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THE LAWTON
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THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1970
VOLUME 69—NO. 107
Senate OK's $1.8 Billion
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from Elizabeth City, N.C., re-ing of a two-man team to re-
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American policy is bad, and ed prisoners to give speeches
. vide a $1-billion increase in wel-
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Panel To Retain ‘Pro-Military’
Stance, Rivers Successor Vows
Rivers Funeral
where T’Souvas and his wife
Press secretary Ronald
critics of “ignorance and emo-The funeral for Rep. L. Mendel
I OFFICERS reported that aft- cilities of the Educational TV Cambodia.
Armed Services Committee died1 Nixon already has authority to
men.
The big defense money bill
18 bottles of gasoline rigged as
Ziegler said Nixon's question- has been blocked by controver-
fire bombs, a stick of dynamite.
| two shotguns, seven rifles, four ther foreign or domestic mat-
headed for the area.
tated murder of two Vietnamese idency."
The whole idea, he said, ori-
he said.
need.
(See RIVERS, Rose 4, Col. 2)
(See NIXON, Rose 4, Col. 1)
Police To Be On Watch For Tipplers
Fresh Snowstorms Rake Battered Italy
By KATHY PHILLIPS
D-Ark., opposed that
residents revel at
To get around the dispute, the
midnight Thursday, local po-
Compromise
Defense Bill
Nice Year-End
Weather Seen
Spec. 4 Robert T’Souvas, was
among 17 persons charged with
TRAIN PLUNGES INTO RAVINE. Having torn up
a section of track on a bridge on the railroad line
between Keren and Asmara, guerrillas of the
Eritrean Liberation Front shunt a captured train
into the ravine below. Guerrillas are in revolt against
During the last 10 years, 99
persons died in Oklahoma
traffic accidents over the New
Asia and the Middle East. Its
L. course was prepared before the
drant two blocks away that could
have been used," Hancock said.
In one of two urban renewal
items, the council approved bid
(See CITY COUNCIL, Page 4, Col. 1)
Set Wednesday
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -
The sirocco winds sent rain-
(See STORMS, Poge 4, Col. 5)
Temperature Chart
24-Hour Range Ending Today
Wednesday, the Coast Guard
said.
"he’s pursuing the only policy
he can: get out with honor.”
“It's a military no-win poli-
cy," Hebert said, "but that’s
what was handed to him.”
At the same time, the pros-
pective House chairman said,
Sicily.
New snowfalls hit
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The $210-million figure for the
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ing boat and men at daybreak, hydrants.
Search conditions were reported! The two positions were cre-
THE House committee’s first
business next year, he said, will
be to approve a bill extending
the draft beyond its June 30 ex-
piration.
Nixon has urged the extension
be the beginning of a draft
tern France tying up road traf-
fic and cutting communications
and electric power.
The varied but equally brutal
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factory roofs in northern Italy
today while in the south warm
gales from the Mediterranean
sy about restrictions on the use
of U.S. forces in Southeast Asia
outside of South Vietnam.
In that one, the Senate had
ern Navy getting top priority, |
and he accused the military’s
Tangles Cleared
। in a scant 10 minutes, the Sen-
ate dealt with two issues that
day fatality statistics.
The Christmas Eve tragedy
that killed three and orphan-
ed three children — who are
er the slaying they confiscated network.
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Issues Listed
Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana said de-
spite the breakthrough on Social
Security legislation the outlook
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Pleasant weather is expected pistols, $3,100 in money and a ters.
to continue across Lawton and quantity of drugs. The aim, he said, is to “have
Southwest Oklahoma through In the My Lai case T’Souvas, a general conversation in depth
the end of the year, as no ma- 21, of San Jose, Calif., specifi- and perspective on major issues
jor cold fronts appear to be cally is charged with premedi- before the country and the pres-
troopers and sheriff depart-
ment officers will be on duty
in full force.
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up by the Norwegian1.shipEs S weekly session, the council six of these shoula De replacea, trucks had been called sooner.
A oun a ei u g9awarded contracts to purchase Duke said, and 120 need minor each carried 500 gallons of wa-
Mondayin 4 ih sr no- 130 tons of chlorine for the city repairs. ler, which would have been suf-
miles r m 1 a st P jfilter plant. The award went to The Lawton Fire Department ficient to extinguish the fire,
sition of the -nrys the Ashland Chemical Co., Okla-(prepared a list of 140 hydrants Also, there was a second hy-
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Last year,
Lawtonians a n d
still hospitalized here with
serious injuries—has left city-
ans numb.
Police and public safety of-
ficials are hoping the disaster
will remind travelers of the
awful responsibility they as-
sume when driving a car.
A New Year’s resolution
worth keeping, they say, is to
fasten seat belts on all drives,
even the short, around-town
hops and they remind drink-
ing and driving don’t mix.
This year’s holiday, a 78-
hour period, begins after
work Thursday, and ends
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EMERGENCY CALLS
murder in the shotgun slaying, jived.
of a motorcycle rider in the hip- j Full details of the charges
pie district here Monday night, were not immediately made
safe and orderly withdrawal of
American forces from South
Vietnam, or to win release of
' U.S. prisoners of war.
Compromise Killed
A bloc led by Sen. J.W. Ful-
lice, military police, state
to be excellent with unrestricted1 ated in the city water depart-
visibility. ment. The employes will begin pared by David Duke, water men arrived.
17 Picked Up the estimated $10,000 repair job department superintendent, 134 "Thesuippunuu
0. 60. Kmn in. early next year. City Adminis- new hydrants are needed. Duke drant which prevented its use fare payments for some 3 mi -
Seve een . i„.- rew enn trator Henry Nabers said. said the city now has approxi- had nothing to do with loss of lion aged, blind and disabled
cu ing e mas _ In other business at a brief mately 1,500 hydrants. Thirty- the house. If our two pumper Americans.
session, the council six of these should be replaced, trucks had been called sooner, But, with the 91st Congress
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time is left for a House-Senate
conference on Social Security.
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A Coast Guard spokesman homa City, at a low bid of $99 which the department has in-
said the Chryssi carried four per ton. ’ spected and listed as in need of
lifeboats. One lifeboat was de- In other bid items, the conn- repair or adjustment. The ma-
stroyed in launching, the second cil authorized Nabers to pur-'jor fault was hydrants too near
capsized and the third carried chase a 10-key adding machine i the ground, Duke said.
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midnight Sunday for most
area residents.
This weeknd marks the
end of a 16-day vacation for
school children and high
schoolers. Fort Sill military
personnel will revert to their
full-day duty schedule begin-
niny Monday.
Soldiers, with the exception
of those on necessary fatigue
and guard duty, and civilian
employes, who with all feder-
al workers had a two-day
Christmas holiday, thanks
to a proclamation by Presi-
(See POLICE, Page 4, Col. »
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White House announced today for food stamps, school desegre- line to succeed Rivers, who died
also was arrested on a charge of president Nixon will make an gation and defense. Monday, also said the draft will
occupying a “dive,” hour-long live television broad- The supplemental appropria- not be ended, military spending
Police said the shotgun slay-cast Monday, responding to tions bill includes more than $1 must be increased with a mod-
" questions put to him by four billion worth of foreign aid for
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took place in a rooming house broadcast newsmen.
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Ziegler said the question-and- Christmas recess, when Con-
answer session would be broad- gress approved legislation au-
cast from the White House at 9 thorizing the spending, but for-
p.m. EST over the three major (bidding use of ground combat
television networks and the fa- forces or military advisers in
have been among the legislative
tangles blocking the path to ad-
for the Model Cities department Fire Chief Harris Hancock said journment of the st.’ ongr ess.
after insuring the low bid meets the hydrant problem was not Another • '
• ’ • ™ ' is serious now, but did need alien- raveled earlier Monday as the
au- tion. Many of the deficient hy- Senate dropped welfare reform
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BUT he said, if his and Riv- in University Hospital at Bir- do that by simply proclaiming it
ers’ advice had been followed,I mingham, Ala., early Monday, is in the national interest,
the war would have ended in! 17 days after undergoing open Hebert said he will press the
U.S. victory five years ago, heart surgery to replace a' $4-billion to $5-billion Navy mod-
“We’d have bombed North ■ faulty valve. He was 65 and had ernization program Rivers
inhibited use of ground combat Vietnam-we’d have destroyed been elected last month to his wanted, he favors at this point
Poosin"Cmbodia, Laos and anything of value to the ene- 16th term in Congress, full Safeguard antimissile sys-
Thailand But in conference mv,” Hebert said. “Haiphong1 Rivers will be buried in the tern expansion, and that mill-
with the House a waiver was harbor would have been the Episcopal cemetery in the com- tary funds must be increased.
Temperatures should be in civilians. The whole idea, he said, ori- added, declaring the ban would first thing hit. What makes the munity of St. Stephens, S.C. "We’ve delayed and delayed
upper 50s today, and warmer He has testified during pre-ginated with the White House, not prevent President Nixon military-industrial complex in . -_________
readings in the lower 60s are trial hearings at Ft. McPherson, He reported the President and from taking any steps he North Vietnam so sacrosanct?” rived in this port city by plane (weapons
predicted for Wednesday. Lows saying he could not remember his aides “felt it appropriate” to deemed necessary to promote He said Nixon "inherited a need ” he
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tionalism." Rivers, D—S.C., will be held volunteer military.
President Nixon s plan to turn , Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Hebert indicated he will op-
the war over to South Vietnam Grace Episcopal chinch in pose the President’s request for
is the only course that can be Charleston. congressional authority to stop
pursued now, Hebert told news- The chairman of the House college draft deferments, saying
the 17 rescued.
The spokesman said it was
hoped that the 21 men were
aboard the fourth craft, which
was unaccounted for.
Search efforts today concen-
trated on the area where the
survivors were picked up, after
a futile search Monday in the vi-
cinity of the sinking ship. ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — One
The Coast Guard cutter Chilu of 10 soldiers charged in the al-
ia was on route but not expected .
to arrive before 4 a.m. EST leged massacre at My Lai.
nish tanker Ragny which broke
in two 600 miles southeast of
New York.
Thirty-one men on the stem
section were rescued by the cut-
ter Escanaba early Monday.
The six missing were on the
bow section but were reported
“feared lost.”
The Chryssi crew was ordered
to abandon ship at 6:40 p.m.
Saturday after the 19,000-ton
vessel rapidly cracked in two
with no warning, the Coast
Guard reported the master as
saying.
of the Panamanian tanker DEACTING to reports that a model specifications. The Lewis
Chryssi, which went down 270 K faulty fire hydrant figured Auction Co., Lawton, was au- aum. J ule uuu. .... .
miles southwest of Bermuda, in the loss of a house last week, thorized to auction four struc- drants would still supply water and trad 1eleg1 < a ion. in.an .
A Coast Guard C130 aircraft councilmen today authorized hir- tures in the Cameron Project of if needed, he added, tempt to beat hcae ndar.an
from Elizabeth City, N.C., re- ing of a two-man team to re- the Lawton Urban Renewal Au- Referring to a fire last Tues- savage, a 6-0 p, ‘
sumed the search for the miss- pair an estimated 300 deficient thority. The Lawton company day which destroyed a house at erease in Soca -cu "56
' 1 will receive five per cent of the 1211 Bishop Road, Hancock said fits.
gross income from the auction, the blaze had already spread to The Social Security measure,
According to a report pre- much of the house when fire- on which a final vote could
come late today, also would pro-
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THE Communists are play- we should “stop the war"
ing their old propaganda immediately.
. . . . i .. The staged, rigged and
tricks, and they haven t 2
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changed their color in 20
years fool many Americans. We’ve
’ In 1970, they presented the heard it all before.
world a Christmas gift of Following the Korean War,
Red propaganda in the form a number of American
of interviews with two Amer- POWs who had been forced
ican prisoners of war in to give broadcasts and sign
Vietnam.
Of all the hundreds of U.S.
prisoners in Vietnam, they
permitted only two to be in-
terviewed, and even though
only four sets of questions
were allowed, the Commu-
nists wound up censoring the
remarks in two places. , ,
m 0. papers were accused of col-
The prison, reputedly the faboration with the enemy,
prisoner of war ’showplace longest and most signif-
of North1 Vietnam, is known icant of these trials, that of
as the Hanoi Hilton among then -Maj. Ambrose „ Nu-
prisoners 1 or the inter held at Fort Sill,
views, the Communists had .5 ' .
the place fixed up so it look- He was found innocent on
ed more like a frat house all counts. The million-word
then a Red POW camp. transcript of that trial re-
The prisoners assured ev veals the Red methods of
erybody that they ate three duress and propaganda,
meals a day and played has- Through threats, rewards,
ketball. The propagan- gentle persuasion, lies, star-
d a message was that Com- vation, torture, and sum-
munist policy is good, and mary execution, they coerc-
DOME (AP) — Fresh snow- two persons frozen to death and slowed to a crawl in the big cit- damage to the building and to bright,
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In a new sea accident today a Linate and Malpensa, closed | the ships in the port streng-, defense money measure, forcing
storm-tossed fishing boat off theldown Ithened t sir anchorages. a new round of conferences with
. i. Italian Riviera lost her captain, The Italian Alpine Club m the south sirocco winds the House. The new negotiations
disrupted air and sea travel to who fell overboard, warned of avalanches in the rrom the Arrican deserts are expected to produce a bill
Heavy snow fell on both sides mountains. , Sicily at up to 50 miles an hour. । stripped of the waiver,
southeas- of the Alps, in southern France Around Alessandria, north of Airplanes heading for the Sici- The long night's work left the
and in northern Italy as far Genoa ,20 inches of snow fell in lian capital of Palermo were di- stalemate over a $210-million Lojidays
south as Tuscany, where three collapsing the roofs verted to other airports. Fishing appropriation for the supersonic motorists became holi-
feet of snow was reported in Of Many rural buildings and fac- boats remained in port, as did transport plane as the major ob- four motorists became ho
Abetone, near F lorence. tories. ! the ferries that ply between the stade looming in the path of ad-
storms gave Italv The new snow covered roads The roof of an electric appli- nearby islands,
onslaught ofstommsgasalready treacherous with ice ance factory crashed down,
of foul'weather that it at least from earlier snowfalls. Traffic,causing an estimated $320,000
Search Called Off
Meanwhile the Coast Guard
said it had indefinitely suspend-
ed the search for six men in- His wife, Rebecca T’Souvas, known,
eluding the master of the Fin-
“I'm not going to be policeman
for the world," and suggested
U.S. commitments abroad
should be reassessed.
"The draft will not end,” He-
bert said flatly, and he added
Nixon's proposed volunteer
Army will not work because
“you don't have the volun-
teers.”
and write propaganda trea-
tises.
In Korea, prisoners were
forced to produce propagan-
da by Koreans, by Chinese,
and by Russian “advisers."
Although these propagandists
represented different cul-
tures, their line never var-
ied. It was always that the
Communists take care of
prisoners’ every need, and
the U.S. is a capitalist ag-
gressor against the peace-
loving Communist peoples of
the world and should stop op-
posing Communism imme-
diately.
Now, in the 1970 Christmas
interviews, we hear another
chorus of the same old song.
Only the names and places
and dates are changed.
Interviewed were Navy pi-
lots, Cmdr. Walter E. Wilber
and Robert J. Schweitzer.
Two remarks of Schweitzer,
of LeMoore, Calif., wen cen-
sored Drom the recerd f in-
terview. The interviewer,
Michael MacLear, a Canadi-
an who is the London cor-
respondent of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp., said the
(See COMMUNIST, Page 4, Col. 6)
'Aid Bill; Israel, Cambodia
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is “grim, still grim" that Con- tending the United States should
gress will finish its work before have bombed its way to a Viet-
mm m • po Ml I AI: CLA.IIc the constitutional dock runs out nam victory when it had the
My Lai Figure Charged Nixon Jcheduiesasnoonasardndiorbamriersre-cmancoweap.Fkeapand"sbs
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. m | mm | g V AnnopraneA ment are funding of the super- the tough pro-military course
Iff AFIAnFA MIurHar | nce I V HVVCOI CU ILV sonic transport plane, extension set by its late chairman, L.
Hi Mi IUIIIU IflUlUvl •uMJV of excise taxes on autos and Mendel Rivers.
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Ethiopian regime of Emperor Haile Selassie. Photo $1.8-billion appropriations bill
and caption from Syrian photographer Ahmad Abu providing $255 million in assist-
Sada, who claims to have spent a month with the ance for Cambodia and $500 mil-
guerrillas. lion 10 help bolster the armed
(AP Wirephoto) forces of Israel.
--That bill was sent lo Presi-
21 Crewmen City Council Takes Action -
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ing lifeboat today Carried the
hopes for rescue of 21 crewmen By HARRY WILLIAMSON
unaccounted for in the .sinking
tonight should be in the mid-30s. (See murder, Poge 4, Col. 5)
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