Apollo 16 Flight Faces Electrical Glitch and Paint Flakes
Ground controllers solved a guidance lock issue caused by an electromagnetic field as Apollo 16 neared the moon. Astronauts Young Mattingly and Duke rechecked the lunar module Orion amid paint peeling and antenna shifts, with a timeline set for the descent to Descartes highlands.
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Mission Control
Mattingly
Young and Action
Earth
Moon
Philip C Shaffer
Shaffer
Young
Duke
Lunar
Orion
Descartes Plain
Earth’s
Grumman Aircraft Corp
Tony England
Charles M. Duke Jr
Lunar Module
Command Module
John W. Young
Thomas K. Mattingly iI
Real Live Horse Brightens Central Girls Book Report
CENTRAL Junior High School student Nancy Flagg brought Gen Beau regard a quarterhorse to the vacant lot west of the school for a ninth grade English class book report on The Horseman’s Bible by Jack Cog. She demonstrated mounting reins riding trot and halt, and discussed safety. Nancy has ridden about two years. The horse calmly nibbled grass as curious students asked to pet him, he stepped forward to greet them.
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Central Junior High School
Nancy Flagg
Austin Flagg
Fort Sill
Carol Hardage
Jack Coggins
Nancy
Gen. Beauregard
Highway patrol headquarters contract bids detailed
Bids opened for the highway patrol headquarters project with a low bid of 174,320 by W D Ford and Son. Other bidders included Chapman Construction 190,800 Frascon 176,000 G W Hastings 88,900 and Wicker 187,000.
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Commission
Highway Patrol
W. D. Ford & Son
Chapman Construction Co
Frascon Inc
G. W. Hastings Construction Inc
Wicker Construction Co
Traffic plan clash at Gore Boulevard prompts council letter
City council approves sending a letter to the State Highway Department outlining expected street problems on Gore Boulevard from 25th to 28th Streets. Traffic engineer Archie Fleming cites lack of left turn bays and notes many accidents linked to left turns and lane changes. busier future traffic and Cameron College expansions worsen the issue.
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State Highway Department
Gore Boulevard
Archie Fleming
Gore
Fleming
Cameron College
28Th Street
Henry Na‘bers
Ike Cheerleader Recognized Among Six State Standouts
Debra Massad Eisenhower High School head cheerleader was named one of six outstanding high school cheerleaders in the state at the Jim Thorpe Awards banquet in Ada on Monday night. She attends Eisenhower as a senior with three years as a cheerleader and has coached at the YMCA.
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Debra Massad
Eisenhower
Ada
Miss Massad
Glen Massad
East Central State College
Tomlinson Junior High
YMCA
Hospital expansion to add beds and space funded by bonds
Plans call for 71 053 square feet of new space and 8 519 square feet of remodeling at the hospital. Total project cost about 6 million with 4.5 million from bonds and 1.5 million from operating surpluses. Completion hoped for summer 1974 with debt retired from hospital income.
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Dillion
Reed Municipals Inc
New York City
Leo Oppenheim & Co Inc
Oklahoma City
First National Bank and Trust Company
Harris Upham and Company Inc
Kohlemeyer and Company
J. Imhoff- Nimmo & Company
Denver
Stifel-Nicolaus & Co. Inc
Woolsey & Co. Inc
Zahner & Company
Kansas City
Hypnotist Jack Lythgoe to Present Science of the Mind
National School Assemblies presents Jack Lythgoe a concert hypnotist at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the MacArthur Junior Senior High auditorium. Proceeds fund MacArthur activities with tickets 2 for adults and 1.50 for students. Children under preschool age not admitted. Lythgoe 26 years as hypnotist will use volunteers and demonstrate self hypnosis and autosuggestion followed by a 20 minute Q&A.
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Jack Lythgoe
MacArthur
National School Assemblies Organization
Lythgoe
Kiowa Candidates Set for Tribal Election Meet
Candidates expected to file for Kiowa Tribal posts will meet at Carnegie Community Action Center at 7 30 p m to discuss objectives and issues ahead of the June 3 election Filing runs April 24 to May 3 Voters not yet registered may contact local registrars to register
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Kiowa Tribal
Carnegie Community Action Center
Ivy League Student Protests Sweep U S In Asia War
Hundreds of students marched in New York and at Columbia demanding campus shutdowns to protest U S involvement in Indochina. The NSA and Ivy League papers call for a one day moratorium and mass demonstrations in major cities.
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Ivy League
U.S
Asia
North Vietnam
Indochina
Harvard Crimson
New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
National Student Association
Tion
Margery Tabankin
NSA
Washington
Arthur Lubow
The
Crimson
University of California At Berkeley
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Scott Gibson
Daily
Pennsylvanian
David Elkind
Princetonian
Vietnam
Columbia University
New York City
First Quarter Gains Lift Markets Amid Earnings Rally
Stocks rose as investors cheered stronger first quarter earnings with the Dow up 5.49 to 972.08 at noon. Oil, rails, metals, and mail order retailers showed mixed results while chemical shares fell and Vietnam war news influenced trading.
Vietnamese War Front Shifts as South Vietnamese Push Offensives
Reports say South Vietnamese forces gained ground with heavy U.S. air support and claim nearly 700 North Vietnamese troops killed across three fronts. U.S. advisers note possible North Vietnamese withdrawals to regroup while Hanoi still aims at cities including Hue and Lai Khe remains a threat.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Hue
Saigon
7Th Division
Lai Khe
Fire alarms investigated by Lowton Fire Department
Fire reports list two alarms: 6:47 a.m. at 1902 S$. 24th a trailer fire and 8:50 a.m. at 2333 Denver a grease fire.
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The
Lowton Fire Deport
Denver, Grese
Grayson Proposes Price Control Steps Against Top Firms
Responding to Rep. Reuss Grayson says 10 percent of Tier One firms could exceed legal margins and promises clear cut orders to cut prices in triple amounts with refunds to identifiable consumers. He notes a public belief wages lag while prices rise and says Treasury would collect such funds. He cautions food controls as a last resort though price relief may come from supply and demand, with possible controls if needed.
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Henry Reuss
D-Wis
Grayson
Reuss
U.S. Treasury
Commission
Cityan Receives Fraternity Award at Wichita Meet
H C King of Lawton received one of three achievement awards at the 50th Middle Western Province Kappa Alpha Psi meeting in Wichita Kansas for outstanding civic work with juveniles. He was elected to a third term as keeper of records and exchequer for the province. King also serves as keeper of records for the local chapter. The Province Council plans to meet in Lawton in 1975.
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H. C. King
Lawton
Kappa Alpha Psi
Wichita
Kan
King
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Fraternity
No Cars Clean Grounds Plan Earth Week at Eisenhower High
Eisenhower High students organize Earth Week activities led by Ann Rogers with Debby Burk Greg Roadruck Jean Ann Morgan and others. Mayor Whitaker proclaims Earth Week in Lawton and students clean grounds in assigned areas. Sack lunches on Wednesday include chicken salad celery carrot sticks orange juice pear cookie and milk. Dr. Zeigler will lecture on Why Pollution Thursday. Friday focuses on Earth Day with walking or biking to school and an empty parking lot. Posters and trash painting projects mark the observance.
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Isenhower High School
Don Whitaker
Lawton
Eisenhower
Bob Zeigler
Cameron College
Ann Rogers
Debbie Burk
Greg Roadruck
Jean Ann Morgan
Trish Parks
Susie Hoyle
Joel Hulett
Peggy Goodner
Pam McConahay
Death notices for Tooahnipper and others in Oklahoma
Multiple funeral services are planned for Daniel Tooahnipper 57 of Cache and other local residents. Ada Merrill Mary Nester C T Holland and family are noted with service details, burial locations, birth dates and family survivors listed.
Mountain View Banker Russell Kobs Dies at 71
Russell M. Kobs 71 longtime president of First National Bank Mountain View died at his home after a heart attack. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at United Methodist Church burial in Mountain View Cemetery under Dodd Funeral Home arrangement. He was born April 1 1901 in Mountain View and had more than 50 years in banking. member of First Christian Church and Mountain View Masonic Lodge No 168. survived by two daughters Mrs J P Reimer Lawton and Mrs Mary Jean Shaw Midland Texas.
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C. T. Holland
Motif Manor
First United Methodist Church
Carl Lawson
Buria
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Becker Funeral Home
Mr. Holland
Stillwell
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Tulsa
Ralph Carl
Fort Smith
Ark
Paul Senior
Blanche Holland
Fort Worth
Heart Fund
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City
Mountain View
Russell M. Kobs
First National Bank
United Methodist Church
Charles Roberts
Chickasha Christian Church
Dodd Funeral Home
Mr. Kobs
First Christian Church
Generator Operates Near Tipton Dam For 12 Hours
A generator ran near Tipton for about 12 hours starting last Friday night, then fell into the watershed areas of the city's two reservoirs.
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Tipton
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Houston
Brightens
Central Girl's Book Report
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Nabers
Lee Boulevard
S. 38Th Street
Pamela Gonzalez
Lake Ave
Garden Village
Ike
Columbia
William J. McGill
Broadway
116Th Street
New York Stock Exchange
Hanoi
Haiphong
State Department of Agriculture
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el Reno
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Gulf
MILO
Pauls Valley
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Cityan
Daniel Tooahnipper
Cache
Lynder
Cyril Adrain
Post Oak Indian M. B
Steve Chibitty
Petarsy Indian Methodist Church
Kenneth
Navy
Boston, Mass
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Ft. Wayne
Ind
Abe Hoahwah
Indiahoma
Ada Merrill
Ada R. Merrill
Bell
Lawton- Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
James R. Noble
Boulevard Congregational Christian Church
Highland Cemetery
Merrill
Mary Beth Nester
Lawrence Kenneth Nester
Route 2
Central Baptist Church
Brad Allen
Flower Mound Cemetery
Nester
Reynolds Army Hospital
Russell Kobs
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