Student Held In Robbery Kidnap Case
A 29 year old Okmulgee student, Robert Dewan Dennis, was to be arraigned on federal charges of bank robbery and kidnapping for a pre dawn attack on the First State Bank of Willow Oklahoma. He allegedly robbed the bank of about $200 and kidnapped three people including the town marshal and a bank vice president then set the Underwood home on fire. The hostages escaped unharmed.
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Oklahoma City
Okmulgee
First State Bank of
Dennis
Wesley J. Underwood
Robert Watson
Watson
Service Station
Underwood
Mrs. Underwood
Robert D. Dennis
Oklahoma State Tech
Center
Willow
Shultz Pledges Balanced Full-Employment Budget
Budget Director George P. Shultz pledged a balanced full-employment budget for fiscal 1973 while admitting a large actual deficit is likely. He said the plan targets the 4 percent unemployment level and noted the economy should expand strongly despite current inflation easing.
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Shultz
Washington
Nixon
Congress
George P. Shultz
National Press Club
Sill Selected As Site For NCO Academy
Fort Sill will host a new NCO academy combined with the drill sergeant school, one of seven nationwide. Enrollments will rise with 3,992 annually at five 5th Army academies and 1,160 for drill sergeant training at Fort Polk Fort Sill and Fort Leonard Wood. The NCO course will drop to four weeks and both men and women may enroll. Completion earns 30 promotion points, enhancing leadership roles for E5 and E6 personnel.
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Fort Sill
United States
Army
Continental Army
NCO Academy
5Th Army
Ft. Hood
Tex
Ft. Riley
Kan
Ft. Polk
Ft. Leonard Wood
Jones to Lead Lawton Chamber Installation
E. G. Jones and three new officers will be installed as Lawton Chamber of Commerce leaders at Friday Forum ceremony. Maj. Gen. Roderick Wetherill will preside with Gov. David Hall as guest speaker. retiring officers include Carey Johnson and Dan Rudder.
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E. G
Cap) Jones
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Jim Warkentin
Chamber
Lawtonian
Roderick Wetherill
Fort Sill
Jones
David Hall
Hall
Carey Johnson
Dan Rudder
Grover White
T. D. Nicklas
Harry H. Critz
Whit Ozier
E. G. Hahney
Gen. Critz
Virginia Brewczynski
Albert Johnson
Lloyd Meadors
Jerry Mustain
Don Owen
Sears Roebuck and Co
YMCA
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Retail Merchants Association
Lawton Industrial Foundation
Alabama
Auburn University
Nixon Sato Begin Hard Negotiations in California
President Nixon and Japan's Eisaku Sato start tough talks at the Western White House amid background diplomacy by John Connally. Separate sessions with Mizuta and Tanaka will address trade tariffs quotas and investment as Rogers notes the China trip was kept confidential.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Japan
Eisaku Sato
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Sato
California
White House
Connally
Gerald L
Mizuta
Maurice Stans
Kakuei Tanaka
United States
U.S
China
William P. Rogers
American Broadcasting Co
Rogers
Reward Offered for Lawton Robbery Carrier Assault
Lawton Publishing Co. offers a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of suspects in a December 31 1971 robbery and assault of a Lawton Constitution and Morning Press carrier boy. The youth was knocked unconscious at 5 30 p m in an alley on Lincoln Street.
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The
Lawton Publishing Co. Inc
Lawton Constitution
Morning Press
I511
Lincoln
Two Men Sought In Double Slaying In OUNTZE
A statewide hunt focuses on two Houston men after a brutal double murder and arson at an antique shop. Mabel McCormick and her granddaughter Leslie Bowman were killed during a robbery attempt. about $6000 in antique items were stolen.
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Ountze
Tex
Texas
Mabel McCormick
Leslie Bowman
James Bowman
Hardin County
Billy Baine
April Target Date Eyed For Air Terminal Work
Lawton Airport Authority targets an April start for 300000 in terminal improvements as part of a 4 million plan. Local architect Ted Horton says final drawings will be ready in March with bids in March and award in April. Runway work is underway. FAA funds to be released later this year.
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Lawton
FAA
Horton
Federal Aviation Administration
Warmer Weather Heads for Lawton Through Friday
Fair skies and a rise in temperatures expected in Lawton through Friday. Highs will reach the mid to upper 50s with tonight’s low near 39. Winds from the southwest at 8 to 15 mph today will ease tonight. The high in downtown Lawton reached 40 on Wednesday with a preliminary low of 18 recorded early today.
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Lawton
Peace talks stall as Porter warns on military ventures
U S peace negotiator William J Porter told the Paris session that North Vietnam and the Viet Cong risk costly losses from new military moves in South Vietnam. The 139th meeting resumed after a four week recess with both sides far apart and POW mail issues raised by Porter. He urged reflection before any actions while North Vietnam and Viet Cong denounced Nixon and pressed for unconditional withdrawal.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
William J. Porter
Indochina
Porter
Xuan Thuy
Nguyen van Tien
Nixon
Saigon
Vietnam
U.S. Jets Strike North Vietnamese Radar Sites
U S planes attacked two radar installations in North Vietnam and B52 bombers dropped nearly 300 tons in the southern DMZ in the heaviest attack there this year. An F105 Wild Weasel reportedly destroyed a radar site 45 miles north of the DMZ with another strike near Hanoi.
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AIGON
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Hanoi
Son Tay
North Vietnam
Laos
Saigon
South Vietnam
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Miko Mizuta
Treasury
Nellie
Newport Beach
James Cleghorn
Huntsville
Ala
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Arthur Mouser
North
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