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MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union
launched a rookie cosmonaut inlo space Satur-
day aboard Soyuz 3, the first Russian manned
shot in more than a year, and Tass announced
he approached an unmanned sister ship during
his first orbit in what appeared to be an at-
tempt at rendezvous.
which it said was transmitting television pic-
t ures.
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The Soviet news agency said Soyuz 3,
carrying Col. Georgy Beregovoi, moved to-
ward Soyuz 2, which it reported was sent aloft
in a near-earth orbit Friday, at first by an au-
tomatic system, later by manual control.
None of the transmissions appeared imme-
diately on Soviet television, which was using
preflight pictures of Beregovoi in its reports on
the launching.
Tass said the automatic system of Soyuz 3
brought it to within 200 yards of Soyuz 2, after
which Beregovoi took over with the manual
control system. The report, did not say how
close he came.
Training for his voyage into space, Col.
picture supplied by Tasg. (AP Wirepholo)
Georgy Beregovoi is shown in ihis
It added that Soyuz 2 was launched for the
purpose of “joint experiments with Soyuz 3,
Beregovoi, identified as a “Soviet pilot-
rosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union and a
merited test pilot,” was launched aboard So-
yuz 3 at 11:34 a.m. Moscow time — 4:34 a.m.
(Oklahoma lime).
First report from him, Tass said, was that
he "feels well and that all systems aboard his
craft are functioning normally.’’
The announcement of the Soyuz 2 was the
first mention that the unmanned spacecraft
had been launched. It cleared up ihe mystery
of why Beregovoi’s craft carried the number 3.
The only previous Soyuz flight had been
the Soviet Union's last manned experiment in
(See SPACE—Page 2) ___
Paid Circulation 292,376 Evening-Morning Daily Average September
Oklahoma City Times
ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHTED 1963 OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING CO.. 500 N BROADWAY
VOL. LXXIX, NO. 215
18 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1968
Ten Onts (Single Copy Price)
Library, Antique Loss Fixed at 825,000
Blaze Strikes Nichols Hills Home
By Bill George
A fire in a Nichols Hills
residence late Saturday
morning caused an esti-
mated $25,000 in damage
and sent 35 firefighters
hurrying to the scene.
The blaze, confined to
ihe library of the Robert
D. Crowe home at 1702
Camden Way, apparently
was started by faulty elec-
trical wiring. E. D. Kirk-
patrick, Nichols Hills Fire
Chief said.
Chief Kirkpatrick said
all of the two-story nine-
room structure was hit by
smoko damage, but fire-
men were able to contain
the blaze to the library,
which is a front room.
The chief praised co-op-
erating fire departments
that sent companies to the
scene when he thought the
flames had spread more
dangerously.
Source Expects Weekend Announcement
Peace Breakthrough Reported
By Morton Kondracke
Chicago Sun-Times Service
WASHINGTON — A major break in Vietnam war
talks was “locked up” Thursday night and is supposed to
be announced this weekend, a Washington source says.
The well-informed source, who refused to be identi-
fied, said the announcement, by President Johnson,
would come Sunday night at the latest, provided the
agreement does not become ‘unlocked” by early disclo-
sure.
Terms of the plan could not be learned.
The Washington source said the peace plan had been
worked out by 1 p.m. Thursday, when President Johnson
said in a press conference there was “no basic change,
no breakthrough” In the negotiations. However, it was
locked up Thursday night, the source said, and awaited
only the president’s announcement.
The source said disclosure had been planned for
sometime Friday afternoon, Saturday or Sunday night.
He mentioned the possibility of a presidential address to
the nation Sunday night.
“Our department’s run-
ning a little short of men
and I didn't want to take
any chances. We called on
the Village and Oklahoma
City to send us some com-
panies, and they respond-
ed immediately," Chief
Kirkpatrick said.
Crowe, 69, a city attor-
ney, said he has lived in
the $60,000-dollar home
about six years. He was in
the basement when the
fire broke out.
“I heard something up-
stairs which sounded just
like an electrical shortage,
Picture on Page 2.
The source is a figure with experience in defense
and foreign policy.
3 Other Judges Approved
Humphrey
Gain Seen Bar Nixes Kirksey
By Gallup
and by the time I could get
to the stairway, smoke had
filled the place.
“I managed to make my
way out the kitchen door
to the back of the house,”
Crowe said.
The attorney said it ap-
peared the library was de-
stroyed, along with several
antiques and art objects.
"Some of those things
you can't put a price tag
on because of not only
Chicago Daily News Service
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.
— Hubert H. Humphrey has
made an impressive climb in
the latest Gallup poll.
The poll, scheduled for
publication Sunday, shows
that the Democratic presi-
dential candidate has gained
five points while Richard M.
Nixon has picked up one
point and George C. Wallace
has dropped five points
The gap between Hum-
phrey and his Republican ri-
val, which stood at 15 points
until early this week when it
dropped to 12 points, has
now gone down to eight
points, according to Hum'
phrey people.
They say that the poll
shows Nixon at 44 percent,
Humphrey at 36, Wallace at
15, with five percent unde-
cided.
At this stage of the race,
Humphrey is still the under
Oklahoma lawyers voted
more than two to one Sat-
urday that they do not
want Judge Kirksey Nix
retained on the court of
criminal appeals.
In a straw ballot of ac-
tive members of the Okla-
h o m a Bar Association,
1,719 lawyers voted
against retaining Nix on
the court and 778 voted in
favor of the controversial
judge.
The bar poll showed a
majority of the lawyers fa-
vored retention of three
supreme court judges, who
along with Nix, will be on
the ballot November 5 for
retention or rejection by
state voters.
The judges and votes for
Three Added
To Road Toll
STATE TRAFFIC TOLL
1967 to date: 749
1968 to date: 666
*68 deaths under 21: 179
Three more Oklahomans,
injured in separate acci-
dents, were added to the
state’s fatality toll Saturday
dog and Nixon the front-run- bringing the year’s death
Riggs, suffered face lacera-
tions and three broken ribs.
Riggs was cited for reckless
driving.
Young Watts was killed
and a companion, Bruce
Blakey, suffered a broken
leg when they were struck
(See THREE—Page 2)
their retention were Den-
ver Das ison, 1.713 yes and
776 no; Ralph Hodges,
2.155 yes and 314 no. and
Ben T. Williams, 1.865 yes
and 615 no.
The poll was conducted
by the OBA’s preferential
primary on the judiciary
committee. The balloting
was conducted under a
directive from the bar's
house of delegates.
A bar spokesman said
Saturday that 4,395 ballots
were mailed to each active
and senior member of the
bar in Oklahoma.
The votes, the spokes-
man said, do not constitute
an endorsement by the bar
association, but do show
the preference of each
lawyer polled.
The ballots were maikd
out October 14 and were
tabulated Saturday at the
Oklahoma Bar Center.
Nix was the only judge
present at the tabulation
Saturday, the spokesman
said. A law clerk for Judge
Davison was also present.
their real value, but the
sentimental v a 1 u e,” he
said.
Patrolman Jerry Koes-
tor of The Village police
department said officers
from The Village and
Oklahoma City also
worked together in assist-
ing the firefighters.
“The whole thing was a
joint effort by everyone,
and this fire could have
been much worse if it had
been handled otherwise,”
Koester said.
Red Attack
Is Smashed;
80 Killed
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Surviving the Northeast Airlines crash that killed
32 persons near Hanover, N. H., Friday night, stew-
ardess Betty Frail, 21, is taken to a Hanover hospital.
(AP Wirephoto)
Victim Lauds
Local: Fair Saturday
night and Sunday, turning
cold and windy Sunday.
South to southwest winds
8 to 15 mph. Overnight
lows near 40. High Sunday
upper 50's. (Details, Page
3.)
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ner, both camps agree
In the battle of the polls,
Humphrey always has done
better with Louis Harris
than George Gallup. A Har-
ris poll released early this
week, for example, showed
only a five point difference
between Nixon, rated at 40
percent and Humphrey 35
percent,
Gallup at the same time
was showing a 12-point dif-
ference between the two can-
didates.
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Hostess9 Help
HANOVER, N. H. (AP)
— The stewardess on the
Northeast Airlines plane
that crashed Friday night
was credited Saturday by
a survivor with saving
lives.
The airline also had high
Death List, Page 2
praise for the girl, Betty
Frail. 21, of Winthrop,
Mass., and Berkeley
Heights. N. J., and for a
physician, who also sur-
vived the crash, Dr. Rich-
ard L. Veech of Oxford,
England.
Thirty-two aboard the
plane were killed when it
Red Is Hospitalised
ROME (AP) — Luigi Lon-
go, secretary general of Ita
ly’s Communist Party, has
been hospitalized following a
month-long circulatory ail-
ment, it was disclosed Satur-
day.
count to 666.
Two of the victims died of
injuries suffered in accidents
Friday night and early Sat-
urday, and the Oklahoma
Highway patrol listed anoth-
er death from an accident
which occurred in Septem-
ber.
The dead:
CHARLES WATTS, 12,
McAlester.
CAROLYN ANN SIBAGE,
20, Pacola.
CHARLES HENRY, Lu-
ther.
Miss Sibage died at Has-
kell county hospital follow-
ing injuries sustained when
a car in which she was rid-
ing crashed into a bridge
abutment just east of Stigler
onSH9.
Driver of the car, Larry
Israelis Crush Demonstrations
JERUSALEM (AP) — Arab Jerusalem united with
the rest of occupied Jordan Saturday, staged demonstra-
tions against Israeli rule, and fought with soldiers and
police.
tered its stores and spurned its busiest shopping day of
the week.
Heavily armed troops and riot police wielding night
sticks and steel shields, clashed with the Arab demon-
strators at the gates of the Old City.
Armored water cannon sped to Damascus Gate as
several hundred Arabs struggled with police and sol-
diers.
Club-wielding paratroops fought to control the
crowds. A number of Arabs were loaded aboard cap-
tured Syrian troop carriers and whisked off.
The outbreak in Arab Jerusalem culminated about a
week of demonstrations against the occupation in the
west bank area of the River Jordan, a part of Jordan un-
til occupied in the June war of 1967.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned Arab leaders
Israel would react strongly if they failed to control their
people.
In an Interview with the state radio, Dayan warned
west bank leaders that “if you don’t preserve law and
order, we will."
The Israelis broke up the demonstration, blocked the
gateway, and patrolled the streets. Arab Jerusalem shut-
He charged the demonstrations were in support of
sabotage organizations and President Gamal Abdel Nas-
ser of Egypt.
crashed in a heavy fog into
2,700-foot Moose Mountain
near Hanover, N. H. The
plane carried 39 passen-
gers and a crew of three.
Ten survived.
Miss Frail was the only
crew member to survive.
Mrs. Marietta Nettl, 41,
of Brighton, England, said
Miss Frail, despite a bro-
ken leg, remained calm
and saved lives by opening
a rear cargo door of the
plane so Mrs. Nettl and
others could get out.
Mrs. Nettl's husband.
Prof. T. P. Nettl, was
killed in the crash. The
couple also had a home in
Philadelphia. They were en
route from the University
of Pennsylvania to Dart-
mouth College for a con-
ference.
Dr. Veech suffered a
broken back in the crash,
but directed rescuers in
giving first aid to other
survivors.
"I'm especially proud of
our own Northeast stew-
ardess, Miss Betty Frail,
who ignored her own bro-
ken leg to help other pas-
sengers to safety,” said
George B. Storer sr„
board chairman of the air-
line.
Storer also praised vol-
unteer workers, firemen,
police and doctors and
nurses for their help after
the crash.
SAIGON (AP) — A strong
enemy force attacked L. S.
troops Saturday, 59 miles
north of Saigon, but was
beaten back with heavy cas-
ualties. It was the first ene-
my-initiated combat in a
month, coinciding with state- 3
ments from Hanoi rejecting J
U. S. peace overtures.
American spokesmen said
about 200 enemy, supported
by a mortar barrage, at-
tacked a bivouac position of |
U. S. 1st Division infantry-
men two miles from the
Cambodian border. Eighty
enemy bodies were found
later.
Explosions Triggered
The attack followed an ar-
tillery barrage on Viet Cong
base camps in the area that
triggered 128 secondary ex-
plosions, indicating that siza-
ble munitions dumps were
blown up.
The storage site was seven
miles east of the Katum Spe-
cial Forces camp, a frequent
target of enemy shellings.
The spokesmen also re-
ported that allied troops
killed 46 enemy for every
American or allied soldier
lost in combat in the past
two days, an extraordinarily
high kiil ratio.
U. S. Losses Told
In Saturday’s battle. U. S.
losses were five killed and 28
wounded.
A senior American spokes-
man said he did not consider
today’s fighting an end to the
month-long lull in the ground
war. He said he didn't think
the enemy attack was pre-
meditated.
“I think this is a tradition-
1 al Viet Cong infiltration
route." he said. “The 1st Di-
vision troops probably just
got in the way. Any time we
get into an area where they
don’t want us, they’ll fight.”
Foe’s Toll Rises
Saturday's battle raised to
516 the number of enemy
troops killed since Friday.
Military spokesmen said
963 enemy have been killed
in the past five days across
South Vietnam.
Striking from land, sea
and air, allied forces killed
436 enemy Friday in two bat-
tles along a 260-mile stretch
of coast from the demilitar-
ized zone to Nha Trang.
Troops of the U. S. 5th |
Mechanized Infantry Divi-«
sion, supported by jet fight- ^
er-bombers, helicopter gun-
ships. artillery and offshore
bombardments from the bat-
tleship New Jersey, decimat-
ed more than half of an esti-
mated 400-strong North Viet-
namese force.
BULLETIN
TEL AVIV (AP) — An
hour-long artillery battle
raged the entire length of
the Suez Canal Saturday,
leasing six Israeli soldiers
killed and seven wounded,
the army announced.
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