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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1972
Page
3
A report on chemotherapy explains how the drug regimens fight cancer, with a patient in her 20s surviving after abdominal bleeding and brain involvement. Doctors from MD Anderson praise progress, noting a shift from temporary remissions to lasting improvements as drug combinations improve outcomes.
Chicago papers report four or possibly five black officers tied to drug related killings of at least six men whose bodies surfaced in the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal between September 1971 and February. FBI and local authorities seek indictments. officers allegedly acted as uniformed executors for bribe paid heroin rings.
Treasury study explores offering taxpayers with large 1972 refunds a choice between cash or a bond with higher yield than a standard seven year Series E. The plan aims to curb inflation from a possible $8 billion windfall in early 1973 and reduce withholding headaches for wage earners.
Tulsa authorities prepare for arraignments of John William Marx and William Fredrick Shriver in connection with the May robbery of the F&M Bank and Trust Co. Both face state kidnaping charges and federal counts. potential penalties range from 10 years to life. Marx, a physicist who started a Tulsa jewelry firm, previously worked at Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville. Shriver is a firm vice president.
Phillips Petroleum Co. will withdraw as a service station operator and home heating oil supplier in much of the northeast over the next 15 months. About 1,400 stations will be affected, with 250 owned by Phillips, spanning New York to Pennsylvania and New England states.
A 43 year old Hominy man Charles Jorden Moles died in a two car collision two miles east of staton on Oklahoma 20 Osage County. An infant son of Judy E Anderson died when the car his mother drove overturned on the Muskogee Turnpike ejecting the boy after striking the center median. The state traffic toll for 1972 rose to 350 vs 335 a year earlier.
Ernest A. Miranda, whose 1966 Supreme Court case overturned a 1963 kidnapping rape conviction, failed in his fourth parole attempt at an Arizona State Prison in Florence.
Weather report from the U S Weather Bureau Oklahoma City lists zones with varying conditions through Wednesday. Regions 13 14 15 show fair to partly cloudy cooler with northerly wind 8 to 18 mph tonight and highs upper 80s Wednesday. Other zones report cooler nights upper 60s to mid 60s, and 20 percent rain tonight. Forecast covers Kansas Arkansas Colorado New Mexico with mixed clouds, showers, and thunderstorms, temperatures mid 80s to 90s, and astronomical data including sunrise 6 15 a m and sunset 8 49 p m
Three Lawton teachers attended Oklahoma City University’s Taft Institute Seminar to prepare students for political participation. Curtis Bailey Curtis Clark and Mary Ellen Cost joined the event featuring local state and national leaders and educators from Oklahoma colleges and universities.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his tenure at seventy years old marking him the oldest person to hold the U.S. presidency. He leaves office amid a long public career and significant wartime leadership.
Beards faced taxation in historical England and Russia, marking a unusual fiscal policy. The practice reflected social norms and state revenue needs, influencing grooming habits and public image.
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