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Hoffa on Brink of Prison Now
a-m
Some court observers said a
hour appeals to the Supreme Chattanooga for further hear-
been travelling as plain Mr. Buckingham Palace announce-
ment eavesdropping on himself begin serving his jail sentence
h ‘
despite rift
rumors.”
The
1
Snowdon was abroad while his
-That the justices reconsider
James R. Hoffa
VOL. 40—NUMBER 336
ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1967
Price 5c
Local School
Chief Balks At
K
Terming Viet s
Pace a Step-Up
high school cafeteria.
h,
DA NANG TOLL HIGH
Johnson Calls
12 Americans Die
"Funds which have accumu-
may be used to increase the
Vietnamese troops sweeping
varied. One report said the fire
economic circumstances permit
damage at the base.
Several times, Johnson used
the "more far-reaching” de-
Henry Kimbell
he emphasized that the
moves
about the freeze on highway
Hardest hit by the cutback
deemed
essential
to
were
lowed by Don Jones, who also
The cutback has also retarded
partially financed by the federal
if
“i
with fruit flies.
that is best calculated to bring
Small Drops campaign parley here tonight
Boll Weevil Battle Pushed
The Altus Chapter 49 of Eas-
Official local rainfall could
the number of boll weevils hi-
areas
councilman Hugh Garnett have
Harold Hickerson will assume
ners and producers in these
Ho-
X
ately.
ward Powell, county
ision
them into Altus.
(See WEEVIL page 2)
J
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Council to Open
Bids on Tuesday
Shadid Gets
His Hat Into
Mayor Ring
It Did, Too,
Rain-But In
IT'S CLASS WORK
Pupils Take
Flies Home!
BRITISH PRESS DENIES RIFT
Tony Hides in New York
NEW YORK (UPI) —Lord I was believed to be staying with rumors are totally unfounded.
Mrs. Guy P. Horton of Altus,
Kimbell, a native of Grose-
indications the rocket fire had Tactical Fighter Wing at Da
come from as far away as Nang, said 15 mortar rounds
program above the $4.4 billion
for fiscal year 1968, proved
unless his attorneys can esta-
blish grounds for further delay.
gain today that cast of the de-
linquent tags will double this
He could hardly ignore the
headlines screaming from every
newsstand: "Meg’s home.
financed by federal funds. Little
more than half of the 41,000
Historical Society
Oklahoma City, Okla. 73101
i
the conviction.
—That the case be sent back
to federal district court in
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Teamster Union President
James R. Hoffa lost two 11th
economy.
A number of state legislatures
have formally protested the
President’s cutback order. Sev-
eral governors also complained
TTaf
v :
possible project for us to do."
Garvin said.
Because the work of the high
(See FLIES pane 2)
wound up on the rocks.
Anthony Armstrong -Jones
wearing a slight beard, winged
into New York Sunday on a
since Feb. 2 He told airlines
officials he would remain in
New York for three days before
returning to London.
Lord Snowdon’s exact where-
abouts were unknown but he
pal water plant, located on Fal-
con road.
These areas are then burned,
killing the boll weevils.
Results in the Vernon area
"YOU'RE NEXT," Leslie Wiley, biology laboratory assistant, tells Mork Lea-
vitt, sophomore biology student, as she prepares to add banana diet supple-
ment to his fruit fly test tube incubator. Nita Stapp, also a sophomore, waits her
turn. BSSC biology students took the test tubes home with them over the week-
end to supervise activities of the fly families.
yet to be made in this fiscal
year.”
Boyd explained that the $1
billion in frozen funds could not
be used if economic conditions
were unfavorable This would
keep spending at the $4 4 billion
director, and N. B. Thomas,
area agronomist.
The fight against the boll
weevil is patterned after a
"clean up” campaign staged
in Vernon area over the past
three years.
Depending on where you
stood, it rained in Altus Sun-
already announced they will duties as president, Dick Maf-
file for the office of mayor. All fry as vice • president, Hatton
three announced candidates are McMahan Jr as treasurer and
Democrats. |Rev. Carl McCoy as secretary.
In a written statement, he
said, "My campaign will be
based on my past record of
o
L .
which call for laying of 18-inch
ductile or cast iron pipe most
of the way, were approved by
the council Feb. 2.
Plans call for the bids to be
ness leaders in the history of
Altus, died Sunday night in a
Sacramento, Calif., hospital
where he had been confined for
Johnson declared.
Asked whether these activities
made the war outlook "more
ominous" and hopes of peace
less likely, Johnson replied: "I
don’t think so.”
“I think that each day the big
road we follow is a search for
peace, and everything we do is
in that direction,” Johnson said,
"and I believe that what I am
Salvation Army To
Install New Board
New year officers of the Al-
tus Salvation Army advisory
board will be installed at 7
Short Stories
Two squadrons needed on
I three days to reach 100
percent participation in the
Notional Health - Interna-
tional Health Agencies joint
fund campaign now under-
way at Altus Air Force
Base.
The 11th Services Squadron
and the 816th Medical Group
. were the first base organiza-
tions to complete campaigns.
Project officers were Lt. Larry
Arnold and Lt. Carville Duncan,
respectively.
Bids on the Round Timber wa-
ter project pipeline, which will
be laid from Texas to the Altus
water treatment plant, will be
opened Tuesday night during a
Jackson’s county’s war on
boll weevils will be explained
courts and then may ask that vits by persons who claimed
he remain free until these are they knew about or participated
settled. In addition, Hoffa is in wiretapping or “bugging” of
heading up current nationwide the jury’s hotel quarters and
contract negotiations for the rooms used by Hoffa and his
more than one million members attorneys.
where federal district Judge I of the Teamsters union and
Erankoh -tWilson presided at might argue for postponement
Hoffa then can be summoned of sentence until they are
to custody by a U.S. marshal to completed.
The trash is run through a
machine, sifting out large por-
tions. and the remainder is
placed on a special built heat
table Boll weevils in the trash
crawl out and it’s determined
Shadid’s announcement came p m. today at the Elks club
one week before the filing lounge with Col. C. William
period opens officially. Jaynes, state commander for
Altus attorney and former Oklahoma and Arkansas, con-
mayor Rayan Kerr, and former ducting the ceremonies.
Snowdon went into seculsion friends in Manhattan. He has
beck. Tex, moved to this area mile highway network has been
in 1888 with his parents, the late completed to date.
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Kimbell ~
who homesteaded five miles construction of primary and
east of what is now Altus. He secondary roads, which are also
was married to Nona Shadden ’ " “
A preliminary organizational bernated in certain
meeting was conducted by —
Thomas in Altus a couple of
weeks ago where he explained
that producers take trash sam-
A panel discussion on com-
munity development will high-
light a neighboring meeting at
the Community Center at 1320
W. Frisco at 7:30 p.m. today.
Past principals of Robert E.
Lee ward school will be special
guests when a PTA Founder’s
Day tea is held at the school at
7:30 p m Tuesday. Mrs. Weldon
Ferris. Altus high school jour-
nalism instructor and school
public relations director, will
be guest speaker, giving the
history of the Robert E Lee
school Business on the agenda
includes appointment of a nom-
inating committee, unit officials
announced.
ucopiuc lut rumors.” The reports in French, German and
stories carried denials from the Italian news media linking such
British press, which described rumors to the fact that Lord
He said the naval and
aitillery shelling and the
mining, along with continued
bombing of North Vietnam.
of the regular council meeting.
Two sets of bids will be opened
Tuesday One is for Section A
of the pipeline, which extends
from the well fields in Texas to
just south of the Red River, then
again from the north side of the
river north to the Altus munici-
peratures are forecast for to- attend this meeting to be held
night, and Tuesday is to be at the fairgrounds building
fair, the weather bureau said. Similar meetings h a v e al-
Low tonight is expected to be ready been held in Warren,
near 30, and high Tuesday will Martha and Humphreys. Gin-
be in the 50’s. — ‘
Groups Will
Hear Baggett
State Senator Bryce Baggett
will be the speaker when Al-
tus Classroom Teachers, Altus
Parent - Teachers association
members, and teachers and pa-
trons from county schools at-
tend a special meeting here at
7 p.m. Thursday at the Altus
that about.”
The President disputed critics
who maintain that the bombing
of North Vietnam has failed to
meet its objective in that
stopping southward infiltration.
Johnson said:
“I don’t think we can state
with great precision how many
individuals are in South Viet-
nam because we bombed or
haven’t bombed. Generally
speaking, we feel it has done
those things that we expected it
The only bids to be accepted
on Section A are those specify-
ing ductile iron or cast iron pipe, . . . .
although steel pipe may be bid doing isthe courseopen to me
on the river crossing section.
According to the consulting
engineers, 240 days will be al-
lowed for the job’s completion
once the contracts are signed.
meeting.
The plans and specifications.
performance and a pledge to
continue working toward those
goals which are best for all of
the citizens of Altus.”
He was elected mayor in
March, 1960. and has served in
that capacity since. In Septem-
ber last year, he was elected
president of the Oklahoma
Muncipal League, an organiza-
tion which represents the state
in municipal matters.
tern Star will hold its regular day—but not very much,
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Court today, bringing him to the ings on his claim that govern-
brink of an eight-year penitenti-
tion and build-up” from North
Vietnam.
"This is, as I said, more far-
reaching than some of our
activities before but I wouldn’t
interpret it beyond that,"
and the jury was unconstitution-
al and unfair.
The legal machinery now is
this:
A certified copy of the
Supreme Court’s ruling that
Hoffa’s conviction was valid will
be mailed in two or three days
to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Cincinnati which had
previously turned down Hoffa’s
appeal.
specially-called city council
"Funds which have accumu- war the Communists have used the village of Ap Do which
lated during the deferral period long range eight-inch rockets. adjoins the sprawling Da Nang
• ... Official reports on the type of base. Between 12 and 21 rounds
shells fired by the Communists were fired in the 3 a.m. attack.
found by crews
here today while newspapers
headline rumors that his royal
road to romance and marriage
to Princess Margaret has
in Mangum where her father government,
was pioneer postmaster in the
Activity More
'Far-Reaching'
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres-
ident Johnson said today the
United States is conducting
"more far-reaching” military
activities in Vietnam than it has
before.
But Johnson, at a news
conference, refused to accept a
newsman’s description of those
activities as a "step-up;” in the
war
Johnson, at an impromptu
meeting with newsmen in his
office, was asked if the pace of
the fighting had increased in
view of U.S. artillery shelling of
North Vietnam, the mining of
North Vietnamese waters. and
increased naval gunfire into
North Vietnam.
"I think it is fair to say that
this is activity over and above
what has been taking place in
the last few weeks —and
husband to vacation in the
Bahamas next month was
probably intended to help
squelch such rumors.
The British press reaction
was touched off by recent
Hoyt Shadid, mayor of Al-
tus for nearly seven vears, an-
be sXTSXE be for
Shadid, who will have at pipeline which will cross the
least two opponents for the of-1 river
fice, had kept his intenions un- m- ......
known until today.
• * • only be described as a trace,
Motor vehicle owners who'and that disappeared as cool-
have yet to purchase their 1967 er, drier air moved in behind at a 7:15 p.m meeting today
license plates were reminded a- the front. in Altus. All area ginners and
Clear skies and cooler tern- cotton producers are invited to
-That the justices reconsider The circuit court will relay
their Dec. 12 decision affirming the judgment to Chattanooga
tentatively set for Tuesday, his was the interstate superhighway
the family there notified his sister, system. which is 90 per cent
taught by Buel Garvin at Al- Working with scientists at
tus high school And just asOSU Garvin was given the op-
the famed Austrian scientiest । portunity of purchasing for $5
Gregor J. Mendel experimen- ’ sufficient pure bred fruit flies
ted with peas to observe in- for all sections he teaches a
heritance characteristics, t h e we had had to buy these from
students are experimenting commercial laboratory it would
__have cost approximately $600,
and would have been an im-
were “more far-reaching than
the day before.” He said he did
not "want to imply that these
actions are far-reaching in
themselves.”
"What we want to conclude is
that our military and civilian
leaders are doing what they
believe is best to do to protect
the safety, the lives of our men
there and to try to bring about
aggression,” Johnson said.
several days after suffering a____
fall He was 86 years of age. funds
Funeral services have been I
Senator Baggett will discuss
the educational measures he
has introduced in this session
of the legislature, and wil have
a question and answer period
following the talk.
Senator Baggett’s legislation
proposals includes public kin-
dergarten for all Oklahoma chil-
dren, and making tansportation
districts the taxing district for
schools.
At a Parent - Teacher coun-
cil meeting members of that
group voted to attend the pro-
gram and hear Baggett’s pro-
posals.
Classroom Teachers of Altus
had voted earlier to attend the
session also. Both emphasized
they were going to the meeting
to be informed.
"Senator Baggett has shown
real concern for the schools of
Oklahoma.” Buel Garvin, presi-
dent of Altus Classroom Teach-
ers said. "Our attendance at the
meeting is not necessarily an
endorsement of his programs,
but to learn first hand what he
is proposing, and his ideas con-
cerning education in Oklaho-
ma.”
Similar attitude was voiced
by Mrs. Eugene Pickett, presi-
dent of the Altus PTA Council.
“Senator Baggett is interested,
and wants to help education in
Oklahoma. We may or may not
favor all his proposals, but he
is giving us an opportunity to
be well informed concerning
them.”
- ------— shows that the boll weevil pop-
ples in their areas and bring ulation has been greatly reduc-
[opened Tuesday. After engi-
neers and councilmen study ___...... cocac. w
them, approval of selected bids thwart theCommunist “infiltra-
will be made March 2, the date
level. He did not explain just
what economic factors would
influence the continued flow of
' funds.
President Johnson ordered the
........ ccuzzotaaes penm, came from 82mm and 120mm the area after the shelling
and depending upon decisions mortars, the heaviest in the reported finding two locations
- - - Communist arsenal, where 82mm mortars had been
Another said fragments of set up 2.060 and 5,000 meters or
eight-inch rockets also were about one and two-and-one half
ne t A nr $4.4 billion federal highway
111 AC AT AAA Xh I allotment cutback to $3 3 billion
VIV> QI HVV UV Nov. 24, citing Vietnam war
costs and the need to curb
Harry T. Kimbell, one of the inflationary pressures in the
most prominent civic and busi-
This report said there were deputy commander of the 366th certainly to a more far-reaching
degree,” Johnson replied.
One hundred twenty - five i Garvin, who has been awar-
Altus homes had unexpected ded National Science Founda-
house guests over the weekend, tion grants both from Texas
1 and all the visitors had appe- Christian university and Okla-
tites that require constant feed- homa State university, teaches
ing. I biology by the experimental me-
Fortunately, for the mothers thod. called BSSC. It’s tiie
of the households, all 10,060 same space age approach to
plus of the guests are on a biologv as modern mathematics
strict diet, and their food was is to math. This also is fil-
brought with them.
ary sentence for jury rigging.
This could mean that the head
of the nation’s largest union
may have to go to jail
conceivably within a week
although there is still room for
legal maneuvering at the lower
court level in Chattanooga,
Tenn., where Hoffa was convict-
ed in 1964.
The court turned down these
two Hoffa requests:
It’s all a part of an experi- is an NSF scholar and teacher
ment in genetics by the 125 of other sections at the high
students in the biology sections I school.
assessing miles from the base.
Col. James B. Randels,
Jones without any aid from ment three days ago about
British Embassy authorities in plans for Margaret and her
Japan or the United States.
the rumors as “poppycock ”
“The Snowdons’ friends are 3c-year-old wife recently spent i
convinced that the present four days in a hospital.
where’s Tony?" “Meg and
flight from Japan where he had Tony; heading for a royal
been on a picture assignment split?” and "Meg carries on
next Friday, March 3.
James Starr, local agent,
Old Greer county capital seat
At an early age, Kimbell be BULLETIN
came associated with Chicka-
sha Cotton Oil Co. and for many I TUCSON, Ariz. (UPI) —A
years had interests in 13 area federal judge today tossed out
gins with R K Wooton He a German beauty’s $2.5 mil-
was also a long-time cotton lion breach 01 promise to
buyer. marry suit against a multi-
r 4, iow. u-n j millionaire rancher, William
in the 1936 s. Kimbell served H Brown, who leased her
(See KIMBELL pace 2) from her husband.
12.666 meters, or about seven landed at the base, digging the "more far-reaching” de-
miles. A military spokesman craters in runways. damaging scription —although at one point
said later he knew of only one (See DA NANG pace 2) - ’
j U.S. Releasing
SIB Million in
I i
Highway Funds
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
| government announced today it
I was releasing $175 million of the
I frozen $1.1 billion in federal
I highway construction funds
| Additional money will be
N released as “soon as economic
circumstances permit.”
Transportation Secretary Alan
S. Boyd announced the decision
in testimony before a joint
meeting of the House and
Senate Public Works Com-
mittees.
President Johnson’s freeze on
the money has caused nation-
l wide complaints in state capi-
tals.
I Even if the economy does not
improve, Boyd said, the high-
way construction program will
I return to a $4 4 billion annual
E level at the beginning of fiscal
I 1968. July 1.
“A total of $175 million of
M deferred funds will be released
■ for preliminary engineering and
I right-of-way acquisition to take
E car# of safety and other
I pressing problems and to enable
E the states to move ahead
E rapidly with construction once
E the deferred funds are re-
E leased,” Boyd said.
Hoffa was convicted of trying
to rig a Nashville federal jury
Hoffa’s lawyers have at hand in 1962 when he was being tried
at least two last-ditch ar-1 on conspiracy charges. The 1962
guments that might fend off his trial ended in a hung jury,
going to prison. In support of a move to get
He has filed two new motions the Dec. 12 decision vacated,
for a new trial in the lower Hoffa’s lawyers filed 20 affida-
In Base Shelling
SAIGON (UPI) —Viet Congi type of weapon that could
shells slammed into the big U.S. deliver such fire—a Russian-
air base at Da Nang, and a built vehicle-mounted BMB20
sleeping neighboring village rockets launcher that fires a
before dawn today, killing 47 projectile weighing several
persons, including 12 Ameri-hundred pounds.
cans, and wounding 45 other The spokesman added he had
soldiers and civilians, no information whether such
Jet planes. several base weapons were in South Viet-
buildings and about 150 homes nam.
in the village were destroyed or Spokesmen said those wound-
damaged in the attack which ed in the attack included 30 U.S.
marked the first time in the servicemen and 15 natives in
to do. We never though it
would stop infiltration."
But Johnson emphasized that
the bombings has tied up
perhaps 500,000 North Vietna-
mese in air defense, road and
bridge repair, and other activi-
ties.
665' 1
said vehicle owners whose pa-
pers have been in his office
since prior to last Friday can ___ ______ _
now pick up their tags and High Sunday was 63 degrees, areas have fully endorsed the
were urged to do so immedi- Overnight low was 46, and at program as outlined br "* 1
.. noon today it was 54.
CHEATER CHECK ____ THE WEATHER
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