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The Altus Times-Democrat
VOL. 41—NUMBER 340
ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1968
PRICE 5c
VIET CONG MAKES SAIGON BATTLEFIELD
House Approves Test Results Teachers Set
Sailor Hurt in
Awaited In
Sanction Vote
Prison Probe
-ef
11’
complete pathological report
on
would be made. He held out the
I.
paraded through the streets
room Teachers
Senators Told
Of Diet Pill
Health Threat
Opening Of New Front
By Viet Cong Feared
ingredients in reducing pills can
The other two elements listed
of all Vietnam.
Communists will do if their
It was from captured do-
Zone first learned of Hanoi's pro-
Exchange Student Finds Altus Like Home
Volcano Erupts
Alan
In Philippines
Chick, 15-year-old junior of AL
Otto Sez
gram, contacted Garnett. Cor-
respondence began with Alan’s
“We have swimming clubs.
His high school participats in students, and its school hours
8
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Fog Hanging
Over Oklahoma
meeting of the boards of edu-
cation, and teachers must be
informed that their contracts
The Pentagon cautioned that
the death of a crewman was
administrators here will be
given an opportunity to vote on
Historical Society
Oklahoma City, Okla 73101
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members to bring to the Feb-
ruary 7 meeting.
Ferman Phillips, executive
will.
Some officials felt the Com-
munists still might agree to
negotiations in order to buy
time for regrouping and improv-
ing their military position.
For every girl who has the
curves, there's a man who has
the angles.
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of U.S. forces to here.
........... The major question in Wash-
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last year he has had “too many
problems with the living" to
investigate.
are being cared for properly.
Presidential Press Secretary
George Christian declined to
sination plot, bringing to 26 the
number killed. One was cap-
tured earlier and four are at
CHILD LABOR in South Vietnam where a little girl
splits bamboo to make a broom. Her village, 20
miles north of Saigon, was attacked by Viet Cong
and North Vietnamese army mortars which destroy-
ed 110 houses, killing nine persons and wounding
48 others.
tion if the legislative program
asked by the teachers is not
passed.
At the state meeting, which
lasted more than five hours,
Mrs. Gladys Nunn, Muskogee,
OEA president presided. Mrs.
, are trom 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
Altus High School enrollment is
Saturday nights the teenagers identical with that of Albury
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Here is the roll call vote by
which the house Tuesday pass-
ed a 5-cent a pack increase in
the cigarette tax, 67-27, and a
$1.60 a gallon hike in the liquor
tax, 66-29:
$
-Ny.
By United Press Innternational
Dense fog and drizzle hov-
ered over Oklahoma today and
the weather bureau said scat-
tered thundershowers would
occur tonight and Thursday in
central and eastern sections.
The fog was expected to
lift enough during the day to
permit aviation activity to re-
sume, and a clearing trend
was expected in the west
during the afternoon.
Heavy rains of the past few
days caused flooding in parts
of southeastern Oklahoma
Tuesday, and S. H. 3 between
Antlers and Broken Bow was
closed by five feet of water
from Little River. Minor
flooding also was reported on
the Illinois River at Tahle-
quah, in the northeast.
three-pronged strategy fails. as
the United States contends it
turned in a search for 213
prisoners unaccounted for this
century.
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller
said Tuesday at Little Rock a
After a week as an
High School student,
I
subcommittee investigating the
died pill industry that digitalis
was “a powerful poison and has
no place in the treatment of
obesity.”
Several physicians specializ-
ing in weight control have told
the Senate antitrust and mono-
poly subcommittee that they
regularly prescribe digitalis to
overweight patients in combina-
tion with other drugs.
Henry said there was “com-
pelling evidence" that various
ary bill. It also calls for a min- compound where he had been
imum salary of $5,000 for trapped most of the night,
teachers with a bachelor's de- He had shot a Viet Cong
gree, $5,200 for those with mas-1 coming upstairs and firing,
ter’s, and $5,400 for those with Jacobson used a pistol tossed to
doctorates. The Oklahoma Ed- him through a window by a GI
ucation Association wanted a on the ground below.
Nhut airbase, nerve center of
the allied war effort.
Casualty figures in Saigon
were incomplete but were
expected to number hundreds
on each side. A spokesman
reported 1,788 guerrillas killed
in the countryside fighting and
that allied losse were “light."
One report said 40 Americans
were killed and 100 wounded.
The only fairly quiet area was
around the big U.S. Marine
bastion of Khe Sanh in the
Urri
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But, the governor conceded,
initial evidence indicated one of
the men whose skeleton was
dug up Monday met a violent
death The man had been
decapitated.
Thomas O. Murton, the new
state prison superintendent who
has declared he will resign
rather than undergo the mental
anguish the job entails, says his
records show 213 prisoners
unaccounted for since 1900.
Rockefeller said he has heard
rumors concerning buried priso-
ners ever since he came to
Arkansas in 1953. And, he said,
convicts from all over the
country had sent him letters
telling him about inmates
buried there.
He said as a private citizen
he felt it was not his concern
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possibility that the grassy
pastureland may have been the
site of a pauper’s grave.
Rockefeller said the probe
into the finding of the skeletons
should be made wihout washing
"dirty linen" for weeks as each
body is exhumed.
posed policy of “fighting while
negotiating."
In one notebook, it was noted
that “Our strategy involves the
simultaneous conduct of war
and negotiations."
This document, captured in
August 1967, said that "if a
'peace table’ materializes, our
political attacks will be targeted
at the U.S. and the puppet
governments.”
Such a propaganda effort,
combined with steady improve-
ment of the Communist military
position while the talks go on,
would mean that any coalition
government created could even-
tually be taken over entirely by
the Reds, in the view of officials
ington today was what the
“There might have been foul
play, and that area might also
have been a cemetery—a
pauper’s cemetery for prisoners
who died and had no family,”
Rockefeller said. “It could have
been a natural burial ground.
We don’t know yet."
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extreme northeast comer of
South Vietnam where much of
the U.S. troop strength in the
country is concentrated U.S.
officials said they believed the
next big blow—by North Viet-
nam—would come there.
President Johnson was being
kept informed moment by
moment of the progress of the
Communist offensive which was
the greatest they have ever
mounted and the first to hit this
sprawling capital in force It
While Viet Cong suicide teams i were destruction of a substan-
blasted into the U.S. Embassy' tial. portion
in Saigon and destroyed millions shake their will to fight, and a
Negotiations for the exchange
began in early December when ________
Bill Whitley, Fort Cobb, district in August,
chairman of the exchange pro-
shall vote at the state OEA If the directors vote a sane-
______„_________. ... meeting in Oklahoma City on' tions alert, it will be effective
the skeletons found Monday February 7. ' until March 16, when they
1 3 ..... - OEA delegates from this again to assess legislative
county are William Shafer, au- gress on education
mass resignation movement,
and Noah Lee, NEA regional re-
presentative from Dallas, at-
tended Monday's meeting.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The E
White House sought confirma- I
tion today of indirect word from | I
North Korea that one American E
injured in the Communist E
hijacking of the USS Pueblo has E
died but the other 82 crewmen ■
hit the giant American motor
pool adjacent to Tan Son Nhut;
they invaded the U.S. embassy;
they struck the presidential
palace, and they opened sniper
fire on the Joint U.S. Public
Affairs office.
GIs found themselves in
impromptu street battles with
the Communists who ambushed
and destroyed at least nine
jeeps. They captured one Texas
sergeant, William Jackson, 34,
(See BATTLEFIELD pace 2)
Oregon’s chief medical investi-
gator said today that diet pills
containing the drug digitalis can
cause fatal heart attacks in
normal persons even when
taken in prescribed amounts.
Dr. Russell C. Henry of the
Oregon Board of Health said in
testimony prepared for a Senate
Garnett is chairman of the Ro vacation when he came here, same dances that you do here." minutes,
tary Exchange Scholar program "" --------.. . .............. "
for the local club.
with machineguns, bazookas
and hand grenades in the Saigon
streets and invaded the U.S.
Embassy.
American paratroopers landed
on the roof by helicopter and
retook the embassy in a six-
hour battle.
Frightened residents of this
city of two million were ordered
evacuated from Viet Cong
infested areas on the outskirts
so allied planes could divebomb
guerrillas threatening Tan Son
CUMMINS PRISON FARM.
Ark. (UPI)—Pathological tests
on three skeletons exhumed
^uhu, from a pig sty at Arkansas’
Frix, largest prison farm wiU deter-
mine whether dirt will be
also was the most dangerous
thrust since wholesale infiltra-
tion began in 1961.
The attack against Saigon had
been expected but it came with
such startling suddenness many
Americans and South Vietna-
mese were caught by surprise.
One moment there was the
popping of firecrackers to
celebrate the Chinese New Year
Tet. The next there was the
sound of mortars, bazookas,
machineguns and hand gre-
the Demilitarized
measures at that time also.
Resignation form which tea-
chers will consider at the Mon-
day night meeting contains three
places for the teacher to sign.
Mrs. Nunn’s statement heads
the form: "Success of any sanc-
tion activity is contingent upon
the unity of the entire profes-
sion. In support of the OEA
Legislative Program and the
future of education and the
teaching profession in Okla-
homa. each OEA mmeber is
requested to sign the attached
undated resignation form.”
Clifford Peterson, Altus super-
intendent of schools, said
school administrators must
proceed with their plans for
the next year as usual.
Under Oklahoma school law.
. . i Peterson said, principals and
sap the body of potassium, a other administrative contracts
Jackson county teachers will
be asked to vote on sanctions
alert and on undated resigna-
tions when the county unit of
the Oklahoma Education Asso-
ciation meets here at 7:30 p.m.
Monday night. _ ___________
Robert Sanders, Blair, Super-j Nunn asked the presidents to
intendent of Schools and group, return to their units to take a
said teachers and administrat- secret ballot to determine how
ors will be asked to send Jack- directors should be advised to
son County OEA delegates with vote on the sanctions alert is-
instructions as to how thy sue.
— ------ -----.------------,--------- .---------- erupted today, belching steam
With everything in reverse sea- Although his school, like all During the spring term which and red-hot rocks 200 feet into
son at the continent “Down un- other Australian schools, re- began last September Alan took the air, the Philippines Volcano-
der" Alan arrived with the deep quires uniforms, it has the courses in geography, general logy Commission said.
tan usual with teenagers here same informality as that of Al- history, mathematics, English, “
Ast. tus High. [science and commerce.
Like his United States counter-1 “We have a student council,
parts, he particularly enjoys also, and a canteen which you
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nades.
In rapid order the Viet Cong
attacked Tan Son Nhut, which is
the headquarters for Gen.
William C. Westmoreland, the
U.S. commander in Vietnam,
the U.S. 7th Air Force
headquarters and the adjacent
fortress that is the South
Vietnam joint general staff
headquarters.
They struck five Saigon hotels
where American officers and
servicemen are billeted; they
“This potassium deficit sensi-
tizes the heart muscle to the
action of digitalis,” he said.
“Thus, in effect, these people
are being poisoned by digitalis
even though their actual intake
of digitalis, while often high, is
not within the usually fatal
range."
vital ingredient which controls are considered at the February
the heart beat.
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kucei
WASHINGTON (UPI)-While (DMZ) dividing the two Viet-
gravely concerned at the nams.
widespread Viet Cong terror The vc guerrillas have been
attack, U. S. officials today told that “t is imperative that
kept a wary eye on me Khe we hit the enemy harder before
Sanh area where they believed engaging
in any negotiations.”
the next blow in the Communist Then, according to Hanoi
“winter-spring offensive” was directives seized in the field,
shaping up. the Communists will be in a
Captured enemy documents position to force their way into
have disclosed that Hanoi’s a coalition government.
grand strategy called for a U.S. officials have known for
coordination of these two some. time , that such an
punches to shatter confidence in offensive was in the works. The
the Saigon regime and persuade terror attacks were listed in a
the Americans to talk peace on V iet Cong notebook captured
terms that ultimately would last summer as one of the three
lead to Communist domination phases in a general uprising.
Altus i Sponsored by Altus Rotary made. football, hockey, soccer, rugby, are from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
Club, Alan is an exchange scho- Registered as a junior, Alan cricket, basketball and tennis. *“ " '
lar, and currently is the guest had just completed his school * ......
There were no reports of
VT , injury in the eruption, which
In Australia the school year was considered minor. It was
.. . - . , . continues throughout the 12- the third minor eruption since
swimming and water sports, call the cafeteria.” North Al- months period with a six weeks' Sept 28,1965 when 200 persons
"We have ewimming eluhs" bury has slightly more than 800 vacation at Christmas, and two were killed and 50,000 made
"J . . in students, and its school hours (See STUDENT pane 2) I homeless by the volcano
are renewed or not, by April of dollars worth of equipment at heavy, blow against "a major
10_of every year. supposedly secure American puppet force," the Viet Cong
elsewhere, Hanoi was term for the South Vietnamese
k - ~
hyehat
chanting battle cries and calling
for military action against
North Korea,
An over-size effigy of North J
Korean Premier Kim II Sung
was burned, and demonstrators
. . supposedly secure American1 puppet force," the Viet Cong
Teachers have until April 25 bases ..c, ”_____ ____
to inform the board and super- continuing to deploy an estimat- army.
intendent if they will teach. We ed 40,000 troops in preparation I* ' '_____ . .2 2.
will proceed with our plans for a major offensive just south : cuments that the United States
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tralia has rome to the conclu A Mn and Mrs.kush Garnett, term and was on mid-summer have dances. "We do much the and its hours vary by only 15 MANILA (UPD—Taal volcano
sion that there are more simi-
liarities than differences be-
tween Altus High and North |
Albury High.
Alan arrived here last week
after a trip of 10,470 miles in
which he lost a full day of time.
Teacher Pay Hike
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) — Aye on both bills - Abbott,
The threat of a veto loomed in Allard, Andrews, Bamberger,
Pueblo Seizing N
May Be Dead |
unconfirmed, and that in any
case his identity could not be
Sanders said the teachers and determined.
specify the source of the reports [
Tuesday. The impression was j
meetleft, however, that at least!
pro- indirect communication had
measures. been opened between Washing-1
io-v i s u a l director of Altus1 Sanders said" this also will be a ton and Pyongyang.
schools and mechanical draw- national alert In Seoul, South Korea, 100,000
ing teacher, and Don Marshall, If the directors should vote to demonstrators left a rally in the
principal of Eldorado High invoke sanctions at that time municipal stadium today and
School. they also would ask the Na- naraded throneh the eteete
Sanders and Paul Roach, tional Education Association to
president of the Altus Class- 1 invote national sanctions, Mrs.
room Teachers Association, Nunn told the 144 presidents at
were called to Oklahoma City the Monday meeting.
at a state-wide meeting of coun- Presidents at the Monday
ty and classroom teacher offi-l meeting also were asked to dis- . . . ■ „----------------1
cers. Some association mem- tribute teacher resignation demanded retaliation for the
bers have advocated mass ac- forms in their units Roach and Pueblo seizure and the Commu-
---------------------------------- Sanders said ffie.se will be given nist.. assassination attempt on,
—By Former Altusan— i10 teachers her Monday night. [ Sluth orean President Park j
- ' The forms, according to the Cung, He Jan. 21. .
plans of OEA officials, will be South Korean troops Tuesday
turned in to board of directors shot another of the North
Koreans involved in the assas-
Enroute he landed briefly in _________ W ,1B1 ..
Acapulco, Mexico City, San Rotarian father, an Albury con-
Francisco and Dallas, 'tractor, and arrangements were
both measures. Roach said
AAAAA : classroom teachers will be given
(EDITOR’S NOTE — Dr. all information concerning the
Russell C. Henry is a former
Altus resident and a graduate
of Altus High School. His mo-
ther, Mrs. C. C. Henry, and
a brother, Baxter Henry, are
Altus residents.
secretary of the OEA told the ,
group that the resignations -arse. , . .
probably will not be counted un- 0 At the United Nations, the
til the March meeting. Each Secunty Counol put off recon-
will be in a sealed envelope vening.on the Pueblo incident
Larry Sorensen, the NEA field whilediplomats sought solutions
consultant, who worked with in private talks. It appeared no
Florida teachers on a similiar resolution would be for hcoming
for some time, if at all.
minimum salary of $6,000 The six hour fight began when
Rep. Lonnie Abbott D Ada^ a । the guerrillas, moving under
field representative of the OEA, cover of sniper fire from nearby
said the salaries provided in rooftops, blasted the front door
the bill,weresi nadequate. . with explosives A U.S. spokes-
Rep. Bill Willis, D-Tahlequah, man said they did not enter the
principal author, said the bill main building, but they
would cost the state about $ 3 have penetrated other buildings
million a year but would only in the compound
"let education crawl.” Military policemen, sweating
, ' ' We . hope that after and cursing, battled the snipers
we ve crawled a little longer from corners and walls. Para-
we will be able to walk,” Wil- troopers were lifted by helicp-
-isusaid■ . _ ....... ter onto the roof to help out, but
Wilhs said Bartletts sav- were driven back by
mgs bills "carry on financialsniper fire before they succeed,
relief to us in this session o ed in landing. y
the legislature in which relief A reaction force of embassv
is so critically needed, security guards found them-
Connor said Republicans selves having to charge their
would not vote for a tax.in- own embassy through heavy
crease until a substantial guerrilla fire. The hurled
number of Bartlett s manage- themselves over the walls and
ment study committee propos- returned the sniper fire
als had been considered. When the shooting finally died
The people are saying do down at midmorning there were
not raise taxes until you econo- 19 Viet Cong bodies scattered
mia in government, Connor ■ over the embassy grounds.
the background today as three! Barr, Bean, Beauchamp, Bengt-
important bills headed for the [son, Bernard, Blankenship, Bor-
senate. They would raise teach-1 en. Briscoe, Brown, Bynum,
ers’ salaries by $1,000 over a Cate, Clemons, Cole, Converse, on
two-year period and hike liquor Cox, Derryberry, Dickey, Dunn,
and cigarette taxes by an esti-1 Ferrell, Fine, Fowler, r,
mated $1.5 million a year Hargrave, Harrison, Hesser,
The house approved all three j Hill, Hopkins, D. Hutchens,
bills Tuesday, overcoming solid Jones, Lane, Levergood, Mc-
Republican opposition on the Cune, Miskelly, Mountford,
tax measures. However, Repub- Nigh, M. Odom, V. Odom, F.
licans gave strong support to Patterson, Poulos, Privett, Rai-
the teachers’ salary bill. bourn, Sandlin, Sanguin, Skeith,
“If there is any one of you N. Smith, Smithey, Sokolosky,
who does not think I speak for Sparkman, Spearman, Tabor,
the governor here today I sug- Tarwater, Townsend, Trent,
gest you re - examine your po-Vann, Watkins. Williamson, Wil-
sition,” said Rep. Jim Connor. ] Us and L. Wolf.
R-Bartlesville, who opposed all Nay on both bills — Bradley,
three bills. [Camp. Conaghan, Connor’
•Hollow Gesture’ Doornbos, Fair, Ferguson,
Passage of the salary bill was | Ford, Green, Hatchett, Howard,
"nothing but a hollow gesture W. Hutchins, Inhofe, Kamas,
and I think everyone knows it,” Musgrave, Page, R. Patterson,
Connor said. Peterson, Rushing, V. Smith,
The bills passed by the house Taggart, Thompson, Thornhill,
represent a Democratic “pack- Williams, Wixson and S. Wolfe,
age" plan which would be a Not voting on either bill— Hol-
substitute for Gov. Dewey Bart- aday, Hunter, Johnson and
lett’s proposal to give teachers Lawson.
“it* on *
K ■&“> - cigar
ment and county commission-
ers “ay on liquor, not voting on
. . . , .. cigarettes — E Smith
Democratic leaders said they only three persons _ Connor,
plan to send all three billsto, Ford and Green—voted against
the governor at the same time teacher pay raise bill
in hopes he will sign them be- ___________
cause the legislature would be
providing a method of financ- A / I • I
ing the higher salaries. •l Q ~l Ory
"If the senate or the gover ! c,-lI rj.
nor kills it, we’ll just divide up OTlII I I IQS
what money we have and go
home,” said Speaker Rex Pri- /_ C c:..
vett iii oaigon
The teacher salary bill pass- et,., _
ed 92-3, the cigarette hike 67- SAIGON UPD-Two Marines
27, and the liquor bill 66-29 .Stepped over the bodies of three
Three Democrats and 23 Re- dead Miet Cong today and
publicans voted against both raised me Star Spangled Banner
tax bills. The only votes against [ 81Ve hours later than usual,
the salary measure were cast The delay was caused by a
by Republicans. guerrilla assault on the embas- , . . —------
The tax bills would hike the sysompoundsthat kept Marines, and sinceshenbecame.governor
levy on cigarettes from 8 to 13 Miitary_Police and paratroo-
cents a pack and increase thePergh ttlingfor six hours to
tax on liquor from $2.40 to $41 . the eight-story symbol
a gallon. of American power.
Raise For All “I saw courage," said Col.
Every teacher in Oklahoma George Jacobson, the U.S.
would receive at least a $500 mission coordinator. Jacobson
annual raise this year and had just emerged from his
again next year under the sal- house at the back of the
SAIGON (UPI)-Viet Cong
guerrillas turned Saigon into a
battleground today in the
second day of a general
offensive that hit every major
city in South Vietnam. Allied
planes bombed the Viet Cong
strongholds in Saigon and
President Nguyen Van Thieu
declared nationwide martial
law,
Guerrilla infiltrators in army
uniforms but wearing red arm
bands for identification battled
WASHINGTON (UPI)-
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