The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 195, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 13, 1975 Page: 1 of 16
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1975
BRIEFS
Higgs Named
Atlanta.
father received an hysterical the box, but was found - alive instructionsand a 'substantial'' Edgar Bronfman, chairman of
The reports said the kidnap- telephone call from his son at and not seriously injured ransom demand.
Seagram Co., Ltd., was de-
Voters Okay Franchise
saying the kidnapers may be Chester County — north of New kidnaped him.
ransom.
Jury Acquits
Trio Charged
"If voted again it a $67 billion reduce our military too much
With Threats
By SANDRA HART
He said that Muskie is in-
(See BARTLETT Page 16)
Military Rulers
Roundtable Meets Thursday
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Breakins Thefts Probed
Notes Show
Sales Tax Take Rises
Death Cause
Forces Patrol
Around Town
the 1970 average, agriculture estate values in Oklahoma are west-central, 90; east-central. the year ended March 1, 1975,
clashes.
The Weather
(See DRUGS Page 16)
I See FARM Page 16)
now are valued at $11.4 billion, average is 106 per cent of the 22.2 per cent boost between 1974
month-old cease-fire.
Davis, Johnson Named to Faculty
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CHARLES JOHNSON
GERALD DAVIS
Emergency
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Congress Irresponsibility
Draws Fire from Bartlett
A family spokesman, Charles
Leedham, declined comment
Tuesday on Die reports. He said
the Bronfmans are not "going
to get into denying everything
that comes along piecemeal."
Laitin’s announcement Tues-
day was the first report anyone
mother in Purchase, N.Y.
Authorities said Bronfman's
Published Dally (Except saturday) and Sunday by Altos
Mewspapers ir< in in west Commerce, Alfus om mu
Hit by Charges
LISBON, Portugal lUPh - indifference and complicity of
The Quartz Mountain Kennel Club will hold a special
meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Blue Room of the City
Auditorium.
NEISON DOUGHTY gets locked in the chamber of-
lice... BOB REID says they are due in any day....DON
KIZZIAR takes to the waves....
To Be Drugs
WASHINGTON iL'Pb - In
1953 a mind-bending drug was
given to Harold Blauer, a 42-
The Roundtable commissioners of the Kickingbird
vistric t, Black Beaver Council, Boy Scouts of America, will
meet at the First Presbyterian Church, 208 E. Cypress at 7:30
p.m Thursday.
Kennel Club To Meet
Second Class Postage
Paid Al Altus Owia
Hearing Starts Today
Preliminary hearings have been scheduled for today and
Thursday for five Texas men charged in connection with the
May 21 robbery of a liquor store southwest of Eldorado.
Jerry Hugh, Carl V. Norice, Glen Moore, Bobby McGary
and Billy McGary have been charged with robbery with
firearms and shooting with intent to kill.
Six Advance in Rank
Winston Higgs was named to the Altus Chamber of Com-
merce Board of Directors at the monthly chamber meeting.
Higgs replaces Page Hill who resigned Bill Garrison was
named secretary.
Tommy L. Freeman, 22, 303 S. Rochester, plead guilty in
connection with a burglary of S&S Grocery on July 19.
Freeman was sentenced to two years in state prison by
Special District Judge Temple Bailey.
Airport Meeting Set
The Altus Airport Advisory Commission will meet at the
terminal building at the city airport, 4 30 p.m., Thursday
Items on the agenda include Airport manager ap-
plications; credit policy for purchases of fuel and services;
report on the airport master plan; and final draft of T—
hangar rentals.
The meeting is open to the public.
testified and their attorneys
submitted no testimony, con-
tending instead the government
had failed to prove its case.
Bill J. Smith testified for the
prosecution, saying he owed
Strother $5,000 from the 1974
tootball season, and Pearce and
Parton talked with him about
the debt.
Smith said he told the pair.
You can't squeeze blood out of
a turnip."
He said Pearce told him, "We
have ways of squeezing that
turnip" and that they would
make him "an example" of
people who failed to nay their
debts.
Smith went to the FBI after
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Irish Streets
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
was not scared or threatened
physically by Pearce and
Parton.
Police investigated breakins and thefts Tuesday and early
today.
Wheels and tires were reported stolen from Hill's Body
Shop, 320 S. Hudson; coins were taken from a vending
machine at Farmer's Gin. West Nona Street: and burglaries
were reported at 700 N. Jackson and 612 S. Benson.
Voters at Olustee and Duke approved a continuation of a 25
year franchise agreement between the municipality and
Arkla Gas Company The agreement will extend through the
year 2000.
Olustee voters approved the measure 59 to one and Duke
voters approved the measure 38 to two.
Freeman Sentenced
ROBERT STEPHENSON receives a civilian award for
valor....BELL BRYAN discusses a movie....TOMMY STEPP
puts an eye to a rebuild....JOE WATT explains the awards of
a hole in one... DENN IS RATZLAFF hides and says smile for
Smokey...
.Altus vicinity—Fair to partly cloudy and warm through
Thursday. Slight chance of thunderstorms tonight and
Thursday. Southerly winds 7 to 15mph tonight. Low tonight
lower 70s. High Thursday lower 90s. Probability of rain 20
percent tonight and 30 percent Thursday.
Weather readings—High Tuesday 92. Overnight low 74.
Noon today 88.
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Six Altus AFB officers will advance in rank during
August. Two are lieutenant colonels, two captains, and two
first lieutenants.
Maj. Gary S. Baker, 56th Military Airlift Squadron, and
Maj. Ramon L. Taranto. 443rd Transportation Squadron,
became lieutenant colonels effective Aug. 1.
First lieutenant Garry Bopp and Timothy Cox, both of the
11th Air Refueling Squadron, will advance to captain. Second
lieutenants Glenn Ahrens and Glenn Briskin move this month
to first lieutenant rank. Lt. Ahrens is assigned to Detachment
4, 15th Weather Squadron; Lt. Briskin is with the 443rd
Military Airlift Wing.
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NEWS |$4.5 Million Ransom Asked for Heir
§ YORKTOWN HEIGHTS,N.Y. million for Bronfman's safe water and air for 10 days " buried recalled the 1968 kidnap- ers at the heavily-forested details.
8 1 UPI) - Samuel Bronfman II. return. Bronfman, 21, has been mg of Barbara Mackie near the Bronfman estate 25 miles north Earlier Tuesday, the family
a $50,000 lions which will be recognized paying the ransom, the spokes-
by Sam s abductors" has been man said, "That’s a little too
envelope’s contents say no-
rocked by Catholic-Protestant The Oklahoma Crop and section, where they are 148 per Panhandle, 69 per cent.
Concerning the budget allegedly encouraging the anti- country.
reform bill. Bartlett feels it is a Communist rioting. The mobs sacked offices in
step in the right direction since "This witch hint against Vila Verde, Tondela, Porto and
U.S. SEN. DEWEY Bartlett, (R-Okla.) spoke to Congress is not required to democratic Communists, which Viseu in growing violence that
a qroup of Altus citizens Tuesday night at the First have a balanced budget. is being carried out with such has wrecked nearly five dozen
ppo National Bank as part of his state tour on his However, Bartlett said the brutal barbarism, is taking party headquarters in recent
Smith testified Tuesday he "Washington Report." bill has its draw backs. place in the face of unqualified weeks.
out and articulate” letter that he's alive and well."
Commerce St. Journal
This is a sequel to our tale of demand for high quality
dog days and though dog days puppies is on the increase,
have arrived, it seems we are The professor says part of the
all going to the dogs. reason for the increase is the
According to the Kansas increase in leisure time and the
State University Extension biggest market is among newly
Service, Kansas is the top dog married couples.
producing state, annually And we always thought newly
selling $10 million worth of married couples thought as this
puppies to 3,600 pet shops popular song suggests, "It’s so
throughout the United States, nice to have a man around the
Many farm wives have en- house.”
tered the business of raising The CSJ is brought to you by
puppies to supplement income, the makers of Fairmont Foods,
According to Dr. Marvin Pepsi Cola, Dr. Pepper and
Samuelson, of Kansas State Kitty Clover, Jack Barnes,
University, the consumer distributor.--RKG.
darkened streets remained $318, an increase of 16 per cent vice of the U.S. Department of include central, 98 per cent; The USDA said values in where does it specifically tie
tense in the wake of Tuesday's during the past year and twice Agriculture said farm real southwest, 95; southeast, 93; Colorado rose 7 per cent during the death to the drug.
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
A federal jury has acquitted
three men on charges of using
threats of violence to collect a
$5,000 debt from a gambler.
The jury deliberated one hour
Tuesday before returning the
verdict in favor of Ivan E.
Pearce, Keith Parton and
bookmaker William Strother.
None of the defendants
ers told the family the youth is about 2 a.m. Saturday saying after her father, a Florida land He said one of the instruc- manding such evidence before
heir to the $1.7-billion Seagram
liquor fortune who reportedly
was kidnaped, has been "bu-
ried'' and has only enough air
and water for 10 days,
according to news reports
today.
Radio station WCBS and the
New York Daily News quoted
sources close to the case as
She spent about 80 hours in Monday that included a list of Asked if the youth’s father,
n ey Prt. " Lu Loriu
Okla. City, .
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frustrated and concerned about budget.
the future, they are way ahead "If it is followed the way Sen.
of Congress while Congress Ed Muskie wants, we would
average of 18 per cent, Texas had died in a military-
nightfall, but said the city’s farm real estate has risen to The Economic Research Ser- pared with the state average, 1974.
noting for the past four days in Livestock Reporting Service cent of the state average, and The 16 per cent increase in increased by 1 per cent, and sponsored drug experiment
a major threat to the six- said farm land and buildings the northeast, where the average value compared with a
missing since early Saturday, campus of Emory University of New York City, said the said through their spokesman
His car was found with keys in outside Atlanta, Ga. Her family has heard nothing from they are still waiting with
the ignition at the home he kidnapers buried her in a box the abductors since they concern for some evidence that
shares with his divorced about 20 miles northeast of received a long, well-thought- these people do have Sam and
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demanding as much as $4.5 York City — with only enough The possibility the victim was Leedham, speaking to report- complied with. He gave no strong
Joining the Western Oklahoma State College faculty this fall assistant at Oklahoma University taught sophomore oral and I
semester are Gerald Davis as director of music and Charles E. written theory.
Johnson as mid-management instructor. His commissioned music works include two "Christmas I
The two new instructors were appointed to fill resignations in Arrangements for Woodwind Auintet" andstwocorigin achoral I
the Fine Arts and Business Divisions. works, "Psalms 126:6 ‘and Psalms 23, for the Hisdae
College Choir. He attended the 1972 International Horn Clinic. I
Davis completed the master of music degree from the Johnson came to the WOSC position from Leoti, Kan., where s
University of Oklahoma in June, and is also a graduate of he had taught high school business courses since 1967. He was
Central State University with the bachelor of music education, nominated at Leoti for outstanding Kansas teacher of the year
After graduating from Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma for 1974-75
City, he attended the Oklahoma Bible College at Moore. He completed the master of education in business education in
His master’s concentration was in music composition, music 1972 and the bachelor of science in business education in 1966 at
history and music theory. Davis was graduated “Cum Laude" Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
from Central State University where he was a member of Alpha A native Altusan, Johnson graduated from Altus High School |
Chi honor fraternity. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, and later did his practice teaching there. As a distributive I
was on the dean's honor roll and a member of the Woodwind education student while at Altus High, Johnson had related work I
Quintet, an honor group. He holds a secondary music education experience at Austin's Men Store and with Ed Knox, CPA.
certificate for vocal and instrumental music. While attending Southwestern, he was president of the
Davis has taught theory, choir, conducting and horn at Business Fraternity, vice-president of the Activities Council and I
Hillsdale Freewell Baptist College, Moore, and as a graduate was master of ceremonies at the AU School Follies.
"i asked the President to veto ----. • -——— -r ------, , ■ , -
4 this bill it is unfortunate that Communists have accused Por- the military and paramilitary
Ma he didn’t This bill is poorly tugal’s left-wing military rulers authorities," a party statement
K unmsandtheydiatctnnradan dugsttangnanbhcommuntieh "AhTucamhiunistmabssacked
Ee, Now thev can be very hunt" against the party, four Communist headquarters
ge irresponsible to the people The Communists, who had up in northern Portugal Tuesday
K while the oav raise protects untilnowexpressed unwavering in protests against the regime s
“ W r ayann - he said supportfor the military regime, moves to set up a Cuban-style
them from inflation, he said, criticized the armed forces for "people s dictatorship in the
U.S. Sen Dewey Bartlett 1R- deficit we couldn't work our This would cut out
Okla.) gave his "Washington way out of . This will only throw modifications for the C-5, the B-
Report" at a meeting Tuesday us into another inflation spiral. 1 program, cut troop strength
night at the First National The bill divides funds into areas and stop research on new
Bank Hall of Fame Room. of appropriations, and I was generation weapons," Bartlett
“The people of today are against reducing the military said.
m year-old patient in a mental
I F • • r • n) I ■ hospital. He died 212 hours
K I SS I n CO LOn I GS I I OTS “fhe Army sponsored the
5 “ " experiment with a mescaline
" derivative, conducted by the
(UPI) — Gangs of youths WASHINGTON (UPI) — lias subpoenaed some of the select committee on intelligence was Nixon’s national security New York State Psychiatric
roamed the streets of Londond- Secretary of State Henry former President’s Records and Tuesday there was no policy adviser and later secretary of Institute .All it knows are the
erry today after more than six Kissinger says he knows may try to take testimony from to assassinate any foreign state. sketchy, imprecise notes that
hours of rock-throwing clashes nothing about assassination him. otficials or leaders or any plot Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, have been stuf fed in a manila
between Protestant and Roman plots during the time he served Kissinger told reporters after to assassinate any foreign the panel chairman, appeared envelope for more than 20
Catholic mobs, Richard Nixon. A Senate panel testifying before the Senate leaders” during the time he satisfied. years
Security forces patrolled ' This does not have enough
Northern Ireland's second larg- A _ rm » y I r • information in it to give us the
est city during the pre-dawn V Ag -F A L Ag m yA l / A I f l A • g •• full story said Assistant
hours in an attempt to keep the 4) 1 () f k. f (J f f f | W ll | If f\ f • k. • Defense Secretary Joseph Lai-
Protestant and Catholic youths “s“% ■ * ■ ■ ■ ■ tin
apart. Although indications are the
Police reported only minor OKLAHOMA CITY 1 UPI) — compared with $8 billion a year state average. ana 1973, and an increase of man died of the derivative,
incidents in Londonderry after the per-acre value of Oklahoma ago. Other district values, com- 14.2 percent between 1975 and officials who have seen the
Northern Ireland has been officials reported Tuesday. highest in the north-central 86; south-central, 79, and while Kansas jumped an
throws money at problems,"
Bartlett said.
The Oklahoma senator spoke
on various bills, the importance
of private enterprise and "the
only way to stop the already out
of control government is to
elect a conservative
Congress."
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Oklahoma municipalities $8,154,494 derived from $3,194.10 from the $47,319.67 year s totals were $1,021.77, for
shared the second $8 million business done in June was received in August 1974. This an increase of $117.37.
city sales tax pay out in history second only to the $8,843,647 month's receipts were Returns to Duke were less
when the Oklahoma Tax produced by Christmas $50,513.77. than the amount received a
Commission distributed local shopping last December, ac- Blair’s receipts also showed year ago. August 1975 receipts
tax receipts to 349 cities and cording toS.W Hampton, sales an increase this month, were $751.79, compared to
towns this month, tax director. Receipts for August of this year
The August allocation of Altus' receipts jumped came to $1,139.14, and last (See TAX Page 16)
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