Funeral Rites for Birttie McDonough and William Swarts
Funeral services are announced for Birttie McDonough 84 who died at a local nursing home and for William Carson Swarts 88 of Cement who died in an Oklahoma City hospital. McDonough will be buried at Mount Olive cemetery Healdton with Becker Funeral directing. Swarts will be buried at IOOF cemetery Cement with Dalton Funeral directing. Swarts was born in 1875 in Moulton Iowa and lived in Cement since 1919 where he ran a cotton gin with survivors including his wife two daughters and seven grandchildren.
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Birttie McDonough
First Baptist Church
Healdton
Mount Olive Cemetery
Becker Funeral Home
William Carson Swarts
Cement
Oklahoma City
First Methodist Church
E. H. Grose
IOOF
Dalton Funeral Home
Fletcher
Mr. Swarts
Moulton
Iowa
Missouri
Besse Ferguson
Marjorie Houseworth
Irving
Tex
Dorothy Bussey
Services for Melvin Pierce Cox in Cache
Melvin Pierce Cox 46 a former Cache resident died Friday in Walla Walla Washington. Services at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church Cache with Pastor Tom Crowell officiating and burial in Cache Cemetery under Cache Funeral Home supervision.
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Melvin Pierce Cox
Cache
Walla Walla
Wash
First Christian Church
Tom Crowell
Cache Cemetery
Cache Funeral Home
Viet Nam Buddhist crisis widens as raids arrest monks
In Vietnam the government raids on pagodas result in about 1,000 monks and nuns arrested amid clashes at Xa Lai pagoda in Saigon. Reports vary on casualties while Diem insists freed once peace returns. US ambassador Lodge arrives to assess, and Kennedy’s administration denounces the actions.
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Viet Nam
Saigon
Foreign Ministry
Viet Nam Presse
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Viet Nam
Japan
Kennedy
State Department
Diem
French Conviction Is Appealed Again
James D. French, 26, who insists on death, was granted a review of his second death sentence for slaying cellmate Eddie Shelton at McAlester prison. The case goes to the state Court of Criminal Appeals after a new trial order on December 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
James D. French
McAlester
State Court of Criminal Appeals
French
Pittsburg
Eddie Shelton
Police Court Disposes Mc Municipal Judge Oaks Cases
Police court records list multiple defendants and dispositions. Walter Wright fined for sewer ordinance violation. Loretta Silverhorn and James Raymer fined for petty larceny and disturbance. numerous others cited for traffic and public behavior offenses with fines from 5 to 1085. Public drunkenness and vagrancy charges appear with fines and suspensions where noted.
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J. Merle Oaks
Walter C. Wright
New York
Loretta Silverhorn
James FE. Raymer
Fort Sill
Roy Allen Martin
Opal Fannie Platts
Columbia
Conn Halterman
Joseph Costa
Bell
Thomas Warne Weston
Janet Rose Logsdon
Dearborn
Gerald Ro Wentworth
Arthur Cecil Webster
Jamee A. Niemervk
Artington
Libby and Strauss to testify on Soviet threats at Senate hearing
Libby and Lewis L. Strauss, former ABC leaders, are slated to testify today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Libby noted no current opinion on Soviet antimissile progress due to limited information while expressing concern over Soviet high megaton nuclear tests during 1961 and 1962 and the possibility the United States may lag in this area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Libby
ABC
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lewis L. Strauss
United States
Proclamation Declares Lawton Labor Day Rest Stop Effort
Mayor Wayne Gilley proclaims Labor Day weekend as Operation Rest Stop to honor the Lawton Jaycees project. Rest stops will run Friday evening to Monday evening with two trailers offering free coffee and doughnuts to travelers in Lawton Oklahoma, funded by the Lawton Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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Wayne Gilley
Lawton
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma
Interviewers Present Program at Lawton BPW Club
Pat McBride and Marc Crawford presented a program at a Lawton BPW Club meeting. McBride gave a humorous reading I Want to be an Actress. Crawford spoke on Teenage Problem of Unemployment in Relation to Their Schooling, with guests Mrs Crawford and others in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat McBride
Marc Crawford
Lawton Youth Employment Service
Lawton Business and Professional Women's Club
Miss McBride
Crawford
County Home Demonstration Club Plans Yearly Meeting
Members schedule 9 15 a m September 4 at the county fair building to plan the coming year. Mrs Clara Kelley home demonstration agent announced the session will cover safety civil defense health foods and nutrition citizenship home management family life and clothing committees. Mrs Kelley said the year book committee will meet later with Mrs E M Carter president in charge.
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County Home Demonstration Club
Clara Kelley
Kelley
E. M. Carter
Coun
Thirteen New Traffic Charges Filed by County Office
The county attorney's office filed thirteen traffic complaints today against motorists arrested by the highway patrol. Cecil Lawrence Davidson of Monahans was charged with reckless driving and transporting an opened bottle of liquor. Terry Clifton Davis of Andrews was accused of reckless driving. Other charges include driving without a license for Bobby Gene Lowery Elizabeth Price and John Adair. John Patrick Conway was charged with speeding. Eddie Mae Joiner faced a charge of allowing an unlicensed person to drive. Roy Miller Robert Moore and DuWaine Shanks were charged with operating an overweight vehicle. Shanks also faced driving without a license.
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Highway Patrol
Cecil Lawrence Davidson
Monahans
Tex
Terry Clifton Davis
Andrews
Bobby Gene Lowery
Taft
Elizabeth L. Price
John Adair
Cache
John Patrick Conway
Arlington
Eddie Mae Joiner
N. 43Rd
Roy Miller
Coalgate
Robert A. Moore
Rt. 1
Temple
DuWaine Shanks
Lawton Man Faces Deer Meat Charge
Ellea Frye Jr. of Lawton is charged in Special Sessions court with unlawful possession of deer meat from a game animal killed out of season. The case stems from a north Lawton hunting area discovery of a deer's head and parts and meat found in the suspect's refrigerator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Special Sessions Court
Ellea Frye Jr
S. Wt
O. B. Hamblin
Frye
Hamblin
Lawton Home Demonstration Club Sets Midnight Meeting
The Lawton Home Demonstration club will hold its second meeting at 7 15 p m Friday in the Security Bank building. Mrs Clara Kelley said the lesson Your Type will cover color line and fabric as preparation for a county wide basic sewing course starting in September. Mrs Opal Walker Iola Taylor and Mrs Kelley will conduct the meeting.
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Lawton Home Demonstration Club
Security Bank
Clara Kelley
Opal Walker
Iola Taylor
Kelley
Economist to Lead County Home Demonstration Workshop
Miss Lucille Clark associate extension economist will visit Lawton on August 30 to lead a county workshop at 9 30 a m in the fair building. She will discuss bathroom planning and household storage as part of the September Home Demonstration club lesson.
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Lucille Clark
Lawton
Clara Kelley
Clark
Kelley
Two Auto Theft Cases Reported
Two auto theft reports were listed today among new cases under investigation by local officers. Kilgore reported his white 1962 Oldsmobile stolen from Third and C before 3 a.m. today. Myers reported his black 1952 Chevrolet stolen from the 2300 block Smith Wednesday afternoon. Other new cases include thefts of a pocket watch, Bible, suitcase and jewelry, plus car floor mats and a seat cushion.
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Jon H. Kilgore
Oak
Charles R. Myers
Oklahoma
Smith
Jimmy R. Tnforth
Cache Road
Marie Speed
Bobby L. Messer
Monroe
Mauldin Becomes Grandfather in Anaheim Birth
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin gains a granddaughter Michelle Mauldin born in Anaheim California to Judy Mauldin and Bruce Mauldin ages 18 and 19. The infant weighed seven pounds nine ounces.
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Mauldin
Anaheim
Calif
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Kennedy Klan
Barnstable Township
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Mass
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Courtney Kennedy
Maria Schriver
Bobby Kennedy Jr
Michael Kennedy
Stevie Smith
U. S
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Kan
Hareld
Haydock
Stephen Homer Smith
Hoeer
James Leroy Retkin
Evetern
Touglas
Derrel Welee
Joe M Watson
Trevid
Gregory
Republic
City
Frank Crawford
Richard McBride
Hazel Sexton
Virginia Kidson
Ann Brown
Lodell Goocey
Acme Fence CO
Zale
Paramo
GE Steam
Apii
Sunbeam
GE Waffle Baker & Grill
Stenbeam
Gaz
GE Portable
GE Vacuum
D Ave
Lawton Man
Deer Meat
Sidney's Dairy Creams
Lawton HD
Aust Mortgage G&g Investment Co., Inc
South Fifth
Hammary
Raulston Furniture
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