Tornado devastates trailer parks near Fort Rucker killing four
A tornado ripped through Pine Brook and Dogwood Acres trailer parks near Fort Rucker Alabama killing four and injuring more than 60. Eighteen injured were admitted to Fort Rucker and Enterprise hospitals while the rest received minor treatments. Eight UH1H helicopters were destroyed at Lowe Army Air Field and two more damaged along with two hangars.
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Lawton School Board Contest Filed by Two Candidates
Mando J. Moschella a Fort Sill fireman and H D Hulett a Lawton furniture dealer filed for Office No 2 on the Lawton Board of Education. Hulett is incumbent and filed Wednesday while Moschella registered this morning. Filing runs 8 a m to 5 p m through Friday with voters in Lawton eligible. Election set for Jan 25. Moschella 52 has lived in Lawton 27 years and served as assistant city recreation director 1950 1970. He graduated high school in Medford Massachusetts and attended the University.
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Fort Sill
H. D. Hulett
Lawton
County Election Board
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Atlanta
Ghana Army Seizes Power In Coup Led By Acheampong
Lt. Col. I. K. Acheampong heads a national redemption council after a bloodless coup suspended Ghana’s constitution and dissolved Parliament. The move follows economic turmoil, currency devaluation, and rising unemployment while Busia is abroad. The capital Accra remains tense but orderly as the coup gains support from workers and officials.
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Hijack on Braniff 727 ends with crew escape at Dallas airport
A 22 year old Billy Eugene Hurst hijacked a Braniff 727 from Houston to Minneapolis, demanding 1 million dollars and two parachutes. After nearly seven hours of captivity the crew fled the plane at Dallas Love Field and Hurst was arrested on air piracy charges. He had previous rape and psychiatric treatment records in Houston. The pistol was a .29 caliber with dynamite claims, but no explosives were found.
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AWOL Private Sought For Planting Bombs
The FBI announced that Ronald Kaufman, an AWOL Army private with a Stanford PhD, is charged in San Francisco with maliciously attempting to damage three banks. Kaufman, 33, remains at large and was identified by fingerprints on bomb components from bank boxes.
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Projection for year 2000 South to retain voting edge in Congress
A government projection by Richard Lehne for the Population Commission shows the South will keep a majority of House seats into 2000, though California and Florida will gain. The South holds 135 of 435 seats. Western states rise to 97. New York and Pennsylvania lose seats. Idaho Montana North Dakota and South Dakota gain one seat each.
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Frosty Weather Keeps Lawton Area Cold Through Friday
A cold front cooled Lawton Wednesday night with temperatures dropping from 63 to 49 after 10 to 11 p.m. High Wednesday reached 74, then fell to 28 this morning. Forecaster says temperatures stay in the mid teens tonight and upper 20s to mid 30s through Friday with a mid 30s predicted today.
Eight City Anticrime Plan Aims 160 Million Spend
The Nixon administration unveiled an eight city, 160 million anti crime program to cut street crime and burglaries by 20 percent in five years. Cities include Dallas Newark Baltimore Atlanta St Louis Cleveland Denver and Portland. The LEAA funds will support radio dispatch alarms public education and narcotics control with faster court improvements. Senator Tower released details early noting quick concrete results expected and that the program is not a pilot.
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Global News in Brief From War Fronts and Politics
AP dispatches report renewed fighting in Vietnam with 26 ground attacks in 24 hours and U.S. fighter-bombers entering North Vietnam. Other items include Supreme Court reversal of Rev. James Gropps conviction, Oklahoma State Treasurer’s bank investments, a narcotics murder arrest in Texas, IRA violence in Belfast, Pay Board easing aerospace raise, Dominican gang battle with deaths, and King Frederik’s worsening illness in Denmark.
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Nixon orders further Vietnam troop drawdown to 69000
President Nixon announced a plan to withdraw 70 000 U S troops from South Vietnam over the next three months bringing total to about 69000 by May 1 with roughly 23300 to leave between Feb 1 and May 1 and airpower to continue to protect remaining forces.
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Oklahoma House Approves Electronic Roll Call Device
The Oklahoma House voted 58 to 33 to install an electronic roll-call device to speed votes and curb ghost voting. Speaker Rex Privett likely will install it during the next interim. The Senate sent 13 bills to the House including a $311,454 governor's office appropriation, $3,000 less than last year, and set up a joint conference on congressional redistricting. House work continued on appropriations and other bills, while a pesticide regulation bill was killed.
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