Funeral services announced for John Adams youth victim
Funeral services for John Stephie Adams 16 of 1750 S 14th Place are pending at Miller's Mortuary after a Tuesday motorcycle crash left him dead. Born August 30 1958 in Lawton he attended Lawton High School and belonged to the Church of Christ. Survivors include his father Oler Adams his stepmother Ber dina Sue Adams foster-mother Charlene Burns of Kansas City Kan and paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Lee Adams of 113 Bell.
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S. 14Th Place
Miller
Lawton
Lawton High School
Church of Christ
Oler Adams
Berdina Sue Adams
Charlene Burns
Arkansas City
Kan
Lee Adams
Bell
Lawton Educators Attend National Education Association Conference
Eight Lawton educators were among 8000 delegates at the NEA convention in Los Angeles on July 28. Delegates defeated an amendment limiting administrators in NEA membership by about six to one and approved plans to bar any state from hosting the convention if it has not passed an equal rights amendment. The rule takes effect in two years, with Miami Beach planned as next year’s site. John Ryer was elected president and Willard McGuire vice president.
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Lawton
National Education Association
Los Angeles
Calif
Ron Jarvis
Mary Sue Silk
Myra Crawford
Richard Neptune
Lindsay Stafford
Moonqueen Fraser
Marcille Southerland
Dimple Joern
NEA
Miami Beach
Fla
Broken Arrow
Oklahoma
John Ryer
Springfield
Mich
Willard McGuire
St. Paul
Minn
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Charge not filed on Banker. probe continues in Oklahoma case
Jimmy Harrell vice president of Cache First State Bank faces ongoing investigation after police found 32 weapons four staple guns and an organ at his Cache residence and 13 more weapons at an Indiahoma relative's home. Assistant D A Robertson cites lack of evidence and ongoing probe before any charges. Eight law enforcement agencies contributed to the case with ongoing interviews and asset searches.
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Jimmy D. Harrell
Cache First State Bank
Comanche County
Richard Robertson
Harrell
Robertson
Lawton
Billy Wells
Special District
David Carter
Myron
Pete
Burton
J. Roy Cocke
Charles G. Johnson
Johnson
Duncan
Manche County
DA Robertson
Carter
Indiahoma
Police Capture Fleeing Suspect After Chase Across B Avenue
Lawton police arrested 19 year old Gregory Wayne Davis after he bolted from a cruiser during a pursuit tied to a Caldwell County Texas felony warrant. Davis hid for about 20 minutes in tall grass before being taken to the city jail to await Texas Rangers.
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Caldwell County
Tex
Lawton
B Avenue
Gregory Wayne Davis
New York
Texas Rangers
Davis
Bill Bailey
Andy Ferguson
Ferguson
Bailey
Oklahoma Guardsmen to Train at Fort Sill This Weekend
About 450 national guardsmen from Lawton Anadarko Duncan and Chickasha will travel to Fort Sill for a field training exercise on Saturday. The Oklahoma National Guard unit will conduct live artillery firing eight inch howitzers on the West Range as part of their annual summer training. Maj. Charles Houston says the two week program begins next month.
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Fort Sill
Lawton
Doctor Dragstedt dies at 81 after historic Siamese twins split
Dr Lester R Dragstedt who achieved the first successful separation of Siamese twins at Billings Hospital Chicago in 1955 died at 81 after a heart attack at his summer home in Rapid City Michigan. Nathan Barnes Liberian delegation chief to the United Nations since 1960 and former Liberian ambassador to Italy died at 61 in New Rochelle New York.
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Lester R. Dragstedt
Rapid City, Mich
Here
Billings Hospital
Chicago
New Rochelle
N.Y
Nathan Barnes
Unita Nations
Italy
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