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THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN Weather Cloudy, Conl High 85, Lnw fill Map on Page 12 288,450 find Evening June Average Daily Paid Circulation 10c VOL. 81, NO. 182 COPYRIGHT, 1372, THE OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING BROADWAY. BOX WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Lack of Recognition for Strike Fans Police Unrest By Bob Bledsoe Unrest is developing in the patrol division of tJie Oklahoma City Police Department as an unofficial ticket-writing slowdown, now five days old, goes without official recognition by police administrators and city officials.

Officers interviewed Tuesday said that several men are talking of quitting the force if action isn't taken to raise police salaries. The tickel writing strike was called, officers said, to draw public attention to the police wage sale. At 7 p.m. Tuesday only four traffic tickets had been written by patrol division officers. Policemen on duty at that time said the lour tickets had accumulated since early Monday morning, indicating a substantial decrease in normal activity.

Ordinarily, one officer said, there are as many as 90 tickets per day written by rnen'of thtji three relating patrol shifts, and another 20 written by the extra, permanent evening shift. A meeting is planned for 4 p.m. Wednesday for all policemen except those in command positions to discuss the slowdown and determine whether to continue it and lor how long. There was some talk Tuesday, officers said, of staging a "blue flu" a move involving officers calling in sick and tml reporting lor duty but all officers interviewed said Hey would not participate in such action. All said thai they' were not in their crime investigation activities, only in ticket writing.

"There are three altitudes down here right now," said one man about the slowdown. "Some want to keep it up indefinitely until we get action from Cily Council. Some want lo continue until the meeting Wednesday, and oth ers want to combine until July 13, when the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) meets." livery officer interviewed sympathized with Ihp motive behind the slowdown pay increases but, attitudes concerning the probable effect of the action are diverse. One man with about a year on the job said he hopes the slowdown will continue. "It's the only way we will get, anything done.

This is yelling us public attention and that, will make the Cily Council sit up and take he said. Another man, a two-year veteran, said he hopes the Continued on Page 2, Col. 2 Indians Getting Delegate Seats In 4th District Move to Have mpuca falls Veteran Pilot Dies in Crash Little Effect Or) Balloting Battle Shifted From Original Protest Issues in another maneuver at Spectators watch as Thunderbirds roar overhead and beg Tinker open house. (Staff Photo by Don Tullous! Tanaka Named Lost Witness Key 75,000 Turn Out For Tinker Show Japan Leader In Calley Appeal ST. JOSEPH, Mo.

(AP) Junius D. Morrison, a veteran jet pilot who wanted to fly across country in the kind of plane he first soloed in four decades ago, was killed Tuesday when his open-cockpit aircraft crashed in a field near Napier, Mo. The body of the 59-year-old Morrison, an Eastern Airlines pilot from Miami Shores, was found about 1,000 feet from the wreckage of the aircraft, which he was flying from Moses Lake, to his home. "I learned to fly in a plane like this 40 years ago, and I thought it would be sort ol a lark to lake my vacation and fly across the country iti one," Morrison, said during a stopover in Rapid City, S. D.

The replica was built to resemble a Curtiss-Wright pusher plane. Morrison had left Moses Lake on Friday afternoon and was making 150-mile hops, averaging about 60 miles an hour along the way. Melvin Eugene Hutlon of Fprtescue, who was driving a car on a county road, said: "I saw the plane go into a spin and saw an object fall from the craft apparently the pilot's body." Morrison's body was discovered by Albert Brown, of Continued on Page 2, Col. 5 Project on NE 23 Almost Complete By Joint Greiner Back in the late 1940s an Oklahoma City youth used to stand at a window on the top floor of the State Capitol building and watch traffic winding around streets to gel to the Capitol. At the lime he wanted to be.

either a football, basketball or baseball player or an engineer in that order. He finally settled on civil engineering and one of his first big jobs was consulting engineer to design a traffic By Tim 1 With than 150,000 efps, 'riveted-" lb threatening sky, the Air Force's Thunderbirds precision demonstration squadron climaxed the Fourth of July open house Tuesday at Tinker Air Force Base with a dazzling aerial performance. The five red, white, and blue Phantom II jets performed a series of close-formation rolls, loops, wedges and dives which kept the huge audience lining the Tinker runway oohing and aahing throughout the 30-minute show. Because of the low cloud ceiling, the Thunderbirds modified their show slightly, cancelling the high bomb-burst formation. This standard low-cloud modification did not reflect any month's mishap at Xrans-po 72 which killed Maj.

Joe Howard, Thundorbird supply chief Jim Lenncrs explained. Although the sun never did break through the ullackcy clouds, "the cool weather was? a blessing ln': dis- guise." said Don 'Atkins, Oklahoma. City Air Materiel area news bureau chief. The 75,000 spectators doubled the expected crowd lor the massive celebration of the Air. Force's 25th birthday.

"At a 1970 open house we had a smaller crowd, but 30 to 40 heat cases," Atkins said. "This year there were no medical problems, just 30 or 35 lost kids." Prior to the Thunderbird show, a smaller scale precision performance was given by the Tinker Radio-Control Model Airplane Club. The whine of the small model aircraft engines, however, did not prepare the speclalors lor the roar of the thrust engines which later launched the live Phantoms skyward, Following an ear-shattering ignition, the jets Continued on Page 2, Col. 1 By Allan Croniley Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Oklahoma's pale-faced Democrats were ordered by their party's credentials committee Tuesday to add some Indian blood to their delegation to the national convention. Red-faced, but only from embarrassment, the Sop tiers were told to appoint two lull-blooded Indians lo the delegation from the 4lh Concessional District.

The tribe was not specified but the two Indians must be opposite sex. Caucus Ordered The live previously chosen delegates Irom the 4th District all white and none under 43 were instructed to hold a caucus. Two of them will have to give up a half-vote each at the convention. The half-votes will be cast by ths Indians. They must carry out the order and select the Indian delegates by July 7, reporting their action to Patricia Roberts Harris, chairman of.

the credentials committee. "It's going to be difficult, but it has to be done," she said. Little Changed What began as a fight between the forces of Sen. George McGovern and an opposing coalition of presidential candidates, ended in compromise. The outcome did not materially affect the Oklahoma strength of any candidate.

It was all the result of a challenge by Oklahoma McGovern forces of the 4th District delegation, alleg-Cmitimied on Page 2, Col. 2 By Jack Taylor A key witness to the My Laf massacre, -missing for more than two years, has such important information his testimony could prompt a new trial for Lt. William L. Calley, The Daily Oklahoman was told Tuesday. The witness is Charles Dean "Butch" Gruver, a 2G-year-old Tulsan and former grenadier in Calley's infantry company.

The government has been unable to locate him since March 1970. Gruver was the first Gf lo tell fellow soldier Ronald Ridenhottr of the atrocity, prompting the deluge of letters that first brought the My Lai incident to public attention and that led to charges against Calley and IMjOthers. Calley. convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai on March 16, 196S, has been heid under house arrest at Ft. Benning, lor more than a year while his appeal is pending.

Gruver is the only person, Calley's lawyer said, who could testify that Calley's company commander, former Capt. Ernest L. Medina, allegedly admitted receiving orders from higher headquarters to wipe out My Lai and kill all its inhabitants. Medina has steadfastly denied such contentions party Wednesday elected Kakuei Tanaka, its president and new prime minister ot Japan in a break with past policies of dependence on the United States and aloofness to China. Tanaka, who made his way in politics as a maverick in the establishment, defeated a protege of retiring Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, on the second ballot of the party convention by 282-190 votes.

Tanaka currently is minister of international trade and industry. The Diet, Japan's parliament, will confirm Tanaka Thursday lor a three-year term as prime minister. He will be Japan's youngest prime minister since the war. Tanaka overcame the handicaps of poverty, a scanty education and lack of social position to light his way to the top of the Japanese political heap. Ebullient and ruggedly handsome, he is a sharp contrast to his opponent, Fukuda, a longtime bureaucrat born into wealth.

Though the general electorate had no hand in the voting, popular opinion favored Tanaka as the man most likely to carry out an independent foreign policy, ease relations with the United States and seek closer ties possibly ending in diplomatic recognition with Peking, Charles Gruver and the task force com-m a who allegedly passed down such orders was killed in a helicopter crash four months after the My Lai assault. The significance of Gru- mittedly rest on the judgment of the U.S. Army Continued on Page 2, Col. 6 City Plays It Cool on Holiday Mild, April-like air blanketed Oklahoma City on Independence Day and continued unseasonably cool weather and partly cloudy skies can be expected through Thursday with highs in the mid-ROs. Highs on a ranged from 05 at Guymon to 79 at Ardmore.

plan for the state Capitol complex of the future. Station Blaze Believed Set RUSSIAN BALKS, FISCHER SLEEPS LW0J7f Chess Game Off Again Ho was told that traffic lights probably would get the job done, but he used new theories of traffic study and came up wilh a plan for new roads and ar-t i surrounding the complex. Within the next two weeks thai engineer, Chester Brooks, now the director of the stale highway department, will-get lo see the traffic system he designed in 1959 come to life. The $3.84 million project to provide easier access into the Capitol complex should be finished weather permitting, within two weeks, Brooks said Tuesday. The finishing touches are being put on the last portion of the project NE 23 right now.

Lincoln Blvd. was rx-Coiitimied on Page 2, Col. 8 Misiake Aliack Kills II Troops SAIGON (API U.S. aircraft accidentally attacked South Vietnamese marines on the northern front Tuesday, killing marines and wounding 3(1. the U.S.

Command announced. The command said Wednesday the mistaken attack occurred five mile southeast of Quang Tri City. Local DEATH PENALTY decision by U.S. Supreme Court is blasted by Senate candidate. Page 5.

CITY REPUBLICAN enters race for state corporation commission seat. Page 5. State CRITICAL REPORT by accreditation investigators scores failures at Chickasha college. Page 9. Nation RESOLUTION CONDEMNING President Nixon for his anti-busing views adopted by NAACP.

Page 8. THREE MEN arrestrd in shotgun slaying of 4-year-old girl in Los Angeles. Page 28. SAME STORY rings true all around the country lond prices are going up. Page 25.

World AMERICAN WAR PRISONERS are being transferred to China, Pueblo committee leader claims. Page 15. TWO KOREAS set up hot line between capitals in move or reconciliation. Page 26. SAIGON FORCES push way back into city limits of Communist held Quang Tri.

Page 19. Inside Features AtiitiM-niHiiN 18, IS SimriN 23-33 Arson was suspected Saturday in a $13,000 tn "fire i ch destroyed one of three buildings at radio station 5508 Eastern. Two unexploded Molofov cocktails and a live but unexploded black powder bomb were found in an adjacent building which houses the station's office and studios. Members of the police arson squad and agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tohacco and Firearms were called into the case after those devices were discovered. Destroyed was the building containing Scientific Sounds, a background music service operated by the radio station.

'Hie fire department estimated the loss at $13,000, hut Bill Wondring, an announcer, said it could be as much as $20,000. The Oklahoma City Fire Department received a call on the fire at 7:38 a.m. ftor the blaze was extinguished and the lire units had left, a janitor reportedly found the three explosive devices in the office-studios building. The police arson squad Cnntinned nn rc 2, Ol. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Now it's Boris Spassky's turn to say no and the world chess championship is off again.

The Russian titleholder launched his counterattack Tuesday with a stern protest, some sharp criticism, a walkout and a demand for a two-day postponement of the start of the match with American Bobby Fischer. Fischer slept through it all. He had arrived in the morning Iron'1. Now YrV and went straight 1o bed lo rest up for the first game, set for 5 p.m. When Fischer woke up he found that the title series was put off until Thursday at the rnrlicM.

1: was to have negun last Sunday. Summing up the day. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, said: "When Spassky is here Fischer doesn't come. As soon as Fischer comes, Spassky runs it way." The Russians turned up in force at noon for what was to be a drawing of lot to decide who would play while, and have the first move, in the opener. They refused 10 draw with Fischer's soroiul.

a Roman Catholic priest, (he Rev. William Iimhardy, and read a statement calling i 's delaying holdout intolerable. They protested Euwe's decision to tolerate it. When Fischer failed to appear Sunday as he should have, Euwe allowed him until noon Tuesday to show up in Reykjavik or forfeit his shot at Spassky. Fischer's refusal to come by a was based on a dispute with the org.fniers over money.

The argument was settled Monday when British financier James Slater offered to sweeten an already record pot with a dona'tion of 50,000 British poundsabout FUcher said he would play. The organizers were offering a purse of $125,000. five-eighths or S7S.125 going to the winner and three-eighths or to Continued on Pa-e 2. Col. 1 McALESTER An 8-year-old McAIester boy and his 3-year-old brother were killed Tuesday night when the minibike they were riding was struck by a ear as their grandparents watched from their parked car.

Trooper Carl Cook said Jordan Campbell, 8, and his brother Mark, 3, were struck by a car driven by Glen Trapp, 36, McAIester. on a county road two miles southeast of Bache in Pittsburg County. Cook said the minibike was left of center and struck Trapp's car head-on. The boys' grandparents were parked about a quarter of a mile away watch-Inc them ride. Classified Section 36-43 Comics 41 Editorials I I Hnroscopn US Obituaries 13, 3fi Oil News .31 TV Chivup 12 Todny 19 Women's News 20-21 pclivcry Service 237-7I7I rpS Want Ads 2iS4122 aoiher Calls 232-3311 Public KwnriW 3fi.

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