Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 272, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 2, 1968 Page: 4 of 20
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I ^Ulttdiy. Jan. 2, MM OKLAHOMA CITY HMU
[fur World Today
Soviet Troops
In Mongolia
MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet tank and antiaircraft mis-
••tie units have been stationed in Mongolia under a de-
fense agreement intended to provide protection against
Red China*informed sources said Tuesday.
The Red armv combat units went into Mongolia last
year as part of a general Soviet military buildup along
the northern border of Communist China. China ha* as-
serted claims to adjacent parts of Soviet Siberia and to
Mongolia, a Soviet satellite between Siberia and China.
Other informants said Monday that the Soviet forces
Include both tank units and ground to air missile units.
Neither the tanks nor the missiles were described as
being among the most modern or advanced in the Red
Soviet tank and missile units participated in the Mon-
golian armed forces parade through Ulan Bator, Mongo
lia s capital, on November 7 to mark the 50th anniversa-
ry of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Soviet units in the
parade were described in the Mongolia press as mili-
tary technical units.” The press said Mongolians greeted
them enthusiastically.
Johnson Move Bolsters Dollar
LONDON (AP) — The dol- overseas travel by Ameri-
lar moved up strongly in cans.
Vietnam to Expel Nemman
SAIGON (AP) — The South Vietaame** government
has refused (o renew the visa of Newsweek magazine's
Saigon bureau chief. Everett Martin, and told Mm lo
leave the country within seven days. The South Viet-
namese government has been at odds with Martin for
months because of Newsweek articles critical of the
South Vietnamese army.
It would be the first expulsion of an American news-
man from Sooth Vietnam since 19*2. when the late Presi-
dent Ngo Dinh Diem expelled James Robinson of the Na-
tional Broadcasting Co. and Francois Sully of Newsweek.
Martin can appeal the decision to the minister of the Inte-
rior. whose ministry declined to renew the visa.-
LEGISLATIVE CHORES got under way Tuesday for
Rep. Ed Cole (D-Okmulgee) and his secretary, Mrs.
Loretta Jones, at the state capitol. Cole was one of the
first state lawmakers to arrive at .the capital to begin
the new legislative session.
both London and Paris Tue»-
day in the wake of President
Johnson * bid to get U. S.
foreign accounts out of the
red.
A presidential envoy in a
whirlwind vlilt to London
gave the Britiih government
a detailed explanation of
Johnson'■ move to slash the
dollar drain and then flew on
to Bonn for talks with Willy
Brandt. West German for-
eign minister.
U. S. Undersecretary of
State Nicholas Katzenbach
had arrived before dawn
from Washington at the head
of a mission sent to brief Eu-
ropean governments on the
implications of the monetary
measures.
In the I-ondon stock mar-
ket. shares of hotels and res-
taurants and other issues
connected with tourists
slumped sharply because of
Johnson's efforts to curtail
In Paris the dollar rose 55
points to 4.9140 francs and in
London it rose 30 points to
$2.40325 to the pound ster-
ling.
There was no sign, howev-
er. of the start of a flow-back
of gold from hoarders who
last month were estimated to
have bought up $700 million
worth In Zurich. Paris and at
the international gold pool in
London.
At the price fixing in Lon-
don Tuesday morning, deal
ers said there was "only a
trickle" of two-way business:
The amount in 1966 was $54.6, tfon of the pound."
million Th,‘ •‘a*K*r <iuo,ed on<“ Sf>n-
Belgium and Luxembourg for airline spokesman in lam-
received $122.4 million: the don as suggesting that vtr-
Netherlands $1G0 0 million,
and Italy $U«« million.
Spain, outside the European
Economic Community, got
$108 million.
Eugene V. Rostow. another
U. S. undersecretary of
state, explains the stringent
new measures to Japanese
Prime |
tually every U. S. travel or-
ganization would try "to lob-
by this thing to death."
U. S. officials said taxes
might be levied against
Americans touring abroad or
limits might be put on hnwm
many dollars they couldw
spend.
William Davis, financial
Contractor j Much of U. S.
Dies at 67
In Hospital ^ damp
of Eu-
in the metal.
The governments
rope studied the conse-
quences to their national
economies of the American
measures.
First reaction from many
capitals appeared to be
alarm over the possibility of
fewer American tourists in
Europe this summer.
Some businessmen in the.
officials. Including ---------
Minister Eisaku Sato. Turs- Pditor of the Manchester
day and then heads for Aus- Guardian, said Johnson's ai--
tralia to explain the meas- non to cut the U. S. balance
ures there. iof payments deficit was an
In London the authorlta-1 acknowledgement that
In London the auinortta- dtsmiwiruBrm™. ......
live Financial Times com rd-i French criticism of the deft-
f|Y(S r IlldllUdl I llllt .' v wn< I - -
ed that Johnson's program in cit. led by President Charles
general would not hurt the de Gaulle, was valid. "If sue
British economy too much,
especially since U. S. indus-
trial investment in Great
Britain was less in 1967 than
in 1965. Then the paper
turned to the travel issue.
"The immediate reaction
among travel agents, hotels
and airlines in the I'ntted
cessful." Davis said, "his
measures should go a long
way toward restoring faith in
the two reserve currencies
(the dollar and the pound)."
Hut Robert Head of theA
Daily Mirror saw the U. S.
cutback as detrimental to
Luther Meredith Bradley. 67. of
1312 NW 11. a roofing contractor.
died Sunday in Mercy Hospital crjp OVPr mUch of the nation
Sf" SS Tuesday. A Ire.h unslaudh,
By The Associated Pres*
Winter damped an icy delphia tied the record low
Faces and Places
ANTONIN NOVOTNY. Czech Communist
leader whose position is reported shaky,
said his government "must be able to
use everything that is positive ... in-
cluding what has originated in the coun-
tries of capitalism" if it is to save its
economic reform program.
Home, with burial in Kairlawn ®f sub-zero cold knifed into
Cemetery jthe Great Plains and record
He was horn at Salitfas, Colo. cold from Ihe midwest
ters’ Mrs. Ted Mitchell. 4133 S\v Hazardous driving warn-
Liberty: Mrs. Roger Horn. 1137 N |ngS were in effect for an
S.. ™ 11-state area stretching from
2141 W Eubanks; and Mrs. \\ilhui . „ , . .
Durr. Broomfield. Colo.: a hroth iw)'ornin8 ;,nd Colorado into
er. Charles. Amarillo, and a sis-1 Kentucky and Tennessee.
C0nWa>> ^ I Blowing and drifting snow PlaIeau
orooa. if \as. hampered travelers in the , _______ _____
Anton swot
MOST REV. JOOST DE BLANK, who
fought the apartheid policies of South
Africa as Anglican archbishop of Cape
Town from 1957 to 1963. died in London
at 59.
Fighting Flares in Yemen
SAN'A. Yemen (AP) — Eight thousand Yemeni Re-
publican troops, backed by the Yemeni air force, were
reported Tuesday to have struck at Royalist forces en-
trenched 40 miles southwest of San a along the road to
Yemen's second largest city. Tai’zz.
Reports said 500 guerrillas of the former Adorn rebel
Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen -
FLOSY — had taken part on the Republican side in the
battle Monday. , . , .
Heavy fighting was also reported north of here be-
tween two important Yemeni tribes. But all was quiet in
this capital as people observed the end of Ramadan, the
Moslem fasting month.______
for the date set in 1918.
The new surge of arctic
cold dropped temperatures
to 20 to 25 below zero
through parts of North Dako-
ta and Wyoming. This frigid
air spread south and east,
assuring continued cold
weather for a vast area of
the nation.
The middle and western
sections of Tennessee and
Continent and Britain ap- Kingdom last night
peared apprehensive over .....
the restrictions on American
investment ordered by the
president. In Europe espe-
cially they have reason.
Johnson made an excep-
tion of Ihe British, limiting
investment to 65 percent of
the 1965-66 average. He
slammed down a flat mora-
torium on Europe, though.
West Germany is slated to
be worst hit by the invest-
ment ban. In 1966. $614 mil-
lion was invested in German
enterprises.
In France during both 1965
and 1966 a number of weak
and staggering French firms1
were saved from bankruptcy
by an injection of dollars.
Britain's own drive to get
was!into the black after devalua-
one of shock." it said, "espe-|tion; "The two biggest
daily in the light of the trav-1 spenders in the world are
el industry's hopes of a hum- trying to e«>nomize at the
per year following devalua- same t i me he wrote.
MRS. MAGGIE E. SMITH central Rockies. Sleet and
Mrs. Maggie Elizabeth Smith. frM>zing rain caused ex-
34. of 3139 SW 38. an employe ot , dmm»roii« road ron-
Continontal Plasms. Tuesday dangerous road con
in her home. Services are pending I dttions from Kansas to the
with Vondel L. Smith Mortuary, (southern Appalachians.
Snow also fell in the north-
Formerlv a resident of Neweas-
John H.. of the home; a daughter die Mississippi Valley.
Mrs. Ron Nichols. Enid: two sons.
Billy Joe. Van Vleck, Texas, and
Harold D., Kansas City. Kan.:
four sisters. Mrs. Pearl Wynn.
Blanchard; Mrs. A. J. Moran, eluded Burlington. Vl.. -21
Ada; Mrs Ralph Hampton, and porUandi Maine. -17; Alba-
Mrs. Boh lorrand. hoth Shawnee; M v
two brothers. Leo Jackson. Con- n>■ N: -»• Wilkes-Barre,
cord. Calif. and G. K. Jackson, in
Alaska, and 10 grandchildren.
Saigon Plant Seized
lied Bogus Bill
Record low temperatures
for the date were set from
New York to Maine. They in-
area of eastern Tennessee
had rough driving conditions
with an accumulated snow-
fall on top of frozen rain.
Several counties and cities in
the area — mostly in middle
Tennessee — closed schools
Tuesday and some industrial
plants also shut down. Driv-
i n g conditions throughout
most of the state were
treacherous.
Man. 8f, Joins
In Icy Swim
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
More than 100 persons joined
the Olympic Club's 75th an-
nual New Year’s Day sw im
in the Pacific. Air and water
temperatures registered the
same — 42 degrees.
"I’ve never missed one."
said Otto Wallfisch. 84, who
made his first plunge in 1905
and was enjoying No. 63.
MARY J. STRIFE
Pa., -7 and Baltimore 0.
New Hampshire state po-
lice reported a reading of -40
Services for Mrs. Mary Jane at Twin Mountain in the
Schiff. 73. of 2233 NW 36. who died White Mountains. Wanakena,
Monday in Mercy Hospital, will be I x. Y„ in the northern Adi-
at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The family .
Are All Aspirin
Tablets The Same?
Plot Wrecked
and friends will mecl at Smith
and Kcmke Funeral Home at 2
p.m., and commital sendee will
follow af Memorial Park Ceme-
tery.
Survivors include two daugh-
ters. Mrs. Dorothy Brewer. Okla-
homa City, and Mrs. Jack Oshom.
Tulsa: two brothers. Frank Ditto,
Houston, and Ralph Ditto. Oklaho-
ma City; and six grandchildren
The family has designated the
j Heart Fund of Ihe Oklahoma Med-
ical Research Foundation as ap-
propriate for memorials.
SAIGON (AP) — South Vietnamese national police
laid Tuesday they had arrested several Chinese counter-
feiters and seized $250,000 in fake U. S. $5 bills, thereby
foiling what they called a Red Chinese attempt to destroy
the economies of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Police said the counterfeiters were Red Chinese spies
’who planned to trade the U. S. bills on the black market
to buy equipment to counterfeit the currencies of South
■Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia.
Police reported they closed in on the counterfeiters
Jast Thursday in Cholon, the Chinese section of Saigon,
And seized a printing press, paper and ink and complete
And Incomplete $5 bills. The counterfeiters’ printing
plates also were seized, they said.
Police Reveal 5-Month Probe
MARGARET MK KWOOI)
EDMOND — Services for Mrs.
Margaret Ellen Lockwood. 72. Ed-
mond. who died Monday in Bap-
tist Memorial Hospital, will he at
1 p.m. Wednesday in file First
Methodist Chureh, Edmond, with
burial at 4 p.m. at Masham Ceme-
tery, Masham. under direction of
Baggerley Funeral Home.
The family has designated the
Oklahoma Medical Research
Foundation cancer fund as ap-
propriate for memorials.
rondacks, had a low of -38.
A 7 above reading In Phila-
U. S. Increases
Arms Purchases
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The allotment of U. S. arms
purchases from Great Brit-
ain will be increased by $100
million to $825 million, the
Pentagon says, as the result
of increased production of
key aircraft for Britain by
this country.
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EARIJF. W. FLOWERS
Services for Earlie William
Flowers, 72, of 8200 S Olio, who
died Sunday in Presbyteriun Hos-
pital. will be at 2 p.m. Thursday
in the Gospel Lighthouse Church,
with burial in Resthaven Ceme-
tery under direction of Vondel L.
Smith Mortuary.
Several persons, including some who tried to pscape,
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1 were arrested, officials added, but police declined to dis-
close their names, saying the Investigation was contin-
uing. A police statement said, "In the present case, there
undoubtedly will be death sentences given to the Chinese
counterfeiters."
CHARLES M. BI.AIR
Services for Charles Madison
Blair. 73, of 8136 NW 18. a phar-
macist who operated a drug store
in Oklahoma City for many years,
will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in
the Guardian Funeral Home, with
burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. He
Police said they had been investigating for five
months "an important clandestine economic and finan-
cial organization led directly by Communist authorities
;on the Chinese mainland, whose purpose was to counter-
feit various monies in order to subvert the economies of
.many countries in Southeast Asia, and especially the
"•oenomy of South Vietnam."
Aa far as was known, none of the fake U. S. bills had
gone Into circulation.
The paper In the counterfeits Is whiter than In real U.
* S. bills, and the printing tends to be fuzzy._
died Sunday at Mercy Hospital as
•-train accide
a result of a car-train accident.
He was bom at Aldrich, Mo.,
but lived most of his life in Okla-
homa City. He was a graduate of
the University of Oklahoma School
of Pharmacy, a World War 1 vet-
eran and member of the Ameri-
can Legion and was a Mason and
a member of a barber shop sing-
Land Reclaimed
p For Postoffice
i WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Post Office Department
Diana a $40 million postal fa-
cility on reclaimed marsh-
land in northern New Jersey.
J; The department said the
Structure would be the most
aneohan
_______ nlied postal facility it
has ever built and is among
the first of several massive
metropolitan area postal
centers to be constructed
Not All Parade
Seating Costly
PASADENA, Calif. (AP)
— Some of the hundreds of
thousands who watched the
Tournament of Roses parade
paid up to $8 for a grand-
stand seat. Others impro-
vised.
seating: Dining room chairs,
bar etools, ladders, saw
horses, a church pew.
ing group.
Su
Jurvivor* Include his former
wife, Dorothy, 4100 NW 11; h son,
Dr. Charles V„ Sam Jour, Calif.;
and two sisters. Mrs. Lucy Blake,
2020 NW 16. and Mrs. Pearl Mc-
Carty, Oklahoma City.
r
Three Family
Members Killed
NEW AUGUSTA, Miss.
(AP) — Three members of a
Pensacola, Fla., family were
killed and five other persona
were Injured In a two-car
crash on a rain-slick road
near here Monday night.
The dead were Mr. and
Among the do-lt-yourself Mrs. Evon Whatley and their
daughter, Evelyn Whatley,
1$. A son, Wayne Whatley,
10, was injured.
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