School advertising debate stalls at Neptune board
Neptune school board members clash over advertising in schools with Dr Gary Wheatly opposing and President Robert Sims defending defense of an open stance while Supt Hugh Bish notes existing policy and staff confirm ads via paperback books and subscriptions to Weekly Reader.
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Gary Wheatly
Robert Sims
Hugh Bish
Wheatly
Mitted
Lapierre
John Elkins
Comanche County
American Cancer Society
Ms) Foundation
The
Cancer Society
Fire Department Reports Include Airport Station Plans
The Lawton Fire Department released its yearly report noting 562 structural fires with one fire death last year. Arson fell from 73 to 56 incidents, and 37 firefighters were injured, none seriously. An airport station at 16th and Bishop Road is due by March to improve response times. The 17th and Lee Boulevard station will become a fire school.
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Tannery
16Th and
Bishop Road
17Th and
Lee Boulevard
Lawton
Subscriptions and Monthly Rates Listed for News Service
The notice provides subscription prices with a monthly rate for less than one year and states that sales tax is already included. It lists amounts including 4.25, 3.25, and 6.75 dollars and a 50 cent per copy fee.
Traffic fatalities and accidents rise in 1976 DPS data
The DPS notes 65 traffic fatalities in 1976 and 66 in 1975, with one-year post-accident deaths counted in the accident year. Seven-county accidents totaled 1,377 in 1976, up from 1,248 in 1975. Comanche County fatalities fell to 25 from 26. total accidents rose to 319 from 198. Leading causes were speeding, DUI, and failure to yield. Other counties join enforcement efforts.
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Morse
Comanche County
Creek
Muskogee
Oklahoma
Okmulgee
Osage
Rogers and Wagoner
Lawton Man Faces Murder Charge in Wife Slaying
Tony Kim Welty 23 remains jailed as prosecutors consider first or second degree murder charges over the beating death of his wife Linda 22. He already faces two counts of shooting with intent to kill after allegedly shooting three teenage girls and a woman during related incidents and forcing one into a car before a lake side shooting. Katheryn Sproat 19 and Sheila Sproat 13 are in critical but stable condition. The case involves an Oklahoma City hospital transfer and a preliminary hearing set for Feb. 17 with bond at 100000 dollars.
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Lawton
Don Beauchamp
Tony Kim Welty
Linda
Welty
Norman
JoAnn Decker
Oklahoma City
Lake Thunderbird
District Attorney’s Office
Mark McFarland
Charles Connaly
Comanche County
Katheryn Sproat
Sheila
Mrs. Welty
Sheila Sproate
Southwestern Hospital
Memorial Hospital
Miss Decker
Norman Municipal Hospital
Former Prime Minister Eden Dies After Long Public Life
Robert Anthony Eden born June 12 1897 dies after a career that saw him as foreign secretary and prime minister. Survived by his second wife Clarissa and a son Viscount Eden. elder son died in World War II. A lifelong diplomat and proponent of rearmament, he helped steer Britain through World War II and postwar crises including Suez.
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Britain
Clarissa
Winston Churchill
Viscount Eden
Robert Anthony Eden
Maryland
France
Eden
Oxford
Middle East
House of Commons
Warwick
Leamington
Privy Seal
League of Nations
Mussolini
Hitler
Neville Chamberlin
Churchill
Indochina
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Suez Canal
United States
Guy Mollet
Study links driver speed to gender and age groups
The study finds men tend to drive faster than women because they believe they are better drivers. It also shows that the fewest driving mistakes come from middle aged and older women.
Carter to name White House aides around Jordan as chief
President elect Carter plans a wheel like staff with Hamilton Jordan as assistant to the president and three deputies Landon Butler Rick Hutcheson and Mark Siegel will assist in administration memo flow and policy His office will be in the White House west wing with Jordan heading the transition talent hunt.
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Plains, Ga
Carter
White House
Hamilton Jordan
Jordan
Robert Lipshutz
Landon Butler
Rick Hutcheson
Mark Siegel
Democratic National Committee
Richard Cheney
Ford
H.R Haldeman
Richard M. Nixon
Butler
Hutcheson
Siegel
Jack Watson
Atlanta
Jordan-Watson
Stuart Fizenstat
Iowa
Greg Schneiders
Washington
Frank Moore
Jum King
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Boston
Coffey Elected Chairman of Sub-Area V Council
Coffey Elected chairman of the advisory council for Sub-Area V of the Oklahoma Health Systems Agency. New officers include Dr. James Lovell vice chairman Mary McMahan secretary and Glen Tutwiler treasurer. Chuck Roach discussed budget and work programs while Tommy C Throckmorton outlined health planning and the state plan for 1977.
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John Coffey
Memorial Hospital
Oklahoma Health Systems Agency
Great Plains Area
Vo-Tech
James Lovell
Weatherford
Mary McMahan
Altus
Glen Tutwiler
Arapaho
Chuck Roach
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Tommy C. Throckmorton
Animals and beasts sense quake signs across cultures
The piece notes animal behavior before earthquakes, citing Aggarwal on Japan’s deep sea fish washing ashore and Chinese records spanning 3000 years. It parallels J. Frank Dobie’s Texas Longhorns sensing northern northerners, suggesting animals are attuned to nature and seismic change.
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Aggarwal
Japan
J. Frank Dobie
Dobie
Funeral Services for Charlie F Donley 70
Funeral services for Charlie F Donley 70 of 814 McKinley are set for 2:30 pm Saturday at Trinity Baptist Church with Rev N Antonson officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Donley a WWII veteran and Purple Heart recipient was a retired Lawton Post Office employee. He was born April 13 1906 in Bowie Texas and is survived by his wife Mattie Jackson a sister Betty Jones and a brother Joe Donley.
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Charlie F. Donley
McKinley
Trinity Baptist Church
N. Antonson
Bureau
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Lawton- Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
Mr. Donley
Bowie
Tex
Mattie Jackson
Lawton
Faxon
Donkey
Denley
Betty Jones
Grandfield
Joe Donley
Columbia
Fort Sill employee’s cash bags found and returned
A Fort Sill worker misplaced two money bags on top of his car and drove off. Officer J. D. Pickens located the bags after a Fort Sill employe spotted a search in progress. The bags were returned to the owner who praised the good deed as a run of luck.
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Page One
Trolman
J. D. Pickens
Fort Sill
Pickens
Miller
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Washington Monthly
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U.S
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