LURA Officials Mall Dispute Over 5th Street
Lawton Urban Renewal Authority spent over an hour in a closed session debating how to handle a dispute between City National Leasing Corp and downtown mall developer Ed Warmack over Fifth Street. No new developments were reported as attorney Manville Redman prepared to continue negotiations, with prior contracts and city involvement under review.
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Lawton Urban Renewal Authority
City National Leasing Corp
Fifth Street
Ed Warmack
LURA
Manville Redman
City National
Fifth
Sixth Streets
D Avenue
Warmack
Lawton
Russell Jones
Ard
Sam Ard
Redman
Jerry Cade Redman
T. A. Hamra
Homer Specht
Legal Services
Former First Lady Pat Nixon In Serious Stable Condition
Pat Nixon, 64, remained in serious but stable condition after a stroke causing moderate left-sided paralysis and speech slurring. Doctors at Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Long Beach said she is not out of danger, with at least 10 days of hospitalization expected.
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Long Beach
Calif
Pat Nixon
Nixon
John Mosier
Secret Service
Mrs. Nixon
White House
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tricia Cox
New York
Mrs. Eisenhower
San Clemente
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Mosier
Giant Medical Center
Pepe
Ford Hints Delegates May Choose Running Mate If Nominated
President Ford said at a White House briefing he might allow GOP delegates at the August National Convention to pick his running mate if he wins the nomination. He kept Ronald Reagan in consideration for vice president and said Reagan is qualified to be president. Ford projected a first ballot win in Kansas City and urged unity within the party as autumn campaign talk began.
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Ford
GOP
Veep
Washington
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Oval Office
White House
Ron Nelsen
Kansas City
California
New law requires immunization cards for all public school students
Oklahoma lawmakers passed a spring bill mandating immunization cards for grades 1 through 12 before fall enrollment. The plan replaces kindergarten-only proof and requires measles, polio, diphtheria, and whooping cough vaccines. Health officials praise the act as preventing future outbreaks and keeping students in class.
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Awton
Oklahoma
Charles Green
Green
Tulsa
Health Department
Lawton
San Antonio
Farm and food price boosts slow in June
Washington AP reports wholesale prices rose four-tenths of a percent in June led by higher costs for steel and gasoline. The gain followed three-tenths in May, with inflation staying modest so far this year at wholesale and retail levels.
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Washington
Inflation fears grow after wholesale price spike
Prices in the wholesale index jumped eight tenths of a percent in April, led by steel and gasoline, signaling inflation risk. Analysts anticipate slower gains in May and June, while government forecasts place inflation around six percent for the year, down from 7 percent in 1975 and far below 12.2 percent in 1974. The June index was 183.1, meaning $183.10 bought what $100 did in 1967. Industrial prices rose five tenths of a percent with metal and fuel products driving the gain.
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Labor Department
Ford Administration
Sheriff Keeps Moncrief Ineligible in Comanche Race
Sheriff Coy Rogers filed a petition to block John B. Moncrief from the upcoming Comanche County sheriff race alleging Moncrief lacks six months of county voter registration. election officials expected a hearing date to be set next week by the election board. Moncrief registered as a Democrat in February four months before filing opened.
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Comanche County
Coy Rogers
John B. Moncrief
Rogers
Moncrief
Election Board
Democratic Party
Weather Today in South Forecast
Partly cloudy skies with warm, humid conditions and a 28 percent chance of rain are forecast for South.
Hearing Begins In Murder Case
A preliminary hearing started in district court for Paul Len Stedman 26 accused of second degree murder in the death of his ex wife Debra K Holcomb 22. Stedman shaved his head bore an X on his forehead in Manson style and appeared with attorney Norman Burton before Special Dist Judge David Carter as witnesses including Larry Holcomb testified. Holcomb said he and Debra retrieved their daughter amid a divorce custody arrangement and visitation schedule at 2109 Arlington street where the shooting occurred.
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Constitution
District Court
Paul Len Stedman
Charles Manson
Stedman
Norman Burton
David Carter
Richard Robertson
Manson
Debra K. Holcomb
Glenn
Arlington
Larry Holcomb
Holcomb
Carl and
Eula Mae Stedman Jone
Miss Oklahoma Lucia Miller Aims for Miss America Win
Lucia Miller of Buffalo Oklahoma, 21, pursues the Miss America crown in Atlantic City after years of pageant losses. She promotes her tiny hometown as a bustling chamber of commerce, touts a double major in communications and film, and trains mentally and physically for the pageant.
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Oklahoma
Buffalo
Lucia Miller
Atlantic City
Lawton
New York
Lucia
Chamber of Commerce
Okty
Radiotelevision
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