Castro Halts Threats With Havana Armed Forces Alert
Havana reports say Fidel Castro's government raised the armed forces to a state of alert and increased troop and militia concentrations at key points around the capital. Military intelligence warns of possible exile incursions along the North Coast, potentially larger than recent hit and run attacks.
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Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
Mambises
Guatemala City
Caribbean
Florida
Kennedy
Americans Die As Helicopter Shot Down Near Saigon
Two U S Army pilots the captain and lieutenant were killed when their HU3B helicopter was hit by ground fire about 30 miles north of Saigon three other Americans aboard were wounded The aircraft was part of a top carrying unit en route to Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border to reinforce an assault on Viet Cong guerrillas The rear rotor was struck and the craft crashed killing the two pilots
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Viet Nam
UPIT
Tay Ninh
Garvin weighs 6th District run for Wickersham seat
Oklahoma State Sen. Harold Garvin of Duncan said he is seriously considering running for the 6th district Congress seat now held by Democrat Victor Wickersham. Garvin, a Westmin ster College and Oklahoma law graduate, notes the district's volatile history and mentions former Rep. Toby Morris as a possible Democratic candidate.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Harold Arvin
Duncan
Demrat Victor Wickersham
Garvin
Toby Moros Lawton
Democra
Morris
Wicklesham
Bayard Shincloss
Chickasha
Oklahoma
State Senate
Westminer College
University of Alahoma Law School
Walters
Senate
Deral
Ain
Oklahoma Rumors Hit NCAA Probe Talk Says Tulsa Tribune
Tulsa Tribune sports editor Mal Elliott cites rumors of 11 to 13 recruiting charges against Oklahoma football in a speculation fueled by long standing rivalry with the Southwest Conference. Coach Bud Wilkinson warns rumors harm recruiting and notes past probation in 1960.
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UPI
University of Oklahoma
Tulsa Tribune
Tribune
Mal Elliott
Oklahoma
National Collegiate Athletic Association
NCAA
Elliott
Sooners
Bud Wilkinson
Stand-In Flights Defiant Students Win Cuban Passport Battle
Fifty American students defied a State Department ban and flew from Madrid to New York. At Idlewild Airport they protested a potential passport invalidation, receiving letters noting suspension for the Cuba trip. Subpoenas were issued for ten to appear before HUAC on September 12.
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State Department
Cuba
Madrid
U.S
Idlewild
Lee Levi Laub
Columbia University
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Larry Phelps
North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Phelps
Washington
Philip Luce
New York City
United States
Laub
Miami
Fidel Castro
Area Weather Forecast With A Few Thundershowers
Partly cloudy through Saturday with little temperature change. A few thundershowers possible this afternoon and Saturday afternoon. High near 90 today, low around 68 tonight. Thursday high 90, low 70. 10 a.m. reading 8.
Aggie Halfback David Harmon Dies After Brain Surgery
20 year old Cameron college halfback David Ralph Harmon died in Oklahoma City after a head injury during a blocking drill. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage following surgery at St Anthony's hospital and died eight hours later. Harmon was from Grant High School in Oklahoma City and coached by Leroy Montgomery.
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David Ralph Harmon
Cameron College
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Harmon
St. Anthony's Hospital
Leroy Montgomery
Montgomery
Oklahoma City Grant High School
Green
Lisle
St. ‘S Hospital
Ralph T. Harmon
City Grade Schools Open With About 9100 Pupils
Elementary enrollment estimates 9100 today with 9500 projected by week end as junior high and high school counts are finalized. Lawton High tops 1967, Douglass 137, Eisenhower 290 with junior high totals 140 Eisenhower and 126 Central. Tomlinson and Central expect 450 more eighth grade enrollments. buses and cafeterias begin operating as teachers and staff start planning the 1965-64 term.
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John Ekins
Lawton High School
Douglass
Eisenhower
Central
Tomlinson
Douglass Junior High
Elkins
Comanche County
Fort Sill
Mystery man in mine cavern spurs risky rescue probe
Hazleton Pa television images sparked state official to order a descent into the 308 foot shaft to check for Louis Bova, believed missing since the Aug 13 cave in, as rescues for miners David Fellin and Henry Throne continue.
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David Fellin
Henry Throne
Louis Bova
H. B. Charmbury
State Secretary
Charmbury
Sheppton
Ira Mills
Fellin
Mills
Hazleton State Hospital
Ellin
Throne
Dan Bova
Tragic Utah mine blast claims 18 workers
A potash mine explosion near Moab Utah killed 18 of 25 construction workers and left seven survivors. rescue and identification efforts began in a truck repair shop converted to a temporary morgue as federal and state investigations launched.
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Utah
UPS
Don Blake Hanna
Paul McKinney
Charles Burge
Helper
Robert June
Charles Clark
Tom Trueman
Toronto
Grant H. Eslick
Eslick
Texas Company
Harrison International
Rain Helps Cool Lawton Labor Day Weekend
Showers this afternoon and Saturday may push Lawton temperatures below the long weekend average with highs near 90 today and around 92 on Saturday. Idabel and Broken Bow led rainfall through this morning with 2.64 inches. Lawton reported 0.13 inches as other areas logged showers and varied rainfall amounts across Ardmore Waurika Comanche Healdton Durant Kingston Madill Cumberland Hugo.
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Idabel
Broken Bow
Ardmore
Waurika
Comanche
Healdton
Durant
Kingston
Madill
Cumberland
Hugo
Guymon
No Tax Cut Seen In 63
Sen. George A. Smathers doubts the Senate will act on Kennedy’s tax cut bill this year. He cites House delay and a possible Senate tie up with civil rights legislation, predicting hearings may stretch six to eight weeks and about 200 witnesses. The finance committee hopes to receive the bill in late September.
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Washington
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Senate
Kennedy
Smathers
House
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Russell B. Long
D-La
Finance Committee
Byrd
Commandos Barbecue and Capitol Tour for British Battery
The 79th KIRKEE Commando Battery of the British Royal Artillery, 125 commandos, winds up training at Fort Sill and visits Oklahoma City as guests of the Chamber of Commerce. They will barbecue at Ker-Mac Ranch hosted by Dean McGee, stay at Tinker AFB, tour the state capitol grounds, meet House Speaker J. D. McCarty, and be made ambassadors of Oklahoma City with officers named honorary colonels on Gov. Bellman’s staff. They will also visit the State Historical Building and Penn Square Shopping Center before returning home September 9.
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State Capitol
79Th Kirkee
British Royal Artillery
Fort Sill
Oklahoma City
Dean McGee
Ker-Mac Ranch
Tinker Air Force Base
J. D. McCarty
Henry Bellman
State Historical
Penn Square
2Nd Artillery
Sheppard Air
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University of California
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Oakland, Calif
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