Salvation Army aids 4000 in Lawton Christmas drive
Salvation Army reports 1977 Christmas season aided 4,070 people from 653 families in Lawton plus 1,000 nursing home residents with gifts and food baskets. Kettle drive raised 26,716.23 and mail appeal 10,930.25, totaling 45,200.94 for the year. Captain Joseph Knobel announced 1978 toy and clothing orders as bills are paid.
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Fas Lawton Salvation Army
Kettle
Salvation Army
Joseph Knobel
Salvation Army Advisory Board
Knobel
Goodyear Bid Action Nears OKC and Lawton Surfaces
Oklahoma Transportation Commission approved a 14 million February bid package including Goodyear Boulevard resurfacing in Lawton and tentatively approved a 13.7 million March bid to extend I 240 in northwest Oklahoma City. Contracts totaling 15 million were awarded as Kennedy was reelected chairman.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Transportation Commission
Goodyear Boulevard
Lawton
Interstate 240
J.C. Kennedy
39Th Street
May Avenue
Oklahoma 20
Osage County
Corps of Engineers
Skintook Reservoir
SH 7
Lee Boulevard
Cache Road
U.S. 81
Enid
Interstate 444
Tulsa
Oklahoma
McIntosh
Muskogee
U.S. 77
Kennedy
United States
United Nations
Execution trio granted delays in Nebraska death row cases
Lincoln three men Erwin Simants John Rust and Richard Holton won stays of at least 90 days to pursue appeals as Nebraska lawmakers consider a one year moratorium. Simants Rust and Holton were to be executed Jan 21 23 and 25 respectively for killings tied to the Kellogg and Kellie cases and a bartender robbery. The suspensions allow time to file additional evidence and raise constitutional questions while preserving options for the Pardon Board.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
State Supreme Court
Erwin Charles Simants
John Edward Rust
Richard Dean Holton
Omaha
Ernest Chambers
Charles Starkweather
Simants
Lincoln County
Gordon Gilster
Hugh Stuart
Henry Kellie
Sutherland
Rust
Wally Barnett
Roland Luedtke
Michael Kellogg
Holtan
Cases Reported To City Police
Complainants listed on Lowton Police reports include Eldoredo Bearden reporting vandalism to a car. Carol L. Simpkins reporting theft from a van. Corly & Sons Tire reporting burglary with theft of tires and CB radios. Eisenhower High School reporting kitchen utensil theft during burglary. J. Webb reporting threatening calls. Dorothy Bell reporting harassing calls. Roland Lee Brummett reporting trailer door pried. Earl Simmons reporting theft of a shotgun and pistol. Denise Siverson reporting loss of a wallet. Also Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad reported theft of $1300 worth of angle iron and rolls.
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Lowton Police Department
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Roailroad
Eldoredo Bearden
Lake
Corly & Sons Tire and Automotive Service
Gore
Carol L. Simpkins
Woodsend Drive
Eisenhower High School
Ing J. Webb
Dorothy Bell
W. Gore
Roland Lee Brummett
Sheridan
Earl Simmons
Denise Siverson
Waliet
Cache Road
Government Rail Control Granted in World War I Era
The U S Railroad Administration took charge of the railroads on December 26, 1917, and they remained under government control until 1920, reflecting wartime measures to coordinate transportation nationwide.
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U.S. Railroad Administration
Temple Residents Eye Waurika Lake Vote on Water Contract
Temple residents vote on whether to enter a contract to buy water from Waurika Lake. Polls close at 7 p.m. as the last of six Southwest Oklahoma towns to decide. Local debate centers on risk versus need for growth and a 90 day water supply concern.
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Temple
Waurika Lake
Oklahoma
Walters
Waurika
Lawton
Duncan
Comanche
Earl Taylor
Jim Spurlock
Chamber of Commerce
Youth favor less regulation now in business affairs
The American Council of Life Insurance reports that 61 percent of youths aged 14 to 25 in their 1976 survey say government must sometimes regulate commerce, down from 65 percent in 1972, though a large majority still support some regulation.
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New York
American Council of Life Insurance
Council
Television schedule fragment notes and listings
A partial OCR style TV schedule shows channels and time slots with programs such as News 5 Cress Wits Bewitched MacNeil Lehrer Report My Three Sons Wallace Wildlife The Muppets Get Smart Hogan's Heroes Adam 12 Oklahoma Report and other items. The text is a jumble of show titles and numbers lacking full structure.
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Cress-Wits
Bewitched
MacNeil/Lehrer
My Three Sons
Wallace
the Muppets
Get Smart
Adam
Hogan's Heroes
Oklahoma Report
Frem
Lawton Almanac Highlights Warmer Weather Promise
Yesteryears recalls a ten year note of warmer forecasts following a four day cold snap that froze streets and highways with thin ice. It also notes James Bookman receiving an Outstanding Young Police Officer plaque from Lawton Jaycees.
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Fonze
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Gomer Pyle
Hollyweed Television Theatre
Laverne
Shirley the Mortician
Big Black
Shirley
Doris Day
Three
the Rivers
Jock
Janet
Chrissy
M.as.h. Voit
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Three Seas
Eonode
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Jessice
Chester
Ther
Cell
Interid
Ecveder
Ann
NBC
Kate
Lee Grant Lew
Tribune
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Dwight Thompson
Dick Cavett
Johnny Carson
Jonn Byne
Carel Burnett
Yul Sroyener
Richard Ty “Kolok
Night Watch
Elizabeth Taylor
Lawrence Harvey
Numor
Lacy
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Grees Acres
Lewis
Zachary Scott
Riley
FBI
PTL Club
CBS Mersing News
Ross Bagley
Newsroom
R.F.D
Weath
CBS News
Morning Report
America
Farm and Market News
Heckle & Jeckle
Mr. Magee
Mighty Mouse
Captain Kangaree
Deputy Dawg
Teday
Teday Shew
Samford and
Sen
Phil Donahue
700 Club
the Electric Com
Marces Welby
Young and Restless
ll—Ironside
Dasa
J. Rubens
Thers
Search For Tomorrow
All My Children
Tre
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Archies
Marcus Welby
East Berlin
Don Murray
Christine Koufman
Langen
Robert Forster
Darrin McGavin
Blondie
Penny Singleton
Artur Lote
the Doctors
One Life To Live
the Guiding Light
Andy Griffith
Dennis the Menace
Fer
Peerer
Merv Griffin
Brady Buach
Gilligan's Island
Mickey Mells Club
Pany
Mary Tyler Meore
I Love Lacy
Partridge Family
Zeem
NBC News
Constitution Press TeleTab
Yesteryears
Constitution
Leon Brown
St. Mary's School
Wilson Patterson
Douglass
Judy Huff
Larry Watson
Lawton High School
Irene Lee
Fort Sill Indian School
O.K. Markham
Jimmy H. Martin
Fireman's School
Oklahoma State University
Aggie
Doc Pewewardy
Guy Luker
Luke Tainpeah
Maulers
Oklahoma City Boxing Club
Cameron College
Francis Lewis
Him
Lefty
Jeasy
Merchant
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Tink
Ros Coeyean
Young Constable
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