YMCA Membership Roundup Drives Lawton Appeal
The Lawton YMCA launches an 18 000 dollar membership drive starting Wednesday led by 85 volunteers under chair man Wallace Hardy. The western themed campaign aims to raise 18 000 with poster ads and personal outreach, ending December 15.
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Paul Pratt
Dick Hoffman
Wallace Hardy
Lawton
Drive
Chad Bledsoe
Joe Wade
Don Landrum
Grant Neuteboom
Hoffman
Hardy
Jim Black
Gerald Smith
Frank Burt
Australia Gets 2-Man Cabinet
In Canberra, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam takes 13 cabinet portfolios while Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck holds 14. The two-man cabinet lasts two weeks until December 18 when a full minister slate is elected. Whitlam cites urgent tasks like ending conscription and foreign affairs votes at the UN.
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Australia
Labor
Gough Whitlam
Paul Hasluck
Whitlam
Liberal-Country Party
U.N. General Assembly
Three Officers Hurt as City Police Face Car Toll
Oklahoma officer Michael Mahaffy, 23, and a borrowed car were involved in a series of wrecks that damaged seven patrol vehicles and the loaned car, with total damage around 5 270 dollars. Officers faced transportation shortages through the week as the accident review board weighs potential discipline.
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Cain
Hennessee
City Accident Review Board
Department of Public Safety
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Michael Mahaffy
Gore Boulevard
Mahaffy
Sheridan
Memorial Hospital
F. G. Williams
40Th
Cache Road
Vid Alvey
Williams
Viragh
Reynolds Army Hospital
Mike W. Gibson
Memorial
Fourth
Ave. I
Charles T. Weaver
Weaver
Gibson
Plan To Ease Traffic Near Eisenhower Area Gets Tentative OK
The Lawton Board of Education gave tentative approval to a traffic plan for the Eisenhower area at 53rd and Gore. Cambold and Associates outlined rework to entrances and a new west-edge road with an off street bus area and sidewalks, aiming to start mid August. funding and final costs are to be prepared.
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53Rd
Gore
Lawton Board of Education
Cambold and Associates
Eisenhower
Eisenhower Junior High
Eisenhower Elementary School
Dambold
Archie Fleming
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Charm Pageant Winners Named in Lawton Oklahoma
Four Lawton and Sterling girls won Miss Charm Pageant titles at Tomlinson Junior High and will advance to the State pageant June 6 in Oklahoma City Circa Music Center. Teens Linda Sue Gandy and Darwina Jepsen led as winners and runners up with talent acts. Pre-Teens Cricket Sewell Karri Pixley Annamaria Howell earned top spots and talent honors. Juniors Teresa Fleetwood Teresa Belcher Noelle Burch along with Julia Michelle Roberts Ginger Griffith filled top places in their divisions.
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Lawton
Walters
Tomlinson Junior High School
Oklahoma City
Cir Ec Center Music Center
Floy Marie Campbell
Linda Sue Gandy
Herschel Gandy
Darwina Jepsen
Darwin Jepsen
Sterling
Cricket Sewell
Marvin D. Sewell
Karri Dawn Pixley
Carlis Pixley
Annamaria Howell
Chilsom Howell
Swen” Ballet
Teresa Fletwood
Richard Fleetwood
David Griffith
Miss Sunshine
Lorain Mayor to name dozen women to advisory panel
Lorain Ohio mayor says he will appoint at least twelve women to a community development advisory committee, believing they will drive greater action than men on the panel.
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Lorain, Ohio
Lorain
Texas Hit by Two Thousand Sixty-Eight Tornadoes 1953–71
The report notes Texas experienced 2,068 tornadoes over the years 1953 to 1971, detailing a period of frequent severe storms and associated damage across the state.
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Texas
Key Witness Pellegrini Found Dead in San Mateo Office
Pellegrino J. Pellegrini, 57, identified as a major witness in a federal embezzlement case involving enlisted clubs in Vietnam, was bludgeoned to death last Tuesday in his San Mateo office. Edward Posado, 36, of Redwood City, jailed for murder, is the estranged husband of Pellegrini's secretary and was to enter a plea in San Mateo municipal court today.
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San Mateo
Vietnam
U.S
Posado
U.S. Atty
Stanley Greenberg
Pellegrini
Great West Food Co
Army Set
William C. Wooldridge
Seymour Lazar
Wooldridge
Army
Strategic club act secures contract in bridge column
South wins with a diamond lead and careful timing to force dummy’s tricks. He recalls East’s bidding to infer East’s missing honors, then plays the seven of clubs to maximize chances if the king of spades is held. The defense gains nothing after South’s precise maneuvers.
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South
East
West
Dummy
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