Nuclear test ban treaty backed as compatible with U.S. security
Gen Maxwell Taylor told the Senate that Joint Chiefs of Staff find the nuclear test ban treaty compatible with U.S. security despite some disadvantages. Glenn Seaborg testified that the pact would aid security, allow underground testing, and limit new megaton weapons, while McNamara said it would not hinder anti missile development.
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Russia
United States
Seaborg
Kennedy Administration
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Britain
Russell
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Robert S. McNamare
Buddhist monk’s body seized after Hue clash in Viet Nam
Government troops stormed a Hue crowd and seized the burned body of 17 year old monk Thich Thanh Tuc. Dozens wounded as Buddhists tried to bury the novice at Tu Dam Pagoda against officials orders citing religious discrimination by President Ngo Dinh Diem’s Catholic regime.
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Hue Ctty
South Viet Nam
Hue
Saigon
Tu Dam
Phuc Duyen
Tue
Diem
Searchers climb to plane wreck in storm after disappearance
U S Army searchers slogged up a mountain in stormy weather to reach the suspected wreckage of an Army scout plane missing since Sunday with six men aboard. The crew identified includes Capt Kenneth J Alves, Fayetteville North Carolina, Capt Gene A Trust, North Largo Florida, Capt Travis A Moore, Fort Smith Arkansas, Capt Joseph M Davis, San Antonio Texas, Capt Russell E Cooper, Big Stone Gap Virginia, M Sgt Marvin E Morgan, Ellenwood Georgia.
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Seoul
UPS
Kenneth J. Alves
Fayetteville
N.C
Gene A. Trust
North Largo
Fla
Travis A. Moore
Ft. Smith
Ark
Joseph M. Davis
San Antonio
Funeral Rites for Dora Ezell in Oklahoma City and Letitia
Dora Ezell 70 of Oklahoma City died after a long illness. Funeral services will be held in Oklahoma City with a graveside service at Letitia cemetery east of Lawton. Rev. Guy Swanson will officiate. Survivors include three daughters, three sisters, two brothers, and eight grandchildren.
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Dora Ewell
Oklahoma City
Letitia Cemetery
Lawton
Guy Swanson
Letitia
Ezell
Dora Ketchum
Emzie Ezell
Lois
Mary Francis
Dorothy
California
Anna M. Hardy
Carrie Ketchum
Etta Ackart
Oregon
Bob
Dick Ketchum
City Students Earn Prizes At Local Elk Lodge Event
Wesley Hamm, Lawton High graduate, received 100 dollars for fourth place in the state Elk's most valuable student contest. Jerry Kinzer, spring LHS graduate, earned third in the state youth leadership contest and will receive a 100 dollar savings bond. The lodge allowed the Boys Club of America to use the old Elk lodge at 1001 A for meetings. A district deputy clinic was scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday at the lodge with M. Harry Keith presiding. John Stanard, 2801 Lynn Circle, had membership approved with formal initiation planned later.
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Wesley Hamm
Lawton
Elk’s Lodge
Elk’s
Jerry Kinzer
LHS
Boys Club of America
Elk Lodge
Refugee Plan Pushes for Better Wichita Mountain Facilities
Monroney urged improving sanitary facilities picnic and camping areas and recreational spaces at Wichita Mountain refuge. He sought Thomas L. Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation for guidance. Kimball praised the refuge as a premier mix of short and long grass prairies with valuable wildlife habitat. The Senate subcommittee recently heard Conrad Wirth endorse bills to create the prairie national park in Pottawatomie County Kan.
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Monroney
Thomas L. Kimball
National Wildlife Federation
Kimball
Wichita Mountain
Senate
Conrad Wirth
National Park Service
The
Prairie National Park
Pottawatomie County
Kan
Language shift in Afghanistan sparks national note
The article notes most Afghans speak Pashto or Pashtu as the national language while Persian was the official court language until recently. It highlights a move toward Pashto dominance in official use and public life.
Police Court Disposes of Today’s Municipal Cases
Police Court disposed of cases today before Municipal Judge J Merle Oaks. Defendants from Fort Sill and surrounding areas faced charges from speeding and improper mufflers to reckless driving and public drunkenness with fines and bond forfeitures issued.
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J. Merle Oaks
Guerrilla Action Kills U S Captain in Vietnam War
An American army captain was killed near Quang Ngai, South Vietnam while on an operation against Communist guerrillas. A second captain was wounded. Names were withheld. He was the 10th U.S. fatality in Vietnam since 1961 and the 25th combat death this year.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Defense Department
Firemen Contain Two Grass Blazes Near Town
Fire units battled two grass fires in Sneed Acres north of town and Sullivan Village east of the city. A Tuesday night blaze in a Veterans of Foreign Wars club apartment at 409 N Second damaged the room after a couch caught fire from a cigarette. Rudy Morrison, the club operator and apartment resident, woke to smoke and alerted responders.
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Sneed Acres
Sullivan Village
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Rudy Morrison
General Maddux Receives Multiple Decorations in Vietnam
Gen Maddux, a native of Lawton born April 7 1915, serving in Viet Nam and Thailand, is awarded the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster and the Purple Heart. He is married to Charlotte Collins of Medford Oregon and is a University of Oklahoma graduate, class of 1936. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1936 and earned pilot wings as a second lieutenant in October 1937.
Four New Traffic Complaints Filed
Four traffic complaints were filed by the county attorney today against motorists arrested by the highway patrol. Accused of reckless driving were Joe Rios Brown Jr., 23, Crowell, Texas, and Neville A. Pamplin, 26, of 416 Railroad. Paul Gerhard Graf, 64, Route 3 Vernon, Texas, charged with running a stop sign. Felice Waysepappy, 36, Star Route Lawton, accused of driving without a license.
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Highway Patrol
Joe Rios Brown Jr
Crowell
Tex
Neville A. Pamplin
Paul Gerhard Graf
Rt. 3
Vernon
Felice Waysepappy
Star Rt. Lawton
Boundary changes redefine Ward 1 precincts and polling sites
The notice outlines revised Ward 1 precincts 9 10 and 11 with new polling locations at Pecan Grove Edison and John Adams schools. It lists boundaries along Cache Road Gore 38th Sheridan and Ferris roads and informs residents registration cards will be mailed and transfers handled by election staff.
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38Th
Gore
53Rd
Cache Road
Sheridan Road
Ferris
3St
Dird
67Th
Pecan Grove
Heinz and
Meadowbrook
Tomlinson Ridge
Greer
John Adams School
25Th
Country Club West
Brookland
Western Hills
Edison School
Escapee Captured Returned To Jail In Lawton
A 23 year old Lawton man Patrick Newsom was captured after a Tuesday escape from a police work detail and returned to jail. He was serving fines totaling 100 dollars on charges of reckless driving leaving an accident scene and driving without a license. Police said he surrendered after relatives were notified.
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Lawton
Patrick Newsom
Monroe
Fort Sill
Robbery at French Riviera Farm Leads to Alibi Clues
Police linked a gang to a farm hideout near a French Riviera air strip after finding a truck two army type vehicles mailbags canned food and a hole dug in the yard. The gang’s leader was said to have gone there days before to establish an alibi. Lily Brooks 60 held the farm keys and described a tall fair charming man with a London accent who collected them two weeks earlier.
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French Riviera
Bernard Rixon
Leatherslade
Lily Brooks
Two-vehicle crash injures infant in Amarillo area
Police report a two car collision at Fort Sill Blvd and Cache Road near 5 41 pm Tuesday injuring eight month old Robin Bates daughter of Mrs. Bobbie Sue Bates of Indiahoma. The crash involved Monti C Anderson 19 Fort Sill driving a 194 Ford and a 1962 Pontiac driven by Mrs Bates.
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Larry
Terry Rumph
Gore
Ronald Rutledge
Leon Parker
Amarillo
Tex
R. M. Blaylock
Columbia
Fort Sill Blvd
Cache Road
Robin Bates
Bobbie Sue Bates
Rt. 2
Indiahoma
Denver MeLrmore
Monti C. Anderson
Fort Sill
Colonaip Unveils Nerve Stimulating Constipation Tablet
Tense nerves block bowels leading to constipation. New Colonaip tablets use a colonic nerve stimulant with bulking action to restore regularity overnight. Doctors endorse the clinicallyproved formula promising gentle relief and renewed well being in the introductory size.
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Jacqueline Kennedy
Otis Air Force Base Hospital
Buddhist
Dora Exell
Anthony J. Stefanoski
Nolan A. Swepston
Frank Sug
Green Meadow
Een Bratcher
Marion
Lois M. Christy
Jim Terry Holland
Laird
Muffiers
Carol A. Junker
William C. Melton
Vonden D. Maione
Baldwin
Marshall EF. Dedeon Jr
Marcus C. Correll
Newell D Jenkins
Charlies E. Walker
Onald Earl Plomiey
Nansevelt
Len M. Keathier
M4 Pershing
Joseph Seth Jr
S& Third
Betty Ballenger
Howard Bennett
New York
Henry Derrell Koserhata
James Evert Lee
Jefferson
Roy Wilson
Roosevelt
Pete Zuniga
Harvey Lee Beaty
Michael Emigh
Robert Lee
Gorden Northington
Altus
Bend
Patrick L. Simepson
Timothy Amil Stonecal
Maddux
Quality Optical Service
Dean A. Harvey
Glenn Sims
S. 11Th
Oklahoma
Edward Neely
N. 19Th
A. W. Allen
S. 12Th
Jesse Robertson
Pauline Sloan
Kingsbury
Guy Clapton
S. Fifth
Mike Morris
Northside
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Jewel Baron
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Cour Choice
KODAK
Jewel Elgins
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