Lawton Youth Dies After Friends Gun Accident
A 13 year old Lawton boy William Metcalf died en route to Oklahoma City Hospital after a friend's revolver discharged at a NE Ford Road home. Investigators say the shooting appears accidental and the Branham boy cooperated with police. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Lawton
Oklahoma City
William H. Metcalf
CW 2
John Metcalf
Alta Lane
Fred Branham
Ford Road
Reynolds Et Hospital
McFarland
Branham
William Metcalf
Francis
Metcalf
Tom Roberts
Southwestern Clinic Hospital
John III
Robert
Deborah Musgrave
Cobden
Ill
Brenda Diaz
Olive Bawden
Waltham
Mass
Helen Regan
Somerville
Robbery Charged After Drive-In Pursesnatching
Leonard Ray Dillard 21 of 1609 Wisconsin was charged in district court with robbery by force and fear after a woman reported being knocked down and her purse stolen at Charley's Drive In 1012 Lee Bird. Detective Roy Deck, alerted by the incident, pursued a fleeing car with Patrolman Don Wisdom. the purse was recovered near the stop.
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Leonard Ray Dillard
Wisconsin
Charley's Drive In
Lee Bird
Roy Deck
Don Wisdom
Signs Continued from Page One
The administration reaffirmed no plans to revive the proposal to convert to metric signs. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 made the change voluntary. The plan would have shifted speed limits to 65 kph by 1979 and updated warning and regulatory signs by 1980, with milepost signs by 1982.
Court rules on parochial school aid across six opinions
The court divided on constitutionality of aid to religious schools. It upheld textbook loans and testing in a 6 to 0 majority, allowed diagnostic testing 8 to 1 with Brennan dissenting, and allowed therapy off school grounds 7 to 2 with Brennan and Marshall dissenting.
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William J. Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
John Paul Stevens
Brennan
Marshall
Lawton LURA Approves Iron Firm Offer for Site
LURA commissioners approved the 50 cents per square foot offer for a postal iron manufacturing and retail outlet in Lawton with a plan for a 50 by 100 foot building and 25 by 50 foot showroom subject to City Council approval. The group also awarded a 9970 contract to Cherry Trucking and Wrecking of Piedmont to demolish 46 substandard structures, with Tompkins & Company bidding 11150. Vacating Downtown Project streets for Ed Warmack’s proposed covered mall faces delays from Oklahoma Tire and Supply Co. opposition and city questions, with district court required for actual vacation after city approval.
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Gather
LURA
Lawton
Cherry Trucking and Wrecking
Piedmont
Tompkins & Company
Hart linked to 1968 wedding in Oklahoma killings case
Officials traced Hart to the three scouts murders via two photographs from a 1968 wedding in southwestern Oklahoma where he worked as a photography assistant. Amatuer Lewis Lindsey, then at Granite State Reformitory, recalls Hart joining as a trusty to carry gear and developing the negatives in the prison darkroom. Hart later paroled in 1969, faced burglary charges in Tulsa, and escaped custody in 1973 while returning as a witness.
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Hart
Oklahoma
Lewis Lindsey
Granite State Reformatory
Lindsey
Santa Ana
Calif
Tulsa
McAlester
Mayes County
Rhodesian politics split as 11 MPs expelled from Rhodesian Front
In Salisbury Prime Minister Ian Smith faces a major white opposition bloc as 11 MPs are expelled for opposing racial reforms and pledging loyalty to majority rule. The independents will remain in a 66 member House. Nearby in Lusaka President Kaunda warns of a possible invasion from Rhodesia with South Africa, urging border communities to dig trenches. Rhodesia admits raids on guerrillas in Mozambique. Zambia hosts Rhodesian guerrillas.
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Page One
Rhodesia
Salisbury
Ian Smith
Rhodesian Front Party
Smith
House of Assembly
Lusaka
Kenneth Kaunda
Fort Sillman Extradited to Face Chicago Rape Charges
A 22 year old Fort Sillman signed a waiver of extradition and will return to Chicago to face felony rape charges. Charles Harmon was arrested in a traffic stop for DUI and marijuana possession, booked at city jail. Chicago police plan to send detectives to retrieve him for Illinois court.
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Fort Sillman
Chicago
NCIC
Harmon
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Elkins
John Hammon
Eishenhower Junior High
Shoemaker Center
Dunbar
South Lawton
New Zion Apartments
Sheridan Mall
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David Jameson
T.g.&y
Wards, Anthony's
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Zambia
Sill
Charles Harmon
Robert Brooke
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