Cameron Band Heads to Mardi Gras from Cameron College
Cameron College plans a February trip to New Orleans for the band with funding efforts led by Dr. Charles Mary and David Sandstrom. The group will travel by chartered bus and hotel stay, with about 60 participants and four days of events in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. money raised aims to cover transportation lodging and meals, with attendance excused from five days of classes. The trip seeks to boost recruitment and showcase Cameron’s music program. Proceeds may also back a campus rock concert and Lawton civic support. The delegation includes chaperones from the music faculty and will stay at the Holiday Inn on Royal Street.
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Rogers district approves multiple school levies amid tight margins
Hulett praised by supporters after a victory as Rogers Elementary voters narrowly back a five mill emergency levy 2380 to 980, a ten mill local support levy 2239 to 910, and a five mill building fund levy 2356 to 1012. Dr Jesse Wright led with 234 of 717 votes, exceeding Bernard Wallen.
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Hulett
Scott Road
Hugh Bish
Rogers Elementary School
Rogers
Jesse Wright
Wright
Bernard Wallen
Nixon address stirs mixed reactions on Vietnam plan
Leaders in Oklahoma praise the speech while skeptics doubt success. Nixon outlined an eight point plan including a six month withdrawal and a new South Vietnamese presidential election. Thieu backed the plan but Viet Cong participation is allowed under independent supervision.
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South
Vietnam
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Man Arrested After LSD Sale In Lawton Case
A 24 year old Lawton man was arrested on drug charges after an undercover agent bought LSD earlier Tuesday. The arrest is the 10th linked to a Monday raid led by Detective Sgt. Ron Rutledge. Five of the nine initially arrested have been charged, with three posting bonds and two remaining jailed.
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Lawton
Ron Rutledge
Steven S. Mister
Ozman
Mariano Santiago
Steve M. Schneider
Sheridan Road
Albert P. Baray
Field Artillery Training Center
Fort Sill
Donna Jean Slagle
S. Eighth
Fire Bombings Strike City and DC Tied to Harassment Campaign
Fire bombings aimed at Soviet personnel and facilities in New York and Washington prompt concern over harassment of Jews in the Soviet Union. The Columbia Artists venue suffered scorched walls and damaged furniture as residents described heavy smoke and panic. In four days, two more bombings occurred including a pipe bomb behind a TAP Portugal office with no injuries. The Jewish Defense League denies responsibility for anti-Soviet attacks while criticized for praising the bombers.
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Soviet Union
JDL
Columbia Artists
Pryor
United Arab Republic
TAP Portuguese Airways
Fifth Avenue
Fire chiefs lead inspection of nursing home ruins
Fire Lynch and Eugene C. Jewell from Columbus flew to Cincinnati to supervise the inspection of the ruins. Robert Kauer of the state Health Department said the nursing home received fire sanitation nursing and building inspections last year, all found in proper order. The building inspection was done last August. the home first licensed in 1957 and got a permanent license March 15, 1966, with authorization increased from 10 to 11 patients.
Heritage Committee Elects Miles as President in Lawton
James Miles, director of the Institute of the Great Plains, was elected president of Lawton Arts and Humanities Council Heritage Committee. Other officers include Mrs. Gilbert Gibson as vice president and Arthur Kruger as treasurer. The group aims to preserve historic landmarks such as the Mattie Bear Home built in 1910 at Fifth and Summit, once Mattie Beal’s homestead and now part of Lawton. Jim Vore of the Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council attended the meeting.
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Institute of the Great Plains
Tuesday
Lawton Arts and Humanities Council
Gilbert Gibson
Arthur Kruger
Audrey Routh
Heritage Committee
Jack Carter
Richard Dalton
Richard Glenn
Jack Lindstrom
Jennie McCutcheon
Whit Ozier
Gene Walker
Chester L. Wells
Don Whitaker
Neil Ashlock
James Black
Toney Brooks
Kenneth Brown
Carter Crane
Kenneth Easton
Rex Givens
Dan Glascock
Ernest Godlove
Lodell Goodey
T. J. Henry
B. J. Kulhanek
Arthur Lawrence
John Lattimore
Kinley McClure
Henry S. Neely
E. D. Riddle
Robert Sprague
Gillett Griswold
Zoe Gigoux
George Barber
Mattie Bear
Payne
Fifth and Summit
Mattie Beal
Wichita, Kan
Homestead
Lawton
Jim Vore
Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council
Oklahoma City
New Brunswick once a county of Nova Scotia
A historical note records that New Brunswick was formerly a county within the colony of Nova Scotia before evolving its own provincial status.
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New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Finch plan sparks clash over submission rules
Representative Finch offered to consider any plan sparking a dispute over who could submit and if copies for all members were needed. Representative Spearman pressed a motion to accept the front runner plan that redraws Oklahoma County into three parts linking Creek Washington and Wagoner with Tulsa. Five House members voted yes while senators remained silent. Spearman questioned his own attendance future while House members debated staying in conference committee. The Senate would be waited on as negotiations continued.
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Spearman
Oklahoma County
Creek
Washington
Wagoner County
Tulsa
House
FDA deems six month relabeling drive successful
An FDA official says a campaign to relabel Vita min C tablets with sodium ascorbate ended successfully. The May 1971 warning urged removal of hazard for low salt dieters and led to fourteen recalls. The November recall involved Glenn Matteson Co of Portland Oregon after a May 3 inspection.
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Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Glenn Matteson Co
Setabard Co
Portland
Ore
George A. Russill
Precincts Merged and New Divisions Form in City Redistricting
The Tyler and Pierce Precincts combine into the Downs Precinct while Hayes becomes Nixon. Park and Harding form Beal Precinct. Wal Rogers becomes Rogers. Truman is eliminated. Two new wards add Ranch Oaks in Ward IV and Westminster in Ward I.
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Ranch Oaks
Westminster
Weather outlook with cold front approaching the state
High Tuesday near 48 with a low around 31. A 20 percent precipitation chance this afternoon rises to 40 percent tonight and Thursday. A second cold front from the west moves toward Oklahoma and is expected to arrive Thursday morning, drawing the northern front deeper into the state.
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Gem Facet Defines Brilliance in Cut Geometry
A facet is a polished face on a gem that reflects light to boost brilliance. Experts describe facets as the geometric segments that form the gem’s sparkling pattern.
First tumble doll image of Buddha Chinese god
The first tumble doll depicted Buddha, a Chinese god, weighted at the bottom so it would not fall. When pushed, it bobbed back upright, and its Chinese name means stuck, not falling.
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