Water cost for Lawton homeowners proves low and broad
The average Lawton homeowner pays about 2.40 dollars monthly for city services with the water charge only part of the total. The water system cost last year was 264,156.02 dollars, spread over 20,000 residential customers, about 13 dollars per year per household for water, plus additional city services.
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Lawton
London
Scotland Yard
Metropolitan Police Force
Robert W. Pelham
Aylesbury
Leicester
Margaret Perkins
Manchester
Italy
Rome
Grosseto
Bruce Reynolds
James White
El Reno Grand Jury Opens Monday in County Offices
A El Reno grand jury convenes Monday to probe Canadian County offices in a routine investigation. Officials say the session also raises statewide interest amid reports of gambling, drawing attention from Gov. Bellman and Atty. Gen. Nesbitt. Judge Fogg called the body after requests from the county attorney and local residents. He asked the attorney general for help, noting the probe is standard and not aimed at the county attorney.
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EL Reno
Oklahoma
Henry Bellman
Charlies Nesbitt
Dist
William L. Fogg
Atty
John V. Whelan Jr
Fogg
Attorney General’s Office
Citizens Water Body To Meet On Water System Plans
The Citizens Water committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday in the city council chamber to hear a detailed review by the consulting engineer of water problems and proposed solutions. S. J. C. Kennedy urged all members to attend and invited interested citizens to hear the report. The committee has recommended a water bond of about 6 million dollars to expand the waterworks, with no council proposal yet offered.
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Citizens Water Committee
City Council
Solu- S
J. C. Kennedy
Council
Lawton
British Troops Stage Exercise Hercules Across Medicine Bluff
Report describes a staged commando drill by 79th Kirkee Battery and British troops on Medicine Creek, featuring cliff scaling and mock combat. The event precedes a demonstration of military prowess, with dramatic elements and a stranded commando during a death slide sequence.
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Richard Barton
Medicine Bluff
Medicine Creek
Fort Sill
Fort Sii
Frank Buck
Buon
79Th Kirkee Commando
British
Rover Artillery
Sgt
City swelters in 108 heat across Lawton area
Lawtonians endured the hottest day of the year with a 108 degree reading at 3 p.m. Water pumps ran at higher speed at Medicine Park due to the heat. At Cache a trace to a quarter inch of rain fell just before a rodeo was postponed to this afternoon. Meers saw sprinkles with about a quarter inch in Saddie Mountain.
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Meers
Saddie Mountain
Khrushchev touts assembly line victory over capitalism in Yugoslavia
In Split Khrushchev vows that communism will bury capitalism through organized production. He tells shipyard workers that the working class will defeat capitalists, echoing remarks made near Belgrade about Ford style mass production and automation. He cites U.S. lead in goods output.
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Split
Yugoslavia
UPI
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Josip Broz Tito
Khrushchev
Adriatic Sea
Belgrade
Henry Ford
U. S
United States
Soviet Union
Area Weather Forecast With Scattered Showers
Clear to partly cloudy conditions with little temperature change. A few scattered showers or thundershowers overnight. Overnight low 75, high today 102. Tonight low 75, Saturday high 108, low 73. Saturday 9 p.m. temperature around 92.
Test Ban Security Plan Aims to Assure U S Readiness
Defense Department outlines a 1 million dollar annual nuclear readiness program to reassure senators backing a limited test ban treaty. The plan includes a 290 million dollar two year underground testing outlay and a fast resumption capability if breach occurs. A White House science panel and Nobel laureate Schweitzer endorsed the pact, saying it would not undermine U S security.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
White House
Hyannis Port
Mass
Viet Nam students protest under martial law in Saigon
In Saigon students violate martial law with pro Buddhist demonstrations that authorities fear could become a major issue. Scores are arrested and detained. Western journalists are briefly held. Leaflets denounce President Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu. Ambassador Lodge to present credentials as U S aid and policy loom amid crisis.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Bert Glinn
Saturday Evening Post
Milton Orshevsky
Larry Burrows
Life Magazine
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nhu
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
United States
Dem senators clash over key rail bill clause
Seven Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee attacked a main provision of an emergency arbitration bill to avert a national rail strike. They urged unlimited negotiations on secondary issues if no deal on minor matters is reached by a deadline, signaling a possible floor fight as the bill moves toward a Wednesday strike deadline.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
House
Congress
Lawton Schools Readied for 1963 64 Term Enrollments
Lawton public and Catholic schools prepare for the 1963 64 term with expected record enrollments. Superintendent Shoemaker cites over 15 750 students, new elementary additions at Roosevelt Dunbar Westwood Edison and Western Hills, and updated schedules for all grade levels starting September 3.
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Lawton
John D. Shoemaker
St. Mary’s
John F. Kennedy
St. Bar
Lahoma
North Carolina
Florida
Idaho
Fort Sill
Talmage Hard
Roosevelt, Dunbar
Westwood
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
Edison
38Th
N. W. Columbia
Western Hills
Kinyon and
Liberty
Gore
Country Club
Western Hills Additions
Western Hills Addition
Brookland Addition
Western Hills School
Scott School
Cache Road
Ragged Hole Delays Rescue Efforts For Trapped Miners
In Hazleton Pennsylvania a 13 hour delay slowed the rescue of David Fellin and Henry Throne trapped 331 feet underground. Efforts center on enlarging a 26 inch escape hole to 38 feet below ground. A larger 30 inch drill from Dallas was needed, with a 65 ton rig raised four feet by hydraulic jacks to accommodate the bit.
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Hazelton
David Fellin
Henry Throne
Dallas
Tex
Hazleton
H. B. Charmbury
Charmbury
Throne
Fellin
Louis Bova
Inside City Schools and Firemen Schedule Reveal City Plans
Partial text lists sections and page numbers from a newspaper. It mentions city schools starting page 4, Snyder history, firemen page 31, city spending over 2 million this year page 4, entertainment pages 32-53, Buffalo protected page 13, Commandos in Action, area farmers report on Russian trip page 7, society section page 2, John Pennel breaks pole vault on page 5, football roundup editorial page 1 and page 16.
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Battle Yard
By Bilt, Crawford
Nikita
Schweitzer
Kennedy
Dems
Bill Crawford
Bara
Lawton High
Douglass High
Eisenhower
Douglass and Eisenhower
Central and
Tomlinson Junior High School
Hugh Bish
Constitution & Morning Press
LHS
Shoemaker
Lawton Education Association
Lawton Board of Education
East
Ft. Sill Blvd
Gate 3
Upton Road
Lee
Page & Col
Ragged Hole
Ee City
Commandos In Action
Society
John Pennel
Decentice
Public Service Co
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