The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 232, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1975 Page: 1 of 12
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VOL. 49-NO. 232
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1975
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Bicentennial
NEWS
Garrison Will
Fair Honors
BRIEFS
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Rebekah Barrett
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Around Town
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Discharge
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larry Worman, chairman of
the Oklahoma Conservation
Commission, announced today
that John Collins of Altus will
be honored at a luncheon
Monday at the Tulsa State Fair.
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ERAN E ANNOUNCED TODAY it has paid Chad rebels
$800,000 in ransom for kidnaped French archeologist Mrs.
Francoise Claustre, but the hostage won’t be freed unless the
guerrillas get tons of supplies in addition
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SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — indicated she had embraced a
CLARENCE McDONEL gets fooled JANICE CHILDS
said the food didn’t last long . MIKE FOSTER really puts
his mother through the paces.
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HAROLD GLEN HAYES was found guilty Thursday in
Jackson County District Court of unauthorized delivery of
marijuana. The jury recommended a three-year suspended
sentence and a $100 fine.
In other court action Thursday, Joseph Raymond Gray was
formally charged with malicious injury to property. Gray
entered a plea of innocent and bond was set at $500
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Altus vicinity - Mostly fair and warmer through Saturday
Low tonight mid 50s. High Saturday lower 80s Winds
southerly 10 to 15 mph, decreasing to 8 to 12 mph tonight
Weather readings - High Thursday 67. Overnight low 48.
Noon today 68.
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MEMBERS OF THE Altus ad hoc Traffic Safety Com-
mittee are scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the city
council chambers, city hall
Members of the group are comprised of safety officials at
Altus Air Force Base, city officials, and a committee from
the Altus Chamber of Commerce. The committee was for-
med to study ways to reduce traffic accidents in the city and
county.
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Services Sunday
Rebekah (Becky i Barrett, 15, of Martha died early this
morning at Jackson County Memorial Hospital.
last spring, Becky received from Maj. Gen. David Ott at Ft
Sill, a medal blessed by Pope John VI as a symbol of courage for
her fight against cancer. She was honored as VIP in a ceremony
at lawton.
Just recently, Becky was elected as Altus High School’s
Fellowship of Christian Athletes Queen for 1975-76 for the same
courage and faith.
A sophomore at AHS, she was born Sept. 27, 1960 at Altus and
attended elementary school at Martha, and Southeast Junior
High She was a member of the Spanish Club. KAY Club, First
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helping children learn and have communicated their
knowledge to their students and colleagues Guidelines for
selection include the educator s talents in the classroom, con-
tributions to research, administrative abilities, civic service
and professional recognition.
Mrs Popchoke returned to school after her two children had
entered school A position as a teachers’ aide at Eugene Field
Elementary under the principal there, S P Blevins, and at
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Some people are worried about JOHNNY HIBDON’s
Bandaid DEBBIE MUSGRAVE and BILL TROXELL will
celebrate birthdays Saturday and belated wishes to
GLADYS BROWN
It now appears that with the help of several people the
dugout may be moved by November. We plan to start work this
weekend at the site of the half dugout. Anyone who wants to see
the site or help work, should be at the Museum of the Western
Prairie by 8 45 a.m. Saturday. We will leave promptly at 9
a m.," Gritton said.
Moving of the half dugout should be considerably easier than
originally thought, Lowetta Chesser, curator of the museum
reported.
Pieces of the dugout will not have to be individually num-
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The Ciky With a Future To Skate -Wkete 9 Pawp To Skop At Home Witu Fueudey Coca Busiwgsoe,
with Margaret Carder, play
chairman and Dan Dvorak,
committee member.
F K. GREGORY, who lives south of Hollis, was the first
farmer in Hannon County to deliver a bale of cotton to a gin
The cotton was Delta Pine No. 2 planted May 2 and was
irrigated once
According to Adams gin manager. Bill Johnson, the bale
weighted 2,040 pounds with 500 pounds of lint and 950 pounds
of seed.
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_____ William (Bill) Garrison was unanimously elected chairman of <
Monday has been designated the Altus Bicentennial Committee in an open meeting Thursday
as Fair Conservation Day. night. He will officially assume duties Oct. 1. -
Collins has served as a Garrison, who heads the Public Service Company in Altus
director of the Jackson County said, I m short on meetings and long on action. If a group has
Conservation District for 25 an idea for the bicentennial, all they need to do is dear it with
years the committee and go to work. The committee cannot handle
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NEWLY ELECTED Altus
Bicentennial Committee chairman
Bill Garrison, left, looks over plans
for the upcoming Haverstock Play
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Force helicopter with 16 per went down northwest of Pader- and up to 20 passengers. adsm,E:.
w sons aboard crashed and born, about 100 miles northeast German police said U S Air f P” 70
“ exploded in flames in a field in of Bonn. Force officers had told them( "
Teacher of cntra West Germany today, Police said eyewitnesses re- the passengers may have been f
America award has been made to Mrs. Donald Kuing all aboard, the U.S Air ported a sheet of flame shot 50 paratroopers, but the Air Force 5 A ,
Popchoke, Washington second grade teacher. Mrs. FoCe announced. feet high when the plane hit the press spokesman was unable to : 1 .2
Popchoke uses the activity center method of ere - were no known ground. confirm this immediately. I A B
teaching, evidenced in this photograph made"this srvivors,"-a spokesman for "TheAir.Force spokesman If all 16 were aboard that > \ 7$
, . -duudlEn5 V me Lb Air identified the helicopter as a helicopter when it erased then h, Mg.
ormng with students at work in various portions Force in Europe said CH53 the Air Force's largest none Survived,” a Paderborn : "mdM.
or ine classroom. The Air Force said four helicopter, known commonly as police spokesman said.
WASHINGTON i UPI I - The
Air Force has announced it is
taking an "action of last
resort” to discharge approxi-
mately 1,000 officers before
July, 1976.
The Air Force had 105.161
officers as of June 30,1975. The
Air Force Military Personnel
Center will examine the records
of reserve officers on active
duty who got commissions
between 1959 and 1972. Those
whose personnel records are
not as good as others will be
discharged or “involuntarily
separated."
Congress sets the personnel
levels. 'The Air Force reaches
the directed strengths through
a loss management approach
that is least disruptive to the Patricia Hearst, in jail conver- "revolutionary feminist" out-
lives of the affected members," sations with a friend, said she look since her abduction by the
a spokesman said. doesn’t want a bail arrange- Symbiones Liberation Army
"Procurement is reduced to ment in which she would be a months ago and was infuriated
an absolute minimum followed prisoner in my, parents when she was captured two
by voluntary actions insofar as home. She also indicated her weeks ago
possible. Involuntary programs politics had changed radically. The conversations were dis-
are implemented in order of Inanaffidayit three days ago closed Thursday in a partial
increasing severity " her father, Randolph Hearst, transcript of a tape-recording
6 said Miss Hearst had expressed of a visit to Miss Hearst by
A reduction in force, or RIF, an enthusiastic wish to return Patricia Tobin Saturday in the
"is an action of last resort,” he to living with her parents.”
said Thursday. In the taped conversation, she (See HEARST Page 12)
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Mrs. Donald Popchoke has been announced as one of the biography and record of achievements of each outstanding
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baseduson..t heir Professional, personal and academic Each national winner will receive a unrestricted grand. Tn
“, m an award commemorating their selection Judging for the
Outstanding Elementary Teachers of America is an annual national honors will be done by the board of advisors vh guthe
awards program, honoring distinguished men and women in the the program %
field of elementary education. Each year, the complete Educators chosen for the award have explored new ways of
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He operates a farm in the everything concerned with the bicentennial and groups are ~ ***
Headrick community and is encouraged to help.” IKINALE, A Q
manager of the Altus-Lugert Lt. Gene Gritton made an update report on the half -dugout i, 5 c 1 '■ Mr. Bulldog brews up a batch of Shawnee
Irrigation District, that is to be moved from its original site near Olustee to the o ves, as created by Jim Atkinson. The first conference clash will be
Collins has served on the Museum of the Western Prairie. It was originally thought that a. 8 tonight at Hightower Memorial Stadium
board since 1950 and is also the project would cost approximately $1,000 and it was held up
active in other community because funds were not available.
affairs.
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Hart, Sandra. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 232, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1975, newspaper, September 26, 1975; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2121948/m1/1/: accessed June 7, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.