VOL. 42—NUMBER 140
ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1968
Price 10c
Elk City Man Dies in Crash
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Former Pro
Football Star
Faces Charge
Mid to be
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second hearing June u The 31
Chicago Grocer Believed
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Ray Dragged Into
British Courtroom
Cowperthwaite with interment M the Ek Cty Fairlawn
Cemetery under the direction o Martin Funeral Home.
ON THE
INSIDE
■nt an Altai Air Forte Base airman to the base
bospital, he said.
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The Sepeeme (wn upheid to
day the aulburiy el fee Fed.
eral < TH II II « um.
and lacerations on one keg was rnd J Addison, 15.
Addison was driving a 193 model motorcycle
John Henry Lewis, 8 also stationed at Altus Air
This combine is one of inven |
combines to sthutst rwuM.
ma having been brougha here
trom Winnipeg. Canada by a
Surviving are his wile; two daughtera, tort Londa
Jolene Stevens ct Dayton, Ohi, and Sharilyn K to the
home one eon David Mack o the home his mother,
Mn Roy Cole of Oklahoma Qty, two sMSera. ton Leon
Anderson of Lone Wolf, Mrs Ray Huddleston of Oklahoma
Cty three brothers. Bob of Oklahoma Cty Mack o
Blair, Garland Beavers d Callfornia
Sunday Aceident
Patrolman Haugen investigated another traffic accident
sunday this one on Falcon Road in Altus This mishap
Roberts said that qute a few
d these German made ma-
chines are ween im Canada Md
parte are pretty easy to ob.
tain there
Staggs was born Dec 9. 1900 in Roonevelt, Okla.
He married Billie Jo Shelton Feb. 18 1949 in Vernon.
He was a member of the First Christian Church,
Masonic Lodge, American Legion, Elk Qty Lons Cub.
Force Bam was driving a Ml Pontiac east on Falcon
Road and was making a left turn in front of a Falcon
Road club, the officer said.
TV combine a a IM Caas
Matadee Gigant ft rate 111 MB
The pickup belonged to David F Meller of Shattouck,
Okla, the highway patrolman said He said some of
Meller’s employes had run out of gas in the pickup and
had parked it on the east shoulder of the highway and
were walking a short distance away enroute to get some
gas when the accident occurred
Hospitalized with Lacerations to his forehead and nose
Oklahoma Again
By Ueite Prens tmternatani County a the northmesa
Be
Paul Roberta spekesman „ S***^!—
’he err w said that the combine ed
—German-Mode Combine—
Canadians Give Harvest
An International Flavor
WASHINGTON (UPI - The
Supreme Court today opened
way for lawsults by
taxpayen who want to dud
knge federal aid to parochial
sehooh
The vote was g to I with Quef
Juntice Earl Warren writing the
oinion Junti John M Marian
Precinct Meetings
JACKSON COUNTY Democrat
precinet meetings  ward 2,
cwt > 7» pm  Tesday at
Forme Field School ward I
precinet 3 at Rotary Center
The meetings are to elect dele
gates to the conty conventhn
crew «f custom harvesters
There are 13 men and a female
cook to the crew which
mts o French, Weish and la.
dian nationalties
Countys 11th Traffic Fatality Recorded
S aharomeadarkon          and • ma
month, when his automobile crashed into a parked pick.
up truck 13 miles south of Altus on US Highway 23
Oklahoma Highway Patrolman George Haugen said
Elmer (Hoover) Staggs 37, a Altus resident and
manager of the Elk Qty United Supermarket was dead
t “rrhl at -ackson County Memonial Hospital following
would occur ■ the west during
the aftermoon in the west and i
north tonight and the northeas 1
Tuesday
Sorm ciouds thrratened Okla
boma today and the weather
bureau uased a tomnado wateh
for porthons at Texas and wes
ern.oklahoma ,            The weather bureau
Thetornad watcb was in el- scattered thunderstorms
tert mM poon today -UNm D
jmukes d a tor trom 6 mibes
sofh of Lubbock Tes to Bo
bart
in Oklahoma, the tornado
watch area tnchaded Beckham,
Comanche Cotton Greer Har
mon Jackson, Kiowa, Timan
and Washita counties m the
wuthwest and Roger Mils
A
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The motorcycle, traveling west hit the front ok
the Pontiac, throwing Addison about 9 feet from the
point d impact
This accident occurred about 3 pm Sunday Haugen
said
Lewis was charged with making an improper eft turn
in front of oncoming traffic, the officer said
across the country and the
nathon grief stricken anew agin
at an assansination did Amer-
a.payitsfnal respects to
Robert Francis Kennedy to a
mational day - mourming
Sunday
acted over the
A few severe thunderstorms
with large had and cally torn
aging winds were forecas far
the same area
Tbunderstorms Forecast
A tornado alert that alfected
much of western Oklahoma dur.
ing the night expirrd at t 9
a m today with no severe
weather except seattered had
(See CLOUDS MH 2)
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arrest at 11:15 am. Saturday
Ray was brought into court
by 11 poce guards almost
shuffling as they propelled him
akn4 into a curt room where
fee the first time in memry
every persn entering the
This means a cave started by
ns residents of New York Qw
attacking federal aid to secta-
Meller » employes are in Jackson County as wheat
harvesters and lived a short distance from the accident
scene in a house trailer, the highway patrolman said
Staggs survivors include a wife and four children He
was taken from the hospital to Lowell Funeral Home in
Altus
embany indkcated such a At his news comference _______
reqgest probably would mt be westmorelana said k was             ked
Wbeat ■' as cd as tbe hto-1 Canada by Farmers Co .
tory «g man and the methods
of grouing it and harvesting a
the world over arvot really
different enogh to comment
preparing extradition papers-
fed break in Missouri Md the
King murder charge a Mem
phis, Tenn
Dem toe Nat Made
American sources indicated
C mP
The Altus Times-Democrat
compromise between opponents
and advocates o aid to chure.
related schoois
searched by detectives. The
detectives themselves were
armed which is unusual for
Britain
Magistrate Frank Milton,
especially carefu of Ray's civil
rights champoned by King ■
Ser BAT page 2
hadb t *= riiraedthemm «M MXf Dodgers
Departmem dretly to the kiZed and ui the kwhSm,
b«k4 Fare^ Office before < wounded imre the mugey              Ormfeud. New
after Ray appears far too shellng to Saigon Ma York and countless other cities
mrem hani-- s— a +-- ”                     " tag and small acrons this lard
Cattstesc ProOHtant and Jewish
ceromen kd congregations in
on
However the sight d a Ger.
man made combne harvest.
■V ■*** * sethwest Okla-
homa te unuvual and to ev.
dence to the fort that wheat a
• that is known umiver
■fl l
verices0 German-mode combine - wosking
1 “ arreted Mme Zwii                HidMht The asallantsthnran out a
thsetsid * mnumadraaesandgurdeni hail* 80- ”*
eharped Sri fed ^.a to peha.Nn”                        TV CW
coun iharing eprd"aye“atdtta saBarosmandanMsmi
H was rumored thas Rayyan Londa dkier had be determidta there was ha
"id aar Kemeay , may in  Aeerng 5 witneume n ^^y^Thm MIre •
The aim
.     —— Lyndon B
Johnson and a score of
Ptesidential trlends and aides in
• solemn memorial service
Thus, with flags at half staet
:k» on Bay's activities or even magistrate's court
his wtereabouts before '
WASHINGTON IUP _
The toga ii Ceurt teday up
told the p-er w peikemem
to deus. a persea hrwfty far
qwratheeig and to "truk-
him V dangereus weapam d
reaseeahly mecenary
Haugen said the accident occurred at tl M p m Satur-
day when Staggs car. traveling north at high speed left
the roadway on the east side of the highway striking
the back 0 » parked 194 GMC truck TV pickup was
unoccupied « tV tune of the accident the highway
patrolman said ‘
, Stagg car knocked the pickup north approximately
216 feet. Haugen said He said Staggs had internal ehest
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the r            wa» that a few rounda had been
surrendered m mas mibtary ballooned in the pubc eve
spokesmen —            trough the wXr, '   56
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BUCK MIMS city recreatkonal
directnt reports that enrellmemt
(See EiOHT sronns page J)
m qeu.lspuredby. ent
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an inderpreter who can teas*
late the German language in.
strtoe beak m du combine
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formal reqoest will to made by More than 1000 reugees were and chidren who visited the
the Sate Department through abosed backite battered temporary grave beneath a
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torts added                        Vinaon met with Ray briefly ere salvagable trom the cally represented the mbcns ae
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poleashonal foctbals grratest
"an artested Sunday
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woman lying seriosty injured
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CANCER DRIVE FUND to. Doe to IMS
reached O IC V whkch inclus. MV Okte Mi reserved many
escontributioms from Altushonons at Altus High Schoo ■
AO san mar i if Mn Km pn chdng being named most pop
vett, city chairman (Se• CLICK page 2)
thereof "
TV complaint aswrted that
Ute IM ato to educatien art has
been unconstitutionally used u
tinance inatruction texthooks   N J
and library   materials dor       5
parxhial xchool pupil
* hen the  measure cleared    53
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322 LONDON < UP!-James Earl
Ray. the accused assasun of
21 I Dr Martin Luther Jr.
(0- today was tod dragged into a
ha   magistrate's court wtere be
087   was ordered beld without bad
220 or, gun and passport violatnes
02   in Bnitain US efforts t
12 eatradite him come later
E   ponsably this seek
■ Ray a Wyearoid American
E   escaped convict, then was taken
•u   under heavy guard to Brjim
m  Pnsn to await anober bearre
E   June 11 Has appearance n
U  court lasted only n mr—fe
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M fr * a ’*         " •
E  two qestons
M us ritradtur ec. .
Hi   ate have to wait unul tte
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m   cal sad bc the states ct
mu Muxun anc Tm-
Both vehicles were total Imaee
Funeral services for Stages manager to the Altus
Downtown IUnited from 1956% will be held Tuesday at
the First Christian Church in Elk Qty with Rev Glam
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