Sheriff Opens Four Precinct Offices in Comanche County
Comanche County Sheriff Coy Rogers announced four precinct offices will open in Sterling Medicine Park Cache and Geronimo to bring deputies closer to residents. Each precinct will have a commander and three deputies with 24 hour coverage, using local police facilities to aid cooperation.
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Comanche County
Department
Sterling
Medicine Park
Cache
Geronimo
Rogers
Lawton
Chattanooga
Lawton Police
Charles Dodson
Steve Dewey
Robert Purdom
Richard West
Richard Briley
Metro Zone
Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Department
Carter picks Vance for Secretary of State in unanimous panel vote
President elect Carter’s nominee Cyrus R. Vance won Senate Foreign Relations Committee endorsement without debate making him the third cabinet nominee to clear a panel. Other Carter picks face varying committee votes while Attorney General nominee Griffin Bell draws opposition from some Black leaders.
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Washington
Carter
Cyrus R. Vance
Senate
Vance
Henry A. Kissinger
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harold Brown
Brown
Senate Armed Services Committee
Riculture
Bob Bergland
Senate Agriculture Committee
Ray Marshall
Senate Labor Committee
Joseph Califano
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Finance
Labor-Education
Griffin Bell
Senate Judiciary Committee
Judiciary Committee
Bell
King
Atlanta
NAACP
Area Crackdown Begins As Patrol Watches Drivers
Oklahoma Highway Patrol starts a nine county crackdown in Caddo and Stephens counties to curb traffic accidents after a $202000 grant. Lt. Roy Morse notes Caddo 294 accidents including 12 fatalities last year. Stephens 230 accidents with ten fatalities. Enforcement targets DUI speed failure to yield left of center improper turns and following too close aided by extra troopers air support and seven new pursuit vehicles. The district also extends to seven counties with plans to finish 1976 with a small fatality decrease.
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Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Caddo
Stephens
Department of Public Safety
Highway Safety Office
Caddo County
Stephens County
Roy Morse
Morse
DPS
Comanche
Grady
Jefferson
Cotton
Tillman
City Fireman Returns Cash on Cache Road
Lt. David Miller of Fire Station No. 4 found two bank bags with cash and checks in the westbound lanes of Cache Road near 20th while returning from a Fort Sill fire run. He checked with a nearby service station owner but the bags did not belong to him.
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David Miller
Cache Read
Cache Road
Miller
Fort Sill
Lawton
Former British Prime Minister Eden Dies in England
Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden died peacefully at his country home in southern England after a long illness. He was 79 and had been treated for progressive liver failure with reports of lung and bone cancer spreading to the liver. He served as foreign secretary and led Britain through prewar diplomacy and the Suez crisis, earning respect as a staunch anti fascist and statesman. The government and Queen Elizabeth II offered condolences as Eden’s son Nicholas inherited the title Lord Avon.
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Alvediston
England
Anthony Eden
Eden
Britain
Florida
W. Averell Harriman
London
Richard Bayliss
J.C. Brown
Downing St
James Callaghan
Lord Avon
League of Nations
Elizabeth II
Sandringham
Duke of Edinburgh
Nicholas
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Mussolini
Hitler
House of Commons
Earl of
Avon
Averill Harriman
Royal Air Force
Lawton Board promotes Eisenhower principal to assistant superintendent
The Lawton Board of Education promoted Eisenhower High School principal Richard Neptune to assistant superintendent for staff and student personnel. Neptune, 42, replaces Zear Harmon who moves to assistant superintendent for auxiliary service and general administration. Both start July 1, leaving the Eisenhower principal's post open as the board expected to be filled.
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Lawton Board of Education
Eisenhower High School
Richard Neptune
Neptune
Zear] Harmon
Harmon
John Elkins
Eisenhower
Blazes Dipped In 1976 Say Lawton Fire Dept Figures
The Lawton Fire Department reports 1976 fire calls fell slightly from 1975 to 1 474. Grass and trash fires reached 682 or 46 percent of the total with estimated damages at 859 193 dollars, while false alarms dropped 34 percent to 106.
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Constitution
Lawton Fire Department
Dick Tannery
Southwest Oklahoma Weather Outlook Through Saturday
Partly cloudy skies and colder temperatures are forecast for Southwest Oklahoma through Saturday. Northwesterly winds at five to 15 mph tonight bring low temperatures in the mid-20s. Saturday’s high should reach the mid-30s, with Thursday posting a high of 34 and a low of 32.
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Oklahoma
Animals Predict Weather and Quakes Across Generations
The piece notes animal behavior as weather signals and cites Yash Aggarwal of Columbia who revised views after predicting a 2.5 quake at Blue Mountain Lake in 1973. It mentions a German biophysicist who learned from Italian quake survivors that cats sensed the pre-shock period.
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Yash Aggarwal
Columbia University
Aggarwal
Blue Mountain Lake
New York
Adirondacks
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Palisades
N.Y
Italy
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