Artillery Hunt Horse Show Opens at Fort Sill Park
The Fort Sill Artillery Hunt Horse Show opens at Rucker Park for a four day run with about 200 horses and riders plus 50 locals among 1200 entries. Admission is free as 63 events compete for trophies and ribbons drawing wide interest. Colonel (Ret.) Jessie B. Hollis Jr. Miss Hollis, who was killed is noted in a cross reference to SHOW on page 4.
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Flicka
Grandpa
Fort Sill
Steff
Jeff Dixon
Cindy Hartung
H. W. Hartung
Liberty
Fort Sill Artillery
Rucker Park
Senate Lowers Draft Ceiling to 270000 In Pentagon Plan
The Senate voted 67 to 11 to cut the draft ceiling from 300000 to 270000 for the year beginning July 1 1971 with 130000 in the first year and 140000 in 1972. Actual calls are expected to stay below the ceiling and follow House actions. A $2.7 billion servicemen pay raise was approved, far above the Nixon request, amid debate over funds allocation.
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Washington
Senate
Pen
Nixon
Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Edward M. Kenescape
Assassination Triggers Chilean Crisis and Curfew
In Santiago the leftist Allende government faces a major crisis after the assassination of Edmundo Perez Zujovic, former interior minister. The right calls it a Marxist provocation and amid curfew measures thousands of police and troops were deployed across the capital.
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Santiago
Chile
Edmundo Perez Zujovic
Eduardo
Salvador Allende
National Party
Christian Democrats
Iince
Army
Zujovic
Left
Puerto Montt
Murder at Tulsa Private Club Claims Calvin Jackson
A Tulsa man Calvin Jackson 48 was found shot to death at the private club he operated. Police were questioning one person as the investigation begins.
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TULSA
Calvin Jackson
Rains Spur Cloud Seeding Over Watersheds
Heavy rain hit city watersheds with Meers reporting 1.30 inches between 3 and 4 am. Weather Modification Inc. flew two cloud seeding flights near Cache and Lake Lawtonka, Lake Ellsworth, and the Wichita Mountains refuge, claiming better results from the second flight and seeding five clouds in total.
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Meers
Lake Ellsworth
Lawton
Weather Modification Inc
Biff Jackson
Cache
Indiahoma
Lake Lawtonka
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Jackson
Runoff Reported Across West Area of the Refuge
Weather notes show varied rainfall with Hobart 1.46 inches and Grandfield 2.5 inches easing drought while Frederick, Faxon, Carnegie and Anadarko received lighter amounts. No tornado activity. forecaster predicts partly cloudy skies and potential severe storms later with highs in the 90s and cooling into the 60s.
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Hobart
Grandfield
Frederick
Faxon
Carnegie
Anadarko
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Lawton
Missing Woman Investigation Shifts To Shawnee
Midwest City businesswoman Joan S. Drehmann, 55, disappeared after blood evidence and shell casings were found in her apartment. The probe moved to Shawnee after a fruitless search in a wooded area near Midwest City. Police held two men in connection with the case.
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Hawnee
Midwest City
Shawnee
Joan S. Drehmann
W. E. Bailey
Drehmann
Bailey
Bob Drehmann
Newark
N. J
Paul Hodge
Lidle Rock
Oklahoma
Little Rock
Woman Receives Arrival Surprise POW Consultant Briefs Post Officers
Iris Powers civilian Army consultant for families of missing or captured soldiers in Southeast Asia briefed Fort Sill post staff on emotional support needs. She is mother of missing in action Fort Sill soldier CWO Lowell Powers, last at duty station in 1968 and missing since April 2 1969. She spoke at a Jaycees luncheon and to Northwest Lions Club, planned Chicago departure Thursday morning.
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Iris Powers
Southeast Asia
Fort Sill
Jaycees
Lawtonian
Northwest Lions Club
Holiday Inn
Chicago
Vietnam
Land
Charlie Company
159Th Aviation Battalion
CWO
Lowell S&s. Powers
Charlie
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Harrisburg
Jessie B. Hollis Jr
Miss Hollis
Allende
David Flower
Ben
England
Flower
N.J
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Edgar H. Smith Jr
Trenton
Smith
Danbury, Conn
Daniel Berrigan
Danbury Hospital
John J. Norton
Federal Correctional Institute
Oklahoma City
Roy Beecher
Senate Wildlife Committee
The
Wildlife Commission
Farrell Copelin
Bell System
Joseph A. Beirne
Afl-Cio Communications Workers
Jack
Post
53Rd
Gore Boulevard
Mrs. Powers
William C. Westmore
Lawrence Caruthers Jr
Roderick Wetherill
Powers
Harry Neviling
Tom Andrews
1Mth Aviation Company
Gen. Caruthers
Pachu Derm Beach
Phu Bai
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