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Saturday. Aug. 17. 1968 OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
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Politics Joins
Sit-In Parade
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The Oklahoma City Ne-
groes who 10 years ago
made history wilh the first
sit-in demonstration in
America, celebrated their
victory Saturday in down-
town Oklahoma City.
There were probably more
cars, trucks and people
decked out in political pos-
ters than others in the regal-
ia of the true celebration.
Political candidates from
l’. S. Senate down to a court-
Bound Woman
Puzzles Police
northwest ( reluctant to give
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found early Saturday men because of limited
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Oklahoma
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'°?"h« .aid ,h.. .... ten* te*o « two* » Bte
Who lives in the 2.100 blockjsympathy frum the woman*
NW 17, was found by ar-
mored car d river, Elzy
A band atop a truck bed ly race were present or had
strummed strident sounds. | representatives on hand.
Three motorcyclists billed "We can stop crime in ihp
“Magic Wheels" rolled nois-jst 1 c e t s, looting, trouble."
ily out in front. came the voice from the
Behind them, falling into loudspeaker,
obedient and jubilant line. Norman Move Urged
came the trailing cavalcade1 "We can do this by mak-
of civil rights workers, polit-
icians and supporters of thoj
lllth annual celebration of1
the first Negro sit-in of a,
business in Oklahoma City
It all unfolded at 10:45
ing America what it should
be. We are now celebrating
our 10th anniversary of our
sit-ins without going to jail.
That's freedom!"
Along Robert S. Kerr Ave.
j husband. But Farrar said hp
land Guiierres had to cut the
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a m. with the "Freedom were a few people, uncheer-
Fiesta" parade in downtown, ing but watching.
Oklahoma City.
While it commemorated a
civil rights milestone in
A University of Oklahoma
sociology professor and his:
family walked along the i
Kent Murphy, 10, left, and 11-year-old David Davis
complete platform arrangements for rally following
Saturday’s parade. (Times Staff Photo by Tony Wood.)
Oklahoma City, the cava!- route carrying a sign:
cade was heavily larded
with political entries.
Hunt
(Continued From Page I)
these elected officials a
hearing, because they
would make their decision
look more democratic."
the release continued.
The "firing squad."
Hunt said, indicated that
Oblahoma voters were stu-
pid and ignorant.
He said the four were
not impressed with his 26
years experience in the in-
surance department nor
the thousands of people his
office had helped.
Hunt was pretty sore the
subcommittee couldn’t ap-
preciate the S164 million
profit he says his office
has “turned over" to the
state.
Furthermore, of all
America's slate insurance
commissioners, he oper-
ates with the lowest budg-
et’.
Hunt, who has b n
known to fire out a p.. tty-
hot press release before,
alleges the subcommittee
recommended a dictator- |
$hip and the centralization
of power.
•*‘They may recommend i
tfait
"Move to Norman."
Sign Explained
David Whitney, the OL’j
faculty member, said he be-
lieves Norman should have'
more Negroes.
"It's not a racially bal-
anced community by any
means." lie said.
Atop his car. sitting on a'
"throne", rode Billy Brown,
'candidate for l*. S. Senaln,
decked out in his starred,
gaudy military uniform.
Mrs. Clark l^eads
Negro children carried po-j
litical signs. Others passed
out American flags.
I Some Negroes said it was
a shame it had turned into a
political parade "rather than
[ what it's supposed to be."
Although the crowds were
! sparse, the parade did kick
off the second annual Free-
dom Fiesta Week in Okla-
j homa City.
: Leading the celebration is
Mrs. Clara Luper Clark, who
on that hot day in August of
1958, led Negro youth in a pi-
oneering sit-in demonstra-
tion at a downtown restau-
rant.
The day's activities were
to be capped by a picnic in:
Washington Park. NE 4 and
High.
Hate Helps Mental Health
LONDON 1 AIM — Being nasty to your enemies may
be good for you. temporarily, an international mental
' health conference was told Friday.
Two thousand delegates from 73 countries spent the
final day of the 7th International Congress on Mental
Health hearing that: Mankind may be basically commit-
ted to conflict, war is now considered one of the few
manly arts in the United States, and rampus demonstra-
tions may relieve student hangups.
Group conflicts, Prof. Ronald Taft of Australia's
Monash University contended, "may lead to a tempo-
rary improvement in some aspects of mental health."
Taft said that during student unrest on the Universi-
ty of California's Berkeley campus fewer students
sought help from the university's counseling service, in-
dicating heightened tension helped them forget personal
problems. But after the demonstrations died down, he
said, calls on counseling services reached new heights.
Prof. Anatol Rapoport of the University of Michigan
said men may commit aggression through instinct, the
way birds build nests. But he added, that very built-in
characteristic may destroy mankind the way dinosaurs
became extinct through their sheer size.
"In the United States." Rapoport said, "business,
sports and now war ate considered to be almost ihe only
manly arts."
Yet war has become so mechanized and depersonal-
ized that "it is difficult to imagine the modern instru-
mented war as an outburst of rage.” he said.
The biggest danger, the Michigan professor said, is
that large-scale conflict has become so impersonal it is
now "indistinguishable from any other activity in a tech-
nologically oriented society."
Winding up the week-long congress, the World Fed-
eration for Mental Health announced that Clement Slone
of Chicago had offered to finance the. federation's work
bv donating SI for every $1 taised by the organization
this year.
block alley between N Hud- hands
son and N Harvey.
As she thirstily sipped a
soft drink, the woman told
patrolmen Jesse (.utierres
and Ron Farrar she was left
in the alley by two men who
held her in an apartment all
day Friday.
Police gave Iter food,
which she said was her first
meal since early Friday |
when she ran from her:
apartment after an argu-
ment with her husband.
The woman told police two
men in a black car stopped
and she got in their car near
NW 15 and Pennsylvania
about 1 a.m. Friday. When
she tried to get out of the car 1
they forced her down to the,
floor, police were told.
She told officers they
gagged her and took her to
‘Low Kev’
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Louisiana
Ballot Due
Warm, Wet
Weather Due
Strike
(Continued From Page 1)
Future’s
TSo W orry
To Abigail
NKW YORK (API — Ab-
igail Quigley McCarthy
| Says she hesitates to even
think about what it would
mean to her if her husband
were elected president and
I she were propelled into the
White House.
The wife of Sen. Eugene
: J. McCarthy has more im-
I p o r t a n t things on her
mind.
Like the starving civtl-
an apartment about daylight j jHtv; (1f Biafra — "Amrri-
and kept her there until dark ' 1
Friday night.
Police were puzzled,
frankly, over the woman s
I story. Lt. Walt Kostiuk. pa-
trol division, said ihe woman ....... r........... _
! told him she was not sexual- 0f on-vear record. He said
J ly molested and that the two!
men did not make advances
toward her.
I Up said details of her story
[were confused and she was
Mason
(Continued From Page I)
coming freshmen with col-
lege problems.
"1 have somp very definite ]
ideas, which I’ve presented
laid Mason, who
can women refuse to be-
lieve avenues are rinsed."
she says.
Or the papal edict on
birth control — "My hus-
band's position is a matter
wages and increased fringe In <>Rl
benefits added that he plans to use
The strike may affect the!™ “f |\is P^ram’s prim
Democratic Credentials111 hls ’»sk
Reds
BATON ROUGE, La. (AIM
— With a light turnout fore-; weekend for Oklahoma
cast, Louisiana Democratic!tyans.
voters Saturday decide a
low-key contest for U. S.
Senate and seven congres-
sional races in the
primary election.
lt could be a warm hut wet least one inch by 7 a.m. Sat-
Ci- urday were:
Committee hearings which
begin Monday. If the strike
|continues it probablv would
SKEW it 2= rsrsaiitf'sr.-............
Mason also will teach a
first s e m e s t e r statistics
course and supervise student
teacher
Clear to partly cloudy
skies, with 15 to 25-mile per
hour southerly winds are
state’s I forecast, but the weather bu-
reau says a 20
gates during ihe convention.
Adding to concern
Kingfisher. 1.48; Lament,
1.86; Marshall. 1.80; Med-
ford. 1.44: Newkirk. 1.75; "onven.ton transportation
Perry, 1.30;
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central highlands
the title of governor
He changed to his "Majes- the
t}S the King," or "Czar." , miles of Pleiku City,
or belter yet "Commis- — - -
Hunt wrote. "And
that his majesty shall sit
ligon his throne and rule
\fr»thout interference from
ttie voters.
O^The legislature could
nflt interfere with his pro-
gram, good or had. he- = ______ ___________
«Iuse they cannot impeach |men of the” U. S." 11th Light
Sen. Russell B. lying is the chance of measurable rain Clinton. 1.45
heavy favorite to win nomi-, will exist through Sunday.
121 nation for another six-year The overnight low shouldil.19; Geary. 1.15; Hammon.
term over Maurice P. be in the 70s, with Sunday's! 1.82: Retrop, 1.08; Sweetwa-
But U. S. and South Viet-
n a m e s e units moved in
against the estimated 200 en-
emy iroops and reported
Blache of Covington, a sup-
porter of Alabama’s George
C. Wallace. Blache has done
little campaigning.
Three other veteran Loui-
kllling 41 of them. Two s i a n a congressmen have
Americans were wounded.
In the battle 15 miles south
of Da Nang early Saturday,
appointee of the gover-
nor." Hunt said.
. Gov. Bartlett would have
much control if the
jj&n is adopted by consti-
tnj-t iotial revision, Hunt
sJHd in an interview Satur-
day.
•Re points a warning fin-
ger at scandals in other
states where officials are
appointed, not elected.
•For example, he said, in
F&nsas the appointed in-
surance commissioner ac-
tually went to the peniten-
tiary because he stooped
Infantry Brigade fought for
an hour with an enemy force np>’- a Wallace supporler
only one opponent and thus
their races will be decided at
the polls Saturday.
They are House Whip Hale
Boggs, opposed by Cy Court-
high about 95.
The rest of the state got j Weatherford. 1.52.
scattered rainfall Frida y| Skies should
and Saturday. jeloudy around
over
is
Great Salt a cal1 for a wildcat strike on
the eve of the
by some bus
drivers for the Chicago
Transit Authority.
Their dispute centers on a
ter, 1.85; Vinson. 1.73; and demand by Negro drivers
percent, Plains Reservoir. 1.70, and August 25,
l~.....- I convention,
Also. Cordell. 1.00: Erick
for representation in leader-
partlyiship of their union, 1 he 1
slate'Amalgamated Transit Work-
Top readings came from through Sunday, with scat- crs. A little more than half
of unknown size. They re-
ported killing 30 pnemy sol-
diers with the help of heli-
copter gunships. One Ameri-
can was reported wounded.
U. S. B-52 bombers flew
eight missions Friday night
and early Saturday around
Saigon and Dak To in the
central highlands, then Sat-
urday afternoon flew into the
southern half of the demili-
tarized zone to rain 100 tons
of bombs on North Vietnam-
ese positions menacing al-
Enid. 2.61; Jefferson. 2.30
and Sayre, 2.27. The Calu-
met area reported about two
inches.
Other stations reporting at he in the 90’s
tered thunderstorms in the;of 'he 8-340 drivels ate Ne-
north and west. Overnight Rt'oes. All union officers arc
lows 62 northwest to 76 white,
southeast. Highs Sunday will
Crash
^■•Accept bribes and didn't 'lied outposts along the fron-
pjiythe taxes. jtirr.
•?J don't think this state j The attack was nine miles
vwiflttld be helped a bit by 1 northeast of the outpost of
tljis," Hunt said. “Weaken jCon Thien.
tljo. executive, judicial and j u. S. fighter-bomber pilots
legislative branches and flew 96 missions over North
yitu weaken the whole sys- [Vietnam’s souihern panhan-
t$rn” ifile Friday and pilots report-
•The subcommittee roc- jP(j destroying or damaging
oifjmendcd that all consti- 51 supply boats and seven
tiJHonal hoards and com- trucks,
ngiasions he abolished and
replaced by statutory
agencies.
also recommended the
governor and lieutenant
gjtnternor be elected as a
t^im from the same politi-
c*4 party.
recommended the at-
torney general be elected
Ml that a new office of
suite examiner and audi-
ts* be created to be filled
1M election. The present
jjq of state auditor would
bfoabolished.
jOfficials who would no
ledger be elected would In-
ojfcu d e the chief mine
l^Apector. state labor com-
missioner, secretary of
t»a t e, commissioner of
charities and corrections,
t e superintendent of
public instruction, state
treasurer, and the three
* nbers of the corpora-
t commissioner,
id the state Insurance
cobimissioner.
11 GIs
(Continued From Page 1)
D. Crowe,
Sgt, Winfred
Duluth, Ga.
Sgt. Floyd A. Wilmoth,
Yadkinville, N. C.
Sgt. Lee E. Henry, 242
Kerwlnave, Oakland,
Calif.
Sgt. Terry L. Kramer.
Wauzeka. Wis.
Sgt. Harold D. Simms,
Kingman, Ind.
S-4 Harley M. Cassell
jr., Danville, Va.
S-4 Donald E. Grigsby,
Springfield, Ohio.
S-4 Donald E. Price. 1812
Myrtle Ave., Columbus,
Ohio.
S-4 Klaus Zupp, White
JPIalns, N. Y.
-Pfc. John R. Chevalier,
Jersey City, N. J.
Rep. Otto E. Passman, op-
posed by Anthony J. Brusca-
to: and F. Edward Hebert,
opposed by Carlton H. Pecot,
a Negro.
| Of the challengers, Brus-
Cato has w'aged the most ac-
tive campaign although he
faced the handicap of a polit-
ical unknown. Courtney ran
for governor last year and
lost by a big margin. Pecot.
one of ihroe Negroes running
for congressional seats, is
head of the Louisiana Ad-
vancement Association, a
civil rights group.
Four congressmen have
more than one opponent,
thus would have to enter a
runoff unless they win a ma-
jority of the votes.
Leon Tarver of Shreve-
port. a Negro who is a funer-
al home director, is counting
on increased Negro voter
registration in the Northwest
Louisiana district in his try
to defeat Rep. J. D. VVnggon-
ner of Plain Dealing. The
third opponent is Andrew'
Pappas of Shreveport.
The chance of a runoff ap-
peared greatest in twn dis-
tricts — the 6th. where
freshman Rep. John R. Rar-
ick of Baton Rouge faces
three opponents and in the
3rd. where veteran Rep. Ed-
win E. Willis of St. Martin-
ville has three contenders
for his job.
Teen Convention
Minus a Speaker
(Continued From Page 1)
NORMAN
Lack of a I When she failed to arrive
left without paying for it I
j Scoggins said the man had
1 about $32 on him, however.
He said a .32 caliber pistol
I was thrown out of the car
[when it hit the semi-trailer
truck and also is being held
gree from Langston and a
master s from Oklahoma
Slate University. He has
completed course work for
the doctorate in education at
osu.
Born in Honey Grove, Tex-
as. Mason attended schools
in Paris, Texas, and Boggs
before entering Langston in
M940. He served in the army
from 1943-45, then returned
to Langston in 1946, starring
in football and basketball
From 4947-61. he taught in
secondary schools in Arca-
idia, Perry and Oklahoma
City. Then he taught psy-
chology and education and
was director of placement at
Langston until 1965. when he
took the top job at CAP.
| Mason, a Baptist deacon
for 20 years, is chairman of
Saturday morning speaker , delegates called her home in He said the gun had four livp
wprp bullets and two spent shells
1 in it.
failed to dampen the spirits
of Ihe 97 delegates to the
state teenage Republican
convention being held this|
Oklahoma City and
told she had already left.
that in a pluralistic society
no public official . . .
would find it right to advo-
cate personal morality as
general public morality."
Writing •Neglected*
On her writing — "Sore-
Iv neglected" since her
husband began his cam-
paign for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The wife of thp Minneso-
ta senator held a news
conference — her first in
three months — Friday to
announce a meeting to he
held in New York Monday
under thp sponsorship of
the Women s Coalition for
McCarthy.
Thp meeting will bring
together women civic lead-
ers to discuss problems
such as Vietnam, poverty
and hunger.
"It’s a matter of focus-
ing on those issues.” Mrs.
McCarthy said, "so that
women. . . . can bring
them to the attention of
delegates and the platform
committee."
Position Is ‘Accident'
Mrs. McCarthy, 52. the
mother of four children,
said "so many things that
seemed impossible, unlike-
ly. have happened, that I
would hesitate to think
what would happen” if she
became first lady. Re-
s 1 rlr-s she said, the country
gets its first ladies "by ac-
cident — because they
happened to marry a man
who became president."
She said, however, she
would like to be as effec-
tive as ihe first Abigail to
deacons and a Sunday school! nrcupv ,h() White House —
teacher at
Church.
Faith Memorial
INasser Goes Home
MOSCOW (APi — Presi-
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of
the United Arab Repuhlic
We haven’t the slightest I ,hp man ran roadblocks
Kansas authorities said left for home Saturday after
at three weeks of treatment a:
weekend on the University of1 idea where she is," Mark plains, Kismet and Liberal, the Soviet health resort
Oklahoma campus.
State Rep. Texanna Hatch
ett (R-Oklahoma City) was
slated to speak on activities
of Students for Democratic
Society at OU and Oklahoma
Slate University.
[Tapscott. slate president.(all in Kansas, then ran
told the delegates. "We just [ onP at Hooker
hope she hasn't run into
some kind of trouble."
the j Tskhaltuho.
The Oklahoma Highway
Patrol said after running the
ploction of state officers.
Ailing Elephant
Feeling Better
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alice
Is feeling a lot better. In fact
the ailing elephant at the St.
Louis Zoo even had a noisy
reunion Friday with other el-
ephant friends.
Still weak, and very paun-
chy, Alice has been suspend-
ed in a metal A-frame rig
since she collapsed July 23
of a mystery illness.
Korea Calls
Conference
SEOUL (AP) — The Joint
Armistice Commission will
meet at Panmunjom Tues-
day at the request of North
Korea, the UN Command an-
nounced Saturday.
No reason was given for
calling Ihe conference which
las' met August 5.
Panmunjom. in the demili-
tarized zone 30 miles norlh
of Seoul, has also been the
scene of talks between the
United States and Norlh Ko-
rea over thp fate of the 82
Delegates met In caucuses [Hooker roadblock, Stasky
to plan strategy for Sunday’s) lost control of his car on a
curve while traveling in ex-
cess of 100 miles an hour.
The car went into a broad-
side skid, hitting the truck
and Stasky was thrown out.
The truck driver, divert
Milton. 45, of Kansas City.
Mo., or his relief driver,
Paul Mansell, also from
Kansas City, were not in-
j jured.
Rap Beaten
By General
SAIGON (AP) — A goner-1
al once sentenced to death!
for leading one of the coup
attempts against South Viet-
nam's former military gov-
e r n m e n t s was acquitted
Thursday after emerging
from 3L. years hiding in a
monastery.
Four other officers who
figured in the eoup also were
acquitted.
Maj. Gen. I*am Van Phat
Kennedy Flies Home
BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Ed-
ward M. Kennedy (D-
Mass.), flew home Friday
after a vacation in Greece
and smilingly declined any
interviews at Logan Interna-
tional Airport.
crewmen of the U. S. inlclti- " formpr Interior minister,
had been sentenced in absen-
gence ship Pueblo seized off
North Korea last January.
Food Stain pa Tallied
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) —
Needy families in 266 coun-
ties and cities of eight South-
eastern states exchanged
$43.7 million in cash for $92.2
million worth of food stamp
coupons during the last fis-
cal year, a federal agency
reports.
tin for his role in the abor-
tive February 1965 coup
against chief of stHte Gen.
Nguyen Khanh.
AUTO INSURANCE
FOR QUALIFIED DRIVERS
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GEORGE W. IASS
INSUIANCIAMNCT .
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SWAP MEET
by Sam Comfort
Held every Set. end lee. et
lest Reee Ave. esd Herreh
Reed. IHwy 170) 1 mites
•eeth ef Herreh, ley, sell esd
Swep emeny yeerselvee.
SO Acres, Plenty ef Weter,
llectrUlty, Mesh Tellets,
Cempley permitted.
Abigail Adams, wife of
President John Adams.
As for her role at Ihe
Democratic National Con-
vention in Chicago, Mrs.
McCarthy holder of a Phi
Beta Kappa key, said. "I’ll
just he there visiting with
anyone who wants to visit
with me."
I N ( ondemns
Israeli Raids
UNITED nations, n. y.
1 AP) - The l'N Security
Council condemned Israel
Friday for air attacks Aug. 4
in .Iordan, which the Israelis
siiid were aimed against
Arab terrorists bases set up
with Jordanian permission.
Jordanian officials said
the raids killed 34 persons
and injured 82.
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