is dead now.
. Mrs. Childs will be 88 on Aug
30
The Ed Christmas family
came from Glen Rose, Tex. It
took them about two weeks to
‘ get here. They traveled in a
, couple of wagons They arrived
Sept. 22, INI.
Their daughter. Stella (De-
boy) was four years old.
"We lived in a tent until
persons to each wagon,
got to Alva, Okla., May 30 and
drove on to Mangum and Altus
and Vernon. Tex., and Hobart,
always looking for land They ST. PAUL, Main (UPD2-A
landed in Lawion in Septem- young father confessed Satur-
day he choked a pretty 14-year-
effort to destroy highway and
railroad bridges along the vital
north-sou th route.
A government spokesman
said more than 100 rounds at ■
mortar fire hit Thua Luu. Nuoc
Ngot and My Gia. about 30
miles southeast of the northern
See AIR ATTACKS, Pam 1A. Cai. «
ter z
tion dump.
Aground. the Communists
continued their terrorism in Sai-
gon as well as harassments
elsewhere.
, tv la k iA Linehan, 24 wept after signing
ber. They lived in a 10 by 14--
tent that winter. One night a .. r r ...
windstorm came and blew their '/L D-N. AAl~um
03 nain way
Albert, got typhoid fever, and
" ".. Below Average
Only .44 inch of moisture fell
are expected in the Monday destroyed or extensively dam-
meeting. It was said. aged, the spokesman said. ' A terrorist lobbed a grenade
it was disclosed only a few The raid highlighted an eve- into a poliice chiefs house near
hours after Johnson's Wednes- ning of steady air activity downtown Saigon, killing a child
against North Viet Nam. The and wounding a
units already were headed for a spokesman described the other police officers and three chil-
port to embark for Viet Nam.
While advanced units with heli-
"THE voices of the Pioneer
- - Club ladies are still
, young, and they remember the
golden days of Lawton’s youth
• like yesterday.
Mrs. Ed Barnes 108 S. 18th.
remembers some horses and a
friend who disappeared. She
never saw them again.
I; _ Mrs. Stella Deboy. 215 H. re-
members the two baths a week
that her mother used to give
her and her brothers m the
clothes rinsing water.
They were golden days of
dust storm and flood, of tent
living and buying water at 25
cents a barrel. The opening of
the Kiowa-Comanche reserva-
tion of Southwest Oklahoma.
Aug. 4, 1901, was the last of
America's great pioneer land
openings for settlement.
Partly clo
through M
January, 1902, then we moved
into a house at 1002 E before it
.1025--n-20a
to clear
nr. A little
power in the Southeast Asian gbj
theater at war 52
Talks With McNamara
But his discussions with Me- 52
Namara presumably turned 5
largely on implementation of 5
The diplomatic portions of
these talks presumably center- i,e
ed on the peace-seeking aspects dsi
of the U. S. approach which are
going fowatd simultaneously
with reinforcement of American i=
delegates “did go to some
length to profess their copposi-
tion to U.S. imperialism ” But,
it added, the Russians "were in
Sill Man Falls
Into Refuge
f —a
I
a .
7 a,.
Pattenon. also of
ident, said a member must
have been in Lawton before
Jan. 1, 1884.
Mrs. Maggie Childs, 431 H,r
came with her husband Wil-
ham Elmer Childs, and her i
two brothers-in-law and their ,
families from Holbrook. Neb 1
They left May 4, 1901. and
traveled in three wagons, three
Long was using a floater and
298, — a an put * S*”'™inTaistnctfom
Later the shop was in the 800 have received smaller amounts an abandoned farm house near
block.” during July. The month’s aver- their home. The following
Stella's mother was Mary
me
Chinese Say Soviets Tito To Launch
'Soft' On U.S. Action Plan For Peace
BEL G RuA DE. Yugoslavia
TOKYO (AP) — Communist The broadcast did not identify SAP? is expected to write Pres-
Observer but this signature ident Johnson and Premier
often is used by a high-ranking Alexei N Kosygin of the Soviet
Chinese Communist official with Union in a bid to help end the
something to say. Some say । Viet Nam crisis, it was reliably
Mao Tze-tung has used it him- learned Saturday.
self at times., j , A foreign diplomatic source
The article Said the line advo- said that Tito will also get in
A lengthy article in the Peo- cated by Communist China ‘’touch with President Gamal
to isolate U.S. imperialism...to Abde Nasser of the United
the maximum, a line of cease- Arab Republic and request that
_________ dealing blows at and explore with Red Chinese
were weakening the imperialist and North Viet Nam leaders the
_c-
A TENT CITY sprang up V
here almost overnight. People k
came from all over the world 2
and registered for the land
lottery. Lawton's population shot
up from zero to estimates that
have run from 18,000 to 100,000. ma
Mrs. R. B. Stewart and many
more. have their own like yes-
terday-memories.
Mrs. Ed Barnes. who was
born Mar. L 1885, came to Fort
Sill when she was a year jM.
She came on a stage, up from
Henrietta. Tex. She'd been
staying with relatives. Her fath-
er had died, and her mother had
come to work for the Cat R. A.
Sneed Red Store trader family.
Mrs. Barnes' brother, George
Smith, was aa early day cow-
boy. her husband, the late Ed
Barnes, was aa old cowboy for
the Texas cattle baron,
Burnett. and later he ran his
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