Officials Seek Boxcars to Ease Shipping Delays
Washington officials and railroads hunt solutions to annual boxcar shortages as peak season looms. Data show current adequacy but demand from Oregon lumber, Kansas wheat, and New England utilities strains capacity. Proposals include a $120 million Defense Department fleet and government-backed private boxcar investment to avert delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oregon Lumberman
Kansas
New England
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Dakotas
Milton Young
R-N.d
Federal Railroad Administration
Congress
James Pearson
R-Kan
Montana
Mike Mansfield
Mississippi
Mansfield
Carl Curtis
R-Neb
Oregon
Son
Pearson
Defense Department
Pentagon
Heavy Fighting Erupts In South Vietnam Villages
North Vietnamese forces suffer heavy casualties in a major attack aimed at undermining pacification in Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces. Maj. Nguyen Van Van of Fire Base O'Reilly is killed. U.S. air strikes intensify as ground action focuses on blocking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
South Vietnam
Nguyen van van
O'Reilly
Quang Tri
Thua Thien
SODA Outlines Pilot Proposal for Rural Planning Leap
The Southern Oklahoma Development Association proposes a Pilot Proposal to marshal federal agency resources across the 10 county Economic Development District. Executed with the Commerce Department, the plan aims to let rural residents identify needs and plan futures with urbanlevel expertise, addressing gaps in leadership and rural applicability of urban-focused programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Oklahoma Development Association
SODA
Soda Board
Office of
Department of Commerce
Washington
Oklahoma
Orlie J. Boehler
Boehler
Bohler
America
Quartet Sets Ada Concert by Weatherford Gospel Group
The Weatherford Quartet, famed gospel singers, perform at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Ada tonight at 8 p.m. The group has a long recording history and frequent radio and television appearances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Weatherford
First Pentecostal Holiness Church
Stratford Man Hurt Slightly In Ada Crash
A Stratford man sustained minor injuries in a car motorcycle accident in Ada on Wednesday. Charles Johnie Baum, 27, Stratford, was treated at Valley View Hospital and released. Harold Dolph Jeter, 604 W 19th, West Ada, failed to yield while turning and collided with Baum’s motorcycle. Jeter was charged with failing to yield.
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Stratford
Charles Johnie Baum
Valley View Hospital
Harold Dolph Jeter
W. 19Th
W. Main
Baum
Jeter
Philip Wayne King
S. Broadway
Kenneth S. Stanfield
Route 5
Ada
King
Leo M. Hennigan
Belmont
Bill Green
Zola E. Hunt
Dining Out Costs Rise Eight Percent in Early 1970s
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department finds dining out averaged about eight percent higher in the first seven months of the year than 1969. Food-at-retail rose 4.5 to 5 percent, with wage growth and overhead lifting restaurant bills. total food spending near $110 billion this year, $21.5 billion eaten away from home, up from 13.3 billion in 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Sulphur Man Shot Wounded in Personal Safety Incident
Sulphur resident Dan Horton, about 30, was rushed to Valley View Hospital with a shotgun wound to the chest. Sheriff J Harold Ready said Horton, who was in surgery, told him the shooting near Veterans Lake was a personal safety incident. Horton reportedly walked a mile to summon help after being shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley View Hospital
Dan Horton
Murray County
J. Harold Ready
Horton
Ada
Veterans Lake
Ready
Lawton youths nabbed after car camera theft
Lawton police tracked two boys ages 10 and 12 who stole three cameras from a parked car. Police found photos from the instant camera near the vehicle showing the two grinning youngsters taking turns posing. The boys spent one night in jail and were released to their parents after a stern warning, and the equipment was returned to the owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Former Wife Of OU President Dies In Boston
Margaret Holloman former wife of University of Oklahoma president died in downtown Boston after collapsing on a bus search by Dr Gordon Christenson special assistant to Dr J Herbert Hollomon. She 50 had lived in Boston since spring after treatment for hypoglycemia. The couple married in 1941 and split in 1969 after a long marriage and four children now adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Norman, Okla
University of Oklahoma
Margaret Holloman
Gordon Christenson
J. Herbert Hollomon
Norman
Supervisors Approve Conservation Plans
Pontotoc County Soil and Water Conservation District officials met at the local office. Attending were Walter Woolley Jr Vel Bumpers Dr Harvey Price and C C Buxton acting chairman. Conservation plans were approved on farms of Charles Brown Roff Raymond Jackson Ada Lee Langley Union Valley Lonnie Abbott Byng Ron Cox Fittstown Byron Lynch Stonewall Nettie Hodges Roff Gerald D Stewart Burl Griffin Fittstown James Horn Stonewall and Albert Hutchings Rt 1 Ada. A Fish and Wildlife Service letter said landowners will not need to reapply for future auto filling as large mouth bass stocking is limited in 1970. Farm ponds on Frank Jared Allen Etta Horton Rt 4 Ada Frank Compton Rt 3 Ada and Ed Wilson Allen were completed. Harold Merriman drilled a well northwest of Allen in the Canadian River bottom yielding 800 gallons per minute to irrigate 78 acres of peanuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Yoakum
Pontotoc County
Frank Jared
Allen
Etta Horton
Ada
Frank Compton
Ed Wilson
Harold Merriman
Safeguard Opponents Plan Final Senate Challenge
Foes of President Nixon’s Safeguard antiballistic missile system prepare a final Senate push to restrict expansion next week. Supporters say they hold votes to withstand challenges as Sen. Edward Brooke seeks to block two new sites and reroute funds to improve existing sites in Montana North Dakota.
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Senate
Washington
Nixon
Safeguard
Brooke
John Stennis
D-Miss
John Sherman Cooper
Rey
Philip A. Hart
wMtch
Missouri
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
Barricades Hold Rioting In Londonderry Amid Parade Tensions
In Londonderry Bogside Catholics and British troops clashed for hours as barbed wire barricades and police limited rioting after Protestant parades. Troops used rubber bullets and tear gas, injuring three soldiers and a civilian. Conor Cruise O Brien was assaulted by Protestant gangs and required police protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Bogside
Sol
Diers
Ada Weather Holds Despite Drought Pressures
Ada faces a dry spell with rainfall eight inches behind last year. Byrds Mill Spring remains robust at 9.5 to 10 million gallons daily, while Ada uses about half that. Ground settlement and aging mains cause pressure loss. some towns ration water. County ranchers warn of grass loss. up to 50 percent may need to feed or sell within two weeks if no rain. Ada’s 1970 rainfall to date is 18.63 inches, below 26.71 last year but above 14.70 in 1966, with 1963 the driest year on record at 23.31 inches.
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Ada
Jim Cook
Byrds Mill Spring
Water Department
Tulsa
Edmond
Stringtown
Muskogee
Pontotoc County
John Netherton
Kenneth Yoakum
Soil Conversation Service
Yoakum
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The
Association of American Railroads
Association
Quang Tri City
George Rowe
James Jackson
Delmar Joe Wood
Wood
Lance’s
Crop Reporting Board
Cambridge
Mass
Holloman
Sen
Edward Brooke
R-Mass
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Arthur Young
Irish Republic
Conor Cruise O’brien
Africa
United Nations
U.S
Cook
Netherton
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