Lawton Auditorium Museum Plan Faces Opposition
A city plan to merge management of the McMahon Memorial Auditorium and the Museum of the Great Plains draws fire. Critics warn the move could erode safeguards for the auditorium built as a memorial to Eugene D. McMahon and ask for continued separate control while detailing past foundation funding and pledges.
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Chester L. Wells
Jim Miles
Institute of the Great Plains
McMahon Auditorium
McMahon Theater League
McMahons
Lawton
McMahon Foundation
E. P. McMahon
Louise D. McMahon
McMahon
Eugene
Eugene D. McMahon
Lawton Metropolitan Park
Institute of Community Development, University of Oklahoma
City of
McMahon Board of Trustees
Ned Shepler
Comanche County Historical Society
McMahon Board
Historical Society
C. R. Ellsworth
Great Plains Historical Association
Jennie L. McCutcheon
McMahon Foundation Services
Kennedy family hospital update follows Nantucket crash
At Nantucket Hospital Miss Kelly remains possibly paralyzed as doctors assess injuries after a Toyota rollover on Polpis Road. David Kennedy Jr and peers were flown to Cape Cod Hospital where families including Joseph and Sen Edward Kennedy visited. Kim Kelly and Patricia Powers were treated and released. Francesca Dennis returned home.
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Boston
Kelly
Mary Schlaff
Grosse Point
Mich
Torbin Yates
David
Ethel
Kennedys
Hyannisport
Yates
Polpis Road
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Pamela Kelly
Kim
Patricia Powers
Spring Lake
N.J
Francesca Dennis
Centerville
Joseph Kennedy
Sen. Kennedy
Cape Cod Hospital
Kim Kelly
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Lawton Council approves rights of way and street activities
Lawton City Council advances court action schedules and right of way work with parcels already paid claims of 46055 dollars. A contract for utility relocation is set by October 23 with completion by December 18 and potential start after. Budgets include drainage easement and street dance permit.
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Fountaine
State Highway Department
Max Seibold
Dan Glascock
Willie Hopkins
Larry Ferguson
Whit Ozier
Wayne Smith
Roy B. Hooper Jr
Cleo Craig
Norma Roberts
Lawton View
Silver Spurs Dance Club
Lake Lawtonka
Lewis Hale
Hale
S. 11Th
First $5 per bushel wheat trade records milestone
Minneapolis Grain Exchange reports spring wheat for September delivery at a high of 5.07 per bushel marking the first 5 dollar price level in U S history. Price action tied to rising inflation and market demand across grain trading centers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Runaway Youths Prompt Police Warning and Data
Lawton police report most runaways return home quickly or are located by families. In 1973 six months tracked 182 runaways with 126 females and 56 males. races 126 white 34 Indian 22 black. Officials urge parental checks and counseling to prevent repeated departures and reduce risk of harm.
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Langford
Houston
Lawton
George Wever
Wever
Johnny
Billy
U.S
Rocky Mountains
East
West Coasts
New Orleans
Donny Osmond
DA Takes Sex Slaying Case To Grand Jury
Houston DA moves the sex slayings case to a grand jury as a hand drawn map from a cabin is studied for links to other bodies. Short defends the department saying the area’s teen murders spanned three years and were masked by thousands of runaways in 1972 and prior years.
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Grand Jury
Short
Sea weeds feed directly from seawater for nutrients
Nutritively speaking sea weeds grow like other plants using mineral salts and sunlight energy, but they obtain their salts from surrounding seawater and not from soil through roots.
U.S. Air Force Losses in Cambodia Laos War Costs
The report lists 1,260 missing U.S. fighting men and 10 aircraft lost worth about 31.4 million. It notes nearly 3,700 planes shot down or crashed since 1965, with a six and a half month Cambodia Laos air war costing about 442.8 million and overall expenses rising to billions for fuel parts and crew maintenance.
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U.S
Pentagon
Cambodia
Laos
Southeast Asia
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Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Elmer Thomas Park
Institute
Institute and Museum
Council
Page
Saigon
South Vietnam
Phnom Penh
Mekong Delta
Philadelphia
Frank Rizzo
Rizzo
Philadelphia Daily News
Santiago, Chile
Salvador Allende
Chile
Detroit
General Motors
Cost of Living Council
Chrysler
American Motors
Ford
Henley
Rescoe Spires, Ins
Rescoe Anne
Lee Bivd
Dollarwise Furniture
Sheridan
Tee
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