The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 91, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 16, 1978 Page: 1 of 42
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VOL. 52 NO 91
SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1978
Price 25
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Altus Lions
Terrorists Report Moro
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Freshman Gets
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THAT'S THE traveling trophy for the FFA Oree
(See MORO Page 16)
WOSC Slates
RSVP Couple
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(See FINANCIER Page 16)
31,and4p.m. Friday, Aug 11 dollars
Manhattan grand jury
Derryberry 'Weapon' Unveiling Friday
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ASSOC LATED CHRISTIAN Ministries, Inc will have its
annual meeting and dinner April 25, at 6 30 p m, tn the First
Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall Tickets may be
purchased from ministers and members of ACMl for SI
THE ALTUS m ISINESS and Professional Women’s Chib
will meet at 6 30 pm Monday at the Friendship Im
Restaurant
Around Town
The next time BCD GRAFT leaves town. would someone
please tell him where he is going
FIRST RESULTS OF the academic tests at Southwestern
Oklahoma Interscholastic Meet were received Saturday
Pauls Nathe placed first and Jean Yu second in American
Lterature Jerry Spelde placed second in English literature
and Karen Guenther third in Algebrs 11 Mike Junes was first
and Bob Smith second in chemistry
Shirley Baartman and at right,
Nina Grimmett who arranged the
event.
ALTUS CHAPTER OF Cystic Fibrosis is planning a
Bikathon, May 7, for persona at all ages. Clubs and persons
who wish to volunteer to ride, verify mileage, or serve
refreshments may contact Mary Docherty, 477-0610.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION at Retired Persons will not
meet Tuesday for games because al the RSVP dinner
scheduled at the high school cafeteria that same night
MRMEERS OF the Senior Citizen Center art sponaoring
a pot plant, bake sale, and rummage tab April n and » at
the center, 1120 E Cypress, located on the north side at the
Cty Park
The sale begins at 8 :30 a.m. on Saturday and st 1 pm , on
Sunday Proceeds will be used for a trip to Tahlequah to see
the Trail of Tears drama on Jane 17
ROACH -LEMER Part 44 announced the selections for Boys
tala to be held May 27 -June ) at Northeast Oklahoma State
Uriversity
Delegates are Kevin P McCarty. Rotary Richard R
Keter Elks Kevin Prock, Kiwanis; Thomas E Phllips,
Headrick Masonic Lodge; Clayton Lewis, Isons, alternate*
are David Walker. Stanley Bevan. Charles Tucker,
Kenneth Fancher and Bobby Reynolds
Dr J Erank Rusnell is co-chairman of the Boys State
Committee
THE PIONEER Booster Hub for Western Oklahoma State
College athletics will meet Monday at 7 JO pm in the con-
feren e room st the WOSC gymnasium, according to Joel
Zinn, Booster Club president
The Pioneer Boosters will organzefor their next fund-
raising campaign
All Pioneer Booster Club members and others interested in
Western Oklahoma States varsity athletic programs are
urged to attend the important meeting
STUDENT RECOGNrTION DAY will be today at 2 p m at
Altus Masonic Lodge, 11* North Hudson Twenty-three
Masonic Student-of-the-Day Awards will be made in special
ceremonies, and senior essay award winners will be honored
Recognition Day ceremonies are open to the public
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THE ALTUS COORDINATING Council will meet at noon
Wednesday at the Friendship Im for its regular luncheon
meeting
Guest speaker will be Richard Bram with the Taliaferro
Community Mental Health Center
THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE College Student
Senate is sponsoring th* Red River Reglonal Red Cross
Bloodmobile on the WOsc campus Wednesday The Blood
mobile will set up operations in th* student center from »
am until 2 30 pm
Anyone from 17 to 66 who is in good health can give blood A
person who has had a recent serious illness or history of
certain diseases may be prohibited Medically eligible
persons may give blood if they have not donated within the
prevlous eight weeks
Donor appointment* may be made by contacting a
member of the Wos( student senate at by calling WOSC W-
2000, ext 44
Fx.
THE JACKSON COUNTY Retired Teachers will meet at 1
pm Thursday for a luncheon at the Friendship Im
Restaurant
Hoyt Shadid and Henry Vaughan will be guest speakers
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With friends like DONNA HILL’S, she couldn't help but
have smew birthday STEVEN McKEE is looking forward
to the summer .
The Weather
Altus vicinity - Partly cloudy and warm today with a
chance of thunderstorms, and JO percent chance of rain High
today 71.
Weather readings - High Friday 88 Overnight low 55
Noon Saturday 76 Firday rain reports included Altus Air
Force Base. 32 inches Ducks Station, n. KWHW Radio
Station, 32; and Blair Enterprise, Winches
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served two terms in the state hand State Champion speech contest held by Jay
House of Representatives and McPherson, first year agriculture student, and a
10 years in the state Senate Northeast freshman.
Happy birthday to URSULDA DAVIES, BRYAN SCOTT
JAY RICHESON, and J A COLETTA BYRD JANET and
BILL WRIGHT seem to know their way around beaches ..
theindictmentsagainstGraiver morgue
Pre-Enrolment
A ore-enrolment schedule
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Club To Hear
Miskovsky
Honors began Friday night at place, and th* right to enter the dreet and killed his five
the state Future Farmers al state contest last fall in the bodyguards on March 16, the
America contests at Oklahoma district Greenhand qulz con- terrorists said hu people's
State University for Altus FFA test trial" was over ,
chapter and are expected to One of the trophies, and the In identical messages
continue during the Monday largest brought home this released simultanously in
and Tuesday state convention, weekend by McPherson is a Turin, Milan and Genoa the
Jay McPherson. Northeast traveling one which he can Red Brigades said
Junior High freshman and a retain for one year only On it The interr ogation f the
first year agriculture student are engraved the names of prisoner Akio Moro has been
brought ban* th* first place preceding Greenhand speech completed There is no doubt
medal plaque and trophy lor contest winners that Aldo Moro B guilty and he
first place in Greenhand "I was interested to note that hastherefore been sentencedto
speech He is the son of Mr and two of the names which will be death
Mrs Ralph McPherson above mine are brothers who There was noindication if the
Altus Chapter Meeting team won this trophy earlier, Jay death ntence already had
was the runner-up for th* said One of these is Dee been carried out on the frail,
chapter of-the-year meeting Sokotosky, at Owasso who won 51 year-old president of the
award Bruce Farquhar placed it in 1972 and is now a national Christian Democratic Party
fourth in FFA Speech officer which has rukd the nation
It waa the ninth award for The other is his brother alone or in coalition since the
McPherson during the nearly Noble Sokotosky who is now end of World War II
eight months since he began an state secretary of FFA Noble The terrorists’ message ta<
agriculture student won it in 1976." The responsibilities d Aldo
he and Scott Hayes Other local and district Moro ar the same as those fa
will compete st the state level awards won earlier by Me- which this state is on trial Hu
A state constitutional
amendment creating a state
water authority to develop
Oklahoma’s water resources
for present and future needs
will be proposed here Thur-
sday. by Democratic U.S
Senate candidate George
Miskovsky
Miskovsky, an Oklahoma
Qty attorney and former state
lawmaker, will speak at the
noon luncheon meeting of the
Altus Uons Club at th*
Friendship Inn A questtan and
answer session will foltow
"A constitutional amend-
ment is needed so the
legislature could not change at
repeal the law to suit special
interests. Miskovsky says He .
will suggest state chambers of |
commerce, city and county
governmental bodies and civic A
clubs initiate the move for a I
state-wide vote on the amend- I
ment '
Miskovsky says the water I
authority would be comparable I
to the Oklahoma Turnpike I
Authority in operation and I
financing I
Miskovsky was born and
raised in Oklahoma He has
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An action-packed, fir-laden Weapon that is guaranteed to
end talentfilled evening will be bring victory to Derryberry in
presented to the folks of South the governor * race
western Oklahoma and Tickets to the "Larry
Jackson County on Friday, Derryberry Get-Together" are
April,21, as the now on sale at $1 each and they
Derryberry Get-Together u can be bought from committee
held at 7 pm in the gym- members or at a number of
nasium at Western Oklahoma locations including The Surrey
Sate College .. Shop Bunker Hil Drug and
The talent will include the First Federal Savings
Altus High School Varsity
Choir winners of the sweep- ~ \ __
Makes trophy at the State +A KDodson, chairman of
competition at Oklahoma City theJackson County Committee
Directed by Kenneth Cox, th* said today that tickets were
group was the only one in the moving well but there are still
state to receive the top rating enough on hand to supply
The Pioneer Dolls at Western everyone
Oklahoma State College. We want a record crowd to
outstanding precision dancers, fill the college gym,” Dodson
Motor City Madness s musical said today, a* we honor our
group of talented Altus High friend and neighbor inhisef-
School student*, and Heads and torts to gain the state’s highest
Tails. a top musical group at office
WOSC will appear on the It was Derryberry himself
program who insisted that the official
Hoyt Shadid former mayor kickoff of his campaign be held
of Altus snd master of in his hometown
ceremonies at th* tribute to He will be in Altus for th*
Derryberry the (lid pro' on Friday kickoff and then on
the banquet circuit and top Saturday, which also happen*
producer of peprallies for Altus to be his 39th birthday cam-
Bulldog games, has promised peign kickoffs will be held in
to unveil a new Secret Oklahoma Qty and Tulsa
NEWS
has been set up tar currently _ _ ....
enrolled students who plan to This weekend Mr and Mrs Shawnee, eleven grandchildren
attend Western Oklahoma William A. Dollins, 1044 E. and six greatgrandchildren
State College again in the fall Walnut were guests at the Their last grandchild was born
197a Sagamar Motel and March 12. Mrs Dollins’ bir-
___. ___ „ .. Restaurant, courtesy of Bill thday
Preenroiment will continue Olsen and Ron Perry, Mr and Mr* Dollins sr*
for two weeks beginning managers members of the First United
Monday, and continue through This was one of the many Grace Methodist Church. Half
h riday April 28 The hours will door prizes given by the Altus Century Club, Senior Ctizens
be »sm to noon and 1 to J p m merchantz at the pre-Easter as well as attending RSVP
each day luncheon of the RSVP luncheons once s week
Preenrolment precedures Mr snd Mrs Dollins were Mrs Dollins said ' The
include, first, completing a married Aug .28, 1924 She was RS.V P luncheon is more than
trial enrolment form with the the former Velma Lee Peck food It's the good fellowship
assistance of the student s They came to Altus in 1974 and meeting old friends, fine
advisor The student who is when Dollins retired as a entertainment and spiritual
unsure as to who his advisor is farmer and stockman They programs. well worth the time
or where his advisor s office is have three sons, Leon, and
may get that information from Homer of Altus and O’Brien of I See DOLLINS Page Ml
the college counselor, Randy
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building Numbered blue class • I
cardswill be issued for the NEW YORK (UPI) - A ignoring the reports of his snd (our New York bankets Graiver’s brother unable to The jury indicted Grai ver on
11855 egyestedends .h .Manhattan grand jury has death, the grand jury last week "Obviously were looking fa positively identify the charred 0 felony counts at misappro-
ui men Compe"e, au broken wide open the fascinat- indicted the shadowy wheeler- Um." remains at the morgue, eventu- priating funds and doctoring
necessary enrolment forms ing case of Argentine financier dealer an multimillion-dollar Mei ican authorities listed the ally decided to claim a the records at American Bai*
Next, enrolment cards and David Gratver who may have bank swindling charges then 35-year-old Graiver and headless, limbless torso as the k Trust Co. in New York,
forms will be checked and died two years ago in a The jury was not satisfied two US. pilots as dead in the financier s body on the basis of which colls peed five weeks
retained by admissions and Mexican plane crash or who - that he is dead,' said a August 1976 Mexican crash a necktie scrap, according to a adter the plan* crash Th*
records office personnel as international rumor has it - member of Manhattan District after the Argentine * supposed witness grand jury is pushing gs
Tuition and tee* must be paid may be living it up in parts Attorney Robert M Morgen- remains were claimed by his The haphazard identification investigation and may even
between S am Monday, July unknown with 50 million stolen thau’s office, which obtained brother at a small Mexican apparently did not satisfy the
ROME (UPI) The Red
Brigades terrorists who have
held former Premier Aldo Moro
for four weeks announced
Saturday he had been sen-
tenced to death
in their sixth communique
since a commando squad
snatched Moro off a Rom*
AHS VARSITY Choir will be one of many uerry Derry rally at / p.m. at me WOSC Gym
groups which will perform Friday at the Larry
i Commerce st Journal
| There have been a number of in departing, the big man
I changes in the education ranks said, "I leave this job after
I of the community lately, which seven years just as it started -
I prompts a report from Austin fired with enthusiasm "
Tex., concerning a California The CSJ is brought to you.by
1 educator who was let go after the maker* *f Carmation MiiK
I lseven year tenure as a and ice (Team, Jack Bare**.
I Huniversity president distributor —RKG.
again. Thu tune as Greenhand
quiz contestants they won first (See FFA Page 16)
A PHOTOGRAPHER wn.L be art up at th* Western
Oklahoma State College student center Monday and Wed-
nesday from 9 50 a.m to 12 JO am to take picture* of all
graduating sophomores
The picture* are for newspaper publication and will not be
fa sal*
To accommodate the evening college sophomores, «
photographer will be in the student center from 7 30 to 0 00
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Hart, Sandra. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 91, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 16, 1978, newspaper, April 16, 1978; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2122745/m1/1/?q=del+city: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.