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The Altus TIMES-DEMOCRAT
VOL. 43—NUMBER 163
ALTUS, OKLA. (72521), SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1969
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Senate Measures
Rural Water System Nears Reality
determined this week.
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Apollo Crew Topers Off Rehearsals
SAIGON (AP) — An enemy
rocket blasted a U.S. 9th Divi-
sion center processing troops to
be returned home, killing two
in the last two weeks, is served by three places where safe water
may be picked up. Waterloo’s population is 77,000. (AP Wirephoto)
Fried 1
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901 N Main
477-0880
DUE TO BROKEN water mains, the drinking water in Waterloo,
Iowa, has been declared unfit. The town, which has had three floods
Appointed
JAMES C. DUNAWAY of
Houston will become executive
signals Wednesday. Five planes
joined the search Wednesday,
with six planes and several ships
joining the hunt on Thursday.
They were first spotted by a
plane which notified the Coast
Guard.
Nicky and John left Woods
Hole, Cape Cod, July 3 on the
voyage which they estimated
would require a month. They
have supplies for about six
weeks.
versa! of position, Long said the tax reform.
House-passed surtax extension
should be cleared before the end
of July if possible and no later
than the congressional summer
recess Aug. 13, a
Long called his statement ex- I
planatory and to correct misun-
derstanding of the position of
the Finance Committee and its
TENTATIVE PLANS for the water system call for a line to
originate at a well field near Warren and go south on the Warren-
Humphreys Road. At a point five miles south of Warren, a line is
proposed to go east toward Headrick, if the community decides to
purchase water from the company.
The Warren-to-Humphreys line will turn west at Humphreys and
go two miles west of Highway 283, where it will turn north and
intersect Highway 62. It will travel parallel to Highway 62 for one
mile and then turn north back to Martha, then east from Martha for
six miles and back north to the well field. The system as proposed
by the engineering firm of Fox and Dreschler of Altus, would
encircle Altus.
THE STATE Examiner and
Inspector says officials of
Jackson County are not using
purchase orders nor filing
reports as required by law.
The examiner's audit of
records of Jackson County for
the last fiscal year complained
that former Sheriff Kenneth
Spear and his deputies failed to
file monthly reports as required
by law and the sheriff does not
maintain a cashbook as required
by statutes.
Undersheriff Leon Jennings
said Saturday that the office
does maintain a cashbook and
are presently filing monthly
reports, although reports have
not been filed in the past, ac-
cording to the examiner.
MORE THAN 500 prospective users who live in rural Jackson
County and the incorporated cities of Headrick and Martha, have
signed survey sheets indicating an interest in the system, expected
to cost $500,000.
"We want all interested persons to have an opportunity to
become a part of the system,” said Guy Southall, Jackson County
farmer and secretary-treasurer of the company. “We don’t want to
leave anybody out, if they need and want water.”
A test well was completed at the company’s water field near
Warren Friday night and quality of the water is expected to be
DURING THE past 14 years,
Dunaway has served as a special
agent with the Office of Special
Investigations, the Inspector
General.
After serving as a scoutmaster
and project worker in the Sam
Houston Area Council, he at-
tended the National Training
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Indians Endorse
5,
If
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Two U.S. Senate bills involving
heirs of Indians have been en-
dorsed by a resolution from the
Five Civilized Tribe's Intercoun-
cil.
One bill would cause money
or property of a deceased In-
dian with no heirs to revert to
his tribe. The possessions now
would go to the government.
The other measure would al-
low federal property deeded to
an Indian for life to go to his
heirs, instead of the govern-
ment, upon the Indian’s death.
The bill would affect land
deeded in the 1930's.
Unanimous support was given
the measures by the 25-member
council and the resolution said
the Oklahoma congressional del-
egation would be asked to sup-
port the bills.
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
— Trained to a fine pitch, the
Apollo 11 astronauts tapered off
Saturday in rehearsals for the
grand adventure—the July 20
landing on the moon.
After a brief Saturday session
in a simulator, practicing the
critical phases of the landing
and take off from the lunar sur-
face, Neil A. Armstrong, Mi-
chael Collins and Edwin E. Ald-
rin Jr. planned to spend Sunday
lounging around the astronaut
quarters.
“We don’t want to launch a
BY LOOPING the system, pressure will be increased
considerably.
The company hopes to obtain a government-guaranteed loan
from private sources. Already $9,500 has been advanced for
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Richard Poole Listed on OSU Honor Roll
RICHARD W. POOLE, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Hallmark of Altus
AFB, was listed on the dean’s honor roll for the spring semester at
Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. He is a sophomore
business major.
Agricultural and Good Business Club Meets
A ROUND table discussion of potential for rural industry is planned
for the meeting of the Agricultural and Good Business Club at 7
a.m. Tuesday at the Sagamar Restaurant. Bob Kerr, president,
invites all members and interested persons to attend the breakfast
meeting.
AFGE Meets Tuesday
AFGE 2586 will hold its regular business meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the Altus Rotary Center. Charle Conger, president of
the local unit, invites all members to be present.
Historical Society
His torical Society
Oklahoma City, Okla. 73105
COmp
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State treasurer Leo Winters offered
Saturday to take over the job of obtaining signatures on a
Republican-backed petition seeking to overturn the so-called “Leo
Winters” bill.
The Democratic state official added Gov. Dewey Bartlett must
announce Monday that he will let the people settle the issue in an
election.
THE PETITION, latest legal maneuver in the long-simmering
feud between Bartlett and Winters, was started after the
Democrat—dominated legislature passed a bill giving Winters sole
authority over the state’s idle funds.
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through again. The main perils
of the flight will be encountered
as Armstrong and Aldrin guide
the fragil LM toward its touch-
down on the crater-pocked sur-
face of the moon, as they poke
their way through the hostile en-
vironment and when they blast
off again for the return home.
Here, says Apollo launch di-
rector Rocco A. Petrone, the
spacemen encounter “the high
risk, the big unknown.” Offi-
cials of the National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration
warned the public to be pre-
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WATER IS SHOWN flowing Saturday from a test well drilled by the
Jackson County Water Company near Warren. Left to right in the
foreground are Fred Stowe, president of the company’s board of
directors, and Harvey Petzold, a director.
Southwest
Oklahoma!
THE FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
IN ALTUS
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I F. O. I. C.
Surtax Urged
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair- nance Committee, said in an in-
man Russell B. Long, D-La., of terview Saturday he is hopeful
the Senate Finance Committee of bringing a committee majori-
said Saturday a swift extension ty around to his view that
of the 10 per cent surtax must speedy action should be given to
take precedence at this time the surtax extension and that it
over comprehensive tax reform, would be better to wait for a
In what appeared to be a re- second tax bill as the vehicle for
tiled to go off the pad at 9:32
a.m., launching the astronauts
on the glamorous mission for
which the nation has prepared
for eight years.
Five days later, if all the new
and dangerous maneuvers of
the landing mission are carried
out successfully, the world will
see on television Armstrong
plant the first human footprint
in the gray dust of the lunar
surface.
Confidence was high that the
Saturn, which has never failed
an assignment, would come
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members.
“The efforts to achieve tax re-
form should not be so sweeping
or comprehensive as to obscure
the need to balance the budget
and stabilize the economy,"
Long said. “In other words, the
bill should not be so mired down
in endless controversy that it
fails to pass before the August
recess.”
Ear her, Long had invited all
senators to submit by July 18
any reform amendments they
wanted considered on the surtax
bill. Saturday, he said no sena-
tor had yet insisted that any re-
form amendment be considered
as part of the surtax extension.
Several Democratic senators
were known to be preparing re-
form amendments.
Long said the Finance Com-
mittee “should correct such in-
equities as witnesses before the
Committee and members of the
committee staff have uncovered
to assure tax uniformity and
tired crew,” said Dr. Charles A.
Berry, personal physician of the
spacemen who has maintained a
microscopic watch on their
health throughout a long and ex-
acting training program.
Concern for the physical con-
dition of the men chosen for the
first exploration of another
celestial body has been so great
that President Nixon canceled
plans to eat with them the night
before Wednesday’s launch, for
fear they might pick up germs
from him.
Before calling it quits Satur-
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Long said the political divi-
sion, with the Republicans in
control of the White House and
the Democrats in control of Con-
gress, made it “more important
than ever that members on both
sides of the aisle should be re-
sponsible in providing the Presi-
dent with the revenue he needs
to sustain government and the
support he needs to defend the
nation.”
Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del.,
senior republican on the Fi-
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the spacecraft perched atop it
ticked off flawlessly toward
Wednesday’s scheduled blastoff.
Only a few minor problems had
developed.
Test equipment was discon-
nected from the spaceship and
the lunar landing vehicle, pre-
paratory to bringing them to a
flight-ready condition.
Before an expected million
visitors jamming the beaches,
roadsides and waterways of this
space center—and a huge
around-the-world audience on
television—the Saturn is sched-
pared for the possibility of fail-
ure on the initial moon landing
attempt.
An eight-ship Soviet naval
squadron cruised 30 miles off
Cape Kennedy, in good position
to watch the start of a mission
which, if successful, would deal
a crushing blow to Russian
prestige in the space race.
A Pentagon spokesman said
the squadron, tailed by a U.S.
Navy radar picket ship and re-
connaissance planes, was
“cruising in the vicinity” of the
Cape.
A RURAL water system for Jackson County is moving nearer
reality and, with luck, could be completed within the next year.
At least that is the opinion of State Kep. Larry Derryberry,
attorney for the non-profit Jackson County Water Company which
is currently signing up customers for its 124-mile system.
Chester Piercy of Gardenia, Cal., who owns acreage near
Friendship and is here on vacation, Friday became the first
potential customer of the system to post a $50 check for a benefit
unit.
JACKSON COUNTY drawing 25,000 men by the end
assessment records show a gain of August. The 3rd Battalion,
of $524,588 in personal, real 60th Regiment arrived in Ft
estate and corporation property Lewis, Wash., Tuesday,
valuations for 1969, according to Units of the 9th Marine Regh
Wash Howard, county assessor, mental Landing Team were
Howard said this raised the gathering at Quang Tri in the
assessed value of the county north ready to travel to the big
from $27,326,716 last year to base at Da Nang to board ship
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Miss Marquart Listed on OSU Honor Roll
MARSHA MARQUART, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Marquart of Duke, was listed on the dean’s honor roll for the spring
semester at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Clinic Set Tuesday
THE MONTHLY Glaucoma Screening Clinic will be held Tuesday
morning at the County-Health Department. Persons wishing their
eyes tested for glaucoma are asked to be at the department
between 8 and 9 a.m.
Ball Glove Found
A BOY'S BASEBALL glove has been found in the 300 block of East
Nona. To claim the glove, call 482-0802 or 482-0824.
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day, Armstrong took a
helicopter up and hovered over
Patrick Air Force Base as the
lunar module —LM— will hover
in the search for a safe landing
spot on the moon. Collins zipped
across south Florida and back in
a T38 Jet trainer.
“It’s a difficult schedule these
guys have gone through,” Berry
said, but they made it with
flying colors. The physician
pronounced them in fine shape,
“really looking good.”
The countdown on the mas-
sive Saturn 5 booster rocket and
fairness in the repeal of the tax of the Kicking Bird District, Boy
credit . Scouts of America, August 1,
The bill, he said, already con- according to Tal Oden, district
tains some meaningful tax re- chairman
forms. He said his suggested Dunaway held a similar
course of action did not fore- position with the Sam Houston
closq others. . Area Council in Houston. He has
."This does suggest, he said, had four years’ experience as a
that the idea of a full and com- professional with the Boy
prehensive overhaul of the In- scouts „ , scouting as '
ternal Revenue Code should Scouts he, K p souuing. s a
await the many months of study iomndherufssson Force wiSS
tnat sucn a lasK requires n h is service
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COLONEL SANOERSK.M- ?
RECIP ) A, \\
Kentuck fey-'
$27,851,304. The gain in personal for Okinawa.
and real estate valuations was An advance party already is
$457,681 while the corporation in Okinawa preparing for the
gain was $66,907. arrival of the regiment, which
consists of 8,000 troops including
THE ASSESSOR also an- supporting units.
nounced changes which will take
place in the office’s operation for The exact time of the Ma-
1970 rines’ departure is secret for se-
The county assessor will no curity reasons, since the enemy m• ■ r
longer handle the taxing of frequently has shelled Da Nang. K07(I*4 pynQ
boats. These will follow under But unless delayed by a typhoon IX • — I * I | l e #•113
the duties of the tag agent nearing the coast they are ex-
imri pected to be out of Vietnam _ _ m•
The county assessor will, wiftLwds of the 9th Di- Afou Of Storm
however assess house trailers in vision and the Marines involve M I U U I V I •IVIIEI
1970. These have not been i0j000 men. The U.S. Command
asessediin thespast.Nothe 831(1 it may beat by several ALTUS OCEAN going sailor Nicky Bagley and his
trailer for personal r-thet tax weeks 016 August deadline for comrade, John Riggs, were far off their course from
thenrrrgserntPwtn’th withdrawing,, troops Cape Cod, Mass., to the Azores Saturday as a result of
Oklahoma Tax Commission. Whi thetb Vietnamese -con an Atlantic storm which almost capsized their 26-foot
— lars and Viet Cong guerrillas sloop, the Roziante.
house trailers or mobile homes are on the move in strength in Nicky and John, both recent Bermuda by Monday,
mus^bepai^each^ear whether what may be the prelude to an- graduates of the Merchant Warren Riggs of Chesterton,
or not it is operated on the public other major attack on the Marine Academy, were the Ind., John's father, talked with
oriis much-battered provincial capi- subjects of a three-day search Coast Guard officials who told
1970, the count, talfTayNinh, U.s. military after they sent out distress him Friday night the sailors
assessor’s office will go under a -1ra signals beginning last Wed- were caught in an unusual
permanent homestead exemp- Clashes in the area have in- nesday. Atlantic storm with winds
tion plan. In the past, creased in recent days. Ameri- ,clocked at 37 to 40 miles per hour
homeowners have had to apply can units have increased patrols NICKYS MOTHER, Mrs. and churning 15 foot waves,
for homestead exemptions each and moved in reinforcements to M.E. Bagley of Altus, said a
year. When the owner failed to counter the threat of enemy Coast Guard cutter, The THE SAILING craft was
do so, it would cost him about $68 forces moving on foot and by yI81aner Iound ne Sauod swamped and the two crewmen 1880
in ,gq:4;on, 4, gamman about 160 miles from Bermuda . r . . .. .
in additional taxes. sampan. in the Atlantic-far off their 568811 sending out distress I -
original course. They are sailing
at the rate of about five knots an
hour and expect to make it to
County Audit
and wounding 21, the U. S. I
Command said Saturday. Of the I
casualties, one of the dead and
seven of the wounded were >
ticketed to leave Vietnam.
The command reported the ■
rocket exploded Thursday near -1
the center of Dong Tam, in the ,
Mekong Delta south of Saigon. i
The 800-man 4th Battalion, 1
47th Infantry of the 9th Division 1
will fly to the United States Sun- •
day. It is the second 9th Divi- 1
sion battalion to leave under
President Nixon’s order with-
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