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VOL. 43—NUMBER 25
ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, (73521), THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1969
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Iraq Claims Troops Attacked By Israeli Fighters
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High-Level Study Of
Pueblo Case Ordered
Sweeping Tax
Review Starts
Olustee Girl
Contest Winner
ABOUT A dozen families have been
evacuated and homes of a dozen more
are threatened by a massive ice jam on
the Missouri River about 21 miles south
of Cascade, Montana. The jam has closed
residents from 18 to 60
years of age are eligible to
bombed the Iraqi forces Dec. 4,
killing six soldiers, according to
in the Belgian Embassy in
Baghdad after the arrests, but
County,
supply
insufficient
demand for certain types
of blood were to occur.
stop sign in the private drive of THE ALTUS Masonic Lodge No.
K-P Construction Co., according 62 will meet at 7 p.m. Friday for
Cubans Took Dim View Of It
Accused Plane Hijacker
Would Not Do It Again
transfers blood free to
county residents. At the
present time, however, the
supply is critically low,
according to authorities.
A quota of 96 pints per
month needs to be met.
This replacement blood is
Bloodmobile chairman.
“If everyone who can
donate will make an extra
effort to do ao, sche local
donate,
Roger
American Pair
Jailed On Spy
Charge In Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) - An
American engineer on loan to
an oil company may have been
charged with espionage by Iraq
when he was arrested three
weeks ago, his family says.
down one attacking plane. It
was seen with the naked eye
crashing in flames over the oc-
cupied Syrian Golan Heights.
There were no : aqi casual-
ties.”
At the same time a Jordanian
broadcast said two Israeli fight-
ers had violated Arab air space
over the Jordan River but were,
driven off by antiaircraft fire.
Iraq had charged Wednesday
that Israel was preparing an at-
tack in retaliation for the hang-
il
to the situation.
On other matters, Laird:
there since the Arab-Israeli
of June 1967.
Israeli planes strafed
years.
Demands for tax reform have
taken a bipartisan look. Two
days ago the Democratic Na-
tional Committee announced it
is preparing legislation to pro-
vide a minimum income tax for
all high income persons, even
though legal deductions and ex-
clusions would normally elimi-
nate tax liability.
the Iraqis.
Israel on Wednesday denied
charges from Iraq that it was
massing troops for an attack on
the Iraqi force in Jordan. At the
same time, Israeli Defense Min-
ister Moshe Dayan cautioned
his country they must give the
government of Iraq no excuse to
do more harm to the estimated
8,000 Iraqi Jews.
Along with the official denial
from the Israeli army, foreign
newsmen in Israel observed no
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iraq said seven Israeli jet
fighters attacked Iraqi troops in
Jordan today but Israel denied
it
An Israeli army spokesman in
Tel Aviv said: “I completely
deny this report. I don’t know
what gave rise to it. There has
been absolutely nothing like this
along the cease-fire line.”
Newsmen on the Israeli side
of the cease-fire line saw no
sign of any unusual air activity.
peaceful aims coming from
France is hypocrisy. It is being
used to deny arms to a nation
under siege, while Iraq contin-
ues to receive French arms.”
Amid reports that another 35
persons, including 13 Jews,
were being tried as spies in
Baghdad, the U.S. Department
of State disclosed that American
oilman Paul Bail of Conneaut-
ville, Pa., and his wife are un-
der arrest in Iraq on unspecified
charges.
A communique broadcast by
Baghdad radio said the planes
attacked Iraqi units east of the
cease-fire line with Jordan. One
Israeli jet was seen to plunge to
the ground in flames, the Iraqis
said.
The Iraqi communique said:
“At 11:30 Baghdad time this
morning, seven Israeli planes
launched an air raid against our
units operating on the eastern
front.
‘ Our antiaircraft guns shot
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in the senate today. The resolution will
give the committee subpoena powers.
Both men said the Republican
governor's firing Wednesday night of
Highway Commission Chairman Martin
Garber of Enid and Vice Chairman C.
Hubert Gragg of Oklahoma City led to
their decision to broaden the hearings.
Bartlett conferred with Smith, Privett
and Sen. Roy Grantham, D-Ponca City,
Wednesday night before firing Garber
and Gragg.
Smith and Privett said the governor
unusual troop movements. In
addition, rain and snow- were
blanketing Israel and Jordan,
imposing quietness on the
cease-fire line.
Dayan, one of Israel’s leading
hawks, also was scornful of
President Charles de Gaulle’s
attempts to promote France as
a peacemaker in the Middle
East. Referring to De Gaulle’s
ban on arms and military spare
parts to Israel, he asserted:
“All this talk of justice and
ahead with the Sentinel, or
summoned newsmen to the
mansion Wednesday night and
read a brief prepared state-
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used only in Jackson
Laura Roberts, Olustee High
School senior, has been named
first place winner in the Masonic
Grand Lodge essay contest,
according to word received from
the Grand Secretary, J. Fred
Latham of Guthrie.
Entries were received from all
over Oklahoma. An Altus senior,
Nancy Craven, placed second.
Miss Roberts, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Howard Roberts,
was honored with ceremonies
Sunday afternoon in the Olustee
Lodge. Members of the Lodge
presented her with a bronze
plaque on which was engraved
the text of the winning essay.
Further honors will be due
Miss Roberts at the Grand
Lodge annual meeting in
professions and community
tonight at the Annual Bosses’
Night and Awards Banquet of
the Altus Jaycees. The event is
scheduled for 7 p.m. at Cat-
tlemen’s Cafeteria.
The Jaycees will present their
Distinguished Service award to
a person for overall contribution
to the community and state. The
Outstanding Young Educator
award will recognize the ac-
complishments of a young
teacher in the Altus school
system and call attention to the
importance of education.
The Outstanding Young
Farmer award is presented
annually to a person who has
contributed much to one of
southwest Oklahoma’s key in-
dustries.
W. W. Grebb, chairman of the
former President
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)
U. S. 91 by flooding water across the
highway. At this point, only the frozen
bank in the foreground keeps the
churning water from the road. (AP
WIREPHOTO)
WASHINGTON (AP)
ing of 14 Iraqis, nine of them
Jews, convicted of spying in
Baghdad and Basra on Monday.
There has been an outcry in
Israel, the United States and
several European countries,
condemning the executions.
Iraq has an estimated 20,000
troops in Jordan. They had been
“thin” antimissile system, at
least in its present scope, with
particular reference to the hope
for arms control talks with
Russia.
He said the United States
does not want to go into the
talks with “one hand tied
behind our backs.”
1953 by
driven by Bernard J. Jasinski, Altus.
30, of Altus, when the Pitman
vehicle failed to yield from a
The present
for firing the two men, but they
refused to go beyond Bartlett’s
statement that it involved “im-
proper solicitation of campaign
funds.”
“He (Bartlett) has concrete
evidence of campaign solicita-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ways and Means chairman tions by commissioners,” Smith
House Ways and Means Com- Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., cau- said, “but he did not see fit to
mittee, responding to a mount- honed newsmen not to expect a make these facts public and,
ing clamor for reform, has radical tax code revision this since he did not, in my judge-
scheduled a sweeping review of year. ment it would be better to de-
the nation’s tax laws. But he added if the hearings velop this evidence in the legis-
Hearings expected to last sev- disclose particular areas in lative hearings.”
eral months are scheduled to need of change, the committee Grantham will head the joint
start Feb. 18 with the operations might go ahead with legislation 10 member investigating com-
of tax-exempt foundations, al- on these without waiting for a mittee and Rep. John McCune,
ready under congressional scru- full overhaul. D-Tulsa, will be vice chairman,
tiny, to be examined first. De- Among other subjects to be Smith and Privett said the oth-
ductions for charitable gifts will studied are a number of particu- er eight members — four from
follow. lar interests to average taxpay- each House — will be named
For later hearings, the com- ers. Friday.
Another tax reform recom- Bartlett, in his unprecedented
mendation came Wednesday night press conference at the
from a private, nonprofit re- mansion Wednesday, would say
only that he fired Garber and
Gragg, two prominent state Re-
publicans who headed the suc-
Economic Development said cessful Oklahoma campaign of
part-time farming losses legislation is needed to give the President Richard Nixon, for
charged off against other in- President power to raise or low- “improper solicitation of cam-
come and accellerated real es- er taxes by up to 10 per cent, paign funds.”
tate depreciation. subject to congressional veto. Bartlett did not go into de-
The federal tax code has not The CED said this would al- tails in firing the two men. He
according to
gave them his reasons
Police estimated damage to degree.
Pitman’s truck at $85 and $75 to
Jaskinski’s 1968 Chevrolet Warrant Issued
pickup. A WARRANT for the arrest of
Allan Brandon of Quanah, Tex.
Gasoline Fire was issued Wednesday by the
The Altus Fire Department District Attorney’s office on a
answered two house fire calls charge of obtaining mer-
Wednesday and Thursday. chandise under false pretenses.
A pilot light ignited gasoline Brandon is accused of giving a
Wednesday evening at the check in the amount og $37.61 to
Calvin Kelley residence. 1108 Jan’s Western Wear
by the Olustee New State Club
Currently, she is a volunteer
tutor for elementary students in
the Olustee Community Center.
She has played the piano for
school and church events and
assisted in the Church School
work at her Church. She has also
served as organist.
Last week, she was notified
she had been named a Betty-
Crocker Homemaker of
Tomorrow.
Laura was a cast member of
the junior and speech depart-
ment plays last year. She has
been a class officer and for two
years has been president of the
Olustee Senior 4-H Club. She has
participated with winning en-
tries in both county and state 4-H
contests.
Miss Roberts previously has
been honored with the
designation of Student of Today.
—Announced that Packard, defense budget, reporting that
his second in command, will Russia was fast closing the gap
conduct a wide-ranging review in intercontinental ballistic
of the Johnson administration’s missiles, bore out Nixon’s
defense budget, including campaign claim that a “security
Short Stories
City Police Eula. Damage to the one-story
Altus police investigated the frame house and its contents
collision of two pickups at 6:20 was estimated at $500.
p.m. Wednesday on Kell wood Damage was estimated at
Drive. $2,000 to a house owned by Cliff
A 1968 Chevrolet pickup driven Felker as a result of a fire
by Gerald J. Pitman, 45, Wichita Thursday morning. The
Falls, collided with a pickup property is located southwest of
to private life in 1961 following returned to Beirut and re-en-
the Bay of Pigs invasion of tered school.
Cuba—which with an earlier U2 The Bails’ daughter, Kathy,
plane incident was one of sever- 20, is a sophomore at Michigan
al controversial matters involv- State University.
ing the intelligence agency un- Mayes said Bail was an em-
der his command. ploye of Humble Oil Co. in
The former U.S. master spy Houston, Tex., but had been
would be
headed the intelligence agency loaned to the Iraqi Petroleum And in prepared remarks to-
from 1963 until his retirement in Co. a year ago. He said he had day in New York, Rep. John W.
1961. He first was appointed been asked by the State Depart- Byrnes of Wisconsin, top Repub-
chief by former President ment not to comment further lican on the Ways and Means
Dwight D. Eisenhower and then “I was terribly shocked," Committee, added his support tc
asked to continue in his $22,000- Mrs. Youngk said. “Paul is just reform, particularly to making
a-year job by the late President over in Iraq working for the pe- all high-income recipients pay
John F. Kennedy. troleum company. He doesn’t some sort of tax.
Dulles was a member of the have anything to do with the Alluding to a Treasury De-
Warren Commission that inves- CIA.” partment report that 155 tax re-
tigated Kennedy’s assassination There has been no public turns showing incomes in excess
and concluded the President statement from Iraq about Bail, of $200,000 resulted in no tax
was killed by one man, Lee Iraq began a public campaign payments, Bymes said:
Harvey Oswald. against alleged spies Monday by “No matter by what device,
Dulles’ resignation as CIA executing 14 men—9 of them no matter how laudable the na-
head came a few months after Jews—after trying them on ture of the deduction or exclu-
the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The charges of spying for Israel. sion that produces this result,
White House said, however, Mrs. Youngk said her son was the fact remains that there is no
Dulles had planned before the one of only three non-Arabs justification for these individu-
Cuban incident to retire. working for Iraqi Petroleum, als being nontaxpayers.”
Jackson County
—Contended that the
Johnson administration’s final
[full-scale investigation of the state
(Highway Department and campaign fund
solicitation by highway commissioners
will be launched by a special legislative
committee next week, Democratic
legislative leaders announced today.
Senate President Pro Tempore Finish
Smith, D-Tulsa, and House Speaker Rex
Privett, Maramec, armed with new
information from Gov. Dewey Bartlett,
said a resolution "to broaden the
Wednesday Paul Bail and his
wife Elizabeth had been arrest-
ed in Iraq, which has been con-
ducting a public and violent
campaign against alleged spies.
Howard G. Mayes of Hunting-
ton, W. Va., Mrs. Bail’s father,
said he believed his son-in-law
may have been charged with es-
pionage.
State Department press offi-
cer Paul J. McCloskey said in
response to questions the Bails
had not been advised of the
charges against them, but that
a representative of the Belgian
Embassy in Baghdad—which
represents American interests
there—visited Bail in prison a
few days ago. Both said they
were well treated, the embassy
representative reported.
Iraq broke off diplomatic rela-
tions with the United States dur- Eor later hearings, the com-
A, ing the 1967 Arab-Israel war, mittee announced a wide-rang-
Pnrmer CIA charging Washington with sup- ing agenda, embracing such tra-
lUIIIIUI VIA porting Israel. ditionally explosive subjects as
nr I Bail is in prison, the State De- the oil depletion allowance, search organization of business
gap” threatened the United BOSS bucCumbs partment said, but Mayes said stock options for executives, the and professional leaders.
States. his daughter Elizabeth is being use of subsidiaries and trusts to The influential Committee for
The new defense secretary WASHINGTON (AP) - Allen kept in a “detention home" in reduce income and estate taxes,
said he believes U.S. power is W. Dulles, America’s master Baghdad Par time farming losses
“sufficient as of today," but spy who steered the Central In- A son, P. J. Bail, is studying
that the “tremendous” Soviet telligence Agency through nine medicine at the American .
strategic weapons and naval years of controversial interna- School in Beirut, Lebanon. Mrs. P ion. subject to congressional veto,
buildup raises serious questions tional intrigue, died late Ralph Youngk of Conneautville, The .federal, tax codeshas not , The CED said this would al-
for the future. Wednesday. He was 75. Pa., Bail’s mother, said the been thoroughly restudied in 15 low the president a flexible,
-- ---- — ......... Vea faster-acting tax mechanism
than now available to combat
inflation and recessions.
Bloodmobile
Here Friday
The American Red
Cross Bloodmobile will be
in Altus from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. Friday at the
educational building of the
First Presbyterian Church.
The Bloodmobile
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Laura Roberts
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Secretary of Defense Melvin R. should be decreased or
Laird announced today he has increased to insure maximum
ordered a high-level Pentagon national security at the lowest
study of the Pueblo case “to see possible cost.
that incidents of this kind do —Said he will be going to
not happen again.” South Vietnam in the
At his first news conference not-to distant future.
as Pentagon chief, Laird said he —Said the military situation
had appointed Deputy in Vietnam has “improved
Secretary of Defense David somewhat” in the past 12
Packard to head the study and months and that the South
oversee matters involving the Vietnamese army is on the
intelligence ship, whose capture upgrade.
is being investigated by a Navy Laird declined to discuss
court of inquiry in California, possible U.S. troop withdrawals
: The ship was seized by from South Vietnam, saying “I
North Korean naval forces Jan. don’t think it would be useful
23, 1968. to talk about unilateral
Laird said “the matter is withdrawal now that we are in
being very carefully watched” substantive talks” in Paris.
by Packard-among other -Said the goal for U.S.
things, to see that the interests nuclear strength is “sufficient
of its skipper and crewmen have power to deter the enemy,” in
been and are protected. line with President Nixon’s
The new defense chief said preference for the use of the
the court of inquiry is “well in term “sufficiency” over
hand” but that he felt the “superiority.”
widespread public interest in However, Laird said, “I have
the matter required high level not given up the idea of
Defense Department attention maintaining a superior force.”
Awards To Be
Presented At
Jaycee Dinner
Three outstanding young
adults will be recognized for
contributions to their
Guthrie in mid-February. She
will be presented a trophy and
$150 prize. She will read her
essay for the assembly and be
honored with a banquet. The
essay was entitled "Liberty, not
License" which was the subject
selected by the education
MONTREAL (AP) — An He said he was guilty only of was himself first held under mmittee of the lodge
American writer, wanted in the foolish conduct in hiring a char- house arrest in Havana after his Laura has been an honor
United States on charges of hi- tered plane, ostensibly for a arrival last Oct. 23. Then on student since she entered school,
jacking a chartered plane and short southern Florida hop, then Nov. 30 he went under solitary This is the second essay contest
going to Cuba, said Wednesday paying the pilot to take him to confinement in prison until his she has won. She has par-
. ... anybody who makes unauthor- Cuba. The pilot claimed that release late in January, ticipated in music contests, in
4 o . an Renewal ized trips to Cuba these days is Truitt forced him to fly to Ha- “I just confess I was terri- both individual and group
Authority. will be guest speaker "out of his mind-he may wind
vana by holding an explosive fied,” said the brown-haired events. She was a member of the
at t ie osses Night event, up dead.” device to the back of his head. Truitt who despite his troubles Harrah concert band which
mployers of Jaycees will be Alben Truitt, 35, grandson of In an interview, Truitt said, seemed full of high spirits and placed No. 1 in state contests,
recognized for their support of the late Vice President Alben “I can’t speak from persona) confidence. She won in the Oklahoma
the young mens civic Barkley, said he has no person- experience, but from what I He said he went to Cuba in the HistorydivisionoftheS W I M at
organization which stresses al knowledge of hijackers or hi- heard I was led to believe the hope of writing a book because, Weatherford and last year was
leadership training through jacking-claiming he was inno- Cubans take a bloody dim view" as a journalist, he was unhappy named the outstanding student
communityservice. , cent of the charge-but conver- of unauthorized journeys to the about the Cuban story being told of American History.
Keith Dobson will be master of sations in Cuba led him to re- Communist island. to the American people. Instead She was selected as best
ceremonies. Jerry Hudgens is gard it an extremely dangerous Truitt said that though he was he was finally placed aboard a citizen of her school and was
chairman of the event. game. not in the hijacking category he (Continued on Page 2) named a delegate to Girl’s State
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