Wheat Tally Improves As Area Harvest Nears Completion
Area elevators report a strong harvest with Lawton Co-Op and others seeing a bumper crop. Managers cite 15 to 50 bushels per acre yields, 25 to 29 on average, with moisture looking fine and quality improving despite rain and bugs delaying some fields.
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Lawton Co-Op
Royce Stringer
Walters
Bill Robinson
Snyder Co-Op
Robinson
Snyder Area
Lawton
Polone
Stringer
Rex Polone
Debt limit raise move clears Ways and Means panel
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a $46 billion debt ceiling increase to $577 billion through Nov 15 by a 22 to 12 vote with six Democrats and six Republicans in dissent. If Rules clears, the bill heads to House action early next week. The current tap ends this month and new tax and budget notes follow. The panel also noted a televised FT C report showing a drop in first quarter profits for over 12,000 U S corporations.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
A. Ullman
Dore
Rules Committee
Ullman
Treasury
Federal Trade Commission
Global Briefs from Vientiane to Nevada Test Site
AP reports a U S AID official barred from Laos as pay issues loom. Indira Gandhi lawyers seek Supreme Court appeal and stay in office. about 1500 postal workers protest for a new labor pact at the Postal Service HQ. a nuclear device test near Mercury Nevada exceeds Hiroshima force. federal mediators rally to avert a nationwide railroad strike as bargaining stalls.
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New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Supreme Court
Washington
Postal Service
Moe Biller
New York City
Mercury
Hiroshima
Nevada Desert
Las Vegas
Mahlon Gates
Nevada
Brotherhood of Railway
C. L. Dennis
Dennis
Fund Campaign Requests Aired By United Way Budget Panel
United Way of Lawton Fort Sill reviews 503267 in requests from member agencies for 1976 operations. Last year the drive raised 379266. Budget committee, chaired by Mrs. Lois Hunn with vice chairs Hinman and Smith, will set a 1976 goal July 10 after subcommittees report on needs of Boy Scouts Camp Fire Girls Girl Scouts Y M C A and others.
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Lawton-Fort Sill
United Way
J. D. Fountain
Lois Hunn
Robert Hinman
Don Smith
Hinman
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Girl Scouts
Y.M.C.A
Boy's Club
Patterson Center
Fort Sill
Grain inspection plan under scrutiny amid corruption allegations
Undersecretary J. Phil Campbell told a Senate subcommittee that the Agriculture Department has found problems in the grain inspection system and is acting to fix them. He avoided specific corruption claims while urging Congress to wait for long range recommendations before action, as inquiries into the foreign commodity trade intensify.
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J. Phil Campbell
Department of Agriculture
Campbell
Senate Subcommittee On Foreign Agriculture
U.S
Congress
Agriculture Department
Department
Warm Humid Weather With Thunderstorms For Lawton Area
Forecast calls for warm humid conditions with possible thunderstorms through Friday. Tonight’s low will be in the upper 60s under partly cloudy skies with gusty southerly winds 10 to 20 mph and a 40 percent precipitation chance. Friday’s high near the mid 90s with southerly winds 18 to 28 mph.
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Lawton
Machette Slaying Probed In Pauls Valley Beachhead
Police investigate the machete killing of Marvin Carl Lamb 24 found in his brother’s Pauls Valley duplex doorway with two wounds to the neck. A 19 year old detainee faced a lineup as detectives continue the homicide inquiry. Mitchell Lamb 14 witnessed the attack.
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Marvin Carl Lamb
Pauls Valley
Lamb
Lawton
Michael
Mitchell
Don Cunningham
Claude Brazzel
Bill May
Bill Ward
Hit And Run Driver Sought After Fort Sill Crash
Two Fort Sill soldiers were struck on post and flown to Oklahoma City University Hospital with serious injuries. Spec. 4 Donald Hand and Spec. 4 Anton DeBionk were injured after a blue van with mag wheels crossed the center line on Babcock Road and forced Pvt. Emory Jones off the road. Witnesses said two riders in the van appeared to be civilians as area agencies search for the vehicle.
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Fort Sill
Oklahoma City
University Hospital
Donald Hand
del City
Anton DeBionk
Brookings
S.D
Babcock Road
Pvt
Emory Jones
Service Btry
1St Bn
17Th Field Artillery
Jones
Two Soldiers Injured In Battalion Related Accident
Hand and DeBlonk sustained major head injuries and were listed in serious and very critical condition respectively at University Hospital. Both are assigned to Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 1st Field Artillery. The incident follows a June 11 grenade blast in A Battery dayroom that wounded eight soldiers, with four seriously hurt, near the same location.
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Hand
DeBlonk
University Hospital
2Nd Battalion, 1St Field Artillery
Cameron University budget rises to 4.3 million with raises
The Oklahoma Board of Regents approved Cameron University’s 1975 76 budget totaling 4 342 224 for primary operating funds plus 403 129 in federal programs bringing education and general expenditures to 4 745 353 up 484 365 from last year Regents also approved salary increases for Cameron president Don Owen to 35 000 and for other college heads while keeping OSU president at 47 000 The slate of regent approved budgets includes Langston Panhandle Connors Northeastern A M and other state schools with varied increases
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Cameron University
Board of Regents
Oklahoma A& M Colleges
Cameron
Stillwater
Langston
Panhandle University
Goodwell
Connors State College
Warner
School Board to Announce Pay Raises at 7 PM Meeting
Lawton Public School employees expect announced pay raises at tonight's 7 p.m. Board of Education meeting in Shoemaker Education Center. The 105 page agenda lists bids for instructional supplies, athletic equipment, and business machines. A bid to repair storm damage is also included.
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Lawton
City Board of Education
Shoemaker Education Center
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Snyder
Treasury Department
William E. Simon
Vientiane, Laos
Laos
Michael A. Rogel
AID
USDA
Brazzel
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Kirk
Set
Jay Vickers
Lee Police
Sill
By Paul Hart
Seeanette Oro
Abby
Asres
Jenner Ensenedte
Enheden
Circle Een Ene
Donna Evers
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