Mayor urges Lawton charter vote and quick water cost action
Mayor Don Whitaker calls for immediate move to adopt a city charter and to seek water rights from the Waurika Reservoir project. He wants a three election process, charter drafting by elected freeholders, and urgent financial reforms after a $216,000 shortfall. He also asks for a new community development department and a review of over 20 city departments ahead of July 1.
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Ayor
Don Whitaker
Lawton
Waurika Reservoir
Lawtonians
Whitaker
Consad Research Corporation
Stanfield and
O'Dell
Lawton Students Protest Hair Policy With Walkout
Sixty Lawton junior and senior high students from Lawton High Eisenhower Central and Tomlinson walked out amid a protest of the district hair policy. They were suspended after a morning march to Shoemaker Education Center as officials contacted parents and arranged discipline. An Indian group picketed in support while urging restraint and noting damage to local Native reputations.
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Lawton
Lawton High
Eisenhower High
Central Junior High
Tomlinson Junior High
Shoemaker Education Center
Boston High Judge DeSaulnier Disbarred by Court
Massachusetts Supreme Court disbarred Superior Court Judge Edward J. DeSaulnier Jr for unfitness to serve after his alleged involvement in bribery tied to a 1962 stock fraud case. Judge Vincent R. Brogna was censured. Raymond and Schweitzer ties cited in a 39 page opinion.
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Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Superior
Edward J. DeSaulnier Jr
DeSaulnier
Michael J. Raymond
U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee
The
State Supreme Court
Superior Court
Vincent R. Brogna
Brogna
Raymond
Senate
Manhattan
Supreme Court
Mitchell Schweitzer
New York State
Schweitzer
Massachusetts Court
North Vietnamese advance in Laos presses Laotian defenses
In Laos, North Vietnamese forces gain ground in both the north and south as Laotian troops retreat from Ban Nhik and Phou Cam. About 200 Laotian soldiers were killed or missing. North Vietnamese casualties were not reported. Heavy shelling and “hugging tactics” near Ban Nhik and Long Cheng marked the assault.
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Ban Nhik
Bolovens
Phou Cam
Plain of Jars
Sam Thong
Long Cheng
U.S. Central _—Intelligence Agency
Pakse
U.S
Baton Rouge Gunfight Leaves Four Dead In Street Clashes
Four men died when a street gunfight erupted after police moved to clear an impromptu rally in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Deputies and civilians were among the injured twenty arrests were made and National Guard troops were mobilized to enforce a dusk to dawn curfew.
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Aton Rouge
W. W. Dumas
NAACP
John McKeithen
Louisiana
Sheriff's
Bryan Clemmons Jr
Baton Rouge
Eddie Bauer
National Guard
Newsmen Hurt During Coverage Of Shootout
Baton Rouge AP reports WBRZ-TV crew attacked while covering a civil rights meeting. Bob Johnson in critical condition, Maurice Cockerham and Henry Baptiste injured. Deputies and two Black assailants die in gunfight. violence erupts as crowd blocks traffic after church coverage. See Newsmen, Page 4.
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Baton Rouge
Harvey Britton
Louisiana Naasp
Baton Rouge, la
Bob Johnson
Wbrz-Tv
Maurice Cockerham
WBRZ
Henry Baptiste
Crouch
Cuban Plane Incident Triggers Air Defense Probe
House Armed Services investigators say U S air defenses failed to detect a Cuban airliner before landing in New Orleans last fall. The panel cites a 1500 mile gap between Florida and California as virtually devoid of surveillance and urges reform including AWACS deployment.
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Ashington
House
U.S
New Orleans
Florida
California
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
Youths Find Woman's Body in Toronto Freezer
Toronto police say Grace Evelyn Todd, 34, was found in a home freezer by five youths after a horror film. Her husband David Todd, 38, is charged with non capital murder. Autopsy pending as cause of death awaits thawing. The freezer had sat in Mary Cassidy’s townhouse since December.
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Toronto
David Wilfred Todd
Burlington
Todd
Cassidy Townhouse
Waurika Council Boosts Gas Pipeline Push and Water to Two Lakes
City leaders back Arkla Gas efforts to win federal authorization for a new Oklahoma natural gas pipeline. They also order water deliveries to Lakes Ellsworth and Lawtonka while urging Southwest Oklahoma representatives to press the Federal Power Commission for final approval. Arkla cites Marlow Field depletion and Anadarko Basin supply as drivers.
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Arkla Gas Co
Oklahoma
Waurika
Ellsworth
Lawtonka
Jim Noury
Arkla
Federal Power Commission
Southwest Oklahoma
The
Power Commission
Noury
Marlow
Anadarko Basin
FPC
Apache Man Killed in Two Vehicle Crash Near Broxton
A 70 year old Apache man, John Tsatoke, died from head and internal injuries after running a stop sign blinded by the sun and colliding with an empty school bus driven by Bennie Bilieu in Caddo County. Tsatoke's wife Helen sustained arm and leg lacerations. Bilieu had a cut lip. The crash closed the intersection as the bus overturned. Oklahoma’s 1972 traffic toll rose to 14.
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Broxton
Caddo County
John Tsatoke
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Ronald Greer
Tsatoke
Bennie Bilveu
Helen Tsatoke
Anadarko
Bilyeu
Oklahoma
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Forest S. Rutgers Jr
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