General Rogers to Visit Fort Sill for Artillery Briefings
Army Chief of Staff designee General Bernard Rogers will visit Henry Post Field Fort Sill on Friday for briefings with Maj Gen David Ott III Corps Artillery and field visits. He will observe retraining soldiers and visit artillery units while Mrs Rogers tours post and Lawton USO to meet soldiers wives.
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Army Chief of Staff
Army Forces Command
Bernard Rogers
Fort Sill
Henry Post Field
Rogers
David Ott
III Corps Artillery Headquarters
III Corps
Army
USO
Lawton
Sill Man Gets 30-Year Term
Earl Carman of Fort Sill pleaded guilty in district court to first degree manslaughter in the May beating death of Richard Warren Carr. Assistant district attorney said a 30 year sentence was recommended. sentencing to follow a pre sentence investigation report.
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Reg Earl Carman
Fort Sill
Lawton
Carman
Dist
J. Winston Raburn
Robert Looney
Raburn
Richard Warren Carr
Williams
Carr
North Sheridan Road
Tomlinson Junior High School
Bailey Shooting Charges Dropped for Fletcher Men
Three Fletcher men James Hutson Tommy Thorpe and Randy Rowland had charges dropped in district court after the victim Booker Washington failed to answer a subpoena. Washington 20 Tulsa said he was shot after a hitchhiking ride from Wichita Falls Texas to Tulsa. He received care at Comanche County Memorial Hospital July 28 for a left shoulder wound. Washington said three men let him out near Elgin exit then returned and shot him while he leaned on the car window. The suspects were arrested at their Fletcher homes.
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Fletcher
H.E. Bailey Turnpike
James Dudley Hutson
Tommy Lee Thorpe
Randy Lee Rowland
Booker T. Washington
Tulsa
District Attorney’s Office
Washington
Wichita Falls
Tex
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Elgin
Comanche County elects two newcomers in primary runoffs
In Comanche County Democrats backed Paul Taliaferro for Senate District 31 defeating veteran J. Fred Ferrell 2948 to 1790 and Rosa Hines won a fifth term as County Clerk 5880 to 4331. Jim Glover won House District 65 1035 to 610 as two runoff races form.
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Paul Taliaferro
Rt. 2
Fred Ferrell
Senate
Taliaferro
Jim Taliaferro
Ferrell
Jim R. Glover
Elgin
Cephas Kelly
Fletcher
Charley Maguire
George Stuever
Marvin Baughman
Civil Service
Earl Simmons
Alford Hennessee
Lawton
Stuever
Jim Glover
Wes Watkins
Ada
Charlies Ward
Durant
Carl Albert
Tom Dunlap
Tony Zahn
John Jarman
Oklahoma City
Jarman
Congress
U. S
Ted Risenhoover
Tahlequah
Drew Edmondson
Muskogee
James R. Jones
Case
James Inhofe
Enid
Stephen Jones
Carol McCurley
Glen English
Cordell
English
Tulsa County
Jones
Inhofe
Cartwright Wright Face Runoff In Oklahoma Democratic Primary
Incumbent Jan Eric Cartwright led with about one third of votes but will enter a runoff after 11 challengers split the rest. Wilbur Wright earned 13 percent to secure second place, setting Sept. 21 runoff to face Ron Shotts in November.
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Oklahoma City
Jan Eric Cartwright
Oklahoma
Wilbur Wright
Cartwright
Wright
Muskogee
Ron Shotts
Shotts
W. G. Franklin
Tulsa
Jack Kennedy Gillespie
Bartlesville
Charlies Baker
Hamp Baker
Oklahoma County
Blankenship
Water boil advisory issued for Chattanooga residents
Residents were told to boil household water after unsafe bacteriological samples were found in the city water system. The health sanitarian Don Benefield said correction work is underway and residents will be notified when water is safe again. Local officials blamed sediment, a well casing hole, and possible leakage from an old well for the contamination.
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Othel Patton
Faxon
Patton
Bill Schumpert
Oklahoma Senate upsets and council wage talks in Lawton
Oklahoma primary results saw upsets in Senate races including Kilpatrick defeating Garrett in District 43 and Lane winning District 5 to secure a third term. In Lawton and Oklahoma City, city council approved negotiating limits with employe groups, moved up annexation hearings, and advanced four street projects under the Community Development Block Grant plan.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Senate
Oklahoma County
Don Kilpatrick
John Garrett
Garrett
Senate
Jack Norrel
West Lawton
Vic Ramirez
J.J. Pursley
John Thomson
NW 67Th
New Cache Road
Ben Horton
Jerry Cade
Horton
Lawton Metropolitan
LMAPC
Cullen
Grant Street
Lee Boulevard
Bishop Road
Sey
Weather Outlook Southwest Oklahoma Through Thursday
Partly cloudy skies with warm temperatures and a 20 percent rain chance forecast for Southwest Oklahoma through Thursday. Winds southerly at six to 12 mph tonight. Thursday's high mid 90s. Tuesday's high was 92 and low 66.
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Oklahoma
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Norman
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Edwards
Lee Stanley
Juanita Kirby
Chattanooga Water
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Kilpatrick
Mike Shaw
del City
Broken Bow
Jim McClendon
Dist. 5
Lane
McClendon
McCurtain County
Leroy McClendon
Sen
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Tom Bamberger
Ramirez
Charley Gibbs
Fraternal Order of Police and Firemen’s Union
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