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• let Truce ‘Off’
At Border Area
SAIGON (AP) - The allies
fnlH off tho TpI 11lire in
South Vietnam's northern
military sector Monday night
because of a build-up of a
massive North Vietnamese
Invasion force ready to
spring after the cease-fire.
The 36-hour standoff began
elsewhere in the country,
marking the Vietnamese lu-
nar new year.
V. S. and South Viet-
namese officials reported the
enemy had four or five divi-
sions — 40.(10(1 to 50,000 men
— along the demilitarized
zone and just over the border
in I-aos. The force included a
new enemy unit, the 320th
Division, the officials said.
"The threat is serious up
there,” a senior U. S. spokes-
man asserted. “It is not mili-
tarily logical to let the ene-
my have 36 hours of resupply
and movement while we sit
there and get hit. Why-
should we give the enemy 36
hours time to get into posi-
tion when they've got three
to four divisions there ready
to whack us?"
Khe Sanh is in the jungled
hills of northwest South Viet-
nam. The U. S. Marines are
dug in there in a combat
base just below the demili-
tarized zone.
The truce cancellation an-
nouncement also said U. S.
air raids would continue dur-
ing the truce period in North
Vietnam's southern panhan-
dle for a distance running
Another senior U. S. offi- about 125 miles north of the
cer said: "There are three demilitarized zone to Vinh on
divisions in the Khe Sanh I1*** northern coast,
area, and possibly a fourth The L'. S. command has
It Is something I would label | rushed nearly 10,000 army
an invasion. It is no longer troops to the five northern
just infiltration." provinces.
Klaek area shows where
ceasefire was called off.
K h a d e d area indicates
where bombing will con-
tinue.
Seven Hostages Are Taken,
One Shot in Denver Holdup
DENVER. Colo. (AP) —
.Seven hostages were taken
and one was reported shot
during a sometimes fran-
tic, sometimes leisurely
chase that followed an
abortive supermarket hold-
up In northeast Denver
Monday morning.
A helicopter pilot, who
was following the progress
of the entourage of cap-
tives and police cars, re-
ported one of the hostages
was dropped off beside the
road as the chase proceed-
ed south of Castle Rock, a
small community about 311
miles south of Denver.
The pilot said the shoot-
ing victim was being taken
to a hospital. The victim's
condition was not known,
but was reported shot
twice in the stomach.
The hostages — includ-
ing a police sergeant, a
woman and a small child
— were taken in a series of
maneuvers that led pur-
suers first west of Denver,
then east, then south.
The pursuit slowed at
times to a snail’s pace af-
ter the suspect threatened
to shoot the hostages.
"Abandon chase. Stay
back. They're threatening
to shoot,” radioed Police
Sgt. Jjiwrence p. Mora-
han. after two of the three
suspects commandeered a
police cruiser and forced
him to drive west of the
city.
About 10 miles west of
the city, the cruiser — red
lights flashing and siren
screaming — headed back
toward the city. About 45
minutes after the holdup,
the suspects abandoned the
cruisers, taking Morahan
along and picked up addi-
tional hwtages when they
commandeered a sedan.
Ten minutes later, head-
ing e a s t w’ a r d through
southeast Denver, the sus-
pects — said by police to
be armed with a shotgun
and other weapons— stop-
ped again and crowded
their accumulation of hos-
tages into a state-owned
panel truck.
One hostage then was re-
leased. lie carried the
warning from the captors
that unless police and news
cars abandoned pursuit,
and radio and television
stations slopped broadcast-
ing reports of the case, the
police officer would be
shot.
Unmarked cars contin-
ued following the crammed
panel truck, and progress
of the helter-skelter chase
was followed by at least
one plane.
By nearly 1*2 hours after
the holdup at the King
Soopers Market, ihe sus-
pecis were driving along at
a leisurely pace.
• ‘War Levy’Oklahoma "citt~Times
Tops LBJ’s
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5c IN OKI-AHOMA—10c EI-SEWHERE
Big Budget
WASHINGTON (AI *) — President Johnson asked for
"sacrilice and hard choices" Monday in a budget message,
railing (or record outlays of S1H6.1 billion and a $10.2 billion
income tax surcharge — in effect, he said, a war levy.
"It is not the rise in regular budget outlays which re-
quires a tax increase, but the war in Vietnam." Johnson
told the skeptical, economy-bent congress which has stalled'
off an election-year tax boost.
The presidential message gave high priority to govern-
ment attacks on poverty, crime and pollution on the home
front, and to a $76 7 billion outlay for the defense depart-*
tment — almost one-third of'
>it to be spent on Vietnam
U. S. Busy
But Silent
On Pueblo
Registration Is Voided
On Gamblers, Firearms
alone.
But he pounded again and
again, in a 556-page message
drafted in a new-style “uni-j
| lied" format, on the need for
| an anti-inflationary 10 per-
cent tax boost starting April
1 lor individuals and retroac-1
| live to January 1 for corpo-
rations.
WASHINGTON (AP) —| Without the tax hike, he
The White House said Mon-, warned, the federal deficit
day a number of diplomatic! "would he near $20 billion
channels "are active at thisl Cut hacks Demanded,
time" in the quest for a Page 3.
peaceful solution to the —-----—
Pueblo crisis. for ,h° M’cond .v‘*ar in
At Ihe same time, press
secretary George Christian
said "there is taking place
for the secono year in a
'row." With It. the fiscal 1969
deficit will be $* billion, he
said.
now prudent, orderly, and l-aird Says ‘Shocking
limited deployment of Amor- Bl" ’hl* message disclosed
Iran military forces” in the 'hat fiscal 1968. the govern-
ment year now half over,
will show the biggest
"peacetime” deficit in his-
Korean area.
Quest ioa Rejected
The press aide noied activ-
ity in the UN Security Coun-!,ory. IP*.8 billion,
cil and added: 1 The Johnson deficit ec-
"There are a number ellipses President Eiaenhow-
other channels which are er's red-ink record of 1959.
available to us and are ac- $12-4 billion.
tlve at this time. It wouldn't
be desirable to dis-
cuss these."
Asked if President Johnson
had been in contact with
Premier Alexei Kosygin on
the matter. Christian stuck
to the position that it
"wouldn't he desirable" to
go Into any detail on diplo-
matic efforts.
Korean Invitation Racked
At the UN, the Soviet rep-
resentative on the Security
Council said he thought it
was a "right and just Idea"
that North Korea be invited
to take part in the council
debate on the USS Pueblo in-
cident .
Ambassador Platon D. Mo-
tt roz.ov, made the comment as
consultations continued
among council members.
From congress came indi-
cations Johnson's tax hike
proposal faces serious prob-
lems unless spending is first
trimmed considerably.
Senate Republican leader
Everett M. Dirkscn said it
appears "we're going to
have to do some pretty ex-
tensive cutting."
Rep. Melvin R. Laird of
Wisconsin, a GOP member
of the house appropriations
committee said Ihe budget
continues a deficit spending
trend "boih clear anti shock-
ing."
But Chairman George H.
Mahon (D-Tex.) of the ap-
propriations committee
called both budget cuts and
the tax boost inevitable. Ma-
(Nee WAR—Page 2)
TIGHT SQUEEZE Ibat JuM didn't lit resulted Monday morning when a truck
driver attempted to take IhU load undrr the NE 10 street train underpass.
Urry Sommers, $1, Port Smith. Ark., driver, received chest bruises in the mis-
hap and was treated at Mercy Hospital. 'Police said impact of the truck trailer
hitting the overpass threw Sommers into the steering wheel. |J. O. W. Ardrey,
traffic division, said the overpass is II feet, four inches high.
Senate Slaps College
Course Duplications
State’s Share
Is $62 Million
WASHINGTON (AP) -Oklahoma projects, plus SI,.
More than $62.2 million lor 400,000 for planning for a
Oklahoma water, park and
road projects is included in
the proposed national budget
presented to congress Mon-
day by President Johnson.
In addition, the president's
budget called for $1.7 million
in work on rivers in neigh-
boring states and Oklahoma.
The presldenl's proposed
hudget for the National Park
System includes $725,300 for
the Arhurkle National Recre-
ational area In southern
Oklahoma.
The budget for army engi-
neers Includes 96,306,000 for
chloride control project on
the Arkansas and Red Riv-
ers in Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas and $75,000 for a
survey of the Denison reser-
voir and I-ake Texoma on
Ihe Oklahoma-Texas border.
Reclamation bureau pro-
jects budgeted by the presi-
dent Include $176,000 for
Oklahoma plus the start of
planning for the Waurika
reservoir, estimated to cost
$27.3 million.
Proposed Bureau of Indian
Affairs hudget figures In-
(See STATE—Page S)
The state senate thundered
Monday with economy orato-
ry that blasted two universi-
ty regent boards and called
on higher regents to elimi-
nate confessed eourse dupli-
cation in the college system
After an hour of prickly
observations, the senate
adopted SCR 37. calling on
regents for higher education
to effect economy, even to
24-hour, 365-day use of class
space.
Before the final vote, the
senate heard criticism of ihe
$195,000 executive mansion
planned by the University of
Oklahoma board of regents
for the OU president.
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Sen. George Miller (D-i
Ada), who has a stale col-i
lege in his home town, no
sooner called up the resolu-
tion than he was besieged by
questions
He named philosophy as
among seven or eight
courses which higher re-
gents' self-study reports said
were "unnecessary" duplica-
tion of specialized learning.
"They would like to have
the backing of the legisla-
ture," Sen. Don Baldwin (D-
Anadarko). one of the sen-
ate's strongest economy
(See COLLEGES—Page 2)
Plug PlMggod
Tide’s
Out
Court Savs
St
Privileges
Violated
WASHINGTON (APt -
The supreme court ruled
Monday that the forced
| federal registration of
| gamblers violates the con-
stitution. and also held that
J the government can not
force individuals to regis-
\ ter firearms.
In both rases, the court
held 7-1 that the require-
ments run i-ontrary to the
Slate Cases Affected.
Page II._
constitutional privilege
against self-incrimination,
j Sawed-off shotguns, ma-
chine guns and certain oth-
er firearms were «-overed
in the arms registration
case.
The gambling registra-
tion decision bars prosecu-
tion of gamblers who ref-
use to register on the
grounds of possible self-
incrimination.
Similarly. It bars prose-
cution of gamblers who
refuse to pay a special
yearly tax of $5n and to
pay 10 percent excise on
wagers received by them.
The "hazards of Incrimi-
naiion" that go with the
federal gambling require-
ment* "are not trifling or
imaginary," Justice John
M. Harlan said.
He said gamblers can
expect that registration
and payment of tax "will
significantly enhance the
likelihood of their prosecu-
tion for future acts, and
that it w ill readily provide
evidence which will facili-
tate their convictions."
Chief Justice Karl War-
ren dissented, saying that
only by requiring gamblers
to "come forward under
pain of criminal sanctions
and revpal ihe nature and
scope of their activities
can congress confidently
expect that revenue de-
(See COURT—Page 2)
Teacher Pay
Raises OK’d
A legislative committee endorsed Monday a $500 per
iyear teacher pay raise. At the same lime, another rommlt-
ee approved tax hikes on cigatets and liquor to pay for the
raises.
The house .■ ppiopri.itions and budget rommittee ap-
| proved the teacher pay raise — $500 this year and $500 next
year — without an audible dissenting vote.
Several Republicans are members of the committee,
but none raised a voice at the hearing and not a "nay" was
heard by observers. Gov.
Bartlett has proposed only a
$300 teacher pay raise.
However. Republicans at-
tempted to thwart the tax in-
Written
Teacher
Pact Eved
By Bob Buggies
Education Writer
Presidents of Oklahoma
House Education Assm'iation units
may decide late Monday to
creases by a parliamentarj
move to delay action until
next week.
Gov. Bartlett’s floor lead-
er. Rep. James Connor, de-
manded a public hearing on
the tax hikes prior to com-
mittee action.
The request sent commit-
tee members into a closed
door huddle with
Speaker Rex Privett.
I*he committee then votediseek written resignations
to reject Connor s demand from their membership to he
for a public hearing and pro- kept confidential in a vault
ceeded to give a "do pass" until the OEA directing
recommendation to bill s board orders their use.
boosting liquor and cigarei leaders of approximately
'**•**• 115 OEA units and 77 class-
not to boost liquor taxes by j room teaching units gath-
$1.60 a gallon and cigarets ered at OEA headquarters
by 5 cents per pack. Monday to report on teacher
Representatives of both in- temperament throughout the
dustries predicted vast loss- state,
es in sales, business closures Meeting Cloned
and bootlegging operations if
the tax hikes pass.
Boxes containing the forms
were stacked outside the
Both the lax hike bills and meeting room but were later
the teacher pay raise face an moved at the direction of
uncertain future in the sen- OEA executive secretary
ale and on the governor's I German Phillips,
desk. 1 Phillips denied the forma
House Speaker Rex Priv-1were to be distributed Mon-
day and indicated they were
not to he released to anyone-
The meeting was closed to
etf, a proponent of the pay
rnlse-tax hike package, re-
fused to predict whether the
pay rnlse-tax hike package, the public,
refused to predict whether Larry Sorensen, a field
senate will pass It or wheth-;consultant for the National
er the governor would sign j Education Association from
the legislation. Washington, D. C.. and Noah
Privett countered the pre-iLee, Dallas, an NEA region-
dictions that the lax hikes nl representative, both at-
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between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Not long ago you helped ua get a fire hydrant re-
paired at NW V and Ellison. Now there Is one leaking at
NW t and Klein nnd the water la running down In front of
the school administration building. Mrs. B. T.
We reported this to Frank S. Taylor, director of wa-
ter and sewer services, and he reports the fire hydrant
has now been repaired.
(See TEACHER—Page 2)
(See OEA—Page 2)
laical: Partly cloudy and
colder with scattered
showers ending Monday
night. Clear and cool Tues-
day. Overnight low 32.
High Tuesday 49. (Details,
Page*.)
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Fired Judge Wins
Plea for Hearing
E. B. I«ee. fired last Tuesday as municipal Judge,
won a district court order Monday that takes his cast
Into the court.
Judge Harold C. Theus, In a temporary order, told
the city council to either revest Lee in his job or show
cause in court why It has not done so.
The show cause hearings was set for 9 a m. February
Judge Theus signed the writ after an Informal hear-
ing Involving l<ee's attorneys, Doyle Scott and Tom
Woody, and Municipal Counselor Roy Semtner.
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