Welsh Mountain Aches and Hopes For a Quiet Future
Residents of Welsh Mountain, near Lancaster Pennsylvania, seek calmer lives after a history of violence and poverty. Elders like Ike Boots urge progress with better housing and ongoing medical care provided by a clinic reopened in a new building by a Mennonite church affiliated nonprofit. Carole D Antonio notes about 38 relief cases among elderly and disabled residents.
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Larry Margalak
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Welsh Mountain
Jacqueline Hackman
Ike Boots
Boots
Memmonite Church
Robert W. Saunderson
Carole D’antonio
Oklahoma delegate calls GOP platform a sales manual
Jim Willis of Perry Oklahoma, a Republican Platform Committee delegate, says the final document was largely dictated by party hierarchy. He observed five days of deliberations and concludes the platform resembled a sales manual rather than a statement of party philosophy.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Republican Platform Committee
GOP
Jim Willis
Perry
Oklahoma
Willis
Three youths drown in Oklahoma lakes over weekend
Oklahoma highway patrol recovered the bodies of Dana Loren Smith a Beggs teenager and two other youths from Lake Beggs Lake Eufaula and Lake Altus after separate incidents Sunday. Smith 16 disappeared while swimming across Beggs City Lake. Mike Warner 21 of McAlester died at Lake Eufaula and Nathaniel West of Altus died at Lake Altus.
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Highway Patrol
Okmulgee County
Beggs
Oklahoma Lakes
McAlester
Lake Eufaula
Altus
Lake Altus
Dana Loren Smith
Beggs City Lake
Smith
Bob Payne
Mike Warner
Oak Ridge Landing
Nathaniel West
Don Groth
Sooner Pilots Down Soviet MIG in North Vietnam Conflict
Capt. Frank Bettine of Hartshorne Oklahoma and Capt. Sammy White of Hot Springs Arkansas both confirmed shooting down a Soviet built MIG21 over North Vietnam while providing cover for raids near Hanoi. It marked their first war kill and the 49th MIG reported downed by US crews this year.
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Saigon
Air Force
Hartshorne
Okla
Hot Springs
Ark
Frank Bettine
Sammy White
North Vietnam
Hanoi
White
Bettine
GRDA Head and Governor Disagree Over Insurance Policy
GRDA chairman Francis Heydt and Gov. David Hall clash over a $57 million insurance package covering fire and equipment loss. Heydt favors Jerry Lee Insurance Agency policy costing $103,439, while Hall backs a competing bid from Charles Montgomery. The Board of Public Affairs will review the proposals.
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Miami
Okla
Francis Heydt
Grand River Dam Authority
David Hall
Heydt
Hall
Hfeydt
Oklahoma City
Charles Montgomery
State Board of Public Affairs
Jerry Lee Insurance Agency of Commerce
GRDA
L.M. Packard
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Buzzard
Mrs. Hackman
Sarah King
National Bank
THE
Associated Press
MMR
Ata Ias
A. Ward
McCracken
Comenche County
Democrat Corporation Commission
Pol. Adv
Robert Ayers
Hawkins
Hawkins Television & Electronics Inc
Lee Blvd
Stanley Sasser
Ivy
He Mig Gsuree
Sey
Stenley Sesser
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