Memorial Hospital receives two year accreditation renewal
Memorial Hospital in Comanche County gains a two year accreditation from the Joint Commission, with hospital administrator John Coffey authorized to contact local banks for depository services to fund a 4.5 million bond financed expansion. The board approved a 4 838 033 fiscal year budget for 1972 73 and awarded bids for forms, manuals, and supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Hospital Board of Trustees
John Coffey
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Clover Printing Co
S&s
Oklahoma City
Ed’s
Drought Strains Northeastern Oklahoma Farmers
Drought grips northeastern Oklahoma with 55 percent of normal rainfall in Tulsa and water restrictions in Owasso and a rural Tulsa area. Pastures in Mayes County dry and farmers fear soybeans may not sprout without rain, while alfalfa, livestock, and vegetables suffer awaiting showers.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Owasso
Mayes County
Phil Kennedy
Delaware County
Drumright
John Stogner
Tulsa County
Stegner
Humphrey Seeks Texas Democratic Support in Nomination Bid
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey addressed Texas Democrats in San Antonio ahead of the state convention. He urged unity and warned that Texas results could influence Miami and the national race. Humphrey was the only candidate to speak in person, greeting hundreds and criticizing the Nixon administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nixon
Texas
Humphrey
Miami
Convict Ordered to Stand Trial in Gun Charge
Larry Kephart a 23 year old Lawton man already serving a two year term for grand larceny was ordered by Special District Judge John Taylor to stand trial on charges of carrying a gun after a felony conviction. The incident at a private club on Sheridan Road January 3 involved police recovery of a weapon and Kephart’s prior appeal denial and current custody at McAlester State Prison. He is to be returned to prison and will face trial in district court in September.
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Larry Kephart
Lawton
McAlester State Prison
John Taylor
Larry
Glen Kephart
Rt. 3
Kephart
S. Sheridan Road
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Newspaper Subscription Rates for Lawton Papers
The Lawton Constitution and Lawton Morning Press publish rates for in town and mail subscriptions. In town delivery charges apply for Constitution Sunday and Saturday Press, with separate rates for Lawton Fort Sill. Mail subscriptions cover Oklahoma and other states with yearly and monthly options.
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Lawton Constitution
Sun
Lawton Morning Press
Mon
Lawton Constitution and
Morning Press
Lawton
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Constitution
Constitution, Press
Press
Press & Sun
APO
Oklahoma Livestock Markets Report From Oklahoma City
Cattle receipts 3200 with calves 400 and slaughter cows 24.00 to 26.00 utilities and commercial cows up 50 cents. Hogs 1200 with barrows and gilts 25 higher 24.75 to 26.50. State grain and produce prices list cash wheat 1.30 to 1.65 per bushel, barley 90 to 1.30, Milo 1.85 to 2.22 per cwt, alfalfa hay quot ed at various sums, broilers 1314 per pound, eggs large 31, medium 27 to 34.
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Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture
Afton
Keyes
Liberal
Alva
Manchester
Medford
Perryton
Kingfisher
Okeene
Clinton
Watonga
Weatherford
Altus
el Reno
Geary
Mangum
Yukon
Hobart
Temple
Enid
Hillsdale
Gulf Export
Barley
Gulf
MILO
Chickasha
Lamont
Pauls Valley
Notable American Activist Saul Alinsky Dies at 63
Carmel California reports Saul Alinsky a leading community organizer collapsed and died Monday. Alinsky who began organizing in the late 1930s with the Back of the Yards Council worked in Chicago area slums and built a national movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Cesar Chavez
New York
Alinsky
Chicago Stock Yards
NY Banker Vic tor Chisai Hoo Dies at 77
Victor Chisai Hoo, a Nationalist Chinese figure who spent 26 years with the United Nations as assistant secretary general heading the trusteeship department, died Friday in New York. The veteran diplomat held a prominent role in postwar UN administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Victor Chisai Hoo
United Nations
Gene Cavallero, Restaurateur of Colony Restaurant
Gene Cavallero 82 longtime waiter turned owner of the Colony Restaurant died late Sunday in Manhasset New York He built a famed Prohibition era spot into a favorite dining destination for oldline society and later the jet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Cavallero
John L Smith Marine Medal of Honor recipient dies
ENCINO California John Lucian Smith 57 a retired Marine Corps colonel Medal of Honor winner and World War II air ace died Friday He earned the nation’s top valor award after commanding Marine Fighting Squadron 223 in the Guadalcanal and Solomon Islands battles
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Encino
Calif
John Lucian Smith
Marine Corps
Smith
Marine Fighting Squadron 223
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Funeral services for J. D. Jones and August Wilson
Funeral services for J D Jones 41 of Central High to be held at 2 30 p m at Central High Baptist Church with Rev R J Brown and Rev Jewell Elliot officiating Burial in Marlow Cemetery directed by Callaway Smith Cobb Funeral Home He drowned while rescuing his son after falling from an inner tube near Duncan Ok Jones born April 21 1931 married to Wazetta Woodrome March 24 1954 Navy Korean War carpenter and church member Survivors include wife daughter Kathy 10 sons Ricky 8 Mike 7 parents Darrell W Jones and David Ray Jones sister Mrs Randall Coleman and other relatives In Frederick Ok funeral for August William Wilson 77 to be at 3 p m Wednesday at Oklahoma Chapel Dalton McLellan Funeral Home Rev Vernon Floyd officiating Burial in Frederick Cemetery Wilson born August 17 1894 at Arlington Indian Territory moved to Frederick in 1992 married Mary Jane Wheeler July 8 1936 Served in WWI with 158th Infantry and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Bible Baptist Church Survived by wife James of Madill daughter Mrs Mary Cole of Wilmington Calif six grandchildren.
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Marlow
J. D. Jones
Central High Community
Central High Baptist Church
R. J. Brown
Jewell Elliot
Burkburnett
Tex
Marlow Cemetery
Callaway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home
J. K. Jones
Duncan
Edna Pruett
Darrell W
David Ray
Edmond
Randall Coleman
Fort Worth
Frederick
William Wilson
Veteran’s Center
Clinton
Oklahoma
Dalton-McLellan Funeral Home
Vernon Floyd
The
Bible Baptist Church
Mr. Wilson
Arlington
Indian Territory
Mary Jane Wheeler
Wilson
158Th Infantry
Veterans of Foreign Wars
James
Madill
Mary Cole
Wilmington
Calif
Walters
John T. Neely
First Christian Church
Neal Lovell
Walters Cemetery
Wyatt Funeral Home
Neely
Clinton Hospital
el Reno
U.S. Army
American
Frederick Deaths and Obituaries Include Tilley Rust Long Neely
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs. Homer Tilley 69 of Frederick after a long illness with services pending at Gish Funeral Home. Also noted are Macie May Rust 80 funeral at First United Methodist Church and Oscar J. Long 88 funeral in Fletcher, with details of burial and officiants. Other notices include Mrs Anna Lee Fowler former Lawton resident and John T Neely 54 of Clinton with funeral at First Christian Church Walters.
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Anna Lee Fowler
Paramount
Calif
Lawton
Long Beach
Becker Funeral Home
Fowler
Sista Moreno
I Ave
Mary Gill
Columbia
Patsy Watts
S. 45Th St
Phillip Moreno
Fletcher
Laura Goodwin dies. services pending in Texas
Laura Rosanne Goodwin, infant daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James Goodwin of Redondo Beach California, died Monday. Born March 26 in Los Angeles she is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul McClung of 510 Columbia and Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Goodwin of Washington DC. Graveside rites will be held at Riverside Cemetery in Byers Texas with Greenlawn Funeral Home directing local arrangements.
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Laura Rosanne Goodwin
James §. Goodwin
Redondo Beach
Calif
Los Angeles
Paul McClung
Columbia
Robert C. Goodwin
Washington, D.C
Riverside Cemetery
Byers
Tex
Greenlawn Funeral Home
Services for Richard A. Cothren
Funeral services for Richard A. Cothren age 42 of 1604 D Avenue will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Lawton Ritter-Dalton Chapel with Rev. Joe Seacrist of Bible Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Cothren died at 5 p.m. June 10 in Arkansas City Kansas after a brief illness.
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Macie May Rust
Cornell St
First United Methodist Church
Carl Lawson
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
Richard A. Cothren
D Ave
Lawton Ritter-Dalton Chapel
Joe Seacrist
Bible Baptist Church
Mr. Cothren
Arkansas City
Kan
Public Records: Lawton Police Reports Complainants List
Public records list complainants on Lawton Police Department reports. Names include Cindy Felts reporting vandalism to a car and Clodfelter reporting theft of two bicycles, among many others reporting vandalism, burglary, theft, and larceny at residences vehicles and properties.
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Lawton
Cindy Felts
Hoover
Date Clodfelter
N. 16Th
Robert O'Neill
Denver
Hildegarde Halley
Resi
Christopher Brooks
Fort Sill
Lawrence Belcher
Lowton
Lester Davis
Pollard
Betty Allen
Bill Bailey
O. L. Jaggers
Tulane
Joe Polanco
Pauline Porter
Edward Rye
David Whetzel
Paul Block
Smith
Earnest Foster
Park
Joseph Robles
Pauli McKane
Pam Booth
Lindy
Louise Morales Jr
Owen Fells
Kenneth Durant
Francis Trevino
Lorraine Perry
Fred Mitchell
B. F. Goodrich
Karlin Paton
Williams
Lloyd Johnson
Lahoma Motel
Ferris
Eisenhower Junior High School
57Th End
Gore
Woody Johnson
Liberty
Shirley Mose
Wesley
Wayne Bishop
Timothy Holmes
Santa Fe
Jim Nolen
Euclid
Charges Filed After District Court Adits List Shown
Minor traffic offenses include speeding by Raymond L. Shipley 417 Sheridan Road and Steven L. Botts 810 Arlington. Others cited for failing to keep right Randy L. Culley Fort Sill and Randy L. Pickens 1813 E. disobeying stop sign Abraham Trent Jr. Fort Sill and Larry C. Long 1911 Cherry driving wrong way on a one way street Imogene B. Lester 1207 Oak no valid license Rita K. Chant 2704 N 21st Place Randy L. Wall 1218 Carroll and John L. Hordek Fort Sill transporting open container of beer.
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Raymond L. Shipley
Sheridan Soad
Scott L. Culley
Fort Sill
Randy L. Pickens
Rita K. Chant
Abraham Trent Jr
Larry C. Long
Cherry
Steven L. Botts
Arlington
Imogene B. Lester
Oak
Randy L. Wall
Carroll
John L. Hordek
Injury accidents logged by Lawton police officials
On Monday at 1 33 p m the Lawton Police investigated injury accidents at 44th and Cache Road. Drivers named are Helen File 36 of 4806 Lindy and John C Thornton II 16 of 817 Floyd. John C Thornton II was taken to Reynolds Army Hospital by Greenlawn Ambulance per Traffic Officer David Alvey.
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Cache Road
Helen File
Lindy
John C. Thornton II
Floyd
John C. Thornton
Reynolds Army Hospital
Greenlawn Ambulance
David Alvey
Saul Alinsky dies at 63 noted community organizer
Carmel California AP reports Saul David Alinsky a leading community action organizer died at 63 after collapsing on a sidewalk. Known for mobilizing the poor and minority groups through the Industrial Areas Foundation and Woodlawn Organization his methods included rent strikes and boycotts. Survived by Irene a daughter Kathryn Wilson and son Lee David.
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Carmel
Calif
Saul David Alinsky
Chicago
Alinsky
Council
Industrial Areas Foundation
Woodlawn
Pope Paul VI
Pope
Milan
Irene
Kathryn Wilson
New Jersey
Lee David
Cma
Hearing set for Fort Sill man on drug charges
Dennis Considine 21 of Headquarters Battery Field Artillery Center, free on 2500 bond for delivering mescaline, was arraigned on a new charge of unlawful delivery and distribution of a controlled drug. Judge Landers set a 1500 bond for the second charge and will fix the preliminary hearing date. The prior case hearing remains at 11 am June 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sillman
Dennis Considine
Headquarters Battery
Field Artillery Center
Robert S. Landers
Considine
Missouri Crash Kills State Man Near Southwest City
One man from Blue Jacket Oklahoma died in a one car crash north of Southwest City near the Oklahoma border. The dead man was Carl Wayne Shaffer, 24. A passenger, Clifford Lee Alexander, also of Blue Jacket, was hospitalized in Grove Oklahoma with multiple injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest City
Oklahoma
Highway Patrol
Carl Wayne Shaffer
Blue Jacket
Okla
Clifford Lee Alexander
Grove
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Coffey
Memorial Hospital
Oklahoma Regional Medical Program
Secretary of Defense
Edmund Wilson
Boonville
N.Y
John F. Kennedy
Harold “Lefty
Phillips Orange
Harold ‘Lefty’ Phillips
California Angels
Phillips
Angels
John L. Smith
Huddelston
Lawton, Okla
August W. Wilson
Oklie Tilley
Homer (Oklie) Tilley
Tillman County Memorial Hospital
Gish Funeral Home
Tilley
Marshall
Ark
Homer Tilley
Harrison
Order of the Eastern Star
Dahlia Garden
Macie
Oscar J. Long
Robbins Funeral
Mavis Baldwin
Abilene
Mountain View
Mr. Long
Laura Goodwin
E. Gore
Public Records
Lawton Police
Woodlawn Organization
IAF
Metctn Ae National Bank
Jarrell's Discount Foods
Missouri
Neal D. Perry
West Gore Blvd
Avco Financial Services
Avco
Gore Blvd
Gore Plaza
Christian Science
Gordon F. Campbell
Santa Monica
Cal
Christian Science Church
First Church OF Christ
Scientist Corner 7Th and
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