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VOLUME 62—NO. 215
(AP)
Eisenhowers Brother
Will Name Scranton
To Republican Ticket
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Gov. Bellmon
Given Corn's
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2
pound block of ice at the ice plant where he is employ
fused to share his seat with Constitution photographer Bill
4
Dixon.
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has been accepted,”
Bellmon
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southwestern Okla-
sight
erican leadership in South Viet
he- could
the critical Cyprus problem and
to show in southwest Okla-
to
and what really counts
wa-
E a
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Heat To Remain, Negroes Engage Whites
er necessary
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he was delighted to hear it.
(UPI)
Charges of engaging in a riot
vaded a beach on Lake Texar-
the Fourth of July weekend, de- no rain or relief is in sight.
Today’s high is expected to be
H
for Indian Ceremonials
2-
are
highs of 95 to 104 today, with
brownings
she was in charge of the in-
Total
Cass County Dist. Atty. Neal
1
Texarkana,
of
Ark. Williams maintained inno-
start.
encampment.
army bugling is
i
mustard was poured on the top
of a 1963 Falcon; Michael Lang-
tered.
weren’t satisfied. They came
over to the Cass County side
-e L. 1.t- --a Eona »
Herbert Hunt, No. 48 S 45th,
About 175 angry whites drove
red
the second location, swinging
Craterville
ture at
a later cnecK veveded
i and maple syrup had
as a rodeo arena.
wore bruised.
was shot and an un-
vandals had
The auto broke the gate into
men, none hurt seriously, were
To
see DEATH, Mas 4 Cet. 2
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Chief'Happy
With Record
Boys With Mustard
Create Havoc Here
GOP Hopeful
Says Former
Chief Pleased
Gourd Clan an-
nual three - day
Day holiday was shattered.
The United Press Internation-
NO HEAT HERE. Jim Bohl has an enviable job when the temperature soars
here in Lawton. In order to beat the 101 degree heat, Jim relaxes on a 300-
1904, and the lowest precipita-
tion mark for the month of
(NAACP). He blamed the out-
break of violence on about 15
y.
point in getting statistical.”
Scranton started off his news
conference with the statement:
“I’m pleased and delighted to
announce to you that Dr Mil-
Birmingham also filed charges
of assault with intent to mur-
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kana on the Texas side of the
border and clashed with white
bathers after a swim
Five Negroes were splattered
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492
141
6
85
724
came in
one inch;
June 13,
See Lies as, Poge 4, Col. 3
Explosions Rip
Chemical Plant
ings. A
Rainfall in Ji|M
this order: Junebl
June 12, .10 inch,
a 1
g *
Area Weather Forecast
Fair and hot through Tues-
day. high today 101; low tonigbt
73; high Tuesday 1M. High yes-
terday 1M; overnight low 73;
11 am. temperature 96.
paguu
age.
The lack of rain has begun
By CARL CLARK
Staff Writer
ITH no rain for the past
two weeks — and none in
Mh
McCLUNG
ed to hang herself, it was re-
ported.
THE incident began short-
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By PAUL McCLUNG
Staff Writer
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William A. Spin, No. 34 N. 24th.
where mustard was poured on
determination can be made, he
feels, until the effects of the bill
he signed last Thursday are as-
sessed.
Claims Satisfaction
In the foreign field, Johnson
is claiming to be well satisfied
about the transition of new Am-
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Miller County, Arkansas chap-
ter of the NAACP, who said
Calls Investigation
1 Bellmon has called for an in-
ly before 9 p.m. in the alley
behind the Warren hotel, Third
Race Mishap Kill
Boy, Hurts Eight
' A four-year-old Texas boy
was killed and eight persons
received injuries ranging from
minor to critical Saturday night
when they were struck by lum-
ber from a wooden fence into
which a stock car crashed at
Craterville Park near Mangum.
Killed as a result of the July
4th holiday racing accident was
Ricky Williams, 4, son of Jim-
my Ray Williams, 35, and Jill
Williams, 23, Vernon, Tex.
er ceremonials.
“They gave me this real old
book and I practiced the calls—
adjutant’s call. boots and sad-
dles, stable call. to horse, wa-
es of the wooden barrier gate
which was struck by a stock
car drive n by Robert Riddle,
24, 2419 B, Lawton.
Highway patrol officials said
the accident occurred at 9:15
California had 76 fatalities, a
“ecord for any holiday in the
tate. Michigan counted 38
lead, also a record. Texas had
7, New York 28 and Illinois 26.
There were 21 deaths in Ohio
ind 18 in Pennsylvania.
cious mischief spree. „
City police beganI receiving
he vandalism reports shortly
fter midnight Saturday.
large jar against another
cleat the climax of a mal-
County said the Negroes “were
- “ - T-—-n and
and told the policemen she
wanted “to end it all.”
Police questioned the girl’s
sister, who related she had
p.m. at Frank Rush’s amuse-
ment park 11 miles east of
Mangum. The accident occur-
racing fea-
Sumler, 15, William Easter, 22,
and Jimmy Donelson.
Another teen-aged Negro was
treated at a hospital but not
immediately charged with the
others.
Hudson told police the swim-
ing was well organized by the
National Association for the
en poured on L _
ors, mail box, porch and
tiveway.e
Within a
2:00 t Su — W
200 m—7
7:00 am—7
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P-F
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ment against Com if he did not
resign. _________________
Leading Railroad
Negotiator Dies
CLEVELAND (AP)—Roy E.
Davidson, grand chief engineer
of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers and spokesman
for the five rail operating broth-
erhoods during the recent work-
rules dispute, died today in
Cleveland Clinic.
He was 83 last Saturday.
Davidson, who had headed the
65,000-member union since Au-
gust 1980, entered the hospital
Saturday with what a family
spokesman described as a bowel
disorder. - 5
On Power Pole Halted
said.
Scranton made the announce-
I l ment at the start of two days
of old fashioned whistle stop
I campaigning through Illinois.
His swing through the Prairie
I State. where 48 of the 58 GOP
| delegates have announced for
Lawton vandals armed with a
llon jar of meeterd ereated
avocina northwest area ear-
CARNEGIE — After the sun
went down the Fourth of July
and the dust cleared and the
war drums stopped beating,
Pfc. Fredrick A. Clinton of Fort
Sill could tell about his life as
a bugler in the U. S. Cavalry.
Holiday Toil Forecasters Say In Texarkana Lake Riot
Sets Record
spun out of control on the track
and smashed into the wooden
fence at a point where a gate
.45 inch, and on June 23, .14
inch, totaling 1.89 inches for
the month.
Highest rainfall ever record-
ed in the month of June in
Lawton was 13.70 inches in
, .___ „ . „ . pistol wielding Negro, one of Dansby Wood, president of the
lows ranging from 68 to 76 to- about 90 from the local area
night.. who decided to test the new
Southern Oklahoma
man wished him “good luck,”
Scranton said. “Thank you, sir.
I appreciate it.”
Scranton was accompanied bv
his wife, his son, Bill Jr., and
see SCRANTON, Page 4, Col. i
White House — it is not known
when the President will end his
Texas holiday — Johnson in-
tends to talk with both outside
experts and heads of various
cence. His bond was $5,000 on
that charge.
Authorities were attempting
to find the white man who
fired the shotgun into the crowd
of Negroes on the beach at the
lake under control of the U. S.
Corps of Engineers.
The Negroes started their
swimming without incident at
another location on the Texar-
kana side of the dam known as
Sheriff Bill Dowd of Cass
is due
111 count showed at least 492
raffic deaths from 6 p.m. lo-
l-al time until 11:59 p.m. Sun-
K ..
ll The breakdown:
Officers said
pendence
A duty with the
’ Kiowa Indian
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Girl's Suicide Attempt
The five-day forecast from civil rights law by invading a
Tuesday through Saturday, calls previously white- only public tegration attempt,
for temperatures averaging one beach,
to six degrees above the normal "
highs of 90 to 96, and lows of
65 to 75. No precipitation is ex- . __
pected as the month of July der against a Negro. Clifford
gets off to a scorching, dry Williams, 21,
A 17-year-old Duncan girl.
A apparently despondent as
a result from a separation
from her busband, climbed a
utility pole here last night
anforhrshesnas"rtskueaesy"a and c where Kuchynka and
policeman. Enmanhg’ew utility pole
Patrolman Roy Bryant When the officers attempt-
climbed the electric utility ed to get the girl to descend,
pole and reached the girl ju*t she continued to climb upward
before she would have come
in contact with a high voltage
Rica. ter rationing. Hastings is lit-
When he gets back to the erally out of water and stock
ponds are dropping rapidly.
The last rain recorded in
ATLANTA, Tex.
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his first meeting witha Latin
American chief of stat, Presi- w onUw „ auuuw-a J
dent Francisco Orlich of Costa homa. Ardmore has begun
government departments and
agencies about long-term plan-
ning in the various domestic
fields which he feels need atten-
tion.
the demonstration, but who
stood on the shore and threw
stones at whites to start the
melee.
Among the five Negro wom-
en charged was Mrs. Ermer
aide said the governor pumped
822 hands before heading for a
news conference. When one
_________________, with pellets from a shotgun. Advancement of Colored People
luring the 78-hour Independence day’s high is expected to reach but only one required hospital
100 treatment. Bond of $1,000 each______ _______________
igLt low was 73 and the was set for 8,1 the Negroes who Negroes who were not part of
Overnight low was /3 ana me remained in Cass County jail ......
reading is expected to be a re-1 overnight.
tell the people of Illinois that
I'd be the best candidate the
I GOP could have.”
“The next week — from now
on — you will see nothing but
a state of flux,” he told the
news conference. “There’s no
covering his holiday stay here
and said the chief executive al-
ready has a number of task
forces at work on long term
planning.
Until the various studies are
finished, the President is not
about to put a price tag on the
proposals that ultimately may
be submitted to Congress for
new legislation.
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prshnsonehamageenortaningcot. Rainfall 4.64 Inches Below Average
omy-minded administration. But-------------- "
zaArea Beginning To Feel Drought
homa continues to suffer un-
der a broiling sun daily. It
has the “makings” of a good
drought.
Rainfall in Lawton for the
first six months of 1964 is 4.64
igbkremezz
55 2,5
expected to spread from ward Johnson, of Texarkana.
— 'He was shot Li the foot by a
ed. However, he re-
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peat low tonight. Casualties also included a 21-
Across the state, temperatures' year-old white man, Lee Ed-
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12:06 noen - W 12:00 night — *
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M ». m — w 2:00 «. " — 5
00 m. — 101
M p. m. — 100
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bar and legislature, although w
nescuui have Abeene removed x2
only by impeachment of the ■
legislature, which meets in
January.
The high court met last ■
Thursday and asked for Corn’s "
Riddle’s car
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Ml. — 89
to respond with compassion to j
human needs.
The President has not ruled
out the possibility of further 117
civil rights legislation, but no VV
inches below the average.
____ _ - During the month of June
Nam. his conferences with) alone, rainfall was down 2.07
Greek and Turkish Ateaters off inches from the 92-year aver-
In Congress
JOHNSON CITY, Tex (AP-
President Johnson is “highly
pleased and gratified” at Con-
gress’ record, but he is cooking
up new proposals he feels will
move the country toward his
concept of a "Great Society."
Johnson believes enactment of
the sweeping civil rights law
has cleared the way for tackling
such problems as metropolitan
area growth, the growth of in-
terlocking federal, state and
local responsibilities and fi-
nances; health: education, and
gearing the governmental struc-
ture to an age of science and
technology.
Relay Views
White House sources relayed
Johnson’s views to newsmen
vestigation of the case and said
it demonstrated "a sickening
-Ne3
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Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, may-
be Scranton's Iasi chance at di-
rect campaigning before the
Republican convention opens iff
San Francisco Mepday A
Voices Hope
Scranton came to Illinois
with the announced hope of
picking up “a few delegates
t T - wami
ii " izmgdgi.
Sunday morning, splattering rehr. No. 29 N. 24th. where .. — . 1c L.
•ELthnt mustardnr iiaspedcon Sha nennsthchenegroes
Resignation
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) —
Gov. Henry Bellmon today re-
ceived and accepted the resig-
nation of Supernumerary Judge
N. S. Corn, who pleaded no de-
fense last week to charges of
income tax evasion.
Corn mailed his resignation
to Bellmon and to William H.
Blackbird, chief justice of the
state supreme court.
“The letter of resignation
was received this morning and
Gen Eisenhower has been
scrupulously neutral in the
Scranton-Goldwater struggle, al-
though Scranton’s leaders have
ardently wooed his support. Dr.
Eisenhower, the president of
Johns Hopkins University, has
been an avowed Scranton
backer
Appeals To People
Scranton’s appeal to the peo-
ple in Illinois will range from
hand-shaking stands on crowd-
ed Chicago streets to a whistle-
stop train tour through the
at the homes of Ronald ducting an investigation in the
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the rear of a 1864 Falcon sta- ’ - — ,.
tion wagon and the gallon jar looking for tr o ubl e
National Convention
A beaming Scranton made
the announcement to a news
conference after conferring by
telephone with former Presi-
dent Eisenhower. The news
conference was delayed for 20
minutes while the Pennsylvan-
ian talked with the general
Gen. Eisenhower “knows
about this and is equally
pleased. He said he was de-
lighted to hear it," Scranton
NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP)-A A
series of explosions rocked the EE
American Cyanamid Co’s ex- i
losives and mining chemical de- 8%
partment at nearby Edinburg add
today and touched off a series MEM
of fires.
First reports said the blast E
left three fires blazing in an E
explosive area and police called E
the situation “dangerous.”
Jameson Memorial Hospital E
said it had received six injured MM
and St. Francis Hospital at New MM
Castle said it had one injured. I ■
About 250 are employed in HM
the department.
The blast knocked out win- E
dows and power lines in the
area. Telephone lines to the DR.
plant were disrupted.
mi,e,-
•ameme
resignation.
James D. Fellers, president of
the Oklahoma Bar Association,
had announced Saturday that
June was 10 years later when ' the bar's 17-member executive
Lawton recorded .14 inch in committee would i
June 1914. day to consider action in the
was tossed against the auto.
In between those reports, po-,g. -___ __ ....
lice were told mustard hurt of the lake and found it.
d he had seen several boys been poured on the left side, top About 175 angry whites drove
ing hom a house next door and fender of a 1960 Rambler the Negroes from the water at
ere a later check revealed owned by Thomas Peterson, No. the nce-i ___a._____,------
‘ 1 27 N. 34th; on the front seats bottles and clubs. Both sides park track which also doubles
the garage and front door of a car owned threw stones and bottles and
1 by Mrs. Carolyn Chilless, No. many were bruised.
43 N 24th; and on the right side Johnson was shot and an un-
short time, police of a I860 Pontiac owned by identified white man fired two
id reports that the Larry Josbeno, No. 44 N. 24th pellet blasts from his shotgun_________ ______
Juvenile authorities were con- at the Negroes. The wounded is installed for rodeo puposes.
For the first six months of
1964, Lawton’s precipitation
was 4.64 inches below the 92-
year average. The average
stands at 15.96 for the Janu-
ary . June period, while 1964
only shows 11.32 inches of
rainfall in Lawton. For the
same six-month period in 1963,
local readings were up to
11.61, or 2.9 inch above this
year’s low precipitation read-
spite countless hours of police
worknandsawarningncfrom the 1«. following • 102 reading yes-
The 1968 record of 442 deaths terday afternoon. Tues-
June 23, nearly two weeks
ago.
No rain is in sight to relief
the near-drought situation, as
the five-day weather forecast
calls for no precipitation
through next Saturday, and
temperatures continue to soar
from one to six degrees above
normal. High reading for yes-
terday was 102, today’s high
should be 101 and the mer-
cury is expected to hit 100
again tomorrow.
In all during the month of
June, Lawton recorded a
scant 1.69 inches of rainfall,
and 1.55 inches of that was in
a three-day period on June 11.
12 and 13. The 1.69 recording
was 2.07 inches below the av-
erage June rainfall report of
3.76 inches in Lawton. June of
1963 was considered a dry
month, but this past June was
.41 inch lower in precipitation
than the preceding June.
CONSTITUTION
(UPI) (AP) WiREPHOTO
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jail where she later attempt- en in the case.
cordings. But Pfc. Clinton al-
most wore out his lip during six downstate prairie country.
hours of furious tooting Satur- Scranton started out with a
day. । vigorous hand-shaking session
Sill bandsmen alternate on with commuters at the North
bugle duty for funerals and oth- western Railroad station. An
• *. m. — m 1:00 e.m.-%
(Courtesv Pubuic Service c*->
Lawton, according to weather
observer Mrs. Floyd Elrod,
was a meager .14 inch on
and despicable corruption in
tthe highest judicial court of our . f
stateps. John McCune of Tulsa He Wore Authentic Uniform
and John Levergood of Shaw-
Sn/lSSiZ Bugler Toots 6 Hours
committee, of which Levergood “ .
is chairman to begin an inquiry:
into Corn’s activities.
McCune also had said he
would file a bill of impeach-
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Bv FRED MOHN
■1 United Press International
g CHICAGO (UPI) —Gov. Wil-
M liam W Scranton announced to-
V day that Dr. Milton Eisenhow-
er." with his brother’s blessing,
“will nominate me” for the
presidency at the Republican
done over re-
more hot, sunny weather today
. . .. 1 and most of the week with tern- - . - -
By United Press International . . nile were filed today against 23 Ne-
The nation’s motorists wrote peratures continuing to hit highs groes from Arkansas who in-
a new record in death during | around the 100 degree marker, vaded a beach on Lake Texar-
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THIRD AHD A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., MONDAY, JULY 6, 1964
mustard created ofaconverubieandonthehood Crippled, Childrensnslanding,
----- • — part of a camp sponsored by
the Kiwanis Clubs. About 50
meet Tues- geg §
. - E2ei
Com case. #4.cm5=e
After learning of Com’s res- M8NN
ignation, Fellers said he nrob- •
i ably would call each of the uunta —d . L, 2
committee members and tell Pfc. Frederick A. Clinton of Fort Sill, dressed in
them the meeting was no long- U S Cavalry Uniform of the 1800s. including horse- ton Eisenhower will nominate
hair plumed helmet, blows bugle during Kiowa In- me at the convention in San
dian Gourd Clan ceremonies Fourth of July at Car- Francisco , and. yes Gem
—a —°S•. . i___ ic .1 it c c'valrv as Eisenhower knows about this
negie. Bugler describes his day • - and is equally pleased. He said
“interesting duty.
The parents were among
those who were injured by piec-
Theszyearoidsrnmret For ter call, the charge."
With 97h Armysiiaarem ind- Fort Sill Museum Director
— - Day Gillett Griswold dug out an au-
thentic cavalry uniform of the
1870s, including knee length
boots, wool trousers with yellow F
stripes with prompted the Indi- |
an nickname “Yellow Legs” for -
Nowadays, most cavalrymen, enlisted man’s g
— blouse, long cavalry saber. .
The bugler Saturday wore the .
said. He declined further com- P
ment. 3
The 80-year-old former state 2
supreme court justice had been
on supernumerary status since
1869. . E
Corp made his resignation
retroactive to July 1, the day
he was sentenced to 8 months
in prison and fined $11,250 on
the federal tax charges.
Forfeits Salary
The resignation means Corn.
forfeits his $9,375 annual salary
as a supernumerary judge.
Corn resigned as pressure
mounted from the court, state
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