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OKLAHOMA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER 69th No 256 IB inal Home Edition Single 25c TULSA SUNDAY MAY 27 1973 RELIABILITY CHARACTER ENTERPRISE 5 136 PAGES 9 PARTS Killing 4 Injuring 18 7122 Astronauts Raise Parasol To Cool Sizzling Skylab Icelandic Boat ires Hits Grand Jury Appearance Will 1 A British Trawler None Hurt Be Winters1 Biggest Crisis 1 24 See Action Line on A 5 7 7 oday's Review Gerald Warren man aboard was of 'the houses ea A WAS after said divers were at' of the crash search 13 THE 22 BY 21 was the highest task assigned to temperatures would fall below 100 degrees in the next several hours The goal was to get it down to 69 or 70 degrees just like to say that you guys did a tremendous Hartsfield said got HE CHARGED BURKETT been conducting a one sided aimed' at KEY BI SC A YNE la (UPD A helicopter carrying Secret Service agents assigned to President Nixon went down in the Atlantic Saturday night off Grand Cay the Bahamas Deputy White House Press Secretary said one missing Warren the scene ilg for the missing man who apparently was a member of the Secret Service Nixon and members of his family had arrived at Grand Cay an island owned by New York industrialist Robert Abplanalp earlier Saturday for an overnight stay Warren said the helicopter fell into the ocean about one quarter mile off the island at 9:10 pm CDT There were seven Secret Service agents and a two man crew aboard One man was unaccounted for Warren said But he said the crew members were unin jured The deputy press secre tary said he had no further de tails of the accident mar'y methods for salvaging America's $26 billion Skylab program Jack Kinzler chief of tech nical services at Johnson Space Center and the inventor of the parasol pre dicted the sun would warm the wrinkled plastic and nylon fabric and allow it to spread out fully Engineers said it would be sometime Sunday before they could tell how much the para sol would cool Skylab But less than two hours after it was erected temperatures in the 118 foot long research station had already begun to drop a little THE BIG LOPSIDED UM brella was an emergency re placement for main shield against solar heat which tore off during launch Editorial Page Helpful Hints Horoscope New at Library Stamps and Coins 'A 18 Telling Tulsa 'C 24 Theater Entertainment 4 5 World of Nature A 18 i Ar sence of the British warships i trees down everywhere turned into a not at the Brit ish Embassy which was pelted with stones and smeared with paint Ludwik Josefsson fisheries minister told a dem onstration rally that the country should recall its am bassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization He said that while NATO the presence of British war ships in Icelandic waters Ice land should neither participate in NATO nor allow its terri tory to be used for military He apparently was alluding to the future of the American military base at Keflavik THE AEGIR OUND THE Everton detached from the protected British fleet and moved in to make an arrest ordering the trawler to stop When the Everton kept going the Aegir fired blank shots and then live shells across the bow Again the British vessel re fused the order to stop and See Icelandic on A 4 Staff Photo by Stephen Crane Keefeton residents search debris from the killer tornado which struck the Muskogee County town Saturday and killed four persons Nixon Aide Missing as Craft alls OKLAHOMA CITY State Treasurer Leo Winters faces the biggest crisis of his career this week when he goes before a federal grand jury which has been investigating him for more than a year done anything Winters proclaimed last week I would hope through an airlock in Skylab sun blackened golden side Kerwin watched their progress through a window in the Apollo command module locked to one end of the space station recording the deploy ment on video tape ONCE IT WAS CLEAR Skylab the parasol was sup posed to pop open at the end KEEETON W) A tornado Goldie 17 was in critical con dition a Muskogee hospital The injured Tulsa woman is Mary Hattield 49 ot Haskell St About 75 per cent buildings and were destroyed Keefeton has a population of about 400 the Highway Patrol said arrel Coppin and his wife Lois who run a sportshop and beauty salon about a mile from the downtown area of Keefeton saw the twister from their business COME IN ROM THE west and it was a brownish gray Mrs Coppin said was just I could see it on the mountain where it was blowing the trees real have a funnel shape to it it was just a square type she added was all over before any body knowed it I thought it was just another The Copp i business was not damaged Roy Bashaw of Tulsa who reached the town' shortly after the twister said the sight was unbelievable looked like it just blew the whole town he said were blown across the highway One guy was sit ting on the side of the road his shirt blown off I just belieye what I World Wire Reports REYKJAVIK Iceland The North Atlantic escalated Saturday when an Iceland Coast Guard gunboat shelled a British trawler in disputed fishing waters put ting at least two holes in its holds Icelandic sources said the trawler Everton defied Coast Guard efforts to detain it and ignored warning shots across its bow The shooting at sea was the most serious incident so far in the dispute over claim to 50 mile offshore jur isdiction Britain has refused to recognize the 50 mile limit and has sent Royal Navy ships to protect British fishing boats No casualties were reported among the crew of 21 The Iceland Coast Guard said it was in no danger of sinking The trawler said to be listing heavily headed late Saturday for its home port five days away HOUSTON "(UPI) The Skylab 1 astronauts success fully unfurled a giant parasol over first space sta tion Saturday night in a cru cial to shelter the hot dry workshop from the sun They reported with initial frustration that the fabric of the orange and silver um brella was so wrinkled it had failed to unfold properly and worried it might not provide enough shade But mission control assured them engi neers on the ground were sa tisfied RAISING foot parasol priority Charles Conrad Jo seph Kerwin and Paul Weitz the first crew to visit the station NASA officials had chosen the device as the pri born at Hooker in the Panhan dle has been one of Okla most successful politi cians He has never lost a po litical race and he has turned the job into one of the most powerful political posts in the state with his han dling of the millions of dollars of idle state funds ormerly most of the idle funds were kept at one bank an Oklahoma City but Winters instituted a practice of spread ing the funds among many banks and charging interest on a large portion of the funds He proudly that his policies have more than $45 million for the taxpayers of Oklahoma than See Winters on A 4 end despite warnings that gasoline shortages 'might' oc cur in some resort areas The National Safety Council The National Weather Ser had estimated that between vice here measured 12 inch of 550 and 650 persons would be rain at 7 pm Saturday rais killed in traffic accidents and ing the month precipitation total to 418 Average rainfall here during May is 526 inches THE HIGH WINDS THAT hit Tulsa during the storm downed numerous primary See Tornado on A 4 World Staff Photo by Johnny Walker Can Be rustrating another 26000 to 30000 would sustain disabling injuries dur ing the 78 hour period from 6 pm local time riday through midnight Monday A count at 11 pm CDT showed 152 persons had been killed in traffic accidents Near Hull Mass the coast guard searched for four teen agers presumed drowned when a canoe carrying seven young persons cansized in a bay off the Atlantic Ocean Two of the TULSANS CAN HELP IN A teen agers swam to shore and recycling experiment sched a third was rescued by a boat uled to begin June 25 A 25 i 1 Twister Hits Keefeton idents who seek warmer re lations between the coun tries A 12 DR CHARLES KOCH WHO practiced in California for 20 years is resident physi cian at a leprosy hospital in Hawaii 7 THE SENATE APPROPRIA tions Committee recommends an outlay of $263 million to prevent cutbacks ih educa tion of handicapped chil dren A 23 COMMUNIST GUNNERS shoot down a South Vietna Dance Rehearsals Putting it all bells anklets bustle ware Indian is a veteran of many pow wows easy Especially trying to get that eagle who soloed before 700 people when he was 16 feather bustle tied on in back just plaint months old He will dance in full regalia for frustrating Minutes after the picture was 'youngsters enrolled in Philbrook Art "Center taken 3 year old Chebonne Chibitty son of Mrs classes in Indian culture which start June rameia ummuy was ail smues anu reauy iu ineiaitu siury wi a ii) dance Chebonne a Comanche Shawnee Dela HIGHWAY 33 blocked bv fallen trees the tornado hit storm skipped over the town of Locust Grove and ripped through my Walker said have no how much going to cost to repair The Mayes County office said another 'tornado1 struck at Strang and just west of Pryor No damage was re ported had reports of one twister setting down just west of town at 5 and another at Strang about 5:45 a spokesman said TWISTERS WERE ALSO spotted by radar or the public at the junction of Oklahoma 51 and the Muskogee Turnpike southeast of Broken Arrow at Seminole at Morris and Ok mulgee in Okmulgee County L' Cookson in Cherokee County western portion of McIntosh County Paden in Okfuskee County near the Oklahoma border south of Coffeyville Kan White Oak in Craig County Okay in Wagoner County Chelsea in Rogers County Stilwell in Adair County and Chandler in Lin County Still other tornadoes were reported at Coalgate in Coal County Tishomingo in John County and in the Henryetta Holdenville a Davis areas ft A TORNADO WAJCH OR 32 counties was in effect until 3 am Sunday Counties in northeast Oklahoma were Tulsa Adair Cherokee Craig Creek Delaware Mayes McIntosh Muskogee Ok fuskee Okmulgee Rogers Se quoyah and Wagoner The storm system dumped brief but heavy rains and light hail on the Tulsa area as it moved through about 3:30 pm Winds up to 50 miles per hour were reported for years Scores of bankers and business associates have testified before the fed eral panel Although jury ses sions are conducted behind closed doors the probe ap parently centers on handling of state funds and his private financial affairs WINTERS 50 WHO WAS against child abuse efforts' are made to cure sick par ents and halt a generation to generation trend of child battering 752 Killed Holiday Toll Is Mounting May 14 and rendered the then unmanned station uninhabita ble Without the sunshield air temperatures inside cabin soared to 125 degrees fahrenheit Conrad who en tered the cabin for the first everybody down here smiling time Saturday afternoon said now that got that para he had to wear special gloves sol to keep from burning his Conrad and Weitz deployed hands He called it fiery parasol by pushing it out must have been 120 (de grees) in there the veteran mission commander said Asked by mission control how he felt about working in the space station Sunday he replied: "If you can bring it down 20 degrees be CAPSULE COMMU nicator Henry Hartsfield of a 21 foot handle like a four told the crew it looked like the See Astronauts on A 4 slammed into this small Okla homa town south of Muskogee Saturday afternoon killing four members of one family cri Related News on Weather Map Tables on A 4 tically injuring a fifth and in juring 17 other persons in eluding a Tulsa woman The dead were identified as Charles Dornan 43 his wife Sue 34 and daughters Linda 10 and Beverly 15 Daughter that will burn less gasoline give more power and 'be more pollution free jB 1 THE PRESBYTERIAN GEN eral Assembly votes to re turn to a nine denomination Consultation of Church Union 19 THE IRST ROUND JVA 2hurch tergate hearings produces no direct evidence linking Pres ident Nixon and former Atty Gen John Mitchell to the breakin A 25 hounding and intimidating my family and people woo do business with Of his pending appearance before the grand jury Winters said ready to testify I 1 welcome this opportunity to tell my side of the 'The jury began its investiga tion last May Winters con the grand jury indict tens federal agents actually anyone who done any have been investigating him thinrr tirrnntf TTIVllg Winters is scheduled to testify before the grand jury Wednesday There are reports federal prosecutors will seek indictments against him and several sidie vjiivw ing his testimony Winters a Democrat has la b'eled the probe a "political hatchet and Republi can witch He went to Washington riday seeking a congressional investigation of I abuses of power for polit I i a 1 purposes which have I taken place at the hands of 1 Hflanfc and iha fpdaral I district attorney Mr WUram Burkett a former Republican IN THE A IGH THE EDERAL TRADE COM state party chairman against child abuse efforts' mission is limiting the use of plastic foam insulators that produce poisonous fum es when heated A ll ICELAND WILL BE HOST TO THREE THE OUR American and rench pres seeded men players advance to the semifinals of the Tulsa Tennis Club tourna ment THE JESUIT ORDER WILL close Cushing Retreat Cen far 1' fi United Press International i The toll of roadway deaths! CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY mounted steadily Saturday as 5 and confidence are analyzed motorists crowded exoress I BASHAW SAID HE DID not see the funnel since at thetime the storm passed he was lying on the floor of his au tomobile near Keefeton John Lewis Stone managing editor of the Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times Democrat was one half mile east of Kee feton when he saw the storm coming He drove his auto off the road and jumped into a ditch' never saw a funnel as Stone said was a big black cloud on the ground There was debris flying out of the sides of that Stone said He said the storm was about the width of the town IT HIT I DROVE in as far as I could There was a big truck in the highway and the cab was ripped off I stopped at a filling station where cars were piled up ev erywhere were people running around screaming and bleeding arid there was gasoline all over We dug five people out of the wreckage of the serv ice station of the people were pinned in and we needed help for them They were in very bad shape Most were covered with blood One man was com pletely naked and another man was lying right beside a dead horse sure he was dead he have much of a head Stone said All available ambulances were rushed from Muskogee Telephone lines were also re ported down The twister was the second in three days to hit small Ok lahoma towns On Thursday a tornado slashed through Union City southwest of Oklahoma City injuring half a dozen per sons and causing extensive damage A tornado also destroyed seven of lO units at the Walker Tourist 'Court one half mile east of Oklahoma 82 and Okla homa 33 near Locust Grove a miracle no one was said Steve Walker nwnar of fhp mnfpl "Thp standing by for any rescue demonstration against the pre twister hit about 5:15 and blew operations The British frigate Jupiter a steaming toward the scene about 200 miles north east of Reykjavik near the Isle of Grimsley The Aegir aim was to' atr rest the Everton which had become separated from the main body of the 33 vessel British fishing fleet An arrest would have been the first since the start of the cod war last September when Iceland extended its sea limits from 12 miles offshore to 50 miles despite British protests to protect fishing grounds Icelandic patrol boats have been harassing British trawlers for months cutting their lines and maneuvering near them ICELAND SAYS ITS VITAL fishing industry depends on fish in the 50 mile band around it and that foreign fishermen jeopardize its harvest Britain claims the area beyond 12 THE 204 OOT GUNBOAT miles is open sea and tradi that fired the cannon shots tional fishing ground for Brit Aegir and a British trawler ish boats the CS orester had been On Thursday a Reykjavik motorists crowded express by economists watching to ways and highways over the see if the buying binge which three day Memorial Day weeK mggeieu nmauun is auuui i I DrA rxff A LU LapCL Uli J' RESEARCHERS "AT 1 BART lesville hope to turn the fam ily sedan into a dream car mese helicopter killing 12 persons including a regi mental commander A 13 CONGRESSIONAL REORMS face tough sledding becausecommittee chairmen are jea lous of their power and fear changes 24 Ann Landers 7 5 6 8 A 14 A 3 A 2 jjtal i a vs i v' TRl 'olullwltZrnL wtal i jBR'jjc? jfr iii iiM1ii'A a 2SG.

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