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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
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& Morning Press
54 PAGES
VOLUME 17—NO. 13
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Beachhead At Saigon River
Port Traffic
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Fort Sill Fares To Increase April 1
To Stay In Business
STANLEY R. RESOR
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as many as 30 buses per hour
MANNED SPACE CENTER,
Houston, Tex. (AP) — Calmly,
Nam’s air force, said he is will-
See LAWTON'S BUS, Page 2A, Cei. 1
for recovery.”
Sooner Vietniks Get Hard Time
Straw Poll Shows Moore, Hall Ahead
tation. The 2,000-
suits.
demonstrators
iness comes from and goes to
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Army Air Might, Parachutists
Thrill Record Crowd Of 7,000
Astronauts Calmly
Tell Of Wild Ride
the demonstrations. Police esti-
mated the number of marchers
late 1967. he told a meeting of
government officials Friday an
earlier vote will be possible if
At the zenith of bus opera-
tions here, during World War
of the decision to end the flight.
“Though we did not desire to
come down at all and would
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500
the
buses at a student fare of 10
cents. Many individuals rely
on buses for transportation to
and from work.
The company serves more
than 2,000 people per day, with
an average of 65,000 to 70.000
rides per month.
Bowman said 500 more pas-
sengers per day would give a
gross income increase of ap-
proximately $75 per day and
would provide a sound base
to continue operation.
The Fort Sill fare increase,
effective next Friday, is ex-
pected to yield the company
about $60 additional gross per
day.
So the company still may
face losses of approximately
$300 per month following the
increase.
An increase in number of
passengers appears to be the
only long range solution to the
firm’s economic problems.
GOLDEN Knights trail smoke
in dramatic free fall prior to
opening parachutes.
(Staff Photos By Larry Gee)
to Fort Sill. Most had standing
room only.
“Cowards . . . Communists,”
they said over and over. There
See VIETNIKS, Page 2A, Col. a
2300 Bus Firm
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To Pay A Visit
Secretary of the Army Stan- T Zddm
ley R. Resor Afeesdsh.
next for Chamber of AdA835MEhh
See PACIFIST, Papa 3A, Cl. 4
Pleasant But Dry
Weather's On Tap
Chances of rain in the Law-
ton area will be sli mfor the
next few days, forecasters say,
after predicted showers early
Saturday failed to materialize.
Cool nights and mild days are
forecast for the next several
gers per day 1
transpantptdsnr the line', bus.
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The Lawton-Fort Sill Bus Co. faces many slack periods like this one, with one man boarding Sill bus
driven on late night run by Bruce De Witt. (Staff Photo)
tamed wild Gemini 8 in space
said Saturday that even at the
height of their tumbling and
spinning they were a long way
from losing consciousness.
To Neil A. Armstrong and Da-
vid R. Scott, the fierce ride in
Picture on Page 10-A
orbit compared with a sensation
they had felt before — as pilots
in a spinning airplane.
The Gemini 8 space twins,
their maiden orbital voyage cut
short by a short circuit in the
spacecraft, told a news confer-
ence the story of their historic,
but brief mission.
For a time after trouble de-
000 in the past two years, will
raise Fort Sill fares April 1
and is buying four new buses
in an attempt to find sound
footing and remain in busi-
ness.
The rate for a ride to or
from Fort Sill will increase
from 20 cents to 25 cents. The
s passen-
need bus
Bowman pointed out that
people who ride buses usually
cannot afford other transpor-
One-quarter ton jeep is pulled from CV-2 Caribou by parachute during LOLEX or low level extraction demonstration.
ing to hand over power to civil-
ians at any moment, adding: “I
J in San Francisco at
About 3,000 persons marched in
By PAUL McCLUNG
Lawton - Fort Sil] Bus Co.,
which has lost more than $12,-
market in the first such street
manifestation of opposition here
to Ky’s government since he
, - . rally of 10.000 at the Buddhist
the company was running , institute of Saigon’s central
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have very much liked to have
stayed up there,” he said, “it
Fort Sill. An estimated
school children also ride
ducted by Constitution-Press
staff writers for the United
Press International, which is
carrying out a state-wide
poll. Results of the state poll
will be announced Tuesday.
Comanche County was al-
loted 50 straw ballots, the
game number as other coun-
ties with newspapers sub-
scribing to UPI services ex-
high school students followed
Vincent Maefsky, co - ordinator
of the protest sponsored by the
Students for a Democratic So-
both from Fort Hood, Tex.,
and two Huey helicopters of
the type used extensively in
Viet Nam, were displayed.
The familiar CH-37 Mojave
helicopters were used to fer-
ry in two 105mm howitzers
and crews for a Reconnais-
sance, Selection, Occupation
and Position (RSOP) mission.
The crews, which fired sev-
See ARMY AIR, Page 3A, Cal. J
By TRAVIS HUGHES i weaved their way through a demonstrators and burned it on
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) — hostile crowd of about 50 heck- the sidewalk.
Two Oklahoma City Harding
gretted.
Already pledged to hold Na-
tional Assembly elections by
Clarence long for the day when I can re-
— — - turn to the life of a pilot.”
Eggs, Fists,
Words Fly U.S. Marines Consolidate
In Marches
veloped while Gemini 8 and an
a.u.., .... ... , _____J, Agena rocket were still docked,
the two astronauts who rode and Armstrong said, he felt he was
bringing the rigid combination
janitors. Manager
was approved by
cept Tulsa and Oklahoma
counties. The state’s two larg-
est cities received 150 ballots
each.
Results of the 50-vote poll
in Comanche County indicat-
ed Moore holds a slight edge
over David Hall, 35-year-old
Tulsa County attorney, with
former governor Raymond
SM STRAW POLL, ROBB a. w. i
days. Winds today should re-
sayeu up uzene, ..C saxu, .. main below 20 miles per hour
seemed reasonable to prepare with the temperature reaching a
high of 67.
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Chicago and 5,000 to 6,000
attended a rally which followed
the march. * Two thousand
marched in Detroit.
Rotten eggs were lobbed
from the New York crowd and
1,000 police braced themselves
against the barricades to keep
The dwindling passenger the people and their worries of
load and lack of profit in re- the past few days are due o a
cent years has prevented pur- misunderstanding that he re-
chase of new equipment. Bow-
man said.
The firm has cut expenses
to the bone, but is still run-
a bus company is vital for ________________ _____ ,
the service of customers and Hecklers splattered anti - war lers and onlookers. When seri-
the economy of Lawton. demonstrators with
Once, several of a group of
300 spectators ducked under the
barricades and traded blows increase
A Molotov cocktail was flung
against the headquarters of a
marching group before an
estimated 75,000 marchers
swung out down New York’s
Fifth Avenue in the largest of
Struggles
The new 36-passenger buses
will be the largest ever used
by this company. Buses now
in use carry 29 passengers
each.
Mrs. Morris said there is a
need for sightseeing and char-
ter buses for conventions here,
and she hopes to be able to
provide that service.
Purchases of the new buses
are being made under a loan.
The firm, including its equip-
ment and its 11 lots in down-
down Lawton, is under a mort-
gage by a local bank.
Bowman, the firm manager,
said the main reason for bus
company financial trouble
here and elsewhere is that
fewer people are riding buses.
There are more autos. Fort
Sill has a smaller population
than in other years.
“If business doesn’t pick up,
we can’t justify staying in bus-
iness,” Bowman said. “Under
present circumstances, I can’t
tell how much longer we can
stay in business.”
He said costs of bus parts
have risen five per cent to
six per cent during the past
year.
Bus company officials and
civic leaders emphasized that
Washington and two were
arrested when they tried to
bum a Viet Cong flag—stolen,
they said, from the deomonstra-
tors—in front of the White
House.
Throw Molotov Cocktail
back hecklers who shouted
“traitors!” and “kill a commie
for Christ!”
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Maj. Gen. Harry H. Critz,
Fort Sill commander, bus
company officials said.
The city fare will remain
the same, 15 cents.
Four new 36-passenger bus-
es, purchased at a cost of ap-
proximately $13,000 each, are
expected to arrive here April
20, said Mrs. David A. Mor-
ris, owner of the firm.
Rising costs of operation, a
steady decrease in number of
passengers and financial loss-
es for two consecutive years
forced the fare increase, said
Clarence D. Bowman, mana-
ger.
He said the firm is losing
money now, lost $7,000 in 1965,
$5,000 in 1964, broke even in
1963 and made a small prof-
it in 1962.
Mrs. Morris expressed will-
ingness to pour more money
into the 39-year-old enterprise
of her family.
“We are not going bank-
rupt. I am determined to stay
in business,” she declared. “I
am going to operate a bus
company, and give Lawton
and Fort Sill the best service
I can.”
_______________ _____j eggs and ous trouble seemed imminent,
tore their picket signs Saturday police stepped in and told both
during a tension - packed 90- groups to keep moving,
minute protest march in front There were no arrests,
of the federal building. A group of high school stud- ciety, and taunted him with in-
Helmeted police stayed back ents, attending a Hi-Y youth
from the sidewalk where the government session in the build-
demonstrators, varying at ing, gathered up some of the
times from 12 to 20 in number, literature distributed by the
By VIRGIL GAITHER
"THE Army flexed its air
* arm and championship
parachutists performed dare-
devil feats Saturday to the
amazement and pleasure of a
record crowd at Fort Sill.
The “big show” was Sill’s
quarterly Artillery aviation
demonstration, which also
tossed in a spectacular per-
formance of aerial acrobatics
and derring - do, despite a
strong wind, by the U. S.
Army Parachute team, the
“Golden Knights.”
A crowd estimated at 7.000
filled the bleachers early. Re-
maining spectators sat in
front or stood at either end of
the stands.
Among those attending was
Gen. (Ret.) Hamilton H.
Howze, an originator of the
Other Photos Page 6A__
Army’s air mobile concept
and current vice president for
product planning for Texron’s
Bell Helicopter Co.
Others included Brig. Gen.
John S. Hughes, assistant
commandant of the U. S.
Army Artillery and Missile
School: Brig. Gen. John D.
Torrey Jr., Ill Corps Artil-
lery commander, and numer-
ous other Fort Sill officials.
The bulk of the audience
was composed of members of
the general public, students
at the Artillery and Missile
School, OCS candidates,
ROTC students, trainees from
the Artillery Training Center,
Boy Scouts and newspaper
carrier boys.
The show, held under clear
skies with a cool, northerly
wind, began at 10 a.m. with a
demonstration of the short
takeoff and landing capabili-
ties of the various Army air-
craft.
Making an appearance, be-
sides the familiar light obser-
vation and utility fixed-wing
craft were the large CV-2 Car-
ibou fixed-wing aircraft, and
the CH-47 Chinook medium
troop transport helicopter pro-
vided by the 10th Aviation
Group at Fort Benning, Ga.
Also, the OH-23 Raven heli-
copter armed with two 7.62
machine guns, and the OV-1
Mohawk fixed-wing aircraft.
By RAY ATTEBERRY
IF the primary election for
* governor had been held
last week, Comanche County
voters would have selected
Preston J. Moore for the
Democratic nomination and
Dewey Bartlett as the Repub-
lican nominee, it was indicat-
•d by a poll of 56 voters.
The straw poll was con-
under control.
“The problem again uncov-
ered itself and the rates (of
tumble) began to increase to a
point where we felt the structu-
ral integrity of the combination
were in jeopardy,” he said.
“There were a lot of unan-
swered questions that we had
hoped to work on — a lot of ad-
ditional things which we hoped
to accomplish,” Armstrong said
Carl Froneberger, for many j assumed power last June.
years one of the owners of the Ky sought earlier in the day
company, once counted 90 to stem the criticism with a na-
individuals as they stepped off tionwide radio broadcast. He
a 29-passenger bus. said his government is close to
(AP) (UPI) THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1966
school students shouted, “cow-
ards. Communists” at the
marchers and burned pacifist
literature.
Veteran Rips Placard
At Hartford, Conn., a World
War II veteran attacked an
anti-war picket outside the
federal building in Hartford,
; Conn., ripping up the demon-
strator’s placard.
Hecklers spat at demonstra-
tors in Chicago and police
broke up a pushing match
between two hecklers and two
marchers without making any
arrests.
Leather jacketed youths on
motorcycles weaved back and j
forth through the demonstra-
tors at Boston.
American Nazi party mem-
bers turned out to heckle in
s3pdcq*r*#er
Commerce speaking engage-
ment and a tour of Fort Sill.
The secretary, in office since
July 7 of last year, will arrive
Friday morning, April 15, and
address a Lawton Chamber of
Commerce Forum luncheon the
game day.
He will tour Fort Sill and oth-
er points of interest Friday aft-
ernoon. On Saturday morning he
(See Related Photo, Page 11B)
is scheduled to attend a mech-
anized rifle company in the at-
tack demonstration at Fort Sill.
The return to Washington,
D.C., is set for Saturday after-
noon.
It will not be Resor’s first
Visit to Fort Sill.
He was stationed here in 1944
as a second lieutenant. He at-
tended the battery officers and
officers advanced courses at the
U.S. Army Artillery and Missile
School prior to going overseas
with the 10th Armored Division.
His upcoming visit was
prompted by an invitation from
Sixth District Congressman Jed
See RESOR, Page 3A, Col. 1
ning on schedule. Bowman
said. , . , ,current military and civil action
Bus drivers work for $1.10 programs are successful.
an hour. Some work 65 hours The premier, who remains
and 70 hours each we k commander of South Viet
The firm employs 27 per-
sons, including 18 divers, sev-
en shop men, mechanics and
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SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(AP) — Buddhist youths staged
an antigovernment street dem-
onstration in Saigon Saturday
night while U.S. Marines conso-
lidated a beachhead, newly won
in their southernmost landing of
the war, to protect river traffic
to the capital.
Mounting against Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky’s military re-
gime were political pressures
which threatened — as others
have done at intervals since the
downfall of President Ngo Dinh
Diem in 1963 — to complicate
the fight against the Viet Cong.
Leaping into that fight were
i about 1,200 American Leather-
necks of the 1st Battalion. 5th
Marine Regiment, specially
trained in Hawaii for a special
job in Viet Nam.
Landing Unrestricted
They stormed ashore in as-
sault boats and helicopters in a
driving rain at the mouth of the
Saigon River, 35 miles southeast
of Saigon. With naval guns fir-
ing in support, there was no ini-
tial Viet Cong resistance. The
main mission is to help shield
from Communist harassment a
shipping lane by which vital
supplies are moved inland from
the South China Sea.
Operations elsewhere cost the
United States three planes. Of
four crewmen in these crashes,
three were killed and one is lis-
ted as missing.
One of the planes, an A4 Sky-
hawk from the nuclear-powered
carrier Enterprise, crashed in
one of 38 attacks against North
Viet Nam's transport and com-
munication lines Friday. It went
down about 60 miles north of the
border during a bomb run on a
highway ferry landing. The oth-
ers fell during attacks on Viet
I Cong centers in the South.
Police Stand Back
Two hundred or more young
Vietnamese marched from a
...... • a .r Square when 30 members of
He II Arrive Anni 15 “Break Through,” a conserva-
-"EM--- tive group, attacked marchers.
_I Seven persons were arrested
A K" m in New York when spectators
AAA BemAN " oA" • PA8 assaulted Negro demonstrators
Army DCCICLdIY caryingstanyeeckong "bAanded
• “ demonstrators the “long yellow,
Picture on Page 12-A
line.” At Oklahoma City, high
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By United Press International
Tens of thousands of demon-
strators protesting America’s
role in the Viet Nam conflict
marched through city streets
from New England to Califor-
nia Saturday, dodging rotten
eggs, beer cans and fists.
Massed police in the nation’s'
larger cities prevented protes- j
ters and hecklers from clashing
during the second of the1
“international days of protest.”
marchers.
Three Arrested
Three persons were arrested
by police breaking up fist fights
between protesters and heck-
lers in Detroit’s Kennedy
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Shepler, Ned. The Lawton Constitution & Morning Press (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 27, 1966, newspaper, March 27, 1966; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2032238/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.