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Our Ships of State
Have Sprung a Leak
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By Juha Hnirtt
The nearly 3.IXXI w indows
in Oklahoma'* $10 million,
six-year-old capital office
building* are leaking wa-
ter all over the place.
The leaks have been so
bad that the state Is spend-
ing $32,500 to fix them.
Workmen now are caulk-
ing each window in both
the Sequoyah and Will
Rogers Memorial Build-
ings.
The structures were built
for $5 million each and
were dedicated by former
Gov. J. Howard Edmond-
son in 1962.
But for the last year,
rain water has been seep-
ing through the windows
where the old caulking has
chipped away.
The water caused severe
damage to rugs and drapes
throughout the buildings.
Herman D. Cherry,
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Windows at state eapitol office buildings are being
caulked to keep out the rain.
Reds Menace
Big Air Base
SAIGON (AP) — South Vietnamese military head-
quarters reported Tuesday that aerial observers had
sighted several Communist anti-aircraft guns menacing
a section of Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Air Basp. South Viet-
namese bombers were sent to destroy them.
Two enemy rockets hit the base Tuesday, but no cas-
ualties or damage were reported.
A Vietnamese spokesman said the gun positions were
spotted about 2,i> miles south of the air base, one of the
busiest in thp world, which came under heavy rocket at-
tack Sunday during the Communists’ "second wave" of-
fensive.
A government spokesman said he did not know defi-
nitely how many guns were spotted. He said they were
seen 2'^ hours after a battalion of South Vietnamese
Rangers patroling Saigon’s western suburbs ran into a
Communist force of unknown size in the same area.
Fighting intensified, and another battalion of Rangers
moved in to reinforce.
Military spokesmen said the Communists broke con-
tact after nearly two hours of heavy fighting and tried to
pull out to the northeast. U. S. helicopter gunships raked
their positions.
Unofficial reports circulated that the Communists
(See REDS—Page 2)
maintenance superintend-
ent, said rain* have kept
hi* employes busy.
Mop Crew Busy
"I sometime* have had
people working through the
night mopping up floor*."
Cherry said. "The water
would just come through
and we'd have to man the
mops."
It got so bad. Cherry
said, that in one period at
least two men were on con-
stant alert during rains.
The problem, he said, is
particularly bad when
there is wind. On the north
end of both the Sequoyah
and Will Roger* building*,
water blew in and stained
carpets and drapes.
The office of IJovd Ra-
der, director of the state
welfare department, was
drenched last year.
"We had to have some of
the drapes replaced, they
were so stained," Rader’s
secretary said.
Two months ago the cap-
itol improvement authority
board met to wrestle the
problem.
Rader and John N.
"Happy" Camp approved
the contract for recaulking
the hexagonal-shaped win-
dows on the five-story
buildings.
Contract went to West-
ern Water Proofing. Inc.,
of Oklahoma City.
On dedication, the two
buildings were praised as
models of functional and
a rchit ec t ura 1 solida rity.
built to last a long time.
The fact is. C h e r r y
states, neither building has
given much trouble the
last six years.
"The only trouble has
been with water leaks." he
said.
Cherry said it should be
another 15 years before the
buildings need servicing
again.
I.ast summer the state
was out $3,000 when ihe
tunnel connecting both
buildings began to seep
water.
Cherry's staff repaired
the trouble itself and saved
the state money.
Western Waterproofing
has been at work on the
Sequoyah Building three
weeks.
Work has been delayed.
Cherry said, because pul-
ley motors on the scaffold-
ing have shorted out at
times because of rain or
snow.
The firm is under con-
tract to seal all of the glass
that joins the metal on the
outside of the building. The
company must first, of
course, remove the old
caulking.
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Senate Snubs Wanting
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leaking window* like Ihi* one at (lie Will
Memorial Building are catting Ihe stale $32,560.
Roger*
The stale senate Ignored
warnings Tuesday that it
was wrecking the eapitol
and medical center zoning
programs, and passed a
bill raising pay of the state
tax commission secretary
$9,(MM) a year
The measure (SB 646)
would give M ('. Conners
a $19.fXI<t salary as tax
commission secretary and
secretary of the state Capi-
tol improvement and zon-
ing commission.
Sen. Roy Boecher ID-
Kingfisher), author of the
bill, said il was drawn in
the attorney general s of-
fice to get around a consti-
tutional ban against tai*-
ing an officer * pay during
hi* present term of office.
Sen. Bryce Baggett <l>-
Oklahoma City), said he
was in sympathy with the
purpose but "I had no
idea you were going to de-
stroy the eapitol zoning
and improvement commis-
sion.”
"This is the secretary
who handles the zoning of
all the land in the eapitol
area." Baggett went on.
"|i i* a very substanti.il
job. and there is the job of
secretary of the medieal
center zoning commission
ihai goes wiih it."
Baggett said the zoning
areas stretch trom NE 28
to NE 10. and the change
in secretaries "will cause
a substantial problem in
slate government."
"If the secretary of the
tax commission has a job
now . he is going to have to
neglect it or neglect hi*
new job." he said of the
zoning secretaryship.
Two weeks ago, Irvin
Hurst, who has served free
a* secretary of the two
zoning commissions for 14
years. tried again to resign
and blasted Tuesday's
measure as an evasion of
(.See RAISES—Page t)
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Compromise Sets Stage
For Bartlett Showdown
It’s Shattering
Dragnet Race
Trips Suspect
Notes Lost
All Up
In Air
A downtown
City theft suspect was cap-
tured Tuesday after a
full-dress Dragnet chase
through an office building,
a glass-shattering escape
and a footrace.
Police credited employes
of the C. R. Anthony office
building. 701 N Broadway,
with speedy action against
the intruder.
Workers spotted him in a
fourth floor mail room,
called police, blocked off
the elevators, forced the
man down backstairs and
trapped him in the locked
first floor lobby.
Desperate for an escape
route, the man picked up a
cigaret sand box. heaved it
through a plate glass win-
K> Mike Hammer
Oklahoma dow. jumped through the
window and ran with two
employes and police on his
heels.
Sgt. A. T. Brixey. patrol
division, finally cornered
Cleveland Austin, 41. of 326
NE 11. in the 100 block NW
8 after chasing him
through an alley.
Austin cut his hand when
he dived through the win-
dow. He was treated at
Mercy Hospital and booked
at city jail on complaints
of assault with intent to
kill and grand larceny.
A woman employe, iden-
tified as Doris Daniels,
who was allegedly knocked
down by the suspect as he
(See CHASE—Page 2)
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C. R. Anthony employe* sweep up piece* of gla**
affer *u*pected thief broke window to e*oapc office
building. (Staff Photo by lim Argo)
Killer Quake Rips Greek, Turk Areas
ATHENS (AP) — A shattering earthquake
killed at least 14 persons in Greece and Turkey
early Tuesday.
Hardest hit were the Greek northern Spo-
rade Islands in the Aegean Sea where reports
said 13 persons were killed and 18 injured. All
of the dead and 15 of the injured were on the
island of Ayios Evstratios.
The Anatolia news agency of Turkey said a
woman was killed by falling debris in her
home at Pergamum. 62 miles north of the Ae-
gean Sea port of Izmir. The quake was felt
over a wide area in Turkey as well as Greece.
The Greek destroyer Miaoulis reached
Ayios Evstratios with tents and medical sup-
plies and reported the casualties II said 80 per-
cent of the homes on the island, a former de-
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piece of our luggage lit Minneapolis, Minn., and we filed
a claim. We claimed $83.95 for the bag and clothing and
81,500 for two loo*e leaf notebook* with typed note* that
represented two year* of research and considerable
travel. The airline paid me the $83.95, but they will not
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We took your complaint directly to Harding Law-
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fice has now been In touch with you. He explains the air-
line did not allow your claim for the notebook loss be-
cause they cannot accept such an arbitrary value as-
signed by a customer to business documents or research
(See ACTION 1,1 NE—Page 2)
A Cold
Shoulder
Oklahoma’s one-day ro-
mance with spring will end
abruptly Wednesday. A cold
front is expected to bring
much colder temperatures to
all sections and a chance of
snow flurries in the north,
the weather bureau said.
The weatherman said Wed-
nesday afternoon's high tem-
peratures will be more than
30 degrees colder than Tues-
day’s mild highs in the north
and 20 degrees or more cold-
er in other rpgions.
Wednesday’s highs are ex-
peeled to range from the low
30s in the north to near 50 in
the south. Tuesday’s highs
were forecast in the high 60s
to the low 70s statewide.
Wednesday morning's tem-
peratures are to range from
18 in the northwest nnd Pan-
handle to the low 3fls in the
south.
Oklahoma City's outlook
for Wednesday is for cloudy
skies nnd a high of 40 afler
an overnight low of 28.
Economy Bill
Bites the Dust
The house banks and bank- met, then went into execu-
ing committee killed a bill j five session to kill the bill.
Tuesday that would have
amended the state's un-
claimed property law.
The bill, a key plank in
Gov. Bartlett’s program,
would have lowered the
amount of property exempt-
ed from $25 to $5.
House minority leader
James Connor (R-
Bartlesville), said Monday
he had requested a public
hearing on the bill for Tues-
day morning. The committee
The bill is one ot eight of
Bartlett's so-called economy
measures that likely will
die in Democratic-eontrolled
Talk Curb
Bid Fails
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
move to cut off senate de-
bate and bring civil rights
legislation to a vote failed
Tuesday.
A two-thirds majority of
senators voting was required
to pul the senate's debate-
dosing cloture rule into ef-
fect .
The vote was a heavy, and
house committees Tuesday, possibly, fatal blow to the!
Bills not acted on Tuesday administration-backed meas-
will die under house rules
Another of Bartlett's hills
— transferring $2.5 million in
gasoline taxes from county
commissioners to common
urn.
Only Monday President
Johnson called the legisla-
tion a vital step toward
achieving equality for all clt-
schools — also Is expected to Izens.
die In committee. I Democratic Lender Mike
[Mansfield of Montana, who
■ - ♦»> * Initiated the cloture mm e
. , , j hut anticipated its defeat, in-
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tention camp for political exiles were destroyed
or damaged. The island now has a population
of about l.tXK).
The quake was centered in the northern
Aegean Sea between northeast Greece and
western Turkey.
Reports to national police headquarters
said 7D percent of the homes on ihe island of
I.imnos were destroyed or
made uninhabitable, but
there were no reports of
serious casualties there.
Three Greek warships
were en route to I.imnos
and Ayios Evstratios with
medical supplies and tents.
Strong earth tremors
also were felt in western
Turkey, along the Aegean
const and in Istanbul. Tur-
key's Kandilli Observatory
siiid the biggest quake had
a force of 9 on the 12-point
Mercalli scale, which rates
tremors according to po-
tential damage effect.
In Lim nos, residents fled
from their homes. There
were reports of slight dam-
age in Turkish areas along
ihe Aegean and the Darda-
nelles, and the population
panicked in Adapazari,
near Istanbul, where more
than 100 persons were
killed in a quake last July.
After the firs: quake
about 1 a.m.. aftershocks
continued.
The northern Aegean
urea was devastated by an
ear iiquake in the spring of
1965. Scores were killed
and 30,000 made homeless
School Aid
Question
Absolved
By Hugh Hall
Legislative leaders hav*
reached a compromise giv-
ing common schools $23 mil-
lion more, granting teacher*
a $1,000 pay raise spread
over two years and setting
the stage for a showdown
with Gov. Bartlett. It wa*
learned Tuesday.
The school aid bill is part
of the tax-spending package
the legislature is expected to
pass on to the governor In
the next few days.
‘Worked Out'
The house has passed ciga-
ret and liquor taxes that
would rise an estimated $23
million. Clem McSpadden,
president pro tempore of the
senate, said the senate will
an on the bills Wednesday
or Thursday.
Of the $23 million, nearly
$20 million would go to com-
mon schools and the remain-
der would be the city share
of the liquor tax.
"We've got it pretty well
worked out." McSpadden
said.
Veto Possible
Democratic lawmaker*
conceded Bartlett might veto
the package, but Sen. Al Ter-
rill (D-Lawton). chairman of
the senate education com-
mittee. said. "We need to
find nut where the governor
stands so we can write a pro-
gram."
i Tentative terms of the
! school bill agreement Tues-
day werp reported to be:
ONE — Incentive aid will
be increased from the pres-
ent $32 to $57 per pupil, as
approved by the senate last
week.
TWO — Districts will he
required to vote the full 5-
mill emergency levy in order
I to qualify for incentive aid.
The senate’s requirement for
Ihe full 10-mill local support
levy to qualify was stricken.
Presently. $5 Incentive aid is
paid for each mill of the 5-
imill emergency levy a dis-
trict votes.
THREE — Starting mini-
(See MONEY—Page 2)
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CLOUDY
dicaled in advance his next
move would depend on the!
closeness of the vote.
Jupun to Give Aid
TOK O (Reuters) — The
Japanese government has
decided to give emergencyt
medical aid worth $55,(XXI
dollars to South Vietnam. I
(See QUAKE—JJage 2) 1
Local: Cloudy nnd cold-
er overnight nnd Wednes-
day. Overnight low 28.
High Wednesday near 4(1.
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