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Braves, Yanks Bow I I. Ota Uti THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN Cooler, Stormy Partly riaudy ami coaler KwMUy Ha artUrd ihnartarmwn Ut trm tf u. Ma Mia Muorua tA CM Ntwa Cead Marntflf A But Bn MsrteU 7 Dt'ock Bay MNJUC COPY PRICK: Daily at. Baa Vol. 66, No.

243 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-POUR PAGES BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, SUNDAY. 8KPTEMBKR Ift. 1987 ss Fatten Homes After visiting ike Shawnee-Konawa Area; NEWPORT. R. L.

Scot. 14 President Eisenhower To Hold Attention and Arkaiuaa Gov. OrvaJ Faubua agreed Saturday that school Integration being the law of the land muat be Of Forty Chairman Two Killed, Others Injured carried out. But neither aald specifically alter a conxerence (MMRVM whether Faubus intends to withdraw National Guardsmen WjJJr Rf from a Little Rock highschool bkB tlU chainntn wi Faubus, who met with Eiaenhower for a bit more CMUdatt for re-election than two hour at the vacation White Hnuae, jrave the when lb select ju impression at a news conference later that he might be fop two ytm f. iu the stale convenlion In Februray.

thing about the guard unit gtmtag wtu can next week. for MW offti, for activ, Faubu has been wing the dlrectJoo headquarters and Pair of Killers Husband, Wife Die; Daughter Is Badly Hurt llnVrf hS Nearo rtudenU campdgn. Mis. Dana Jones, at the Utile Rock tchool. Miami, resigned as vicbairmu Cornered, Slain! his wuiaa with newsmen sua tne puce nasnt neen nueo.

fa DIaaJU fLJ "Will the National Guard be at I national contteeman. and Mrs! jsussssl take care of when I return to Lit- for nother. they were selected for four year terms and their successors will1 I tie Rock." Faubus replied. Faubvt an Way Ham Faubus left HOIsgrov airport at Providence by plane at p.m.. Gunmen Murder Hostage as Posse Closes on Them not be named until the next national convention in 1960.

Chairman HeWs Reins The active direction of head quarters and the party campaign I presumaoiy en route 10 wiue Rode. The suggestion was that from a legal standpoint Faubus felt he would have lo be back in his own state before taking any action re WYOMING, Sept. 14 oft-Two gunmen, banted by an army of lawmen after killing a hostage Bethel Community Reports 25 Houses Damaged in Storm The highway patrol said Mrs. Jewel Campbell, 42, and her husband, Haskel Campbell, 48, were killed in the tornado which hit the Sacred Heart community near Konawa Saturday night. The couple's daughter, Nancy, 10, was seriously hurt.

About 15 homes were destroyed in the community, the patrol and wounding a deputy sheriff. garding tne guard unit wmcn ne usually is left to the state chairman and vice-chairman with the national committee members participating. "I will not be a candidate for re-election," Curry said Saturday. "I cannot afford to devote the time required and I will attend to personal business." were shot to death tonight when ordered to the highschool Septem- they refused to surrender to a z. Faubus issued a prepared state highway patrolman.

A third gun Curry has been mentioned aa a possible candidate for governor and hasn't eliminated himself from the contest However, he is not expected to be a candidate as he isn't stepping out of the party post for the purpose of running for of- Tornadoes hit near Konawa ment and answered a few questions at a news conference in Providence, during the afternoon after be had traveled by marine helicopter from Eisenhower's New-pott headquarters about 35 miles south. At about the same time the governor put out his statement in Providence, one by Eisenhower was dictated to reporters in Newport by presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty. Bethel, Wetumka and Wewoka Sat urday night and first reports indi cated at least one person had beet lice. Currv was named chairman after the filing period last year wlien Douglas McKeever.

Enid, resigned as state chairman to be- romp ho nartv nnminoo Inr IT man shot and wounded himself. Highway patrolman Jim Crawford of Forest Lake. shot the two men. then witnessed the third turn a gun to his own chest and pull the trigger. The trio was cornered in a iwampy section of the Carlos Avery game farm, some 30 miles north of Minneapolis, after they wrecked their getaway car and thot their prisoner between the eyes.

Volant Hoi One of the slain gunmen was identified from papers on his body as Roger O'Kaskk, Minneapolis. The wounded man's papers identified him as Ronald O'Kaskk. Minneapolis. Law enforcement officers from Minneapolis, St. Pan! and several small communities were Joined by ine presraem nor ine senator, governor said anything about the No Preset $i-M troops in LitUe Rock, a situation) Partv leaders who have known which caused the federal govern- curry's intentions haven't yet ment to start injunction proceed- found the man thev exDect to hack togs against Faubus.

He am been forTta SScSS. Metier hi, ordered to reply in court nest Fri- refused a suggestion that he serve aay- again as state chairman. Hagerty flatly refused to amplify I The fact that the party will have or clarify the Eiaenhower state- a new state chairman for the cam-ment, put out about three hours Daign next vear should nilvn in. more than two feet of water. The spewing fountain apparently wes the result of water pressure in a sewer beneath this street.

Tbit gushing geyser popped up from a manhole at NW Francis and Eubanics during Saturday afternoon's- heavy rains in Oklahoma City. The intersection was covered with Kiuea ana several outers ujurea The Valley View hospital In Adt said four victims from a tornadi which hit rural areas northwest Konawa had arrived there p.m. and ambulances were bring ing additional victims. The funeral home in Konawi said the tornado had hit principall; in the Sacred Heart community si miles, northwest of Konawa: A twister hit the Bethel com munity five miles southwest Shawnee about 7 p.m. and.

SO 25 houses were reported destroy or damaged. Tw Hurt at Bcthat Two persons were reported hurt They were identified as Jimm; Milton, about 15, who was strucl in the head by bricks when "i chimney fell on him and Mrs Amos Batt, who suffered a broke; arm. The roof of the Bethel scnoc building was blown away and th' vocational agriculture building wa demolished Officers were also checking ports that several rural home near Bethel had been hit by ih after his meeting with Faubus. terest in the state committee meet- track down niKo mat session enaca own siaer uig nere Beptemoer 28. The committee will riwufe City Deluge Turns Fort Sill Camp aa a mw Wreck Is Fatal In Nichols Hills STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS And the president, taking Faubus by the arm, sand with a smile: "Well, good luck to you and I hope it all works out all right." fi-oofe ntVi Piiore I for VM policy recommendations of the committee of Republican leaders and also set district meeting dates for fall activity in the party.

The recommendation to put the party on record for a modified repeal stand by favoring a special The chase began when Anoka county Deputy Sheriff Jim Samp-ton was wounded when he approached the fugitive's car near the community of Constance. Fleeing the scene the three men, wi(h their drove northeast on a county road before they wrecked their car on a game farm road. Two hichwav natrol Diane soot- ri wi m.a LAWTON, Sept. 14-There is a "strong possibility" the Thunder- bird National Guard division will fore the committee. 195i to date, 457; Stptember, 33 The seperate Eisenhower-Faub-us statements seemed to underscore that any information other than generalities as to what went on at the two-hour and 10-minute meeting the two held would not begin to come out until Faubus returns to Utile Hock to deal fur train at Fort Sill in 1959, Rep.

Toby A late-summer cloudburst, laced with golf ball size hail, pounded Oklahoma City Saturday. Forecasters measured 2Vt inches of rain during the day at the Will Rogers airport weather station. Mure Uiau au inch ui laui lull Morris said here Saturday night. He rnado the prediction in a banquet address betore 200 members of the 45th Division association attending a national conven pounded by hail of more than 2M inches. The storm started as a shower, changed into a moderate rain, and then into a cloudburst.

Many motorists pulled to the side of streets valuer Uiau Uuve Uie oulleluig sheets of water. Some who didn't stalled out in high water which transformed streets into raging rivers. Basmnt Flooded The fire department said a sewer backed up in the Peyton Marcus and 5:30 p.m. During the hour-long deluge, streets looked like rivers, dozens ted the car and directed a huge farce of lawmen to the scene. Officers found the body of a man tentatively identified as Eugene Lindgren, a tanner.

He had been fhot between the eyes. Pair Hsavily Armtd Highway ptarolman Crawford confronted the three men just a half-hour before dark. He demanded their surrender. They refused and he opened fire. Ronald O'Kasick, seeing his companions cut down by Crawford's fire, turned a gun to his own chest.

tion here. of cars stalled and business and Oklahoma's National Guard division now goes to Fort Hood. ther with the situation there. One1 big question was whether the course Faubus outlined to the president was acceptable to Eisenhower and Attorney General Brownell who sat in for a good part of the parley. In his prepared statement at Providence, Faubus said he never has expressed any personal opinion regarding the 1954 supreme Texas, for its summer camp.

Seme Discussion Expected Selection of a vice-chairman will not be un for rvinsMrraHnii of tho state committeee unless it is included in a cull for the meeeting by Wednesday. Indications are that if women leaders agree upon a candidate for vice-chairman to succeed Miss Jones that will be up for consideration Also the replacement of Curry will be discussed, at least among the party leaders, if not formally before the committee. Republican reorganization will start in January with precinct caucuses and county conventions. The state convention will be held in February, and Curry said it will be called for an early day in that Morris said he pledged his sup- store at 315 Main, flooding the Two more persons died in state traffic adcidents Saturday. One ol tiiem, a bO-year-oid Oklahoma City woman, died in a crash at NW 63 and Grand boulevard to become the first traffic death in Nichols Hills in the past 27 years.

second victim was killed when a car crashed into the side of a train at a grade crossing in Hopeton. The victims were identified as: MRS. LEONA GRIMES, 60, of 307'i NW 62. MRS. MARGARET NANCY GADBERRY.

47, Waynoka. Mrs. Grimes died Saturday morning when a car driven by her daugnter weal oul ol control and struck a culvert. The daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Glenn, 32, of 208 NW 60, suffered minor cuts.

She said she turned to talk to her mother and lost control of the car. ue was iaxen to Minneapolis uen- elevator shaft and a part of the basement. Two other basements in business buildings in the 200 block Park avenue also were flooded. ra ran i. Mian (Caitlani Pin 1.

Cttami Offtctrs Major Topic The GOP leaders nrobablv will Barricades were erected by the street department between Virginia and Indiana on Linwood. between Classen and Shartel on Main and at both ends of the Exchange avenue viaduct. A. H. Hathaway, department superintendent, said dozens of cars had stalled on the streets.

The top of a large tree crashed Rescuers In the Pottawatomie Seminole county areas were bein hampered, in their efforts to reac. the tornado hit rural areas. The; reported roads were under hig water. The worst 'storm apparently hi near Konawa. "A Mammoth Giant" Konaway police described th funnel as a "mammoth giant tha spread 24 miles wide in They said it is believed to hav cut a 6-mile swath through rura sections northwest of Konawa.

One officer said he had seen ai oil derrick twisted "like bailim wire." "We've got at least one killet and an undetermined number persons injured," Konawa polio said. "We're trying to get out then and find out if there are more We haven't been able to read Ambulances were being sent fron Seminole and Ada and Wewoka Konawa police said. Deputy's Horn Oamagtd One home damaged near Kon awa was that of Deputy Sherif Claude Humphry. The roof wat blown off and his office said per sons were injured at his home Details were unknown. Identity had condition of the fotii injured at Valley View was else unknown early Saturday night.

At 8:15 p.m. Dave Shamble residential basements were flooded. 'Family Fls High water forced the Gerald Johnson family to flee their home at 11 SW 14. Although the water did not actually seep into the house the front porch was covered. Police waded through knee-deep water in the yard to bring out Johnson, his wife and their four ynnnt; childrpn.

A couple was trapped by high water for. about a half hour when their car stalled in the intersection of NE 23 and Stiles. Police ordered a fire department boat to the scene to rescue the trapped couple when water crept to uie ooor nanoie ui ute auiu. The water had receded when the fire department crew arrived. Big Hail Measured Officers said they had told the couple to remain in the car until help arrived.

The woman, they said, was an expectant mother. The weather bureau said there were reports of hail in all but the northeast section of the city, nnd one resident said hailstones 2i inches in diameter had fallen in southwest sections. Lexington. SECTION A Main News. Top speakers, including Vice President Nixon, lined up for conference of editorial writers here next month.

Page 17-A. Underpass for cows proposed in New Mexico, but the big question poix.ior a movement: 10 Keep uie Thunderbirds on home soil for their training after discussing the matter with Maj. Gen. Thomas Shazo, commanding general of Fort Sill, and Maj. Gen.

Roy Ken-ney of Oklahoma City, adjutant general for Earlier Saturday members of the ijili Division association named Raymond McLain of Oklahoma City, son of the late Lieut. Gen. Raymond McLain, president of the association. He succeeds Jack C. Montgomery of Bartlesville, outgoing president.

OthPr new nffirnre aro rtmfon nuck, oi upper Marlboro, Gilbert Krause of Chicago: Dr. Robert Dean of Dallas and Don Anderson of Oklahoma City, vice-presidents and directors: Rex Wilson of Oklahoma City, secretary, and Ross H. Routh of Oklahoma City, treasurer. J. L.

Farmer of Norman was named president or the Oklahoma division of the association. Other new officers of the Oklahoma group arc Billy D. Ward of Tulsa, vice president, and Rex Wilson of Okla- agree upon candidates for chairman and vice-chairman before the convention, but the choice of party officers will be a major topic. With the effort to develop a plat- be a' major part of the program. Thus far the Republicans haven't enhanced their prospects of elect ing a governor next year.

Tne victory for President Eisenhower last year renewed hopes of building the party for a major effort in 1958 to elect a Republican governor. The Republicans to date do not 2300 block, blocking traffic. The police department said there were dozens of other traffic bottlenecks. Lightning struck an Oklahoma Gas Electric Co. substation at SE 8 and Park avenue, reportedly causing a "considerable amount of damage," according to the fire department.

Cafeteria Flooded Water seeped from the street into Boulevard cafeteria at 1111 Classen drive. John Schroerer an cmnlove. said about 2n fppt ago. Her death was the third this week in or near Oklahoma City. Mrs.

Gadberry was killed when a car driven by her husband, Bert Gadberry, 51. collided with a Frisco train at the crossing which passes through Hopeton. She was decapitated and died instantlv. Her 14-vear-old daueh- SECTION Sports News. Hill man Robbins defeats Dr.

Frank Taylor, 5 and 4, to win National Amateur golf championship. Page 1-B. Oklahoma's starting unit shows power in full-scale scrimmage for next week's opener with Pitt. Page J-B. SECTION Women's News.

Adults continue reading and like to talk about books in community workshops. Cover Page. Savings bond luncheon is scheduled Monday with assistant to have them a big name candidate lor governor. It now aonears that tlipv wi ter, Karen, suffered serious head still be talking about a candidate Ihp narlv ran rptlv ur-n the state convention is held, and Gambling Clubs Enjoying Boom he had sighted the Konawa funne moving eastward 10 miles east Wewoka. It was moving slowly," Ik said, and causing extensive dam age on the ground.

Power lines were knocked dewi throughout the arci and cottununl cations with the stricken area Sat urday night were difficult. Wrumka It Hit The Wetumka twi dipped inti town r.bout 8 p.m. hitting the south wv.st edge of the city. A large see iU. of roofing was lifted from (Cgnllnaed Tbi t.

Column 7 Airman Accused In Killing Caught ATOKA, Sept. 14 Gcoiyc Murphy, former Pcrrin airforce man. charged with murder in the pistol death of Harold Mclninch, SECTION Metropolitan News. Oklahoma City and Tulsa not the only cities expanding in state; Cushing, Muskogee and others growing in size, too. Pag 1-D.

Northwest Oklahoma cities observing opening of Cherokee Strip In big way with gala celebrations. -Pag 1-D. Eight danger signals that warn of risky stock peddling schemes are listed In this week's Notable Notes. -Pag 7-D- Championships come naturally for top Oklahoma county farm family, whose farm is located west of Edmond. Pag 5-D.

Af HOMP in frnhrmn By JACK JONES The gambling business Is booming in Oklahoma county and along county line vice strips on its east and west sides. In so-called private clubs you ling its facilities to accommodate its gaming patrons. Operators of the club have said they may soon have to expand their 5-acre parking lot to accommodate the crowds. raid was staged at 4 p.m. in the afternoon, when only the caretaker was present.

The other raid, staged a week later by the state crime bureau, was at 7 p.irf. and the only have come away marveling at its complete menu of gambling enter lainmeiil, It ranges from dice, blackjack, roulette to slot machines. Free steak dinners and free anything from dice at Stale Fair of Idont. at i money a fifth Pag 1-F. i Monroe.

La. Murphy was arrested I and blackjack to roulette. their entertainment, releasing balloons containing free chips. They're yours if you scramble Saturday night, damaging an Apc service station operated by M. Crowe.

33. Crowe was knocked Oklahomo City you can play the horses or baseball or the current weekend college football a bottle of beer. The gambling boom is paced by two county line clubs organized for the exclusive purpose of gambling on two sides of Trailways Bus station. i Monroe assistant police chief George Woods said Murphy has1 Sheriff Tom Clayburn left fori Monroe Saturday to return Murphy. Murphy, who was discharged from the airforce at Perrin AFR, I an expert on the subject.

Pag t-F. MAGAZINE Section AL age oo uie umveitn oi la iou uuojr tuucuun, Sooncrs to be concerned about retirement. Page 4. OU's first president was a Kansas school teacher who came to Oklahoma to peddle chalk and erasers. Pag AMI ISFMFMT Wtinrt Inside help crease the gaming tables.

that plays four nights a week. Customers don't have to pay for the steaks and drinks which a Scotch and soda but customers arc encouraged to visit the gaming rooms upstairs. In the upstairs room, in plush comfort and on a dice tahle that like it this side of Las VcRas" gambling continues from 9 p.m. until dawn. George Barnes, Oklahoma City gambler, and Junk Johnston, El Reno gambler.

fourth mile south of U. S. 270 on the county line, the Hilltop Supper Club, a heavily guarded fortress, is in its third year of oper- it it lor. an Oklahoma City gambler, and Shorty Coulston. Pottawatomie county gambler and He said he watched the funhc! I travel toward 's Wichita Falls Mr junior highschool, Barwixe, and then lift into the air just baton i it lift I lie ground.

He estimated i A twister was Mm iJJhM MMm This is the establishment that the state crime bureau tried unsuccessfully lo raid two years grand jury was convened. A slate crime bureau agent reported he could find no evidence been the object of a search since I In Canadian county the Sad-a shooting broke up a teen-ace die Club, located a fourth mile party near Atoka municipal lake west of the county line and a Purkburnett hut there were 06 norls of damage. iiUiius lushed down TELEVISION Section. While favorites are returning to home screens, the major networks art launching new ahowi. Pag 1.

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