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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967 uiAML OKLAHOMA NEWS-RECORD MOE Garner's Colorful Language From Train Berth Is Recalled By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) John Nance Garner didn't wear lace on his tongue when he wanted to get to the point. But some peo- the point, more like Longfellow pie, who missed wished he sounded Henry Wadsworth than like Cactus Jack. It was about 1934 and Garner, who died Tuesday at 98, was vice president. I was a reporter then on a New Orleans newspaper. The night Garner arrived Simple Gamer Rites Thursday In Texas Town UVALDE, Tex.

(AP) Friends and neighbors paid last respects today to former Vice President who left John Nance Washington Garner, in 1941 swearing he would never cross the Potomac River never did. Garner died early Tuesday, just 15 days short of his 99th birthday. "Cactus Jack," as he was known during most of his 46 years as an elected official in Austin and Washington, lay in state at a UvaWe funeral home. Simple services are set for Thursday afternoon. Garner, with a bright red carnation in his coat lapel, lay in an opened steel gray color casket of copper.

In death his shaggy white eyebrows bristled as prominently as a quarter century ago when he became the only person to walk directly from one side of the nation's capital as speaker of the House to the other side as vice president. Hundreds who knew him as a Texas legislator, as a congressman for 30 years, and as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1932 to 1940, sent condolences. "Few have given so long a time and fewer still have used their years to such advantage," President Lyndon B. Johnson said in Washington.

"He enjoyed the respect of all Americans as the spokesman for the rugged and practical individualism that played such an important role in the building and growth of this nation," former President Harry S. Truman said at Independence, Mo. Garner, who had been looking forward to his 99th birthday Nov. 22 and then to a 100th birthday, died quietly without apparent pain following a coronary occlusion. town was a quiet one and it was late, around 10:30.

The city editor called me over! and told me: "See what you can get out of Vice President Garler. He just got in from Washington. He's on his way home to Texas. He's probably over at the Texas and Pacific station," He sent a photographer along, We went to the depot. There was a train getting ready to leave for Texas.

The gateman was still letting a few straggling jassengers through. I asked him: "Did the vice president go through here yet?" "How would I know?" the gateman said. "We got about 10 of them. I don't know one from the other." 'I didn't know there were that many," 1 said. "1 must have been misinformed.

I thought we only had one vice president." The gateman said: "What vice president are you talking about?" I said: "The vice president of the United States." "Oh, I don't know," the gate- man said. "He may have gone ihrough. I don't know him. I bought you were talking about the vice presidents. Go on through and go through the train and look for him." The photographer and I got on the train.

We didn't have much iiope. The train was a long row of sleepers. And so far as I could see in that last car where The voice said: "About vhat?" I said: "Get some lothes on and come on out. I vant to talk to you." The vice president of the Unit- States, whom I still hadn't een, said: "Hell, no, I aint gonna git out of bed for no- That finished that. I found the 'hotographer and we went back 0 the office.

I wrote the story, pretty much ike this one, at least in the de- ails about the conversation. I idn't think it was much of a tory, except for that last part: 'Hell, no, I ain't agonna git out 1 bed for nobody." But the managing editor, who lied a few years ago, thought hat was no way to have a vice resident talking. So he changed and when the paper came out had Garner saying: "No, indeed, I am not going to out of bed for anyone." we were made up all the and all berths were the curtains were drawn. I told the photographer to go up front and start with the first car and work his way back. 1 told him to call out for the vice president and if he found him to come back and get me.

I started with the last car With those curtains drawn, 1 didn't know whether anyone was still awake. It was the same in the second car, and in the third. I walked through, calling oui "Vice President Garner" anc Mr. Garner." No good in that last car. No good in the second But halfway through the third a voice behind a curtain in tower berth said, "Who wants him?" It wasn't a gentle voice.

It was kind of gritty. But answered: "I do." The voice said: "Who are you?" I tolc him I was a newspaper reporter. The voice said: "Whaddya want?" I said: "I want to see you." "It was just old age," Don Large, 24, who had said been one of Garner's paid companions for almost four years. Large will be one of 10 pallbearers. "He had a wonderful life.

This was the best way to go," Tully Garner, 71, his son. said Store Picks Up Tab For Family Greetings SALT LAKE CITY (AP) "Happy Birthday Pete in Vietnam" read the marquee outside a suburban Salt Lake City supermarket Monday, The sign and a special birthday party for Jo Peterson was prompted by a letter from her husband, Maj. Merrill T. Peter son, filed forces headquarters Vietnam. Maj.

Peterson wrote the manager of Albertson's market in suburban East Mill Creek asking him to deliver a cake to Mrs. Peterson and mail the bill Instead, the store arrangec the party for Mrs. Peterson anc the three Peterson children. Store officials say the major gland, removed by surgery Nov. won't be receiving any bill.

4, was not cancerous. The announcement was thej Want-Ad Taker Dial KI 2-9428 first official word that the enlargement of the Pope's prostate, which put him to bed two months ago with an inflamed urinary tract, was not due to a malignancy. However, earlier bulletins after his operation Saturday had indicated as much. Prostate Gland of Pope Not Cancerous VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Paul's doctors announced today that laboratory tests had confirmed that the Pope's prostate Commerce Mrs. Norene Hale Correspondent 314 North Maple Street OR 5-1208 Mr.

Birthday Dinner and Mrs. Tom Ray Jr, entertained with a dinner Sunday honoring Ray's mother, Mrs. Dee Ray, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rogers, whose birthdays fall in November.

Others present for the cele- were Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Gary and Shary logers, Tom Ray Mr. and Jim Thomas, Tommy N. Ray, Grace Pritchard, Com- nerce, Terry Clay and Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Crabtree of Miami. Revival Services revival will be held Nov.

VietPullout Proposition Fails in S.F. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) San Francisco voters soundly rejected Tuesday a peace proposition calling for an immediate cease-fire and U.S. withdrawal in the Vietnam war. The final count from all 1,341 precincts gave 132,406 votes against cease-fire and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and 76,632 in favor.

Joseph Alioto, Democratic al- trney elected as mayor in 'the non partisan municipal election, declared, however, he did not see the peace proposition result as a victory for Vietnam war hawks. "Proposition was defeated because it' called for unconditional surrender for the United States," Alioto said. The peace initiative, placed on the ballot only after successful appeal to the State Supreme Court, put this question to San Francisco voters: "Shall it be the policy of the city and county of San Francisco that there be an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam so that the Vietnamese people can settle their own problems?" Alioto said he believed the peace proposition result should encourage those supporting a negotiated settlement of thej Vietnam conflict. 'I personally feel there shouldj be a negotiated peace, followed by an American withdrawal, and then a return to Vietnam with a massive American aid program," he said.

Voters in Cambridge, cast ballots on a similar peace proposition Tuesday. But the result may not be known for three weeks because Cambridge elects a city council by proportional representation with second and third choices. Cambridge officials said the peace referendum would not be counted until the council tabulation is completed. Dearborn, voted a year ago on a peace advisory resolution. It was defeated 20.667 to 13,124.

Attempts to place the peace question on the ballot in other major cities, including New York, have failed. 12-Nov. 17 at the First Christian church. Mervyji' Moberly of Ames, Iowa, will be the evangelist. Services will begin at 7:30 nightly.

Woody and Shelia Wilkinson of Joplin will be in charge of music. Russell Watts the minister. Alumni Social The Commerce Alumni social will be Nov. 24 at the high: school auditorium, beginning at; 7:30 p.m. A variety of enter-' tainment is planned.

Prizes will be awarded and refreshments will be served. Admission will cost $1 per person. All Alumni and their mates are Invited. News in Brief Weekend guests of J. G.

(Cap) Logan, 304 North Jefferson, were Mr. and Mrs. Evertt Logan and sons, Lance and Lex, of Wichita, and Mrs. Roberta Miller of Shawnee. Mr.

and Mrs. Clay Chidester of Montebello, returned home Monday after an extended visit here with Mrs. Clay's son, Bill Richey, and family and other relatives in the area. Those the First Christian church attending a youth rally at Grove Monday evening were Bill and Jan Richey, Darrell Swain, Mike Clogston, Mack Freeman, Maria Barton, Debbie Wood, Martha Fatten, Ray Patton, Randy, Jeff and Russell Watts and David Norman. Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Edgmon and sons of Denver, have rented property at 312 South Maple and are residing there. Mrs. Edgmon is teaching at Wilson school in Miami. Larry Ralph, a student at Mrs.

JFK's Inquiry About Captured Pilots Revealed PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Prince Norodom vSihan- ouk disclosed today he told Mrs. John F. Vietnam Kennedy could not that North release the American fliers it holds prisoner "because it would be an encouragement to continue for home early Saturday. Sihanouk said three American Army sergeants the Viet Cong promised last week to release would probably be sent through Cambodia but added that he is "now awaiting a decision" from National Liberation Front, bombing." jth. Viet Cong's political arm.

"They also consider the pilots "We arc always willing to act as war criminals," Cambodia'sias intermediaries," he said, rilling prince told a news con-! Reliablc sources repor ted that ferencc after Mrs. Kennedy releasc of the three Ameri to Thailand. The prince, whose CLIFF'S! Christmas Lay-A-Way SALE! ment maintains close ties'with (Hertz, a U.S. AID official nid- FebruaryS death of North Cong, brought up the subject of Amcr-i was announced in Washington! ican prisoners and inquired after news of it was re- ticularly about American air-jiayed to his wife through Cammen held in North Vietnam andibodia. Southwestern College at Weatherford, spent the weekend here with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Denis Ralph. Mrs. Doris Hance visited over the weekend at a 11 River, with her daughter, Mrs. John White, and family.

Mrs. Hance's grandson, John Jay Conrad, accompanied her home for a visit. jeans was decided as a result ofj govern-jthe death Sept. 24 of Gustav C.i Vietnam and the said Mrs. Kennedy near had Hertz- Sihanouk said Viet Cong lead- Nguyen Huu Tho had in- about Donald Ramsey, an AID! official captured in South er nam almost two years ago.

Sev-j: formed him "they did their best era! Americans taken by the; to keep (Hertz) alive but he was Viet Cong have been released too ill." Tlio "apologized for this through Cambodia in the past. i erv sad event," lie said. Mrs. Kennedy, looking a bit, Sihanouk tired after her six-day stay in i Kennedy said he told Mrs. Ramsey's family Cambodia, returned to write to him directly, aboard a U.S.

Air Force plane "then I can intervene with Mr. escorted to the Thai border byjTho." two Soviet-built Cambodian MIGs. After three days of social! The United States has more functions, sightseeing and than the rest of the ping, she and her party combined. There are only 120,000 goats in the United States. milk LEGAL NOTICES (Published in the Mlamt News-Record November 8, 9, 10, 12, 1967-51.) NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed Bids will be received by E.

C. Wright. City Clerk of the City of Miami, Oklahoma up to 5:00 P.M. on Monday, November 20. 1967, and will be considered by the Mayor and Board of City Commissioners after 7:30 P.M.

on said date at the Civic Center of said City for the purchase of the following: One (1) 1968 V-8 Police Special Four Door Automobile, One color to be selected by the City, equipped with no less than 195 Horse Power Engine with 260 Cubic Ir.clt Displacement, Automatic Transmission, Heavy Duty Alternator, Heavy Duty Battery, One Quart Oil Filter. Oil Bath Air Cleaner, Two Barrel Carburetor, Directional Turn Signals, Heavy Duty Fresh Air Heater and Defrosters, Dual Electric Windshield Wipers, Heavy Duty Engine Fan, Dual Sun Visors, Heavy Duty Front and Rear Springs, Heavy Duty Front and Rear Seat Cushion Springs, Heavy Duty Brake Equipment, Heavy Duty Shock Absorbers, Vinyl Interior Upholstery on Seats, Doors and Headliner, Tinted Windshield and Wheels and 5 Tires and not less thin 119" Wheelbase, Factory installed Air Conditioner and Power Steering. The Bidder to state the approximate delivery date. The Bidder to state the amount of trade-in allowance for a 19M Chevrolet 4 Door Police Special, less Radio, Siren and Red light. The Siren and Red light to be Installed on the new car and COM of installation to be Included In bid price.

The Mayor Board of City Com- misiioqeri reserve the right to reject any or all bids. (SEAL) E. C. Wright City Clerk P. O.

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