Texas screw worm case confirmed near Hooks
Federal labs in Mission Texas and Ames Iowa confirm a screw worm on a Bowie County farm near Hooks just north of the Red River. Aircraft began dropping sterile flies Friday to stop spread while Oklahoma and Texas officials urge livestock workers to report suspicions immediately.
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Mission
Texas
Ames
Iowa
Hooks
L. N. Miller
USDA
Animal Health Service
Oklahoma
McCurtain County
Bowie County
Red River
Arkansas
J. H. Brashear
Miller
New 4H Photo Fun Club Organized for Pontotoc County
Nolan Bullard announces a new 4H PHOTO FUN CLUB for 9 to 12 year olds in Pontotoc County. Six 30 minute TV programs teach camera use and storytelling with photos airing on KWTV Channel 9 Oklahoma City at 1 p.m. starting July 10. Enroll via Pontotoc County USU Extension Center Ada contact 332 2153 or mail a postcard with name address and age.
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Pontotoc County
Nolan Bullard
Bullard
KWTV
Channnel
Oklahoma City
USU Extension Center
N. 1
Broadway
Ada
County youth named to Angus Club junior membership
Gary W. LaCrone, 15, Stonewall, Mo., has been granted a junior membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph. The membership allows registering purebred Angus at regular rates and grants association privileges until age 21, with lifetime membership possible after. Last month 142 youths nationwide received junior memberships.
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County
Angus
Gary W. LaCrone
Stonewall
Ohio House Acts After False Report on Constitutional Amendment
A false report claimed the Oklahoma Legislature held a midnight session to ratify the 26th Amendment. The Ohio House rushed to action Wednesday night, with a law school friend of Oklahoma Governor David Hall identified as a prime mover.
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Columbus
Ohio
Oklahoma
Ohio House
Law
David Hall
Rex Brinlee Denied Bond in Bombing Case
Rex Brinlee Jr a Tulsa nightclub owner remains jailed after a Creek County judge denied bond amid claims he plotted escape with his wife Vernon Cole testified Brinlee used a hacksaw hidden in a transistor radio during an escape attempt June 16 The case ties to the Feb 2 bombing death of Fern Bolding and involves witness accounts and defense denials in Tulsa County courts.
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Sapulpa
Okla
AP Tahlequah
Rex Brinlee Jr
Bristow
Tulsa County
Kenneth Hughes
Brinlee
Creek County
Margaret Lee Brinlee
Vernon Cole
Tulsa
Cole
Hughes
John Does
Fern Bolding
Ainslie Perrault
Perrault
State Attorney General’s Office
Oklahoma Deer Restoration Drives Population Comeback
By the early 1950s Oklahoma’s deer restoration program, begun in the 1940s, boosted the Whitetail herd through refuges, trapping, and releases. J Lawrance Temple led the effort postwar, with federal aid and active local support pushing state-wide growth and archery seasons beginning in 1948.
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Oklahoma
Game and Fish Department
J. Lawrance Temple
Jack Fletcher
Cy Curtis
McCurtain
Curtis
Department
Grove
Delaware County
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Gen. Stanfield Lake
Walter Woolley, Jr
Solomon
Woolley
Lewis Watson
Watson
Photos By
Don Cook
Stanfield Lake
Walter Woolley
Leonard Solomon
Hers
Association
United States
Rex Brinlee
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