ALTUS, OKLA. (73521) TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1969
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Spacemen Return
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Motion Filed To
Disqualify Judge
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In Redistricting
bombing of North Vietnam was allowed to vote on the project to
claims Judge Criswell
day.
up our withdrawal,” said one
seven
was unconditional.
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%
29,938
27,147
57,085
25,635
25,635
70,732
51,251
48,572
39,647
33,156
33,045
32,171
32,005
26,417
25,534
392,540
61,668
39,240
38,986
33,583
29,111
27,348
26,123
25,859
25,178
307,096
halted almost seven months
ago.
The Marines were about 400
“is
the
Frankie Johnson, Duke
Total in county
Harmon County:
F. E. Motley, Hollis
Paul-Chas. Horton, Hollis
Ariis Motley, Hollis
G. D. Payne, Gould
Elmo Jones, Hollis
L. H. Christian, Hollis
Shelby-Kirby, Hollis
Carrick Bros., Hollis
A. C. Mayhugh, Hollis
Total in county
Jackson County:
WayneQ. Winsett, Altus
Harold Worrell, Altus
Murray R. Williams, Altus
Brewer Bros., Eldorado
GlenC. Southall, Altus
Gordon Thomas, Altus
RoyA.Holsey, Altus
Carthal F. Mock & Son, Altus
Clayton Tinney, Altus
Rober Robbins, Altus
Total in county
Tillman County:
H. W. Campbell, Frederick
Izyal Stout, Frederick
Total in county
that she (the victim) wasn't
Killed.”
67 yeon of
service to
Southwest
Oklahoma!
THE FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
IN ALTUS
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violations of the Demilitarized
Zone between North and South
Vietnam since the bombing halt
last Nov. 1.
: Memorial Day. However, the bank will be open regular hours
Thursday, plus from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, since Thursday will be
pi} roll day at Altus Air Force Base, a bank spokesman said.
ye
Funeral Services Moved
FUNERAL SERVICES for Grover Riddle have been moved from
Tabernacle Baptist Church to Tims Chapel of Memories, The
services are still scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday,
First State Closed Friday
FIRST STATE Bank will be closed Friday in observance of
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Failure To Have
Car Inspection
Costly To Drivers
Get ASCS Funds
h arm property owned by 10 individuals or companies in Jackson
County received in excess of $25,000 last year in Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) payments. The
farmer receiving the most from Uncle Sam got $70,732.
Figures on fanners paid above $25,000 in all states were disclosed
by an Illinois Republican Congressman, Paul Findley, who is
trying to write language into the Agriculture Department’s
appropriations bill placing a $20,000 ceiling on what ASCS can pay
any farmer.
Findley published in the Congressional Record a list on a county,
by-county basis of farmers with ASCS payments topping $25,000 in
1968.
His list contained the following southwest Oklahoma payments:
Greer County:
returned to Seminole briefly be- sion and the governor have
fore the governor named him been holding numerous meet-
to head the Board of Affairs, ings in an effort to select a new
State Highway Commission highway director.
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Thunderstorms
In Forecast
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Late afternoon and evening
thunderstorms remained in the
Oklahoma forecast today but the
Weather Bureau said they would
be few and far between.
Little change was expected n
the weather pattern through
Wednesday. Today's highs and
Wednesday’s top readings were
forecast to range from the mid
80s in the east to the lower 90s
in the west.
Historical Society
His torical Society
Oklahoma City, Okla. 73105
COmp
The Altus TIMES-DEMOCRAT
years in Georgia.
Jury foreman H. I. Rainwater
said deliberations began with a
prayer. He disclosed in an inter-
view that the 12 men were divid-
ed on whether to impose the
death penalty, but finally voted
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. for mercy because “of the effo-t
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New and precaution he took to see
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Paddle Located
GRANDFIELD (AP)-When they started tearing down the half-
century old Grandfield High School, Raymond Jackson, more than
a half-century old himself, remembered something that happened
a long time ago.
So he got a flashlight and a low wire hook and fished about in the
49-year collection of things schoolboys throw under school
buildings.
He was hunting for the paddle that he didn’t-through his own
ingenuity-get a spanking with as a sixth-grader 44 years ago.
Here is how it happened.
Young Raymond and a friend, “Pete” Thompson, were told to
remain in their seats while the teacher took the rest of the class
outside to dismiss them.
Experience told them what was coming next, so Raymond
sneaked to the teacher’s desk, took out the paddle, jumped out the
winuw and threw it through a hole in the foundation. Pete helped
him back in and mirrored his innocent look when the teacher
returned.
The teacher, Leia Smith, hunted fruitlessly and finally gave up
■•nd sent the boys home without a spanking.
Raymond has lived in Grandfield since and now works at
Sheppard Air Force Base in nearby Sherman, Texas. H.L. “Pete”
Thompson moved to Texas a long time ago, and Miss Smith retired
and now is living in Grandfield.
No one knows about Pete, but Raymond and Miss Smith still
remember the paddle incident.
Raymond finally hooked the paddle, now old and termite—eaten.
He plans to keep the board for its memory. But, teacher-like,
Miss Smith had other thoughts.
“Tell Raymond to bring that paddle over,” she said, “and I'll
finish the job-with interest.”
—Attack from DMZ—
Eight Marines
SAIGON (AP) — The U.S. icans killed by a rocket and
Command charged North Viet- mortar attack along the north-
nam today with more than 5,000 ern frontier since American
DONALD RUMSFELD gets a kiss from his wife Monday after
being sworn in as head of the Office of Economic Opportunity
(OEOi during a White House rose garden ceremony. At left,
President Nixon holds the Rumsfelds two-year-old son, Nickolas'
At right foreground are Vice President Spiro Agnew, left, and New
York Mayor John Lindsay, right. Rumsfeld said he has forwarded
a letter of resignation to Illinois Gov. Richard Ogilvie, giving up his
House seat. (AP Wirephoto)
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over redistricting, began
unraveling at 3:54 p.m. Monday.
The county’s board of
commissioners filed a motion
asking Associate District Judge
Loys Criswell to disqualify
himself from proceeding further
in the case because the motion
Gov. Bartlett Names Branscum to Head Highway Dept.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The job has been vacant since, since earlier this year when this session in repealing a re-
Truman Branscum, 41-year- with Earl Anderson serving as Robert Herring left to become quirement for the highway di-
old chairman of the state Board acting director.                   an aide to the governor. The rector to be a civil engineer,
of Affairs and a former high- “Truman will not be able to board must have at least two Branscum holds a degree in me-
way commissioner, was named leave the Board of Affairs right members to function. It is the chanical engineering from Okla-
Monday as the director of the now,” Gov. Bartlett said in an- state’s landlord, and also con- homa State University, and
embattled state Highway De- nouncing the selection, “but we trols the Central Purchasing sponsors of the change acknow-
partment.                        are hoping we can replace him Agency.                         ledged that it was designated to
The popular Republican was there very soon and free him Branscum, a Seminole resi- let Branscum qualify,
considered for the post two to become director of high- dent and a veteran of the po- Branscum, a native of Shaw-
years ago, but the choice then ways.”                            litical arena, is well liked by nee, served 3%2 years on the
went to William N. Dane. Gov. The Board of Affairs is nor- both Democrats and Republi- Highway Commission before re-
Dewey Bartlett fired Duane in mally a three-man board, but cans. The Democrat-dominated signing in 1966 to challenge Tom
January.                        has been one member short legislature, in fact, took the lead steed of Shawnee, veteran Dem-
determine whether or not their
city should participate.
“The Mountain Park Project
study first began in 1903.”
Stafford said. “Those who don’t
think we have a problem are just
not informed."
Future meetings are being
planned by Bill Farley,
that voyage is scheduled at
Cape Kennedy July 16, but
space agency officials said
Apollo 10 raised a few questions
that could delay it a month or
two.
The cone-shaped command
capsule carrying Air Force Col.
Thomas P. Stafford and Navy
Cmdrs. John W. Young and Eu-
gene A. Cernan parachuted into
the Pacific Monday, climaxing
eight days in space that one
space agency official said had
“given us the confidence to
make the next bold step.”
Dr. Thomas O. Paine, admin-
istrator of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administra-
tion, said, "The real goal (of the
space program) is to develop
and demonstrate the capability
for interplanetary travel.
Apollo 10 landed less than
three miles from the main re-
covery ship, the carrier
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York left today on the second
leg of a fact-finding tour of Lat-
in America for President Nixon.
Before leaving, Rockefeller
met with Nixon at the White
House and afterward he ex-
pressed regret that political
problems forced cancellation of
his scheduled visit to Peru this
week.
“These problems are the re-
sult of a breakdown in commu-
nications just when communica-
tions are most needed,” Rocke-
feller told a news conference at
the White House.
Peru, reacting angrily to a
suspension of military sales by
the United States, said a Rocke-
feller visit would not be wel-
come.
GM is notifying the owners of spokesman for the U.S. Com-
1960-65 model GMC and Chevro- mand. “It's part of their over-
let three-quarter-ton trucks that all strategy.”
overloading could cause the
wheels to fail and "break up”— "They’ve been stockpiling
particularly on those trucks out- supplies right across the DMZ
fitted with campers.              like mad since the bombing
And, for the first time, the halt. They’ve never honored the
company warned the owners of agreement. They’ve used the
the potential defect without of- DMZ as a sanctuary and contin-
fering to pay the cost of repairs, ue to build up fortifications
The GM letter urged the own- there.”
ers to have the wheels replaced
—at a cost estimated by the American officials claim that
company at $100—if their loads  North Vietnam agreed to keep
exceed rated capacities.          the DMZ free of military action
Dr. Robert Brenner, acting di-   in return for the bombing halt.
rector of the Federal Highway  Hanoi said it made no agree-
Safety Bureau, conceded that  ment and that the bombing halt
Chairman J. Harper Thomas of     .             ,
Chickasha and Vice Chairman    "This afternoon, he contin-
G. Nat Irish of Muskogee ap-  ued, "we unanimously agreed
peared with Bartlett and Brans-  on our selection, ruman Bran-
cum at a hastily called news  scum. We have every -confi-
conference to announce Brans-  dence  in the world in Mr.
cum’s appointment.             Branscum.
ocratic congressman. Branscum "For the last several weeks,”
lost the fiercely contested race Thomas said, "members of the
by fewer than 400 votes, and Oklahoma Highway Commis-
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thing about the mission—the  D.LGII
liftoff May 18, the 76-hour coast KOCK CTCIIer
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command post today for reun while ( ollins remains in moon ton, we know we can get to the
onsmwinhteirtramilesondr- orbit aboard the commandship. moon. Tom Stafford, John
‘# ports to experts on all aspects of NASA Administrator Paine Young andLEugene Cernan have
their flight around the moon. told a news conference Monday, given ust he finalc onfidence t
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day night for the 12-hour flight P            ■ m
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prejudiced against
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Termite-Eaten
Princeton. Television cameras
relayed the scene live to the
United States and Europe.
Splashdown was at 12:52 p.m.
By GEORGE FERGUSON alternative writ of mandamus EDTIn one of the fastest re-
The latest chapter in Jackson was issued by the court on April coveries in the U.S. space pro-
County’s latest legal tug-of-war, 28, 1969, at 5:08 p.m. (after the gram, a helicopter deposited the
*----- --------- - -                astronauts on the deck of the
carrier 39 minutes later.
The astronauts, who became
the first men to shave in space
the day before, seemed elated
as they stepped onto a red car-
pet rolled across the deck. They
danced exuberant little jigs as
they headed for sick bay and
medical examination.
defendants and has prejudged , Failure 10 comply with, state Doctors reported they were in
the issues in the case ” The traffic laws can sometimes excellent physical condition.
motion has been docketed for prove costly for an Oklahoma The President told
neanngratiqnaemneThursdayas " Apri, citations have
been in the courts since April 28 been issued by Oklahoma trio and their families to the I           n                       j AA
when Alyce Foster, a clerk- Highway Patrolmen in Jackson White House for dinner at a   IIIrV  KAeommanfic  Merev
typist trainee for the Southwest County to drivers who have  date to be set later. Vice Presi-  JUIJ VVVIIIIIIVIIMJ  I’IVIVy
Community Action Group Inc., failed to meet the deadline on dent Spiro T. Agnew also tele-                                                  ,
represented by legal aid vehicle inspection.            phoned congratulations.         -Ar -prv Ktavan RHCt
attorney Howard‘childers, filed The foundation of vehiclecAfter nearlysixhourssonathe rur vary jieven mist
suit against the Board of countv inspection is based solei' on carrier tney new Dy neucopter                        ■
Commissioners asking that the accidents caused by unsafe to a warm welcome at Pago DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A Krist, 24, who had predicted
county he Fedistrit nr the vehicles. The law was passed to Pago on American Samoa. praying jury has convicted the death penalty which the
U De redisticted or the upgrade the mechanical Then the astronauts boarded a Gary Steven Krist of the state asked was given a life
commissioners show cause why uPEnade ine mecnanica Starlifter for the flight s500 non ransom kidnaninc I .         7   8
t, counti 101 I"n. condition of all vehicles -141 Starutter tor me tngni 77001000 ransom kidnaping of sentence Monday night on the
-enncmuznyhas             traveling Oklahoma’s streets back to the United States. coed Barbara Jane Mackie, but jury's recommendation former-
rerpportonen. ,    .               icontinuedonpagc..           Specialists were ready to start spared his life because of elabo- cy. Normally a life term may be
Immediately before this case                                   debriefings almost immediately. rate steps taken to keep the vic- reviewed for parole in
was filed, a legal controversy n-. They want Stafford, Young and tim alive in a buried box.
developed over which judge
would preside at hearings
connected with raids on 16 Altus
area private drinking clubs.
The text of the “motion for
disqualification” follows:
“Comes now the defendant,
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Sadlers to Have Guest
MR. AND Mrs. James A. Lilly, Bobby and Anne, will visit Mrs.
Lilly’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Darby Sadler of Altus, next weekend.
Bobby and Anne will stay with their grandparents while their
parents go on a round-the-world two month tour.
Debbie Walker In Good Condition
DEBBIE KAY Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Walker, has
u been taken out of intensive care at SL Anthony’s Hospital in
Oklahoma City and is in good condition, according to her father.
She is in room 2086.
Altus Round-Up Club
THE ALTUS Round-Up Club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the
Round-Up Club arena, six miles north of Altus. Members will plan
the June 4 trip to the Wichita Falls parade. People wishing to join
the club are invited to attend or call Jack Hodgkins, club president,
at 482-2251.
chairman of the Chamber’s
Water Committee.
“The meetings are planned to
educate the people as to what
has been done, is being done and
needs to be done about our water
supply,” Stafford said.
Bradley Has
Demo Support
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The
biggest turnout of city voters in
history was predicted for the
runoff election today between
Mayor Sam Yorty, seeking a
third term, and his Negro chal-
lenger, Thomas Bradley.
City Clerk Rex Layton esti-
mated that 70 to 75 per cent of
the 1,127,224 registered voters in   would preside at'hearings A If RUr
the nation’s third largest munic-  connected with raids on 16 Altus AJV DIU5
ipality would cast ballots in the area private drinking clubs. NA J
nonpartisan electtion.., a. The text of the "motion lo Be Opened
Both Yorty, 59, and Bradley, disqualification” follows:                        F
50, are Democrats, but Bradley, "Comes now the defendant, Bids will be opened at 7:30 Emphasis will be on the criti-
a city councilman and former the board of county p.m. Tuesday for Altus Junior cal eight hours when Stafford
police lieutenant,wonst estrong  commissioners of Jackson  College Vocational Building,  and Cernan left the command
baking ofpemograticsleades   County, Oklahoma, and Ellis  third new structure to be  ship in a little moon lander,
as a maverick bv nartv regulars  Lemaster, Roger Brown and C.  approved for the college within  known as the LEM, twice
because of his refusal to suDDort   B. Harkins, constituting the  the past 12 months. Bid opening  swooping to within 9.4 miles of
Democratic nominees in past  members of the board, and  will be in the AJC administration  the surface to photograph and
elections. In 1960, Yorty en-   moves the Court to disqualify  building, Hatton McMahan,  inspect the landing site picked
dorsed Richard M. Nixon over himself from proceeding further board president said.            for Apollo 11
John F. Kennedy.                in this case for the reason that Clifford Peterson, college, They rehearsed every proce-
Although Negro voters num- Boys Criswell, associate district president, said the building dure for a moon landing except
ber only 15 to 20 per cent of the judge of Jackson County, is should be completed by early the touchdown itself. They re-
electorate, Bradley led Yorty by prejudiced against the fall, making it possible for four Ported that astronauts would
100,000 votes in the primary, defendants and has prejudged additional college level find landing room at the site, lo-
which had a field of four          the issues in this case and in  vocational courses to be offered   cated in the Sea of Tranquility,
Polls showed him running  support  thereof  defendant  here,                           if their approach was accurate
well ahead again, but he cau-  alleges as follows:                  W. A. Appleby, Jr., architect,  enough to avoid large boulders
tioned his backers against over- “That the record in this case said the 80 x 150’ building will be and craters near the area.
confidence.                       shows that an application for an located on North Park Lane, on Jane 2, the Apollo 10 crew
“You and I know the polls  alternative writ of mandamus  north of the  laboratory-  will meet with the Apollo 11 as-
show me in a substantial lead,"  was filed in the Jackson County  classroom building now nearing  tronauts, civilian Neil A. Arm-
Bradley said. “But we cannot  court clerk’s office on April 28,   completion.                      strong, Air F orce Col. Edwin E.
let down.”                 1969, at 4:52 p.m. That an  •---AA Aldrin and Air Force Lt. Col.
The American Command said yards south of the DMZ when
U.S. forces were shelled four their position was hit by five
times Sunday from the buffer mortar rounds. A U.S. spokes-
zone. In one attack eight Ma- man said the mortars set off
rines were killed and 24 wound- some of the Marines' ammuni-
ed, the largest number of Amer- bon, and this apparently caused
A A A M                    some of the casualties.
(7 M Draccnrar Marine artillery' fired back
VII nIv9>MIVM into the DMZ “silencing the
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111 IO Warnine said, but there was no report of
IIIIU V" Ul II Illy any enemy casualties.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Until behesaresannaepositinnhad
pressed by the federal govern- rounds earlier Sunday and one
ment. General Motors Corp. did man was wounded.
not warn the owners of some
150,000 light trucks that the "They’re trying to increase
wheels might break up under our casualties to get the people
heavy loads, it was learned to- back home up in arms to hurry
Kerr Tells
Water Plan
For State
“Oklahoma's growth potential
is tied directly to how much
water we can provide," Don
Stafford, Altus Chamber of
Commerce manager, said
following a meeting sponsored
by the Chamber Monday
evening.
Robert S. (Bob) Kerr Jr.,
president of the Oklahoma
Water Users Association, was
the principal speaker.
Kerr explained the
organization and purpose of the
association. The purpose, Kerr
told the small gathering, is to get
a comprehensive water plan for
the entire state.
“We have some 35 million acre
feet of water that leaves eastern
Oklahoma every year. This is
water that could be captured,
stored and distributed to other
areas of the state,” Kerr said.
“A study is underway on the
possibility of channeling part of
the water to southwest
Oklahoma. The distribution
would involve about 1,600 miles
of canals and at least a 50 foot
elevation,” Stafford said.
Kerr said there is a sufficient
quantity of water within
Oklahoma, but the association is
trying to determine how to get to
areas where it is needed.
Norman G. Flaigg, area
engineer for the Bureau of
Reclamation, said the Mountain
Park Project in which Altus,
Snyder and Frederick are
involved, is the only remaining
sweetwater possibility in
Oklahoma of any consequence.
Appropriations of $100,000
have been made for a study of
the project. After the study is
completed, the public will be
Fl