Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 322, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1968 Page: 4 of 64
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When she walked out the back door of her home
in nonhwest Oklahoma City this week. Mrs. Gertrude
Marleau had to look twice to be sure her eyes weren’t
playing tricks.
They weren't. Where 30 feet of cyclone fence had
stood was nothing but empty space. Some time during
the night, thieves had struck with a pair of wirecut-
ters.
Mrs. Marleau. of 1134 NW 10. said her dog was
the first to learn of the fence theft. He had rambled
freely through the neighborhood for several hours be-
fore the Marleaus arose.
Mrs. Marleau said apparently these were the kind
of burglars that would also steal your kitchen sink.
Silencers Inoperative
• An expert gunsmith wit-
ness testified in the federal
court trial Thursday of
Don W. Hawkins. 32, that
two of the .22 caliber rifle
'silencers he is charged
with illegally possessing
are inoperative.
Testifying was James A.
Marlar, 1501 SW 61, as
Hawkins’ trial went into its
second day before U. S.
District Judge Fred A.
Daugherty and a jury.
The government rested
its case late Thursday
morning and Marlar was
qualified as an expert wit-
ness by Frank Grayson,
Hawkins' attorney.
Hawkins was one of sev-
en men arrested in a series
of gun raids last Septem-
ber and officers claim they
found three silencers in
various stages of manufac-
ture in Hawkins’ garage.
Around the State . . •
OKLAHOMA native Mert Proctor jr. has been named
new managing editor of European edition of The Stars
and Stripes, the armed forces daily published in Germa-
ny . . .
• DURANT councllmen are studying federal rent sub-
• sidy program that would involve 100-unit development
costing about $1 million . . .
STILLWATER meeting is scheduled March 16 and 17
r for medical assistants from across state with Dr. Mal-
.' colm Phelps, El Reno physician who is vice president of
.- American Medical Association, to speak on medical care
in Vietnam . . .
• Gun Jury Being Formed
A federal court jury wart
being impaneled Thursday
to hear a charge of illegal
gun possession filed
against Phillip Duane
Neel, 29.
Neel was one of seven
men arrested in a series of
raids last September 20 in
which a number of alleged
Illegal automatic weapons
were seized.
Neel is charged with pos-
session and selling three
fully automatic guns; with
failing to pay 9200 taxes on
the guns and with failing
to file a written declara-
tion of his Intent to make
such firearms.
He Is charged with pos-
sessing and selling two
30-callber rifles and one
6.5mm Belgian sub-
machine gun.
It’s Easy as Failin’ Off a Limb
At last! City hall has come up with a housing pro-
ject that can be done without struggling through
public hearings, zoning hassles and Indignation peti-
tions.
Anyone can build the housing any size he pleases,
anywhere he chooses. And tenants can be white,
black, yellow, red or blue-and-white stripedy.
We refer, of course, to the annual bird house con-
test, sponsored by the city parks and recreation de-
partment along with the state wildlife commission
and Oklahoma City Audubon Society.
Entries are due at the Will Rogers Park Garden
Exhibit Center between 1 and 6 p.m. Friday. They’ll
be on public display there from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat-
urday and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Judge Applications Due
:
* Applications for assocl-
* ate Judge of the municipal
{.court are due by Friday,
the chairman of a review
board named by the city
council said Thursday.
Ed Molar, who heads the
committee which is to re-
view applicants, said the
group has four applications
for the Job left vacant by
the recent dismissal of for-
mer Judge E. B. Lee.
The deadline was extend-
ed a week in an effort to
get more, Molar said.
Applications should 'be
sent to Moler at his law of-
fice in Liberty Bank Build-
ing.
Salary Is $11,496 a year.
Capital Leaders Blast »
Bartlett’s ‘Gimmickry’
By Hugh Hall
Legislative leaders served
notice on Gov. Bartlett
Thursday that they want
none of his "dollar gimmick-
ry.” but will insist on a firm
TAKING ADVANTAGE of the Oklahoma City VMCA’s hospitality. State Sens.
Joe McGraw. left, John Luton and Jack Short run for their lives iu the 1 gym-
nasium. Along with Sen. Ted Findeiss. they authored a newly passed senate
resolution of thanks for the Vs invitation to legislators to join in its health pro-
grams. ___
tide presented newspaper] He said ,h<* governor's
editorials both for and "so-called compromise pro-
against the governor in the| gram based on only a dgaret
present school crisis. tax increase was not pro-
Before the spate of oratory
ended. Sen. Bryce Baggett
tax basis for a new schoolj (D-Oklahoma City) told the
program now in embryonic senate the governor's opposi-
. «nw in/.pn'icn
stage.
Senate President Pro Tern-
pore Clem McSpadden (D-
Chelsea) accused the Repub-
lican governor of trying to
base a school finance com-
bring havoc.
"We have written a fiscal-
lv-responsible program, and
posed until after the legisla-
ture sent him its program
Sen. Roy Grantham <D.
Ponca City) said he was con-
cerned over what he consid-^
lion to a liquor tax increase. ------- • .
but support of a cigaret tax erod grossly inadequate
fncreastV should be looked funding of higher edueat on
into by the public. °f ,h“
In what he said was bring- the present pro-
- ----- ing "the senate and the peo- , ,h <aid ..
promise on an "My ’ moneyL*. up „, date. McSpadden,J ’ ^ about a mile of
base that could dtssdve and repeatedly told fellow sena-^ j(j parh county of ,ho
tors that the majority party
had been fiscally responsible ^ bj|||on dnl)ars to brl
by proposing more taxes to
. _ ---- uy jm *■ ----—
it was rejected." he said in finance more e d u c a t ion
reference to the governor's spending,
veto of the legislature s tax Thpn he Joro in(0 lb(. R0V
hike-school package. lernor's claims that the exec
"So we start over aeain ,utivo-s economy-in-govern
... but we cannot buy a men( program woUid help fi
|program written on dollarjnance a bigger budget with
gimmickry and hypotheti- QU| morp taxeg.
Doctor Due Disciplining
[cals."
Such oratorical outbursts
as Thursday's has been
symptomatic in the past of
senate chafing under what it
Greeting Changed
WASHINGTON <AP> — considered rough treatment
out more taxes.
He said most of the Bart-
lett economy proposals are
good, but "they will not . . .
in the immediate future re
CALCUTTA (Reuters) — A said the doctor carried out The telephone operator who,*1™" a governor
doctor who sterilized a 15-the operation on the basis of — For
year-old boy in the belief he
, , , , . ,lt> | For his part. House Speak-
brightly answered Romney pr Rpx pr|veU said ,ha) body
agent paid by the govern-
was a 33-year-old father of ment t0 procure volunteers
four will be disciplined, the f0r sterilization under its
West Bengal government an- birth control program
nounced Thursday. | The agent has since disap-
A government spokesman ;>eared. he added.
for President” on Wednes-
day said only “737-7828"
when the phone rang Thurs-
day at the Washington head-
quarters of the Michigan
governor.
will insist on air-tight financ-
ing of a new school program.
McSpadden's statement
came after a duel of edito-
rials between senate Demo-
crats and Republicans. Each
each county of the
It would take half
a billion dollars to
(present) roads up to stand-
ard.”
"We do have to be con-
cerned about an over-all pro-
gram . . . and until we do.
we are not doing the job
added Sen. Gene Sti|>e (l)-^p
McAlester).
Sen. Phil Smalley (I>-
Norman) said some of the
senate had been accused of
playing politics, but he was
ready to write a 3-year pro-
iu ----- l frtU > iu M
lease money for (appropria- „ram for teacher pay "if a
tion). 13-year program can be fi-
"Never one time did poli- named."
tics enter into the writing of Sen. Robert Murphy (D-
a program for education." Stillwater), who also repre-
he said. sents a university, told Smnl-
lie referred to the school ley it would take S25 million
finance, liquor and cigaret in new money to keep higher
tax increase bills the gover- education from slipping even
nor vetoed Tuesday. further back.__
Braniff introduces
Ground Speed
Air speed is the rate at which our planes fly
you from one airport to another.
Ground Speed is our system of getting you
through the airport to our planes.
The theory behind Ground Speed is simply this:
If we make it faster and easier for you to fly with
us, you will.
FASTPACK—Packages of tickets which you
use as you need them.
With Fastpack, you can write your own
tickets, instead of standing in line waiting for us to
write them.
FASTCHECK—Our advance baggage
checking system which lets you walk out of your
car, drop your bag at the counter, and zoom
onto the plane.
We get your luggage to the right plane, and
make sure it gets off where you do.
FASTFAST—We’ve scheduled our flights to
leave when most people want to go.
We’ve scheduled every aspect of our operation
at airports to make them faster.
An airport may be a nice place to visit, but
you wouldn’t want to live there.
Braniff International.
Daily flight to Washington,D.G
4 Thurs., Feb. 29. 1968
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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
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I Sooner Capsule*
City to Host
I
jGen. Hershey
E Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service
director, will be featured speaker at the March 8 Friday
Forum of the Chamber of Commerce, Stanton L. Young,
chamber president, said Thursday.
Young said Gen. Hershey will have a "timely" mes-
sage and is expected to discuss current draft procedure*
and problems.
Gen. Hershey became deputy director of selective
service in 1940 aiid became director in 1941.
Hockey Treat Ahead
Thousands of Oklahoma
City Youngsters will be
able to see their first hock-
ey game in a project an-
nounced Thursday by the
Youth Counseling and
Child Development Center.
Sponsors said the center
has arranged for 4,000 tick-
ets to the city Blazers*
March 10 match with Fort
Worth. Groups and firms
are being invited to buy-
ticket blocs for the chil-
. dren.
Capt. Gene Goold, police
training director, said cen-
ter officials came up with
the idea after the success-
ful police-sponsored chil-
dren's “fly-over.”
Tickets will be distribut-
ed through the police com-
munity relations division
and a number of agencies
working with youngsters
who suffer poverty or oth-
er handicaps. A rebate on
each ticket will go to the
year-old center’* tight
budget.
The Oklahoma Mental
Health Council, center
co-sponsor, is doing the
canvassing for ticket do-
nors. Anyone wishing to
help may call Miss Fran
Morris at the center.
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