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Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 6

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Monday Evening June 26 1972 6-A FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM US Jets Blast Viet Steel Plant Democratic Death Indian Nation Style by MONDAY-TUESDAY TAKE-OUT SPECIAL the plant was not hit but the destruction of the furnaces destroyed North entire capacity for producing structural steel for railroads bridges and buildings The plant which covers an area of two square miles is the biggest industrial plant in North Vietnam It had been rebuilt after being bombed at least four times during the 1965-68 bombing campaign REGULAR 24( Nationally Famous Culsinel All You Can Eat $149 6321 GRAPEVINE HWY 5025 OLD GRANBURY RD ARLINGTON: 2730 AVE EAST 3516 LANCASTER AVE ELECTED Eugene Wall has been elK'ted worshipful master of Ilaltom City Masonic Lodge 1331 Other new officers include Gordon McConnell senior warden Reece Allday junior warden David Locke treasurer and LHyman secretary NEW LOCATION! 6708 CAMP BOWIE BLVD REPEAT OF A SELLOUT! Hundreds of Famous Brand Wigs Muskogee Nation They governed themselves Their council house still is standing in Okmulgee Within their government were a supreme court and houses of kings and warriors relating to our house and Senate They had a constitution which began order to form a perfect union establish justice and secure to ourselves and our children the blessings of freedom What they did not have was freedom Timmie people were Southeastern Indians The white man came and took tribal lands moving the Creeks to the unfamiliar and raw Oklahoma frontier The Creeks were determined to rule themselves and establish a separate nation Under the white rules Thus the Constitution They asked to elect their leaders democratically American government led by President Grant said no Our Congress decided and appointed Creek leaders But within that parental framework the Creeks governed themselves And that is why Timmie Jack went to his own Timmie Jack shot James Brown on the night of Jan 1 1896 in Indian Territory Okia on land governed by the Five Civilized Tribes near present town of Okmulgee Timmie Jack lichee an a Creek Brown was a half-breed Just why Timmie Jack shot James Brown I do not know They were at a dance Perhaps it was an argument Majbe they were drinking But Timmie Jack killed him and was charged with murder a crime the peace and dignity of the He was convicted and perhaps was the only man in history to arrange his own execution THE against which Timmie Jack had broken peace and dignity was Indian The Creek Nation or Chess Champ Halts Flight To Iceland SAIGON (AP) US pilots knocked out North only steel plant put a power plant out of operation and dropped two bridges in weekend raids the US Command reported today Radio Hanoi claimed that six US F4 Phantoms were shot down but the US Command said it had no plane losses to report However it is the policy to withhold such information as long as rescue operations are in progress US pilots flew more than 270 strikes on Saturday and a like number yesterday ONE FLIGHT of four Phantoms hit the Viet Tri thermal power plant 25 miles northwest of Hanoi yesterday with 2000-p laser-guided bombs They destroyed the capability to produce electrical power for the nearby industrial a communique said Reconnaissance photos confirmed the destruction of the boiler facility the electrical switching building and the flue and coal conveyor the communique said It was learned that the Viet Tri plant was attacked on June 1 with laser bombs but that raid was not announced because it failed to put the plant out of commission THE 7TII Air Force announced that four of its Phantoms dropped laser-guided 2000-pound bombs into the open hearth furnaces of the Thai Nguyen steel plant 30 miles north of Hanoi on Saturday Sixteen other Phantoms bombed warehouse areas The Air Force said part of HE II TWO trials The first ended with a deadlocked jury The second jury decreed that Timmie Jack was to be shot between the hours of 9 a and 4 May 1 18 Timmie Jack was released and requested to return on May 1 for his death He went home For the next two months Timmie Jack closed out his business affairs saw to the future care of his wife and children Silas Smith a blacksmith was hired to build a coffin for Timmie Jack Timmie Jack came inspected the coffin lay down in it said it was fine for him There was the problem of the execution He was to be shot Timmie Jack wanted a quick death He asked his best friend Pleasant Berryhill to shoot him Duke said he would IN THE final days Timmie Jack saw his friends to say goodby On the morning of May 1 3696 at a few minutes before 9 Timmie Jack came to the square in Okmulgee Duke was waiting He had a rifle Nearby stood Dully Micco and Levi Mitchell two other friends They had rifles too In the square was a sycamore tree A wooden box was placed against the trunk Timmie Jack sat down folded his hands calmly across his lap He was blindfolded A small pieye of white cloth was pinned over his heart Duke Berryhill stood 50 feet away TIMMIE asked Duke replied Timmie Jack Duke paused raised the rifle He fired Timmie Jack was dead Ilis body was dressed in a new suit placed in the approved coffin and delivered to his wife for burial Timmie Jack although a convicted murderer was a Creek Indian warrior He knew how to die He died well Original Values to 2995 GO 172 New York Tlmej Newf Servic NEW ORK-Bobby Fischer the unpredictable challenger for the W'orld chess charrtpionship last night cancelled his flight to Reykjavik Iceland where he is to begin his match next Sunday with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Col Edmund Edmondson head of the US Chess Federation said he had no reason to believe that Fischer would fail to appear for the match Paul Marshall a lawyer who has been active in behalf of the American grandmaster said that some detailed of the match remained to be settled But that he did not expect them to prevent arrival in time to play Fischer was to have flown to Iceland from New York on Icelandic Airlines this evening He was last reported on his way from New York on Icelandic Airlines this US Fighter-Bombers at Da Nang Are Withdrawn Long Wigs 0 Short Wigs 0 Straight Wigs 0 Stretch Caps 0 All Wash and Wear 0 All Easy to Style All Colors and Frosteds REr3 WIG 732 FASHIONS 7779 One Day REMEMBER- I Has Styling Service Command here said the withdrawal of the fighter-bombers had been made necessary by the continued withdrawal of security and support troops from Da Nang A command spokesman said total US troop strength in South Vietnam was cut by 6100 last week to 54000 A further 5000 will be withdrawn by July 1 to meet the 49000 target set by President Nixon The official total of military strength docs not include 42000 men in Navy ships in the Gulf of Tonkin or bomber squadron personnel based in Thailand SAIGON (Reuter) The United Slates today withdrew its last fighter-bombers from Da Nang Air Base as the North Vietnamese continued their offensive against South i a northern provinces Da Nang is the nearest US base to the front line north of Hue the ancient capital of South Vietnam At one time seven squadrons totalling based there as part of some 120 planes had been stepped-up operations aimed at halting the offensive from the North A communique issued by the I97I-BJ REYNOLDS TOBACCO Were not telling you anything you know when we acknowledge that a controversy about smoking exists And since were in the business of selling cigarettes you obviously know where we stand So if you smoke were not about to persuade you to start But if you do like to persuade you to try a cigarette you may 'wish to smoke more than the one smoking now We mean Vantage of course Vantage gives you flavor like a full-flavor cigarette Without anywhere near the and nicotine a simple statement of truth We want you to misunderstand us Vantage is not the lowest and nicotine cigarette you can buy simply the lowest and nicotine cigarette enjoy smoking We just see the point 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