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Richard B. Speck, front
Richard B. Speck, profile
THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
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Morning Press
48 PAGES
THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1966
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failures, do not expect any.
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and fight heroically. So far, we
have blasted out of the skies
well, and water problems are
not general at all.
CHICAGO (AP) — A coast-to-coast hunt began Saturday for
tattooed ex-convict named in a murder warrant as the me-
through measures designed to
protect against another such
building, a suggestion that has
been included in Urban Re-
newal planners’ preliminary
study of the downtown area.
It was suggested by the Ur-
ban Renewal planners and en-
dorsed by the Hotel board
that the hotel can form the
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handful of towns plagued with
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are fliers.
Ho’s speech also appeared to
constitute a full rejection of the
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families would not be financial
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latest U.S. peace feelers.
The agency carried the par-
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tion in Saigon and Washington
before the broadcast that Hanoi
might announce punitive action
against captured 1
fliers, whom it has repeatedly
branded as war criminals.
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planes. . . .
Objectives that day included
six misaile sites, from seven to
45 miles from Hanoi, and three
widely separated oil depots.
Two of the missile sites were
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bombings, and though the war
may last "5, 10, 20 years or
longer,” and Hanoi, Haiphong
and other cities and enterprises
U S Air Force raiders who
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feasible location, with poor
results. Hastings, which has
been virtually without water
for three years, has drilled
wells, but has been plagued
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fingerprints at the house which he said were Speck s.
He said the print used to identify’ him was taken from the
wooden door of the bedroom where the nine girls had been «
herded and trussed. and eight of them dragged by the killer one
by one to their deaths in other rooms of the house. The eig i
were strangled and stabbed repeatedly.
Marines Hit Downtown High-Rise County s Tax
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with bad luck.
ELGIN, left without water
for six hours two weeks ago,
has since brought in a new
well, and is working on an-
other. Rationing is in effect
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Area Weather Forecast
Clear to partly cloudy through
Monday. A little warmer Sun-
day. High Saturday 95. Expect-
ed high Sunday near 1M. ex-
pected low Sunday night around
78.
Manhunt Begins For Ex-Convict Slayer Of Nurses
mathea in its essentials the one given to police earlier by Chicazo Police Sunt, wilson said his detectives had found 32
nucleus of
senators’ statement.
an NAACP meeting here Satur-
day, told the group that, if nec-
essary to attain desegregation!
goals here, he would file re-
quests with all federal agencies]
to cut off funds for all Lawton
projects and ask that Lawton
be placed off limits to military
------inel. He said he would
and E Avenue.
The Board directed that a
study be made of both under-
ground and multi-story park-
ing facilities, realizing t h a t
parking is of the utmost im-
portance.
Further steps to make the
hotel more attractive f o r
guests recently have been
made. An attractive room ad-
jacent to the hotel ballroom
recently has been completed,
to be used (or receptions, din-
ners and various purposes.
Improvement of the down-
stairs dining and meeting
rooms also is contemplated.
All outside maintenance has
been brought up to date and
all the rooms in the tower
see DOWNTOWN. Poge Col. 3
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shortages. The others have
a resolution by
tions.
City Valuation Jumps
The "net valuation for 1956
compares with a net of $53,
The study would include
for more parking in
The Board authorized t h e
Hotel Lawtonian management
to begin a study of the eco-
nomic feasibility of building a
high-rise apartment hotel to
the west of the present Hotel
tower and to be operated in
conjunction with the hotel,
Frank Kitchens, president, an-
. mod in the background, 9-yer-old Jackie Anquoe of Tulsa
) With a teepee framed inthe.back toward towering cumulus clouds in the sky
I holds an Indian whistle as hernki tow a rd arrived g short time later, giving
in hopes for needed rai __ t nt the Anadarko Indian Exposition, which wound
lief from 100 plus temperatures at me • (Staff Photo by Van Bourn)
up Saturday.-------------------------------
NAACP Out To Block Southwest 3
MSSpecmarsowas said to have tattoos on both arms. One tat-
tossak hsornong plicerecord in Texas, where be served tJ.
The second term endedolune ecns
woman with a butcher knife. g, ws wanted for ques-
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boned by police there after.asserie, owl and mother at .
four months. ________—----
------- , 236.277 for 1%5.
foot lot on the southwest cor-
ner of the block, at Fifth
See NAACP, Page A, Col.
the downtown area.
[ Richard L. Dockery NAACP
regional director, said he has
asked the Department of Hous-
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Lawton property accounted
for 74 per cent of the net val-
uation in 1965. This year, tax-
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the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
has taken action to block two
urban renewal projects in Law-
ton, it was disclosed Saturday.
Involved in the protest are
the Pleasant Valley Project for
the predominantly-Negro area
of Lawton View Addiin"
Project Pride, covering
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1 AWTON’s anti - poverty
Lprogram director has toss-
ed in the sponge.
Jerry Wilson, who has been
director of the local Commun-
ity Action Office for some
seven months, submitted nis
ed, even’ though the federal
government subsidizes their
Army Told To Back Cong All Out
HANOI REGIME ORDERS
PARTIAL MOBILIZATION
if the United States throws one
million men or more into the
Viet Nam war and intensifies its Hue
thodical butcher of eight student nurses.
Police Supt. O. W. Wilson said fingerprints lifted from the
blood-splattered town house where the massacre occurred
last Thursday matched those of Richard B. Speck.
Miss Corazon Amurao, the only survivor of the massacre,
also identified Speck from a coin-machine photograph.
Police found the photo in files at the Maritime Union Hall a
block away from the town house, where they said Speck had
tried a few days before the murders to get a job on a boat
sailing down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
An hour after the state warrant was signed charging
Speck with murder, a federal warrant was issued charging
unlawful flight. This authorized the FBI to join the hunt
The fugitive was described as a white man, 25 years old. 6
feet 1, 160 pounds, blue eyes, light brown hair. The description
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LAWTON nna +%, FOrt Worth to withhold approv-
(AP) (UPI)
Dockery said he initiated the
action at the request of the
Lawton chapter, which has been
sponsoring recent demonstra-
tions protesting segregation pol-
icies at Doe Doe Amusement
Addition and Park, and failure of the c i t y
most of council to adopt a proposed pub-
lic accommodations ordinance.
terms.
1.200 Planes Claimed
But there was no mention
Sunday of the captured Ameri
they nBmberes, Tentkng SATt Fridayby a record highiof1121
Force personnel. It has not been missions, assignments ordinar.
disclosed how many of the 22 ly executed by two to four
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POWs Ignored
There had been wide specula-
night
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tialmabthestxt of the National written off as destroyed.
Assembly decision proposing
Twelve House Democrats Satur- This was a tacit admission bv
I m supporting the the so-called doves, as Church
labelled the signers, that Hanoi
R.Vt could accomplish what Johnson
of himself has failed to do — si-
ina.droughtalmosthsskper The North Vietnamese presi-
- p......- as.tat L blessing inPdis- dent, whose statement was de-
NAACP officials said guise, for town boards imme- scribed by the Hanoi agency
The ninth. Miss Amurao. saved her life by wriggling un-
der a bunk bed during one of the killer s absences.
Wilson said Speck was seen in Chicago as late as 9 p.m.F ri-
day He was registered at a hotel on North Dearborn Street
near Chicago’s Loop - more than 10 miles from the scene of
the massacre.
”He might have left the city after seeing in the newspapers
what was virtually a portrait of him, Wilson said.
see EX CONVICT. Pooe 13A, Col. ) _______________
area that will not only be
beneficial to t h e hotel but this year shows
xrS" the whole ma5eyaantionmillionasbayeritea
A considerable part of the sorurdazannp cCockt, ABesSor
block in which the hotel is lo- Pester 6 paden.
nated is already owned or J ■
cated is a . ----- The report is awaiting ap-
proval of the State Board of
.. , ct L, Equalization, which is schedul-
Within the recent past the ed to meet in Oklahoma City
hotel corporation has purchas - 4s Friday to examine repotts
ed the Russen bunlding wad tromFaii 7 counties,
joining the hotel on the west, paden’s report showed a net
and the Dawes building also property valuation of $56,402,-
to the west. 294, excluding a total of $13,-
Buildings on this seventy- 1908,175 in homestead exemp-
five foot front facint E Ave-
nue recently were razed to
provide a parking lot adjacent
to the hotel. The hotel corpo-
ration also owns a 75 by 150
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Border Area Apartments Proposed Base Boosted
development Comanche County’s valuation
for ad valorem tax purposes
an increase of
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Call Aired Congress Leaders Harden Stand
For Years Executions Risk War, Hanoi Told
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nounced.
Members and officials of
the hotel visualized a 15 to 20
story apartment hotel building
that’ would provide living
space f o r people working
downtown and for others who
preferred to be near the
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able property in the city ac-
counts for 75 per cent of the
net valuation.
The net valuation of property
in the city last year was $39.
420 829 The valuation this year
jumped to 342.540,276, an in-
crease of $3,119,347.
Breakdown Listed
Lawton’s increase in proper-
ty valuation accounted for al
but $46,620 of the total bonst or
$3,166,017 for the entire coum
Vrhe net valuation for the
county includes real Prorent:
$48,674,820 exclusive of $13,900
175 in homestead exemptionsi
58,734,050 in personal property,
' "see TAX BASE. Poge A.Col“___
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TOKYO (AP) — North Viet
I/Nam’s President Ho Chi Minh
’ on Sunday ordered a partial mo-
bilization, and Hanoi told its
----------- —- ’ over 1 200 enemy aircraft. We
mer, and barring mechanical are determined to defeat the
enemy's war of destruction and
, . ry at the same time to extend all-
years ago, when almost every
town in the area was gasping
Weathering
Urban Renewal Plans Heat Wave
By TOM SHARROCK
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kinFenuhiemits‛andhe"gtoriousreporsdcecrnainy
military spokesman adoption of
‛ Hotel Board of Directors.
resignation ‘effective Aug. 8.
The resignation was given
to the 26-member board of di-
rectors of the Comanche
County Improvement Founda-
tion, the group which over-
sees federal anti-poverty pro-
grams which come down
through the federal Office of
Economic Opportunity.
Although he gave no rea-
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port” to the Viet Cong in
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In words strongly indicating A _ , ,h, I aw.
that Hanoi planned to step up its SAIGON, South Viet Nam COOPERATION of the Law
- dispatch of troops to South Viet (AP) - U.S. Mannes clashed • ton Community. Hote11
Nam the news agency quoted again with Communist guerri- Inc with the Downton -AW
the Defense Council ’ commu- las Sunday in a massive opera- ton Association and Urban Ret
niaue as saving tion only eight miles from the newal Authority in an effort
niduea sa. g. border with North Viet Nam and to revitalize the area sur-
91 enemy, rounding the Hotel Law tonian
assured Saturday by the
obligation of the great rear to dead since military spokesman’
the great frontline, let the army A U.S. ltn-w how
and people of the North extendIsaidhesdidontaknwth°the ene-
all-out support to the patriotic was He said Marine casual-
resistance war of our Southern . • but five sup-
compatriots.” poring helicopters have
In his 800-word statement. Ho rashed in the operation, two
declared: “The U.S. aggressors! from enemy fire.
have brazenly launched air at-1 The Leathernecks, joined by
tacks on North Viet Nam in anigovernment troops, formed a
attempt to get out of the quag- task force of several thousand
mire in the South and to impose troops in Operation Hastings
on us ‘negotiation’ on their south of the six-mile-wide no-
man's land at the 17th Parallel
between North and South Vet
Nam. In addition to the body
army to "extend all out
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fall in Oklahoma Friday after-
noon had becomestationary. Sat when noFXAEpEhaNter" beena problem. The small
urday along a line south of the taken by __L. 21 P!___1 rAr..er ront, town tried
Red River to the Arkansas-Lou-
isiana border.
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and Chattanooga reprvea omy personnel. He saia ne wouu and may remain.sof oson
a light sprinkle but as much as take sch action only if request- time, but the plight is no long
M inch of rain was reported ed to do so by the local chapter. erudstneratewhich has been
inAthatardhs, triggered rain- MAYOR Wayne Gilley ex-’ hauling water since its small
ton n°kihoma Friday alter, pressed _ keen disappointment raserveir. dweds"Buthand has
Temperatures climbed into <-----
thealoma SaturdzysssmnsereapeshsaWogs
thundershowers dotted south- With the economic status of the
east and northeastern sections, people Involvedn This wasnteri
Highest temperature in the preted to mean t— —
cay. ^was™ “bthkomem iszble‛tomaintain.the.property roppd." walters has sunk
, live day of MO - plus readings wherethey S
for the capital city.
The forecast called for clear
I to partly cloudy skies through • who participated in
Sunday with scattered showers Dockery, wno P •---
r in extreme south central ana
southeast Oklahoma.
[ Farmland south and east of
7 Chattanooga was doused by an
early-morning shower Saturday
but the thunderstorm appeared
to have been isolated. Faxon
and Chattanooga reported only
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believed killed.
Terrorists Strike
in Tam Ky, 350 miles north of
Saigon, four civilians were
killed and 15 wounded when Viet
Cong terrorists attacked a bus provision — — - -
Enom with small arms and a the hotel area including the
W’ w P i h
Seven civilians were reported across E Avenue.
wounded Saturday in a terrorist included in the study would
grenade attack in Cholon, the be the possibility of a con-
Chinese quarter of Saigon. In a vention center somewhere to
, , third act of terrorism, a Viet' the east of the present hotel
appeal.” declared that even sfuad hit a police station ----- ------to- hat
to Tnited States throws one Snnofrice building Sunday in
" > with bombs and automatic
weapons fire but no injuries
wgesrearedecretary Paul H
Nitze, winding up a six-day tour
of Viet Nam, contributed to a
flow of optimistic statements
voiced lately by both South Viet-
namese and American officials:
Air Blows Continue
"The progress in all phases of
our Navy and Marine operations
has been much more dramatic
, them I expected before I left
Amencan Washington. Everywhere the
d effort is expanding in scope,
numbers and effectiveness.
American pilots maintained
over North Viet Nam the inten-
sified aerial campaign marked
iy by a record high of 121
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SOUTHWESTERN Okla-
homa towns so far have wea-
thered the heat wave very
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such a mobilization.
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DR. E. A. OWENS, president
of the Lawton chapter, confirm-
_____ _ ed that his organization has
■--- asked the regional director to
m.II l -yes protest thetwo_projects:
ronT LCdVC-1 The two I _______ _______
the downtown project was pro- diately got busy and pushed
tested because it excluded mi- -
nority areas in east Lawton
I which should be included. i occurrence.
The Lawton View project pro- Hardest hit today are El-
relocation gin, Walters, and Hastings,
and it is not fair to say that
status of the these have not tried. Elgin -----4,-
drilled new wells, and thought W be .destrozed,." the iint.
the situation under control un-
til the water table suddenly
G in- as manager of me uau
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M WwlX‘ Mad fwo board
members als9gresignedcitng
lack of time for serving.on
the antipoverty, Pr;iidm
franportation to. .X* "-i“*
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Anti-Poverty Director Resigns *
workload involved in supervis- .Wls0 • isiana college, gg
ing an expanded program of Me °nienror the $10,800 a V
Community Action projects Was. Sl lasi January.
contributed largely to his de ‛‛Ae previoustvgheigtheajob
■The director’s workloadin- Aampisount Store shoe de- E
dudes such federal anti-POV. Mawont since 1962. He is
erty projects as Head
for pre-school children- 4
ward Bound for college--
oztierofMunug
AsiBtance to randparent,
and Indient Children, also
Al C;,Ltnr R, JACK BELI application of power that wJ- fliers the North willf"demanamhe
I JI ()() WASHINGTON (AP) - It be- make a desert of heir coiindas dprectiloldomestic support of a complete destruction of North
VI iMllllI3 came increasingly apparent Others used erms bv N.i negotiated peace without mili- Viet Nam.”
- r saturdas that should Hanorgexe- stronglyrar andysninscarliemde-tary victory. In a skatement read to the
putezicapturdnam would be mands tor heavier bombing of Thal was the consensus be. semate byqsenigFrankchurch
brought under intense pressure military targets and closing of hind the unusual appeal by 18 D-Idaho he senat -‘would
10 desirot"NorihVigyam 1 "7| pons ocaHaephanak the d^'to xon,eduee
eveniatutheoriskntofnrinwr:onstates has told Hanoi through not to abandon the las re- of a nthodein the United states
This IrSbntity was under- unspecified diplomatic channels mants of reason" and ’bus in- who have tried o C
sio mObilization order and a scored by the erm staterien: tha anyials would a ver yite "the gravest reprsals.
Supreme Nrn wpefene orreyerarsanatosentimert was ' Whatever the President micht d^ toi^
. - Council commumuque were..T . I a U Cor, Ww ’ rd p pis. feel compelled to do in ordering
• ported bv the North Viet Nam tapifipdeby Sn RiirmdFolthe Short of nuclear war retaliation.
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The agency said Ho promul- 5 e -----------------
gated partial mobilization after
the standing committee of the
National Assembly “decided to
mobilize part of reserve offi-
cers. noncommissioned officers
and army men, and part of the
citizens belonging to the re-
serves of the army.”
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