The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 66, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1967 Page: 2 of 16
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Committee suggested a new ap-
spending several
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But the director of the federal vided into opposite camps hos- The open housing bill is being
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placed on policing, without get-
ting at the causes. we are in
trouble.”
Two Cabinet members and a
civil rights leader joined Mrs.
Freeman in urging support for
the administration's open hous-
ing proposal.
least for the money spent, which
may now be obsolete, which
the charge bv unfriendly might find it hard to vote . _ ...
members of Congress that some against. But, given Congress’ old, and to reporton which pro-
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Senate committees heard big- saying “sooner or later we must
Negro slumdwellerse pic- manifest our commitment to
tured as increasingly alienated open housing and act on that
from the over-all community commitment.”
and growingly suspicious of
By ROGER CHOATE ucation act, the total effort can be success-
ATLANTA, Ga (AP) — Chess The issue of discrimination ful » Atty. Gen. Ramsey-
contrary mistress who dis- came to light after Senate testi--------
sweet delights and ago- mony last Wednesday by M . .
is the torture of your soul comemtonity’rthe Sooners injured
to play chess,” declared Nicho, tions program of the American In Plone Crash
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transferring to predominantly Robert C. Weaver, secretary
white schools will receive free of housing and urban develop-
lunches there if they need them, ment, told the housing subcom-
About $1 billion is being spent mittee that while open housing
yearly under the compensatory would not eliminate racial prob-
education portion of the 1965 ed- lems. without it “I don’t think
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — ______________
Bids on 19 construction projects chess at the age of seven during
estimated at $11.7 million will be 1
Six tons of caviar were listed
among provisions brought to the
Moskva restaurant in the So-
viet Pavilion at Canada’s Expo
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be required before the final bill ______
goes to President Johnson, known to favor restoring a high- allnight."
The House-passed bill would .. ________ ____,
raise basic Social Security bene- were not done in committee the champion is
fits at least 12% per cent and issue
fending cocnampions. IU J- Defense Department Monday
year-old Eugene Meyer. announced the death of a 20-
Hunched over throw-away pa- year-old Oklahoma soldier in
per chess boards, more than Vietnam.
.200 players display determina- cp] Leland Wayne Hyslop,
That minimum payment was tion or worry. fury or plain pla- son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland L.
endorsed by Johnson this year cidity. “They’re impossible, Hyslop. Warner, was identified
T- 050 ”” ,8 said tournament director as the dead soldier.
Committee cut it to $50, a 86 George Koltanowski, a syndicat-
hike over the present $44 mini- ed chess columnist. "Thev’re
mum payments, and the bill plceuy .... ___1 _
cleared the House with that fig- der the’ sun except when they
members who talk
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Once, railway mail cars were 1 _
in use on 10,000 trains in all class mail moving east or west ------
parts of the nation. Clerks sort-1 among a number of major cities I without more study is opposed by S
ed mail as the trains rolled will travel in bulk shipments by; by some congressmen who say cials
along Now, the number of cars air instead of by rail. Officials
is down to 800—a drop of about say they hope to get letters to
2,500 in less than 15 years. their destinations 24 hours soon-
1 Soon, partly in conjunction er.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Distri-
bution of $23.5 million in Indian
claims were approved Monday
by the Senate.
The funds were authorized to
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Nolan er. ure as well as part of an omni-
Estes, disagrees. The Senate Judiciary Commit-, bus civil rights measure now be-
( In a statement prepared for tee was told meanwhile that fore the full Judiciary Commit-
news media in response to Sen- Negroes feel “they are being tee headed bv Sen. James O.
ate testimony on the issue, conned” or swindled by empty Eastland. D-Miss.
Estes, associate commissioner promises. They’re no longer sat- a--- -----
of education, said. isfied, said Dr. Nathan E. Cohen
u.e .U. ______ _g__ Among the cities to be includ-
merit’s zone improvement plan, ed in the first class mail airlift
called Zip for short, even more are New York, Philadelphia,
of the cars are to be abandoned. Washington, Chicago, Minneap-
Twenty-four mail-sorting cars olis, Milwaukee, Seattle, Port-
are to be taken off runs between land and Los Angeles.__________
A sampling of Ways and
Means Committee members il-
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dition was satisfactory, howev-
er.
The Allens and their son, Ran-
dy. 16. were flying back to Okla-
homa from Ft. Bragg, N. C.
Randy was uninjured in the
crash.
could make better choices
among programs than any out-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dra- been getting concentrated spot-
matic demonstration of admin- light treatment ever since Pres-
istration budget-cutting is need- ident Johnson suggested tacking
ed to assure House passage of a 10 per cent surcharge on exist-
President Johnson’s proposed ing income taxes. Public hear- 1
income tax hike, say some re- ings by the House Ways and Congress should not consider a
luctant backers. Means Committee, with top gov- inorease until the hudzet is
But no one has come up yet ernmental and private figures
with a formula for whittling the as witnesses, have kept the
budget—not only effectively but wattage high,
also in a manner guaranteed to Administration witness e s
sooth the voters at home—and have spoken of reducing spend-
so the measure faces deep ing b
trouble in the House, they add. the C . .
The tax increase proposal has is estimated to yield, thus tak-
, sharply up. all of it on the tax
issue, and “not one single letter
Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of
Oklahoma for payment on land borrow
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Mernino Press and Sunday ------------
enstitunes and Sunday ----175
constitutien-Press and Sunday ----- 290
Press ana Sanday and Monday Const. LN
1-1'100 Swu*ot and Saturdey-Press
__ Mills, But there has been no action tax increase. But it is not al- antitax. Another said he had re,
D-Ark. of the Ways and Means on the legislation The White ways easy to judge how strongly ceived a significant number of
■ . House congressional sources the constituents feel against an messages from businessmen
proach to the problem of limit- say, declined to back it after 1 increase, and how much they urging some tax increase, but
' months some inquiries indicated it might be swayed by the argu- shying off from backing it
would run into the usual thicket ments that a huge deficit means publicly._____________________
of congressional jealousies, with inflation, tight money and high
well-entrenched chairmen and
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Committee today to undergo a ing off the testimony today are
scrutiny expected to last into expected to ask that these wel- .
October. fare provisions be heavily re-
Committee members say they vised and that the higher levels Sies
hope public hearings and execu- of benefits originally proposed
five voting sessions can be fin- by Johnson be restored. w piay ciess, uc.u _______
ished in time to get the bill be- The witnesses will include las Rossolimo, the international
fore the Senate for debate by John W. Gardner, secretary of grand master competing in the
mid-October. health, education and welfare; 68th annual U.S. Cpen Chaee ule Ly ...
The Senate is considered cer- Wilbur J. Cohen, HEW under- championships under way in At- ondary Education Act is
tain to make many changes in secretary; and Robert M. Ball, lanta. rectly contributing to the pres-
the measure. Even if it passes, commissioner of the Social Se- "‘I didn’t sleep much last ervation of the dual segregated
negotiations with the House will curity Administration. night,” Rossolimo said Monday, school system in many areas of
be required before the final bill Some committee members, "I thought about my mistakes the South.”
Distribution Of $23.5 Million
in Indian Claims OK'd In Senate
The money will be distributed The House passed and sent to dence that Title I (compensato- at Los Angeles, by “yo-yo pro- I
among members of the two the Senate a bill providing for ry education for deprived chil-1 grams” aimed at cooling sum-
tribes. distribution of more than S2 75 dren) funds are being used to mer tensions.
The second bill would allow million in an award from the in- discriminate against Negroes.” Cohen, who headed a two-year
use by the Apache Indian tribe dian Claims Commission to Hughes maintained however, UCLA study of the causes of the
of the Mescalero reservation in members of the Sac and Fox that Education Commissioner 1965 Watts riots, testified as the
New Mexico of $8.5 million tribes for settlement on land Harold Howe II has written a Judiciary Committee resumed
awarde for land taken without taken in the 19th Century in Mis- letter to school officials of Mis- hearings on a House-passed bill
...... sissippi, Iowa, Kansas, Missou- sissippi about evidence of mis- that would make it a federal]
The Senate also approved a ri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. use of the program. And Hughes crime to cross a state line to in-
measure to increase by $35 mil- The Oklahoma tribe is expect- added: “I guess it's a general cite rioting.
lion to a total of $55 million a ed to receive more than $1.34 problem in the rural South. Cohen said the conditions'
fund from which loans are made million. An estimated 1817 per- He said the Mississippi cases
to Indian organizations unable to mi 1 * , ‘ A1, , , involved three school districts-
from normal credit sons would share in the Oklaho- two in Panola County and the
inOklahoma, Colorado, Wyom- sources. ma per capita distribution in other the Drew School District
The bills now go to the House. Oklahoma. in Sunflower County—in which
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onstitution. Press * Sunday ----- IN
ALL MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS IN
TOWNS a LAWTON P. O. BOXES
WHERE CARRIER DELIVERY IS
AVAILABLE
1 yr. 6mo. Imo. Imo.
Const. • Sunday 18.60 9.30 465 1.55
Press m Sunday 18.60 9.30 4.65 1.55
consi.,Press A Sun. 31.20 15.60 7.80 2.60
MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Comanche, Cotton. Tillman, Kiowa, Caddo,
Grady, Stephens, Jefferson, & Jackson
Counties
1 vr. 6mo. 3 mo. 1 mo.
Const. A Sunday .22 7.14 4.59 1-55
Press A zundav 11.22 7.14 4.5 1.55
Const. Fiag- A Sun. 20 40 14.28 7.14 2.60
Caut.,Fr«l & Sun.20.40 14.20 7.14 260
BALANCE OKLAHOMA
1 yr. Omo. 3 mo. 1 mo.
Const s Sunday 17.34 10.20 7.14 3.06
press A Sunday 1744 1040 7.14 3.06
Const. Press-Sun. 26.52 18.36 1040 4.59
ALL OTHER STATES
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Conm. A Sunday BN 13.26 AM 3.55
press a Sunday 22-44 13.26 Bid 3.55
S!S., presssun. 36.72 2244 13.26 5.10
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1 Year $1.20. Less than I Year 25c
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cut as much as possible. But combine a tax increase and a -- .
budget cutting is an intricate, spending limitation—a package up a blue ribbon commission of
piecemeal job and always open some advocates of economies private citizens to review gov-
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2 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Tuesday, August 22, 1967
Effective Budget-Cutting Must Accompany Tax Increase, House Backers Say
■ ' ' " Others reported heavy mail.
'Zip' Rapidly Making Railroad Do Uncle Sam's
Mail Sorting Car Thing Of Past Lures Boost D , gc,
- Split Schools? Problems Of Slums
be distributed from awards
made by the Indian Claims
Commission in settlement of
claims on land taken by’ the fed- compensation.
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By JIM ADAMS | Chicago and Portland, Ore.,] All other classes of mail, in-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The alone in September. eluding parcel post, will contin-
railroad mail sorting car, once Under the zone improvement ue to move on trains. And. the
a key to America’s postal sys- plan, mail is shipped in bulk by Post Office says the sorting cars
tem is losing ground to Mr. Zip the fastest means available— are being eliminated only on
despite efforts of congressmen air, rail or highway—among 552 runs on which studies have ing issue
and postal workers to preserve sectional sorting centers around shown that the mail can be eral official. the head of the
P -L- -----•— moved and delivered faster in government's program to up-
bulk. grade the education of deprived ang. growingIY suspicou • Roy Wilkins, executive direc-
Removal of the sorting cars children says it has been used whites tor of the National Association!
’ some Southern school offi- “We have developed a society for the Advancement of Colored
_ ______ to segregate Negro stu- where it is possible for a Negro people, said it is impossible to
they still are the most efficient dents. I child raised in the heart of a guarantee that open housing
method for distributing mail to John F Hughes director of large city to reach adolescence would end Negro rioting,
sparsely populated areas. the us Office of Educations without ever having known a But he called the bill step
Elimmation of the cars has compensatory education divi- white person of his own age toward that goal and noted the
been opposed for two years by sion said in an interview this U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner plight of Negro servicemen
the United Federation of Postal has been done by offering serv- Frankie Freeman told a Senate LwL0 ar being trained to de.
Clerks, still ar ices to Negro schools that are housing subcommittee Monday, fend their cDntry and may
themostsefficientsortingmethj not available to Negroes who "In short,” Mrs. Freeman even die for it and vet are de-
od for cities as well as ru a transfer to predominantly white added, “we have developed a nied the right to a decent place
areas.______________schools. society that is rapidly being di- to live.”
opened Friday by the State
Highway Department.
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said if this The 57-year-old Russian-born
...___pi. J competing in a
__ _ ____ was certain to cause a tournament which has attracted
also boost the payroll taxes to floor fight. competitors ranging from Pal
pav for them. The President several Republican and Dem- Benko and Robert Byrne, inter-
asked a 15 per cent increase inocratic senators, for example, national grand masters and de-
payments. have said they will battle for the fending cochampions, to
The House also added to the $70 monthly minimum Social Se-
bill sharp curbs on federally- curity payment they long have
aided welfare programs, espe-
by* amounts comparable to ] claimed economies
$7.5 billion the tax increase figure juggling.
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play ches.” ]
Many Americans dislike
chess,' Koltanowski said, be-
cause they hate to lose. And los-
Highway Projects the satisfaction ofPwinning as-1
sumes permanence.
But Rossolimo, who learned
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