Oklahoma House Senate back burner on redistricting talks
Oklahoma City AP reports House Speaker Rex Privett says congressional redistricting talks should wait until after the March 7 bond issue election. The joint committee recesses indefinitely as Gov. Hall focuses on a $250 million highway bond program and the dispute over Oklahoma County and Tulsa County districts lingers with no consensus.
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House
Senate
Rex Privett
Privett
David Hall
Hall
Oklahoma County
Tom Steed
Shawnee
Steed
Tulsa County
Tulsa
Fire Burns Two Acres At Refuge
Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge on Mt Scott south slope burned about two acres of brush and timber. Origin linked to fireworks. teens allegedly used jackets and sticks. Fire started around 4 15 p m and was out by 7 p m with fireworks remnants found. road closed due to ice.
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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Mt. Scott
Julian Howard
Allied Air Strikes Halted By 24 Hour Tet Cease Fire
A 24 hour allied cease fire for Tet halted a major U S air offensive in South Vietnam after 800 plus strikes in six days. U S forces diverted bombers to Laos and total strikes in South Vietnam surpassed 800 with 176 strikes prior to dawn. The pause aimed to deter a large enemy offensive during Tet or Nixon visit to China. The Viet Cong cease fire saw four enemy attacks including assassination of a hamlet chief and a soldier in the north.
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AIGON
U.S
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S. Command
Navy
Air Force
Nixon
China
Saigon
Two Seek Posts As Freeholders
Two residents filed this morning for the board of freeholders to be elected during a charter vote set for March 7. Sam A. Joyner III and Margie L. Schlapback submitted filings for Ward I and Ward 3 freeholder seats, with filing continuing at the County Election Board through Feb. 25. The office will be closed Feb. 21 for a legal holiday.
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Board of Freeholders
Lawton
Sam A. Joyner III
Euclid
Margie L. Schlapback
Gore Blvd
County Election Board
Freeholders
Freeway 77 plan targets Oklahoma highway adequacy by 1969
Oklahoma highway chief Chester Brooks says 29.8 percent of Comanche County roads are inadequate, totaling 52.4 miles out of 175.9. The Freeway 77 program aims to rebuild insufficient routes without tax hikes, targeting a fully adequate system by 1969 if approved in the March 7 vote.
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Oklahoma
Chester Brooks
Comanche County
Brooks
Temple Man Shot To Death In Front Of Police Station
Temple man Keith Michael, about 35, shot three times with a .25 caliber pistol in front of the Temple Police Station during what authorities call an apparent family fight. He died en route to a Wichita Falls hospital. His wife Lola was listed in satisfactory condition at Memorial Hospital in Lawton after being beaten. Charges against a suspect are expected. Michael was a Temple High School graduate and a former star quarterback in the early 1950s. Funeral arrangements are pending at Wyatt Funeral Home in Temple.
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Temple
Keith Michael
M. D. Simpson
Simpson
Michael
Wichita Falls
Lola
Memorial Hospital
Lawton
Cotton County
Hugh Fitzsimmons
Temple High School
Wyatt Funeral Home
Vocational Education Week Highlighted In Oklahoma
National Vocational Education Week Feb 13 19 spotlights vo tech in Oklahoma with 100000 students and 1600 teachers. Gardner warns of valuing philosophy over trades while data show 80 percent of jobs by 1980 require less than a bachelor’s degree. Eighteen area vo tech schools currently serving across the state.
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Great Plains Area
Vo-Tech School
Lawton
Chris Veasy
MacArthur High School
Jeanne Haupert
Eisenhower High School
Chuck Miller
Lawton High School
Department of Labor
Oklahoma
Weather outlook for Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma
Partly cloudy skies with strong southwesterly winds bring cooler temperatures. Today high in the lower 70s, tonight low in the low 30s, Tuesday high in the low 50s. Sunday peaked at 64 with a low of 38.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Lawton Earns Growth Center Tag For Industrial Expansion
Lawton was designated a growth center by the South Central Oklahoma Economic Development District. The status makes Lawton eligible for federal grants and loans up to 65 percent for industrial land, building and equipment, and up to 50 percent for streets utilities and rail spurs. The move follows Lawton joining the Association of South Central Oklahoma Governments to qualify for the program.
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Awton
South Central
Oklahoma
Steed
EDA
Lawton
Robert Head
Head
Association of South - Central
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