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2 The Altus (Okla) Times-Democrat, Monday, Sept. 4, 1967
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See No Evil
At Altus JC
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In Vietnam
By RICHARD V. OLIVER
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Senate preparedness subcom-
serious Paul Douglas, D-Ill., chairman
walking into a Viet Cong booby
South
problems if the
Woman Sets
someone he never knew.
was a mistake. The bail money
Herself Afire
BLOODY FINALE
for
British Broadcasting Corp. tele-
Omer Roberts of Quinton told
Accused Killer
Railroad station Sunday, but the
wounded dressed their wounds
'Remorseful'
got
altitude. The patrol said the
Rites Today
morseful” Phillip Ray Allen told
Cassville while attending the
in military service.
ser-
vice.
Former Altus
PARLEY
Resident Dies
But two blocks from his
AUTHOR BURIED
thrived on stories about former
Drncidoni Cilee.~).
died in a Tulsa hospital Thurs-
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trouble stemming from a severe
Novidevichy Monastery.
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WANT ADS
TOMORROWS BUILDING TODAY!
MES-TEX
Steel Buildings
Tornado Hits
Tex. Panhandle
VAUGHN, N. M. (UPI) - A
Kansas City woman set fire to
herself in front of the Santa Fe
trap.
“If we
$3.75
$7.00
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eting of
saying:
Second class postage paid
at Altus, Oklahoma, 73521.
$6.00
$10.00
$15.00
MILWAUKEE—Dick Gregory,
the Negro comedian who came
here to support the open-housing
demonstrations called for pick-
Quinton.
Williamson said he took off
first from the McAlester air-
of
new
$1.60
$4.80
$9.60
$19.20
some of the candidates were
struck off the voting list.
By the month
Three months
Six months
Year
red.
Sellers was director of the
Barry County, Mo., health unit
and Land was a prominent far-
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SOURCE FAILS
JAKARTA (UPI)—The daily
newspaper Operasi, which came
into being two years ago and
: while putting the squeeze
Ford.
mile strin near the Panhandle
town of Fritch.
traffic charge.
Police released Roy Taylor,
The station was off the air at
least until Tuesday, a spokes-
man for KGNC said.
The Southwest Public Service
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ings. The umbrella is presumably for protection
against protest bombings by the pigeons.
JANE FONDA
1:12 - 3:18 - 5:24 - 7:30 - 9:36
out of there to help the colored
folks.”
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two and injuring 30, said:
, “Half of the people who were
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Contracting Co.
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211 N. Main. Altus, Okla.
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Three months
Six months
Year
Other than above
Three months
Six months
Year
“I personally worry that two! 'men, ne sam, we gu uiw
newspapers have been closed by i an argument and I came home
the Saigon regime and that by myself.”
Quotes in the News
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Calif., and North Dakota Gov. —
William S. Guy, from perhaps HONEST PRISONER
Family Rates (2 or More)
For reservations phone
HU 2-6546
GRACE METHODIST
CHURCH
620 South Park Lane
Allen said he raped Mrs.1
Jones but could not remember
whether he raped the girl.
Leonard
Contracting Co.
HU 2-5300
211 N. Main. Altus, Okla.
Survivors include his widow; Mangum. Mrs. Earl Hammons
two sons, Rex of Tulsa a n d of Pasadena. Tex.; six grand-
Raymond of Sherman. Texas, children and three great-grand-
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THRU THE
FOR "FAST RESULTS"
PLACE A CLASSIFIED
AD IN THE ALTUS
TIMES-DEMOCRAT
NOW!
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tims, Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Frank Tints
Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Tims
We are known for our
yeors of experience in
HOME FINANCING ond
MORTGAGE LOAN
PLANS that you can live
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souri couples. Their two private
airplaines collided in flight, kill-
ing two of the couples.
BY MAIL
Jackson and adjoining counties
escaped injury. The three cou-
ples were close friends, and'
had just taken off for the trip |
home when the accident occur-
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of the President’s Commission
on Urban Problems proposing
that the government move
families from city slums into
suburban homes foreclosed by
the Federal Housing Adminis-
tration (FHA):
“Why not use some of them,
discreetly, for public-housing
clients?
KE.
NO FLY-BY-NIGHT businessman is Andrew Szark-
mary, 8-year-old proprietor of Andrew's Oasis in
New York. Lemonade stands are nothing new, but
Andrew went at it professionally, setting up shop
right in the heart of New York, and near the United
Notion's building. Among his customers this summer
was Saudi Arabian Ambassador Jamil Baroody,
shown here cooling off during the hot Middle East
debates.
HAL WALLIS moocm-
BazfopHeu
Sellers, 42. and his wife, 38, of
Cassville, Mo., and Paul Land,
45 ,and his wife, 41, of Purdy,
Mo.
The third couple, Mr. and
Mrs. H O. Williams of Shell
Knob, Mo., crash landed their
plane after the collision and
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agent, said the woman appar-
ently boarded the train in Cal-
ifornia. She got off in Vaughn
Saturday night and spent the
night in town. When the Sunday
train came in, the woman ap-
parently purchased some gaso-
line at a service station, walked
across the street and doused
herself with the gas, setting
fire to her clothes.
Maupin and the service sta-
tion attendants, Floyd Gaines
and his son, Denzil, rushed to
her aid, extinguished the flames
with rags.
A doctor said the woman re-
portedly had a fatal illness and
Bridgetown, capital of Barba-
dos, has a monument to Lord
Nelson in its own Trafalgar
Square, just like London.
The Altus Times-Democrat
218.220 w Commerce, Altus, Okla,
73521 Phone HU 2-1221.
(Daily Except Saturday)
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
CARRIER SERVICE
march Saturday was accom-
plished without Incident. Last
week scores of injuries and
hundreds of arrests resulted as
the demonstrators marched in
defiance of a nighttime ban on
marches imposed by Mayor
Henry Maier.
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dav after suffering a stroke.
An employe of Cities Service
34 years, he lived in Bartles-
ville until moving to Tulsa
three years ago.
He was a graduate of Geor-
gia Tech.
the Aaron, pastor of the
Denise indicated no"break"in late Mrfand Mrs. M- E- Wool- Methodist church officiating.
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Home of fomous low-cost family burial pro-
tection plan. A time-honored plan long ap-
preciated by patrons of
than some at home.”
hours., a building rising above the
The Texas Department of Pub- roof which contains windows
lie Safety said hail ruined grain for lighting the interior.
sorghum crops in a 20 by 10--.
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schedule and take in other
polling places and arrived three
hours after the blast.
Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin
of Baltimore and Mayor Joseph
M. Barr of Pittsburgh visited
Can Tho in the Mekong Delta
during the early voting hours.
“The important thing is that
they’ve done a tremendous job
ALTUS;.
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NEW YORK—Former Sen.
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TOPLESS RUDOLF Nure-
yev, famed Russian-born
ballet star, appears re-
freshed after a dip in the
Mediterranean, and con-
siderably happier than he
was following his arrest
of a hippie party in San
Francisco recently. The
lithe dancer is shown here
during a vacation at La
Turbie, near Monaco.
Vietnamese government ini-
tiates a bombing pause:
“According to our top milita-
ry authorities, another bombing
cessation would guarantee
10,000 additional American
dead.
the city’s banks,
son said, “Suddenly he came
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end pleasure trip to the Okla- “
homa prison rodeo ended in )
tragedy Sunday for three Mis-
was intended for Roy Taylor, j named Singh,
who was also serving time on a |
Killed instantly were Bill I B
McKeldin said, “I think it has and stabbed her mother and Hastings-to-Ashford train
been very fair. I’m no expert, critically wounded her father.
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“He said he struck Jones in
the head with the handle of this
big fish-skinner knife,” police
said
He said the man jumped out
of bed and he stabbed him in
the back. tied him up and
shoved Jones and his son,
Tommy, into a closet and
locked it.
been killed,” Murphy sid.
Two persons were killed
outright and a third died later.
More than 30 other persons
were injured, several of them
mittee warning
ONE OF
THE ESSENTIAL
THINGS IS....
j I Police said Allen told them
Jones awoke as he walked in
Murphy and White were sche-
duled to arrive. They decided at -
the last minute to change their commended Charles Taylor
generals who have ruled South
Vietnam for two years won at
least 30 per cent of the ballots
cast and beat their closest rival
by a 45 per cent margin.
South Vietnamese troops were
given the priority duty of
guarding the immediate voting
areas to avert any claims of
American interference or in-
fluence.
The Communists’ final surge
against polling places and
transportation routes boosted
the toll of killed, wounded and
kidnaped civilians in the past
week to 2,500
SAIGON—Election observer
Sen. George Murphy, R.-Calif
arriving luckily late at a polling
place in village of Tuy Hoa
where a bomb exploded killing
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ticket agent and two men man- throwing whites. But a similar
Home of Altus and Jackson County Ambulance Service
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John way.
Vinson < Five 300-foot towers of radio .
• ' station KGNC, Amarillo, were had been depressed,
th e sent crashing to the ground 20
I Mrs. Wooldridge is the form- Cave Creek cemetary under the miles northeast of Amarillo.
said his craft was only slightly ; WASHINGTON—Sen. Henry
damaged when it crashed !M. Jackson, D-Wash. of the
1 through a fence as it landed on
|his honesty-and returned him [the Circle K dude ranch near
vision series designed to help the highway patrol he saw the
farmers. But for the porkers' two planes collide. ’ | “We will block their doorways
there will be no happy ending. “It looked like they hit each until some of that money gets
In the final episode, they other and that was about all,”__
: with a punctured lung and Mrs.
Jones was in poor condition
j with several stab wounds in the
chest.
Their son, Tommy, 10,
escaped injury, because the
assailant locked him in a closet.
Allen was charged with
murder, rape, burglary and two
counts of assault with intent to
murder.
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House before the funeral at how he stabbed Jones, 37, employes, assets of $8 billion.
stabbed his daughter, Richey and 1966 sales of $12.24 billion,
eona, 8 to death and raped ’ The UAW’s strategy is to let
and stabbed Mrs. Joyce Ann General Motors Corp, and
Jones. 28 ’He seemed remorse-i Chrysler Corp, keep operating
ful, police said. ; while putting the squeeze on
Jones was in critical condition
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. to his jail cell.
(UPI i—Charles M. Taylor, who -----■
hadn’t gotten fouled up j had been jailed on a traffic FAMILY SPORT
in our schedule we could have charge, told police there must] BLOXWICH, England (UPI)- nnr. ang th. seyere nlano . .
be some mistake because he A sports announcer’s nightmare Pved Qe sid serp . .
was released on bail by came true this weekend at *
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his wife were unharmed. He By United Press International
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eligible 5.8 million voters turned
out in defiance of the Commu-
downtown streets for several
hours under heavy police
protection. They then returned
to St. Boniface Church, where
Father Groppi is assistant
pastor, held a rally and
marched again.
They planned another demon-
stration today, to start at 1
a m. CDT. Gregory referred to
the march as “the Polish
sausage stroll,’ a reference
taken to mean the demonstra-
tors might once more enter the
largely Polish, all-white south
side.
On marches through the south
side last Monday and Tuesday,
the demonstrators were met by
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“I just don’t know what hap- (
pened.” Williamson said. “It i
was all so fast. The other plane
flew up under our land gear
,, __ _ . .— — a him after they were airborne
.thorn local soccer match when an that Sellers was heading too far
A quick check showed there Indian team lined up. east 5
Ten of the 11 men werelea
‘He said he was flying to the
right and behind me,” William-
Starts Tuesday
Sophomore students will be-
gin enrollment at 8 a. m. Tues-
day at the Altus Junior College
Building, 220 North Park Lane,
and freshmen enrollment will
begin at the same hour on
Thursday.
Dean Cecil Chesser said ar-
rival of numerous additional
transcripts over the weekend
indicates an even larger en-
rollment for the term than an-
ticipated.
“Apparently many students
who had made plans to attend
other colleges have decided to
do their basic work here,”
the dean said. “We have had
more students choose the col-
lege than ever before.”
He also said the percentage
of AJC graduates going on to
senior colleges is above ave-
rage.
“We are being asked to mail
transcripts to colleges and
universitites all over the na-
tion. Most of these students
completed their full two years
here and will enter the senior
college programs as juniors.”
at Hollis Dec. 16, 1909. He inches flooded parts of Del Rio
preceeded her in death in 1956. and Cotulla and sent the Nue-
Mrs. McCain moved to Man- ces River out of its banks
gum jn 1957 A light plane crashed late
Funeral services will be to- Sunday night near Electra, dur-
day at 2:30 p. m. in the Vin- ing a wind and rainstorm, kill-
son Methodist church with ing three persons.
Rev E. L. Shumaker, pastor of At Borger winds sent a light
Wooldridge was a member of the First Baptist church of Plane cartwheeling down a run-
LONDON (UPI)—Thousands up under me. 1 just don’t know
of pigs will star in a new what happened.”
by France on July 4, 884, to
symbolize Franco - American 1
friendship.
Grace Methodist
DAY NURSERY
6 Months to 6 Years. Monday
thru Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. All Day Care $2.50
'Includes Hot Lunch)
The meeting is being held to prison rodeo at McAlester. The
8-year-old girl to death, raped protest the closing of the Lands were survived by a son
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ASHFORD, England (UP ;- ’ and pieces. j
An extra train will be put into _ I
of mechanics.” Barr said. “I’ve police how. drunk on beer and service this week to carry | The Sellers left two young
seen no harassment of voters fresh from an argument with persons attending a protest daughters with a baby sitter at
here. In fact, in some respects his brother, he crawled through meeting in Ashford. o—.,;n- "hil ntendin" "a
this election has looked better a neighbor’s window, stabbed an ~
CLIMBING THE WALLS at Buckingham Palace in
London, this workman is placing pigeon repellent
mer Wiliamson is postmaster plastic strips on the ledges The birds don't like the
atshel Knob. .0 . I feel of landing on the jellylike substance, which may
cWilliamson Pilotedsa Piper curb desecration of statues and government build-
Cherokee. The four killed were — -
in a Piper Clipper piloted by
Sellers.
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ist violence to elect chief of Bv United Press International
state Nguyen Van Thieu pres- The Saturday of Liberty was
ident and Premier Nguyen Cao formally presented to America
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Mrs. McCains up and voted."____
critically, in the Tuy Hoa
polling station 10 minutes before
aged to save her life.
Iday May Thornton, about 32,
was in critical condition at San-!
ta Rosa Hospital in Santa Rosa,
N. M., late Sunday. She suf-
fered third-degree burns over
most of the upper half of her
body.
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the natinn’e i„_( two sons. Harold of Vinson and lines in the Panhandle. , I life, ceased publication today.
E H of Houston Tex • 4 Water gushed five feet deep its editor blamed financial
brothers. Oscar Myers of Mur- oversroadsin Palo Duro Can- < '—p -
freesboro. Tenn. Perk of Pa- yon State Park, 25 miles south- drop in circulation,
sadena, Tex. Jack of Vinson westt of Amarillo, stranding hun-
and Emory of Mangum; two dreds of campers for eight
sisters, Mrs. G. C. Smith of
HOUSTON (UPI)-A “re-
xWxM AMARILO.(UPI- A torna-
pitai Saturday, l MX- dain"ndsgnsenaimlssznnauri
Born July 8, 1893 in Melford, whipped the Texas Panhand 3
she came with her fa- Sunday, unroofing houses. I
mily to the Vinson community smashing windows and ripping
in 1902. down power lines.
She married William McCain In South Texas, rains of five
appear as bacon and pork he said.
chops. _____ Both planes were at 2.500 feet
just an observer. But the fact | His eyes brimming with tears
President Johnson sent us has and his voice breaking, the 26-
had a stimulating effect on the, year-od Allen said he and his
country here” brother, Carl, had spent Friday (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) :
Eugene Patterson, Editor of I evening going from bar to bar safety problems were among |
the Atlanta Constitution, said,1 drinking beer. I the subjects discussed.
Then, he said. “We got into' Reuther said safety standards
should be reviewed, particularly _ , , ....
in foundries where steel is' Fulneral services for M. E.
produced. Reuther charged that Wooldridge, formerly of Altus,
Ford acted like it was dealing were held Saturday in Tulsa
apartment, something made "from the manor house with with burial there.
Allen decide to break into the | peasants” in deciding what wasI
apartment of the John Robert best for its workers. a pioneer Jackson county fa- Erick and Rev. Mrs.
। Jones famiy, police said. The I milv Hjs narante wpra
MOSCOW (UPI)—The Soviet Joneses, like Allen, were Commentsby Reuther . and , mt Mrnre M p
Union today buried Ilya Ehren- newcomers to Houston. They their cu "hich"SADints dridge of Altus.
. - - ! had arrived from Chicago onlyie impasse. "nien ponnis Mre WnnlArid.
burg, the controversial pa- 12 days earlier. Allen moved toward a strike when the
triarch of Soviet literature who from Tuscaloosa, Ala., three contract expires. A UAW strike
.. .. . . 110 J weeks earlier against Ford would close the
died last Thursday at the age of 1 "eeKs earner. । .._____
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Ehrenburg s body lay in state Allen said 1 .
.... . „ . . ... , Allen said. the nation s fourth largest
at Moscow s Central Writers | Police said Allen told them corporation, with 238,410 U.S.
SAIGON (UPI) - The 22
Americans appointed by Pres-
ident Johnson as unofficial poll
watchers in South Vietnam had
little evil to report today.
Stanford Smith, general man-
ager of the American Newsna-
pe r Publishers Association
lANPA), said the team would
not issue any collective state-
ment after it meets in Hawaii
Tuesday to discuss its impres-
sions of the election.
“There was pressure among
some members of the delega-
tion to get at least a few lines I
together, but others, myself
included, did not agree,” Smith
said. “I for one would never
agree.
“We all have our different
opinions We do plan to meet in
Hawaii Tuesday and discuss our
different impressions so that
none of us is left unaware of I
what another may have seen.”
He said the meeting “will not
produce a statement.”
Other team members ex-1
pressed general satisfaction!
with the election’s conduct.
They split into spearate
groups and flew to different
parts of the country: A last
minute schedule change saved
two. Sen. George Murphy. R-
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ZONES
Central — Cloudy and cool
with occasional showers and
thundershowers tonight. Partly
cloudy. High today 73 to 78. Low
tonight 59 to 64. High Tuesday 77
to 83.
Southeast — Cloudy and cool
with showers and thunderstorms
tonight. Partly cloudy to cloudy
and a little warmer Tuesday.
Lake wind warnings today. High
today 76 to 80. Low tonight 63 to
68. High Tuesday 80 to 85.
Southwest — Cloudy and cool
with occasional showers and
thundershowers tonight. Partly
cloudy and a little warmer Tues-
day. High today 78 to 82. Low
tonight 61 to 66. High Tuesday
81 to 96.
Northeast — Cloudy and mild
tonight with occasional rain and
chance of thundershowers. Clou-
dy to partly cloudy and slightly
warmer Tuesday. High today 72
to 77. Low tonight 60 to 65. High
Tuesday near 80.
Northwest — Cloudy and cool
with occasional showers and
a little warmer Tuesday. High to-
day 72 to 77. Low tonight 58 to 63.
High Tuesday 75 to 81.
Panhandle — Partly cloudy to
cloudy and mild tonight with
widely scattered mainly after-
noon and evening thundershow-
ers. Partly cloudy and a little
warmer Tuesday. High today 74
to 79. Low tonight 55 to 60. High
Tuesday 79 to 84.
FIVE DAY FORECAST
Oklahoma — Temperatures
Tuesday through Saturday will
average 3 to 7 degrees below
normal west, 4 to 9 degrees be-
low normal east. Normal high
84 northwest to 90 southeast, low
55 to 67. Minor day-to-day chang-
es until turning cooler toward
weekend. Rainfall will average
.10 to .33 inch west, occurring
as widely scattered thunder-
showers through week, and .25 to
.75 inch east, as showers main-
ly toward weekend.
RAVENS ARE KNOWN TO
LIVE FROM 70 TO 80 '
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