Lawton Constitiution (Newspaper) - November 4, 1971, Lawton, Oklahoma THE UWTON CONSTITUTION Temperature Chart 24-Hour noon II it IM m a i p.m u p.m u p.m M p.m il p.m 11 p.m C p.m U p.m 41 VOLUME 69 AP AP WIREPHOTO THIRD AND A AVE LAWTON OKLA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4 1971 48 PAGES SINGLE COPY lOe U.S Copters Truck Depot SAIGON AP U.S copter gunships wiped out a North Vietnamese truck depot in quarter of South Vietnam destroying all 10 and killing 11 enemy diers the U.S Command an- today The attack on the truck depot was the biggest action reported as Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird conferred with dor Ellsworth Bunker and Gen W Abrams on ther American troop cutbacks economic aid to South Vietnam and the pacification program Pilots Spot Depot A spokesman for the U.S Command Mai Richard ner said American pilots spotted the truck depot between the Laotian border and the A Shau valley a key trans- shipment point for supplies coming off the Ho Chi Minh trail Gardner said the ton trucks we're spotted off the road but the action reports did not indicate whether they were loaded There reports of secondary explosions which would indicate hits on tion or added The attack was made by ships of the Airborne sion the only American sion still in South Vietnam There were no U.S casualties Gardner reported Two GIs Killed The U.S Command also sued a weekly casualty ry Americans killed in the lowest total since United took March 1955 But a command acknowledged that there were four more combat deaths last Saturday which didn't get into the reporting system in time Another 63 Americans were wounded in action according to the summary and 19 died ot accidents or illness The South Vietnamese com- mand said 269 of its troops By LARRY GEE Law are continuing a were killed in action last week search today for a lone and 562 were wounded A total pan who cleaned the State Million Bid For 7 Parcels LURA Mulling Holding Up final Accord By SKIP GIBSON GALE of seven parcels of a Tom Mahaffey left president of the Marlow State National Bank points to his side while Green bank president how held a gun on holdup v Staff Photo Officers Continue Search For arlow Bank Robber M National Wednesday afternoon The bandit fled the bank with bags He then MeH in- a green car Highway FBI agents sheriff departments sealed off the area County under sheriff said his ment would comb county roads today looking for the getaway car A Marlow Police Department spokesman said its officers worked case He said federal officers here lier this morning The high up at all major highway intersections and an Truong said he will commit airplane from Oklahoma City and 21st Divisions to the joined search today drive He gave no timetable of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were killed accord ing- to the two allied com- mands As Laird in his conferences mapped plans for an end to the U.S ground combat role in Vietnam the South Vietnamese command prepared for new dry season offensives to strengthen before the major por tion the American troops are withdrawn by next July Lt Gen Ngo Quang the commander in the Mekong Delta told Associated Press correspondent J T fer he is planning a new drive to destroy the North ese and Viet Cong bases maining in the U forest and at the southern tip of the Ca Mau peninsula Ira Green State National but the dry season said the exact the delta in December I amount of taken not be until time today several different reports have ed the loss from to The bandit forced the bank's vice president at gunpoint to cany all the money in the vault outside to his getaway car then calmly the bank to confiscate the rest the cash dows seven downtown land to firm ed here Friday the Lawton Urban Renewal Authority has been negotiating for months with the firm which includes Charles Tapper and Hulcheson of Dallas and Drake Cook tori architect Two weeks ago the firm Mark Real Estate Enterprise Inc offered LURA for square feet of land The land is planned for a sive covered shopping mall entertainment center hotel area and bank and office building LURA Anxious has been reach an agreement developers at least Lwo ly elude the price the Lawton Parking purchase from LURA to to the Dallas interests and the total amount of land involved in the transaction Arch March LURA executive at seven teller said Mark offer is short of needed Bank officials described the robber as a man in his middle 30s about 5 feet 10 and ing about ISO pounds They said he was wearing a steel con- struction an jacket and a red shirt Tom Mahaffey the vice Scc News In Brief Cat Burglar His Claws Yanked WESTLAKE Ernest Delgado opened an apartment door at 4 Wednesday at him was Michael West 30 who lived there Police say Delgado is In the ensuing chase ho almost lost the equivalent of nine lives West a musician stays He and his wife were playing a dice game when the door opened Police lold what happened West chased Delgado down the hall and into the Ing lot beating him fists The beating continued as Delgado ran back into the apartment Then Delgado jumped into an elevator he thought escaped He went up to the third floor The doonopened-and there stood West This time West began beating Delgado with the weapon and it discharged with the bullet grazing Delgado's head He collapsed Police him to the County General Hospital wound and He was booked on Officers theorized that 30 had been gomg through tie Wests apartment building trying until he was open B WASHINGTON AP Banking today to write into Phase 2 economic legislation a qualified provision that previously contracted pay raises must be A provision also was allowing to sue for damages If charged prices are lowed under control regulations OKLAHOMA CITY AP Oklahoma riled suit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a 1971 act creating a separate board of regents Stale Technical College at WASHINGTON AP conXerees agreed today to remove the six-month deadline voted by the Senate from a- compromise measure calling or total Indochina The compromise declaring total to be U.S policy provided American prisoners missing troops are freed was Included In a billion weapons and research 1 BRUSSELS AP The Belgian has decided to expel or bar from Belgium more Soviet citizens named as spies by defector Anatol an informed source reported today About a third the Soviets have already left the country ihc source sold NEW YORK AP Major commercial banks recent slide in money market rates today trimmed their prime lending to per cent the lowest level since June Chase Manhattan nation's third largest touched off Che prime rate cut and also announced board reductions in Interest rates for new Installment loans up enue as budgeted March said the shortage could be overcome by the Mark firm agreeing to purchase an added square feet of land and by the price of land be sold to the parking authority to per square foot LURA agree to a conditional contract Its finality would depend on whether or not the proposed parking authority land price was agreeable and if the Mark company the ad- land Contract Needed In its Oct 26 proposal to LURA the Mark firm noted bank requires con- I tract before issuing a letter of faith deposit of 5 per Cent of the purchase amount The Mark proposal included land purchase from per square foot for Indira Gandhi prime minister of India talks to President Nixon during the welcoming ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House today Mrs Gandhi arrived Wednesday night in the U.S for a two-day official visit Airport fire Station Asked The Lawton Airport Authority j voted to city council to investigate the of constructing a new fire station to ton and die airport Airport Authority Chairman Dr Gilbert Gibson land is expecting rate trial per traffic when runway ex- India's Gandhi Nixon Meet To Mull Crisis office bank and and terminal renovation The firm offered foot for all other Included in offer the station over square feet of where the shopping mall is be built An adjoining square feet of land has been designed by BUEA for parking for the shopping mall The mall is to be located completed and that per crash equipment be needed The proposed fulfill this ln other action for terminal generally in an area bounded by Second and Streets and C and F and office building land is on the south the 500 block of D Avenue The tel area is located on west Sw 4 WASHINGTON AP Nixon with In- dia's Prime Indira Gandhi and was expected to urge her join in a mutual pullback of troops massed along the borders of East and West Pakistan Mrs Gandhi who arrived Wednesday a two-day official was welcomed at the White today and told President she to States in search of wise impulse that time's humanity airline meet soon to re- view coordinate plans examine i and sure is in Horton then we'll be off arid running he expects See 4 Col I IN THE formal ceremonies on the South Lawon she said is that she is haunted by a man-made tragedy massive In this fashion she referred Pakistan into India as the re- sult war Nixon welcomed Mrs Gandhi warmly as the leader of the world's largest democracy He said that whenever tragedy in out to you He said he knew that her heart was heavy as she arrived here and most particularly the recent that had south India THE PRESIDENT spoke of the very special relationship between 200 million Americans and the 500 million Indians Referring the cool weather Nixon said We kind day good omen and would directly to the 9.5 i shine on the Mild Weather To Turn Cold Mild clear is fore- cast for Southwest Oklahoma is before Opponents Of Amchitka Nuclear Jest fight Last-Minute Battle WASHINGTON nents of giant under- ground nuclear explosion put nal touches on a Supreme Court A cold front is plunging appeal today as last-minute tor the blast went ward the state and should ar- Jatc ing temperatures lowing an- overnight in a on Amchitka the s turned down the j his Energy Commission by I er to fly to Alaska today be present for Seven conservationist groups Committee for say the off earthquakes andi into seals in adverse reports withholding con- from a required cited by dent ex- could v trigger a chain all They say suppressed evidence about en- Train chairman of the on En- Quality said in the report than the explosion planned Saturday had set off quakes Intensity than thee blasts But he there was Amchitka test would pattern Re- cent he said have earthquake may be composed of of an- other The explosion could serve -as of a row of a major port had unsuccessfully in weeks of tangled court keep the Train document and Train mention yer
