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Feelings on Negotiations About People
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Bizarre Declaration of War Note Left at Ohta
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diplomatic job.
The U.S. State Department
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The note was signed:
“Knight of Wands
“Knight of Cups
“Knight of Pentacles
Serve Full Term
TULSA < APi - State Rep.
Larry Derryberry of Altus,
Democratic candidate for Okla-
homa attorney general, said
here Wednesday he is the only
candidate in the race planning
to serve a full four-year term.
Incumbent Atty. Gen. G.T.
Blankenship, a Republican, has
refused to commit himself to
serving a full term, Derrvberrv
said, and Blankenship “has been
Chain For
Lids
Bruce said the President’s
proposal to establish a standstill
cease-fire “is designed to stop
the killing now.” The Commu-
nists have rejected this and the
other four points of the Nixon
program.
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Musicians Walk Out
DALIAS (AP) — Just before
the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
was to begin its annual spectac-
ular—a ballet and a rendition of
the 1812 Overture—Sunday night
in the Cotton Bowl, the musi-
cians gathered their instru-
ments and walked out.
ence, “and which of the two
sides at this table truly desires
an early and honorable end to
the war.”
tremists and members of the
Black Power movement to Cuba
for training
While vacationing in Cuba in
December 1967, they said, she
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Hubert Rose, Iva Chronister,
Maggie Randal, F. R. Poston,
Betty Churchwell, Rita Nolan,
Shirley Evans, Janet Rankhorn,
Aline Neal, Bonnie Cotney.
U.S. Senate in 1972.”
Derryberry said his own po-
litical aspirations are “directed
toward service to the people as
attorney general.”
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Dismissed
openly seeking support for the __
Republican nomination for the
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Health study which he said
found “external exposure from 6
radioactive gases ... was only ’
a small fraction of the natural |
‘background’ radiation and was
well within the Federal Radia-
tion Council’s guidelines.”
tions were being expelled for re-
The newspaper reports said
Miss Miles broke down when
confronted by FBI agents last
month and made a long state-
ment giving them information
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-* 1 VV--n\ MORRIS, III (AP) - A Com- was recruited to spy for the Cu-
birthday recently, they stuffed his car
with 64 pounds of popcorn they spent
two days popping. Unable to drive to
class, O'Connor gave neighborhood
kids the okay to dig in so he can dig out.
DELLS MAKING
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THE JACKSON County Farmer’s Union will hold its annual
meeting at Cattlemen's Saturday at 7 p.m. Bob Kerr will discuss
farm legislation and Leslie Miller will discuss farm insurance
Officers will be elected.
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possibilities were not being
rulled out.
The two youths and girl were
being sought because a woman
real estate agent reported
earlier Tuesday spotting the
station wagon parked off the
road in some brush near Felton.
The three were reported seen
nearby, where campfire ashes
were found.
A friend of the Ohtas said Mrs.
Ohta told her two months ago
that her husband had to chase
six “hippie-types” off the porch.
Dr. Ohta was known to have
provided free medical care to
some hippie-types, but there was
no official speculation on any
relationship.
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was parked in a parking area
near a bar in Eldorado.
Murphy is charged with ob-
taining money under false
pretenses. He entered a plea of
not guilty to the charge and is
free on a $300 cash bond. His
appearance date has been set for
Oct. 29. He is charged in an in-
cident that occurred Aug. 22,
when he allegedly wrote a bad
check in the amount of $20 to
Buster Rogers.
men and a girl reported seen
near another of the Ohtas' cars
—a station wagon—before it
was found abandoned on a rail-
road track.
"Today World War III will be-
gin as brought to you by the
People of the Free Universe.
From this day forward anyone
and-or company who misuses
the natural environment or de-
stroys same will suffer the pen-
alty of death by the People of
the Free Universe.
"I and my comrades from
this day forth will fight until
death or freedom, against any-
thing or anyone who does not
support natural life on this plan-
et materialism must die or
van a.
cruiting a “quite attractive and
personable” employe of a Wash-
ington embassy to gather intelli-
gence information. The depart-
ment did not name the girl or
identify the embassy, but Wash-
ington correspondents of the
South African newspapers re-
ported American sources said
the girl was Miss Miles and her
code name was Mary.
conducted at Edwards AFB in
Southern Ealifornia, and durii g
a Fourth of July stopover e i
route to the Pacific.
The operational test flight
have demonstrated the new
airlifter’s long range reliabil i
Trips to Vietnam, Alaska and
Europe as well as intermediate
stops proceeded flawlessly
despite the plane's. un-
precedented size and weight.
Its 28 landing wheels enable
the C-5 to operate on standard
runways. Its fore and aft Rqors
enable huge armored vehicss tc
drive in one end of the plane, ahq
on arriving at destination, tb
drive off the other end.
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Country Corner
But at least David Hall is young woman, who was born in
" worrying about the next genera- Kimberley, the diamond center,
tion in Oklahoma, he contin- spent more than a year in Cana-
da studying an underground net-
He is charged in connection
with an incident Oct. 15, when he
and another man, not yet found,
about the Cuban spy network allegedly broke into a pickup
and underground routes to Ha- owned by Joe Keyes. The vehicle
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“Knight of Swords."
od, 119 less than the week be- During a similar period a year
fore. ago, the average was 100 per
The weekly casualty summa- week .. . ,
ries also reported 432 US Spokesmen said the decline in
troops and 858 South Vietnam- American casualties is the re-
ese soldiers wounded in action Sult of disengagement of Ameri-
last week. This was 81 fewer can forces from the battlefield
Americans and 13 more South and the low level of enemy ac-
Vietnamese than were wounded tivity.
a week earlier. Informed sources said small-
unit clashes and enemy rocket
The report raised total Ameri- and mortar attacks last week
can combat casualties in the were at the lowest level since
Vietnam war to 43,981 killed and June 30.
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of some of the most competent Firemen, looking for water to
analysts in the state," he said, fight the blaze, discovered the
He added: "We recognize the bound, fully clothed bodies in the
shock this senseless act has pool.
brought to our citizenry. We Discovery of Mrs. Ohta’s
- trust that the sober judgment of stolen 1968 green Oldsmobile
The pentacle is a five-sided our residents will prevail over station wagon, smashed by a
figure associated with wit- any emotional reaction. switch engine in a tunnel near
chcraft as a magical or talisman Besides Dr. Ohta, those slain Felton Tuesday evening, was the
device, in fiction often used to were his wife, Virginia, 43, sons first announced solid clue in the
summon up the devil. Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11, and case.
The Knights are the four suite secretary, Dorothy Cad- Scores of law enforcement
of the 78card tarot deck, used to wallader, 38. officers fanned out through the
tel one’s fortune depending on Each of the victims was shot surrounding redwood forest to
which direction the large cards once in the back of the head, and look for suspects.
fal. Ohta also was shot in the back. The vehicle was empty when
Tara said the note was All were dumped onto the struck by the engine, but the
withheld initially so as not to swimming pool of the mansion motor was still warm, and an
alarm citizens. outside the city. The house was attempt had been made to bum
"Tienote itself is in the hands set afire. the car. Two sets of footprints
led from the vehicle.
The tunnel is north of Santa
Cruz, about seven miles from the
killings and in an area aboun-
ding with hippie-type com-
munes.
The road and tracks below run
alongside a redwood gorge of the
Santa Cruz Mountains. The
sheriff’s administrative
assistant, Lou Keller, said
whoever drove the car on the
tracks "just had to have local
knowledge.”
"He added, “I travel that road
every day and I didn’t know the
tunnel was there.”
Keller said the area’s “in-
digent transient" population was
being questioned, but other
Saturday for traffic victims in 40 Americans were killed in ac-
the Norman area. tion in Vietnam last week, the
second lowest weekly toll in 442
Col. Curtis Milligan. director years, while 33 others died from
of operations of the state Army causes other than battle.
National Guard, announced The total of South Vietnamese
plans for the service and said battlefield deaths also dropped
it eventually will be expanded last week, to 256, the lowest to- Vietnam from accidents, illness
in e ulsa and Oklahoma City tal in a month, government or other nonbattle causes.
headquarters said. According to the weekly sum-
Army helicopters, staffed with The U.S. Command reported maries issued by the U.S. Com-
adoctor and medical personnel that allied forces killed 1,083 mand, American battlefield
will be used in the operation. North Vietnamese and Viet deaths for the past six weeks
The C-5 Galaxy, world’s
largest airplane and first C-5 to
be based in the western United
States, will arrive at Travis Air
Force Base, Calif. Saturday.
Formal assignment of the
giant Lockheed transport to the
60th Military Airlift Wing here
will mark the start of what will
be eventually two C-5 squadrons
ranging the globe from Travis.
The arrival ceremony, set for
10:30 a.m., will culminate
months of conversion and
construction for a new
California-based aerospace
complex.
An aerial fly-by and ground
show is planned for 10:30 a.m.
Following the acceptance
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — "We have to keep our cool
A bizarre declaration of war We are fighting a war and we
note left at a home where five might as well face it,” Tara
persons were slain threatens said.
death to anyone who "misuses The undersheriff said the na-
the natural environment” ture of the killings and the note
The typewritten note, signed indicated the five were slain by
with the names of the four cultists.
knights on fortune-telling tarot The note was found under the
cards, said future killings would windshield wiper of Ohta’s red
be carried out by the “People of Rolls Royce after 1116 bodies of
the Free Universe.” Ohta, his wife, two sons and sec-
Disclosing the note Wednes- retary were discovered in a
day two days after the slaying swimming pool at the family's
of wealthy eye surgeon Dr. Vic- $250,000 hilltop home Monday
tor M. Ohta and four others, Un- night I’ara said.
dersheriff Paul W. Tara urged Until the note was made pub-
the community-100 miles south be, police had said they knew no
of San Francisco—to remain motive for the slayings. They
monwealth Edison Co. official ban directorate of intelligence.
290,746 wounded. The Saigon has challenged a report claim- The papers said she went to
government now has reported a ing infant death rates have in- work in 1969 as political secre-
toa of 114,872 of its troops creased in an area near the tary for the first secretary of
killed and.243,886 wounded, company’s Dresden nuclear the South African Embassy in
while thn‘allies claim to have power plant Washington. But in Pretoria, a
and Viet 7,043 North Vietnamese Byron Lee Jr., assistant to the spokesman for the Foreign Min-
The US ngsince «id 1 (61, firm’s president, added Wednes- istry said she was appointed
emandftcommhsmpaadtapin cdly in Ror • “
nothreattopublicheaith Communists Scornful
Lee’s comments came after
Pittsburgh radiology professor Of NixonPeace Plan
before a Pennsylvania Senate
committee. PARIS (AP) — The Viet-
n. , ,, namese Communists scorned
Dr. Ernes J. Sternglass told President Nixon’s peace plan to-
the committee in Harrisburg, day as a "swindle” and a
Pa., child mortality increases "plotU.S. Ambassador David
appeared to have occurred from K. E. Brace accused them of
radioactive gases released in “resorting to threadbare propa-
the normal operation of the ganda slogans ”
Dresdenreactor 50 miles south- “They show clearly the con-
west of Chicago, trast between our respective ap-
Lee cited a recent report on a proaches to these talks,” Bruce
U.S. Bureau of Radiological said «t the Paris peace confer-
OKIAHOMA CITY (AP) — He said he will make public ditionally has stayed out of the
1’he Oklahoma Education Asso- appearances for Hall if Hall de- governor’s race, but OEA lead-
ciation leadership, although sires them ers and Bartlett have been at
stopping short of an outright en- Rochelle said the OEA sent odds almost since the gover-
dorsement, came out strong for questionnaires to each of the nor’s term began in 1967.
Democratic gubernatorial can- three gubernatorial candidates Rochelle said American Party ■ A , A .
didate David Hall today while asking for a commitment to candidate Reuel Little "favors 1/1/ m p Mu y Am,e. -I
blasting Republican Gov. Dewey raise Oklahoma to the regional the long-range goals for a better V V O) ill C f / Z1 C C U 5 6 CT
bartlett average in per pupil expendi- education program in Oklahoma
Gene Rochelle, OEA presi- tures. but did not provide specifics on Af • • • ■ ■ A,
dent, speaking with the approv- Hall made such a pledge, Ro- how he would accomplish the 1 )T %Mviney 11^ I I K
al of the OEA executive com- chelle said, but Bartlett refused task.” * • •N-yIIIM III UJ . • •
toanswerduesdons. „ofHalrspledgs,Rochelisaid •
himselr to education" saPanvidHalacommittedhim- Dvid Han foPhis E?1 . (Continued From Page "
Asked if the OEA was-e. mentlor"thenminimumnmposhs ."What he hopes to accomplish statesecurity bureau, would say
dorsing Hall,” Rochelle, a Law- Oklahoma must meet if Okla- if he is elected governor will not only that Miles is known
ton teacher, said, “We don’t homa is to win the race against be easy - progress never is. toithe bureau.
think angendorsement .VT subminimalpubiic school educa- "But at least David Hall is vLnalonewspapersussaidathe
sary: We think it s quite obvi- tion in the decade of the 1970s'
ous which candidate educators he continued.
should support" The 30,000-member OEA tra- ued, “not the next election
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS., COLLEGE
government professor Thomas
O'Connor told 16 of his favorite
students he liked popcorn and wanted
to stage an International Popcorn
Festival. So to surprise him on his 45th
Death Claims
Mrs. Barker
Mrs. Charley Barker, 67, died
Wednesday morning in the
Mangum City Hospital.
Services were to be today at
2:30 at the Lovett's Funeral
Chapel, Mangum, with the Rev.
J.V Oden officiating. Burial was
to be in the Riverside Cemetery.
Born June 12, 1903 in Walnut
Grove, Mo., she moved with her
family to Oklahoma in 1906. She
married Charlie Barker in Greer
County Oct. 9,1921. They farmed
in White Flat until they moved to
Mangum in 1957. She was a
member of the Dean Baptist
Church.
Survivors include her
husband, three sons, Roscoe,
Blair; Charles H., Yukon;
Chester, Martinez, Calif.; two
sisters, Mrs. Arthur Duncan,
Santa Cruz, Calif.; Mrs. Ben
Rothenberg, Sweetwater; a
brother, Herschel Griffin,
Mangum; 11 grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
‘Enriched’ Bread
wahinsitonp"ttresl S" base in — ..............
dent Nixon meets the Soviet for- rent Kremlin themes. D .
eign minister today to sound out whtWein. But after meeting with Gro- Memorial Hospital
Kremlin attitude toward Nixon’s "hat qshing . isstillinter- myko last Friday and again (Visiting hours: Surgical and
“era of negotiations" approach ested in,officials sa id, is theex- Monday Secretary of State Wil medical, 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.;
tmaiOrEstWest issiS" tent to which the Soviets will be bam P. Rogers found the atmos- Matornit, 114h.°i.P,k
A willing to forego cold war skir- phere good enough for a one- Maternity, 11 amto1noon, 2:30
qFnreign.Minister A ndr ein mishing and negotiate seriously hour White House appointment to 3:30 p.m7t8:30 p.m.)
Gromyo ashed out at the unit on items where there are possi- for the Soviet leader. . . Admitted
ed States Wednesday, accusing bilities for agreement Wednesday
Washington of trumping up 5 Rogers said Gromyko asked Bob Demy, Mrs. W. E. Willis,
charges against Moscow on Administration worry over for the date with Nixon, without Billy Dosher, Maude Thrash,
Mideast trace violations and Cu- Kremlin intent soared last specifying any particular sub- Floyd Gregory, Steve Risener.
ban missile submarine bases. month after U.S. intelligence re- ject matter, and that he did not Mrs. Ida Koons, Leonard
Rut n s Iftcio1 tno ported evidence of Soviet-Egyp- know whether Gromyko was “ " ‘
rate -.S.officlalste nded.to tian Mideast truce violations bringing a message from Krem-
rate Gromyko s speech to the and possible construction of a lin chiefs to the President
Two Arraigned
Here Wednesday
Two people were arraigned on
separate charges Wednesday in
Jackson County District Court.
Arraigned were James Gilbert
and Kenneth Murphy. Marriage licenses
Gilbert was arraigned on the Gerald G.Glendenning to Inita
ban diplomats at the United Na- charge of burglary second Cathy Payne
degree and bond was set at Patrick S. Gesino to Janice
$1,500. A hearing date has not Kincannon
been set. Fred Renfro, Jr. to Linda
Harmful to Rats
HOUSTON (AP) - Rats died
or were stunted when fed only
bread which commercial baker-
ies describe as “enriched,” a
nutrition expert reports.
At the same time, Dr. Roger
J. Williams of the University of
Texas said Wednesday, the
same bread with added miner-
als, vitamins and an amino acid
named lysine kept other labora-
tory rats alive and growing.
“From this experiment,” he
said, "it appears that an ex-
tremely serious situation exists
with respect to the manifold
products made from so-called
enriched flour.
“Enriched products, whether
they be bread, bakery goods or
cereal breakfast foods, are nu-
tritionally far below what scien-
tific advance should demand.”
Williams told the fall meeting
of the National Academy of Sci-
ence that he fed 64 rats nothing
but the enriched bread for 90
days. He said 40 of them died of
malnutrition and the rest be-
came severely stunted.
National Guard Sets
Evacuation Service
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
Hie Oklahoma Army National
Guard will inaugurate a
Bradshaw
R.L. Allred to Lantie
McLaughlin
Filings for Divorce
Nelda Dickerson vs. Linden D.
Dickerson
Idell Crowder vs. Progical Son
Crowder
Linda Carbo, vs. Peter Carbo,
Jr.
Andrea Joyce Shipley vs.
Donnie Lee Shipley
Glenda Faye Adams vs. Billy
W. Adams
Julia M. Kratzer vs. Eldon
Kratzer
Divorce Decrees
Melba Joyce Rosebrough vs.
Harold Dee Rosebrough
I aura V. Lockwood vs. Milton
O. Lockwood.
ceremony, welcoming remarks Lockheed-Georgia plant the
and a christening of the plane in Galaxy will supplement the C-
the brand new Travis C-5 pull- 141 Starlifters and C-133
roug hangar, the Galaxy will Cargomasters presently com-
open for spectator tours from prising the Travis wing’s
11:30 am. to 5 pun, strategic airlift fleet. The new
Brig. Gen. John H Ger- jumbo jet, also first to be used by
meraad, wing commander, has a unit of the 22nd Air Force, will
invited the public to view ac- fly Military Airlift Command
tivities of the dav. routes to Hawaii, Alaska, the
Philippines, Japan, Okinawa
Civilian and military and South Vietnam.
dignitaries from points as
distant as Washington, D C Ft operating from existing
Hood, Tex., and Marietta, Ga., runways,thegargantuan C-has
are expected to join thousands aready made its Air Force
from nearby communities in debut at Altus AFB and
attendance. Charleston AFB, S.C. It has
touched doen at Travis as part of
After delivery here from the a flight test program being
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