Switzer Sees Severe Ruling. OU Eligible For Title
Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer calls the two year probation severe yet says the Sooners remain eligible for the title. Nebraska athletic director Bob Devaney criticizes the action but notes the 1.6 scholastic rule helped trigger the penalties. The Big Eight crown was stripped from Oklahoma, and Nebraska named champion.
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Switzer
Fairbanks
Nebraska
Bob Devaney
Oklahoma
Corn
Husker
Devaney
Sooners
Oklahoma Football Hit With Two Year Probation By Big Eight
The Big Eight imposed a two year probation on Oklahoma after listing ten football violations and several basketball infractions. Violations included falsified high school transcripts, financial assistance to ineligible players, and improper use of official visits by prospects. Additional issues cited involve transportation and inducements by coaches and athletic staff to prospective athletes.
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Bill Michael
Oklahoma
Norman
Davis defends McAlester prison tour findings
Oklahoma state Rep. Don Davis and 13 lawmakers toured the McAlester facility after riots left 1,100 inmates behind walls. They urged shelter and supplies first, then consider new prisons in other cities or work-release options for near-term inmates.
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Don Davis
McAlester State Prison
Davis
Lawton
McAlester
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Auto Workers Eye Pay Hikes
DETROIT AP. United Auto Workers may shift negotiation tactics to stress wage demands due to inflation. Vice President Douglas Fraser says wages have had low priority but inflation could boost them. He notes members are talking of higher wages and dismisses the idea that bigger paychecks raise prices.
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Detroit
The
United Auto Workers
Douglas Fraser
Fraser
UAW
White House, Justice Dept. discuss ongoing investigations
Warren said Reg reports from the Justice Department reach the White House about investigations of broad scope. He noted Nixon met privately Monday with Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson and declined to reveal their discussion. Warren said Agnew planned a public statement later, but he did not know its content or timing.
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White House
Justice Department
Warren
Nixon
Elliot Richardson
Agnew
Meeting Slated In Land Dispute Fort Smith Land Case Heads To Court
Oklahoma official Marvin Emerson, assistant attorney general, announced a plan to meet Arkansas officials within a month before filing suit to regain 30 acres along the Arkansas River. The ceded land, now hosting two plants, a port, a Naval Reserve station, and part of a federally deeded historical site, spans Fort Smith.
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Oklahoma
Arkansas
Marvin Emerson
Emerson
Arkansas River
Uncle on Wheels: Government Fleet Sizes Rise in 1972
The federal government owned and operated over 413000 civilian and military vehicles in the past year. It used 89038 sedans and station wagons and 308905 trucks. Miles traveled in fiscal 1972 reached about 3 billion, up from 2.8 billion in 1971.
Western Scout Jamboree ends and rainless week fuels fire risk
The Associated Press reports the Western National Boy Scout Jamboree West near Farragut Park Idaho ended after seven rainless days with extreme fire conditions as a large forest fire burned within 20 miles. About 28 000 scouts and leaders wrapped tents and prepared to return home. At Moraine State Park Pennsylvania the Eastern jamboree will end Thursday night with 40 000 in attendance and a meal of 44000 rainbow trout. Scouts tried cooking rainbow trout despite grill mishaps as some fires flared and fish skins burned.
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Associated Press
National
Boy Scout
Moraine State Park
Louis Scalfari Jr
Newburgh
N.Y
Dan Speca
Carnegie
Mental Test Asked For City Murder Suspect
The attorney for Marvin Glen Earnest charged with murder in Mrs. Florence Glennan death seeks a court order for mental observation at Western State Hospital Fort Supply. A 90 day examination period is requested for Earnest, 24, who faces a preliminary hearing this month on a second degree murder charge. He is accused with Paul May, 43, still at large, of beating Mrs. Glennan to death at her Lawton area home on June 23.
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Florence Glennan
Western State Hospital
Fort Supply
Earnest
Paul May
Glennan
Lawton
Three Lawton Cadets Complete ROTC Basic Camp at Fort Knox
Three New Mexico Military Institute cadets from Lawton finished the first phase of ROTC training at Fort Knox Kentucky. Henry G. Bryant James R. Frazier and Ronald D. Griffin completed the course among more than 1 000 enlistees in the program.
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Lawton
New Mexico Military Institute
Ft. Knox
Henry G. Bryant
Wade S. Bryant
James R. Frazier
Pat Frazier
Baltimore
Ronald D. Griffin
Sam Griffin
Santa Fe
Horse Shows See Rise From Hunt Club Traditions
Horse shows and competitions evolved from the desire of hunt club members to compare their horses and riding skills, reflecting a shift toward organized events and public display of horsemanship.
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Hunt Club
FBI reports mixed crime changes across regions and cities
The FBI recorded crime declines in several major cities while suburban crime rose. Violent murders show high urban rates with guns as the leading weapon. rape rates rose in suburbs, while rural areas saw little change. Overall U.S. crime stood at 2,829 per 100,000 with 388 violent crimes per 100,000.
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Milwaukee
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U.S
Cambodian National Forces Press Toward Phnom Penh
Cambodian government troops pushed more than three miles along Highway 1 and targeted insurgent positions near Kompong Tuol and the Prek Thaot River. U S bombing supported the advance while rebels attacked Muk Kampoul and hit Tuol Leap railway station northwest of Phnom Penh.
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Prek Thaot
U.S
Phnom Penh
Muk Kampoul
Tuol Leap
Claims Swapped On US Bombing Testimony
Former Air Force pilot Gerald Greven testified before the Senate that hospitals were listed as targets for air strikes in Vietnam. The Air Force denied the allegations and cited a former commander who called Greven’s claim a falsehood, while noting he had been admonished for using the word hospital in a 1969 debriefing.
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Gerald J. Greven
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Greven
Delta Airlines
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Grewen
Sic
Frank Floyd
Floyd
Word Hospital
Five Youths Face Burglary Charges in City Case
Second degree burglary charges were filed in District Court against five men arrested at an Elk city residence burglary scene early Tuesday. Raymond Cooper 19 Ronald Cooper 25 Lawrence Cizer 22 Broderick Kaulaity 21 Carlton Ward 19 all listed with city addresses. Police said items taken from the Alfred Nelson residence at 5710 Glenn include a clock radio TV electric comb and a large amount of frozen food.
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Ronald Cooper
Lawrence Cizer
Elgin
Broderick G. Kaulaity
Ave. I
Carlton Ward
Star Route
Lawton
Alfred Nelson
Glenn
Astronauts use sunshade as they work on solar study
The crew plans filet mignon dinner and jokes about a TV show while Garriott finally exercises solar telescopes on Monday. He notes a small subflare brightening then fading. Windler says mission will continue with daily troubleshooting as two steering rockets on the Apollo ship pose the worst risk with a rescue option ready at Cape Kennedy.
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Garriott
Earth
Milton Windler
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Cape Kennedy
Emergency Relief Sought For Inmates After Riot
A Oklahoma legislative committee toured the rioted state prison and urged emergency relief for inmates. They found hunger, cold, ill clothing, and crowded 6 by 8 foot cells with limited lighting. Warden Park Anderson cited 18 months to repair the power plant and noted factors include outside attorneys and civil liberties groups.
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Mcalester
Okla
Legislative Committee
Park Anderson
David Riggs
Tulsa
State Capitol
Legislative Council
Anderson
U.S. Justice Department
American Civil Liberties Union
Leo McCracken
FTC Rules Coors Used Price Fixing and Territorial Limits
The FTC found Adolph Coors Co. illegally fixed beer prices imposed distributor territorial restrictions and urged taverns to keep Coors as their exclusive light draft. The agency ordered an immediate halt to the practices and rejected the company’s argument that higher prices protect profits and image.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Adolph Coors Co
Coors
FTC
Edinburgh Opens World’s First Skating Club in 1742
The world's first skating club is established in Edinburgh in 1742 marking the origin of organized skating. The creation reflects early social interest in recreational skating and club culture.
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Edinburgh
Singing Group To Perform Here At Fort Sill
The Glad Tiding Singers a 22 voice youth choir from Shawnee will perform at the Jesus Festival at Hartell Street Chapel Fort Sill at 8 p m Thursday. The concert is free and open to the public Terri Myers is featured soprano soloist. The choir is sponsored by Glad Tidings Assembly of God Shawnee. Hartell Chapel sits beside Reynolds Army Hospital building No 4712.
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Shawnee
Hartell Street
Fort Sill
Terri Myers
Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church
Hartell Chapel
Reynolds Army Hospital
FTC approves new natural gas rate ceilings and transition plan
The commission sets ceilings aimed at affordable service with consumer and investor balance. Nas sikas Brooke Jr and Springer author the opinion, Moody Jr abstains. The order automates price increases on Jan 1 for older and newer contracts and lists five interstate buyers and about 50 major and 450 smaller producers in the Permian Basin.
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FTC
John N. Nassikas
Albert B. Brooke Jr
William L. Springer
Rush Moody Jr
FPC
Permian
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Natural Gas Pipeline of America
Northern Natural Gas Co
Transwestern Pipeline Co
West Texas Gathering Co
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