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Hi Nabor Area Weather orecast Eateri Ba acont Clua Matter the Poet OtHca st Lawton Evening Except SaUrtap SINGLE COPY 5c INAL EDITION THIRD AND A AVE LAWTON OKLA MONDAY MARCH 16 1959 14 PAGES AP WIREPHOTO (UPI) (AP) VOLUME NO 159 Ike To Detail In Vital Talk (Controversial 9:30 pm Sensational Case Opens Spurned Widow Goes On Trial or Murder 5 Lemnitzer vice chief of staff of the wrestling cham See Voting Places Page 5 Swift Auto Race atal or Texan Week Of air related Weather Seen all and I YOU MISS Reds Booted dc of circulation deft to to displeasure with students hanged the are might even be car on stations in the pro and Huge Snow Drifts Strand Thousands were that detail his so the ap Scheduled scheduled at 1:30 street commissioner city clerk and Ward 5 councilman Candidates for five other city of fices are unopposed in the spring primary sub ittee been un elec artiy cloudy this afternoon: fair tonight and warmer Tues day High today near 60 low to night near 32 high Tuesday near TO low last night 32 11 am reading 52 high 56 sympathetic to Arab unity Students Parade 50000 students and work Precinct election officials began picking up voting boxes at elec tion headquarters today in preparation for city primary In the primary election city voters will name their next police chief newcomer who is route for a linen service Other Races street veteran Earl Christmas Merit System Reform or Sooner Employes Up or House Action pulled free late Sunday night eight hours after it was halted by huge drifts about 12 miles north of Green Bay Striking as spring stood waiting in the wings for its seasonal debut on Saturday the storms brewed tornadoes which killed three per sons in Arkansas Elsewhere the rigors of snow shoveling claimed two fives in Iowa: One person was killed on a highway Sunday in Michigan when a heavy snowfall reduced visibil ity A pulp cutter died of expo sure in his cabin in northwest Michigan In Cleveland Heights Ohio a man was killed when blown off a second story perch Sunday during will begin talks an at (AP Wlrebbota) MRS CONNIE NICHOLAS goes on trial WASHINGTON Two top generals have assured Congress the United States has the military muscle' to handle any devel opments in the Berlin crisis They advised against giving an inch The assurances came from Gen Maxwell Taylor Army chief of staff and Gen Thomas White Air orce chief of staff in closed door sessions of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee Cen sored versions of their testimonywere released over the weekend Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don Johnson of Texas said aft er the hearings that the generals had indicated the United States has adequate plans and strength to support and execute the na foreign policy Johnson made it clear he was speaking of the present White told the senators be feels US military forces in Europe are adequate to deal with the Ber lin crisis He said the sending of new military units to Europe now would have no influence to speak of on the outcome of the Berlin situation "because the 7th Army is one of the best trained and best equipped units in the The general said nothing drastic can be done now to strengthen the Air hand in the situation adding that in general it is to all intents mobilized to within a mat ter of hour The most crowded race for Tues day's primary which is expected to attract 5000 voters to the polls is the battle for police chief our candidates including in cumbent Ronald Wheatley are in the race for police chief Wheat ley is opposed by Carl Phillips former deputy sheriff and military police chief Newt Adair cab driver who served one term as po lice chief and another as a Lawton constable and Luther Cannon political salesman WASHINGTON President Eisenhower reports to the nation tonight on the Berlin situation as he sees it His half hour address from the White House will be carried by all the major radio and television networks starting at argue if right? you argue blind man MOSCOW (AP) The head the Communist party in the cen tral Asian Soviet Republic of Uz bekistan and his deputy have been booted for "shortcomings and mis Uzbekistan is the main cotton producing region of the UJSJJL WASHINGTON (AP) Threats acid will be thrown into the of his six children have been yed by Robert Kennedy counsel ot the Senate Labor ement Committee as understood the BI has Weathermen today dashed area hopes of rain before the official advent ol spring next Saturday as they forecast a week of generally fair and moistureless weather After readings yesterday in the mid 50s forecasters said the mer cury will begin rising this after noon towards warmer readings in the high 70s by the end of the week High today locally was expect ed to be near 60 and the high Tuesday near a warmer 70 de grees An extended forecast for the pe riod Tuesday through Saturday calls for temperatures to average five to 10 degrees above normal Only minor day to day changes are seen for the week Normal maximum is in the 60s and nor mal minimum is 4045 Little or no precipitation is ex pected in the Lawton area the rest of this week although a few light showers are possible in the ex treme southeast Partly cloudy skies today were predicted to change to mostly fair through the next five days In race who has held the job for 18 years Kirkpatrick Ward 3 council man for five years and Jessie Boonie Adams who has been a city employe for several years City Clerk Dodson seek ing his third term is opposed for re election by William Robert Ebisch hospital maintenance en gineer and David Lucas retired businessman who once served as a deouty city clerk The only contested city councilrace is in Ward 5 where incum bent Blunt Zorg'er and Joyce Pursley are pitted in a re match of their 1954 battle Pursley was defeated by Zorger in the 1954 race Unopposed in the Tuesday pri mary are Mayor Ellsworth assured of a third term: Mrs Net tie Pippin city treasurer and Councilmen Parks Ward Elmer Bauman Ward 2 Hugh Corwin Ward 3 OKLAHOMA CITY State Sen George Miskovsky Oklahoma City repeal advocate said today a rigid liquor control bill will be presented to the Senate judiciary committee tomorrow Miskovsky chairma committee draftin substitute bill sai urged to the vuJI A tu aiicx uic num tion but that he obj By putting it on to he said Some ers paraded through the heart of Cairo Sunday in a demonstration against Kassem and Iraqi Com munists The demonstrators led by Cairo University students de nounced Kassem regime and pledged support for Nasser's cam paign against Reds in the Middle East Leaders of National Union the only political party permitted in the UAR called on Arabs everywhere to help topple Kassem's regime and the Communist cancer in the bodv of the Arab The latest Syrian border charge said the Iraqi troops crossed the frontier near Talhamar village in the general area where UAR officials claimed three Iraqi fight ers strafed villages Saturday Last Tuesday UAR sources charged that Iraqi planes shot up the frontier hamlet of Hamoudiya and destroyed a house Rebellion Crushed Cairo newspapers expressed be lief the planes charged with Sat strafing were chasing rebel refugees from the northern Iraqi oil center of Mosul site of last uprising The Iraqi government reported nearly a week ago that the rebel lion was crushed but reliable re ports have indicated some fight ing' is continuing in outlying areas AP correspondent Stan Carter visited Mosul over the weekend and said the 100 or so foreigners there were safe But he reported sizeable casualties in the fighting and many dead in a battle between fleeing rebels and pro Kassem vil lagers on the road to Syria Oh The Ignominy! Girls Outwit Boys SOUTH BEND Ind (UPD A Tulsa Okla student was among four fighting Irishmen from Notre Dame who were routed 230 to 110 by four Barnard College girls Sun day in the nationally televised col lege quiz bowl The Tulsan was Brian Moran The girls were simply too fast for the Notre Dame team coming up with the right answers first to questions ranging from history and to geography and science To complete the rout the Notre Dame team fumbled the ball on association of a tune with a day in March By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Death of a 65 year old Oklaho ma City woman riday March 13 today was officially termed a traffic death by the Highway Pa trol It raises the state toll to 104 for this year compared with 121 at this time in 1958 Mrs Etta Ozment was injured in an accident on riday eb 13 southwest of Elk City and taken to an Elk Qty hospital On March 11 she was released from the hos pital but was returned two days later A high speed auto chase Sunday night involving two cars and a Highway Patrol cruiser resulted in another death A second fatality Sunday was an Oklahoma City Marine The dead: Mrs Pearlie Shelton 73 Tulsa Robert Graham 22 Oklahoma City Roy Cecil Mosier 49 Perryton Tex Mrs Etta Ozment 65 Oklaho ma City Mrs Shelton was struck by a car as she crossed an intersec tion in Tulsa Graham was in a car that miss ed a curve in the northern part of Oklahoma City late Sunday night Highway Patrolman Gour ley said he spotted Mosier In an apparent race with another driver on State' Highway 152 12 miles west of Cordell The trooper said he chased two cars at speeds up to 100 miles an hour our miles west of Cordell the race ended Mosier's vehicle slip ped across the center of the road sideswiped an oncoming vehicle and tumbled 300 feet out of con trol The car overturned three times and the victim was tossed another 47 feet from the wreckage The other driver Emmett Bis hop Perryton Tex was arrested for reckless driving "as long as dictatorship and the heresy of communism in Iraq In Baghdad leftists called on Kassem to arm the people and purge the army and government of traitors The idea obviously was to get rid" of army officers and others aim of STILLWATER (UPI) About 500 Oklahoma State University students defied the faculty today and staged a brief walkout to cele brate winning the Big Eight conference pionship To show their their elders the Dean of Students Baker in effigy Baker and other faculty leaders had refused to sanction the holiday The student senate had called for the walkout on grounds the championshipw as the first won by a State team since OSU became a member of the Big Eight ac ulty members sent word any stu dents missing classes today would be counted absent Banners Waved Some students left their 9 classes anyway to march across the Campus with banners and signs proclaiming the walkout They rallied in the Student Union Building here effigy was strung up The first demonstration had broken out at 1 a when crowds of students gathered in front of two women's dormitories Stout and Murray Halls and lit a bon fire Stillwater firemen doused it The students tried to get into the dorms but city and campus po lice barred their way Windshields of city and campus police cars were broken about that time but officers said the cars were parked two blocks from the dorms and the incidents were not directly to the walkout Dance The students campus dance the Union Building to celebrate th(? championship Some students tried to gain ad mission to the University Audito rium for a pep rally during the morning but the custodian shooed them away Their banners said the Senate" arid Members of the victorious wrestling' team meanwhile were in class catching up after their athletic triumph Rigid Liquor Bill Readied Senate Prober Threats Bared Army Speeds New Missile DAMASCUS Syria (AP) A new Syrian charge of Iraqi border vio lation added more fuel today to the burning feud between President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic and Iraqi Premie Abdfel Karim Kassem In the third such accusation in a week a spokesman for the United Arab 1st Army claimed that 30 Iraquis thrust across Syria frontier Sunday and attacked two Syrian guards wounding one Nasser predicted uprisings against the Iraqi premier would continue HUNTSVILLE Ala (AP) Ac celeration of an already speeded up missile program was an nounced at the Army Ordnance Missile Command at Redstone Ar senal Sunday The missile involved is the Pershing and the extra speed up is in the development of its weap ons system "Technology is advancing rapidly that we cannot afford sequential time consuming said Maj Gen Medaris All chases of the Pershing velopment are being tackled atonce said Medaris as opposed to the old system whereby a missile was planned manufactured test ed and returned for modifica tions The new program extends to the training program too nRAWAI VIRTTR RTTI General Lvman United States Army is briefed on the propulsion system of the Corporal missile by Capt Richard Civick 'right during the visit to the Corporal Division of the Department of Materiel this morning (US Army Photo) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A savage winter curtain call of fierce wind snow and rain storms howled across the Midwest during the weekend and swept eastward with undiminished fury At least eight deaths were blamed on the whiplash storms The late winter storms left thou sands of persons stranded for hours Included were nearly 350 passengers on four Chicago and North Western Railroad trains which got stuck in 12 foot snow drifts in Wisconsin All of the trains had sufficient fuel to heat the cars and all passengers had food during their enforced lay overs ranging up to 12 hours The last of the stalled trains with 150 passengers aboard was OSU Students Defy aculty Pull Walkout Advance indications Eisenhower Would charges that the Soviets in seek ing to force Allied military forces out of the onetime German capi tal are trying to break solemn agreements entered into during and after World War II concern ing the four power status of the city To Show Documents He may emphasize this by show ing his television audience some of the documents setting forth the occupation agreements He also was expected to reiter ate this nation's intention to stand firm in Berlin and to emphasize the senselessness of atomic war Informed sources described the speech as a restatement of the American position and an effort to put into perspective the cold war battle over Berlin that has been raging since last November They said the speech would con tain no surprises and set forth no new policies Sen Mansfield (D Mont) a member of the Senate oreign Re lations committee suggested to day that Eisenhower lay down the general terms the West will be prepared to consider in any Berlin negotiations with the Soviet Union Macmillan To Arrive "In this way his words would not only reach the people in the Democratic and uncommitted countries but would be carried into the Soviet Union and the sat ellite countries by the Voice of Mansfield said 'Tn view of the extreme gravity of the situation they ried in part Eisenhower Thursday with British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan in a fur ther effort to agree on a common stand among the Allies Macmillan is reported as likely to urge agreement on a summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to follow up a meeting of the Big our foreign ministers which has been suggest ed for May Chairman William ulbright (D Ark) of the Senate oreign Re lations Committee said in a week end TV radio program that the United States should be walling take Berlin and other problems a summit conference INDIANAPOLIS i(AP) Connie Nicholas pale and tearful went on trial today for the slaying of a wealthy drug executive who spurned her after 15 years for a younger woman The graying divorcee arrived with a jail matron a quarter hour before the trial opened dabbing her eyes She said she had slept only three hours since riday and reported she was feeling nervous but "still She wore a gray suit Her hands were in harnesses because of paralysis she has suffered since her near suicide after the shooting All the 60 public seats in the little dingy courtroom were filled Curious spectators milled outside in the basement corridor in trie ancient Marion County Courthouse Questioning of prospective jurors is expected to take days orrest Teel 54 was shot to death last July in his parked Cad illac The state contends Mrs Nicholas 42 a divorcee followed Teel and shot him three times with a small revolver after he returned to his car from a late night visit jth the younger woman The defense claims the shooting was accidental and occurred dur ing a violent struggle after Teel began beating Mrs Nichols Mrs Nicholas told police Teel executive vice president of EH Wind Driven ires Scorch Large Ranges By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Range fires Dowered by 60 mile an hour winds scorched more than 100000 acres of central Okla homa over the weekend The fires were extinguished or under control late Sunday Ah ac counting of the damage by far mers is underway At least three persons died in weekend fires apparently unrelat ed to the fast moving range blazes Mrs Billie Sue North 27 and her three year old daughter Jean ie suffered fatal burns when their home north of Seminole burned to the ground Bristow Threatened Leroy Hunter 41 died from burns suffered when his clothing caught fire at his home bear Grove His house was not damaged ires in Oklahoma County de stroyed several cabins and some 100000 acres iremen were still battling the blaze at noon Sunday ireman from the Bristow area battled flames throughout Satur day night to save their town from flames which crept near the city limits Tw oil derricks out buildings and several bams were destroyed before firemen started a backfire that turned away the flames ire Chief Curtis Gillaspie said the fire started about 12 mlies north of Bristow and efforts to control it were hampered by rug ged brush country and 75 mile an hour winds Many Areas Periled "At every road we tried to stop said Gillaspie we just Leaves on the bushes would catch fire and blow across the iremen brought under control another range fire that briefly threatened Dewar near Henryet ta Other fires erupted with danger ous abandon at other points in the state the largest near Afia Law ton and in Osage tCounty The possibility of'arson ih some of the fires is being investigated Deputies Sunday night searched for two men and a woman who were reported setting grass fires in Cleveland County YOUR PAPER PHONE' EL 3 0620 and a copy will be delivered to vour borne OR THE CONSTITUTION Phone Between 5:30 and 7:30 pm OR THE PRESS Phone Before 10 am SUNDAY CONSTITUTION PRESS Phone Before 10:30 am Voters To Select our City Officials Tuesday Victim Of Car Thieves iles Damage Suit A ort Sill sergeant whose car was heavily damaged before it was abandoned by thieves on a country road last fall has filed suit to collect damages from two pf the young thieves and their parents Sgt red Wilson 805 35th filed the $925 damage suit in Dis trict court irst to be iled Lewis Oerke local attorney who prepared the suit said he believ ed it to be the first to be filed under a 1957 statute which per mits recovery of damages from parents of minors who destroy pri vate property a Oerke cited the 1957 statute which authorizes recovery up to a maximum of $300 from the par ent Named defendants in the case were Galen 16 rederick and his father Byron Jared and Gregory Hayek Blois 17 of 1803 Dearborn and his father George Blois S300 Each 7 Wilson asked District Judge Luther Eubanks to award $300 from each parent and $325 from the two boys It was alleged that the two boys stole 1956 ord sedan last Sept 2 and heavily damaged the vehicle which was abandoned on a country road about four miles west of Lawton Wilson alleged the boys slash ed the interior of the car destroy ed the radio and antenna tail lights and left door glass and damaged the paint cigaret light er rear view mirror floor mat transmission and radiator It also was alleged the boys poured sand in the car engine Three Sentence Jared has received three prison sentences of three years each to be served concurrently on his guil ty pleas to three auto larceny stealing 1956 ord a1955 Chevrolet owned by Dail Lint ner 1727 and a Stude baker owned by Archie Ram ming Blois received a suspended three year prison sentence riday after noon hen he pleaded guilty to stealing car A third defendant in the Wilsbn car theft case was Bill Zurline 17 ort Sill now serving a prison sentence at ort Leavenworth Kan able can see hat is contemplated pa (the way of legal control beforethey vote oh repeal April Miskovsky said the bill is strfct er than present whisky corSfol laws Tv instance it has heavier penalties tor annrang puonc having a bottle with a broken in a he said The bill contains provisions setting un a five member alcoh beverage control board Member and the director as wrell would Be subject to Senate confirmation The state tax on alcoholic bev erages would range from 33 cent5 a gallon of beer over 32 per centS to $2 for alcohol over 100 proot Alcohol of 100 proof or under would be taxed at $125 a gallon The bill also contains stiff visions for licensing sales penalties Military Might Called Adequate declined any comment ithe threats reportedly made by anonymous telephone caller a period of most of last December Kennedy told the committee axxit the calls at a closed door meeting Tuesday it was learned Sunday night However he report edly did not ask the committee to take any specific steps to protect his family An acid throwing incident the blinding of New York labor report er Victor Riesel set off the Labor Management hearings early in 1957 Add was hurled into Rie sel's eyes minutes after a broad cast in which he denounced labor THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION about the color the sky? By Governor OKLAHOMA nTY (AP) Ad ministration leaders will make their big effort today to pass one of Gov Howard reform measures a merit for state employes Rep rank Ogden Guymon House floor leader said he will call the bill up for final considera tion The controversial bill part of the campaign platform of Ed mondson when he ran for gover nor last year has top billing at the start of the 11th week of the 27th session Also In Spotlight Also holding the spotlight is what to do about another admin istration measure which ran into trouble last week It is the bill to transfer administration of the crippled program to the state Welfare Department It passed the Senate a week ago with just enough votes to attach the emergency but then one vote was taken away when Sen Buck Cartwright Wewoka said he was shown as voting for it when he actually voted against it If the House agrees to return the bill to the Senate for the cor rection an effort will probably be made to kill it However the House might keep it and attach the emergency wrhich would then be considered as an amendment to be considered Tegal Status Questioned Edmondson told newsmen he does not know the legal status of the bill The question is whether the change in the roll call is legal because a motion to reconsider must be made within one day aft er its passage If the emergency plause is not attached the bill wall be subject to being held up on a referendum petition measure for a con stitutional highway commission will be introduced either today or Tuesday in the House It is one of his major campaign issues but will have a difficult time Numerous senators have been 'openly against the measure which would make the eight highway commissioners removable only for cause They contend the depart ment should be kept more acces sible to legislators who they say are closer to the people than such a commission would be Liquor Bill Harried Sen George Miskovsky Oklaho ma City said a liquor control bill will be reported out of committee by Tuesday A control law will be needed if repeal is adopted in the April 7 special election 1 He described it as the a ground for the strongest control law in the nation However the other two mem bers of the subcommittee said they Mve not authorized report ing of the bill out of the group They are Senators red flams Lawion and Milam King Checo tah "There has been no meeting and no official action taken ex cept that we agreed it would be all right for him to mimeograph the bill with us reserving the right to amend it" the two said in a joint statement Miskovsky described the bill as the background for the strongest control law in the nation putting it on top of the ta ble now the people can see what is contemplated in the way of le gal control before they vote on repeal April he said Miskov sky is chairman of the subcom mittee which has Been studying control measures New Charges Add uel To Nasser Iraq eud ed if 0 I i MEB Berlin Crisis I li ii I Wm IT fwsjkn' 1 Ml oyer.