Watermelon Festival Highlights Four Day Rush Springs Event
Thousands are expected in Rush Springs for a four day festival featuring the 32nd watermelon festival the 15th annual rodeo and a carnival. The Budd festival in Jeff Davis Park runs Wednesday through Saturday with events including a parade an eight eye rodeo nightly shows and a watermelon contest with 20 tons of melons given away. Awards total hundreds in cash plus saddle prizes and queen pageants.
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Ush Springs
Grady County
Jeff Davis Park
Rush Springs
Frick & Frick Rodeo Stock Producers
Marvin Crabtree
Cache
Bill Bradley
Lindsay
Brenda Carnes
Debi Laughlin
Carla DeWitt
Franklin Simmons
United Methodist Church
Rodeo
Lori Laing
Max Laing
Vickie
Lage
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma
Mary Ballard
Clarence Ballard
Debbie Swinford
Little Mister
Miss Loge
Forty-four Fort Sill soldiers retire at monthly review ceremony
A Fort Sill retirement review honors 44 soldiers ending long Army careers at Old Post Quadrangle. Brig. Gen. Albert B. Akers officiated with guests from the 77th U.S. Army Band and Field Artillery units. Several officers and noncommissioned officers across multiple commands concluded service ranging from 2 to 30 years, including Col. Robert Cramer and Lt. Col. Jerry Shelby, with many others noted for lengthy tenures and posts at Fort Sill and external units.
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Old Post
Albert B. Akers
U.S. Army Field Artillery School
77Th U.S. Army Band
Fort Sill
Field Artillery
Robert Cramer
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Jerry Shelby
Vaughn C. Ross
CWO
Norman Brantley
U.S. Army Field Artillery Training Center
Robert L. Cantrell
HHB
75Th Field Artillery Group
John R. Pede
U.S. Army Field Artillery Center
Usafaces
J.C. James D. Miles Jr
U.S. Reynolds Army Hospital
Army
Garland V. Smith
Headquarters and Medical Company
S. Set
Robert M. Norby
2Nd Field
Artill
M. Set Peter T. Fahey
U.S. Army Readiness Group
John L. Crepeau
Field Artillery Missile Systems Evaluation Group
Richard T. Collins
U.S. Army Field Artillery Board
James Merl Vance
Th Field Artillery
Maj
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Lower Speed Limit Linked to Fewer Highway Deaths
Washington AP reports the 55 mph speed limit credited by the Department of Transportation for a 17 percent drop in traffic fatalities in 1974 and 1975. Despite driving rising to 1973 levels in 1975, deaths remained 17 percent below 1973. The 1975 toll was 45,674, down about 9,000 from 1973.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
Department
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Congress
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Nashville
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Rush Springs High School
C. H. Wyatt Jr
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Edwin D. Lewis
Harold J. Wright
273Rd Aviation Company
James F. Haynes
214Th Field Artillery Group
Enrique Gonzalez- Rodriguez
U.S. Army Medical Department
Allan T. Carswell
Claud A. Causey, Jr
Usfacfs
Samuel Coles
William M. Craft
Donald M. Fortenberry
14Th Aviation Battalion
Nathan D. Keel
Martin T. Glenn
James Terry
Boyd D. Wait
Orless E. Eatman
Usafacfs
Jack L. Eli
Fred Rhodes Jr
Cleve A. Rose
Loren L. Rust
17Th Field Artillery
Wilbert Webb
2Nd Field Artillery
Malcolm Wilson
Don A. Green
John R. Burks
Directorate of
Willard L. Rodgers
University of Oklahoma Military Science Department
Set
J.C. Leonard O. Bobo
Don McMillon
7Th Army Training Command
Germany
Victor Hicks
Christopher Willis
Harold L. Confer
John H. Sexton
C. Arthur A. Thompson
Harold L. Gun
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Sue Wooten
Cen
Burlington House
Stanley Dining Room
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America
Hooker
Thomasville
Gore - Seles
Service
Lawton Constitution
Sun Lawton Morning Press
Sun
Sunday Constitution Lawton Publishing Co., Inc
Jrd & A
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Lawton
Okla
Monthly
Constitution
APO
Lawton High
Sill Officers Club
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