Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 46, No. 177, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 9, 1972 Page: 2 of 22
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presentation at the VFW Annual
Convention on July 1, 1972 at
Tulsa. 84.4 per cent of the male
employees at the Altus AFB are
veterans and 86.9 per cent of the
males hired during 1971 are
veterans. Altus AFB having won
the state VFW "Employer of the
Year" Award has been nominated
by the Oklahoma Veterans of
Foreign Wars to receive the
national VFW "Employer of the
Year" Award.
Barrels, Flags, Keyhole,
phones in this city Friday that
“the problem is so massive
that financial loans alone won’t
meet the whole problem.”
Nixon’s response, Scott told a
gathering of Wyoming Valley
business leaders, was that “he
wants the total resources of the
federal government used to get
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - serious about it.” “I couldn’t do five pusL_Is help to meet the problems in
Gov. David Hall is eating less From April 1 to July 9, some when I started ” he said “Now mennsyvania.
these days and enjoying it 14 weeks Hall peeled off 44 I do 25 push-ups, 175 situps, Scott, the Senate minority
more-except in the afternoons. pounds, all the way down to 150 leg-kicks, a boxer’s exercise leader, estimated that $2 billion
I get a little bred and grou- 204. How did he manage it? 60 times that requires touching in federal aid would be needed
Ehy sometimes about4 P?1”. My big problem,” he says your left knee with your right to re-establish some 250,000 vic-
he said but overall I m feel- now, “was that I was working elbow and vice versa-it’s the tims of Tropical Storm Agnes
ing better than Ive felt in all day without eating much, hardest one of all. across the state
years and I’d say the amount then eating a big meal late at T also run in place, do some
of energy now’s about double night and going to bed right full sit-ups and other neck ex- 8111 he also suggested that
what it was last year at this after that. ercises, then I eat an orange-I the state legislature would have
time. save a few calories so I can do to share some of the cost.
Last year at this time the "Now I m on a 1,200-calories that late in the day-and then I pressed for a figur, n that
governor weighed nearly 260 diet daily and I eat my biggest go to bed ” ch e h angure on that
pounds. Now he weighs 204. meal at lunch. At night I do 30 The governor plans to stay on shervscotsad itshouldbnin
"Im not through losing yet,” minutes of hard exercise just that 1,200-calorie regimen until neignoomoob ot $1 billion,
he said. I‘m shooting for 190 before going to bed. Aug. 1.
ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE
RECEIVED state award when
Bill Roberson, center, depart-
ment commander of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, presented the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
"Employer of the Year" Award to
Col. Lawrence Glass, commander
at Altus AFB, right, for the base's
outstanding record of employing
veterans, especially handicapped
veterans. William Ferrill, chief
personnel office, Altus AFB, left,
participated in the award
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week, but they haven’t let him Oklahoma City, WKY-TV, The lieutenant governor can public opinion.”
off the hook yet which carries the “Tonight” probably made the most
she-hostEd MeMahontaured Flood Victims
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wasn’t enough. " Aid Speeded-Up
Nigh sent Carson a telegram televised "Stars and Stripes Things didn’t improve much WILKES-BARRE Pa (AP) age yield trends, the spring
inviting him to visit Oklahoma Show.” The center gave Me- after Friday night’s comments _ Governmental red tape will wheat crop could runabout 374
and tour the Western Heritage Mahon a cowboy hat and a from Carson. He said during be cut by President Nixon to million bushels, pointing to an
Center and National Cowboy plaque declaring Carson a the monologue, "I did not mean speed federal aid to 180 000 all-wheat production of about
Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, “cowboy extraordinaire,” and to put it the award down. I was flSd victims in northeastern 156 billion.
Carsons apology was ap- McMahon presented then on just being silly. . .” Pennsylvania, Sen Hugh Scott The record output of all
preciated. Nigh said, “but I still the Wednesday night show. “He may have said it, but he reports 8
think it would be more With the hat on his head, didn’t mean it,” an Oklahoma
meaningful if he actually saw Carson quipped, “Someday City woman declared later. Scott told the President over
Cubans Plan Chess History Holds
Demonstration Mystery and Intrigue
MIAMI,Fla. (AP)-Despite 4 I •J MANGUM - Fifteen
spirited opposition from within members of the Mangum
their own ranks, top leaders of NEW YORK (AP) - The in- When a certain King Louis Fiske’s "Chess in Iceland and Mounties Riding Club have
Miami’s Cuban exile colony of suited egos and white-knuckled lost a chess game to Rognvald, in Icelandic Literature,” pub- qualified to ride in the
300,000 have called for “a mas- tensions before the Fischer- he stood up in a fury, shoved lished in 1905. American Association of
sive demonstration” Tuesday at Spassky chess match may his chessmen into a bag and Sheriff’s Posses and Riding
the Democratic National Con- seem to be a blazing battle, but smashed his opponent in the 11 is said that American National Finals July 29
vention. pale beside the tales of blood- face with it, leaving him a chess champion Bobby Fischer . w Teg .
Carlos Prio Socarras, former thirsty games in Medieval Ice- bloody mess. has gotten the highest stakes in d b’ Herman
Cuban president and the dem- land. "Take that!” exclaimed the history of chess for his series k Iresident
onstration’s chief organizer, Chess boards in the 12th and king. beginning Tuesday in Reykja- onetitin in this district
said Friday that he expects up 13th centuries were often the Rognvald rode off in a panic, vik with Boris Spassky, the keen this and
to 3,000 refugees to march center of treachery, revenge, But his brother stayed to split world champion. an accomplishment for this
“peaceably and with good in- intrigue and murder, according the king’s skull open. These Even though thousands of group to qualify for the
tentions” outside the Miami to sagas of the time. stories are sagas from Willard dollars of prize money are on National Finals which will
Beach Convention Hall. the line, today’s championship include riders from the entire
“We are not protesting I A / 1 i r » prize is chicken feed. state of Texas and a large part
against anyone," Prio said, VV n(1T FVArTC Rognvald played King Louis of Oklahoma,” Kopecek said,
“only against the idea that Cu- ’ ’ 1 I —AI I • for his head. Riders are judged on the
tians t dosanountng «” “ ... . A woman was the prize in pontsvstemwiuthsstp three
throw Fidel Castro.” * * __ I ___ n • one kniohtlv saa a kino nut n eacn wen Hau-rne
Prio heads a coalition group
which includes Bay of Pigs vet-
erans, his own Cuban Revolu-
tionary Party, students and oth-
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for his head.
A woman was the prize in
one knightly saga. A king put . f Mo. .
up his horse, falcon and sword -ne . -st O, Mountes
for a maidenland engaged in a e includes the
ramp winner tk"1 The following: Sandy Hopper -
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-t e 1 ea ot aem Agriculture Department offi- forecast figures for spring "Little consolation do you de- Ann Kopecek - Barrels,
onira-rts’ planning to cials expected, despite dock types, thus enabling statisti- rive from the game of chess for Keyhole, Potato, Baton; Jane
stage tneir own minicampaign strikes and competition from cians to estimate the entire now I own your costly ob- McGuffin-Baton, Relay; Doyle
of ;nformation and accusa- record world harvests last 1972 crop. jects!” said his competitor. " m ” •
tion, is another coalition refu- year.
gee group calling itself the Preliminary tabulations by g l f ,
Committee for Liberation, the Export Marketing Service | r Pu A Le l A LAIT ( M T
Tomaz Cruz, a Bay of Pigs in USDA show wheat shipments \a I CA C K C C VV I I • /
veteran and a leader of the Lib- totaled 620 million bushels,
eration Committee, said mem- down sharply from the level ofAI • f
bers will pass out handbills to 738 million in 1970-71. I )n X kl/IHr IZO^r
convention delegates about the But the latest figure is nearly *• I I • I y / U L I I 3
"forgotten moral and written 8 per cent more than depart- “ 1
commitments" the United ment experts predicted last SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. California, were hijacked in Baton, Flags, Poles, Ribbon;
Sates has made with respect to May. At that time, according to (AP) — President Nixon, in a two days. Herman Kopecek - Barrels,
-uba. an official report, 1971-72 wheat crackdown on air piracy, has Baton; Robert Morgan -
Among these, Cruz said, are exports were not expected to ordered the Federal Aviation "The President has followed Keyhole, Potato, Ribbon; Dee
“promises by Democratic Pres- exceed 575 million bushels. Administration to implement news of the recent hijackings,” Morgan - Poles.
idents John Kennedy and Lyn- The revised export estimate, tougher antihijackingmeasures and has been very concerned,
don B. Johnson to rid Cuba of however encouraging to farm- - including passenger in- particularly about commuter ------
its Communist regime ” ers, does not mean wheat is out spection when necessary - on airlines,” the aide said. “These Left-handers
of trouble. Carry-over supplies commuter airlines. include such airlines as Pacific Julius Caesar once re-
Cuz said the demonstration still are huge, more than 900 John D. Ehrlichman, Nixon’s Southwest Airlines of California marked that being left-
planned by the Prio organ- million bushels on July 1, and assistant for domestic policy, and the East Coast shuttle runs handed did not interfere in
OKI ahoma cmy < ap> g ,,t c, , , . ization may damage the nonvio- the new 1972 crop also is ex- announced at a news confer- between Boston and New York, the least with his ambitions.
„KsAh-MAcTL(AP)ItwasaCarsonquipanda Iater, as Carson held the lent image of Cuban refugees, pected to be large ence Friday in nearby Newport „ , Other noted left-handers in.
Television talk-show host slip about the center on Wed- plaque at his desk and a A new cron Droduction renort Beach that the Presiden^or An FAA spokesman in Wash- elude Pablo Picasso, Charles
Johnny Carson may think he nesday night’s show that camera homed in for a closeup, Prio said he doubts that this win be issued bv the derart dered FAA Administrator John ington said the new rules apply- Chaplin, Beatle Paul Mc-
has apologized for remarks triggered the wrath of some the plaque fell face-down. Then will happen but says, “It’s a Wentbusued field Shkrer toAAmmnistrator -ohn ing to shuttle flights require Cartney and Queen Mother
frowst™ Oklahomans last telephoned the NBC affiliatein In to WKY-TV. make our ease town in Ameri- Snnditeonsorstherrrstttiwi commtterpasnngerrprfproos twopieces of identification and
complete estimate of all wheat government regulations re- that all carry-on luggage will
production in 1972. quired a 10 per cent screening -5mmnem
in June, the USDA estimated ratio, Ehrlichman said, in addition, the spokesman
winter wheat output this year Nixon acted after two Pacific added, body searches will be
at about 1.9 billion bushels, 2 Southwest Airlines planes, instituted when it appears war-
per cent more than in 1971. which carry air commuters in ranted or justified.
Based on acreage and aver-
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