Eye Treatment Center To Open At State Capital
The McGee Eye Institute at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center will open in northeast 11th and Lincoln as a privately funded $3 million facility. It aims to diagnose eye disease, train doctors, conduct research, and operate a mobile screening unit for counties lacking ophthalmologists. The institute will replace outpatient clinics and house OU’s ophthalmology department under the Oklahoma Eye Foundation.
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Thomas Acers
A. McGee
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Aces
OU Ophthalmology
McGee Institute
11Th
Lincoln
Southwest
University Hospital
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Acers
The
Oklahoma Eye Foundation
Department of Ophthalmology
Army Effort At Ft Chaffee Praised By Fort Sill General
Maj. Gen. David E. Ott praised the Ft. Chaffee refugee operation at a Downtown Rotary luncheon noting Brig. Gen. James Cannon's role and civilian group help. He cited 300 civilian jobs created and improvements that will aid Army Reserve and National Guard training at the base. Ott then described Ft. Leonard Wood charges and the new jurisdiction over three instructors by Ott.
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Ft. Chaffee
Ott
David Ott
Ft.mendous
Fort Sill
James Cannon
III Corps Artillery
Arkansas
Chamber of Commerce
Fort Smith
Army Reserve
National Guard
Army
FT. Leonard Wood
David E. Ott
C. John Dent
Columbia
S.C
George F. Cressel
Park Rapids
Minn
Donald R. Murray
First Christmas Tree Origin in England Glastonbury Thorn
The earliest Christmas tree grew in England, not an evergreen but a hawthorn, known as the Glastonbury Thorn. Legend says Joseph of Arimathaea drove his staff into the ground at Glastonbury in 41 A.D., and it sprouted with white blossoms.
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Germany
England
Glastonbury
Joseph of
Arimathaea
Convict Draws Sentences In Texas County Burglaries
Roy Hamons a 19 year old inmate at Lawton Community Treatment Center pled guilty to two attempted burglaries in Lawton after earlier admitting nine Texas County burglary counts He received two concurrent 10 year terms with five to ten year sentences on the remaining charges hamons was on a 12 hour pass when the crimes occurred police arrested him near the doctor Worthen office and Atlas Business Machines after a burglary alarm sounded in Atlas Business Machines office on April 15 he had nine concurrent three year sentences totaling two years to serve and one year suspended in Texas County
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Guyman
Lawton
Texas
Roy Hamons
McAlester State Penitentiary
Atlas Business Machines
W. Gore
French Worthen
Arlington
Hammons
Hamons
Ninth president who resigned set Nixon apart
The text recalls that nine presidents did not finish their terms due to death or resignation, noting Richard Nixon as the first to resign. It frames Nixon as the ninth who did not complete his term while avoiding graphic details.
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United States
Richard Nixon
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