Vietnam Front Battles Leave Scores of North Vietnamese Dead
Saigon reports three large North Vietnamese assaults repelled and a fourth fought to a standstill along the northern frontier. U S and South Vietnamese air strikes and ground fighting claim 298 NVA killed at several points south of the DMZ. South Vietnamese forces seize 27 heavy weapons and 44 rifles amid six killed and 53 wounded. no American ground troops involved. Separate shelling of Da Nang injures civilians. three rockets strike near the air base. U S air wing targets Ho Chi Minh trail from Da Nang as enemy shells hit positions below the DMZ. In the delta, helicopter gunships and light planes attack a sampan convoy, destroying roughly 11 sampans and killing 22 enemy troops.
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Demilitarized Zone
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
Dmz
Mekong Delta
East Central Plans Field Trip To Old Mexico
East Central State College announces a 1971 Mexico field trip directed by Dr. and Mrs. J. Chalmers Herman. The Ada departure August 2 travels Laredo Mexico City with stops in Monterrey San Luis Potosi Guanajuato and Morelia Guadalarra Mazatlan and other sites before returning August 22. Contact Dr. Herman or Dean E. W. James for details.
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Old Mexico
East Central State College
Mexico
Ada
Laredo
Monterrey
San Luis Potosi
Guanajuato
Mexico Ciy
Palace of Fine Arts
Xochimilco
Teotintlacan
Morelia
Guadalarra
Pacific Air
Mazatlan
Durango
Saltillo
United States
Austin
Tex
Herman
E. W. James
Bookmobile Stops This Week in Chickasaw Library Area
The Chickasaw Library System bookmobile schedules stops in the area this week. Thursday visits include Mill Creek from 10:45 to 11:45 am, Troy from 1:15 to 2 pm, and Mannsville from 2:30 to 4 pm. Friday routes go to Clarita from 10 to 10:45 am, Olney from 11 to 11:45 am, and Lovelace Grocery from 2 to 2:49 pm.
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Chickasaw Library System
Mill Creek
Troy
Mannsville
Clarita
Olney
Lovelace Grocery
Former Ada Resident Receives Wings Officer Commissioned
Gregory Keith Scott, 20, a former Ada High School graduate, was commissioned as a warrant officer in the Army Air Force after earning high honors at the United States Army Aviation School in Fort Rucker Alabama. He trained in observation and reconnaissance flying and will direct artillery fire with ground units in Vietnam. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Scott of Ada and was accompanied by his family at graduation. He entered military service in May 1970 after graduating in 1969 from Ada High School.
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Gregory Keith Scott
United States Army Aviation School
Fort Rucker
Ala
O Scott
Charles Scott
Scott
Larry
Tim
Tony
Vietnam
East Central
Fort Polk
Fort Wolters
Tex
Fort Stewart
Antiwar protest at Tulsa river project dedication draws small crowd
About 100 people mostly teenagers staged a Vietnam War protest at a Tulsa park as President Nixon dedicated the Arkansas River Navigation Project nearby. Speakers criticized city officials for denying a permit, urging continued opposition and voter action.
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Tulsa
Oklo
Nixon
Tulsa Civic Center Plaza
Lulsa County
Democratic Party
James B Thomas
Robert J. LaFourtune
Thomas
Don Dallmann
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
Catoosa
Martin Morgan
St Mary’s Catholic Church
Cholera Reaches Calcutta Amid Refugee Influx
Calcutta faced a severe cholera outbreak with 80 victims treated in hospital and 3,220 confirmed deaths this week. About 100000 East Pakistanis arrived in the city, many seeking shelter at a makeshift Sahara camp near the airport, where 40000 residents faced worsening conditions.
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India
Calport
Coltta
West Bengal
India-East Pakistan
Billings Brothers Reunite With Rare Chimes
ENID Oklahoma AP two of four Billings brothers Joe Caskey of Fairview and Glenn Caskey of Artesia New Mexico recall their 1910 start with a four bar chimes instrument from Clyde Deagan Co. It is one of nine made and the brothers once starred as the All Brothers Quartet on Redpath Lyceum circuits while also playing cornet saxophone trombone violin and singing. The instrument will travel with Glenn to New Mexico when he leaves.
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Enid
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Rokls
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New Mexico
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Ex-Convict Will Help Juvenile Delinquents
Eddie Harrison a 29 year old ex convict with a life sentence once on death row in Washington D C has been placed in charge of a 300000 rehabilitation program for juvenile delinquents in Baltimore Mayor Thomas D Alesandro signed the contract with Learning Systems Inc a Boston firm that will fund and supervise the initiative Harrison previously worked as a prison consultant for the firm and will design an educational program for mid teen offenders The Labor Department funded project is part of diversion from courts to specialized education and includes Harrison who says his past prompted his reform and fits the program aims
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Nixon
Thomas D’alesandro
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Manpower Administration
Learning Systems, Inc
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John Peck
Eddie
New Career Uniforms opens in Ada downtown
Ada adds a Career Uniforms outlet at 131 E Main with Sterling Henley as owner and Mrs Jerry McCants as manager. The store offers medical, dental, pharmaceutical and barber uniforms plus sportswear and duty shoes. Ada store covers southeastern and southern Oklahoma with hours 9 am to 5:30 pm Monday through Saturday.
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Ada
E. Main
Sterling Henley
Jerry McCants
Henley
Henryetta
Fort Smith
Oklahoma
Paulette
Tracie
Mitchell
Pegsy
Three men sentenced in Midland contrasts embezzlement and murder cases
In Midland Texas three men received sentences with ironic outcomes. One faced embezzlement of $100, another was convicted of murder without malice and given two years probation, while a third who stole only a few dimes and quarters from a laundryman received three years in prison with no probation.
Group Opens Full Week Of Antiwar Lobbying
Washington modeled antiwar lobbying kicks off a week of efforts by professional religious and civil rights leaders to sway 24 senators on a revised McGovern Hatfield amendment to withdraw U S funding of the Vietnam War by December 31. The Lobby for Americans targets votes with news conferences rallies and radio and newspaper ads. The plan involves delegations from business civil rights environmental senior citizens church and women's groups including a 4H club.
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Washington
Nixon
Lobby For
TV Hope Or Threat In Oklahoma ITV Says TV Sparks Party Reform
Oklahoma Senator Henry Bellmon says television will force political parties to reform or die, giving voters better information and connecting candidates to the public. He notes platforms feel meaningless and suggests reforms such as a nationwide presidential primary and convention built on television view. He warns laws lag campaigning changes and that TV has shifted influence from party teachers to voters.
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ITV
Henry Bellmon
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Bellmon
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