Ada Evening News, The (Newspaper) - May 31, 1966, Ada, Oklahoma The Sooner amateur agricultural experimenter announces plans to cross a with a sponge He it taste as good as a regular potato mm but think of all the gravy it will hold YEAR NO 68 ADA OKLAHOMA TUESDAY MAY 10 PAGES 5 CENTS WEEKDAYS 10 CENTS SUNDAY By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in his basket A housewives budget All prices have skyrocketed thaf Huf mpaf IS today that ment price indexes fairly reflect a hard fact of life in the it is costing more feed the family and more to Many housewives seem firmly convinced that food prices just about doubled in the past year They didn't but government figures supported by an but meat is extremely before said the Pittsburgh reporter The Baltimore surveyor said an employe of one of the included in my vass claimed he is spending more time changing the shelf prices of goods than stocking the shelves themselves The average housewife finds Sunday Combat Victim pendent Associated Press herself buying a lower quality vey in March show that the item to keep her budget cost of a typical week's ping went up nearly 7 per cent Meats however have risen sharply Based on the ment's national price averages it cost to buy one pound each of sirloin steak er pork chops ham bacon and lamb chops in mid-March compared with in mid- March of 1965 a rise of 21.5 per cent- By contrast the other items on the shopping list of the AP's budget brigade rose only 1.5 per cent The AP's budget brigade figures and the government's should enable skeptical pers to judge for themselves The AP housewives themselves started out highly skeptical on their spot survey They said food prices over-all unquestionably high though many a penny could be said the Detroiter I watch pennies closer than ever The AP budget brigade turned up a wide less the was in the first store in the other both sets of ers indicated that 1965 in Boston compared j fleeted in April statistics an- with and 90.6 government a ULj Ct COM f i individual items from store to which been in orbit for store in the same city But by months were level the time they had priced all the out or decline although still far on the total higher than a year ago ed to be about the same j In Baltimore for example ied an average price of one store had an special for pork chops in Baltimore on sirloin steak while a second compared with in store charged ary and 93.2 cents in March in Cleveland compared with and 90.8 cents and in Detroit compared with and cents AP's budget brigade found j general agreed that there are their average several ways to resist for pork chops to be in ing prices These include buying Baltimore in Boston i only the items on a prepared in Cleveland and 99 cents list placing a limit on the total in Detroit be spent The tendency for food and buying less expensive in general to level out was grades Adan Dies In Vietnam A young Ada Marine Lance Corporal Noel D Marr 25 was killed Sunday in Combat in nam He is the first serviceman from Ada to die in the fighting there He was of Mr and Mrs J L Trobaugh 817 East 14th Ada The were advised of their son's death in a tele- gram from the commandant of the U.S Marine Corps determined bargain-hunting from store to store Some made the point that few housewives can spare so much time from their other duties If a housewife does all her shopping at one store the re- searcher in St It doesn't matter much which store you shop at they'll get all your money anyway Each store's weekly gains really were she reported They cut off as much as 20 or 30 cents per item But they seem to make it up somewhere else The Associated Press budget brigade priced a list of 38 to 40 items from sirloin steak in three super- markets in each of the 12 cities on March 10 The results were set alongside returns from U S Department of Labor checkers who shopped a wider range of stores in the same cities at approximately the same time The ment checkers also covered stores in 50 smaller cities for 1C J YT J Preliminary details are graduating from Hayes and sketchy The stated Ada Junior High School He at- Cpl Marr died from multiple tended Ada High School for two from an years graduated from ace Mann High School He joined the Marine Corps seven years ago and planned to Lee Heads Community Chest Drive This Year G William Lee known Ada businessman will head the fund drive for the Ada Community Chest next fall Lee accepted the post of fund drive chairman this week He is -in Chest activities on the board and was North Carolina he was in Ada president of the organization last grew for in mounted a He had been in Vietnam since make a career of military March 21 Serving as a grenade launcher he was attached to Co L 9th Marines 3rd Marine Division At the time of his death he was participating in Operation Georgia a Marine sweep against enemy vice He had served of duty in Okinawa before his assignment in Vietnam and had also served Marine stations in California and North Carolina Originally Marr holds in the north of volunteered for He was in the general Da rilla unit approximately a year area but the exact location was i ago After intensive m not given Cpl Marr week ago showing that over-all food costs rose only 1 of 1 per cent over the March averages The AP budget brigade in 7 Per Cent From 1965 The AP's Detroit checker said prepared foods now is on the of their loss leaders n T advances in the processing of market that I begin to suspect foods often beguile the the cook may be done away into spending more than she j intended The budget brigade said Before it was canned in several stores now peas with money but may prolong the mushroom chore of buying the groceries ture onions or in said Corn once came packed in water Now it is frozen in pure butter The Cleveland member of the beyond that which a busy wife can spare The Philadelphia checker I find it necessary to de- ifie ui HUM team remarked that so vote considerably more time to plete and elegant all three stores to take an enemy explosive device Pre- it was a booby trap or possibly a mine which no price breakdown is In the 12 cities where the AP paralleled the government vey average total bills were remarkably similar and in the case of St Louis came out at precisely the same figure The government goes about in a coolly scientific way using 125 checkers working under field supervisors and supported by computers at home base The AP survey was a matronly fair -on a much smaller scale Javits Seeking No Two He Has Backing WASHINGTON AP It is an American tradition that no politician runs openly for vice president Sen Jacob K Javits breaking that dition but it few men care publicly venture Javits quietly is trying to narrow down to himself the a 1968 vice tial candidate Although the New York Re- publican insists publicly he has made no decision he has told friends privately he would be willing to give up his Senate seat to get the Republican nomination two years from now Behind willingness to risk his political future is his desire to become the first ish candidate on a major party ticket It is his private opinion that this would be a crowning achievement for a political career in which he has gone all out for civil rights It also is view that if John F Kennedy had not won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 it would NOEL D MARR ary He was actually en- route overseas then He flew to nawa for another brief training period and then joined Marine units in Vietnam in March He was based at a village mately 11 miles southwest of Da The said they heard from their son regularly He recently told of participating in an action against a village For the first time since 1961 the Village was freed Cong con- trol and the road serving the village was opened to traffic When he was killed Cpl Marr was on the final day of the rine action and was due to be rotated to rear echelons for a rest period before going into combat again He said he had not had his boots off for more v than IS at letter received son was oh Saturday On Sunday the official gram came on of Day His body will back to and See Adan Page 2 a- nomination m but following in the footsteps of been another decade be- Buddhists Meet With Viet Military Junta government checkers AP housewives spiced findings with pointed comments about food prices like bitant and skyrocketing Food prices make up only 22.5 per cent of the government's over-all cost of living index which during the March period rose 2.5 per cent However it is food prices which the housewife encounters face to face every week Both AP government checkers reported Cleveland to be the cheapest city for the over-all food Government checkers came up with a figure of for 39 items and the AP housewife found the same items for Government checkers found San Francisco to be the costliest city with an average price of for 39 items compared with reported by the AP checker Costliest city AP survey was Boston with of the finding of between the extremes came Chicago De- troit Los Angeles New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St Louis and Washington AP's San Francisco checker called recent price rises in meat exorbitant My strained to the breaking commented the Cleveland housewife The housewife in Washington complained that some basic items of diet have increased over the past no bread up 4 cents milk up rice up 4 cents toes up 15 cents for 10 pounds Said the manager of a I checked he had 600 the past customer have SAIGON AP Buddhist leaders held a surprise meeting with leaders of the military junta today apparently the first round of talks to end the anti- government campaign by com- promise The monks met fore a Roman Catholic Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of through in the political field Nguyen Van Thieu a Ro- feels the Jews may be 10 years i man Catholic and a target in the a similar campaign to force the not iho COP i military junta to resign in favor of a provisional civilian Gemini 9 Gets Go Sign For Three-Day Trip CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The brightly go light to tracking flashed stations away ment if he fails to get ond place spot in 1968 Republican Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York has gone a long way toward linking vice-presidential ions to the presidential hopes of Jov George Romney of gan In a Long Island speech ast week Rockefeller said he lad bowed out of the tial picture forever and ested that Romney and Javits should share the top spots on the 1968 Republican ticket The New York said he would be in favor of running for the 1968 nomination as a favorite LI col Thomas P ford His rookie pilot Navy Cmdr Eugene A Cernah soon to become the world's champion cosmic stroller agreed They'll ride a mighty Titan rocket into the hostile void of space at p.m CST Wednesday to search the skies for a stubby target satellite then boldy latch Gemini nose toil Their target known an Augmented Target Docking Adapter will be a high The meeting came after an- other Buddhist a girl had burned herself to death in Hue center of government opposition in the North She was the fifth and possibly the sixth suicide in the protests Thich venerable Tarn Chau head of the powerful Buddhist Institute headed the of four that called at heavily guarded Gia Long Palace Thieu's residence An no statement will be made for the tune being The influential around the world today for the Gemini 9 spacemen to embark on a three-day exploration of some unknowns of space We're ready to said Air candidate from New York If Rockefeller is re-elected friends will be re- minding him of the favorite son support If the governor should lose the delegation will be its by default JACOB K JAVITS Monk Thich Tri Quang leader of the movement in the north provinces issued an peal earlier in the day for a halt to protest he spoke supreme patriarch of South Buddhism Tinh he urged all to cease acts of fice in the name of Dharma the Buddhist 7 Tril followers in Hue distributed the edict two hours after Nguyen Thi in a hospital She doused herself with and match outside of Hue's Thanh Hoi pagoda at 3 Monks and nuns from the goda took the girl a- hospital after extinguishing the flames but died in convulsions three hours later according to fund-raising effort that saw a raised here Martin Clark was fund drive chairman of that campaign Oliver Parker is currently Com- munity Chest president Mr and Mrs Lee live at 912 East They have four dren David is associated with his father in Ada at The Lee Co Lt Wayne Lee is with the post engineers at Berchtesgaden Germany Janet a freshman at OU will be a counselor this summer at- a camp in Maine Phillip is at Ada ior High Lee was born in Roosevelt Okla and lived there until he was 13 moving with his family to Oklahoma City He ated from High School in Oklahoma City junior college to been in Ada for 26 Lee said and that will let how old I He opened The Lee Co in Ada 116 South Broadway Later the firm ed to Main and in 1962 Lee purchased the building at 230 East Main which now houses the large firm The company is the largest of its type in southern Oklahoma dealing in glass paints papers and other decorator items A second store was ed in Durant in 1948 and a third store was added in January 1956 in Stillwater The Lees are active members of the First Methodist Church He currently chairman of the Board of Trustees and is also chairman for Scout Troop 13 A member of the Kiwanis Club he served as president of that group for the international civic club in 1960 He was also tal in organizing the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ada Lee said the fund drive in 1966 will not use outside help He said the drive will attempt to raise even more than the secured in We are already build our organizational work for Lee said I know we can again count on the cooperation of local dents to help make this effort a real success Seven member agencies in the Chest program Salvation Army Boy Scouts Canip Fire Girls Ada Boys Club Child fare and the Ada Summer ground program and determine which stores have the better values The brigade's San Francisco housewife she was prised to find a market well known for its low prices charged more for meat than another market considered high-priced for meat This latter market was considerably lower in prices and its meat was Food Index to check for happened to Here's a way yourself what's food prices Govt Govt Survey Survey Survey Natl Natl Avg Avg Avg Mid- Mid- Mid- March March March 1965 1966 1966 hite flour lorn Flakes Rice short grain Ib 18.9 19.1 18.0 white Ib Sirloin steak Ib Hamburger Ib Pork chops Ib Ib 60.9 82.3 79.6 Bacon 99.8 94.9 Lamb chops Ib 62.4 73.3 69.9 38.5 47.5 j Frying en Ib Turkey Ib Haddock fillet frozen Ib 61.33 Tuna fish oz can 32.0 Chairman of the 1966 Community Chest drive In Ada is G William above at his business The Lee Co on East Mam NEWS Staff Photo pictured Judge Dismisses Suit For KTEN McALESTER Staff Ada into receivership this after- chased stock in the past month noon at a hearing here The hearing was on a suit con- testing ownership and ment of Eastern Oklahoma evision Inc Ada The suit was filed by Ralph Stone a California resident and holder in the corporation After listening to testimony of Stone Kemp Ada attorney Judge missed the suit Langley to place the SlOa S reports from Hue 400 miles continued a northeast of Saigon station in receivership The judge took under ment other parts of the ceedings Whether the case not on the stock issue apparently depends on Kemp's status He will study the case and try to if Kemp should be a party to the plaintiff's suit in- stead of being listed as a de- fendant If he finds Kemp is on the plaintiff's of the issue case would not be within the jurisdiction of federal court since Kemp is a resident of I Oklahoma Stone's residence in I California was the determining factor in jurisdiction The Stone suit asked mately for a determination of the company's stock ownership and the legality of some dis- FT CHAFFEE Ark The first two Selected Reserve Force unit's to undergo testing during the Infantry sion's encampment He Stone filed this suit for the furtherance of his own ends and not because of any present danger to the stockholders in- Deaton said The corporation's attorney also said the owed to is not due ly but over a period of 10 years Deaton said the television cor- directors became aware of the possible complaint by Stone on April 15 and di- him Deaton to file in suit to determine ship and legality of disputed War The reports indicated girl acted on her own death had not been around the globe by the leadership Nuns an Atlas booster one hour and at she left minutes Titan hind three protesting 1 U.S support of Premier Nguyen its engines and trained to razor sharpness the Gemini twins planned a final of their vital mission with top space agency officials during the day They also hoped to crowd in a few more hours of practice sessions in a mockup version of Cao Ky's military monk a Institute in themselves to death Buddhist girl to have slashed her wrists and bled to death Monday 140 of be sault exercise begun Monday Shawnee's maintenance com: and Oklahoma City's ical company will be engaged in mock war Wednesday when Stillwater's hot Co A of the 120 th Engineer Battalion takes over The problem facing the water group will repairing on the far skirts of assing enemy The unit move north to the Arkansas River tonight to attempt a Then its role infantry sion Attorney for the City in his opening remarks that immediate on the suit was necessary He also charged that the television cor- by about-a dollars and that owed to due in the very near future television firm Jack Fentem appeared corporation has made a profit during its operation Austin Deaton attorney for in his opening Dr Cross Will Retire In 1968 As Head Of OU NORMAN OKLA George L: Cross touched off a giant guessing game Monday with the announcement that he will retire after 25 years as president of the University ol Oklahoma June 30 1968 Dr Cross in confirming his retirement plans declined to designate his choice of a but I won't di- vorce myself entirely from the question I may have a name or two to drop into the hat But the long-time educator so indicated he wouldn't be lie v shares Deaton said he believed the type of pressures this was now unnecessary since and poking wnich confused the Federal District Court is fnr a toad qualified to determine both sues Stone charged in bis petition that Hoover has 432 shares of voting stock in his name but that 430 shares of that stock were illegally issued He also alleged that the cor- has never shown a profit a total of 603.26 was paid out in dividends over a period from 1955 to 1959 Those dividends Stone were never authorized ment said no creditors Tempting BURLINGTON N C 1 An Air Force re- g offered some inter- inducements to 5 Donnie Ray Clark a 5 school senior 3 Donnie received a letter g I from Sgt Morris M Greene saying a whole s 3 new horizon of friends g 5 cor- ner Women's Air s Force Unfortunately Donnie 1 couldn't the WAF physical And he says he and politicking which search for a head football coach to succeed athletic tor Gomer Jones Dr Cross said that if he is on the selection committee he would reject anyone who active ly for the job or whose friends campaigned for him The retirement followed by few days the disclosure by Ben Henneke president of the University of Tulsa that he will retire effec Dr Cross has been a member the OU faculty for 35 61 years coming to Oklahoma in 1934 from the University of by the television station have not the at the age of 60 years service His will the mandatory retirement age of 3 Following the announcement to the faculty senate Dr Cross held conference at which he issued a statement I am grateful to the citizens of Oklahoma for permitting me the privilege of 58.0 58.2 58.4 29.0 29.0 28.2 21.0 21.6 22.7 48.8 54.3 ters Ib 40.7 47.2 44.8 43.7 50.9 41.1 50.0 65.2 66.7 34.2 38.7 78.7 14.4 47.8 41.8 42.4 69.4 13.0 12.4 Evaporated milk 15.4 15.33 cess cheese 40.3 74.9 79.6 Bananas Ib 15.7 Fresh orange juice qt Potatoes 10 Cabbage Ib 10.4 Lettuce size 24 head Spinach 10 oz 28.2 Tomatoes Ib 37.2 Pears No Orange juice concentrate frozen 6 oz can Peas green No 303 can 23.3 24.1 21.1 22.9 30.8 30.8 29.6 31.7 27.7 30.4 25.8 21.8 20.2 61.5 61.1 28.3 29.1 36.9 59.7 35.4 57.5 Eggs Grade A large doz 47.4 Margarine Ib 27.8 Salad or ing oil pt 34.3 Sugar 5 Ib 59.2 82.5 81.3 Coffee instant 89.7 86.0 Tea bags pkg of 48 -60.8 64.1 Chicken soup oz 18.1 17.4 can Spaghetti pz can French fried potatoes frozen 9 oz Totals 15.0 15.7 17.0 17.1 15.9 15.0 Death Toll Soars To New Records By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The death toll on the nation's roads has soared to dented three-day Memorial Day figure and it may surpass the recorded for any Day weekend As of Monday time lives America's were lost on The death in LUC vi South Dakota where he had headed the botany department He became eligible for America's ment a year ago under OU at 6 p.m local time cy permitting voluntary Friday 30 accidents 43 persons perished in boating mishaps and 90 persons drowned Ten of the drowning victims were recorded in The highest previous traffic death toll for a three-day Memorial Day period was 474 with more auto- miles of freeways than any other recorded the highest number of deaths as
