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Ferry Daily Journal
75th Yeor
.114
Perry, Oklahoma
Your Home Newspaper
Monday, May 6, 1968
5 Cents
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS were won by Morrison FFA and 4-H teams last week in annual national
and international pasture and range judging contests in Oklahoma City Members of 4-H team in top
photo, left to right: Morris Strom, Earl Seat, Dennis James and Gary Price. FFA team in lower photo,
from left: Frank Schritter, Dennis Mittasch, vocational agriculture teacher Bill Price, Gary Frank and
Charles Benes
Weekend Burglars
Hit School. Church
Office machines, a three-piece
silver plated communion set and
a vacuum sweeper were stolen
in weekend burglaries of Sum
ner school and the Zion Luther
an church, both located east of
Perry.
Sheriff John Beasley said the
crime at the school apparently
was committed by someone
familiar with the surroundings
A back door opening onto a hall-
way was used to enter the
building.
Beasley said the door had
been locked from the inside
with a padlock. The key to the
Used Car Taken
From City Lot,
Found Damaged
Police and sheriff’s officers
Monday were investigating an
apparent case of joy-riding and
car theft involving a 1960 Chev-
rolet four-door sedan stolen
about 9 p.m Saturday from the
Don Robinson - Loren Cockrum
used car lot at Tenth street and
Fir avenue.
Police Chief Gene Wood said
Robinson discovered during
the day Saturday that a small
wing window had been broken
on the car Further checking
showed the car had beer driven
Friday night about 50 miles, ac-
cording to the speedometer, and
returned to its original parking
place on the lot the same night
The car was taken again Sat-
urday night It was found dam-
aged and abandoned about 14
miles southeast of Ponca City-
in Osage county,
Orlin Johnson, Noble county
deputy sheriff, said a wrecker
towed the car to Ponca City.
Marks indicate the car had hit
a cow The battery and license
tag NB-2958 were missing when
the car was found
Enid Sweepstakes
Trophy Earned By
City Music Students
Outstanding performances by
Perry high school students in
vocal and instrumental music
contests won a sweepstakes tro-
phy for PHS at the annual Tri-
State music festival in Enid,
which ended Saturday night all
er an action-packed three days
Perry was announced as win
ner of the class "B" sweep-
stakes trophy during the clos
ing program Saturday night in
briefly
stated...
perry
Enid's Convention Hall.
The trophy goes to the school
piling up the most points in solo,
ensemble and large group com-
petition in both vocal and in-
strumental music Perry vocal
students are instructed by Mrs
Lorene Burchardt and the band
is directed by Jim Hayes
The Saturday night an-
nouncements also disclosed
that the Perry high school
band and Perry junior high
band each was a first place
winner in (he parade Satur-
day morning in downtown
Enid. Both the Perry bands
also were given superior
ratings in the parade.
All six parade judges ranked
the Perry bands superior The
high school band earned 96 5
points of a possible 100 in the
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mens
ete
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NEW OFFICERS of the Noble County Federation of 4-H Clubs were elected last week at a county wide
recreation party in Perry. Front row, left to right: Gary Snyder, president; Marilyn Steichen vice presi-
dent; Nancy Field, secretary, and Ann Bellmon, treasurer Second row Billy Alley, song leader; Evelyn
Steichen, song leader; Patty Jo Linn, reporter; Debbie Thralls, game leader; and Harold Dean Kukuk,
game leader
Mystery Amendment' Deleted,
Houston Has
New Heart
Transplant
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
lock was hanging near the door
A small glass pane in the door
was broken. The burglar reach- Surgeons in Houston, Tex,
ed inside, took the key and have performed their second
opened the padlock heart transplant operation in
A standard typewriter and less than three days, with both
manually operated adding ma- patients reported making prog
chine were stolen from the of- | ress Joseph Rizor, the eighth
fice of Willie Nelson, school heart transplant patient died at
principal Apparently nothing | Stanford, Calif., Sunday
else was bothered, Beasley said [ At London’s National Heart
The burglary which occurred Hospital, 45-year-old Frederick
Saturday or Sunday night, was West, his heart replaced Friday
discovered Monday morning by night with that of a young labor
Mrs. John Bristol, a school cook, er killed in a fall. Sunday had a
The vacuum sweeper and supper of pureed carrots and
communion set were stolen prunes his first solid food since
fro a storage room of Zion bis operation He also asked for
Lutheran church, five miles books and a television set
east of Perry Rev. Max Geiss- At Houston, the St Luke's
ler, pastor, said the church was Hospital surgical team Sunday
entered sometime Saturday night performed the world’s
night through a rest room win- 11th human heart transplant, re
dow on the south side of the placing the ailing heart of
building where the glass was James B. Cobb, 48, with that of
broken | a youth killed in a motorcycle
Mr. Geissler said dishes be-1 accident. Cobb was in "excel-
longing to the church are kept in lent condition, a
kitchen cabinets that are secur-
lent condition.’ a hospital
spokesman said
The same Houston surgical
the padlocks were broken, but team Friday gave Everett
no dishes were stolen he said Claire Thomas, 47, the heart of
, a 15-year-old bride Thomas’
Beasley said this burglary had condition on Sunday was termed
not been reported to his office satisfactory
At the Stanford Medical Cen-
ed by four or live padlocks. All
by mid-morning Monday The
crime was discovered Sunday
morning by Charlie Voise,
church custodian
Actor Albert Dekker
Takes Life by Hanging
HOLLYWOOD lAPi — Veter-
an stage and movie actor Albert
Dekker, whose screen roles in-
cluded “Two Years Before the
Mast” and "East of Eden,” was
discovered dead late Sunday in
his apartment.
Police said Dekker, 62, was
found hanging in a locked room,
apparently a suicide
The 6-foot-3 performer fre-
quently played a villain and
mostly charactei rules.
ter. the 40-year-old Rizor died
6% hours after his transplanted
heart stopped beating for a time
Sunday afternoon.
HOSPITAL
NOTES
Yost Takes High
College GOP Post
Harvey D. Yost, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Donovan Yost of Bil-
Perry Memorial
Mrs. Curt Hendricks, 1309
Elm street, admitted Saturday
for medical treatment
Mrs Nell Davis, Red Rock,
admitted Monday for medical
treatment.
Dismissed Saturday Fred
Drumhiller, 735 Elm street, and
Mrs Robert Pickens and daugh-
ter, Robyn Lee, Red Rock
Mrs. Harley Travis, route 3,
Perry, dismissed Sunday.
Stillwater Municipal
Mrs Gladys Webb, Orlando,
dismissed.
O.C. Baptist Memorial
P. 0. Price, 507 Noble street,
dismissed Friday.
lings, has been elected chair-
man of region VII of the College
Republican national committee
The election climaxed a re-
cent meeting of the Midwest
Federation of College Republi-
can clubs in Chicago. Region
VII includes Oklahoma, Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.
Other officers elected were
Sonya Saunders, Kansas State
university, co-chairman; Julie
Robben, Webster university, sec-
retary; and Donn Rojeski, Ne-
braska university, treasurer.
Yost, a student at Oklahoma
State university, has been ac-
tive in the OSU Republican club
as well as the state federation.
In 1966-67 he was chairman of
the OSU group following a year
as vice chairman. He also has
been a precinct chairman, mem
ber of the Payne county Repub-
lican executive board, member
of the Collegians for Bellmon
executive board, chairman ol
the Oklahoma Federation of Col-
Yost
legiate Republicans in 1967-68,
and member of the national stu-
Coming Events
Monday, May 6 — Shea-Nel-
son chapter of Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans and auxiliary, sep-
arate meetings, 8 p.m., DAV
hall.
Tuesday, May 7 — Perry high
school German language class
banquet, 6 30 p m., junior high
cafeteria.
Tuesday, May 7 — Public auc-
tion of house, buildings and five
acres located north edge of
Perry, on old highway 77, 5:30
p.m. George Klein, owner
Tuesday, May 7 — Ellis-Ji-
rous American Legion post
meets, 8 p.m., Legion hall.
Friday, May 10 — High
school awards assembly, 2 p.m.,
junior high cafeteria.
Saturday, May I1 — Perry
high school junior-senior ban-
quel and prom, 6:30 p.m., jun-
ior high cafeteria.
Monday, May 13 — Public
lent advisory board of Youth auction of house and furniture,
for Nixon.
located 632 Fir avenue, 5:30
He is a 1964 graduate of Bil- p.m ; heirs of Stella A. Kirk,
lings high school.
| owners.
parade while the junior high | 1I
s « Lawmakers Ready to Adjourr
Also, Anne Sherwood of Perry • •
was announced as the most out- OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) I Privett voted for the Smith
sanding pianist competing in The Senate backed down on its amendment last Friday but was
■ controversial “mystery amend
Other schools in class B with ment" today, breaking a three-
Perry were Greenwood, Miss; day deadlock and clearing the
Denver City, Texas: Spearman, way for adjournment of the 1968
Texas; Philadelphia, Miss.; Oklahoma Legislature before
Morton Texas: Keller, T exas; nightfall
Brownsboro, Texas; and Deer
('reek of Edmond, Choctaw, House Speaker Rex Privett,
Britton, Western Heights and D Maramee, and Sen Finis
Bixby. Smith, D-Tulsa, author of the
. . I . Perry had 22 students in the controversial amendment, is-
homa" S" honor vocal chorus and honor sued a joint statement saying
Mrs Berry is the aunt of band They also earned points both had been in agreement on
Mar Bill Fill'll' and Farr-' toward the sweepstakes trophy the issue.
and Forest McAllister, editor and
__.publisher of "School Musician1 D ■
TWO SMALL FIRES Magazineblimnieince, x Mas Ned I roops Keach
EASILY EXTINGUISHED 1' ry complime ntary of the Per- T
.....rural fire truck was used ry band in his remarks as a , . . _
Saturday afternoon and night to judge. He praised the performARMADAe
extinguish two small blazes ance of the band members, as o01gOlm DOTTIE? QeS
A grass fire was put out about well as the obvious, effort of2
2:45 p.m. At the Wayne wIl enoold and bioara orEelcation. SAIGON (AP) - The enemy
attack on Saigon swept on in were closed by Saigon’s curfew
full fury tonight, with North
MRS. BERRY IN, JU RES
HIP, ARM IN FALL
Mrs Eula Berry, 823 Delaware
street, was seriously injured
late Saturday afternoon when
she fell in the backyard of Mr
and Mrs Lawrence Will, her
next door neighbors She re-
ceived fractures of Ihe left hip
and left arm.
Mrs Berry was admitted to
Perry Memorial hospital Satur-
day and transfer red Sunday by
lire department ambulance to
Presbyterian hospital in Okla
overruled by the House
The amendment was buried
in a $4 3 million appropriation
‘bill for the stale Industrial He
velopment and Park Depart
I ment.
When the amendment was dis
covered last Friday, the House
balked and refused to accept it.
delaying Ihe scheduled adjourn-
ment of the legislature
Smith refused until today to
pull the amendment out of the
money bill, and the Senate stood
behind him.
In an apparent move to
smooth over the all out battle
and the many harsh words pass-
ed between House and Senate
members during the last three
days. Privett and Smith issued
the following joint statement
today.
The amendment has had the
support of both of us Since it
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
liams home on Skyline drive.
Fire Chief Loyd Berger said
the fire started from a nearby
pile of trash that was being
burned purposely.
The left side of the rear seal
in a 1957 Pontiac was damaged
by fire about 11:20 p.m Satur
day The car had been parked at
the home of the owner, Charles
Bair, 808 Thirteenth street A
smoldering cigaret in the seat
possibly caused the fire, Ber-
ger said.
WOMEN TO DISCUSS
NURSES AIDE COURSE
Women between the ages of
16 and 60 who are interested in
a nurses aide training course
are invited to meet at 2 pm
Tuesday in the conference room
at Perry Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Betty Monus, director
of nursing services at Memor-
ial, said the fill-hour training
course will start May 27 at the
hospital.
quented by Americans Both
In marching competition
Thursday evening, the Perry
man aAmr eNboTPENG Xep me NL AoT HNe C PILEI apartments and hotels " pied
earned ratings of superior, su- and a heavy explosion believed by Vietnamese and Americans
perior and good from three a rocket blasting the heart of There was no sign, however
judges Friday in concert play- the city. [ that any buildings were burn-
but the area is one of many
ing contests for an average
overall rating of excellent The battling
band also ranked excellent in troops from gravestone to
sight reading I- riday. | gravestone in a cemetery near
Individual ratings given PerSaigon’s Tan Son Nhut airport,
ry vocal students included So- .
prano voice, Linda Habben, ex-The missile was believed to launched Sunday, was subsiding
cellent, and Gay Boomer, su-have exploded near the down elsewhere across South Vietnam
perior, mezzo-soprano, Kathy town Saigon ISO and Interna after only one day
Kime, good; alto, Theola Craw-tional House, a private club fee They saw the attacks as more
ford, excellent; baritone, Rich- evidence that the enemy plans
ard Sommer, excellent. A/I to kept fighting while none
. .1 . ( ITAI 1**AMAA sop Iigming while peace
Junior high school high voice, VY / T TTered talks go on They also thought it
Lee Ann Habben, excellent; the drive Mas d
Kathy Pulliar......ellent .....For Rent 'S’
Tamera Cheney, excellent; girls f Or Aclil /18 en or vetnam s bargaining
trio No 1. excel lent. Judy Bart-vg • 1 [ positions , at prel i m inary talks
lett, Theola Crawford and Mar. Companion with the United States expected
garet Shimanek; girls trio No.1 ~ to open this week in Paris .
2, excellent, Lee Ann Habben, LONDON (AP) Peter Fo- While Hanoi radio claimed
brilliant victories," Gen Wil-
The North Vietnamese were jng Police vehicles, lire engines
South Vietnamese and
from gravestone to
quickly on the scene.
U.S military spokesmen indi-
cated the new enemy offensive,
ambulances converged
The 1968 Oklahoma Legislature
adjourned at 1:34 p.m. today,
after the Senate broke a three-
day deadloc k by hacking down
on its controversial “mystery
amendment."
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has been widely misinterpreted,
rather than prolong this session,
which has been a great one, we
shall ask Ihe supporters of the
amendment in both the House
and Senate to pass the bill with-
out it
"It can be considered again
in January when we have more
time ”
Both Smith and Privett signed
the statement
Weather
Loyce Hook and DottieGolliver vargue wants to rent out his
27 FINES PAID Girls quartet, superior, Judy wife for three months as a
IN POLICE COURT Kime, Gay Boomer, Kathy Phil- housekeeper and companion.
City police officers were busy lips and Marilyn Schieffer: and The price is 50 pounds $120.
the past week bringing 27 mexed quartet superior, Mar-
eases before Ken Uran. Dolin' ilyn Schieffer, Mary Louise Sad-
judge Ben P ler, Weldon Schieffer and Rich-
ard Sommer.
Results of judging of Perry
students in other contests
Wind Instrument Solos
SUPERIOR
B-flat clarinet Patti Coffey,
Elaine Wakeman, Simone Van-
Fifteen of the charges involv-
ed drinking or disturbing the
peace. Court costs of $2 were
added to each fine.
The offenses and fines include
disturbing the peace, three for
$8 each, one for $13; and three
for $18 each; drunkenness, one
for $8, one for $13 and six for
$18 each; reckless driving, one
for $3, one for $8 and one for
$18: speeding, three for $8 each;
running a stop sign, one for $3;
running a red traffic light, two
for $3 each; failure to yield
right-of-way, one for $3; and
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Arsdell, Ann Waren, Pam
Shoop.
E-flat clarinet: Janet Klein,
Comet Renee Randall, Clem
AS
‘ ham C Westmoreland’s head-
“Christine is a bargain for
anyone," said the 28-year-old
crane driver "I shall make out
a proper receipt and it will all
be legal and above board "
Fovargue needs the money to
pay a fine for shopbreaking and
stealing cigarettes
He said he was selling or
renting—his
wife for three
months as a housekeeper and
companion.
"Anything is better than hav-
Gosney, Donald Stoops, Cathie ing Peter in jail," said Mrs Fo-
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argue, a 21-year-old brunette.
Banished Student
quarters said in a communique
"Scattered fighting has taken
place throughout yesterday and
this morning; however, the
overall activities remain con-
siderably lower than during the
Tet (lunar new year) offen-
sive."
Headquarters reported 122 lo-
cations were hit Sunday by mor
liar and artillery fire but new
i shelling today was insignificant
There also was ground fighting
Randall’sBrother
Dies; Service To
Be in Blackwell
Services will be at 10 a.m.
Tuesday in the Roberts and Son
chapel at Blackwell for Myrl
Randall, 68, of Braman, brother
of Olin W Randall of Perry,
Randall died Saturday at
2:50 p.m. in Blackwell General
hospital where be had been a pa-
tient since April 25. Burial will
be in the IOOF cemetery.
Randall was born March 20,
1900, in Carmel, Ind., and had
lived in Kay county most of his
life. He was a member of the
Methodist church.
Won't Appeal Ruling
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP)
Richard Goode, turned out of
his Cambridge University
rooms because a porter caught
him in bed with a girl after mid-
night, moved into a house two
miles away today.
him in bed with a student from
one of the women’s colleges.
Goode will continue to attend
classes and will take his final
examinations later this month.
in the north but this appeared to
be a continuation of last week's
battles.
A U.S spokesman said allied
forces so far had killed 714 ene-
mv troops in and around Saigon,
including 177 inside the city it
self Some of the fights were
spoiling actions, cutting off ene-
my units reported headed to at-
| tack Saigon.
U.S officials said an estimat-
ed battalion of enemy troops,
perhaps 400 to 500 men, fighting
allied forces around Tan Son
Nhut air base are predominant-
ly North Vietnamese soldiers
This is Ihe closest to Saigon that
Goode, a 22-year-old law stu- [tense
dent from Rhodesia, said he
would not appeal against his
eviction from his room at Trini-
ty College, which
Charles also attends.
Varsity, the undergraduate „ . .
newspaper, came to Goode’s de North Vietnamese have fought
| in these numbers
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m Monday:
12 N. 71 1 p.m 74 2 pm. 71
3 p.m. 79 4 p.m 78 5 p.m. 79
6 p.m. 77 7 p.m. 75 8 p.m. 71
9 pm is 10 p.m. 66 11 pm. 65
12 M 64 1 a m 63 2 a.m. 62
3 a.m 60 4 a.m. 60 5 a.m. 59
6 a m. 58 7 a.m. 58 8 a.m. 51
9 o m. 59 10 a.m 64 11 a.m. 67
Forecast
Perry area — Lake wind
warnings are in effect today for
southerly winds increasing to 20
to 30 miles per hour and gusty.
Partly cloudy, windy and warm,
with scattered thunderstorms
today. Numerous thunderstorms
tonight and early Tuesday,
Clearing and cooler Tuesday.
Highs today 80 to 85. Lows to-
night 59 to 64. Highs Tuesday
72 to 77 Probability of thunder-
storms 40 percent today, in-
creasing to 80 percent tonight
and decreasing to less than 20
percent before noon Tuesday.
Oklahoma — Considerable
cloudiness, scattered thunder-
storms tonight Cooler northwest
tonight Southerly winds 25 to 35
mph. Thunderstorms ending
central portion, fair and cooler
west Tuesday. Low tonight 44
northwest to 65 southeast. High
Tuesday 67 northwest to 79
southeast.
Five-day forecast — For per-
iod Tuesday through Saturday,
temperatures in Oklahoma will
average six to 10 degrees be-
low normal. Normal highs are
71 northwest to 85 south, normal
lows 41 northwest to 62 south-
east. Precipitation will average
one-tenth to one-fourth inch
west, one-fourth to one-half inch
central and one-half to one inch
in east, occurring as scattered
U S officials estimated that as
| “We do not accept that col- .____
leges have the right to dictate to of early Monday there were end.
us how to run our lives," it said about 300 Viet Cong troops fight-
Prince “People sleep with their girl
friends all over the university.
The college council banished I Last term’s Varsity opinion poll
revealed that one in four under-
graduates have had sexual inti-
the law student after a porter
entered his room two stairways
away from the apartment of
Britain’s future king and found
macy in college buildings . . . "
thunderstorms in east Tuesday
and most sections toward week-
Temperatures for the 24-hour
ing inside Saigon Preliminary period ending at 11 a.m. Mon-
estimates also indicated there day were: high 81 at 4:30 p.m.
might be as many as 300 more Sunday, low 58. Temperatures
female Viet Cong agents who in for the 24-hour period ending at
some cases have done some of II a.m. a year ago were: high
Ihe fighting but are being used 72, low 56. Precipitation, a
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