Baker Reaped Vast Profits In Meat Deal
Senate investigators disclosed testimony showing Bobby Baker earned money from both buyers and sellers in a Haitian meat export scheme. Francis Law and Thomas Webb Jr. testified that Baker helped arrange deals with Hampco linked to Murchison interests, sharing profits with the witnesses and with Jose Benitez, Puerto Rico’s Democratic national committeeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Washington
Senate
Bobby Baker
Jose Benitez
Puerto Rico
Francis E. Law
Thomas Webb Jr
Law
Agriculture and State Departments
Haitian American Meat & Provision Co
Hampco
Murchison Interests
Texas
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Webb
Benitez
Lopez
Murchison
William Kentor
Chicago
Law and Webb
Istanbul Bus Truck Collision Kills Ten
A head on collision between a bus and a truck near Kartal east of Istanbul killed ten people and seriously injured twenty five others on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Istanbul
Turkey
Kartal
Four Testify As Death Trial Gets Under Way
The murder trial of Robert R. High 36 of Sterling opened in Superior court with a 12 man jury empaneled for the death penalty. County officials Sheriff Forest McClung deputy Henry Hoskins and Dr. Lowell Thornton testified. High is charged with strangling his wife Lucille 33 at their Sterling home on Labor Day 1963.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steff
Robert R
Ray
High
Lewis Derke
Superior Court
Sterling
Ray) High
Chester Silvers
Lewis Decerke
Alfred Lutowsky
Cyril. High
Lucille Ruth High
Forest McClung
Henry Hoskins
Lowell F. Thornton
Hoskins
Delayed showdown over desegregation in Alabama schools
In Tuskegee the planned clash between riot trained state troopers and the federal government over court orders to integrate 12 African American pupils from the closed Tuskegee High School was postponed likely for 24 hours. The transfer to neighboring Notasulga and Shorter stalled the action as the Justice Department guards plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee High School
Shorter
Notasulga
Justice Department
Alabama
James Rea
George Wallace
West Alabama
Bids Open Scheduled for Lawton Airport Tower
Fort Worth Texas will host bid openings at 3 30 p m on February 26 for a new Lawton airport control tower. The 62 foot steel and masonry pentagon shaped tower will rise on the northwest corner of the municipal field. Plans cost 15 per set and can be obtained from the FAA Southwest Region procurement section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Lawton
Robert D. Murphy
Southwest Regional Office
Federal Aviation Agency
Murphy
FAA
Southwest Region
Federal Aviation
German Rockets Alarm West Germany over Nuclear Capable Weapons
The Soviet Union accuses West Germany of developing missiles able to carry nuclear weapons. It protests to the United States Britain France and West Germany claiming gross violation of postwar disarmament limits. Moscow says Berlin’s weather rocket claim is false.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Moscow
Soviet Union
West Germany
United States
Britain
France
Kremlin
Germany
Panhandle Storm Halts Travel With 7 Foot Snow Drifts
Heavy snow blanketed the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles from Amarillo to Boise City, with drifts up to seven feet paralyzing roads and closing U S routes. Altus recorded 3.24 inches of precipitation as temperatures stayed below freezing and a warming trend was forecast for later in the week.
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Oklahoma Panhandle
State Highway Department
Panhandle Area
U. S. 287
Boise City
U. S. 64
Guymon
Highway Department
U. S. 66
Amarillo
Tex
Albuquerque
N. M
U.S. 87
Clayton
Kansas
Panhandle
Northwest
Altus
Clinton- Sherman Air Force Base
Cordell
Woodward
Hobart
Taloga
Weatherford
Fort Sill
Gage
Carnegie
Hammon
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
D. P. McAlpine
Heavy Rains Soak Lawton Area Amid Snow Forecast
Heavy rains flood creeks into Lake Lawtonka pushing water levels up while more moisture moves in. Forecasters warn mixed rain and snow with hazardous driving as temps drop. Snow expected Monday. Panhandle storm inching across state with heavy snow in Cimarron County. Randell Hale reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Lake
Lawtonka
Duncan Firm To Build New City Fire Station
City council accepted the low bid from Pollock Construction Co. of Duncan for Fire Station No. 5 at 53rd and Gore, with the sub station costing 44,078 and parking and driveway work removed. The Recreation Board expanded from six to nine members and appointed John Cody and Alfred Braddy. C R Ellsworth and Jim Warkentin urged city help to beautify the industrial area facing salvage yard growth that could deter new industries.
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Duncan
53Rd and Gore
Public Recreation Department
Pollock Construction Co
Recreation Board
Wayne Gilley
John Cody
Alfred Braddy
C. R. Ellsworth
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Jim Warkentin
Ellsworth
Industrial Addition
Council
Bellmon Defends 1965 Oklahoma Road Plan
Gov. Henry Bellmon defended the 1965 highway program and said he did not help write it. He noted the 1965 plan, approved by the highway commission, totals 82.5 million dollars, higher than 1961 and 1962, while acknowledging he lacks interstate vs primary road spending figures. Some highway officials called the plan pitifully inadequate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
UPI
Henry Bellmon
Bellmon
Frank Lyons
Bellman
Highway Commission
Poll Tax Ban Becomes Part of Constitution
The 24th Amendment banning poll taxes in federal elections was certified at a White House ceremony with President Johnson witnessing. The measure sends the amendment to the national archives and marks the end of barriers to voting, though some states may retain poll taxes for state elections.
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Washington
General Services
Bernard L. Boutin
South Dakota
Boutin
National Archives
Spessard L. Holland
Dfla
House
Charles A. Halleck
Johnson
Republic
Alabama
Texas
Virginia
Senate
Illinois
United States
Lab to duplicate Ranger 6 flight to locate camera failure
Pasadena officials report plans to launch a duplicate Ranger moon vehicle in a lab simulation to mirror Ranger 6 as researchers seek the cause of its television camera failure. JPL spokesmen warn Ranger 7 could be postponed if the fault is not found, even as experts maintain Ranger 6 successfully impacted the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Moon
Secret Oswald Testimony May Not Be Released In Lifetime
Chief Justice Warren says the Warren Commission may issue a statement after questioning its first witness Mrs. Marina Oswald about Oswalds Russia visit defection attempts and US movements. Rankin says she provided new evidence and was cooperative as investigators probe money sources and links to Ruby.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Marina Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Earl Warren
Warren
Presidential Investigating Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald
Russia
Soviet Union
Cuba
Kennedy
United States
Commission
J. Lee Rankin
State Department
Rankin
Texas
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Dallas
U S Air Force Probes Downed Jet Wreckage in Germany
At Wiesbaden air base the Air Force pieces together the trainer wreckage shot down over East Germany last Tuesday. Three U.S. officers were killed in the incident 56 miles inside East Germany. A spokesman said no statement would be issued until the study is finished.
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Wiesbaden
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By Phil Ford
By Constitution Wire Services
U.S. 66
Borger
U.S. 6&4
Cimarron County
Randell Hale
Duncan Firm
New City
Marina
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