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The Altus Times- Democrat
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Vol. 43—NUMBER 207
ALTUS, OKLA. (73521), WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1969
PRICE 10c
-Inflation Move-
Dr. Pike's
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Ho Chi Minh Said
Slash In Federal
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Holy Land to study the origins
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likely that there would be any
action for at least two weeks. A
possible appeal from whatever
ruling comes from the full high
court could further delay the in-
quest.
Reardon’s order was directed
at Dist. Judge James A. Boyle,
scheduled to conduct the inquest
ordered by Dist. Atty. Edmund
Dinis.
planes. Pike’s car was found
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Pike was under a doc
tor’s care at their hotel room in
Jerusalem.
In Santa Barbara, Calif.,
while about 125 residents will be
involved in the annexation, only
a handful of landowners will be
affected. Most of the property,
the commission said, belongs to
“five or six” people.
THE COTTON, raised on the Marvin Mefford farm about nine
miles south of Gould, was planted in April and was irrigated.
Area Agronomist N. B. Thomas of Altus said Wednesday he had
received no other reports of cotton being ginned in the state.
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Greer County PDC Meet Slated
THF GREER Count)' Program Development Committee of
Southwest Oklahoma Community Action Agency will meet at 7:30
p.m. Thursday at the Mangum Community Center.
Quartz Mountain C. B. Club to Meet
THE QUARTZ Mountain C.B. Club will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at
the American Legion Hall. Each member who plans to attend the
club picnic Saturday at Quartz Mountain Park is invited to attend
this meeting or contact one of the club officers by Thursday night.
This governor said the vice
president also reported the halt
in federal construction should
release manpower and material
for the building of private dwell-
ings, which has suffered drasti-
cally in the cycle of rising costs
and interest rates.
“JACKSON COUNTY irrigated cotton is looking good," Thomas
said. The agronomist said the weather conditions of the past few
days are most beneficial for insects and boll worms, but farmers
have been keeping a close check on their cotton crops.
Thomas said the dry land cotton is variable. The intermittent
showers and overcast skies have had their effect on the crops.
“Some is pretty good in spots while in other areas, due to the
temperatures we’ve had, it has cut out It’s quite late for it to
mature now," he said.
OKLAHOMA’S FIRST bale of cotton came in Tuesday afternoon
at the Peoples Gin at Gould.
Bill Cain, manager of the gin, said the cotton weighed 2,250
pounds before being ginned and netted 880 pounds of seed and 510
pounds of lint.
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contains 320 acres. Another 100 acre annexation
is proposed in the southwest at lower left.
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year extension of the 1965 Vot- hearing by the full seven-justice
ing Rights Act and a constitu- Supreme Court into constitution-
tional amendment to provide for al issues raised by Kennedy
election of the president by di- counsel. No date was set. Rear-
or more.
Justice Paul C. Reardon of
the state Supreme Court or-
dered the postponement Tues-
day, about 18 hours before the
inquest was to begin in Edgar-
town on Martha’s Vineyard.
The justice also warned offi-
cials connected with the case
against making public state-
ments about it.
Reardon’s order called for a
Neighborhood Meeting Slated Tonight
THE SECOND Neighborhood Planning meeting will be held at 7:30
p.m. tonight in the Sunset Elementary School Cafetorium. All
residents living in Unit "A,"north of Bradford Avenue and west of
North Main, are invited to attend the meeting.
Altus Bankers Attend Graduate School
TWO ALTUS bankers have just completed a two-week session of
the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsion in
Madison. Attending the school were Alvin Ballard of the First
National Bank and Billy R. DeFord of the National Bank of
Commerce. Ballard graduated from the school on Friday night.
The school requires attendance for two weeks each year for three
years for graduation.
Job Opening Announced
SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA Community Action Group, Inc. has a
job opening for a mature person to train for credit counseling
position. Interested persons must have transportation and train one
week in Tulsa. Applications are being accepted at 116 S. Lee.
The postponement was sought isdiction to act on the autopsy
by Kennedy’s attorneys because request by Dist. Atty. Edmund
of rules for the inquest set down Dinis of New Bedford, Mass,
by Judge Boyle. The lawyers Dinis wants the autopsy re-
argued Kennedy s constitutional suits for an inquest he plans into
mother, Mrs.
classification, with the state’s 24 of the week.
First State Cotton Is
More controversial issues
ticketed for House consideration
later in the month include a 5-
Kennedy Lawyers Prrt°s
Delay Inquest Lose Plea
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BOSTON (AP) — An inquest study the matter and then pro-
which was to have begun today ceed when the parties to the
into the death of Mary Jo Ko- case were ready to go ahead,
pechne in Sen. Edward M. Ken- The full court normally con-
nedy’s car has been blocked by venes Oct. 1. Atty. Gen. Robert
his lawyers, probably two weeks H. Quinn said it appeared un-
A HEARING has been set in
Altus by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to
consider a petition by the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad to abandon its line
from Forgan, in the Oklahoma
Panhandle, to Altus.
Three hearings have been set
by ICC. The Altus hearing will be
held at 9:30 a.m., Sept. 22, in the
Altus Rotary Center. The other
hearings will be at the Wood-
ward Civic Center Sept. 25 and in
District Court Room No. 1 in
Guymon Sept. 26.
To this account, an adminis-
tration source added word that
the cutback plan also is intend-
ed to dampen the pressure for
sharp wage increases in the
construction industry. This
source said if government pro-
jects are sharply reduced, the
demand for construction work-
ers will drop and their bargain-
ing power in coming contract
negotiations will be diminished.
finished legislation, including work resumes is Republican
the House-passed tax reform Leader Everett M. Dirksen, who
bill. had a lung operation Tuesday.
_ ---- _L_ ----- In addition to the important role
he plays as the GOP leader,
Dirksen also is a member of Fi-
nance and of the Judiciary Com-
mittee which is to consider the
nomination of Clement F.
Haynsworth for the Supreme
Court next week.
Up for action in the House this
week are bills to amend the
auto safety act, establish a toy
safety program and extend the
air pollution control law.
Whether enough members expensedttht woUldie incGrrea
would be back in time for a vote
this week was uncertain. (Continued on Page 16)
— A Pennsylvania judge reject- petition.
ed today a motion by the par-
ents of Mary Jo Kopechne to RAY K. BABB, manager of
dismiss a petition for an autop- the Mangum Chamber of
sy on the body of the former Commerce and secretary of the
secretary who was killed July 18 Users Association, said a
in an auto accident involving meeting of the protestors will be
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. held at Mangum on Sept. 11 at
In rejecting the motion by Mr. 10:30 a.m. in Hotel Franklin to
and Mrs. Joseph Kopechne of plan action to take before the
Berkeley Heights, N.J., Judge ICC.
Bernard C. Brominski of Com- David H. Allard has been
mon Pleas Court said he had the appointed examiner of the three
authority to order an autopsy. hearings by Commissioner
The Kopechnes had argued Kenneth I uggle of the ICC.
that Pennsylvania had no jur-
1,000 Enrollment Satisfactory
WHAT HAPPENS when Altus largest scools in the class. This (onetion
High School reaches 1,000 would be similar to the
enrollees7 classification now in effect in WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen- of Christianity and the Dead Sea
Nothing, immediately, Texas. ate Republican Leader Everett Scrolls for a book he was writ-
Clifford Peterson, In the Triple A category would M. Dirksen, 73, was reported in ing. Pike told friends that he
superintendent of schools, told be the next largest schools, satisfactory condition after sur- hopedtofinddocumentsoran-
board of education members this Currently there are 32 of these geons removed a growth from cient records that would provide
week. with 1,000 to 4,000 students in the his right lung, but there was no more information on Christ.
“In order to become a Class top three grades. If the ruling is official word on whether the tu- pi, w. Lm ,,
AAA school in athletic and other not changed and if Altus should mor was cancerous. Rm nt.U P, ? tne
activity competition we need to reach the 1000 plus enrollment, The upper lobe of Dirksen’s cma " atho , hut i
have an average daily at- and maintain that enrollment right lung was removed Tues- cam ean:an J icd , ring his Co l
tendance for the year of 1,000. attendance it would be in the day by Army doctors at Walter ,, 100K aW degrees
“If this should happen, we Triple A next year. Nearest Reed Hospital. fromthesyniversity ofCalifor
then would be in the Triple A Triple A schools are Lawton Aides to the senator said there f ., „ ... , then worked
category, unless regulations are Central and Lawton was no immediate report from or me securities and Exchange
changed." thowhospitamomewhether the ALTUS CITY COUNCILMEN willconsider Sept
rr WAS pointed out that plans thghenchmomenegsdad A slatement ssuedtby Dirk- Unuversity. asehepoasnetvotenneringtothezcitymitstne
are .beingz discussed for 3 new reached 995. Bill Starr, sen’s office said “there was no He joined the Episcopal northeast section atth top
all-big school grouping, perhaps principal, said it probably would evidence of spread of the tu- church during World War II
at the Quadruple A hit the 1,000 mark before the end mor” and his condition after the when he was a U S naval offi ■
1 420-Acre Annexation
A spokesmani for the Illinois Semi nd served as ag ■/ V 1 * “III•WIVII
Republican, who suffers, from tor and teacher until 1952, when
= To City Is Recommended
• Dirksen, who fractured his After two marriages and two A PROPOSAL that 1,420 acres councilman, Bill Farley, said he
right hip three years ago, has divorces, Pike last December of land north, east and southwest will second Spangler’s motion
always tended to joke about his married the former Diana Ken- of Altus be annexed will be voted The annexation proposal was
physical ailments. nedy. They had collaborated on on by the City Council in a made in a report by the City
And colleagues have been a book “The Other Side,” in meeting Sept. 15. Planning Commission. Included
amazed by his recuperative which Pike claimed to have Councilman Carroll Spangler are 1,000 acres north, 320 acres
Powers and his capacity for communicated with his dead served notice in a session east of the city and 100 acres
hard work and long hours. After son James Jr., who committed Tuesday night that he intends to southwest of the city limits.
1966 ‘he surgey onihis hip.in suicide in 1966. bring the issue10 a vote. Another The commission reported that take immediate action on "the
ate on crutches for weeks. T Ag•ge, e !• proposal to annex the north and
First elected to the Senate in (Vec Ngpfeqpi S p A p e l p eq east sections since several
1950, after serving for eight “AV3y f ▼ I I I I I U I V • □ 6 H □ I r C persons living in that area have
terms in the House Dirksen is a • I I 5 5" • petitioned the Jackson County
skilled practitioner of the art of m l | g - . Water District for service
compromise and a key figure in • “ - L- ■ - --- - • —— — — •_________I - —___ the service actually
keeping the legislative wheels I
turning. - —
During the three-week recess WASHINGTON (AP) — Con- Renewed efforts also will be
that Congress started Aug. 13, troversies over taxes and mili- made to get early House action
Dirksen went to Walter Reed for tary spending top the agenda as on a Senate-passed bill to revive
tests several times. But this was Congress returns today from a the government-guaranteed stu-
not surprising since he was in three-week vacation, dent loan program, crippled by
the habit of getting periodic Most of the action initially high interest rates,
check-ups. will be in the Senate where de- As for the military spending
The statement from his office bate continues on proposed cuts debate in the Senate, an amend-
said the lung nodule was discov- in a $20 billion bill authorizing
Belongings
in Grave Condition Discovered.
SAIGON (AP)-Hanoi Radio been attending him day and bly would result in an intens; port and wallet of Dr. James
reported today that President night.” fied powersstrugmemntvni Pike,, former Episcopal bishop
Ho Chi Minh’s condition is dete- Another communique, broad- Vietnam but no eno in the of alifornia missing in the bar-
riorating and greatest efforts cast four hours later, said Ho’s goal of a unified Communist ren Judeani wilderness north-
are being made to care for him, condition was “not stable” and Vietnam. And they said even west of theDead Sea. .
American monitors in Saigon that “his illness is developing the iockeying for oower mh i Army officials said Pike’s be-
reported. and is somewhat grave." ntein orrspn"‘ersmight longings were found in a dry
The French-language broad- “They would hardly issue “It will be a dictatorshio bv river bed orwadi about a mile
cast was Hanoi’s first report such a bulletin unless Ho was the party not a dictatorshio bv east of his abandoned car.
that the condition of the 79- already dead or in a coma of one Pman, ™dexatorshp The officials said they expect-
year-old father of Vietnamese some kind,” said one official in “The Political Bureau and the ed to„find Pike soon dead or
communism was worsening. Saigon. Central Committee will be the pL - and ,, VMP ,
Two earlier official announce- Hanoi did not disclose the na- important factors.” tL;rg (3, " »
ments said he was in “some- ture of the illness, but Ho had a Known as “Uncle Ho” to the through toe area when £ Sr
what grave” condition and that bad case of tuberculosis in the millions of Vietnamese who con- rkedm ponnensrce
his illness was “developing,” 1946s and reportedly had suf- sidered him toe father of Viet- bok6 dwntornday nigh’tThe
Officials in Saigon felt that even fered from heart trouble and namese independence, Ho Chi Coup buttpteonfoottoookfor
that much admission meant Ho possible lung complications for Minh was the son of an impov- teP.but Pixeunolapsed after
was near death, more than two years, erished minor government offi- and senthisi Sn alone. She
Ho’s illness was announced in A North Vietnamese official in cial who was fired by the said she left him on a hillside
a communique which said: Paris remarked: “AU I can say French for his anti-French atti- After Walking all nioht Mre
“Over the past few weeks, Pres- is what is obvious-the presi- tude. Pike met some highway guards
ident Ho Chi Minh has not been dent is an old man." Ho studied in Hue and Saigon, early Tuesday and they took her
weU .... A colective of profes- Experts in Saigon said Ho’s then went to Europe at 19 as a to Bethlehem.
sors and medical doctors has death or incapacitation proba- cabin boy on a French steamer. The police immediately began
a search using helicopters and
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INFORMATION on the
hearings was announced by Joe
McDonald of Mangum.
McDonald is president of the
Western Sub-Division Users
Association, an organization
which is striving to keep the
north-south railroad service in
the Oklahoma panhandle and
western Oklahoma.
The Beaver, Meade and
Englewood line from Keyes to
Beaver City in the Panhandle, a
subsidiary of Katy, has also
requested abandonment before
the ICC, but in a separate
Taxes, Military Spending
Problems Face Lawmakers ha---:
much as $24,000 a year for 35 to
ment to cut $533 million for ad- 40 years to buy the water
ditional C5A transport planes facilities-when and if the area is
was pending when Congress annexed.
started the recess Aug. 13. By acting
now, it was
Historical Society
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Oklahoma City, Okla. 73105
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, of Connecticut, who threatened The formal announcement of state projects as highway build.
(AP) — President Nixon plans a to seek an immediate protest the cutback is expected Friday, ing effective next April 1
massive cutback in federally fi- from the 61st National Gover- although administration repre- Sources at the western White
nanced construction projects- nors Conference in session here, sentatives at the governors House in San Clemente, Calif.,
an inflation-fighting move which Vice President Spiro T. Ag- conference said that timetable said the cutoff would affect 75
stirred dismay among toe na- new told the governors of the is not firm. per cent of new projects in both
bon s governors. administration plan at a closed The Nixon plan reportedly categories. Administration offi-
“I for one am not going to session Tuesday and swore would cut off new federal con- cials still in Colorado Springs
take it sitting down,” said Dem- them to secrecy. But the news struction projects immediately, talked in terms of a near total
ocratic Gov. John N. Dempsey leaked almost immediately. and halt federal aid for such cutoff, with exceptions only for
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ered “on a recent routine chest appropriations for defense proj-
x-ray examination.” Aides said ects.
he re-entered toe hospital on And on Thursday the Senate
Sunday expecting he would have Finance Committee will open
to be operated on. hearings on the House-passed
Dirksen’s absence from the tax reform bill, with adminis-
Senate comes as Congress re- tration spokesmen first up.
turns to work on a mass of un- Missing from the Senate as
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________ emergency projects.
The administration was re-
portedly planning to work out fi-
nal details at a Cabinet meeting
Thursday in San Clemente.
The governors were confused
j — as to exact terms and unhappy.
“Nothing shocks people faster
than news that the old buck isn’t
coming from Washington," said
Gov. Dempsey, chairman of the
Democratic governors caucus.
Another Democratic gover-
nor, who asked that his name
not be used, said Agnew de-
scribed the administration plan
as a move designed to combat
the spiral of steadily rising
wages and prices.
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