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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1964
Page
4
Advice warns social security cards are not for identification and cannot be used to trace people. It explains the two primary uses of numbers, limits on accessing address records, and when information may be released for deceased or incapacitated individuals. It urges correct number reporting to employers and regular checks of earnings statements via form OAR-7004.
Governor Henry Bellmon spent a day touring the Grand River Dam Authority facilities near Locust Grove and Vinita. He spoke at Pryor about a reservoir completing on schedule and noted drought woes that reduced the authority’s 1963 operating year. A business session approved a 42 770 program to expand electrical substations serving Stirwell Sallisaw Checotah Beggs Kin took Stigler Summit and Gra.
King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola flew into Brussels from Asia and the Middle East ending a month long tour. They arrived with officials and press in attendance at the airport.
Venezuela reports Betancourt stating Cuban agents, though driven back by strong actions, have not abandoned efforts to turn Venezuela into a Soviet beachhead. He notes many are jailed while others remain in the streets seeking influence.
The FCC approved the sale of KTOK and KJEM in Oklahoma City. New owners plan to take effect March 1 with Eddie Koontz part of the KJEM purchase and George Collison moving from KTOK to KJEM. Hewe Jones becomes KTOK GM.
Engaged London AP reports Merial Douglas-Home daughter of Britain’s prime minister announced engagement to Adrian Darby a tutor in economics and a fellow of Oxford University Keeble College.
Nicholas J. Tweet of Huntington West Virginia testifies to deny involvement in an alleged plot to influence jurors in James R Hoffa 1962 conspiracy trial. Tweet, 39, is one of five defendants in the Nashville case as defense begins its fifth week. Hall testified that Tweet offered value for juror information, and government witnesses had linked Tweet to the scheme through Allen Dorfman.
The Associated Press notes rain in the Gulf coast and Southeast, heavy rain in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi, with mixed precipitation in the Ohio Valley. Light snow falls appear in the northern plains and Rockies, with flurries in the Great Lakes and western regions. New England ends a severe snowstorm with gale winds and up to 18 inches of snow and at least 16 deaths from heart attacks related to shoveling.
Southwest Chapter of Oklahoma Anthropological Society will elect officers at its regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the Museum of the Great Plains. Present officers are Gillett Griswold president Helen Marler vice president Buford Morgan treasurer and Mrs Lorietta Turner secretary. The public is invited.
Retired Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Gent Jr. and his wife Martha Louise Gent were found in a hotel suite in New York. Mrs Gent lay dead amid sedative bottles nearby while Gent, 52, sat incoherent and malnourished. Police await autopsy reports.
A Saturn rocket booster and its mock Apollo payload arrive at Cape Kennedy for an early May orbital test. The launch is the sixth of ten Saturn I flights and aims to validate methods for a manned moon landing by 1969, with the Apollo capsule arriving from Houston today.
Commerce Minister Wahid uz Zaman told Radio Pakistan that Pakistan is negotiating a comprehensive trade agreement with the Soviet Union. He noted that Pakistan has already signed trade pacts with Red China and Yugoslavia.
Henry Throne, 28, who spent 14 days and 331 feet underground last August, returns to mining work after vowing never to go back. Throne was rescued in Wilkes Bar, and now works far below ground as a laborer.
United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther condemned a boycott that halted loading of American wheat for Russia. AFL-CIO leaders Meany and the Maritime Trade Department pressed for at least 50 percent of shipments on U.S. ships with American crews while Labor Department officials sought settlement. The AFL-CIO Executive Council met in Miami Beach with no immediate action taken on the dispute, as European tariffs on steel also drew concern from Steelworkers President David J. McDonald.
The United States primes Desalting of sea water to support a self-sustaining Guantanamo Navy base. Demonstration plants in San Diego Freeport Roswell and Virgin Islands cut costs from 4 5 to 1 1 50 per thousand gallons. Nuclear power is eyed to run six to eight million gallons daily for Key West water supply.
In Richmond a 21 year old woman Mildred Evans was killed when she walked into the propeller of a small plane piloted by Daniel Bliley during a moonlight flight plan. Authorities call the death accidental and FAA officials planned an investigation.
Rome court orders Giuseppe Negri son in law of Benito Mussolini to drop stage name Nando Pucci. Franco Pucci wins a court order preventing Negri from using the name to avoid public and press confusion.
Swansea Wales report says truck driver Patrick Joseph Wells was acquitted after the court accepted his explanation that the $42 missing from his employer was in his blue jeans, later washed by his wife.
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