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The Altus Times-Democrat
VOL. 42—NUMBER 242 (Weekly Vol. 67, Number 39)
ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968
Price 10c
Final Apollo-Launch Countdown Beg
ins
—For Cable Customers—
Breakthrough
In Peace Talks
Appears Likely
fields. The rate of infiltration
— The men from Hanoi al-
-Two-State Convention—
Nixon Makes
Short Stories
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Hubert Makes
(See VISIT page 2)
Justice Abe Fortas, for chief
m
But,’
he continued in evi-
What's Naughty, What's Nice?
miniskirts?
said go ahead wear 'em any old
This term they are permissible
inches of the knee.
SOCIAL CALENDAR „ 3
Wallace Running Mate
Plans To Visit Vietnam
II Clear; No
TV Debates
Singers Gather
Here Saturday
OU-UT Is, Too,
On Channel 4
UF Told Hits
Over$11,000;
School principals from coast
to coast were bugged by love
beads, and rode off in several
directions. Some insisted that
the wearing of love beads by
At Holliwood, Calif. High,
Culottes must be full enough to
look like unsplit skirts, and
hourly paid workers. Guide-
line for self - employed and
TV SCOUT
WANT ADS
Pledges and contributions in
the 1969 United Fund drive
in Jackson County edg-
ed past the $11,209 mark to-
day. A total of $9,375 has
been reported thus far in the
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -
Retired Air Force Gen. Curtis
E. LeMay is going to Vietnam
to take a first hand look at the
war for presidential candidate
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were of a full blown military
effort in Vietnam.
He answered:
Vice-president Elected
I. B. COGDELL, division sales
manager, Texaco Inc., was e-
lected vice • president of Okla-
homa Petroleum Council, at the
council’s annual meeting in Ok-
lahoma City. Cogdell was rear-
ed in Altus, attending and grad-
uating from Altus High School.
He is an Oklahoma University
graduate and currently resides
in Tulsa with his wife, Judy,
and two son's, Blake 12, and
Danny 10.
peace talks fail and LeMay has
said he agrees.
LeMay, who will be accompa-
nied by three Alabama aides of
Wallace, has been a hardliner
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from the North is said to be
falling.
elude serving the power-produc-
ing fuel cells with liquid hydro-
gen and liquid oxygen, checking
the emergency detection system
that would signal if anything
were wrong, pumping 86,900
gallons of liquid oxygen and 64,-
000 gallons of liquid hydrogen
into the rocket, and thoroughly
checking spacecraft systems.
Earlier, 42,100 gallons of kero-
sene were funneled into the Sat-
urn IB.
an interview.
[ “But if the next one doesn’t
show me going down, then the
Tex., to watch the launching.
The wives of the other two
crewmen plan to view the blas-
toff on television at their Hous-
ton homes.
When the launch crew starts
the final count, the clock will
read 14 hours 15 minutes and
counting. When it reaches 6
hours, there will be an automat-
ic hold of six hours for any nec-
essary catchup work and to al-
low the main force of the launch
team to get some sleep.
ending the war.
Their optimism has them to
Paul Donnelly, launch opera-
tions manager for the Kennedy
Space Center, reported Wednes-
day that preparations for Apollo
7 “are about the cleanest I’ve
seen”—better than on any of the
previous 16 U.S. man-in-space
flights and the 16 unmanned
flights that have been conducted
with the Saturn IB and Saturn 5
rockets.
Major milestones after the
terminal countdown begins in-
on Vietnam all along.
When he was picked a week
ago to take second place on the
Wallace ticket, he revived the
dormant issue of nuclear weap-
ons by saying “there are many
occasions when it would be most
efficient to” use them.
He added at the time that he
didn’t think it was necessary to
use them in Vietnam,
In an AP interview just before
leaving for his Florida cam-
paign swing, LeMay said no sit-
There was hot and generally
unresolved controversy over a
number of burning questions:
At what point do a girl’s cu-
lottes become so brief that they
are, so to speak, more like
sans-culottes?
four-day trip to Vietnam about
Oct. 15, reporting back in time
for an Oct. 20 nationwide televi-
sion address by the former Ala-
bama governor.
Sources close to Wallace said
he planned to announce the trip
at a speech today at Vanden-
burgh County Courthouse here.
LeMay, meanwhile, was cam-
paigning in Florida,
The trip by LeMay, former
Historcal S ciety
Qklahoma City, Okla 731,01
New Appeal
To McCarthy
NEW YORK (AP) - Hubert
H. Humphrey has made a new
appeal for Sen. Eugene J. Mc-
drla
Air Force chief of staff and
head of the Strategic Air Com-
cent of income up to $8,000
per year, plus one per cent
of income over $8,000.
UNNNNNN A e
ON THE
INSIDE
DEAR ABBY .........
EDITORIALS ........
HOROSCOPE .......
SPORTS .............
general who led allied forces to
victory in Europe in World War
II, pledged to go if elected and
then made the trip before taking
office.
Wallace has pledged to end
the Vietnam war with conven-
Southside Carnival
JACK FANCHER, Public School
superintendent, announced to-
lay that the annual Southside
Carnival will be held Saturday
at 7 p.m. There will also be a
.’oronation for high school, ju-
iior high and grade school
tings and queens with the pro-
eeds being used for the ath-
etic fund.
THREE AMERICAN astronauts are pictured at Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Fla.,
from which they're scheduled to blast off Friday. They'll be part of the Apollo 7
space mission scheduled to orbit the earth for almost 11 days. Left to right are:
civilian Walter Cunningham; Air Force Maj. Donn F. Eisele and Navy Capt.
Walter M. Schirra Jr.
year.
If Apollo 7 demonstrates that
the spaceship can function long
enough for a half-million-mile
round trip to the moon, the
Apollo 8 crew may attempt to
orbit the moon in December.
The 363-foot-tall Saturn 5 rocket
for that mission rolled to its
launch pad Wednesday for
about 40 days of prelaunch
checks. The Apollo 8 command-
er will be Air Force Col. Frank
Borman.
Beer License Pending
A HEARING upon application
by Lue Vena Robertson, for a
beer license will be heard Oct.
16, at 10 a.m., before the Coun-
ty Judge in the Jackson Coun-
ty Courtroom. The location
pending application is Johnnie’s
Drive-Inn, at 1200 W. Broad-
way.
Brother Dies
RAY ACKER, 62, of Dallas died
Wednesday morning in Dallas.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 p.m. Friday at the Craw-
ford Funeral Home in Hender-
son, Tex. He is survived by a
sister Mrs. Kelly Black of Al-
tus, two other sisters and four
brothers.
Schirra, Cunningham and Ei-
sele practiced Wednesday in a
spacecraft simulator. Schirra
sneaked away for an afternoon
of dove hunting with friends,
while Eisele and Cunningham
rested in their quarters, report-
edly reviewing the flight plan
and keeping track of the World
Series game on television.
Cunningham visited Wednes-
day night with his wife, Lo Ella,
and two children, who flew here
from their home in Houston,
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; NEW YORK (AP) - The an-
nual fracas between school offi-
cials and students over class-
room attire raged across the
land today, spiced by glimpses
spaceship, Navy Capt. Walter
M. Schirra Jr., Air Force Maj.
Donn F. Eisele and civilian as-
tronaut Walter Cunningham ex-
pected to relax after a morning
meeting in their quarters with
key project officials.
The space trio is to ride the
pulsating power of the Saturn
IB into orbit at 11 a.m. Friday
on a critical mission that could
put the United State back on
course toward its goal of a
manned lunar landing next
Is a T-shirt underwear or out- males would not do. Others held three inches up is the limit,
erwear? that love beads, if worn, must -
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON (AP -Pre-
Carthy’s support, warning that
otherwise the senator’s “impos-
sible dream" might “turn into a
quite possible nightmare of
George Corley Wallace or Rich-
ard Milhouse Nixon."
Speaking to a dinner of New
York’s Liberal party, which is
backing him for president,
Humphrey said Wednesday
night that the president to be
chosen in less than four weeks
"probably will not be" Wallace,
but “could be” Nixon. -
Then, using the words that be-
came a keynote of McCarthy’s
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advanced drive. That division [owner; Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
is about 50 per cent com- IB. Combs, Stamps - Baxter
plete. according to Mrs. Eve- employes, who will sing solos,
lyn Wallace, secretary of the accompanied by the accordian
a ... [following one will, and if that
I think there s a risk, one doesn’t then the one after
There s a risk in everything. We that. You can count on it. I told
live in a risky world ... There you in September it was going
is some risk to living. Presuma- i * ------
bly we looked at the risks when
we went in there. So there is
MOLINE, III. (AP) — There
aren’t going to be any presiden-
r tial campaign debates this year
involving Richard M. Nixon.’ Re-
publican sources made clear to-
day.
Aides to the GOP presidential
nominee said Nixon is not going
to relax his opposition to any
confrontation including third-
party candidate George C. Wal-
lace. Nor, they said, will Nixon
agree to any arrangement rais-
ing the prospect that Wallace
might win separate but equal
television treatment.
They acknowledge that these
Nixon reservations eliminate
any prospect that the Republi-
can nominee will meet Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey,
his Democratic rival, in debate
before the election on Nov. 5.
The Nixon camp insists that
there must be assurances Wal-
lace would have no claim of free
television time as a result of
any Nixon-Humphrey debate.
The Nixon rationale: It would
not be in the public interest to
provide Wallace with an avenue
to more national attention than
his third-party campaign now
commands.
“Our position remains firmly
the same on the debates," said
Ron Ziegler, Nixon’s travel and
campaign spokesman.
The Reoublican nominee said
nothing after the House, stalled
by GOP parliamentary tactics,
passed in a 27-hour session a bill
of facilitate televised meetings
of Nixon, Humphrey and Wal-
lace.
The Senate has passed a
measure suspending equal time
requirements, which could oth-
erwise bring demands upon the
networks from minor presiden-
tial candidates. The Senate left
up to the broadcasters to invite
whom they want.
But as the Nixon camp sees it,
even the Senate version of the
legislation could open the way
for Wallace to obtain a national
television forum.
Ziegler said Nixon was in no
way involved in the GOP delay-
ing tactics. The Republicans
who did the stalling said they
were trying to use the debate
bill to force action on congres-
sional reorganization and elec-
tion reform measures.
But Democrats charged the
Republicans were trying to insu-
late Nixon from campaign de-
bate.
Robert Ellsworth, Nixon’s po-
litical director, countered with a
charge that Humphrey lobbied
(See DEBATE page 2)
“They’re underwear and not
proper school apparel."
But at Radford High School.
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Loan Application
BOB GROVES, Project Director
for the Vocational Training
Program, which is sponsored
by Southwest Oklahoma Com-
munity Action Group, Inc., will
accept application for loans to
purchase two houses. The loans
will be submitted to the Federal
Housing Administration for ap-
pro v al. Applications will be
taken at the Altus Community
Center, 1100 W. Victory. The
homes are being constructed
by the Vocational Training Pro-
gram, and are located at 1201
and 1205 Davis St. Priority will
be given to low income appli-
cants.
-
Tex., president; Lawson Walk-
er, Elk City, first vice-presi-
dent; E. J. Cooper, Shamrock,
Tex., second vice - president;
and Mrs. Nell Conn, Childress,
secretary • treasurer.
Board members are: Howard
Johnson, Olustee; Calvin Hum-
phrey, Rocky, Okla.; Andy
Lunch, Rocky; George Fulks.
Amarillo; and Fred Brown,
Borger, Tex. (See related pic-
tures elsewhere in todays
Times - Democrat.)
ways dispiay impeccable man-
ner and all the courtesies during
their meetings with the Ameri-
cans. But Wednesday something
approaching friendliness if not
actual warmth toward the
Americans was reported. This
could mean a little—or a lot.
peace still is possible despite ing bases into Southern battle-
the deadlocked talks here on e--- "h- -t- -* -eu-- 4—
halt would be reconciled.
Arguments advanced by in-
formants who say a break-
through still is on the cards
emerged after the 25th session
of the conference Wednesday.
Taken together these argu- (
ments suggest the North Viet-
partisanship, and prejudice
that compel us to use great
care if we are to avoid in-
jury to our constitutional
system.”
any damage anyway, at least. ----------- --------
not now. Later on maybe yes not ordinary times. We are
But now they haven’t. So un- threatened by emotionalism,
They’ve got plenty of problems nomination in place of that of
of their own over there right Justice Abe Fertas, fer chief
now. They haven’t got any justice. Johnson said he might
weapons capabilities to do us do so in ordinary times.
United Fund.
The schools division, report-
ed $1,877 in that drive earli-
er this week. Student drives
are expected to increase the
total in that division.
Meanwhile, three other seg-
ments of the United cam-
paign are also underway —
the public employes division,
. Every soldier has recommended
tional weapons if the Paris-----------------
and piano.
Others expected to appear
for the convention are Mr.
But he added: ‘“These are
salaried workers is .6 per
less we put a big army on the
mainland so they could get at it,
they can’t hurt us. I think we’re
foolish to put a big army there.
the point of discussing the idea The third argument:
of a package deal in which con-
flicting American and North
Vietnamese terms for a bomb
namese, for the first time, are
revealing a readiness to yield
some ground. t- The Oklahoma - Texas sing- Amarillo, Tex., and Miss Diane
— Hanoi agunnn with some ing convention slated for this Leonard from Amarillo.
Hanoi regards it Officers of the convention in-
dismay the prospect of Richard weekend which is expected to elude Merrill Conn, Childress,
M. Nixon being elected Presi- attract talent from all over
,dent Nov. 5. This, according to;
sources, appears to be the only the Southwest, will be conduct-
conclusion to be drawn from ed in the Altus High School
Officially fixed miniskirt [
North Vietnamese Ambassador Auditorium, with 2,000 people
Xuan Thuy s statement that expected to attend.
“President Johnson .. still has ' ‘
enough time and power” to open Altus Mayor Ryan Kerr will
the way to peace by ordering a present a brief welcome, to
halt now to the bombing of the convention at 2 p.m. Sun-
North Vietnam. day, during the singing which
will begin at 10 a.m. and end
The second argument: at 4 pm
— Hanoi is being hurt militar- Fi •„ «• • ..
ily under the combined pressure The singing will officially be-
and the increasing firepower of gin Saturday at 2 p.m., and
allied forces in South Vietnam, after an adjournment, will re-
. sume again at 7:30 p.m.
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Altus representatives on the
program will include the
Friendship Baptist’s Youth
I Choir, the Gospel Five, and
Little Darrel Bell.
Some of the visiting talent
includes Mrs. J. R. (Ma) Bax-
ter, from Dallas, headquarters
for the Stamps-Baxter Music
and Printing Co., of which
Mrs. Baxter is president and
ficials say privately an early said, are being pushed out of
breakthrough toward a Vietnam North Vietnam’s eroded train-
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lengths range from two inches
above the knee in Jefferson Par-
(See NAUGHTY page 2) |
Altus customers of Vumore Co.'s cable television
will be able to view a live telecast from the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas Saturday of the annual Oklahoma-Texas
football clash.
The annual grid tilt between the Sooners and Long-
horns will be carried on KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City
beginning at 1:55 p m.
Vumore officials announced Wednesday that cable
subscribers may view the KOCO telecast of the game
on Channel 4 in Altus. A Vumore spokesman said
that the coble-TV company would switch telecasts on
Channel 4 from WKY to KOCO at 1:30 p.m. Saturday,
25 minutes before the football telecast.
Following the boll game, Vumore will switch back
to WKY on Channel 4.
Both The Times-Democrat an Vumore offices
have received several telephone calls since an article
appeared on the front page of the newspaper Wednes-
day advising that Vumore subscribers would be able
to watch the football telecast in Altus.
"Many of Vumore subscribers hove been concerned
about the mechanics of the telecast," a spokesman
said. "If Altus Vumore subscribers want to watch
the game, they should turn their sets to Channel 4
at 1:55 p.m. Saturday, " he said.
sized in the drive. Guide-
line for fair share is one
hour’s pay per month for
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against that as long as I can re-
member.”
Meanwhile, Wallace un-
leashed his oratorical ven-
geance Wednesday on the na-
tional polls.
“I have no inside knowledge
of what the next national poll is
going to show,” Wallace said in
and Mrs. Robert S. Arnold of
the National Music Co., Jef-
ferson, Tex., the Tinsley Trio
of Beaumont, Tex., and Videt
Polk of Baton Rouge, La., and
Dallas field representative for
,, . - Stamps - Baxter. Polk is an
headed by Bob Mayotte; gen- outstanding director of gospel
eral drive, with co-chairman, music and is president of Gos-
Rev. Carl McCoy and Roger pel Singers of America School
Teigen and the military of Music, in Pass Christian,
drive at Altus AFB, headed । Miss. unsuccessful quest for the Dem-
by Lt. Col. John Elkins. 1 other guest talent includes: ocratic presidential nomination,
Fair share is being empha- Rev Buddy Glenn Powell’s [ Humphrey said, “I myself have
Trio of Anadarko, Okla., the i pursued the impossible dreams.
Millionaires from Pampa, Tex. I pursued them before and l’i
the Adair Sisters of Song, the possibly pursuing one again.
Plainview Quartet, the Holley ‘’But,” he centinund in ...
Famiy Quartet of Houston, dent reference to his fellow
Rev. and Mrs. Albert E. Ma-Minnesotan’s continued refusal
yo from Houston, Burl Carter to support him, “I hope that last
from Woodville, Tex., Walter year’s dreamers will take up to-
Edmaiston of Oklahoma City, day’s realities lest their impos-
the Jefferson Quartet from sible dreams turn into a quite
possble nightmare of George
[Corley Wallace or Richard Mil-
hous Nixon.”
PARIS (AP) — Some U.S. of- Ever younger troops, sources
. . ... Should a girl wear a Nehru way.
of stocking tops, panties and jacket with nothing underneath Culottes, a sort of split skirt,
even navels. but panties? , were taboo last year in Chica-
What is a reasonable length go’s Morgan Park High School,
for male sideburns? This term they are permissible
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
— With green lights flashing for
all aspects of the flight, the final
countdown begins today for Fri-
day’s scheduled launching of the
three Apollo 7 astronauts on an
11-day space journey.
The 300-man launch crew
planned to start the critical fi-
nal hours of the count by feed-
ing electrical power to the 224-
foot-tall Saturn IB rocket.
As the launch team prepared
the rocket and the Apollo 7
uation exists in Vietnam or any
place else now where nuclear
weapons would be appropriate.
But he added that “there is
some place where you’re going
George C. Wallace, The Asso- to use nuclear weapons. Where
ciated Press has learned. it is I don’t know.”
Tentative plans call for Wal- in the same interview he was
lace’s running mate to make a asked what he thought the risks
mand, recalls the trip to Korea
by former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower in 1952.
The difference is, however,
that Eisenhower, a five-star
some risk—that Red China
might come in, maybe the Rus-|
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| we’d just take a look at it. How sident Johnson said today he
much risk is there? China? will not now present another
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