Fire Regulations Eyed At Airport
Lawton Metropolitan Area Airport Authority moves to tighten fire safety in T-Hangars after a fire marshall warns many are hazards. Twenty three tenants are notified of violations, six receive commendations, and nine hangars are condemned. Committee drafts new lease safety guidelines as underground fuel storage tanks may be installed. Audit critiques asset accounting and prompts citywide system changes.
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Lawton Metropolitan Area Airport
LMAAA
Federal Aviation Administration
Airport Authority
Stanfield and O'Dell
Kennedy Picked To Direct Bank
Floyd W. Kennedy Jr., 54, of 3018 NW Euclid, was named president of Security Bank & Trust Co replacing Charles Chadwell. Kennedy, a 1941 recruit and former Air Force navigator, has long tied to Lawton activities and Cameron College, with prior roles as senior vice president and trust officer.
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Floyd W. Kennedy Jr
Euclid
Security Bank & Trust Co
J.C. Kennedy
Kennedys
Floyd Kennedy
Bank
Charles Chadwell
Security Bank & Trust
Cameron College
U.S. Air Force
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Lawton Lions Club
Central Baptist Church
Sterling
Sterling High School
Graveside rites for Herbert E Crumrine scheduled in Highland Cemetery
Graveside services for Herbert Eugene Crumrine 71 of 703 F will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Highland Cemetery with Glascock Greenlawn Funeral Home handling arrangements. Crumrine born July 25 1905 in Lima Ohio was a World War I veteran, retired painter and Seventh Day Adventist. He is survived by a brother Haskell C Crumrine of California.
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Herbert Eugene Crumrine
Highland Cemetery
Glascock-Greenlawn Funeral Home
Crumrine
Lima
Ohio
Crumline
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Haskell C
California
MacArthur graduate named to dean's honor roll at Phillips
Braxton Hauley Jr., a 1977 MacArthur High School graduate and freshman at Phillips University Enid, has earned dean's honor roll recognition. Son of Braxton Hauley Sr. of 710 Sedalia, he majors in music education and was 1976 77 student body president at MHS, studying music under Leona Bendure.
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Braxton Hauley Jr
MacArthur High School
Phillips University
Enid
Hauley
Braxton Hauley Sr
Sedalia
MHS
Leona Bendure
Indian Panel Allotment For Lawton JOM Grant
Lawton Indian Panel expects a $114 075 federal JOM grant next week with about $125 per student for 900 Indian students in Lawton Public Schools The money aims to aid clothing medical care tutoring and activity fees while a coordinator is hired and eligibility hinges on tribal rolls not blood quantum. If the 900 student target is not met the allotment could be reduced.
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Lawton
Johnson-O’malley
James Campbell
JOM
Lawton Public Schools
Lawton Public School
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Campbell
Panel Sets Meeting of County Juvenile Bureau Advisory Board
The Citizen's Advisory Board for the Comanche County Juvenile Bureau will meet at 10 a.m. Friday in Room 400 at the Comanche County Courthouse. Director Charles Elienbrook says the session is open to the public and will include a report by Ms. Roye Sue Bradford on juvenile problems during 1977.
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Citizen’s Advisory Board
County Juvenile Bureau
Comanche County
Roye Sue Bradford
Bureau
Charles Elienbrook
Pentagon nears shift on neutron warhead deployment
Pentagon warned that a neutron warhead would devastate only hours, not months like a conventional atomic bomb, enabling faster allied movement into bombed zones. NATO defense ministers have not decided on deploying neutron weapons in Europe.
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NATO
Europe
Firefighters Strike Triggers Government Mobilization in UK
Firemen continued their wage dispute as an anti inflation move. Union official Terry Segars says workers were starved into returning. The government drafted about 18,000 soldiers sailors and airmen to operate aging gear and fight fires across England Wales and Scotland during the strike.
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Terry Segars
England
Wales
Scotland
Two Lives Recalled In Alexandria Family Obituaries
Hubert Herman House Jr born May 12 1944 in Alexandria La veteran of Vietnam War served in US Army 1968 to 1977 married to Beryl Seiss July 1 1974 in Colorado Springs. Bobby Ray House born Aug 23 1947 in Alexandria La married to Yvonne Ruffin April 7 1969. Survivors include mother Freddie Elizabeth House and siblings Debra Hoover and Mattie Smith. Services pending Glascock Greenlawn Funeral Home.
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Hubert Herman House Jr
Alexandria
Beryl Leona Seiss
Colorado Springs, Colo
The
Baptist Church
Bobby Ray House
Yvonne Ruffin
Freddie Elizabeth House
Debra Hoover
Lawton
Mattie
Smith
Milwakee
Wis
Hubert House
Joseph Paul
Hurbert Herman III
Angela Nicole
Bobby House
Bobby Ray House Jr
Glascock-Greenlawn Funeral Home
Local brownbuilder John J Black helps Oklahoma grow
John J Black of Lawton works as a carpenter for Brown & Root on a major industrial project. He and wife Grace have two sons, three daughters, and thirteen grandchildren. The firm hires locally first, boosting payrolls, purchases, savings, and taxes for Oklahoma communities.
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John J. Black
Lawton
Oklahoma
Brown & Root, Inc
John
Grace
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Brown & Root
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Area Funeral Services
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U.S
Japan
Dorothy Bills
Dorothy Bell Bills
Mission Blvd
Norman
Becker Funeral
Forrest Siler
First Baptist Church
Bills
John F. Bills
Franklin D. Trotter
Charlie Waters
Westminster
Calif
Cabells
Cabell’s
Southland Corporation
Lawton, Olala
Pentagon
Wolberton
el Reno
Highway Patrol
Oklahoma Brownbuilders
Companise
Halliburton
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