Sill Sends 220 Soldiers To Chaffee Refugee Center
Fort Sill personnel are temporarily assigned to Fort Chaffee Arkansas to help set up housing for up to 20 000 South Vietnamese refugees. Three bases Camp Pendleton and Eglin Air Force Base join Fort Chaffee in hosting refugees for 90 days or more. The move involves personnel from the Adjutant General Division and multiple units, with Lt. Col. Victor Keefe coordinating site support. Refugees will arrive at Little Rock Air Force Base with movement to other bases beginning soon to ease backlogs at Pacific bases.
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Ark
Pentagon
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida
Adjutant General Division
9Th Field Artillery
47Th Field Hospital
100Th
James Cannon
II Corps Artillery
Arkansas Post
Keefe
National Guard
Little Rock Air Force Base
Gees
Marine Corps
South Viets Still Seeking Cease-Fire
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Van Huyen urged renewed talks for a cease-fire while denying any government Viet Cong accord. He noted two daytime meetings at Tan Son Nhut, with the Viet Cong saying it cannot decide politically. Meanwhile 74 Air Force planes ferried about 2,000 Vietnamese to Utapao Thailand as evacuations and rumors of a Saigon collapse spread. U.S. critics in Congress urged faster action and scrutiny of the evacuation.
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Nguyen van Huyen
Tan Son Nhut
Huyen
Duong van Minh
Utapao
Thailand
Washington
U.S
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
U.S. to Close Greece Air Base and Navy Destined Home Ports
American and Greek negotiators agree to shut an Air Force base near Athens and end home-porting for six destroyers of the U S 6th Fleet. Remaining facilities will come under Greek command as talks continue into a third phase begun February 15.
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Greece
U.S
U.S. Navy
6Th Fleet
United States
Evacuation of Americans Ends After Delayed Helicopter Mission
In a long planned end to U.S. involvement in Vietnam President Ford ordered Marines and 81 helicopters to extract remaining Americans from Saigon. An unexplained order delayed the flight back to the encircled city for about an hour amid ongoing evacuations.
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U.S
Vietnam
Ford
Saigon
Pentagon
Tan Son Nhut
Scott
Rpa
South Vietnam
House
Frank Moss
Utah
United States
Guam
Norton Air Force Base
California
el Toro Marine Base
el Toro
Norton
City Council forms Transit Trust and longer hearing
City Council created a City Transit Trust to run the proposed mass transit system and tabled a funding proposal. The public hearing was continued to 7 30 p m May 14 at City Hall with Post Office City Bill Harper as the only speaker urging further funding review. Council members Robbers Matthews Glascock Hopkins opposed the continuance, citing sufficient public notice. The filing of the application was moved from Thursday to after May 14.
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City Transit Trust
City Hall
Post Office City
Bill Harper
Southwest Lawton
Council
Adam Matthews
Dan Glascock
Willie Hopkins
Work Force Jump Produces Unemployment Rise in March 1975
Comanche County's March unemployment rose to 6.9 percent as the local work force grew to 29,450 with 2,025 unemployed. February had 1,600 jobless. state rate stood at 6.1 percent, below the national 8.7 percent.
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Comanche
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Bat Edonan State Employment Service
OSES
Chilly Weather Anticipated Here
A 20 percent chance of rain is forecast for Lawton tonight with fair to partly cloudy skies. Mild temperatures persist Wednesday with a high in the mid 70s and a cold front Thursday lowering the mercury. southerly winds 10 to 15 mph tonight, low near 50. Monday ranged from 78 to 52.
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Lawton
Global leaders meet as Ford hosts Hussein at White House
President Ford and King Hussein discussed the Mideast situation in a one hour session then attend a black tie White House dinner. Ford balanced the talks with urgent Vietnam evacuation briefings with Cabinet and congressional leaders.
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Ford
South Vietnam
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Hussein
Jordan
White House
State asks mobile home insurers to offer tiedown discounts
Oklahoma insurance board urged firms to provide premium cuts for homes with properly installed tiedowns as a condition before large rate hikes. Board members cited storm-damage scenes in Altus and Duncan and warned that discounts must be stringent, potentially 25 to 30 percent, before any increases.
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Wegner
Altus
Duncan
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By Donna Evers
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Norma Robbers
Ward Byers
Abby Aw
Waltham
Mass
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Pearlman Hall
Charlotte
N.C
H. R. Haldeman
U.S. District Court
James McMillan
London
Suez Canal
Lloyds
London Shipping Registration Agency
Canal Authority
Vienna
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Phnom Penh
Tulsa
James Storts
Wolverine Insurance Co
Oklahoma
State House
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