One State Horse Believed Dead in Oklahoma
An Oklahoma horse named Virtie died after a disease outbreak in Texas. The Oklahoma Board of Agriculture allowed entry two weeks after immunization began, with Altus and Clinton exhausting 4000 doses before receiving more. Dr. Brashear said no vaccine shortage expected until a supplemental shipment arrives, and preliminary tests confirm deaths from a sleeping sickness with further testing needed. a second death occurred at Snyder.
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Altus
Clinton
Brashear
Snyder
Sill's Comptroller to Retire Friday
Col. John C. Marschhausen Fort Sill's comptroller since 1969 will retire Friday after a 29 year military career. He will become business manager of Oklahoma University's Medical Center in Oklahoma City and plans to live in Norman.
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Fort Sill
Marschhausen
Field Artillery Officer Candidate School
OCS
Oklahoma University
Oklahoma City
Norman
Church Youths Hold Car Wash To Raise Bus Fund
Members of the Junior and Senior High Methodist Youth Fellowships at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church will hold a car wash Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm at 910 N. 38th. Cars will be cleaned inside and washed by the youth for $1 each. A lemonade stand will aid those waiting. Funds go toward buying a bus for the church program.
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St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Hospital Phone Service Restored After Outage
Telephone service was restored to Comanche County Memorial Hospital in about two hours Wednesday after a Southwestern Bell truck reported 12 to 15 circuits to the hospital were affected.
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Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Southwestern Bell
Escapees Pursuit Involves Prison Officers In Chase
Prison Lt. Jerry Holt and Capt. Bill Mann joined the pursuit. Holt said he emptied two pistols and a 30-30 during the effort as escapees fled.
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Jerry Holt
Bill Mann
Holt
Mandatory horse vaccination drive reaches the state
Serum Friday will administer vaccine to horses in the area. Vaccination of all horses in the state is mandatory and all owners must comply to curb disease spread.
Funeral Rites For One Day Old Bobby Shaw Jr
Graveside service at 2 30 p m Friday in St Marys Cemetery Italy Texas for Bobby Shaw Jr one day old son of Spec 4 and Mrs Bobby E Shaw 1115 who died Sunday in a local hospital Rev B W Pruitt of Italy will officiate Miller s Mortuary here handles arrangements
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St. Mary's Cemetery
Italy
Tex
Bobby Shaw Jr
Spec. 4
Bobby E. Shaw
B. W. Pruitt
Miller’s Mortuary
Lawton Pioneer Woman Katie G Stewart Dies at 88
Katie Geneva Stewart 88 longtime Lawton resident dies at a local nursing home. Born March 30 1883 in Fort Worth she moved to Lawton in 1901 and was widow of R B Stewart a Centenary United Methodist Church member and Lawton Pioneer Women’s Club member. Saturday service at Highland Cemetery.
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Highland Cemetery
Katie Geneva Stewart
Lawton
Fort Worth
R. B. Stewart
Centenary United Methodist Church
Thomas J Muldowney Retired Army S Veteran
Thomas J Muldowney retired Army sergeant born January 26 1922 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania served in World War II Italy and North Africa Korea era Japan and Germany final duty at Fort Sill died recently arrangements with Becker Funeral Home pending He owned Bavarian Bakery at 1623 Cache Road married Renate M Hellwig June 18 1936 in Dubois survived by wife two daughters Colleen Tyrone 14 Maureen 11 and brother William plus three sisters in Pittsburgh.
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Italy
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Germany
Fort Sill
Renate M. Hellwig
DuBois
Cache Road
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Maureen
William
Downey
John Karch
Betty Barron
House Panel Ups Health Funding
The House panel approved funding requests for health programs for the year ending June 30, plus $5.1 billion for education and an estimated $60 billion from trust funds. Increases above the President's request include $6.7 million for psychiatric training $10 million for community mental health centers and $30 million to staff them and $10 million for a new mental health program for children.
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Washington
Acon
Deadly Indian Cobra Sought In Moore Oklahoma
Moore police and citizen volunteers combed yards for a three foot gray Indian cobra that escaped its owner Wednesday night. Chief Hank Schmidt urged calm and warned children and pets to stay indoors while serum is available from the Oklahoma City Zoo and ambulances stand by at Moore Hospital.
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MOORE
Okla
Hank Schmidt
Schmidt
Oklahoma City Zoo
Moore Hospital
Dam Contract To Be Let In Spring
A land parcel acquired in February 1971 is planned for a northwest dam site near Waurika. The project will cover about 23 100 acres for recreation and wildlife, forming a two mile by eleven mile lake with 36 million gallons daily for municipal use. Lawton will receive 22.1 million gallons daily, paying 118 000 dollars yearly for ten years for storage rights and operations, plus a share of 12 million dollars for distribution pipelines and facilities.
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Waurika
Lawton
Conservancy District
Stamps program widens reach amid budget tensions
The government aims to wipe out hunger with food stamp benefits reaching about 11 million people, twice last year. New uniform schedules proposed in April would require monthly incomes to determine stamp costs, with critics opposing higher rates and exclusions. The program, now under a $2 billion fiscal year, faces congressional scrutiny as changes continue.
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United States
Congress
House
Senate
Department
Sudan Leader Regains Government Control Amid Unrest
Libyan radio reports possible fighting among Sudan army units or a civil uprising as the BOAC VC10 lands at Benghazi after a Sudanese coup leads to a purge. Iraqi plane crash in fog kills 11 with 7 survivors as Baghdad officials cite arrests of hundreds in a linked context.
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Saudi Arabia
Khartoum
Libya
London
Babikr el-Nur
Benina
Benbhazi
Hashem Atta
Omdurman Radio
Baghdad Radio
Salah Saleh
Hammoud el- Azzawi
Foreign Ministry
Ambassa- Arab League
Cairo
Baghdad
Benghazi
el Nur
Indochina Action Weakened As U S Withdraws
Last week yielded the lowest one week total in six years as Vietnam war activity declined due to U S combat withdrawals. Vietnamese casualties were down with 202 government troops and 975 enemy killed, versus 238 and 1,145 the prior week. A CH47 Chinook helicopter crash was reported during a troop carrying mission. B52 strikes targeted North Viet supply depots along the DMZ with additional B32 bombers hitting positions near Hue. South Vietnamese forces found 350 rounds of enemy mortars along the DMZ after the raids.
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U.S
Richard Gardner
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Hue
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