Planning and rights of landowners face off over growth
A planning official defends a comprehensive plan as a guide for metropolitan growth while warning against the danger of fast buck promoters. He argues planning protects environment, land values, and community liberty, detailing battles over House bill 817 and federal funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Planning
Rex M. Whitton
U. S
U. S. News and World Report
Secretary of Commerce
Jail Term Given On Slave Charge
Hartford AP report. David I Shackney, 52, sentenced to one year in prison with 60 days to serve on one count of involuntary servitude for holding the Luis Humberto Oros family on his Middlefield chicken farm. Five related counts resulted in one-year suspended terms. $2000 fine. Appeals planned. Bond set at $15,900. The case marked the first of its kind in Connecticut.
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Hartford, Conn
David I. Shackney
Shackney
M. Joseph Blumenfeld
U.S. District Court
Oros
Mexico City
United States
Bellmon Pushes Budget Bills Into Joint Conference
Bellmon calls immediate move to place all appropriation bills in a joint conference for final budget balancing. He expects conference committee members to be named soon and plans to sign the welfare transfer bill once it reaches his desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellmon
Bellman
J. D. McCarty
Senate
Roy Beecher
Police Court Disposes Cases in Municipal Court
Municipal Judge J Merle Oaks presided over police court today with multiple defendants. Charges included illegal cohabitation, leaving an accident scene, DUI, speeding, license violations, blocking traffic, reckless driving, vagrancy, carrying a concealed weapon, and public drunkenness, with fines and bond forfeitures ranging from 5 to 20 dollars.
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J. Merle Oaks
Georgia R. Hildebrant
Albert Caldwell
Dennis Binder Jr
Texas
Bryne D. Bruce
Hilbert William Steiner
Daniel Tew
Joe Robert
Lucinda Wahnee
Carnegie
Linda Yeahauo
Eee
Aes
Doris Toppah
Faye Tsatoke
Raymond A. Hunter
Johnnie L. Stinnett
Sixteen Tots Believed Deformed By Drug
The FDA reports sixteen U S babies may be deformed by thalidomide distributed by U S firms. The final investigation cites 2.5 million tablets sent here and ongoing inquiry into distribution by William S Merrell Co of Cincinnati Ohio.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Food and Drug Administration
Europe
FDA
House
William S. Merrell Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Five Soviet Youths Sentenced to Death for Rape
Five teenage Russians in Kubyshev, reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda, were sentenced to death for raping schoolgirls. The piece cites an alarming degree of juvenile delinquency in the provincial city, located about 530 miles east southeast of Moscow, once Russia’s wartime capital.
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Moscow
UPI
Kubyshev
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Russia
College instructor awarded NSF scholarship for summer study
Cecil Dugger, electronics instructor at Cameron College, received a National Science Foundation scholarship to attend a summer institute. He will study at the University of Houston from June 24 to August 17.
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Cecil Dugger
Cameron College
National Science Foundation
University of Houston
Compromise Discussed On School Activity Regulations
Oklahoma City AP report notes both sides at a hearing on a resolution to shield outside activities of state high school students. Rep. Tom Tate supports compromise while Dr. Oliver Hodge and George Stone urge balanced changes. The panel plans a vote after the hearing. five day rule and agency overruling are central points.
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Oklahoma City
Tom Tate
Osage County
North Central Association
State Secondary Schools Activity Association
Oliver Hodge
Stone
Oklahoma Farmers Union
Hodge
Tate
Sisters Report Threatening Calls and Burglary
Two Lawton sisters reported threatening phone calls and a break in at their trailer home while a prowler was seen in the area. A daughter remains in a waist down cast from a traffic accident, with a suspect described and a car ID given. Separate thefts were reported at a service station and various residences, including vandalism and a hose spray attachment theft.
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Lawton
Max E. Neff
Oak
SOS
15Th and Lee
J. W. Phillips
S. Fourth
FE. J. Monzigo
Dearborn
Stanley Largent
S. Sheridan Road
Jiffy Car Wash
OSU Angels Plan AF Academy Visit
The Angel Flight girls marching unit of OSU ROTC will travel to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs for a three day visit. Thirty two of forty members join three chaperones led by Maj. John Gahn and wives for the trip with stops planned at Pike's Peak and the Royal Gorge. This marks the third annual out-of-state trip for the unit.
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University
Pike's Peak
Royal Gorge
Academy
Hospital Chiefs To Speak Friday At Chamber Forum
Lawton hospital operations at Memorial and Southwestern to be discussed by Karey Fuqua and Murphy Cole at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Friday at the Hotel Lawtonian. The program is chaired by a chamber administrator.
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Lawton
Memorial and
Southwestern
Chamber of Commerce Forum
Lawtonian
Karey Fuqua
Southwestern Hospital
Murphy Cole
Memorial Hospital
Tee
Prisoners Plead To Wear Civvies
A plea from the Federation of Clothing Manufacturers asks Britain to allow prisoners to wear civilian clothes instead of uniforms, arguing the jail attire wounds a man's soul and noting the impact on inmate dignity.
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London
The
Federation of Clothing Manufacturers
Grieving father shoots self after daughter's death
James Lee 46 who gave away assets to charity in memory of his 9 year old daughter Shirley died by suicide in a North Side tavern telephone booth. Officers found a crayon drawing signed by Shirley and notes indicating calm resolve at eternity. Lee built wealth through trucking and real estate to be near his child.
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CAGO
James Lee
Lee
Shirley Lee
Shirley
Lutheran Church of
Mooney
St. Lucas
Local Grand Jury Considers Open Political Splits and Voter Probe
The grand jury met to hear a report on voter registration scrutiny led by Cook aided by Sheriff McClung and a state agent. Zumwalt led the rump county group that named its own delegates and re elected Cook’s central committee chair.
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Lawton
Cook Central Committee
Zumwalt
Cook
Forest McClung
Robert Ebisch
R. F. (Ike) Myers
Rt. 1
Elgin
James Ash
Wiley B. (Popeye) Rice
Funeral Rites for Walter J Halbison Held at Local Church
Walter J Halbison aged 64 of 1601 B died Sunday. Funeral services were at 10 a.m. in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament with a rosary the night before at Lawton Funeral Home chapel. Rev. T W Darnall officiated. Burial followed in Highland Cemetery. Bearers included Dillard Wiseman Robert Martin Archie Marcotte Francis Harbison Calvin Summer and Dr Charles Pike.
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Walter J. Halbison
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Lawton Funeral Home
T. W. Darnall
Highland Cemetery
Dillard Wiseman
Robert Martin
Archie Marcotte
Francis Harbison
Calvin Summer
Charles Pike
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