Wildlife employees to attend nine month training in DC
Four career employees of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife will attend a nine month departmental management training course in Washington DC. The group includes Walter Okamoto of Salt Lake City and Lee Mills of Kansas. The session at George Washington University aims to widen supervisory skills with assignments on Capitol Hill and within the interior department.
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Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Washington, D. C
I W. O. Nelson, Jr
Department of Interior Wildlife Agency
Walter Okamote
Salt Lake City
Lee Mills
Claude H. Thomas
Treasure Lake
Department of the Interior
Nelson
George Washington University
Interior Department
Capitol Hill
Okamoto
Califia
University of Utah
Mills
Kansas
Thomas
Mary Manse College
Toledo
Ohio
Creighton University
Omaha
Nebraska
Ottawa Job Corps
Corn Blight Threatens 1971 Farm Yields And Output
Washington AP The Agriculture Department nears its August corn crop estimate for 1971 with private forecasts around 5.4 billion bushels, well above the 1967 record, while blight, borers and drought shaped last year’s 4.1 billion. The August projection will reflect corn on August 1 under normal growing conditions, with no unforeseen adjustments for weather or disease. Plant scientists warn blight could spread with hot, moist late summer weather, possibly reshaping final harvest totals.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
GDA
Don Paarlberg
Department
Paarlberg
Washington (Ap
Britain
London
U.S. Plas
USDA
G I loan enables mobile home purchases for veterans
Joe W. Anderson of the VA Regional Office in Muskogee announced that a veteran may use a G I loan to buy a mobile home and lot. Loans up to 10000 can be guaranteed for mobile homes alone, while up to 17509 is possible with both lot and home. VA guarantees 30 percent of qualifying loans, with mobile home rates at 10.75 percent and lot site loans at seven percent.
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G. I
Joe W. Anderson
Muska
Bee
Veterans Administration
Anderson
U S Vegetable Crop Drops, FHA Loans Hit Record Volume
The Agriculture Department reports a 2 percent drop in the summer vegetable crop from last year, with totals at 66.6 million hundredweight and cantaloupe and watermelon at 29 million. Farmers Home Administration loaned a record 1.4 billion this year ending June 30 to aid nearly 500,000 rural households, financed by private investors and insured by the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
Farmers Home Administration
Agriculture Department
FHA
Accident Kills Coalgate Boy in Tractor Fall
A 10 year old Coalgate boy, Robert Darrell Courson, died in a tractor accident on his grandfather Willie Cometti’s farm seven miles northwest of Coalgate. He fell from the tractor Tuesday.
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Coalgate
Here
Robert Darrell Courson
Bob Courson
Willie Cometti
Choctaws Set August 14 Election for Chief
Choctaw Nation will hold its first elective chief race since statehood on August 14 with incumbent Harry Beivin contesting against David Jones Fritz Neal Victor Roebuck and Joe Lewis. Balloting will occur at county courthouses across the 10 county area.
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Harry Beivin
David §. Jones
Fritz Neal
Victor Roebuck
Joe Lewis
McLish School Announces Early Fall Enrollment
McLish School will hold enrollment on Thursday August 19 at 9 am with buses on regular rounds. Regnar classwork starts Monday August 23 and the cafeteria will be open. All first time students must bring immunization records. Head Start classes begin August 23.
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McLish School
Regnar
McLish
Pickett Center Enrollment Set for August 23
Pickett Center School will enroll students on August 23 as announced by principal Howard Asendorf. Lunches will not be served that day but will start August 24, the first full day. Betty Ayres is the only new faculty member. The school has been reconditioned and plans include two new classrooms and four dressing rooms.
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Pickett-Center School
Howard Asendorf
Roff Enrollment Rescheduled for August 18
Enrollment day at Roff Schools is set for August 18 replacing the earlier August 1 date. Buses will operate that day but lunch will not be served. The first day of classwork will be August 23.
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Rolf
Astronauts urge lunar bases and restored moon missions
Apollo 15 crew member Da vid R Scott called for permanent science stations on the moon and the restoration of canceled Apollo 18 and 19 missions. James Irwin and Alfred Worden joined him in urging expanded lunar exploration after their 12 day survey and 175 to 189 pounds of lunar samples. He praised the lunar Rover car as highly capable and described the moon as dynamic and full of scientific potential.
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Space Center
Houston
David R. Scott
Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Pacific
Jance
Irwin
Lunar
State colleges receive riot control funds in Oklahoma
Oklahoma colleges and universities for the first time receive federal funds for riot control equipment distributed by the Oklahoma Crime Commission. About 110000 this year, up from 75000 last year, funds will buy radios gas masks gas grenades chemical gas sticks revolvers handcuffs and related gear. Cameron College to equip a new fireman security force leads grants with 3786 to Oklahoma State University 3585 to Langstone University and 909 to Murray State College.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Colleges and Universities
Oklahoma Crime Commission
Oklahoma
Pet Barker
Commission
State Department of Public Safety
Cameron College
Lawton
Oklahoma State University
Langstone University
Murray State College
Barker
Oklahoma Wins Federal Aid Under New Emergency Act
Oklahoma to receive about 4 million dollars in federal aid under an emergency employment act. Gov. David Hall protests that the share is smaller than other states and notes the grant to hire unemployed persons is to be distributed to governmental units with populations of 75,000 or more. Implementation details remain to be worked out.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
David Hall
Hall
Marine found innocent of military charges
Marine Sgt. Jon M. Sweeney was found innocent of running away and deserting his unit during Operation Dewey Canyon in Vietnam and of communicating with the enemy. The verdict, delivered at a week-long court martial, followed his testimony that his unit left him behind and that he was captured by Viet Cong scouts and dragged along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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Quantico
Jon M. Sweeney
Vietnam
West Babylon
N.Y
Sweeney
Quang Tri Province
Perkins
Ho Chi Minh
Bin
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den Cook
G.I. Loan
Agriculture, Department
James V. Smith
Smith
Betty Ayres
Roff
Don Cook
Carl
Edwin Huntsfeldt
Stratford
Marine
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