Plane crash kills 23 in Virginia and California
In California a Cessna 150 collided with a Golden West airliner near Whittier killing 14. In Virginia a Langley Air Force T29 and a small plane crashed in Newport News, killing 9. Debris struck a schoolyard. few on the ground injured. Investigators probed the cause.
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Whittier
Calif
Newport News
California
Golden West
Duke Bernal
Virginia
Langley Air Force Base
Air Force
James River
Errol Loving
Langley
Richard M. Nixon
Ontario
Los Angeles
Katherine Edwards
Claude Aguirre
National Transportation Safety Board
Funeral notices mark Marlow and others in area obituaries
Elmer LeRoy Marlow 56 owner of Marlow's Service Center died in a Lawton hospital after a brief illness. Funeral Sunday at First Baptist Cache with burial in Cache Cemetery. Survivors include his wife Mayme Tidwell and three sons. Additional notices list Sgt. Fayette W. Kelsay and Joel Arthur Lingquist deaths, along with Virginia M. Howard and Charlie L. Welden funerals in the region with service details and survivors.
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Cache
Elmer LeRoy Marlow
Marlow
Lawton
First Baptist Church
Cache Cemetery
Huddleston
Mr. Marlow
Patterson
Lawton High School
Mayme Tidwell
Frederick
Cache Lions Club
Chamber of Commerce
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Eddie
Martin
Stephen
Elbert Marlow
Duluth
Minn
Luther Marlow
Liberty
Raymond and
Morris Marlow
San Diego
Calif
Eddie Drew
del City
Gina Marlow
Sgt. J.C
Fayette W. Kelsay
Euclid
First Missionary Baptist Church
M. I. Bennett
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Becker Funeral Home
Joel Arthur Lingquist
Cherokee Circle
Lingquist
Rockford
Ill
Ebba C. Palmer
Elgin
Greenlee Brothers Machine Tool Builders
Trinity Baptist Church
William Arthur Lingquist
Davis Junction
John Cochran
W. Robert Lingquist
Rockford, Ill
Virginia M. Howard
Williams
First United Methodist Church
Carl Lawson
Larry Boatman
Howard
Fairview
W. Va
Consolidated Supplies
Fort Sill
Steven Howard
Brent Howard
Avalon
Allison Howard
Mary Rancinger
Morgantown
Norma Roberts
Louisville
Gladys Hellyer
Cassville
Robert Carr
Edward Carr
Walters
Charlie L. Welden
Duncan Hospital
First Baptist Church of
George MecDow
Walters Cemetery
Wyatt Funeral Home
Mr. Welden
Harrison County
Cotton County
Gregg
Temple
Vera Fletcher
City Officials Explain Sixth Street Widening Plans
City leaders and residents met to discuss widening Sixth Street from 30 to 44 feet though current funds and approvals limit moves. Officials stressed funding control, multiple federal programs, and that proposals must secure City Council approval before work proceeds.
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Brune
Lawton
Whit Ozier
Ward 5
Glascock
J. Merle
Sixth Street
Dkays
LMAPC
Tornadoes Hit McComb Summit Schools Spread Damage Across Area
Twisters strike McComb shortly after classes begin injuring students as a shortage of ambulances hampers response. A hospital spokesman notes limited power while disaster drills aid triage. Reports of damage extend to Natchez Greenville Monticello Nola Brandon Pelahatchie and nearby Texas towns with scattered wreckage and downed power lines.
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McComb
Summit
Southwest Hospital
National Guard
Natchez
Greenville
Monticello
Nola
McComb Hospital
Revival Of Paper Recycling Pursued In Lawton
A December task force accepted three recommendations to revive city recycling by selling corrugated paper to a private firm for a year. Funds from sales would fuel a future resource recovery building and machinery, with hopes to regain revenue without city costs.
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Haynes
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Fort Sill
Council
Ford studies plan to ease rebate impact on Treasury
Ford weighs novel tax levies to raise 15 to 18 billion dollars and return funds via nine month rebates to individuals. Some taxpayers could receive checks in April or later months while the state of the union address nears with timing under discussion.
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Treasury
Ning
Ford
Congress
House
Carl Albert
December job report shows 15 percent unemployment rate rise
U S December payroll data indicate 50 000 jobs lost lifting the jobless rate to 15 percent year over year. Retail trade shed 135 000 jobs last month while average hourly earnings rose seven tenths of a percent to 159.87 weekly earnings up 2.04 from November and 10.36 from December 1973.
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Labor Department
Crisis policy criticized after Fort Sill man’s suicide
CRISIS Director Mike Springer said CRISIS personnel did not request police involvement when John M. Tretteen, a 22 year old Fort Sill serviceman, threatened to kill himself. Police arrested him at 12:30 a.m. and later he died after apparently jumping from Lake Lawtonka dam. Police say the operator alerted them and a bus station response was avoided per policy.
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John M. Tretteen
Union
Mike Springer
John Shircliff
Tretteen
Fort Sill
Springer
Lake Lawtonka
Tretten
Shircliff
Oklahoma district results hint at cabinet reshuffle
Boren Martin Clark a Ada businessman is expected to succeed Gene Rainboult Shawnee in District 4 and Stanton Young Oklahoma City civic leader to replace E Smith Hester Purcell in District 5. Clark plans to keep William Nash Tulsa as District 1 commissioner while incoming governor has not chosen a successor for Robert Kerr Altus in District 7 but will replace Kerr.
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Martin Clark
Ada
H. E
Gene’’ Rainboult
Shawnee
Oklahoma City
Stanton Young
E. Smith Hester
Purcell
Boren
William Nash
Tulsa
Robert M. Kerr
Altus
Kerr
Strike at Gulf facilities over local issues and oil union
The union accepted the national bargaining issues but workers at Gulf facilities in Port Arthur Texas walked out when the contract expired Tuesday night. Grospiron noted the strike remains on local issues despite the national agreement.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Gulf
Grospiron
Fire Reports From Lowton Fire Department
Fire calls logged with times and locations include a minor house fire at 715 Summit and a minor shrub or grass fire at 1106 NW 52nd. False alarms occurred at 2425 D and 300 block SW léth. A trash fire at 622 Bishop Road and a smoke or house fire at 190 block Washington are noted, with total dispatches this year reaching forty.
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Summit
Léth
Bishop Road
Trash c
Washington
Rouse
Lincoln
Totel
Oklahoma City Markets List Grain and Produce Prices
State Agriculture reports today show wheat ranges from 3.95 to 4.50 a bushel, with varieties from Altus to Weatherford at 3.95 to 4.00 and Gulf at 4.50. Barley varies 2.40 to 2.80 per bushel across Geary Keyes Liberal Perryton to Manchester. Milo trades from 4.55 to 5.55 cents per bushel with multiple city quotes, soybeans around 5.89 to 6.20 per bushel, alfalfa hay priced 65 to 75 per ton in Chickasha and 370 to 375 in Pauls Valley, and eggs at 62 a dozen for large and 58 for mediums.
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Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture
Afton
Altus
Hobart
Manchester
Pauls Valley
Weatherford
Keyes
Liberal
Perryton
Clinton
E. Reno
Geary
Kingfisher
Medford
Okeene
Ponca City
Temple
Yukon
Gulf
Milo
Free Will Baptist Church Gospel Singing Planned
Brookland Free Will Baptist Church at 6715 Maple hosts a gospel singing at 7 30 p m Saturday featuring The Harvesters from Oklahoma City There is no charge
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Brookland Free Will Baptist Church
Maple
The
Harvesters
Oklahoma City
Lawton Mall Land Option Extension Sought
Downtown Lawton leaders push to extend the option for a city mall as several blocks clear for sale. Bank plans sixth and D rebuild. LURA expects completion in 1976. Board remains hopeful despite cautious views on Jacobs and national economic pressures.
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Merchants Organization
LURA
Charley Wade
Jacobs
Wade
Gaskins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Associated Press
Carl Fox
Abe Barfield
Area Services
Elmer L. Marlow
Fayette Kelsay
Joel Lingquist
Virginia Howard
Charlie Welden
Bertha Williams
Vance Welden
Okemah
Homer Welden
Mabel Thompson
Long Range Sixth Street
Rosemary Parmenter
Ozier and Glascock
Walt Belland
Frank Robinson
Arch March
Oaks
Alvis Kennedy
Elmer Thomas Park
Fifth Street
Twisters
Brandon
Pelahatchie
Jackson
Oliver Emmerich
McComb Enterprise Journal
Texas
Panhandle
Daingerfield
Gilmer
Carthage
National Weather Service
Marshall
Louisiana Line
Internal Revenue Service
Lowton
Banner
Muskogee
City National Bank
Sixth and
Fourth and
Don Gaskins
Col
Neal
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