The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 69, No. 109, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1970 Page: 1 of 28
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Annual New Year's Countdown, Revelry, Get Under Way Tonight
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Football Fans In For 30 Hours Of Bliss
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Good Year
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bringing to 38 the number killed charged by federal inspectorsition: the possibility President
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Warm temperatures near the
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land Southwest Oklahoma. Fair
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west wall of the building.
eral hours before the alarm was stood outside the building in the night's low should be near 30.
rain and snow as the arguments' Wednesday's high was 59, and
the hero of Spanish liberation । S. Muskie of Maine, a Democrat
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। the overnight low was 34.
went on inside.
(See GOOD YEAR, Page 2, Col. 3)
(See NIXON, Page 2, Col. 3)
Cause Of Brushfire Probed
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the Soviet law the death penalty 60-degree mark are predicted
is an exceptional measure of for New Year’s Day in Lawton
Year To Start
On Warm Side
70 Battles
fUTION Still Waged
uge staff members, sped to
the scene. They were joined
| the Western Union office. “At
’ (See WESTERN UNION, Page 4, Col. 3)
White a few minor excep-
tions, the regulation prohibits
HYDEN. Ky. (AP) - Rescue
workers found two more bodies
deep inside a mountain today,
Most corpsmen are still away
(See CAUSE OF. Pose 4, Col. 6)
ne judges upheld these sen- night if the SST controversy
ces: Sylvia Zalmanson, 27, 10 could be settled.
turned in.
“A clock directly above the
point where it started was stop-
ped at 1:05 a.m.,” he said. Fire
Marshall Ray Catlin was con-
tinuing an investigation today
into the cause of the blaze.
ing crews with the help of a
Flying Crane helicopter from
Fort Sill and its 1,000 gal. wa-
ter bucket quickly brought the
blaze under control.
in a searing blast at a mine cit-
ed earlier this year by federal
inspectors for safety violations.
A four-inch layer of snow hid
some traces of the disaster at
the Finley Coal Co. as the bod-
ies were carried to the surface.
H. N. Kirkpatrick, state com-
missioner of mines, announced
the mine was being closed until
Saturday morning when inspec-
tion teams will move into the
operation.
ice by noon, Bob Belew, office
manager, said.
of 1971.
Senate-House
appeal court reduced the
.ice given to five of the de-
ants.
will do his “Auld Lang Syne" thing from the hotel in a tele-
vision broadcast on 145 stations.
Elsewhere in New York the traditional lighted ball will drop
in the Times Square and countdown and the city will host its
third annual New Year's Eve party in Central Park, with bell
ringing, music and fireworks.
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later by 16 corpsmen and six
staff members from the Trea-
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White House on Dec. 22.
SST Problem
A pocket veto kills a bill if the
DEAN COMMENTED that it Air Act of 1968. will go into
was lucky there were no occu- effect Friday prohibiting
sure Lake Job Corps camp, pants of the apartments above open burning.
Year’s Day, but will go over un-
28, 14 years. Yuri Fyodorov, 27. til Saturday he said.
under the new Mine Safety Act Nixon might choose to pocket
but declined to elaborate. veto legislation sent to the
“I’d rather not answer too
many of those questions,” Fin-
have to enlarge trash storage
areas, or improve incinera-
tors. In most cases the im-
provement will be an aux-
iliary burner to maintain an
800-degree temperature in the
incinerator.
By July 21, 1971, all Incin-
erators in use in Oklahoma
must be checked — determin-
ing the density of smoke
emitted — and approved by
the State Health Department,
Booker said.
Except for non-commercial
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day's conference champion-
shin games in the National
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There's only one real con-
flict on New Year’s Day —
Friday — the affluent have
all “planned” fires in Okla-
homa, said Robert Blanche,
director of the department’s
air pollution control division.
“We still allow camp fires
and home barbecues, but lit-
tle else,” Blanche said.
He was here Wednesday ac-
quainting city officials with
the new requirements, which
disallow the burning of a
town's trash.
Also prohibited beginning
Friday is open burning con-
ducted by salvage operations,
such as auto yards.
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THE trial and sentencing of
the Jews set off a storm of pro-
tests in Western Europe, Israel
and the United States, and a
number of foreign governments
and leaders appealed to the So-
viet government for clemency.
The appeal court reversed the
death sentences less than 24
hours after Generalissimo Fran-
cisco Franco, the Spanish chief
of state, commuted the death
sentences of six Basque nation-
alists, and Russians sympathet-
ic to the Leningrad defendants
said the Russian court undoubt-
edly was influenced by Franco’s
action.
The 11 defendants—nine Jews
and two Gentiles—were arrest-
ed in June as they prepared to
board a small Soviet airliner in
Leningrad for Finland. At the
trial, which began Dec. 15 and
ended Christmas Eve, the Jews
admitted planning to hijack the
plane because the Soviet gov-
ernment refused to let them em-
igrate to Israel, iney were
charged with treason.
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Ernie Hunter, Western Union plant technician, surveys charred remains and
damaged equipment at the Lawton office, 519 C, following an early-morning
fire. Clock in upper left is stopped at 1:05 a.m., the time firemen believe the
fire started.
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FROM THROWING OUT the crockery in Rome to counting
1 out the year in New York, the familiar New Year’s Eve
rituals were set to begin today buoyed by champagne, noise-
makers and the strains of “Auld Lang Syne.”
Casting aside the cares of inflation, Europeans registered
heavy bookings at Continental restaurants and night clubs de-
spite generally higher charges than last year.
But in the United States, the economic squeeze was blamed
for a reduction in advance reservations at night spots in sev-
eral major cities. Some places lowered prices and a handful
canceled celebrations.
The West Coast was the major exception to the U.S. busi-
ness slump, with Los Angeles and San Francisco reporting
reservations going well and even some sell-outs.
Reports from Boston, Dallas and Seattle, Wash., showed
clubs reducing per persons prices for New Year's Eve by as
much as $10 compared to last year.
The Pump Room in Chicago pared its price from $39 to
$33 per person for the evening “to encourage celebrants in a
conservative spending economy and to start the year off with
a bow to the budget minded.”
Prices were not cut at the Grand Ballroom in New York's
Waldorf-Astoria but neither were they raised. Guy Lombardo
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NEW YORK (AP) - The
men around the house—
if they're football fans—are
going to be monopolizing the
television for the next four
days.
Nine football games—that's
close to 30 hours—will be na-
tionally televised between to-
night and Sunday . Included on
the television menu are Sun-
Car Exhaust Bill Fire Damages Lawton
Signed By Nixon Western Union Office
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Nixon signed into law
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet
Union spared today the lives of ,
two Jews convicted of treason in (
the Leningrad hijack case. One
of them will serve his labor
camp sentence under subsist-
ence conditions which friends
described as "slow death.”
The Supreme Court of the
Russian Federation ordered 15-
year cinfinemer; for Edward
Kuznetsov, 31, and Mark Dym-
hits. 43. It decreed highly res-
trictive conditions, including a
reduced diet, for Kuznetsov.
It also reduced the labor
camp terms given in Leningrad
to three other defendants but
upheld the other six sentences.
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which may not be so lucky for the garbage collectors or
passersby.
In France, shrouded under a thick blanket of snow, hotels,
clubs and ski resorts said the weather had not affected busi-
ness Maxim’s, the gourmet's mecca in Paris, reported full
bookings and that only to eat because there is no show.
The Lido, the glittering night spot on the Champs Elysees,
offered a good dinner, a half bottle of champagne and a spec-
tacular floor show for $62 per person. The offer was quickly
snapped up in advance bookings.
In London, the Savoy Hotel offered a four-course dinner
with wines, two bands, a cabaret, the trumpeters of the Blues
Regiment and the bagpipers of the Scots Guards to usher in
the year for a cost of $25 a head, $2.40 more than last year.
Apart from a few brave spirits who will try to paddle and
splash in the icy waters of Trafalgar Square's fountains be-
fore the bobbies seize them, Londoners usually take New
Year's Eve with some indifference. Many go to bed at 10 o'-
clock because the following day is a working day.
Over the border, however. Scots make a wild night of it,
dancing reels into the small hours and launching an avalan-
che of hospitality and cheer.
The Scots don't care about hangovers. Unlike the English,
they have the next day free—time to recover.
Central Fire Station Assistant had still not determined the ing that lasted a day and a half, should prevail through Friday.
Chief Billy Dean said the fire source of the fire this morning, Barred from the courtroom. Temperatures are . expected
started under a chair near the but believed it had started sev- supporters of the defendants in the lower 50s today, and to-
a year, a subsistence diet and
reduced visiting and mail pro
ileges and fewer food parce
than ordinary inmates.
FRIENDS of the defendants
said Kuznetsov’s confinement
would be “like a slow death”
because of the poor diet and
prolonged isolation. But “it’s
F eworks are much the order of the midnight hour also in
Rome and Naples where Italians are prepared to end 1970
with a bang.
The legend goes that the more the noise the luckier the
New Year will be. In Rome there is the added custom of
throwing all the old furniture and crockery into the street—
The blaze was reported to the call from the Central Sta- landfill business, will also, be-
refuge headquarters at 1:25 tion and Station 2 brought the ginning Friday, prohibit any
p.m. Wednesday and fire en- blaze under control in 15 min-1 burning by citizens or indus-
gines from Meers and Medi- utes. They remained at the try.
cine Park, along with 16 ref- scene until 7:15 a.m. extinguish- A regulation of the State
ing hot spots. Health Department, authoriz-
Open Burning Outlawed Beginning Friday
trol and that only five people
were patroling the area watch-
ing for any new outbreaks. He
added that a man was also
stationed on Mount Scott to
get an overall view of the
area.
“We will maintain patrols in
the area as long as we feel it
is necessary,” Howard said,
adding, “It is now a matter of
mopping up and controlling
any small outbreaks we may
have.”
A new outbreak of the fire
was reported shortly after
8:30 a.m. today but firefight-
ars; Israel Zalmanson, 21,
PRESIDENT Nixon, prevent-
ed by bad weather from flying
to the site, expressed his sympa-
thy to the families of the vic-
tims, relaying his message
through Gov. Louie B. Nunn.
Nunn said the President, dur-
ing a telephone conversation,
“advised me that he would sup-
port any additional legislation
(See 38 VICTIMS, Page 2, Col. 1)
Dean said the fire was start- By HARRY WILLIAMSON
ing to lick at the roof of the
building on the west side when NEW state health regula-
firemen arrived. Quick action tions which have put
by the 14 firemen responding to । Lawton into the sanitary
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Jim Booker, sanitarian with
the City-County Health De-
partment here, said one local
yard had been given a burn-
ing permit, arranging to burn
cars from all area yards.
The yards will have to
develop different procedures
now, Booker said, stressing
that such permits are outlaw-
ed by the new regulations.
The yards were the main
business firms employing
open burning. Booker said
several stores which have
burned trash will now either
Our primitive ancestors
made plenty of noise, too,
hoping to drive away evil in-
fluences.
were making another attempt to
settle the stalemate over subsi-
dies for the supersonic transport
airplane.
Cross-Capitol Dispute
And there was a cross-Capitol
dispute over the fate of a bill to
increase Social Security bene-
fits.
But the stack of legislation
confronting the waning Con-
gress was dwindling.
“I wish I could give more en-
couraging news on the SST,
which may well be the final
roadblock to adjournment,”
said Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield.
Mansfield said as the Senate
convened that he believed the
1970 session could end by to-
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to the ceiling and was eating
into the floor of a vacant apart-
ment above the office by the
time the fire department arriv-
ed at the scene,” Dean said.
The alarm was sounded short-
ly after 5 a.m.
The fire was reported by an
unidentified radio station em-
ploye, Dean said. He stated the
report was received at the
Lawton Police Station and
transmitted to a fire dispatch-
er there.
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The business offices of The
Lawton Publishing Co. will
be closed all day Friday in .
observance of New Year's I
Day. However, all editions of '
the newspapers will lie pub-
lished and delivered. The
Constitution news staff will I
be on duty until noon Friday
and the Morning Press news |
staff will be on duty from |
6 p.m. until midnight.
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T AKE patrolmen are inves-
— tigating today the possi-
bility that a campfire may
have caused a brushfire that
erupted Wednesday afternoon
between Mount Scott and Lake
Lawtonka.
Patrolmen are checking re-
ports that a camper was in
the area at the time the fire
was believed to have started
on the lake's west shore.
Julian Howard, Wichita
Mountains Wildlife Refuge
manager, said at noon today
that the fire was under con-
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IN GREECE, Jan. 1 is al-
so Saint Basil's Day, and fam-
ilies have a honey-and-nut
cake. Before baking, a gold
coin is placed in the cake,
the father cuts the cake at
midnight New Year’s Eve.
The first serving is reserved
for the saint, the second for
the house, and the remaining
for each member of the fam-
ily. The one who gets the
gold coin will have good luck
for the coming year. If it is
in the saint’s or the house’s
portion, everyone will share in
good fortune.
Legend says that El Cid,
when he was arrested, was or- said
dered confined under “especial-
ly strict regime,” meaning he S
will be allowed only one visitor/
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15 years; Boris Penson, 23, 10 Republican Leader Hugh
years, and Mendel Bodny, 32, Scott said he hoped devoutly
The Nixon administration
warmly embraced the amend-
ments to the Clean Air Act of
1967, although the legislation
was considered by many to be
the handiwork of Sen. Edmund
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IN IRELAND, this is the
feast of Saint Sylvester and
the night for fortune telling.
The man of the house takes
a loaf of bread and strikes
the door of the home and of
the cowshed three times, to
drive out misfortune.
The Scots celebrate hogma-
nay or "firstfooting" tonight.
Friends bring symbolic offer-
ings — pieces of coal to say
“May you have a warm
house,” an evergreen bough
for long life, and a loaf of
bread to wish a full larder.
Then everyone joins hands to
sing “Auld Lang Syne” and
dance the reels. The late sup-
per includes meat pies and
little pancakes eaten with but-
ter and jam and washed down
with ginger wine and port.
Henry VIII didn't forget his
stomach during the holidays,
either. He liked food as well
as women, and decreed 12
days of feasting, fun and
games from Christmas Eve to
Epiphany, Jan. 6. The feasts
included wines, seafood, poul-
try, English plum pudding
and delicacies varying from
stuffed geese and swans to
whale stew. Henry, they say,
even ate between courses, and
ate everybody under the ta-
ble.
“IN considering their ap-
peals,” the Soviet news agency
Tass reported, "the Supreme
Court proceeded from the fact
that the hijack attempt was
averted in time and that under
night-long vigil, said there were
about 100 miners employed on
three shifts inside the nonunion
plant. He said theii nay aver
aged "better than $24 a day."
The only known survivor of The original list provided by
the blast was hospitalized with the company showed 39 men
minor injuries, incurred when were working Wednesday after-
he was blown back out of the noon when the blast occurred,
tunnel But officials said one of the men
THE MONTHS and minutes
of 1970 are almost gone, and
it is time to sing “Auld Lang
Syne” and to wish Happy
New Year.
However you say it, and
whatever your custom, it is
the eve for remembrance of
the good times, and to close
the old book and open the
new one with wishes for a
new year of good fortune.
The Anglo-Saxons believed
that something might happen
when the New Year burst in,
and they climbed on rooftops
on New Year’s Eve to get a
good view of the event.
four years.
Murzhenko and Fyodorov
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OKLA. CITY. OK 73105
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to use their second television
set at 2 p.m., EST, if they
want to watch both the Sugar
and Cotton bowls.
The Cotton Bowl, pilling
top-ranked Texas against All-
American quarterback Joe
Theismann and Notre
Dame’s Fighting Irish, starts
at 2 p.m. on CBS An hour
(See FOOTBALL Pooe 4, Col. 1)
apparently was not in the mine.
Commissioner Kirkpatrick
also said he believed all victims
had been removed from the
mine, five miles from Hyden.
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signed bills, some of which
could die by pocket veto if
Congress is in adjournment a
Saturday.
But the more immediate prob-
lem was at the Capitol, in the
form of a $2.5-billion transporta-
(See CONGRESS, Pooe 2, Col. t)
CHARLES Finley, co-owner of sets for expiration of the cur-
Ilie mine, acknowledged there rent Congress.
were "small violations” Another potential complica-
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DEAN NOTED that firemen The court acted after a hear- skies and light variable winds
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against the overwhelming de- 4.
sires of the majority and that is
what is bringing the Senate into
disrepute,” he declared.
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giving headaches to the many.” 5
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WASHINGTON (AP) - An
old Congress is about to wearily
welcome a New Year, still wag-
ing the battles of 1970 on the eve
that final adjournment would
come today.
Scott Speaks
“Individual senators are tak-
Thursday stiff new curbs aimed By SKIP GIBSON
at ending smog from auto ex- FIRE OF undetermined origin
hausts and declared, "It is only early today caused an estimat-
a beginning." ed $8,000 damage to the West-
At a brief ceremony in the ern Union office building at 519
White House, Nixon said 1970 C, curtailing office transmis-
would be known as “the year of sions for several hours,
the beginning” in the battle to Western Union employes this
protect the environment and as- morning were testing equipment
serted, “I think 1971 will be the to determine the extent of heat
year of action.” and water damage to over a
, . . ... dozen pieces of expensive trans-
The next step, he said, is to mission equipment. They had
vigorously enforce the new law, restored partial telegram serv-
ley told newsmen gathered at
the headquarters for the rescue president does not sign it within
teams 16 days after receiving it—if
Finley, sleepless after aCongress is not in session when
that time expires.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., said Nixon has 22 un-
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