Wheat Market Soars as Price Limits Rise
Kansas City Board of Trade sees September wheat close at 4.10 a bushel under the prior 10 cent limit, now rising to 25 cents. Cash wheat ends at 4.41 as farmers, led by experts like Rod Turnbull, watch demand surge and futures spread narrow amid large selling and transport bottlenecks.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Board of Trade
Rod Turnbull
Turnbull
Kansas
Nebraska
Creel Brock
Kansas Wheat Commission
Don Crane
Kansas Wheat Growers Association
Brock
Lyle Heckenlively
Norton County
Kan
Cooperative Elevator
Ray Davis
Potter
Neb
National Wheat Growers Association
Investor McIntosh wills estate to U.S. government
Robert Hunter McIntosh of Winter Park Florida left more than 1 million dollars to the United States in his will after settling estate taxes. U S Treasurer Romana Ba huelos would receive 1 071 400 97 from the estate. McIntosh accumulated holdings of about 4150 stocks in oil and utilities and lived a conservative life.
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Orlando
Fla
Robert Hunter McIntosh
U.S
Romana Bahuelos
McIntosh
Winter Park
United States of America
Florida
Pittsburgh
Hugh Robinson
Miss Lawton Paula Copeland inducted into Lone Star Battery
Paula Copeland 19, reigning Miss Lawton and Cameron College student, was inducted into Fort Sill's Lone Star Battery 1st Battalion 18th Field Artillery as its sole female member and morale booster. The ceremony followed a fire power demonstration led by Capt. Robert B. Hester and 2nd Lt. Ronald Pruitt. Copeland hails from Odessa, Texas.
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Paula Copeland
Lawton
Fort Sill
Lone Star
18Th Field Artillery
Cameron College
Lone Star Battery
Robert B. Hester
Amarillo
Tex
Ronald Pruitt
Miss Copeland
Odessa
Lawton Chamber appoints nominating panel for 1974 slate
Lawton Chamber of Commerce president T. D. Nicklas formed a nominating committee to prepare the 1974 board of directors slate for September elections. E G Jones chairs. members include Jerry Mustain John Winstead Jim Warkentin and Ward Smith. Offic ers will be elected in October and take office January 1, 1974.
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Lawton Chamber of Commerce
T. D. Nicklas
Chamber
Board of Directors
E. G. Hahney
E. G. Jones
Jerry Mustain
John Winstead
Jim Warkentin
Oward Smith
Jerry Bucklew
Virginia Brewczynski
Harry H. Critz
Albert Johnson
Lloyd Meadors
Don Owens
Mary Grace Ashlock
Jack Carter
Bill Sort
Vernie Greer
Sort Sill
Col
John Marley
Lawton Jaycee
Gene Crownover
Hahney
Funeral Rites Held For Mrs Nova Powers
Mrs Nova Dee Powers 62 of 1001 Parkview died Thursday after brief illness. Funeral at 2 p.m. Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church with Dr Tom Hubbard and Rev Harry Hamblin officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survived by husband Glen two sons James S and Robert G daughter Mrs Bill C Johnson five grandchildren.
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Nova Dee Powers
Parkview
Centenary United Methodist Church
Tom Hubbard
Harry Hamblin
Arlington
Tex
Lawton
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
Powers
Wortham
Glen Powers
Myrtle Currey dies after lengthy illness in Lawton
Myrtle M. Currey 66 of 1315 C died Thursday evening in a local hospital after a long illness. Arrangements are under Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home. Born June 4, 1907 in Denton Texas she married Orwell Currey on November 6 1925 in Frederick. They ran Currey's Cafe in Lawton for about 20 years. She later cooked at Whittier Elementary School and was a member of Eighth and Lee Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband two daughters Mrs Robert Thomason and Mrs Lannie Goodman a son M Ray Currey a brother Evers Graham and seven grandchildren.
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Myrtle M. Currey
Lawton-Ritter- Dalton Funeral Home
Currey
Denton
Tex
Orwell Currey
Frederick
Lawton
Death of Ollie Blackburn at 86 in Dawson Texas
Ollie M Buckburn died at 7 05 am Thursday at her home after an extended illness. Funeral at 3 30 pm Saturday Corley Funeral Home Chapel Corsicana with Rev Bill Grimes officiating. Burial in Dawson Cemetery. Born March 24 1889 in Alabama she moved to Lawton in 1972 and lived in Dawson for years. Survived by son Bert Kelley West Monroe LA and three daughters Pearl Louella Martha and others. Local arrangements Greenlawn Funeral.
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Ollie M. Buckburn
Corley Funeral Home
Corsicana
Tex
Bill Grimes
Angus Baptist Church
Dawson, Tex
Greenlawn Funeral Home
Blackburn
Alabama
Lawton
Dawson
Dawson Baptist Church
Bert Kelley
West Monroe
Pearl Blackburn
Louella King
Eras
Martha Welch
Lubbock
Oklahoma Man Dies in Pontotoc County Pickup Crash
Alvin Thurman Minor of Stonewall died after his pickup veered across a Pontotoc County road north of Stonewall and struck a tree. The truck caught fire. Minor was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to an Ada funeral home. The 1973 Oklahoma traffic toll rose to 444.
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Associated Press
Pontotoc
Stonewall
Alvin Thurman Minor
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Minor
Ada
Americans See Inflation as Permanent Future Trend
Americans from executives to government officials accept a sustained rise in prices. Escalator clauses appear in contracts from Social Security to mortgages as experts warn that inflation may be entrenched and demand policies may not curb it.
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New York
Morever
Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
America
Federal Reserve
Stock Market Slips Below Key Indicator
New York markets drift as banks lift prime rates by four percent and the Dow falls below 900 for the first time since July. Trading slows with 674 down versus 348 up on the NYSE. notable movers include Montgomery Ward and IBM among others. Agricultural prices from Oklahoma are listed alongside stock figures.
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New York
Europe
New York Stock Exchange
Dow
Marcor, Inc
Montgomery Ward
Searchers Nab Murder Suspect After 11 Day Adirondack Manhunt
State Police say Robert Garrow Sr. was shot and captured near Witherbee New York after an 11 day search for the man linked to the murder of 18 year old Philip Domblewski. Garrow faces murder charges and police plan to question him about additional killings and a missing campmate.
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Plattsburgh
N.Y
Robert Garrow
Witherbee
New York
Garrow
Syracuse
Charles Mandy
Philip Domblewski
Schenectady
Speculator
Daniel Porter
Concord
Mass
Porter
Susan Petz
Boston University
Skokie
Ill
Wevertown
Domblowski
Cityan Elected To AME Post
Donna Steele daughter of Mrs Coree Steele 647 Arbuckle Drive was elected recording secretary of the Young People s Division of the Twelfth African Methodist Episcopal District covering Arkansas and Oklahoma. She is a member of Barnett Chapel U E Lawton and won the post at the annual Christian Education Convention at Langston University earlier this month.
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Donna Steele
Coree Steele
Arbuckle Drive
Young People’s
African Methodist Episcopal District
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Miss Steele
Barnett Chapel
U.E
Lawton
Langston University
Baptists Launch Comanche County Religious Survey
About 1 000 canvassers from Baptist churches in Comanche County will help conduct a four day survey titled People s Search to gauge residents religious preferences and church attendance. The survey runs Saturday Sunday and August 18 19 with door to door canvassing and printed questionnaires in the Lawton Constitution or Morning Press. Results go to southern Baptist church pastors and details on an August revival by Rev James Robison at Cameron College Stadium will also be distributed.
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Comanche County
People’s Search
Comanche Cotton Baptist Association
L. M. Woodson
Cache Road
Lawton
Woodson
Southern Baptist Church
James Robison
Cameron College Stadium
The
Southern Baptists of Oklahoma
Defense Accuses Judge of Bias in Gainesville Eight Case
The Gainesville Eight defense accuses U.S. District Judge Winston E. Arnow of unfair advantage as they seek to question FBI informer William W. Lemmer about a Kansas marijuana arrest and a teen bombing attempt. The judge would not respond, citing rulings on admissible evidence and inflammatory remarks.
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Gainesville, Fla
Gainesville
U.S. District Court
Winston E. Arnow
Arnow
William W. Lemmer
William J. Patterson
Lemmer
FBI
Kansas
University of Arkansas
Morton Stavis
Sunday Worship Schedule at Local Church
The church announces services with Sunday School at 9 30 AM Morning Worship at 10 50 AM and Evening Service at 7 00 PM all on Sunday providing a full day of worship and instruction for congregants.
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Church School
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