Open Space Colleges Signal Shift in Higher Education
A south Oklahoma City underground open space college mirrors a future trend in higher education. The first open space college uses no interior walls, features four clusters Human Affairs Media and Arts Business and Management Natural and Applied Sciences with independently paced courses and five week entry points. Students can start new material within five weeks and complete courses in eight weeks, enabling constant progress without traditional semester delays.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Lawton
Oklahoma City College
Nixon To Leave Hospital Friday
President Nixon, deemed fit to leave Bethesda Naval Hospital quarters Friday, met with Secretary George P. Shultz and White House aides Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow to finalize wage price restraints and timing of the Phase 4 economic package. The plan to announce the new program this week was confirmed.
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Washington
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
Bethesda Naval Hospital
White House
Melvin R. Laird
Bryce Harlow
Ronald L. Ziegler
Matheson Named Chief of State Highway Patrol
Maj. Jerry Matheson, a 12 year patrol veteran and son in law of ex commissioner William E. Mayberry, becomes Oklahoma's state highway patrol chief as Wayne Lawson signals openness. They pledge public awareness and reform of disciplinary reviews to address past criticism of secrecy and alleged misconduct.
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Matheson
Oklahoma City
Jerry Matheson
Wayne Lawson
Lawson
William E. Mayberry
Mayberry
King Dethroned In Afghanistan
New Delhi AP report says Afghanistan abolished the monarchy and proclaimed a republic led by Lt. Gen. Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan. Daud, king’s brother in law and former prime minister, pledged nonalignment and rejection of military pacts. Afghanistan, population 13.6 million, is landlocked in central Asia with the Khyber Pass to Pakistan. The broadcast did not name King Zahir Shah.
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New Delhi
Radio
Kabul
Afghanistan
Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Daud
Central Asia
Soviet Union
China
Pakistan
Iran
Khyber Pass
India
Zahir
Indian Hospital Spent 2 Million Last Year
Public Health Service Indian Hospital in southwest Oklahoma spent over 2.2 million dollars in fiscal 1972 with 1.5 million for salaries and 314 thousand for care outside the hospital. A policy shift reduced outside medical contracts during years of fund shortages, reversing prior full financial responsibility for Indian health costs.
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Indian Hospital
Public Health Service
Oklahoma
P.H.S
P.H.S Fund
Alaska pipeline bill passes Senate amid environmental clash
The Senate approved the Alaska pipeline measure by 77 to 20 to speed North Slope oil development. The bill grants a right of way across federal lands and upholds regard for an alternate Canadian route in an environmental impact statement. The decision follows a stalled court case brought by the Wilderness Society and others.
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Washington
Senate
Alaska
North Slope
The
Wilderness Society
Prudhoe Bay
Valdez
Arctic
Northwest
Mike Gravel
D-Alsaka
Ted Stevens
R-Alaska
Way
Canada
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Council Protests Plan To Curb Refuge Use
Lawton Oklahoma residents protest the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge plan to end swimming camping and picnicking and reopen closed areas while opposing removal of picnic tables. Council resolution urges reopening of lakes and opposes refuge policies with a push for citizen letters to Congress.
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Grrr
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Larry Ferguson
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Roger Johnson
Oklahoma
Lawton
U. S. Wildlife Department
Wickjita Mountains
Ferguson
Kalmbach admits fundraising for Watergate payoffs was criminal
Senate hearing reveals Herbert Kalmbach now says his fund raising for the Watergate wiretappers was criminal. He testified he trusted John Dean III and H.R. Haldeman to the point he considered Dean the alter ego of the President in some matters. Kalmbach said he did not inform the President about payoffs even as concerns grew in August and had raised 220000 to buy silence, describing furtive calls and prearranged transfers.
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Washington (Ap
Herbert W. Kalmbach
John W. Dean III
John D. Ehrlichman
Dean
Kalmbach
Senate
Watergate Committee
Nixon
Ziegler
White House
Garment
Buzhardt
Bethesda Hospital
Federal Aviation
Alexander P. Butterfield
Nixon withholds tapes from Senate Watergate panel
The White House indicated Nixon will not release tapes of his private conversations to the Senate Watergate committee. Ziegler noted the tapes are presidential papers and cited Nixon’s July letter refusing to provide presidential papers or appear before the committee.
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Nixon
Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Leonard Garment
J. Fred Buzhardt
Ziegler
Committee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Ervin
Thunderstorms Expected in May Belt Area
The National Weather Service forecasts a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures should rise gradually with highs around 90 today and in the lower 90s Wednesday. Monday's high was 87 and the low 70.
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National Weather Service
Oklahoma five plan five year world voyage by boat
Cityan In Crew and four OU pledge brothers prepare for a five year circumnavigation starting in November. The group includes Jerry Eubanks and Andy Roberts from Oklahoma towns, John Krattiger of Durant, Bob Pourchot of Shawnee, and Mike Williams of Lawton, all Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumni. They detail early steps and the long road to buying a boat and launching the voyage.
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Lawton
University of Oklahoma
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Sir Francis Chicester
Jerry Eubanks
L. R. Eubanks
Sand Springs
Andy Roberts
Rs. R. E. Roberts
Wewoka
John Krattiger
John T. Krattiger
Durant
Bob Pourchot
M. E. Pourchot
Shawnee
Mike Williams
Robert C. Williams
Williams
Lawton High School
Eubanks
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Medicine Park
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