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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1972
Page
12
Philadelphia readers react to a phony advertisement seeking a under two year old pregnancy and educational benefits. About 500 women called, 20 interviewed, many offered to help without pay, though some cited personal or societal issues surrounding childbearing and marriage.
The Associated Press reports two persons died in separate road incidents on a day in 1972. Details on locations, names, and exact causes are not fully provided in the surviving copy.
Washington AP Congress debates open-ended funding for federal highway safety programs amid rising traffic fatalities. Transportation Secretary Volpe seeks revisions to the 1966 act to boost research testing and safety standards, while the Senate panel calls for 51.71 million and broader research funding.
Four men from Oklahoma City face murder charges after the Friday night robbery killing of Howard Siler his wife Judy Ann and their son Christopher Todd. Arraignment set for 9 am with death penalty sought. Funeral held in Seminole with drivers license staff pallbearers.
Lawton postmaster K. A. McClure urged residents to include the city name in all mail. He warned postmasters will refuse items that use only the word city, as machine processing may lose letters with incomplete addresses.
The peacock hides in plain sight by flashing its tail feathers to blend with surroundings during periods of threat or concealment, leveraging disruptive patterns to deter predators and mislead observers.
The fragment notes that camels originated not in Far East deserts but in North regions, indicating a northern origin for the ancient mammals rather than eastern desert lands.
HAL BOYLE lists small joys that give life meaning from paying off debts and finding old shoes to warm sunlit dates, a sitter’s thanks, a painful thumb that heals, a first date, ice skating fires, chance encounters, Dickinson poetry, desert dawns, and revisiting a long lost love.
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