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MRS. MASSENBAUH
OKLA. HISTORICAL SOC.
OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OKLA. 73105
GANS (UPI) — A group of
Sequoyah County cattlemen
plan to send a load of cattle to
the White House before the end
of the year to help dramatize
their plight.
The group of 150 cattle
raisers, called together by Gans
rancher Charles Smith, also
passed a number of resolutions,
including one calling for the
“immediate resignation of
Agriculture Secretary Earl
Butz."
The ranchers voted to go
ahead with plans to slaughter
some of their stock if “all other
attempts to find other solutions
fail.”
“There are too many cattle,"
Leroy Brent, operator of one of
the area’s largest ranches,
said “killing them would be a
human solution to the prob-
lem.”
Brent, who proposed most of
the resolutions considered, also
called for a halt to the
importation of beef.
"Importing beef must be
stopped." Smith agreed "Our
economy won’t let us produce
beef as cheaply as our
neighbors.”
Other resolutions called on
the government to ship only
call for Butz resignation
domestic beef to american
installations overseas, halt the
exportation of fertilizer, end all
government regulations on
crops and limit grain sales to
foreign governments to a
package deal that would also
require those governments to
purchase a certain amount of
beef with the grain
The proposal to send a load
of cattle to Washington was
termed an effort to get the
President’s attention through
some dramatic action The
ranchers said they planned to
hold another meeting in about a
month to see what progress
they could make on convincing
other counties to join in the
effort.
An unidentified rancher from
Kansas said tie also would try
to promote the idea there
"ilwould like to see every
county in the state represented
in ths effort," Smith said
The plan calls for each
rancher to donate one cow or
help fund the project. Smith
said he hoped all 77 counties in
Oklahoma would be able to
send a load of cattle to the
white house at the same time
Wisconsin farmers near the
town of Curtis said several
hundred calves would be lined
up and shot today in their
National Farmers Organization
protest against the sagging
price of beef
Wisconsin NFO president
Steve Pavich said he was
aware that most of the 160 NFO
groups meeting across the
country Monday night had
decided to hold off planning any
protest calf slaughter for at
least several weeks
"But that doesn’t make any
difference to us,” Pavich said
“We’re going ahead with our
plans in Wisconsin.”
He said anyone who wanted
to buy the slaughtered calves
was welcome to, adding they
would be sold “on a cost
production basis.”
NFO President Oren Lee
Staley, speaking at an NFO
meeting at Fayette, Iowa,
called for a "get tough policy"
to boost cattle, hog and dairy
product prices
His message was recorded
and played at many of the
gatherings the first such meet-
ings ever called by the huge
national farm cooperative
Staley said the group “is
anxious to fight" but added that
it must first analyze farmers’
support for their program
He said NFO members would
be called together to determine
the prices they must have for
their products and that those
prices would then be announ-
ced
"Farmers will be advised to
hold their production on the
farms until their price demands
are met,” Staley said
“It’s time for farmers to
price their products,” Staley
said. “It is just as patriotic for
farmers to price their products
as for manufacturers to price
their lines or for labor unions to
strike.”
DAILYJOURNAL-CAPITAL
Published Evenings, Tuesday through Friday and Sunday Mornings
Volume 65 No. 205 Tuesday, October 15, 1974 Daily 101 per copy. Sunday 20‘ per copy.
Turkish aid cutoff
President’s
Watergate counsel hurls
charge Nixon used’aide
veto upheld
Bloodmobile
Calls
Three Pawhuska families have been touched in just the last
few weeks with the need to draw from the Red Cross Blood
Bank Mrs Don (Kay) Wachtman, right, and Mrs. John
(Kathy) Manning talked about this today and the fact that
Pawhuskans can help donate blood needed to replace the supply
when the Bloodmobile arrives here Thursday Donors should go
by the First Presbyterian Church between the hours of 12 noon
and 5:15 pm Kay and Kathy are joining other Pawhuska
hospital auxiliary members in calling Pawhuskans for reser
vations. (JC Photo)
WASHINGTON (UPI) - John
, D Ehrlichman’s attorney
charged today that former
President Richard M. Nixon
- "deceived, misled, lied to and
used” and finally forced a
resignation from his former No.
2 aide in order “to save his own
$ neck.”
Ehrlichman, one of five
. former Nixon associates on
trial in the Watergate cover-up,
was portrayed by defense
attorney William S. Frates as a
I victim of the plot who had
"repeatly recommended” that
Nixon disclose the truth.
It was the first time
Ehrlichman had turned accuser
of Nixon, whom he served as
chief domestic adviser in the
I White House until April, 1973,
when the Watergate scandal
became a major issue.
Nixon, named an unindicted
I co-conspirator in the cover-up,
J has been pardoned by President
i Ford and cannot be tried for
□ any Watergate-related in-
I cidents.
J Former White House counsel
I John W. Dean III, previously
Nixon’s chief accuser, was to
testify later in the day for the
j prosecution—whose case also
I was based on the complicity of
I the former President.
“Richard Nixon deceived,
1 misled, lied to and used John
I Ehrlichman to cover up his own
I knowledge and activities while
■ publicly stating that John
■ Ehrlichman was one of the
finest public servants he had
ever known," Frates told the
jury
"He (NixonI was deliberately
witholding information from
him-covering up to save his
own neck. In simple terms, Mr
Erhlichman had been had by
his boss
Frates said Ehrlichman's
decision to leave the White
Kissinger on last leg of trip
RABAT) UPI) — Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger
arrived today from Algiers
where he discussed “positive
elements" of the Arab-Israeli
situation with President Houari
Boumedienne and ways for
Algeria and the United States
to reconcile their differences
over high oil prices.
Morocco was the last stop on
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Kissinger’s seventh mission to
the Middle East and he landed
in the sun-drenched Moroccan
capital at 11:30 a.m. (7:30 a.m.
EDT). He was to talk with King
Hassan II over lunch about
Middle East peace efforts and
oil before flying home to
Washington later today.
Hassan will host an Arab
summit meeting on Oct. 26
when Kissinger’s latest peace
efforts will come under intense
discussion. Kissinger will re-
turn to the Middle East in
November once the Arab
leaders have decided their next
course in the 25-year struggle
with Israel.
Kissinger told reporters as he
left Algeria that "I spoke to
President Boumedienne of the
engagement taken by the
United States to arrive at a just
and durable peace in the
Middle East. If the two parties
can agree on the principles of
the next stage.
The smiling secretary hinted
at a possible resumption of
diplomatic ties between the
U.S. and Algiers before board-
ing his special aircraft.
House was a “forced resigna-
tion ... so that heat would be
taken off the President and the
President standing there know-
ing that he was the one
covet ing up."
He said the evidence would
show that Nixon summoned
Ehrlichamn to Camp David,
Md., prior to his resignation
April 30, 1973 “and told him
‘John, you have been my
conscience, but I didn’t follow
your advice. It’s all my fault. If
I’d only followed your advice,
we wouldn’t be in this
situation.’"
Frates also praised the tapes
of Nixon’s White House conver-
sations. which will be intro-
duced into evidence beginning
Wednesday
“The tapes may have done
some people harm but they’re
the greatest thing that ever
happened to John Ehrlichman,"
he said. "Contrary to obstruct-
ing justice, it was everything
but that and the tapes will show
that chapter and verse ”
He stressed that Nixon and
former White House Chief of
Staff H R. Haldeman, one of
the codefendants in the cover-
up, never told Ehrlichman
about the secret taping system
He also sought to divorce
Ehrlichman from Haldeman,
once Ehrlichman’s close friend
The two of them once were the
powerful men in Nixon’s White
House
“Your natural inclination will
be to put these defendants in
one pot and frankly that’s my
problem," Frates said. “The
government, in its opening
statement, was always saying
Haldeman-Ehrlichman, Hald-
eman-Ehrlichman, Haldeman-
Ehrlichman.’ We’re here to
defend John Ehrlichman. We re
not here to defend the other
defendants, nor are we here to
prosecute."
John W Dean III, the former
White House counsel who
became Nixon’s chief accuser,
was to be the first witness
called later today after defense
attorneys completed their open-
ing statements
By NICHOLAS DANILOFF
WASHINGTON (UPI) _ The
House today voted to uphold
President Ford’s veto of legisla-
tion requiring an immediate
cutoff of military aid to Turkey
The House failed to muster
the two-thirds majority of those
voting needed to override the
presidential veto. Only one
chamber of Congress needs to
vote to sustain a presidential
veto
The House vote meant that
the continuing resolution on
funding a number of govern-
ment agencies-to which the
aid cutoff provision was at-
tached—was dead.
This will oblige Congress to
draft and pass a new tempo-
rary funding measure before
leaving on its delayed pre-
election recess.
The dispute between Ford
and Congress over the Turkish
aid provision arose this way
U. S. laws require that
military aid given other
countries be used only for self
defense
Liberal members of Congress
were angered when Turkey
used U. S weapons in its in-
vasion of Cypress and they
persuaded both houses to
suspend military aid to Turkey
until Ford would certify sub-
stantial progress was being
made towards removal of the
Turkish forces.
Ford-arguing that the cutoff
would weaken NATO of which
Turkey is a member hurt the U
S. position in the Mediterranean
and wreck efforts to negotiate a
Cypress settlement-threatened
to veto the measure
A proposed compromise was
rejected by the house Friday
setting the state for a
showdown
On Monday Ford formally
vetoed the cutoff saying in his
message "I take this step with
reluctance but in the belief that
I have no other choice".
A two-thirds vote in both
chambers of Congress is needed
to override a veto.
House Republican leader,
John J. Rhodes-R-Ariz. and
Senate Republican leader Hugh
Scott, R-Penn., predicted the
veto would be upheld if not in
the house in the senate
This would oblige Congress to
redraft ‘‘continuing
resolution .
Rep John Bradamas, D-
Indiana, a house leader for the
aid cutoff, disagreed The
president s position,” flies in
the face of reason, law and the
expressed will of Congress”,
Bradamas said
Further illegal shipments of
military supplies must stop and
I believe the veto will be
overrided,”
sesia*
Pawhuska In Brief
POLICE COURT Six individuals were either fined or forfeited
bond for charges listed on police court records One was
turned over to Osage County. They include Earl McClain,
65 of Pawhuska, drunk, forfeited $20 bond; Revard Rann.
20 of Pawhuska, public drunk, forfeited $20 bond; Charles
Boggs, 38 of Pawhuska, leaving scene of accident, forfeited
$20 bond; Gilbert LaBelle, 70 of Pawhuska, public drunk,
turned over to Osage County; Ira ( Beaver) Woods, 46 of
Pawhuska, being drunk in public place, fined $18 and $2;
Tom King, 29 of Pawhuska, drunk, forfeited $20 bond;
Henry Nunez, 21 of Temple. Tex , leaving scene of ac-
cident, reckless driving and public drunk, forfeited $20
bond each charge.
LIONS CLUB-The Lions Club annual Halloween Candy sale
is slated Thursday October 17. Lions Club members will be
canvassing door-to-door for candy sales during the evening
hours Proceeds from the annual sale goes toward the
club’s project, the Eye Bank, and etc
HIT AND RUN - George Tipton Jr , 18 of OB U. in Shawnee,
reported the side of the back, near the trunk and wheel, of
his father’s car was damaged while parked between 12th
and 13th Street on Leahy about 11pm Saturday He said
he was visiting a friend inside the home and heard some
See No. (1) On Page 6
Story has happy ending
Couple arrives in Fairfax
Fiddlers draw crowds
Musicians and music lovers from Oklahoma City,
Tahlequah, Claremore and Bartelsville joined
Pawhuskans Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the Legion Hut on
Sixth Street for a fiddlers fair. The meeting hailed the
beginning of a fiddlers’ association here.
Twenty-three Pawhuskans were among those who
formed a Northeast Central Charter of the Old Fiddlers
Association. Roland Webster was elected president
with Harold Stewart as vice-president Lorean
Pradmore will serve as secretary-treasurer The
group will meet the second Sunday of each month with
the public invited. An admission of 50 cents will be
asked to cover rent expenses.
Sunday, the Legion Building was filled with
musicians and listeners according to Harold Stewart
Carrier Brooks entertained the group with the French
harp to the delight of all
The state president of the Old Time Fiddlers' Assn.,
Mr. John Luker of Oklahoma Ctiy, was also there.
Music for the meetings is not electrial: it is ac-
coustical. Lady fiddlers, guitarists and stringed in-
strument players of all types were present and are
invited.
It is hoped that the state chapion fiddler will be able
to attend the next meeting
Music for the meetings will consist of individual and
group music including old time breakdown music,
waltzes and modern music. It was noted that the music
heritage of America and the voilin or fiddle are bon-
ded. The early settlers were primarily players of
stringed instruments. When the white men came to
Oklahoma, the Indian was here... with a fiddle
"They re here They are safe," Mrs A. E
Cowan of Fairfax said Monday when asked
about the whereabout of an Idaho couple,
Clayton and Martha Cowan, who authorities
feared had met with foul play last week
The couple, in the mid-70's, had left Idaho in
a camping van Monday, October 7th Their
destination was the A. E Cowan home, 360
East Walnut in Fairfax. Clayton and A. E
Cowan are brothers
Thursday some personal effects, including
food, cooking utensils, clothing, folding chairs
and a bed were reported found along an Idaho
highway. The couple’s van could not be
found Idaho authorities began to scour the
hills near the highway.
An all-points bulletin was issued in Idaho,
Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Authorities checked the possibility the couple
had been abducted while camped for the
night Local hospitals were checked, calls to
the couple’s residence and to relatives they
were to visit in Idaho showed they had left
home Monday but had not arrived at the
Idaho relatives. Planes flew down the Bear
River into Utah searching for a clue to their
disappearance Nothing was reported
Fairfax’s Mrs. Cowan said they were
contacted by authorities Thursday and told of
the circumstances and the theorized disap-
pearance Anxious hours followed
“Saturday about 2p m they drove up to our
house”, Mrs Cowan said expressing the relief
that she and her husband felt The Idaho
couple was completely unaware they were
objects of an extensive search and had been
reported missing
She said the couple simply had too heavy a
load on their van and had decided todrop off
some of their belongings. They needed to
lighten their load; they did. The couple had
also changed their intinerary. Instead of
coming via Kansas to Fairfax as planned,
they decided to go through Texas, causing
their late arrival
The brothers and their wives are enjoying a
visit at the Cowan home in Fairfax now
and in all probability have recounted several
times the events, of the story . a story, for a
change, with a happy ending
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