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VOLUME 67—NO. 22
SINGLE COPY 10c—FINAL EDITION
THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMDER 3, .,
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I Council Acts To Speed Floodgate Work
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15 Vietnamese V/ounded
Reds Launch Two Grenade
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Raids In Downtown Saigon
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Protest Move
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course aimed at an early with-
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Iran Toll Estimated At 20,000
by Russian bullets on the first
The crowd which usually sur-
Severe Earthquake Rocks
300-Mile Area In Turkey
Iran near the borders of Soviet
ISTANBUL, Turkey (UPI)-A
tern Turkey today, wrecking
Sunday—met
on the Richter Scale at about
Monday with instructions from
ing its first long-range missiles
and Pentagon officials say the
arsenal.
the Chinese threat.
ticipating the Soviet interven-
day.
American military personnel tion.
have been warned to stay off
Vecemi Praha, the only news-
that
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
an initial intercon-
also voted to:
While military authorities dis-
—Support the party leaders
traffic deaths during the non-
with tribal
on an updated 1959 roll. The 1959
and
terrorism and rocket and mor-
the liberals to remain in office.
tar attacks during the enemy’s
—Restate Czechoslovak alle- vehicle deaths in a recent non-
holiday weekend
For the fourth straight day,
state 94 west of Jamestown,
dershowers are expected in the
and deaths.
Lawton area today as a cold
the
postpone
an Indian
deposit after
on
day night in Union County, Ark.,
tion. The bill now under consid-
curred 45 seconds apart.
eration concerns the method of
The lowest death count for a
worst killer earthquake since
Claims Filed
news magazine Reporter. The
Soviet Communist party organ
“liquidation” of Literarni Listy.
see EARTHQUAKE, PoM 4, M. 4
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Labor Day Traffic
Claims Record Toll
Front Brings
Taste Of Fall
20,000 Students Troop To Class
School Bells Sound Summer's End
Temperature Chart
M-Hour Ronge Endins Today
from a party.
FIVE persons were killed and
the central committee to work
for both speedy withdrawal of
—Indefinitely
party congress
September
would have
sary Monday of the proclama-
tion of a republic by Ho Chi
Minh, now president of North
giance to the Warsaw Pact and
repudiate the idea of neutrality.
roll was made before a govern-
ment payment to tribesmen in
1960. The updated roll will in-
Bowing to a one-hour Soviet
ultimatum, youths abandoned
an honor guard at the St. Wen-
ceslas monument which had be-
come a national shrine when a
14-year-old boy was killed there
and 50,000 injured. More than
100,000 persons lacked homes.
Authorities battled against time
to avert famine, epidemics and
Recipients will be some 6,500
Kiowas, 5,700 Comanches and
pedestrians killed during the
weekend observance was more
than 10 times the number of
village of Bartin, near the Black
Sea coast. This is 180 miles east
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PRAGUE (AP) - The last
stronghold of Czechoslovak pub-
lic protest against the Soviet oc-
cupation crumbled today as lib-
eral leaders charted a careful
homa Cit, Lawton’s newly-
appointed financial adviser.
City Engineer F. E. Law-
rence recommended installa-
tion of 15 ten-foot prefabricat-
ed steel gales to increase the
city’s water and storage ca-
pacity.
Purchase of at least 2,000
additional acres of land would
be required to store 10 addi-
tional feet of water, he said.
Lawrence also said a five-
fool controlled water level
McNamara forecast to Congress
that Red China might stage a
long-range missile test before
the end of 1967.
MeNAMARA predicted last
Prague was calm Monday as
see LAST CZECH, Pogo «, Col. «
form program begun in Janu-
ary.
Dubcek’s speech was inter-
preted as a warning to the re-
formers to go slow. It also ap-
within four days.
Earthquakes in Iran killed an
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By The Constitution Staff
WASHINGTON — The Bureau
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2:00 a.m.
3:00 a.m.
4:00 a.m.
5:00 a.m.
6:00 a m.
7:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
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off the bonds, Dalton said he
felt at lease a portion of the
bonds would be paid by the
penny tax.
“We don’t know how much
at this time," he said. “These
problems will have to be
worked out in the next few
days.” He said the bonds
probably would be paid in
about two years but declined
to talk in terms of details.
City Councilmen directed
Lawton engineer Wyatt Hen-
Soa COUNCIL pom 4 Cat 1
Based On ’59 Roll
Payments will be made to
members of the three tribes,
scheduled Sept. 9 to purge or-
thodox, conservative Commu-
nists still in office.
Newspapers Quieted
Informed sources said three
weekly newspapers active in the
liberalization drive would not be
permitted to resume publica-
tion. They are Literarni Listy,
the writers’ association paper;
press censorship while allowing holiday period. _________ __________
The figure compared with 518 this holiday period killed eight
2-
to put off starting a controver-
sial defense system tailored to
lion claims settlement by the
federal government.
Cong. Tom Steed announced
the bureau’s individual claims
estimate today. He will testify
Wednesday before the House In-
dian Affairs Subcommittee for
his bill to authorize use of the
tew
PHeke
The Turkish quake hit at
10:22 a.m. (4:22 a.m. EDT).
Its intensity and duration were
not immediately reported. The
although many persons would
be outside working in the fields
at time of the temblor.
floodgates at Lake Ellsworth
today by directing the council
finance committee to deter-
mine when and at what cost
bonds could be sold for the
project.
The committee, composed of
Councilmen Richard Dalton,
Peter King, and L. M. Knight,
is expected to meet this week
with representatives of Leo
Oppenheim Co., Inc., of Okla-
Six-year-old Lisa Lindley gets some small-talk advice from her mother shortly
before she entered Washington Elementary School for her first day of school.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lindley, 901 A. (Staff Photo)
of the capital.
Police Alerted
The terrorism came at a time
villages and spreading panic quake.
‘ Officials in Istanbul said they University of California seismo-
, . .. $6 million judgment for per cap- the streets except on official paper published in Prague Mon-
Red China ita payment, he said. I ’ " ■
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THE LAWTON C.
sized details of the project are
not complete. He said the
reason part of the approx-
imately 81 million income
from city sales tax — voted
to be used in capital improve-
ments — was not being used
for the projects is because of
speed.
“You can use the sales tax
money all right, but it comes
in too slow,” he said. “We
need the money now.”
When asked if sales tax
money would be used to pay
F "$
that time.
THE STRICKEN Turkish area
stretched from east of Bartin,
apparently the worst hit village,
along the Black Sea coastal
(region to Canakkale, near the
Dardanelles Strait. Istanbul also
felt the shock, but no damage
was reported in the city.
Other small towns hit includ-
ed Sinop, Bolu and Samsun.
In Bartin, more than a third
of the houses collapsed and
there was widespread damage
in other areas, officials said.
Peking Running Behind Tribe Members
In Developing ICBM’s Due 3403 Each
Defense sources said the U.S.
government has information
that elements pushing Mao Tse
'Tung’s cultural revolution have
been harassing nuclear and mis-
sile scientists and managers.
across a 300-mile stretch of
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weekend quake was the highest
since Dec. 27, 1939, when 23,000
persons were killed in Turkey.
Reports from Tehran said
bodies in white Moslem shrouds
were being buried in mass-
graves while children appealed
to Allah for the return of their
loved ones.
AND still the mangled ground
trembled. The toll in the world’s
The Associated Press,
would require only a fraction
of that amount of land.
Cost of the construction
project would run about $350,-
000, he said.
The committee is expected
to report to the council next
Tuesday. It would take about
six months to complete the
project once given the final
okay from the council.
The funds wou’ I not have to
be available until completion
of the floodgates.
Councilman Dalton empha-
12:00 noon 13
1:00 p.m. 86
2:00 p.m. 81
3:00 p.m. 89
4:00 p.m. II
5:00 p.m. 17
4:00 p.m. M
7:00 p.m. 13
0:00 p.m. 10
9:00 p.m. 71
10:00 p.m. 74
11:00 p.m. 75
that the Russians threatened to
“send a tank to clear the
place.”
Not Enough Attention
Informed sources said Com-
munist party chief Alexander
Dubcek told the party’s central
committee not enough attention
had been paid to “the opinions
of other states in the Warsaw
Pact as a limiting factor in the
speed and forms of our own po-
litical development.”
The new, predominantly liber-
“We’re out to get them.”
said Maj. Frank Murphy,
head of traffic in the Lawton
Police Department, referring
to school zone violators. “We
may not be at that school
zone today, but we will be
there!”
The major said his officers
are more strict during the
critical hours between 7:45
a.m. to 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m.
’til 1 p.m. and 2:30 to 4 p.m.,
although the zone is in effect
from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Speed limit is 20 miles per
hour in these zones and no
passing is allowed.
“We find the biggest offend-
er is a mother taking her own
children to school,” said Maj.
Murphy. “And, we’ll sure
write her a ticket.”
He said one officer issued
11 summons this morning in
one school zone.
Area Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy this r’ternoon
with southerly winds 12 to 20
m.p.h. Considerable cloudi-
ness tonight and Wednesday.
Scattered showers and thun-
dershowers tonight, with cool-
er temperatures expected to-
night. High today 86; low to-
night 60. High Wednesday 77.
High Monday 89. Overnight
low 67.
bus triggered a Viet Cong land - .
mine near Phan Thiet, a provin- al 21-man Communist party pre-
cial capital 100 miles northeast sidium-elected Sunday—met
Vietnam. The anniversary' is _
being observed by North Viet- peared to be traditional Com-
nam through midnight Thurs- munist self-criticism for not an-
-------- „ counted the threat of a major who negotiated the agreement bor Day weekend took 666 lives, .
membership based ground attack against Saigon in Moscow accepting the Soviet the largest number of traffic fa- holiday weekend slai ting Aug.
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capital would be the target of
motorcycle on which two
persons were riding. The
terrorists appeared to have
escaped.
Seven South Vietnamese civil-
ians. six of them AID employes,
were wounded by the exploding
grenade. No Americans were
hurt, although hundreds of
Americans were at work inside
the eight story concrete build-
ing.
Initial U.S. reports had said
two South Vietnamese were
killed and eight wounded, but
this was revised downward.
-------- Back in January 1967, then
“We don’t see any evidence of Secretary of Defense Robert S.
Chinese preparations for an ' "
ICBM test,” one official said.
By JOHN MeCOY
TTY Councilmen speeded
’ efforts toward installing
Village Also Hit
SAIGON (AP) — Viet Cong terrorists launched two
grenade attacks inside Saigon today and enemy troops
I struck a district town only 20 miles from the capital.
I killing civilians and burning down houses.
The grenade attacks came as U.S. and South Viet-
namese forces in Saigon were on full alert for such
I incidents.
The first grenade exploded in front of the main head-
quarters of the U.S. Agency for International Develop-
ment. Witnesses said the grenade was thrown from a
_ the U.S. Command reported
Steed said the money for the only "light and scattered”
$6 million settlement is already ground action across the coun-
The second grenade attack drawal of foreign troops,
came about four hours later in
for They expressed fears scores
were trapped in wrecked houses
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wbbisccec
try. But U.S. B52 bombers kept
up their protective attacks on
the approaches to Saigon to
blunt that expected big enemy
offensive if the Viet Cong is pre-
paring for one.
Enemy Positions Hit
The eight-engine bombers
struck eight times Monday night
and today at suspected enemy
positions west and northwest of
Saigon, mostly 25 to 35 miles
away from the capital.
B52 raids have concentrated
estimated 20,000 persons Satur-
day and Sunday. That area of of Istanbul and 130 miles north
devastation was in northeastern of Ankara.
North Dakota teen-agers Sun-
of similar day in a two-car crash on Inter-
length. _____ -- _____ „ ____________
puocpu... . The previous record traffic N.D. They were returning home
that had been death toll for a Labor Day ob-
servance—always a three-day
tinental ballistic missile capa-
i bility in the early 1970‘s."
With a slippage of nearly a
year in testing the first Chinese
ICBM, it is logical to assume
that the Chinese effort to devel-
op a full weapon system is lag-
. , . . were on a special alert in Sai-
tribes, will receive approximate- gon because of the 23rd anniver-
lir eAn n in +he vonon+ 0c -i1 _ _ . ..
was 606. - - -
The number of motorists and in two traffic accidents that oc-
severe earthquake hit northwes- Russia and hundreds of miles
east of today’s Turkish earth-
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business and to carry their day, said the central committee
weapons with them at all times.
country. Authorities said they feared a heavy death toll. They graph in Berkeley, Calif., re-
feared a major disaster—the said by 2 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT) 10 ported a shock registering 6.7
second earthquake disaster persons were known dead and
200 injured in and around the
TRAFFIC accidents across the comparison purposes, surveyed
nation during the extended La-
period—was 636, set in 1966.
Last year the toll for the holiday eight others were injured Mon-
front of a bar in the Saigon dock
area. Four Vietnamese men,
two women and two children
were wounded there, police
said.
20 Killed, 50 Wounded
Viet Cong forces attacked day of the invasion.
Long Thanh, a government dis- —
reimposing talitiesever recorded (or that 16 and tallied 518. started governmentiimmediately
The worst single accident of stahted det inPerrrtinns
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afternoon, and forecasters pre-
diattereolertnvnmerratwrers andthesabisionsenznei,hnedevfthgo Kiowa-Apaches. Steed said
nidht cials said, but the possibility all three tribal councils have en-
fodav’s high should ba 86, and has been raised of deferring its dorsed the bill he proposes re-
temperatures should fall to a start for some months, |garding the per capita payment.
— - ■ ■ ..... The claims were first filed be-
when South Vietnamese police the 650,000 occupation troops
‘ ’ and implementation of the re-
elude additions and deletions of anniversary observance,
names to coincide with births
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trict town 20 miles east of the
capital, killing 20 civilians,
wounding another 50 and burn-
ing down 85 houses with a heavy
mortar attack followed by a
ground assault.
A government spokesman
sa:d the town was defended by
about 140 militiamen and police-
men. Their casualties were put
at one dead and eight wounded.
Most of the casualties and dam-
age apparently were inflicted by
the heavy mortar barrage on ci-
vilian homes.
Another 16 civilians were
killed and 12 wounded when a
gaytr‘ au,
ia anaV3 1
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ists were exempted from attack each member of the Kiowa, Co-
- ■ ■ ■ manche and Kiowa - Apache
Cooler temperatures .an idthun- «!«• in turn, woula seem to
uawwn wuuay a a ease the urgency of going ahead
front gives the state another with deployment soon of a U.S.
premature taste of fall. system designed to guard the
The front is expected to touch United States against a possible
off scattered thundershowers Chinese Missile attack. Claims Commission decision
through Wednesday as cooler air Officials said there has been and acongressionalappropria-
spreads over the state, some discussion in the Pentagon
Partly cloudy skies and south-1 of whether or not the Sentinel
erly winds gusting fror 12 to 20 antimissile system deployment payment,
m.p.h arc expected here this should be stretched out.
afternoon, and forecasters pre- There has been no change in
temperatures should fall to a start for some months.
cool 60 tonight. Wednesday’s The discussions have addition- ----- — ----- ------------------
high should be 77. The high Mon- al point at this time because the fore the Indian Claims Commis- increasingly closer to Saigon in
dv was 89 degrees and the iDefense Department is search- sion in 1951, and in July, 1967, past days, indicating enemy I
overnight low was 67. See Peking, pow b, Col. I See Indians, Poge s, Col. i set raids, pom • Col. «
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Red For a long time, U.S. authori-
China is nearly a year late test- ties felt that these elite special- of Indian Affairs estimates that
as China placed an apparent top
lag may allow the United States priority on developing an inter- . .. .,
..... ‘ continental ballistics missile ly $403.20 in the recent $6 mil-
a student magazine and the
rounded the flower-decked
statue quickly dispersed after
Czechoslovak police warned
----- ,2 Labor Day weekend since World 1939 today rose past 20,000 dead
American servicemen killed in War II was 246 in 1946. ------- ’ - -
combat in Vietnam during the The deadliest holiday on traf-
same period. fic records was the four-day
THE National Safetv Council Fourth of July celebration in . . _
........ pu.. ..g.. had estimated that 575 to 675 1967 when 732 persons were .drought.
Pravda called Sunday for the persons might die in traffic in killed. Rescue workers tearing
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p.m. local time Friday and end-(deaths, 24 persons drowned and regions of the 1,300-square-mile
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By PAM BUTLER
SCHOOL BELLS sounded
• throughout the city this
morning as an estimated 20,-
000 students were summoned
1o their first day of school for
the 1968-69 term.
First graders reluctantly
turned loose of their mothers’
hands as they entered school
buildings to begin their edu-
cations. Upper classmen
breezed by them, bubbling
with self-confidence from last
year’s experiences.
Last school year a total of
19.499 students attended city
schools. School officials ex-
pect to hit the 20,000 mark
this year.
Dr. John Elkins, deputy
superintendent of schools.
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said the total enrollment will
not be known until Friday.
The first two weeks of
school the first and second
graders will attend classes
from 8:45 a.m. until 1 p.m.,
then from 8:45 a.m. until 2:35
p.m. for the rest of the year.
Grades three through six at-
tend school from 8:45 a.m. to
3 p.m. for the first two
weeks, then from 8:45 a.m.
to 3:35 p.m.
Secondary’ students general-
ly attend from 8:45 a.m. un-
til 2:35 p.m., with exceptions
for the extra hour class un-
til 3:35 p.m.
School officials urged every-
one to remember school zones
while driving to and from
work.
“We particularly stress
safety during the month of
September,” said Dr. Elkins.
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