Floods Hit Eastern Oklahoma Prompt Evacuations and Road Closures
Heavy rains across the state caused flash flooding in Wister Poteau and Idabel with Mud Creek and Mountain Creek overflowing. About a dozen families evacuated in Idabel while water up to two feet covered streets and a bank store and shop. roads across southeastern Oklahoma were closed or detoured including OK 99 OK 33 and US 59 with the Poteau River rising. Water receded conditions improved by mid morning as weather service warned.
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Ada
Flood rains trigger evacuations across Panama Oklahoma
heavy rainfall statewide reaches Poteau Fanshawe Wilburton Spiro McCurtain Sallisaw and McAlester with Tulsa and Ft Smith also reporting totals. Forecasters predict fair to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with highs from 48 to 58 and overnight lows from 30 in the Panhandle to the mid 40s southeast. Saturday temperatures rise to 52 to 62 as lingering showers end.
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Panhandle
Indian Troops Establish Bridgehead Near Dacca
Indian forces establish a bridgehead on the west bank at Ashuganj near Dacca as thousands flee amid heavy air raids on Pakistani positions. The White House urges both sides to accept a UN cease-fire, while Pakistan signs on to the appeal with observers required.
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India
White House Today
U.N. General Assembly
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Nixon
Escaped Bryan County inmates recaptured near Lawton
Eddie Lee Turner and Tom Andrew Royal, both armed, were recaptured after escaping Durant's Bryan County Jail the day after Thanksgiving. Turner, stopped west of Lawton, carried a .22 pistol. Royal was found with a loaded sawed off shotgun in a motel room. Both offered no resistance. See ESCAPEES, Page 4A, Col. 1.
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Thomas Andrew Royal
Kansas State Prison
Bryan County
Okla
Comanche County
Bill Banks
Bryant
Esao
Lawton
Eddie Lee Turner
Bell
Tex
Tom Andrew Royal
Ardmore
Durant
Turner
U.S. 62
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Ronnie Cox
Fred Whitehead
Royal
John Newell
David Livingston
Pat Pointer
Nixon Receives Anticancer Bill for Cancer Research
The Senate sent to President Nixon a bill authorizing 1.6 billion dollars for expanded cancer research. The measure passed the Senate 85 to 0 after House approval by voice vote. The National Cancer Institute, within NIH, has long conducted the research. The bill seeks more independent status for the cancer agency.
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Nixon
House
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National Institutes of Health
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Nixon To Sign Tax Cut Measure Quickly
The White House said President Nixon will quickly sign a tax cut package totaling 15.8 billion dollars over three years. The bill removes the 7 percent auto tax retroactively and will trigger refunds around 200 dollars for up to 4 million new car buyers. It raises the 1971 personal exemption from 650 to 675 dollars and includes a proposal to block the campaigns checkoff, with plans to repeal or veto later. The Senate approved the compromise 71 to 6 and the House 320 to 74.
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Nixon
Ziegler
White House
Congress
Senate
House
Reds Shoot Down 5 U.S. Helicopters
Communist forces shot down five U.S. helicopters along the Laotian North Vietnamese border. A surface to air missile targeted B52 bombers with escort but missed. Fighting continued in eastern Cambodia as South Vietnamese paratroopers sweep near Dam Be.
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U.S
Cambodia
Dam Be
Senate to vote on Rehnquist nomination late today
The Senate agreed to a 5 p.m. vote on President Nixon's Supreme Court nominee William H. Rehnquist after Mansfield relented amid momentum against delaying action. A previous bid to end debate failed 52 to 42 as anti filibuster efforts faltered and bipartisan support grew.
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Rehnquist
Washington
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
Nixon
Weather improves in Lawton as sun returns this week
Fog lifts over Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma. Forecasters expect fair to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures through Saturday. Southwesterly winds 10 to 18 mph continue tonight. Highs in the mid 50s, overnight lows in the upper 30s as a warming trend begins.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Christmas Moratorium On Draft Set
Draft Director Curtis W Tarr halted inductions for those due hearings before local and state boards citing criticism of new Selective Service rules. The November December quota of 10 000 men is filled and all drafting will pause through the holiday season.
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Washington
Curtis W. Tarr
Tarr
Old Dad Flies From Treehouse In Surreal Dream
A narrator recalls Old Dad zooming from a treehouse into flying without wings or motor. The ability began as a recurring dream a year ago and grew more real, with Old Mom as a witness. The piece ends noting a fear of memory returning during sparing as the dream continues.
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Sallisaw
Oklahoma 147
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