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The Altus Times-Democrat
ALTUS, OKLA. (73521) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1970
VOL. 44—NUMBER 243
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Jewell Visits Altus
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Fish Kill Here
word abou bis new boss.
Welcome back 4th MOB MEN.
Weather
Politically-Oriented Enemy Raids To Be Few'
diminished capability."
Rosson described the general
BAIL BONDS HIT
ty by the enemy.
cause of poor militia perform-
with Mitchell, said Miss Davis
was in the Miami area three
W.N. SHAFER was out this
morning drumming up some
business . . CHUCK HILL was
It will include several hundred
miles of pipeline and there will
be nine watertowers to make the
Navajo, secretary and board
members Gene Pickett, Hum-
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immediate defense of Saigon, a
far cry from the day when ma-
week says: Hittem Till Their
Blue & Black, 2 days up and 2
days back, beat Guymon.”. . .
What do you really want good
grammar ora good victory? . . .
PHIL WILLEY did it again. . . .
MONTREAL (AP) — Negotia-
tions for the release of two kid-
vc Booby trap Water Plans Okayed
Kills Nine GIs 7
Tuesday morning Jewell, accompanied by
four of his original band members, Grant
Stallings, Walter McAnallen, Bobby Jones
and Ersa Kiker, visited Dick Jewell music
building and attended the band rehearsal.
“It was everything anyone could have
dreamed of," Jewell said. “There never has
been a community like Altus and the way it
supports its schools and school activities.”
He stood in the fog of the early Tuesday
morning before-school rehearsal and watched
as Larry Harris and his assistants gave the
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gen.
William B. Rosson predicted to-
day any enemy attacks in Viet-
nam aimed at influencing the
coming U.S. congressional elec-
tions “would be modest in inten-
sity and of short duration.”
Rosson, until recently Deputy
U.S. Commander in Vietnam,
told the Association of the Unit-
ed States Army any new wave
of enemy attacks would be weak
because of the "realities of his
According to Tal Oden, at-
torney for the water district, the
proposed facility will consist of
several wells near Warren,
which will serve several hun-
dred rural families and a water
line running from Blair through
the rural districts of Jackson
County.
Black’s startling statements
to Nabrit visibly troubled the
civil rights lawyer, who stam-
mered as he groped for a re-
sponse. He told the 84-year-old
justice he was not trying to
rearrange living patterns in the
country, but only trying to inte-
grate the schools.
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By MARGARET RUSSELL
The Jackson County Water
District progressed a step
nearer construction today with
the approval of plans and
easements. Spuds Widner, state
FHA director, notified George
McKeaigg, Jackson County
FHA, this morning of the ap-
proval.
will take longer to accomplish
in tins area than anywhere else
in Vietnam.
In Rosson's view, the situation
looks best in the southernmost
region of Vietnam, in the ill
Corps around Saigon and in the
Mekong Delta.
"South Vietnamese regulars
largely have replaced U.S.
forces along the entire border
with Cambodia, and territorial
forces have been entrusted the
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told the court school boards
should be free “to take into ac-
count the benefits to be derived
from preserving the traditional
neighborhood method of school
assignment.”
This argument is the biggest
obstacle in the path of the Legal
Defense Fund as it seeks a rul-
ing that assures every black
child in areas where segrega-
tion was enforced by govern-
ment action to attend schools
not racially identifiable as Ne-
gro.
safety.
Robert Lemieux, 29-year-old
having lawyer representing the separa-
it’s been 37 years since a young engineer
and former college professor, who also loved
music, came to Altus with his 20-year-old wife
and offered to work free teaching students to
play in a band, if in turn he could operate a
music store and teach private lessons. It was
the worst of the depression and of 700
engineering graduates of OSU he was one of
two to get a job.
That was the beginning of the Altus
municipal band, which soon became the Altus
Schools band for students in junior and senior
high school, and winner of third place trophy
that spring in the big Tri-State Music Festival
parade at Enid.
Director of the band was Dick Jewell, for
whom Altus High’s music building is named.
Monday night Jewell arrived in Altus and
called his first drum major, Ersa Kiker.
Kiker asked him to come to his home, and in
the meantime called a few of the former band
members.
Within 20 minutes 25 former band students
were at our house,” Kiker reported. “They
just stopped whatever they were doing,
wherever they were and came, stayed and
visited.”
"Some were students, some were former
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teachers, band parents and boosters. If we
had had means of reaching others it would
have required an auditorium for everyone to
be there.”
Young Republicans To Meet
THE NEW Young Republican Group will meet at the Republican
headquarters in the old Townhouse Restaurant building at 7 p.m.
Wednesday . The meeting is open to all interested young people
ages 16 and up.
Bids Accepted
SEALED BIDS will be accepted by the Base Procurement Of-
ficer, Altus AFB at Building 225 until 1:30 p.m. Nov. 9 for 1,056 tons
of rock salt for delivery to Altus AFB.
Radio Club To Meet
THE QUARTZ Mountain C.B. Radio Club will meet Thursday at
7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall.
Lodge No. 62 To Meet
ALTUS LODGE No. 62 will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday for work in
the fellowcraft degree.
Screening Clinic Set
A DI ABETES screening clinic will be held between 1 and 3 p.m
Thursday at the Health Department.
DICK J EWE LL, Altus' first band director, is shown above with his tuba at
the Altus High School band building. Jewell visited this week with his for-
mer band members and inspected the building named after him.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
A bonding firm attacked the
constitutionality of Oklahoma's
bail bond laws Tuesday in a
47-page brief presented to a
three-judge federal court.
Altus vicinity — Fair and mild
Thursday except for patchy
ground fog with high, upper 50s;
low, mid 40s.
Weather readings— High
Tuesday, 78; low, 50; noon
today, 57. Barometric pressure,
30.13 inches and rising.
these negotiations without re-
ceiving a new mandate,” he
said.
The government is demanding
assurances that James Richard
Cross, British trade commis-
sioner in Montreal, and Quebec
Labor Minister Pierre Laporte
will be released unharmed if it
reaches agreement with the
FLQ.
Those who did arrive were Mrs. Edna Ruth
McMahan, Tom Braddock, Mrs. Bruce
Braddock, Mr. and Mrs. Royden Woodard,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter McAnallen, Logan
Garnett, Bobby Jones, Grant Stallings, Jim
Milton, Mrs. Carl Schuler, Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Peterson, Mrs. James Marshall and
Mr. and Mrs. Kiker.”
Lemieux said he was empow-
ered only to negotiate the ques-
tion of how the government
would meet the ransom de-
mands.
The government negotiator,
Robert Demers, made no state-
ment, but the office of Quebec
Premier Robert Bourassa said,
“The Quebec government re-
mains firm in its position.”
Laporte will be released, the
FLQ has promised, when the
government meets these two de-
mands and four others: pay-
ment of $500,000 in gold; publi-
cation of FLQ propaganda; ex-
posure of an FLQ informer, and
reinstatement of mail truck
drivers who lost their jobs when
the Montreal city government
took over mail delivery in the
city this year.
Davis, the black militant philo-
sophy instructor, has been ar-
rested by the FBI at i motel
after being sought fur nearly
two months on murder and kid-
naping charges in a ( alifornia
courthouse shootout.
Miss Davis, 26, a former fac-
ulty member of the University
of California at Los Angeles, is
accused of purchasing the guns
used in the courtroom breakout
that took the lives of the judge
and three others in San Ra-
fael, Calif., Aug. 7
Arrested with Mi:s Daves at
the Howard Johnson Motor
Lodge in midtown Manhattan
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pressure consistent.
Oden filed 506 easements
covering the several hundred
miles of pipeline with Paul Long,
county clerk, Oct. 6.
According to Long this is the
largest number of easements
filed at one time in the history of
Jackson County.
“It took us several days to
process the easements. We have
had 150 to 200 oil and gas leases
filed at one time but nothing like
this.”
Officers of the nonprofit
organization are Fred Stowe,
Blair, president; Guy Southall,
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court’s inquiry into
school desegregation, which
moved into a third day today,
lias evolved into a debate over
one primary issue: neighbor-
hood schools.
The emotional situation be-
came particularly evident Tues-
day when Justice Hugo L.
Black, whose opposition to ra-
cial discrimination has never
been seriously challenged, told
a black lawyer from the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
phreys; Cecil Roudebush,
Headrick and Harvey Petzold,
Blair.
Engineers for the project are
Fox and Dreschler.
A bid date has been set by the
company for Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. at
the Navajo School.
According to Oden there will
be more than 1,000 pieces of
property crossed by the pipeline.
All of these landowners volun-
teered to allow the pipeline to
cross their property. “It takes
very public minded citizens to
accomplish an undertaking such
as this with so much success,”
Oden said.
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comp
ance.
Most of the populated coastal
plain of the northernmost I
Corps region has been brought
under friendly control, the gen-
eral said, calling this, "one of
the truly impressive success
stories of the war."
Nonetheless, with the enemy
enjoying short lines of commu-
nication and supply to Laotian
and North Vietnamese bases,
Rosson said, Vietnamization
unable to find the keys to some imped officials were suspended
new city property. . . and PAT today because the government
FENITY was passing on the held out for guarantees of their
Fund: I don t like this trying plan: "How can you rearrange
to condemn a whole way of liv- the whole country? ... You
ing., , , want to haul people miles and
Ihe Fund lawyer, James M miles to give them equal per-
Nabrit Ill, had argued that centages in the schools.”
this neighborhood school con- The neighborhood school con-
cept is really a fiction." That is, cept has become the first line of
he said, the Charlotte-Mecklen- defense for attorneys defending
burg County, N.C., school board desegregation plans the civil
had used zoning and school loca- rights lawyers say do not carry
tion techniques mostly to pre- out the 1954 Supreme Court de-
serve segregation, not to perpet- segregation ruling.
uate neighborhood schools. The government’s lawyer in
Black told Nabrit, who was the school cases, Solicitor Gen-
supporting a massive busing eral Erwin N. Griswold, has
OEO Concludes Investigation
Rodriquez Firing ’Illegal'
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However, Rosson—newly des- military situation in Vietnam as
ignated commander of U.S. favorable to the allies in virtual-
Army forces in the Pacific— ly all major areas. He reported
forecast in his prepared speech enemy pressure in the sensitive
the ending of the monsoon rains northernmost region adjoining
during the next few weeks will Laos and North Vietnam.
bring increased enemy resupply While praising the work of
efforts in southern Laos and regular South Vietnamese
northeast Cambodia, forces and the militia, Rosson
This, he added, may be fol reported pacification is lagging
lowed by greater combat activi- in the Central Highlands be-
jor U.S. and South Vietnamese report.
forces ringed the city." he said. Sullivan said, "We feel ,we
The delta IV Corps, most have located the problem and it
densely inhabited section of has been stopped without any
Vietnam, reflects the highest real damage.
order of progress across the He also said that the
board," Rosson said. cooperation of the Air Force
It is here, the general said, base in this has been tremen-
that pacification has chalked dous. "They have been alerted t
up consistent gains against de- extreme care," he added
termined enemy resistance." (See pictures on page 14
NEW YORK (AP) Angela Tuesday evening was David Ru- was placed on the FBI's
A fish kill was reported last
Wednesday in Slinking Creek
which flows into the North Fork
of the Red River, according to
Glen Sullivan, secretary of the
Oklahoma department i
pollution control. Charles
Abernathy, Altus. reported the
kill to Sullivan.
Personnel from the depart
ment of pollution control and the
wildlife department mi
dispatched to determine tl e
amount of damage and the
cause.
The investigation is still un-
derway. However, it is believed
that the pollution came from the
Altus AFB wash rack areas.
The Air Force base waste
treatment facilities are being
inspected and the North Fork of
the Red River is being observed.
It was reported to Sullivan
that there were several minnows
and about two dozen larger fish
killed. The larger fish were
mostly carp, according to the
difficulty protecting her new car tist Quebec Liberation Front,
from "the door slammers." the FLQ, walked out Tuesday
night after the third meeting in
Bulldog victory slogan for the 24 hours. “I cannot continue
SAIGON i APi — A Viet Cong
booby trap killed nine Ameri-
cans and wounded five south-
east of Da Nang, and in the Me-
kong Delta an American heli-
copter gunship accidentally
killed eight South Vietnamese
troops and wounded 23, the U.S.
Command announced today.
The booby trap had been
made from a dud American ar-
tillery shell. Troops of the
Americal Division's 198th Bri-
gade triggered it while on an op-
eration in Quang Ngai province
66 miles southeast of Da Nang.
One South Vietnamese soldier
also was killed.
It was the heaviest American
toll in such an incident in six
months, since a similarly rigged
155mm shell killed 14 Ameri-
cans and wounded 32 on April 15
in the same general area.
The accidental helicopter at-
tack occurred last Sunday 132
miles southwest of Saigon. The
U.S. Command said the aircraft
fired a dozen 2.75-inch rockets
into a force of South Vietnamese
the chopper was giving gunfire
support to.
The U.S. Command reported
only light and scattered action
involving American forces. It
said one American was killed
and one wounded by mines, and
two Americans were killed and
one wounded in brief skirmishes
out from Da Nang.
The South Vietnamese com-
mand reported three clashes in
which government forces killed
a total of 71 Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese, at a cost of
six government soldiers killed
and 18 wounded.
From the first case," Black
said, "I have been interested in
plain discrimination on account
of race. We should correct
that."
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An investigation has con-
cluded that the dismissal of Phil
Rodriquez by the Southwest
Oklahoma Community Action
Group “was illegal and unfair.”
This was the conclusion of an
investigation made by the State
Economic Opportunity Office.
Ervin A. Keith, Human Rights
Officer for the state Economic
Opportunity Office, presented
this conclusion in a report before
the tri-county board of directors
Tuesday night at the Hollis Day
Care Center.
Fred Beihl, executive director
for Southwest Community Ac-
tion, said this morning the board
empowered himself to meet with
Rodriquez and work out an
agreeable arrangement.
“We talked (Beihl and
Rodriquez) and we will accept
the resignation of Rodriquez
rather than him being fired,”
Beihl said. “We will take off the
charges the part about the
assault,” he explained.
Rodriquez was charged by
Geary Simmons, project
director, with attempting to
strike Simmons during a con-
versation in Simmons’ office.
Rodriquez denied this but was
fired that morning by Beihl.
Beihl listed insubordination and
attempting to strike Simmons as
the reasons.
The investigation revealed
“Upon the basis of credible
evidence collected, a deter-
mination can not be made that
Mr. Rodriquez did violently
swing at Mr. Simmons' face, or
in fact, did attempt to hit him at
all.”
Beihl said no terms con-
cerning payment of back pay to
Rodriquez had been worked out.
He said the executive com-
mittes will work out terms of
the effective date of Rodriquez'
termination. “We hope to do this
by Friday.”
The statement of the in-
vestigation is as follows:
“By interviewing a substantial
number of witnesses, by
analyzing pertinent records and
statistical data and by personal
observations, the State
Economic Opportunity Office
has concluded the dismissal of
Concepcion Phil Rodriquez from
the staff of the Southwest
Oklahoma Community Action
Group, Inc., was illegal and
unfair.
“Technical and credible
evidence indicated Mr
Rodriquez was dismissed
through anger followed by a
series of unethical, un-
professional and unauthorized
procedures with no evidence of
probationary or suspension
periods.
“Upon the basis of credible
evidence collected, a deter-
mination can not be made that
(See RODRIQUEZ Page 14)
GAY AN I H< INY is
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black, who was charged with charged in connection with the weeks ago.
harboring a fugitive. California shooting.
They were to be arraigned to- The FBI said it traced Miss A young black pilot who asked
day. Davis here through a car owned not to be identified told an Asso-
bv Poindexter who was born in ciate d Press newsman in Miami
FBI agents took Miss Davis chicaT and Ld reXed! Eeach that preparations had
ey Square through a rear door been active in.radical political Davis^Cuba from a desert
3h.1 u in . organizations there in the early :, . 1101,1 a aeserved
about 9.30 a.m. Miami airstrip.
In front of the federal court, and mid 19o0S , ,
about 100 demonstrators chant- In Miami Beach, Atty. Gen. Ihe plan apparently fell
ed Free Angela" and "Free John Mitchell said Tuesday through when a charter boat
our sister." night that a chance sighting of captain told the FBI that a
Miss Davis in south Florida led black woman accompanied by
Miss Davis, whose public to her capture. two men tried to force him at
avowal of communism created John Hushen, a Justice De- gunpoint to take them from Me
a still unresolved academic partment spokesman who was ami Beach to Bimini in the Ba-
freedom controversy at UCLA, attending a political function hamas.
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