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The Altus TIMES-DEMOCRA’T
ALTUS, OKLA. (73521) FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1970
PRICE 10
VOL. 44—NUMBER 155
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proximity of the City. The
council voted unanimously in
favor of the amendments.
The council unanimously
approved the permanent status
of Mike Patterson, E.L. Triplett
and Bill Aduddell as fulltime
council. He has been a Master
Mason for 35 years, is a member
of Scottish Rite and a member of
the Methodist Church.
This is his first venture into a
public race. "I managed a co-op
elevator here," Sutton said. "I
think I have had enough business
experience to handle anything
that will come up."
He still manages the elevator.
Other commissioners Ellis
Lemaster and Roger Brown
have already announced their
intentions to seek re-election.
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within our resources.” He also The government said the in-
added that the group’s decisions crease in the labor forcethose
Beihl offered the group seeking jobs-was much small-
technical assistance and er than had been expected. The
assistance in getting the city and Labor Department had predict-
the group together to work ed 2.5 million teen-agers would
problems out. seek work in early June but the
Mrs. Phil Rodriguez stated “if actual number was only 2 mil-
the group waits for the technical lion.
WASHINGTON i AP) The
nation's unemployment rate
dropped in June for the first
time this year although an addi-
tional 1.3 million Americans
effective July 1 upon the
recommendation of Carroll
Spangler and Bill Buffer,
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court martial made permanent by the
U.S. District Court. His attorneys
charge 15 constitutional violations in
their petition to block the army from
pressing murder charges stemming
from the alleged My Lai massacre.
In order for the Times-Democrat’s
Employees and carriers to enjoy a part of
the 4th of July holidays, the Times
Democrat will go to press at noon Saturday
for our Sunday edition to be delivered
Saturday afternoon. No Sunday delivery
will be made.
in or within reasonable Department at a salary of $365
unanimously in favor of the
preliminary budget.
Immediately after calling the
meeting to order, Mayor Ryan
Kerr asked for the council's
approval on two items. First, his
recommended appointment of
Phil Rodriguez to represent the
Mexican-Americans on the City
Hoffman also stated that the
group was not making demands
but was asking that the
Workable Program be clarified
and that the questions be
answered.
Hoffman said that the city
plans to work on the downtown
district before the blighted
areas. He added that this is
against the law I Housing and
Urban Department guidelines)
because the program is
primarily for blighted areas.
Only one of the group’s
annexation to the city Planning
Commission was accepted. Avon
Griggs was turned down. Griggs
said his rejection was because
he isn’t married.
Fred Beihl, executive director
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plained proposed amendments by unanimous consent of Ilie
to a resolution which establishes council.
standards for employment of A longevity raise of $20 ef-
policemen. fective July 1 for Joe Hankins of
These amendments state that the Fire Department was also
a person must be between the granted.
ages of 21 to 35 years of age at The council approved the
the time of his initial em- transfer of Henry L. Williams
ployment and that he must live from Central Garage to Parks
hardworking public officials. more for the people of Oklahoma
"As chief law enforcement and the nation.”
coordinator and legal advisor for Derryberry is a graduate of
the state, the attorney general, the Altus High School having
perhaps more than any other also attended Humphreys and
public officer, is in a unique Southside schools. He has a
position to do something about bachelor of arts degree, law
the problems of law and order degree, and a juris doctorate
that exist within our state. degree from the University of
“His position can be utilized to Oklahoma.
quickly strike against crime, Derryberry, in his second
lawlessness and the creeping term, was named chairman of
problems of drug abuse and the congressional redistricting
narcotics committee and, became
I am offering my service to majority floor leader in his
the people of the state with the
hope and belief that I can do (See DERRYBERRY Page 8)
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Rep. Larry Derryberry, D- youngest ever in the state’s
Altus, this afternoon announced history.
his candidacy for attorney Derryberry will oppose G.T.
general for Oklahoma. Blankenship, the Republican
Derryberry, a native of incumbent, who has indicated he
Jackson County being raised on will seek re-election.
a farm near the Humphreys In making the announcement,
community, made his pledge for Derryberry said "During the
the office at 2:30 this afternoon eight years that I have spent in
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The Pentagon reportedly told the result of poor bookkeepin,
the subcommittee the psychia- The $176,(MW is the lughest
trist worked 12 to 14 hours a day known income by a single de •
and had records showing he had tor from any federal In iith in-
earned the average $528 a day surance program in Califot i I
he received. The payments The Associated Press, w hit Ii
work out to that average if he disclosed high medicare and
worked six days a week. Medicaid payments last year
The $11,121 overpayment, a listed $152,000 as the highest in
subcommittee aide said, was California that year.
The Concerned Group for
Housing and Education, as it is
now called, discussed the
Workable Program in a general
meeting held last night.
A vote had been planned for
approving the Workable
Program. However, because of
poor attendance, the vote was
postponed until the committee
meeting to be held Thursday.
Tom Hoffman VISTA
volunteer, in an explanation of
the Workable Program to the
members said that the program
is primarily for the blighted
areas and that he feels that the
people should participate. He
later added that the law required
citizen participation in the
decisions involving their areas.
L sought unsuccessfully to find xm am ■■
I ‘ seeming contradiction ( | Tw ( 0 | I n ci ()( \
I was attributed by the Labor De- "emd I I Y I I "u I l •"e y •
l partment Thursday to the fact • I
■ that the number of adult women
■ and teen-agers seeking work fell I__1 * *____ 4) A f f •
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I without elaboration, the jobless vJ
E rate for Negroes rose from 8 to
8.7 per cent last month, return- Several items of Thursday’s
ing to the April level after a dip city council agenda concerned
in May. the transfer of present em-
The nonwhite unemployment ployes, salary raises, and
rate was 7 per cent a year ago requests for additional em-
and 7.1 per cent in March 1970. ployes.
The 15-year low in nonwhite un- Two city detectives, Guy Eley
employment was 5.7 per cent in and Cecil Wilson, were given a
I' ebruary 1969. salary increase of $40 per month
The over-all unemployment effective July 1 and were
rate for June was 4.7 pet cent, promoted to detective captains,
compared with 5 per cent in
May and 3.4 per cent a year autlSrivationor ne em-
Ss Nixon administra the rate ployment of three additional The council unanimously chairmen of the two
will hi Si nor opnt before dron- policemen to reduce personnel approved the permanent status corresponding committees.
mng again toward the 4 per cent shortages imposed by recent of Mike Patterson, E.L. Triplett, Councilman Johnny Risinger
mark. annexation. and Bill Aduddell as fulltime asked for the promotion of
The number of unemployed It also approved the purchase policemen. Effective July 1 at Romie Willis to lineman in the
Americans totaled 4.7 million of an additional police car and $470 per month. Electric Department with wage
f th g th t r t last month a rise of 1.3 million two radios. The city clerk was A $25 longevity raise effective adjustment to $450 per month
ot me Mouhessomnuniy over May. The civilian labor instructed to prepare bids for July 1, for Bobby Petkoff and effective July 1 and received the
Acnn oP,, sad mil as force increased 2.3 million to these items. C.H. Bennett, members of the
anr in anv wav , ran 84.1 million. Councilman Joe Stroud ex- Police Department, was granted
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TULSA 1AP1 A 12-month the facilities through a four-
extended school year for Tulsa quarter plan, the schools could
public schools is expected to be have the use of one-third more
proposed by the Oil Capital buildings and approximately 1,-
Chamber of Commerce next 100 extra classrooms.
Monday at a meeting of the "This should take care of
Tulsa Board of Education, needed classrooms for several
• After sending C.L. Edwards, years and allow the bonded in-
a member of the chamber’s ed- debtedness to be lowered a
ucation committee, to Atlanta large extent without additional
to observe the 12-month system cost to the taxpayers,” said a
in use there, the chamber has chamber spokesman.
maintained such a plan would Edwards said he believes
make far better use of existing four years would be required to
buildings in the Tulsa system, educate the public about the
The chamber also predicts four-quarter plan and to change
that by making better use of curriculum and schedule pat-
SGT. ESEQUIEL TORRES,
Brownsville, Tex., smiles as he chats
with his military and civilian attorneys
outside the federal building in Atlanta
Thursday where he was to seek to have
a temporary injunction blocking his
He will give up his seat in the a sincere concern for Oklahoma
House of Representatives, which and America and for the
he has held for eight years, to direction our society is going,
make the race. ' I have recognized that the
He presently is speaker pro most direct solution to these
tempore, having been elected to problems is through the
that position at the age of 29, leadership of honest,
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By JENNIE Bl ( HANAN
A preliminary city budget of
almost $2.5 million was ap-
proved by the city council in its
first regularly scheduled
meeting for the 1970-71 fiscal
year. This is the largest budget
ever accepted by an Altus city
council.
Councilman Larry Chambers
asked for the approval of a
preliminary budget for 1970-71.
This is die budget upon which
the city will operate until a fina
budget is drawn up and ap-
proved. The final budget cannot
be made until the final audit of
1969-1970 is completed
expected later this month.
The total amount of the
preliminary budget is
$2,496.203-a $324,183.90 increase
over last year's budget Major
components in this temporary
budget, as pointed out by
Chambers, are increased per
sonnel in the police department,
a new pumper for the fire
department a bulldozer for the
Sanitation Department, funds to
reroof and repaint the city
auditorium; $51,000 for a
retirement plan for city em-
ployes not under other
retirement programs, and a
$35,000 prefabricated steel
building to be used as a gym and
to be located in Southeast Altus.
Chambers explained that
every councilman, department
head, the mayor and the city
coordinator had taken part in
compiling this preliminary
budget, thus attempting to
assure that every financial need
council voted
CHET BUTLER takes time 1 P Sutton of Qluste has
assistance promised a long time The employment figures are out from his umpiring duties to Commissiinerin
ago, nothing will ever be done." compiled from a complicated see an American. Legion District 3 against incumbent
She added that "the people don’t seasonal-adjustment formula baseball game...RED KIRBY in Harkins
know how to order supplies, hold which takes into account what town for his yearly visit... The District 3 area includes
meetings or carry out could be expected in the labor SONNY BANISTER is west and northwest Altus, Duke,
market at any time of the year, relaxing in the hospital with a Olustee and Eldorado.
ihe Labor Department said very sore jaw....So sorry to hear Sutton has been a resident of
. . . __ for.the.first.time.in,eight about JOE STROUD’S cat who Olustee since 1919 and has owned
CA-I DpApAeA months the jobless rate of adult was a victim of adverse Olustee Farm Supply for the
JCn OOI rrODOSOl UU G male sdidnot Remained ate un- temperature. past23 years. . 1 t
f enrdsenS -enumumed un He served on the Olustee
terns changed. Americans celebrate with school board for nine years and
The<™ thing tat ta been hesreportattachedeconomie PhdatesoendRwefikthesbi, served one term on the city
proven at Atlanta is that such signifan ctothesacthatsthe and THOMAS LEE GARRISON. , . .
schools are academically number of persons holding non- r l , . • ■ r • I c 7 -y / A A A
"mmu“mmzmsmmm— p^Yc^atnst potd $176,000
hurdle and although the Atlanta thn expected Veqther
Board of Education readily ad- During the 12 months ending WASHING ION (Al i A San
nutted they did not ha ve a per- in May, average hourly earn- Altus vicjnj Fair and hot Diego psychiatrist., made
ect curriculum or schedule, it ingsof product and nonsupervi- Saturday with high, near 103; $176,000 on a GI hea ..
was far petter than any nine- sory workers on private pay- low lower 70s ance program in ,
month, two-semester plan could rolls edged up one cent to $3. weather readings- High subcommittee reported.o l
* This increase failed to match Thursday 102. low, 73; noon and the military did i
We cannot keep from asking rising consumer prices and re- today, 94. Barometric pressure, the payments uni nudge y
ourselves: Are we just building sulted in an effective 1.8 per 30 10 inches and steady Congress,
monuments to a more in- cent reduction in earnings, the y The panel said the Pentagon
efficient or inferior education?” Labor Department said finally reported back last month
that all the fees had been ruled g
earned except for $11,212.75 88 38:
which the unnamed psychiatrist *
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The House service benefits
subcommittee headed by Rep.
SAIGON i APi — A passenger damaged a number of boats, tween 1,000 and 2,000 men— added that the enemy threat to June after U.S. fighter-bombers James A. Byrne, D-Pa., S
river boat struck a floating But the toll today was believed from Cambodia, reducing the Phnom Penh has " receded con- made heavy air strikes on ene- charged no wrongdoing but said
mine just south of the Demili- to be the largest total number of South Viet- siderably." my positions around the town, it "was concerned about the g;:;;
tarized Zone today and blew up, namese troops in the neighbor- The spokesman said another This was the first reported di- long delay in determining the
killing 46 of the 50 Vietnamese Only light, scattered fighting ing country to about 25,000. major threat is developing rect U.S. military intervention propriety of such payments' gg
civilians aboard, a government was reported in South Vietnam, in Phnom Penh, the Cambo around Kompong Thom, 80 on the side of Premier Lon Nol’s and recommended the Pentagon
spokesman announced. but the U.S. Command reported dian capital, the Cambodian miles north of Phnom Penh, troops. revise its procedures to keep a
The mining occurred on a the loss of another plane a week military command said newly with fresh enemy troops moving The spokesman also reported current review of the fees it 88
branch of the Cua Viet River ago. It was a Navy A7 Crusader reinforced Communist divisions into position outside the city, more harassing attacks in the pays.
less than a mile from Dong Ha, jet that crashed as it was taking are preparing for a major new The highway between Kompong Siem Reap-Angkor area in The recommendation was gg:
the boat's destination about nine off from a carrier June 26 on a offensive and already are mov- Thom and Phnom Penh was still northwest Cambodia and other made in a report on the milita- 88
miles south of the DMZ. mission to Laos. The pilot was ing assault troops into position dosed despite efforts of several harassing attacks on govern- ry’s Civilian Health and Medical 88
The river is regularly pa- rescued. in one key area. Cambodian battalions to clear ment troops near the provincial Program of the Uniformed xg
trolled by U.S. and South Viet- South Vietnamese officials A spokesman said Cambodian it capitals of Takeo south of Services — CHAMPUS — which 88
namese boats, and North Viet- also announced die withdrawal and South Vietnamese troops A month-long siege of Korn- Phnom Penh, and Prey Vieng, provides care for military fami 8
namese mines in it have sunk or of a brigade of marines—be- are ‘ready for anything. He pong Thom was broken in late east of the capital. lies. 8888
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