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Flying Saucer
OKLAHOMA FARMERS UNION
Makes a Debut
FARM OWNERS
HOME OWNERS
for real and stamped made electric motors driving six-inch last year and 603.9 million tons
two years ago
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Don’t food shop on an
empty stomach. One sur-
vey shows people who do
spend on the average of
$5.67 more per week at
market than those who
have eaten within 5 hrs.
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in Britain plastic propellers.
Its first flight was hardly Heli um-fi lled bags filled in-
unp essive. It lifted off, wob- side the saucer's white sailcloth
bled along for a few hundred skin provided the lift, and a
fet and di opped to the floor remote control pilot" maneuv-
But its makers say better ered the craft up, down,
Uhings are to come. forward, backward and even
l he model that flew Thurs- sideways
day inside a giant hangar on
the Royal Air Force Base Any basic design must take
looked just like tile flying into, account the problems
saucers of the old space you’re trying to solve, West
movies 30 feet around and 912 said. Only a saucer design can
feet high, with a run of satisfactorily solve the prob-
portholes around the edge. ems of the airship we have in
John West, head of the firm mind.
that designed it, said it was a Its role is to lift up goods
prototype of what will someday and take them right to the site
be a 700-foot craft capable of where they're used. It doesn't
hauling 400 tons of cargo need ports, airports, harbors,
thousands of miles. major roads, any infrastruc-
It’s not a gimmick, West ture. It s ecologically sound —
Here's another smart saving tip — the $5.67 you save at
market weekly can be stashed away in one of our savings
accounts. We have a plan to suit your own individual
needs. Watch your money grow as you deposit regularly,
thanks to our high interest rates (the highest allowed).
World Grain Production senate okays Economic Upturn Forecast
i6OCGC TO KA(OrC Y jc) IlllvIuOl Dill By United Press International business inventory accumula- about now, he said. But l ment rate, now at a nationwide
- " * ■ -“***- • ■ IVlM The nation's worst recession tion, and that clearly more than hasten to add that although the
WASHINGTON i ypr i L, nsgg a k . k n . ,, OKLAHOMA CI IY (UPI) — since the Great Depression is accounted for the drop in the economy has bottomed out and level of 8.7 per cent, would
foOdrunC tat I mlhe Departments Foreign about. 2 million the Mortgaged houses would have just about over, economist GNP recovery may be under way, it climb to 9.5 per cent this year
of the world last ven and led tura ‘ ryice said1those..pros- expected bumper 975 crop to pay at least 2 per cent Irwin Kellner said today But, in addition, he said, there will not be apparant to the man before it starts to decline.
to convening of a World Pood Pasng .Point u’ a rda some weidabn, “X to into interest on home loan escrow he added, 11 still will be a rough was a increase in sales on the street for some time yet Businessmen are reluctant
Congress may be at least E"iNja"odEain e m eng i nes Stockphes accounts, under a bill approved year for workers. Kellner, who earlier forecast because he looks closely at to hire new workers as soon as
temmrarilv easing a govern suPp un .hofthePasttwoforth e firstt me.since 1971-72. by the Senate banking commit- Kellner said evidence of the a positive growth in the GNP unemployment they experience a recovery
mentrirn, eas. ThePin nu pulled he report cauboned that the tee Thursday. end to the long slump was after July, now believes there ’ because they are not sure it is
A reminndi “teso- from stocksdowntodangerouslylow early, tentative harvest pro- Sen. Robert Medearis, D- apparent in the reasons for the will lie a positive economic Kellner, an economist at permanent and because they
the Agriculture Deuartment eve S,s < ri pric es soaring to jei tions are based on a ong Tahlequah, chairman, said 10.4 per cent plunge in the growth in April, May and June Manufactuers Hanover Trust in would bke to restore efficency
indicates world urain^nroduc new records, and produced string of ifs I hey include mortgage firms often collect Gross National Product during "I expect the recession to end New York, said the unemploy- to their operations."
7^ Xt; Widespread fears of hunger current reports on northern several hundred dollars in the first three months of the
bon may rise 9., per cent to a abroad last year hemisphere grain crops, plus advance in such accounts, year.
ne"sresor this year 11 * Experts said the United assessments based on planting giving them temporary free use it was very encouraging,"
andSoyietproductionprospects States is expected 10 account intentions for spring crops and of the money. Escrow funds are Kellner said Unlike the fourth
aresrea lized That would allow for about 56 million tons of the a hopeful assumption that used to pay taxes, insurance quarter of 1974, when drop in
the world tobe gin rebuilding its 88.6 million ton increase, with weather conditions will be and other costs the GNP was traced solelv to
dangerquslylow grainstocks million additional tons normal for the rest of the year "Tis sa bill for con- the collapse in sales, this tme
afterafourryear drain, experts coming from increased Soviet 1 he production and demand surners, " Medearis said. around sales rose and there
11 mhereP L i th PrX U< ion and 7 million from analysis made no attempt to Charlie Jones, a lobbyist for was a massive workdown of
oti initiaassessme ofthe " her coun ries. forecast prices. But a number the Oklahoma Savings league, business inventories.
outlookfor the 1975-76 m The USDA report said world of leading economists have predicted the bill would cause "in the fourth quarter,
1 ■ ea ' । ich . eE1 ,s us erain consumption in 1975-76 is been publicly predicting recent- savings and loan firms to cease businessmen accumulated in-
.r i t\ bkely to reach 972 million tons, ly that big world-wide grain collecting escrow funds and ventones at an $18 billion
on n n ' reach 997 1 up 43 million tons from the production this year could bring burden home buyers with annual rate This shifted
muluontons, uP 87.6 million currentseason in which the further substantial declines in additional bookwork. downward to an $18 billion
tonsiromtheamount produced U.S.andJapan sharply reduced prices which have already Medearis countered that liquidation pace in the last
-1974 for usen the current wse of livestock feed grains, dropped sharply from last mortgage firms are getting 8 three months
197475ma '< ingsea sor it Un wit ' the increased con- year speaks per cent interest on invest- "In other words, there was a
Officials of the Agriculture sumption, the estimates showed Other major highlights of the ments net swing of $36 billion in
report included:
Wheat production this year
is now projected at 371.5 million
tons compared with a recently
revised estimate of 346.8 million
tons Last season and 366.8
million tons in 1973.
Feed grain production is
now projected at 625.6 million
CARDINGTON, England radically designed balloon pro- tons compared with a revised
l PI The flying saucer is pelled by eight miniature figure of 562.3 million tons for
The Altus Times-Democrat, Friday, April 18, 1975 3
Jury Finds Connally Innocent in Milk Fund Bribe
aWatHp)G oMUPl-The the $10,000 he allegedly re- in illegal campaign gifts. But they produced none to ium on Oct. 29, 1973, and when did not identify raised the savings and loans funds in F Kennedy at the time of the
Sedretarv johnrennreasury ceivedfrom Jacobsen? ..But the ( onnna ly trial was indicate how. they thought a problem of serial numbers 110,666 on (kt. 29 and gave it to Texas the Watergate prosecu- Dallas assassination
orn-onraywas How did Connally raise the the biggest of all. Jacobsen, an Connally used the money, arose, gave him a second Connally to hand over to tors dropped against Jacobsen
llniving lum over e0 * jury two batches of $10,000. he AMPI lawyer, contended he Williams on the other hanrl $10,000 on Nov. 25, 1973. Jacobsen Tuerkheimer did not in return for his testimony And Williams did not do
nAhX^^ gave Connally $5,060 in cash on u"d jtseonnthe Itershand, The prosecutors did not explain how Connally got the against Connally. another thing. He never re-
Jacobsen. inthe cover -up plot May 13,19/1 anil Sept. 23, 19/1, t6 suggest the upty produce evidence to show second $10,000. Williams' defense pictured ferred to Richard v Nixon, in
Watergateprosecutorsdidnot The acquitta rte marked a for his help inpersuading guered n " where and how Connally raised t onnally as having an whose Cabinet Connally was
provide to questions for theprosecu- President Richard M. Nixon t money r. m twrddnte the two batches of $10,000 he andmns-butinghsdefense able" reputation, citing his serving at the tone of the
that an average person might ors in the so-called milk fund raise the federal price support Alout m. mepotes allegedly returned to Jacobsen an avowed oeriurer and an membershp in the Cabinet, his alleged payoff Williams in-
have about Jacobsen's allega- investigation. The Associated for raw milk. gave it to Connally. on oct 29, 1973, and again the didtd swsndPe /uer resorted three terms as governor of voked Franklin D Roosevelt’s
bon that he made a $10,000 Mi , . . 1 Q ducers nc'. and Defense: lawyer Edward Ben- following Nov 25 to lies against his old friend as Texas, and his being one of name for the District of
payoff to Connally in 1971, several of its top officials nett Williams pointed out that Jacobsen also contended as ( hief trial prosecutor Frank "is pinnciup mpi-oc j cog eight children of a bus driver Columbia jury and called Mrs.
For instanc, ' Pleaded guilty in several Connally submitted his bank Watergate investigators probed M. Tuerkheimer waited until is Iinan i<u empire conaps i who once went broke He failed Lyndon B. Johnson as a
What /li<i connj, i o> proceedings last year in con- records, office logs and other the so-called milk fund scandal, his final argument to say that He cited the federal charges only to mention Connally was character witness but he
. " i nectionwitha total of 1360,850 documents for the prosecutors. Connally returned $10,000 to 'somebody else" whom he of misappropriating $825,000 in wounded while riding with John never mentioned Nixon.
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Hart, Sandra. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 95, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1975, newspaper, April 18, 1975; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2121810/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.