Choctaw Dance Returns At Kiamichi Owa-Chito Festival
Oklahoma Choctaws revive a pre Trail of Tears tradition by presenting dances and storytelling at Beavers Bend in the Kia machi Mountains. Nearly three dozen youth perform with Rev. John Bohanan as Carl Albert headlines Friday and Saturday events.
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Oklahoma
Beavers Bend State Park
Okla
Indian Territory
Mississippi
Kiamichi Owa
John Bohanan
Philadelphia
Miss
United Presbyterian Church
Bohanan
United Presbyterian
Bob Norris
Kiamichi Mountains
Broken
Pontotoc County Lab Aims Help For Disabled Students
The Pontotoc County Laboratory For Learning Disabilities helps over 650 county students with various disorders reach closer to grade level. Led by Elton Stewart in Ada, the lab uses 12 methods teachers and a 20-person staff to offer in-class and at-home support, with ongoing tests and a three 10-week cycle, funded for 1973-74 but facing possible federal funding loss after next year.
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Pontotoc County
Elton Stewart
Ada High School
18Th and
Stockton
Oklahoma
Eddie Wood
Ray Lindsay
Lindsay
Stewart
Wood
M&ms
Washington
Arsonists Strike In Northeast Oklahoma City
Local and federal officers swarmed into northeast Oklahoma City to probe overnight fire bombings and shootings that destroyed a department store and left one man dead.
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Oklahoma City
C.R. Anthony
Byron Hollander
FBI
Alcohol-Tobacco Firearms Unit
Treasury Department
ATF
Bonus Fails To Beef Up Enlistments
May enlistment figures show Army and Marines signed 1 534 combat volunteers, about 900 short of goal. Despite raising the enlistment bonus to 2500, the test failed to boost numbers, with broader questions about sustaining strength without the draft.
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Washington
Army
Marine Ground Combat Army
Pentagon
Marines
Congress
Navy
Tishomingo Festival Returns With Name Change On June 30
The Tishomingo Festival slated for June 30 will begin with a 9 30 a m parade and end with a street dance. It draws over 5 000 attendees yearly and features water melon contests turtle races horseshoe events a teen talent show bus tours a fireworks display and an antique car show. Governors David Hall and Overton James are named guests this year.
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Maxey
David Hall
Overton James
the Chickasaws
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Broken Bow
Stoney Edwards
Seminole
Fay Frymire
Bourne, Tex
Viola Noah
Kiamichi Owa-Chito
Defense Chiefs
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Northeast High School
Hall of Fame
Cooperative Museum of Western Art
Robert L. Norton
NE 30Th Street
Wehba’s
Northeast 20Th Street
Joan McLaughlin
The
Chamber of Commerce
Missouri
Chamber
Keith Maxey
Fish
Mike Clements
Ned Biffle Ranch
Robbie Smith
Easate Tes
Matic Savings Account
First National
Investor
FDIC
Main and
Broadway
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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