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49 Yanks Feared Dead in Downed Plane
From Wire Report*
DA NANG, South Vietnam — A U. S. transport plane
Tarrying 49 men was shot down Wednesday near th# be-
sieged main base at Khe Sanh, U. S. Air Force officials
said here.
There were no known survivors.
The plane, a twin-engined propellor-driven C-123 Pro-
vider, carried a crew of five and was believed to be tak-
ing about 44 marine replacements into the base.
The wreckage of the plane has so far only been seen
from the air and no rescue parties have reached it, they
said.
Reports received at Da Nang said the $1 million
transport was hit by 50-caliber machine-gun fire and
crashed about five miles east of the base. Weather at
the lime was described as "pretty good."
Another C-123 crashed at Khe Sanh recently killing
six persons.
The C-123 is used extensively in South Vietnam for
cargo and troop transport. Others are used for low-flying
defoliation spraying missions.
Recently the U. S. Air Force began to fit two jet
booster engines to the wings of the C-123. enablingjihem
to gpt in and out of small airfields such as the one at Khe
Sanh.
The C-123s are known to the marines as "mortar
magnets," because each time one lands on the Khe Sanh
airstrip it draws fire from the entrenched Communists.
They carry supplies and ammunition and ferry fresh
troops into the base and bring out those whose tours are
up
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40 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1968
5c IN OKLAHOMA—10c ELSEWHERE
Teachers Advised Against
Strike, Mass Resignations
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Hoots Interrupt
Baggett’s Speech;
16,000 on Hand
Ry Bob Ruggle*
Two state senators advised teachers at a mass meet-
ing Wednesday not to threaten Oklahomans with strikes
and mass resignations in their battle for education im-
provements.
State Sen. Bryce Baggett (D-Oklahoma City) and Sen.
A1 Terrill (D-Lawion> followed Gov. Barilett and other leg-
islative speakers before some lfi.tHXl-plus teachers at State
Fair Arena.
Fred Rucker, fire inspector, made the official crowd
estimate.
Baggett, whose speech
was frequently interrupted
by hooting from the crowd,
said "irresponsible c r i t i-
eism" of the legislature "is
blocking the path to a good
education program.”
He termed persons who
have criticized legislative ef-
forts, as "naive — they do
not. understand the legisla-
tive process.”
Baggett said the legisla-
City Vot<
By Ka.v Dyer
An all-or-nothing package
may be offered to Oklahoma
City citizens in a multi-
million-dollar bond issue
election to be called later in
the spring.
The executive and drafting
committees of the citizens
advis’-ry group for capital
improvements agreed Wed-
nesday to recommend that
bonds for all projects, except
^streets, be submitted in a
^single issue.
Categories Numerous
This would allow a yes or
no vote on $91.8 million for
improvements in such cate-
gories as water and sewer
lines, the convention center,
airports, lakes, fairgrounds
and zoo. bus, traffic controls
and other city facilities.
Bonds totaling $12.1 million
for streets, bridges and right
of way would have to be sub-
mitted as a separate ques-
tion since those bonds are
limited by state law', to 5
percent of the assessed val-
uation.
Combine Ok’d
The combining of bonds for
various types of projects in a
general purpose bond issue
only recently has been au-
thorized under state law and
prior city bond issues have
been broken dow'n by catego-
ries.
^ Committee members
agreed to recommend the
one-package proposal to the
entire advisory group and
the city council on grounds it
would eliminate the possibili-
ty of voters approving one
type of bonds without ap-
proving bonds for related
functions which would need
to be tied together.
Shift* Approved
It would eliminate, for in
stance, the possibility of
bonds being approved for
new water lines with bonds
Aor accompanying sewer
^llnes being rejected.
The drafting and executive
committees also will recom-
mend that the entire advi-
sory group be a continuing
organization which would
recommend additional capi-
tal improvements to follow
the 6-year program now
being considered and to
serve as a watchdog commit-
tee.
Also approved were tenta-
tive shifts in the proposed
years for sale of the $104 mil-
lion in general obligation
Vtonds.
Without debate, the
house overwhelmingly
passed the compromise
school financing package
Wednesday afternoon, in-
cluding a teacher pay
raise of $1300 over three
years, a five-eent per pack
cigaret tax, and a pro-
posed constitutional bud-
get-balancing amendment
that would be voted on by
the people April 16.
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turn's education program is
not complete, and he urged
that teachers to be patient
until other bills round out
the program.
Baggett would say only
that such measures would
include bills to distribute ex-
isting funds more equitably,
equalize the distribution of
the cost of education among
taxpayers and improve edu-
cation financing.
Baggett and Terrill said
they believe good schools
will do more than industry
hunting to improve the
state’s economy.
The reference was an ob-
vious slap at Bartlett's em-
phasis on letting industrial
growth finance education
improvement.
"Teacher salaries is not
the issue in the educational
battle,” Terrill said.
"If you're just interested
in salaries, you're in the
wrong meeting, ihe wrong
building and the wrong
profession.” He said he is
not satisfied with the legisla-
tive compromise program on
education, "but I'm realistic
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Swarm* of teacher*' cars make It look like state fair time at arena.
Some teacher signs were pointed toward Gov.
Bartlett. (Times Staff Photos hv George Tapscott.)
21 Miners
T rapped
CALUMET. I-a. <AP) — Twenty-one miners went
trapped deep in the eerie caverns of a salt mine early
Wednesday after fire broke out in a shaft and severed an
elevator hoist.
The last word heard from the men. about midnight,
was: "Pull up the cage!” After that, communication*
cables were burned and severed, leaving those on th*
surface unaware of their fate.
Emergency units swarmed into the remote marshy
area bordering the Gulf of Mexico, where salt mining is
a multi-million dollar industry in large domes that reach
like smokestacks into the earih.
State Police Superintendent Thomas Burbank said
troopers at the scene reported workers were trying to
build another shaft in an attempt to reach the isolated
men.
"We believe that the fire is out now." a spokesman
for Cargill Salt Mines said at mid-morning "We did
have a fire which damaged a hoist, and that's why we
can t get the men out."
At its headquarters in Minneapolis, a Cargill spokes-
man said its safety director. Roy Gretzer. reported that
emergency oxygen equipment, masks and lighting was
situated in the mining area where the men were located.
I-
(See 21 MINERS—Page 2)
At Arena, It’s Wall-to-Wall Holiday
By Mary Goddard
"I believe all 27,000
turned out." murmured a
voice from the wall-to-
wall, standing-room jam in
State Fair Arena.
And the scene really
looked as if every state
school had poured its en-
tire faculty into the solid
mass of humanity answer-
ing the call for a profes-
sional teachers' holiday.
They came in cars that
filled the state fairgrounds
and nearly 30 chartered
Woes Solved
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the state insurance commissioner, to investigate your
complaint. He has been in touch with ihe company and it
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buses, armed with pick-up
trucks full of placards,
bumper stickers and prim-
ed circulars — plus ther-
mos jugs and lunch sacks.
The crowd, officially es-
timated at 16,000. wasn’t
grim, but a determined
"we mean business" mood
permeated the scene, as
teachers strained to hear
reports from capitol fig-
ures.
How does the mood com-
pare with the last such
meeting in Oklahoma City
two years ago?
Charles Holleyman of
Mustang jerked a thumb
upward expressively and
said, "At least 50 percent
higher in emotion."
There were many more
signs of group industry
this time, too. A forest of
hand-lettered placards re-
flected hours of posier
work, and many teachers
joined spontaneously in
passing oui whatever liter-
ature and signs came to
hand.
Many posters were di-
rected sharply at Gov.
Bartlett and his veto of the
legislature's school finance
package:
"Dewey, give up vetoes
for Lent,” jabbed one mes-
sage to the Catholic gover-
nor. Others read, "Try a
whisky tax, Dewey — help
support our schools," and
"Our schools aren't good
enough for Dewey's kids."
Everywhere, thorp were
signs backing the Oklaho-
ma Education Association
and its minimum pro-
Air Crash
Is Spotted
gram, and proclaiming
"no compromise."
The throng began gath-
ering some two hours be-
fore the 10 a.m. starting
time. By 10:30, every are-
na seat and all standing [mountains of
room areas were packed |0k|ahoma.
shoulder-to-shouldpr.
Outside, scores of teach-
ers resigned themselves to
standing in the mild sun-
shine and listening via
loudspeakers. The fire
marshal continued to
broadcast pleas for clear-
ance of the aisles.
Billy Ketcher, Stilwell,
was among those standing
outside, apparently undis-
mayed.
"I belipve a greater per-
HEAVENER — The
wreckage of a light plane
with four bodies was discov-
ered Wednesday in the
southeastern
The identities of the crash
' victims were not immediate-
j ly determined. But it is be-
I lieved the plane was one
missing in January enroute
from Houston to Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan.
A hunter stumblpd onto
the w r p c k a g e on Ridge
Mountain, in the Ouachita
National Forest about 15
miles southeast of Heavener.
The Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration reported the se-
(See TEACHERS—Page 2)
(See CRASH—Page 2)
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Local: Mostly cloudy and
mild through Thursday.
Overnight low 44. High
Thursday 70. (Details,
Page 18.)
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Daylight Time 9s Buck
A legislative effort to knock out Day-
light Savings Time in Oklahoma Is
dead for this session.
Despite the objections of Rep. Pau-
line Tabor (D-Durant), the state will go
back on DST at 2 a.m. April 28.
Mrs. Tabor, a vocal foe of DST, said
efforts to introduce a bill to exempt the
state w as thwarted.
However, she says the light is not
over.
"I'll introduce a bill next year to take
us off." she said.
Under federal law, all stales go on
DST unless the statp legislature specifi-
cally passes a law keeping the state on
Standard Time.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 6, 1968, newspaper, March 6, 1968; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc993260/m1/1/: accessed March 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.