Service Awards Go To OG&E Employes
Sixteen long time OG E Southern Division employees and retirees with 460 years of service will be honored at the OG E Trailblazers banquet at the Holiday Inn in Ardmore. Wayne Parker OG E President will speak. Recipients include Allen Sparks Floyd Churchill Ardmore R J Clinton Arthur Hettick Pauls Valley C B Way Ada Royd Badger Durant Max Hammer Vernice Beaver Earnest Gambel Kenneth Murphey George Penick Ardmore William Herndon Pauls Valley Charles Chambers Durant Paul Nichols R P Green Sulphur Sybil Taylor Tishamingo.
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Og&e
Southern Division
Og&e Trailblazers
Holiday Inn
Ardmore
Wayne 4. Parker
Allen W. Sparks
Floyd H. Churchill
Ardmere
R. J. Clinton
Arthur F. Hettick
Pauls Valley
C. B
Way
Ada
Royd
Badger
Durant
Max L. Hammer
Vernice L. Beaver
Earnest E. Gambel
Kenneth L. Murphey
George R. Penick
William R. Herndon
Charles C. Chambers
Paul Nichols
R. P. Green
Sulphur
Sybil B. Taylor
Tishamingo
Grocery prices dip slightly as inflation cools
Prices for groceries slipped two tenths of a percent in April while overall living costs rose two tenths of a percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The April dip helps keep inflation modest, with living costs in 1972 up 3.4 percent from 1971 and near 3.3 percent in early Phase 2 controls.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Nixon
Landmark Buys Oklahoma City General Agency Firm
Landmark Management Corporation of Ada announced the sale of Joe B. Fears General Agency Inc. to Landmark. The operation, among Oklahoma’s largest general insurance agencies, is effective immediately. The Fears agency in the Globe Life Building downtown Oklahoma City was formed by Joe B. Fears 27 years ago. Fears will remain active with the firm.
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Joe B. Fears
Small Tanker Damaged In Newport Harbor
An explosion of unknown origin damaged a small coastal tanker in Newport Harbor on Saturday. The blast occurred as the vessel neared the Newport suspension bridge linking Newport and Jamestown Island. The Coast Guard reported the explosion was inside the ship and appeared unconnected to a prior letter claiming a mining by a liberation front. A line of balloons anchored near the harbor entrance was found away from the blast site. Fire aboard was quickly controlled as the tanker drifted toward the bay east shore. One man was treated for fumes after being brought ashore. his identity—crew or Coast Guard—was not confirmed.
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Newport, RI
Newport Harbor
Newport Suspension Bridge
Newport
Jamestown Island
Narragansett Bay
Coast Guard
Liberation Front
New Company Opens’ Operations In Ada
Tri-Sport of Southern Oklahoma opens at 407 W Main Ada owned by Jim Armstrong and Mack Herndon. The firm sells All Sport three wheel recreational vehicles from Norwalk Ohio and plans seven day operation from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Phone 332-7887.
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Ada
Tri-Sport
Oklahoma
W. Main
Jim Armstrong
Shawnee
East Central
Mack Herndon
I'ving
Tex
Armstrong
All Sport. Co
Norwalk
Ohio
Vindale Promotes Two Foremen at Ada Plant
Vindale Corporation promoted two men to foreman at its Ada mobile home plant. John A. Deatherage becomes foreman of the mill department after joining the maintenance group in 1970 and moving to the department in 1971. Donald W. Duncan rises from working foreman to foreman in the bottoms department after leading the plumbing group. Deatherage is a 1968 Byng high school graduate. Duncan, a California native who moved to Oklahoma in 1970, is married with two children and a member of the International Rodeo Association involved in team roping.
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Vindale Corporation
Ada Mobile Home
Jack Alley
John A. Deatherage
Vindale
Denald W. Duncan
Deatherage
Byng High School
Duncan
Oklahoma
International Rodeo Association
Ada Horse Show Donates to Mc Call's Chapel School
The Ada Arabian and Half Arabian Charity Horse Show raised 1826.34 for Mc Call's Chapel School after the fourth annual event. Winners include Margaret Lucas of Gund's Arabians who claimed the Kate June Cason Memorial Challenge Trophy, now a permanent prize after three wins, and Laslie Conner of Joplin who won a Norris memorial trophy in Native Costume. The show featured 121 horses in Ada.
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McCall's Chapel School
Margaret Lucas
Gund
Bixby
Okla
Kate June Cason
Robert W. Cason Jr
Laslie Conner
Joplin
Alice Norris
Philip A. Norris
Ada
Paralyzed teen overcomes odds to earn degree
Joe Edmonson, 17, paralyzed in a gym accident, chose to fight self pity and earned a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska Omaha. He remains wheelchair-bound with partial use of arms, completed 41 operations, three years in hospitals, and studied while recovering. He plans to continue despite doubts, aided by perseverance and family support.
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Joe Edmonson
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Joe
Physicist Bulman Wins NSF Grant for UT Institute
Dr. John G. Bulman associate professor and physics department chair at Hast Central received a National Science Foundation grant to attend a four week Vector Space Theory of Matter Institute at the University of Texas from July 31 to August 25. The UT institute, run by the Chemistry Department, will cover matter structure and quantum models. Of 18 chemistry attendees, Bulman was one of only two physicists chosen.
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John G. Bulman
Hast Central
National Science Foundation
University of Texas
Department of Chemistry
The
Dr. Bulman
Former Ada Resident Joins Drug Company
John W. Boswell, a pharmacist licensed in Kansas and Oklahoma, joins Eli Lilly and Company as a salesman in Enid. Born in Ada and a 1962 Ada High graduate, he earned a B S in pharmacy from Southeastern State College in 1967 and serves as a senior clinical specialist in the National Guard. His mother is Mrs Opal Boswell and he resides at 705 FE 12th.
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John W. Boswell
Kansas
Oklahoma
Eli Lilley and Company
Enid
Thomas R. Moorman
Oklahoma City
Boswell
Ada High
Southestern State College
United States Army National Guard
Opal
705
Oklahoma Students Named 1972 Presidential Scholars
Washington AP report notes Ponca City Bartlesville and Bixby seniors among 121 high school seniors cited for outstanding academic achievement and readership potential on the 1972 Presidential Scholars list. Scholars visit Washington June 11 for three days with Congress and Cabinet officials.
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Washington
Ponca City
Bartlesville
Bixby
Noxon
Congress
Cabinet
Irving businessmen market anti-holdup electronic safe
Two Irving, Texas businessmen unveil an electronic safe designed to foil holdups at grocery stores and service stations. The device aims to deter thieves by countering common attack methods and enhancing cash security for retailers.
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Irving, Tex
Irving
Vernon Sperry quits GCC and faces draft report
Vernon Sperry, 68, quit Glendale Community College in Sun City Arizona citing fatigue from studies and received a draft notice as a student dropout. A court record shows a confession by murder suspect Robert Helms was excluded after police allegedly coerced signing with steak and “devastating kindness.” In Waynesburg Pennsylvania volunteers urge residents to curb long distance calls to emergency numbers. The Citizens State Bank in Morrison Tennessee was burglarized for $103.01, weighing 75 pounds in coins. A German Census study finds Catholic couples have more children than Protestant couples.
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Vernon Sperry
Glendale Community College
Sun City
Arizona
Raymond Graham
Robert Helms
Helms
Citizens State Bank
Morrison, Tenn
Penn
Crossword Across Clues Mixed From The Page
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Marina’ Whitman
Council of Economic Advisers
Landmark
Oklah City
R.I. Harbor
Ada Horse Show
Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Technical High
Tech
Mary Edmonson
Edmonson
Mattoon
Orville Richardson
Richardson
John Bulman
Foundation
Ireland
New Zealand
Timd Soul
Ty Amol
Eran
By Warren Sattler
Dee
Sonny
Sally
Wicdeat
Art Beemas
A Smith
BY Kern Pederson
Sid Rathaway
Waynesburg
Penna, Volunteer Fire Company
Germany
Pierce
Stoir
Withir
Walley
Fistus
Pops
By George Wolfe
Deems
Vly
Arampa
BY Tom Oka
Brad Anderson
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