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2 Wed., Dec. 25. 1968 OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
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Child Stealing Charge
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Is Filed Against Negro
DES MOINES. Iowa (AP) chaining Robcii Anthony'threw the bundle into an au-
— Pamela Powers. 10, disap- Williams, a 24-year-old Ne-itomobile and sped away,
peared from the Des Moines gro, with child stealing. Wil-I Knapp said.
YMCA on ('hristmas Eve Hams had been a resident of! police Chief Wendell Nieh-
and police issued a warrant the YMCA. ols said Williams, who police
for a young, self-proclaimed "I’m afraid it may be too
Negro minister as her al- late now," said Pamela's fa-
leged abductor. ther. Merlin Powers of Ur-
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The pretty blonde, blue-
eyed fourth-grader dropped
from sight as she went to
buy’ a candy bar in the lobby
of the YMCA building, where
she and her parents were
watching a junior high
school wrestling match.
Police issued a warrant
bandale, Iowa, a Des Moines
suburb. "All we can do is
w’ait and pray."
A desk clerk, John Knapp,
said he saw Williams leaving
the building with a bulky
package wrapped in a blan-
ket and attempted to stop
him William s, however,
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■to straighten out my bill. Can you help me? Mrs. C. S.
t We reported this to the Better Business Bureau and
‘thev sav this bill has now been adjusted.
•
! Autumn Kd. needs something done lo It. This Is a
jshort gravel street between Sooner and Air Depot, run-
ning south from Britton Rd. Mrs. A. I.. F.
! I When Williams did not
- We reported this to the department of public works slop> Knapp saidt he ran aft.
And this road has now been graded. jer him, but failed to reach
I • jhim before he had gotten
• Two women owe me for some babv sitting I did for jnt0 ^ car pulled
them and they won’t pay me. One owes me $73 and the away> Knapp said, Williams
.other owes me §26. P. B.
say came to Des Moines
from Missouri, also has been
known as Richard Anthony,
Rev. Anthony and Robert
Gene Anthony.
Nichols said the alleged
abductor was "very active
in church work" and has
served as part-time minister
and organist.
Pamela’s father said he,
his wife and daughter werel
watching Pamela's brother!
wrestle in a tournament. Pa-
mela went to get a candy)
bar.
"I don’t think she was
gone for more than five min-
utes." said Powell. "I think
she was still in the building
while we were looking for
her."
Knapp said it was during a!
15-minute search for the girl!
that he saw Williams leaving1
with the bundle. He said Wil-
liams told him it contained a
"mannequin."
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Viet Cong
Charge
Violations
Apollo Speeds
Toward Home
HONG KONG (AP) — Thei vJpw wj|h
Viet Cong accused the Unit- beaming In earth dramatic
(Continued From Page 1)
earthlings by inviting place
Walter Merka and Mrs. Gaylen Harris inspect
damage io car windshield. (Times Staff Photo by Bob
Albright.)
We reported this to L. E. Bailey, state labor com-
missioner, and he has sent you a set of forms to fill out.
If you will return them to him, he will try to help you
collect vour money.
•
1 We need some street markers installed at Melrose
Lane and Council Rd. and at Skylark Dr. and Melrose
Lane. It is difficult to direct people to an address when
ihere are no street markers. Mrs. J. B. R.
* This was reported to the office of traffic control and
■these street markers have now been installed.
•
* I worked as a floorman at an Oklahoma City srhool
and when I quit they still owed me for four hours over-
time. F. McG.
I Dr. Wallace Smith, director of buildings and grounds
■for the Oklahoma City school system, says the pay peri-
od in question was for 12 days, but you worked only 10
land were paid for 10.
- There should be turn signals at N Pennsylvania aad
^Britton Bd. It is very difficult to make a turn there an-
gler the present conditions. H. P.. Edmond
* We took this up with Gene Bumpass, city manager
of The Village. He says an $89,000 contract now has
heen awarded for widening this intersection and install-
ing turn lanes. The work will begin shortly after Janu-
ary 1 and the contractor will have 120 working days to
complete the job.
•
- I am having trouble getting my refund from the In-
ternal Revenue Service. There was a mixup about my
JSocial Security number, but that should have been
straightened out by now. G. L. C.
yelled back, ‘Tve got to go
away for a minute — I'll be
back and show it to you."
Knapp said he did not
know at the time the girl
was missing.
"I have no idea why this
happened,” said Powers, a!
supervisor at the Ford Motor'
Co. farm implement plant in
Des Moines.
"I’m sure if Pam had been
conscious she would have
struggled or yelled or
screamed. I'm sure she
wouldn't have gone out with
any stranger."
Crash, Clatter
Not St. Nick’s
Someone was spreading dows of seven cars parked in
vandalism rather than good
will in Oklahoma City
Christmas eve.
Windshields or side win-[
Cold Front
Near State
ed Slates and South Vietnam
Wednesday of hundreds of
(violations of the Christmas
cease-fire, but at the same
time said its own troops
were under orders to contin-
ue its observance.
In Saigon, the U. S. Com-
mand earlier in the day had
accused the Viet Cong of at
least 99 violations up to noon
Christmas Day.
In a propaganda-laced
broadcast, the Viet Cong's
Liberation Radio sought lo
make it ppear that a gener-
al three-day cease-fire was
in effect.
Attacks Charged
It earlier had unilaterally
proclaimed its own 72-hour
cease-fire, extending from 1
a.m. December 24 to 1 a.m.
December 27. The United
States and South Vietnamese
commands, however, had
declared — also unilaterally
— only a 24-hour cease-fire
ending at 6 p.m. Christmas
Day.
The Liberation broadcast,
rebroadcast by North Viet-
nam's Radio Hanoi and mon-
i t o r e d in Hong Kong,
claimed that American and
South Vietnamese govern-
ment troops had staged
“hundreds of barbarous
troop, artillery and bombing
attacks in deliberate viola-
tion of the three-day cease-
fire proclaimed by the Viet
Cong’s National Liberation
Front and military high
pictures of the desolation
as Apollo 8 flew just 711
miles above the surface.
They opened the telecast
with a blurred picture
looking across the lunar
horizon at the earth.
"The moon is a different
thing to each of us," com-
mander Borman told the
television audience. "My
own impression is that it's
a vast, forbidding expanse
of nothing. It’s not a very
Release
(Continued From Page I)
The warming trend which
jbathed Oklahomans in
balmy weather Christmas
day is drawing to a close,
the weatherman said.
A Pacific cold front is
forecast to work across the
Prayers
(Continued From Page 1)
jammed the steel city of
Taranto where Pope Paul
VI, in a gesture of solidar-
ity with the working man,
celebrated midnight Mass
in a steel plant at an im-
provised altar of slab steel.
Because of his recent
bout with flu, President
Johnson remained at the
White House for Christmas the 40s southeast. Thurs-
the front parking lot of the
Cimarron Apartments, 4200
N Pennsylvania, were
smashed.
Walter Merka. a resident
of the apartments, said he command.
!woke up about 12:30 a.m. Fighters Alert
when he heard a window -'But despite these
smashed and looked out his
window to see four teen-age
;boys driving through the
I parking lot.
He said two of ihe boys
were leaning out windows of
their red over black Camaro
and smashing windows of
parked cars.
Merka said one boy was
using a two by four board
and the other appeared to
have some kind of tire tool
in his hand.
"They just drove slowly
to live or
work."
Nevertheless, man will
move ahead with plans to
land on this forbidding
body, thanks lo informa-
tion obtained by the Apollo
S crew.
They radioed that they
had no trouble navigating
in the area of the moon
and that it was easy to lo-
cate prominent land-
marks. They surveyed
completely a site in the
Sea of Tranquillity consid-
ered a prime landing spot
and reported.
Borman, Lovell and An-
ders snapped hundreds of
photographs of the barren
terrain — on both the front
face and the backside
hidden
open field and there was
Communist banner ‘‘that re- which always Is
sembled a flag.” He said the from earth.
NLF left the site at 5:30
p.m., and the U. S. negotia-j
tors 20 minutes later.
Asked if the Viet Cong had
broken off the meeting, the
spokesman rpplipd only
“thpy dpparlpd the site he-
fore wp did."
Asked whPthpr thorp was
any indication the prisoners Allegheny Airlines released
would hp rrlpasod at a fu- Wednesday thp names of 27
ture dale, he said: "I'd pro-.surv'vors ft'ash of a
fer not to go into that." Convair propjet at Bradford,
A spokesman for the U. S. ^>a-1 Christmas Eve. No
Survivors
Are Listed
WASHINGTON (AP)
Command said ’’we feel eer
tain there will be another
meeting” with the front to
negotiate for the release of
the prisoners.
The U. S. team left the
meeting site six minutes be-
fore the 24-hour U. S.-
South Vietnamese Christmas
truce ended at 6 p.m. (4 a.m.
Oklahoma time). The Viet
home towns were available.
Survivors include:
1. L. C. Dlrio, Detroit to Hirrisbur*.
2. T. Havestock, Datroit to Harrlsbur®.
3. G. Tobin, Detroit to Hirrl*bur«.
4. H. Smith, Detroit to Harrisburg.
5. Mrs. E. Sioboda, Detroit to Harrlfe
burg.
6 Mrs. Terry Gross, Detroit lo Morris-
U7.8Mrs. Janls Wslzt, Dstrolt to Hsrrls-
burg.
8. Infant Erin Walzt, Detroit to Harris-
burg
9. Miss C. King, Detroit to Harrisburg.
10. R. Van Pelt. Detroit to Harrisburg.
11. Robert Angel. Erie to Harrisburg.
)?. Lew.s Angel, Erie to Harrisburg.
13. Billy Goodmotp. Detroit to Bradford.
' Goodmote, Detroit to Brad
state from the west Thurs-
day, bringing cloudy skies|through the parking lot and
and cooler readings to the! hit the winddows,” Merka
state. said. He was unable to ob-
tain a license number, but
said the driver appeared to
The weatherman said
overnight lows will be near
20 in the Panhandle and in
. Clyde L. Bickerstaff, district director of Internal
Jlevenue Service, says your return is still in process at
the Austin, Texas, service center. Bickerstaff has asked
the service center director to got in touch with you and a message to "the brave
Explain the delay. men jn Vietnam who are
instead of going to his Tex-
as ranch.
The Johnson family ex-
pressed thanks for release
of the Pueblo crew, prayed
for the astronauts and sent
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Family
sacrificing so much to-
ward the cause of peace."
President-elect Nixon
and his family spent the
holiday in privacy at Key
Biscayne, Fla.
Queen Elizabeth II of
Britain, making her first
color television appear-
ance from Buckngham
Palace, called in her an-
nual message for brother-
hood, peace and interna-
tional co-operation and ap-
pealed for an end to an-
cient enmities in Britain.
day’s highs may be on the
chilly side, from the mid 40s
southeast to the 60s in the
southeast ahead of the front.
Oklahoma City’s forecast
promises an overnight low
near 40 and a high near 60.
be about 16 and the boys
doing the damage a bit
younger.
Police were investigating
the vandalism.
Merka said a number of
apartment residents were
away or more windows
might have been broken. His
car was not damaged.
14. Timmy
Cong had declared a 72-hour ">£ Dr s Danl<m,vtr. Delroi, „ Rrad.
cruel cease-fire ending at 1 a.m. ,0ft Mlsl Su5<n Wv>wf Eri, Wi5h.
and inhuman acts of the Friday, but U. S. headquar- 5 Gar,n,r Eri, ,0 Bl.,d(erd
Americans and iheir (South tens said ihe allied cease-fire bL'i"i W|SS Brrn,)* Bvm En. to mrri.
Vietnamese) lackey puppets was not extended to match Ml" Svrrt Eri- ,0 H,rrl*-
to keep our people from en- it. *j. ji,nBrlBvra- eh, to Harrisburg
joying the birthday of the in- U. S. and South Vietnam-
ese headquarters said there
were enemy violations of the
truce, 99 reported in the first
18 of the 24 hours. They said
casualties were 22 enemy,
one American marine, four
South Vietnamese soldiers
fant Jesus Christ, our armed
forces are instructed to ob-
serve the three-day cease-
fire ordered by our National
Liberation Front and our
military command in the
spirit of humanitarian!.
At the same time. ourand, two Sou,h Vietnamese
fighters are ordered to re-
civilians killed, 39 Ameri-
main alert and in constant cans and 1“ South Vietnam-
readiness to strike back with ese woun(led. and two South
devastating, punishing blows V'e'namrse kidnaped
the American criminals and
their puppet lackeys who
sabotage the case-fire and
spoil the solemn religious)
celebrations of our people." i
ennan. Eri# to Harrisburg
77 Miss R. Zimmerman. Erie to Har*
R. Brown, Eria to Harrisburg
R. Nasados, Erie t© Harrisburg
Nevin Ramallv, Detroit
25. Capt.
Washington.
26. Hostess Rita Boylcn, craw mgmb
27 Hostess Reba Frgldrlcb, Detroit to
Washington.
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Pueblo when she was tak
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Bucher embraced Mrs.
Hodges, then put his arms
around both parents and
•poke to them at length.
I Then he asked everyone
f‘to join me in a few min-
ute* of silent prayer and
thanksgiving to God that
)ve have men of the caliber
pf Duane Hodges.”
• "Several men werp
abounded, some at. point-
Jjlank range, and being un-
able to return the fire,"
feucher said.
* He said Hodges "knew
he was dead” when he was
hit. The commander said
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Hodges told him "it was a
privilege to serve in the
United States Navy.”
Then he died, in the
arms of fellow crewman
PO-3 Ralph E. Reed, 30, of
Danville, Pa.
Rear Adm Edwin Rosen-
b e r g, representing the
commander in chief of the
Pacific Fleet, cautioned
the crewmen not to talk
publicly about Iheir cap-
lure or conditions of their
ca ptivity.
"Wounds incurred by en-
emy action,” was all he
said about Hodges' death.
The crewman’s parents
have said they won't take
his body home until they
know the truth about what
happened to him.
The brief airport cere-
mony was the second for i
Hodges, who helped tend
the Pueblo’s engines. The
first was Monday in an
open field at Seoul’s Kim-
po Airport enroute homp.
There was a simple trib-
ute from a chaplain. An
honor guard fired three
rounds of salute. Taps
were blown. Reed was;
there, and so was Bucher.
He looked very *ad and
kept hi* head down most
of the time.
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