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4 Friday. April 13, 1968 OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
Sooner Capsules
Threats Hit 1
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Rep. Smith j
Rep. E. W. Smith, who removed his name from
a house-passed resolution honoring the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, received two threatening phone calls
Thursday, police reported Friday.
Police said an unidentified man called Thursday
night, threatening to bomb Smith's home, after the Okla-
homa County Democrat quietly took his name from the
resolution which was sent to the King family.
An earlier call, from a woman, warned Smith of pos-
sible beatings.
Smith was not at home when the calls came, police
said. The calls were taken by Smith's two daughters.
Smith had no comment.
Police said one daughter said she took the first call
at 5 p.m. She told officers a woman, using vulgar lan-
guage, said she was coming over to beat up Smith.
Later, another daughter took a call from a man who
said a bomb would be thrown at the home.
That Old Week of Mine
Local harmonize rs will
tune up beginning Sunday
as the Society for the Pres-
ervation and Encourage-
ment of Barber Shop Quar-
tet Singing in America
celebrates its 30th anniver-
nary with “Harmony
Week.”
The SPEBSQSA boasts a
total of 30,000 members in
the United States and Can-
ada with 65 in the Oklaho-
ma City chapter.
The city group, organ-
ized since 1939. meets ev-
ery Monday at 7:30 p.m. at
t h e Oklahoma-Sheraton
Hotel.
Strike to Affect 173
A threatened strike next Thursday by the Communi-
cations Workers of America would affect Western Elec-
tric Co. installers in Oklahoma, it was reported Friday.
Ken Goble, area representative for the western dis-
trict of the CWA in Oklahoma, said 173 persons would be
affected in his district.
Goble said 75 operators and maintenance workers in
Oklahoma City would honor Western Electric picket
lines but that local or long distance telephone service
would not be hampered.
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Car Almost Passed Up
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OLD FRIENDSHIPS were renewed by the dozens Friday as Capitol Hill High
School alumni met at the school for their annual reunion. Mrs. Ann (Hood)
Lambert, class of ’53, and Mrs. Leila Frazier, her former sewing teacher, en-
joy discussing old times and looking at a home economics display. The day will
end with a 7:30 p.m. banquet. (Times Staff Photo by Robert Tayior.)_
Oil Reports
Garfield
Producer
Is Added
Basin Petroleum Corp.
completed the No. 26-1
Agnes in C NE SE of
26-20n-7w, in the Sooner
Trend area of Garfield
County.
The Mississippi at 7.066 to
7,348 feet and the Manning
at 6,764 to 6.804 feet were
commingled to flow’ 94 bar-
rels of 40-degree gravity oil
with 60 barrels of water per
day through a 24/64-inch
choke. The 51 j-inch pipe was
set on bottom at 7,730 feet.
Tt«M Csunty - Hamilton Brothers and
Ohio Fuel No. 1-15 Rumple in C NE SW
of 15-an-lleCm, inCafthaoe heid. «’
5Vj-inch pip* on bottom at 6.475 feet.
Oklelwma County - , ^.cAnjnc£
No. 1 Kathleen in NE SE ofn^Un-le. m
the Luther fitW. was abandoned at 4,TOO
Troop Call-Up
Benefits Seen
Kennedy Attends Rite
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in-
terrupted his public cam
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Ipaigning Friday to attend
The call-up of 24.500 reserve ^j!^gay serv>C!!
troops "is a means of guar-]
anteeing that if we go into
negotiations (in Vietnam)
we will be talking from a po-
sition of positive strength,”
state department official
said Thursday.
Eugene V. Rostow, under-
secretary of state for politi-
cal affairs, was keynote
speaker at a conference
sponsored by the University
of Utah’s Institute of Inter-
national Relations.
ATLANTA (AP) - An
Atlanta minister's call to
police led the FBI to the
white Mustang automobile
sought in connection with
the slaying of Dr. Martin
Luther King jr.
But Rev. Ike Powell, a
Methodist minister, admits
that he almost failed to
call the police at all.
“It’s funny how you al-
most don’t want to call in
on something like this. It’s
such a big world, and
there are so many white
Mustangs. It could be any
one of them. I came within
just a hair of not talking to
the police," he said Fri-
day.
The car had been parked
since Friday in the park-
ing lot of a public housing
project near the Georgia
state capitol. Powell said a
member of his church
called him about it. urging
that he call police.
Residents in the housing
project said that the car
had the same Alabama li-
cense number as that giv-
en out by the FBI. The
FBI first issued a "locate"
order Friday afternoon for
Erie Starve Galt, a Bir-
m i n g h a m. Ala., white
man, with the car license
number.
The bulletin was distrib-
uted on the Florida police
teletype, then withdrawn
with the explanation that it
was released by mistake.
“It had two stickers on it
which said ’Turista,' and
I think the policemen said
they were Mexico inspec-
tion stickers," Powell said,
adding that the car was
locked. Earlier reports in-
dicated the investigation
had spread to Mexico.
Powell said he received
a telephone call Wednes-
day night about the car
and then went over Thurs-
day morning to take a look
for himself before calling
police.
“They sent two detec-
tives over there and two
more came while we were
there. They went over it,
checked around and didn't
appear too excited.
•About five o’clock
someone from the commu-
nity called me and said the
FBI was all over the
place." Powell said.
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Havoood in C NVi S'
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Hart at M44-TO feet a
A Somber Symbol
Somber symbol of the saddest day in
Christendom is a life-size crucifix loom-
ing over the Abbey cemetery at St. Greg-
ory’s College. Widespread services
marked Good Friday, as Oklahomans re-
called the agony of crucifixion and looked
toward a day of Easter rejoicing Sunday.
Bus Grant Nears Reality
Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Au-
thority moved closer Friday to receiving a federal grant
to purchase buses it now leases.
The authority voted to accept a grant of $454,480
which would be matched by city funds in the same
amount.
This is a reduction from the orignal $484,000 COTPA
had orginally sought from the federal government.
Bernard Robb, executive director of COTPA, said he
had been informed by officials of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development that COTPA accept-
ance is required prior to approval.
Robb was instructed to inform HUD officials that the
amount is acceptable if the money can be made avail-
able prior to May 1. City Bus Co., which owns the buses,
has agreed to sell them for $774,500, if the sale can be
made by May 1. Its earlier agreement with COTPA was
a sale price of $803,493 on May 1.
Women to ‘Swing’
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Garfield County — Bialk Oil No. 2 Ayel
Unit in NVj SE SE of
Sooner Trend area, was testing tri* Hun-
ton opened et 7,643-73 feet.
Lincoln County — Bulk Oil No. l Reed
In CSE NW of 6-15n*4e, ebout emilo
eest of Mount Vernon, was ebandoned af-
ter logsine at 4.121 feet.
itSun1 sl*SV^oT 2?17rWe?'in^me^uJshina
field, set 7-inch pipe et 2,554 feel after
logging at 2,730 feet.
LePlero County — Pen American Pe*
ITT 2^«y r«EK
itTiKKr0**per,<
OalTSnifr? NE of W-ltnTaw. ?n° th,
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Patrol
Aids Cow
GUTHRIE — Oklahoma
Highway Patrol Lt. Tom
Johnson extended his duties
Friday to the Cimarron Riv-
er bed to launch a rescue ef-
fort for a cow stuck in quick
sand.
Guthrie Police said they
were called into the opera-
tion only long enough to noti-
fy the cow’s owner of the an-
imal’s predicament.
The owner was identified
as Jack Silvers, who farms
inorth of Guthrie. A relative
| said Friday Silvers had gone
to the cow’s rescue.
Johnson reported he was
patrolling on 1-35 north of
Guthrie when he saw a cow
trapped in quicksand on the
north side of the Cimarron.
Johnson then radioed for
aid. Rescue operations were
continuing at noon.
Students Use
Video Tapes
CAMPBRIDGE, Mas s.
(AP) — Student teachers at
Lesley College are using vid-
eo tapes of their teaching
sessions.
Faculty members evaluate
the student performances
while both watch the replay.
A aeries of five weekly
golf infltruction classes for
women, sponsored by the
city parks and recreation
will begin
at Trooper
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daring the half hoar
to clast time which
begins at 9:30 a.m.
Classes during following
weeks will be conducted at
different coarsen in the
city with golf pros giving
the {attraction. The
classes will he conducted*
at Hefner, Lincoln aad
Quail Creek golf courses.
Fee for the course la H.
‘Messengers of God’
A 40-member costumed cast Sunday will present an
BMtnr pageant, “Messengers of God," at 11 a.m. in the
Mditorlum of Faith Tabernacle Assembly of God, 1110
MW 2.
Mrs. S. J. Scott, who for several years presented
■titer pageants in the old municipal auditorium, has
mitten the pageant, which will feature music from var-
the wife of Rev. 8. J. Scott, the
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1968, newspaper, April 12, 1968; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc993223/m1/4/?q=music&rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.