The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 165, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1967 Page: 1 of 28
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that Giorgio Rinaldi, an Italian
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5th order — 26 years of age and over and
still classified as 1-A, married or not married.
6th order — Registrants 18 or 19 years old.
From Constitution Wire Reports
MUSKOGEE — Former Mus-
Greece Cyprus
Body Set Afire Voting Jed At 27 Too Old For Draft Hunt Spies, Too
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there is no doubt it will be
passed Monday without difficul-
all Senate lead-
resolution and
parachuting instructor held in
Turin as the central figure in
the spy network, told Italian
there declined to comment on
the deportation reports.
In Rome, the Defense Minis-
try Thursday night denied re-
spy ring operating against bases
of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization spread today to
Greece and Cyprus.
Reliable sources said Greek
intelligence sources reported a
Greek has been arrsted here.
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JANE JAYROE
. . Miss America
“We will not decide until tonight if she will
be able to carry- out her role in the pageant,”
he said.
Maudie, a four-year veteran of the Easter
drama which begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, takes
part in several scenes.
of the entire affair.
Under Senate rules, resolu-
tions giving rise to debate must
be laid over for one legislative
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other elected officials.
The suit also was filed in the
Supreme Court today in an ef-
fort to force Oklahoma Natural
Gas Co. to rescind all rate in-
creases granted by the commis-
sion in recent years.
Both Freeman and Ray Jones,
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He also declined to recom-
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Spectators carrying a mattress and blankets arrive early for the Easter pageant. This scene from last
year’s pageant will be enacted many times over Saturday as crowds gather on Audience Hill. (Staff Photo)
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Investigation Asked
All information will be turned
over to the Comanche County
district attorney and Parham,
Bartlett said.
Earlier this month 17 Lawton
area retail liquor dealers sent
When Johnson was elected to Congress in
1964 he was the youngest congressman in the
noi.
It was the second big strike
against the power plant, which
is close to the vital Thai Nguyen
steel plant. The steel plant has
been bombed four times. Both
targets were barred to U.S. pi-
lots until early this month but
have since been subjected to
state Senate, called upon Cor-
poration Commission Chairman
Harold Freeman today to order
public utilities to produce their
records of cash donations utility
lobbyists made to employes.
The governor’s request was
the latest in a rapid-fire series
of developments in the case
which finds the commission un-
they regulate have contributed
to their campaign funds.
Bartlett, in calling for the com-
mission to secure records and
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ern Turnpike and on U.S. 277-
281. Brown said the best route
is to follow the expressway
bypassing Lawton and con-
tinue to the Medicine Park
“Y.” There they should turn
west on S.H. 49 and follow
the highway to the pageant
area, he said
said the alleged franchise vio-
lation centered around the man-
ner in which the two area
3rd order — Single or married after Aug. Thursday night to help Greek
26. 1965. intelligence agents track down
4th order — Married before Aug. 26, 1965, spies.
but with no children. In Lausanne, Swiss police said
they had evidence the big Soviet
spy ring operated in Switzer-
land. A spokesman said: “The
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MAUDIE has a stand-i in case she can’t
*’* perform in the 42nd annual Wichita
Mountains Easter Sunrise Service.
Freckles, an obliging burro owned by Her-
man Ledford, has volunteered to take Mau-
die s place.
Maudie. a 12-year-old donkey, was injured
earlier this week, apparently in a dispute with
a buffalo near the Holy City grounds.
State law forbids operation of
a franchise system.
Forbidden By Law
When asked about Parham’s
earlier statement denying ex-
istence of a franchise system,
Bartlett said: “I feel sure Mr.
Parham will take the proper ac-
tion.”
“I think it is important to in-
vestigate areas where there
seems to be evidence,” he said.
icant that he had the crime bu-
reau, his personal investigating
agency, conduct the inquiry in-
stead of ABC agents. Bartlett
said “this was no reflection at
all on the agents.”
A voluntary franchise system
generally is one in which whole-
salers agree to divide up the
various brands available, there-
by gaining a monopoly over sale
of certain brands.
Bartlett said Lawton retailers
made the charge about the fran-
nation at the age of 24.
He became 25. the eligible age for House
membership, on Dec. 27, 1964, a week before
he took his oath of office.
Johnson was deferred from the draft while
he was a congressman.
Mers Bertha Dupler, Comanche County
draft board secretary, explained that John-
implicated in the spy ring.
In a similar communique,
NATO headquarters in Paris
said it had been informed that
news of “the alleged involve-
ment of 300 NATO officers in
the spy ring discovered in Italy
lacks any foundation.”
Earlier today, it was disclosed trying to interfere with a com-
the U.S. Internal Revenue Serv-
iws, wholesalers were to be fore dawn. Flying A6 all-weath-
er Intruders, they rained down
Dewey Bartlett said today he
has evidence a voluntary liquor
franchise system exists in the
Lawton area, contrary to an
earlier statement by oy Par-
ham. state alcoholic beverage
control director, that no fran-
chise existed in the area.
The dispute centers over how
two Lawton area wholesalers
list their merchandise on order
blanks to retailers.
Gov. Bartlett said the evi-
dence would lie turned over to
Comanche County District At-
torney Vernon Field and Par-
ham for appropriate action.
Complaints Made
Bartlett made an investiga-
tion into the situation following
complaints by Lawton liquor re-
tailers that an illegal franchise
system existed.
Bartlett said he was given ev-
idence reportedly taken from the
ABC Board’s own records “tend-
ing to indicate a voluntary fran-
chise” agreement between the
two wholesalers in the area.
Vietnam.
Pilots from the 85,000-ton nu-
clear-powered carrier Enter-
prise and the 76,000-ton Kitty
Hawk streaked through the Thai
Nguyen antiaircraft defenses
under cover of the darkness be-
He was asked if it was signif- _
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“I do not think there is any-
thing to be gained by witch _
hunts or investigations simply ports that NATO officials were
for the purpose of investigat-
ing.”
search for members of a Soviet aide, would meet with Parham
later today to discuss the situa- | .
The talent office recruits executive person-
nel for the poverty program.
Johnson is classified 1-A but Garvin County
draft board officials say he is too old to be
called under present draft directives.
Mrs. Louise Acord, Chickasha draft board
secretary, said Johnson won’t be called unless
draft regulations are changed.
“We’re not taking anyone over 26 and never
have,” she said. "I‘d say he won’t be called
unless the law is changed.”
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attorney for utilities paid out mend broadening the investiga-
thousands of dollars in campagn i tion to include all elective of-
contributions to commission em-ifices, including his own.
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At that time, a retail dealer heavy bombing despite continu-
ous bad weather over North
chise system and he dispatched attack the Thai Nguyen thermal
power plant 39 miles from Ha-
The Senate has set the stage
vice chairman of the commis- to adopt a resolution Monday
calling for a full investigation
east on S.H. 7 should turn
north onto the expressway and
follow the highway to the
Medicine Park “Y”, turning
west on S.H. 49.
All routes to the Holy City,
in the Wildlife refuge, will be
marked. Brown said.
Mel Evans, assistant wild-
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — and legislators as well as
Gov. Dewey Bartlett, moving to
take the play away from the
(HICKASHA — Jed Johnson Jr. has a new
• $23,000 a year job with the anti-poverty
program and chances he will be drafted into
the Army are practically nil.
Johnson, now 27, lost a $30,000 a year job
last November when he was defeated for the
Sixth District Congress seat by James Smith,
also of Chickasha.
Thursday Johnson was named director of
the talent search office of the Office of Eco-
nomic Opportunity, OEO director Sargent
Shriver announced.
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Frank W. Hanson Jr., was shot
to death in his furniture store,
today and his body set afire,
Muskogee police reported.
Officers said Hanson's body
was still burning when they ar-
rived after being alerted by
two women who had entered
from the store.
Police said they had taken an
elderly Negro man into custody
for questioning. They declined
to identify the suspect or to say
if he was the man seen carry-
ing a shotgun in the vicinity
earlier in the day.
Officers said Hanson appar-
ently was alone in the store at
the time of his death. They
said robbery did not appear to
be the motive for the grisly
slaying, as Hanson's billfold
was -still on the body and noth-
ing appeared to be missing
the store to shop.
Hanson, 48, was owner and op-
erator of Hanson’s Sales Co.
Hanson was county commis-
sioner from the 1st District, on
the east side of Muskogee Coun- j
ty. from 1960 to 1962 and was:
defeated for re-election.
His wife was admitted to a
Muskogee hospital for treatment
of shock.
Muskogee Dist. Atty. Paul Fer-
guson declined to discuss the
case with newsmen. He said
state crime bureau agents were
enroute here to aid in the inves-
tigation.
SAIGON (AP) — Warplanes
from two U.S, aircraft carriers
penetrated the missile envelope
around North Vietnam’s in-
dustrial heartland Friday to
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By NANCY BAZEMORE
MILD temperatures are
expected for the 1967 Wichita
Mountains Easter Sunrise
Service in spite of a Pacific
<oki front expected to reach
here Saturday evening.
The pageant, whose au-
dience size depends a great
deal on the weather, will be-
gin at 2 a.m. Sunday at the
Holy City of the Wichitas, lo-
cated about 22 miles north-
west of Lawton in the Wichi-
ta .Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
It will be staged regardless
of the weather.
A crowd of 25,000 spectators
is expected.
The U.S. Weather Bureau
in Oklahoma Citv told the
Lawion Constitution this
morning that a Pacific front
should arrive in this area
about 7 p.m. Saturday. but
would drop temperatures by
only 5 to 10 degrees.
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While one group of raiders
was going after the Thai Nguy-
en plant, more Intruders from
the two carriers winged 32 miles
south of the Red capital to blast
an army barracks area at Chi
Ne, where North Vietnamese
troops may be staging to infil-
trate the South.
The Thai Nguyen steel plant
and power station are a signifi-
cant segment of North Viet-
nam’s industry. The steel plant,
though incomplete, had been
producing oil tanks and bridge
sections. The power plant
produced perhaps 20 per cent of
the electricity for the Hanoi-
Haiphong area.
Both are well within the ring
of sites for the Soviet-built sur-
face-to-air missiles that com-
prise the “missile envelope”
around the Hanoi-Haiphong
area. U.S. pilots call this “In-
dian country."
Air Force spokesmen no long-
er say when U.S. planes run into
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JANE JAYROE — Miss America — visited with Vietnam war
• wounded soldiers this afternoon at Fort Sill’s Reynolds
Army Hospital.
The Laverne beauty, who won the coveted crown in Atlantic
City last fall, arrived in Lawton from Norfolk, Va.
Miss Jayore will crown the winner of the Miss Lawton Pag-
eant tonight in McMahon Auditorium. Curtain time is 8 p.m
1 Miss America, Miss Oklahoma (Sandy Ferguson) and Miss
Lawlon ’67 will be honored at a reception at the Hotel Law-
tonian following the pageant, sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi
sorority.
All reserved seats are sold for tonight's pageant. However,
general admission tickets are still available.
During her two-hour visit to Fort Sill this afternoon, Miss
Jayroe was scheduled to visit with’ trainees at the Army Ar-
( tillery Training Center.
Nine coeds seeking the Miss Lawlon crown and the oppor-
I tunity to represent the city in the Miss Oklahoma Pageant are:
Shirley Allen, Carolyn Brox, Stephanie Conners. Deede Hinck-
ley, Ebbie Carol Lee. Teresa Loftin, Sherly Looper,' Barbara
Parks and Margaret Wright.
Judy Myers, University of Oklahoma sophomore, is the re-
tiring Miss Lawlon.
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required to handle all brands.
A ruling of the control board 1.000-pound bombs aimed by
see franchise, Poge 4 col. • I radar and computers.
possibility of arrests cannot be
excluded.”
Authoritative sources in Nic-
osia, Cyprus, said a Soviet dip-
lomat and a Soviet Aeroflot air-
line employe were deported to-
day for being involved in spying
against military bases and radio
stations on Cyprus.
A government spokesman
Motorists coming from the
west should turn on S.H. 115
at Cache and follow the high-
way through a portion of the
military reservation and
wildlife refuge to the Holy
Ci tv.
IN SPITE of predictions,
however, pageant spectators
should take plenty of warm
clothing and blankets, and. to
be on the safe side, a rain-
coat or umbrella.
In the past, pageant weath-
er has played an important
role in the size of the au-
dience.
Last year the temperature
dipped into the low 40‘s Eas-
ter morning, which was April
10. Officials said approximate-
ly 10,700 attended the serv-
ice.
In 1965 Easter was April 19
with temperatures in the 60’s.
Some 40,000 pageant goers
gathered on Audience Hill that
year.
Over 600 will participate in
the three-hour drama which
depicts the story of Jesus
Christ from birth to Resurrec-
tion in narration, pantomime
and music.
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play is presented in the huge
natural ampitheater located at
the Holy City.
The result of a random
check of Lawton hotels and
motels indicated visitor space
is scarce.
Holiday Dm. Hotel Lawton-
ian. Capri Motel, Geronimo
Motel. Ramada Dm and West-
ern Trail Motel all reported
turn them over to the state day. Virtually
ers favor the
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son’s status fits the fifth order of 1-A regis-
trantg
She’ said under present directives draft TheCypriottwgoxrnment.gon-
hoards are taking only the first four orders had been picked up bypoxrcon
They are as follows: Cyprus.
1st order — delinquents from the draft. An Athens newspaper said a
2nd order — volunteers for the draft group of NATO officers arrived
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no vacancies. Rooms have
been promised for two or more
weeks, reservation clerks said.
Clerks attributed the early
booking to the Easter pa-
geant, although they are us-
ually filled for the weekend
by ’Thursday.
Because of the housing
shortage in Lawton, due to
the military increase at Fort
Sill, many hotel and motel
rooms have been rented by
families and young married
couples looking for a perma-
nent residence.
The camp sites at -the wild-
life refuge are also filling up.
Mel Evans, assistant wildlife
refuge manager, said. Pag-
eant goers were arriving in
the area as early as Tuesday ,
he added.
LT. G. R. Brown, com-
manding officer of Oklahoma
Highway Patrol District 4,
today gave recommended
routes to the pageant area.
Visitors living north of Law-
ten, traveling south on South-
western Turnpike and on U.S.
277, which also includes U.S.
62 and U.S. 281, should turn
west on S.H. 49 at the Med-
icine Park “Y”, located about
six miles north of Lawton.
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next to his helmet and rifle during Good Friday serv-
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holds a prayer sheet in his hands. He and his com-
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ed across central Arizona,
angling up through the north-
west corner of Colorado.
The bureau said the front
also would increase chances
for shower activity here Sat-
urday evening and Sunday,
but that only about 20 per
cent of the area would lie af-
fected. which means pageant
goers probably won’t get wet.
Saturday afternoon, when
the crowd starts assembling
on Audience Hill, tempera-
tures are expected to range
into the mid 80s, and the
overnight low, which is usual-
ly reached about 6 to 7 a.m.,
w ill probably be in the 50s.
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Showers also were expect-
ed to cover about 20 per cent
of Southwest Oklahoma today
and tonight. Temperatures to-
day were expected to reach
85 degrees, then drop to an
overnight low of 60.
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