Gore Boulevard Project Delayed By Damaged Motor Set
Gore Boulevard construction faces a two week delay after the motor and generator set fell from a truck in transit from Indiana. Freeman Construction's Floyd Freeman said a replacement should arrive in Lawton in two to three days and paving on Gore Boulevard between Second and 11th will resume by week’s end. The project aims to finish in about six weeks with curbing driveways and backfills following paving.
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Get Boulevard
Floyd Freeman
Freeman Construction Co
Indiana
Freeman
Lawton
Gore Boulevard
Funeral Rites for Infant Geismar at Fort Sill
Graveside services will be held at 9 30 am Tuesday in Post Cemetery Fort Sill for Andrea Denyse Geismar infant daughter of Lt and Mrs Robert A Geismar 2504 Prentice who died at birth Friday. Charles Whitmeyer minister Western Hills Church of Christ will officiate Greenlawn Funeral Home handles arrangements.
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Post Cemetery
Fort Sill
Andrea Denyse Geismar
Robert A. Geismar
Prentice
Charles Whitmeyer
Western Hills Church of Christ
Greenlawn Funeral Home
Infant Graveside Rites Planned in Post Deme ter
Spencer infant, died at birth Friday, will be buried in graveside services at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Post Deme ter. Greenlawn Funeral Home handles arrangements.
Shooting at rally interrupts unity pleas in Newark
Police said a shot rang out as a crowd of over 1 000 gathered for a Colombo rally expected to draw 500 000. Colombo’s family cried near the speaker’s stand as the demonstration continued with calls for unity and songs. Colombo faces two prison terms for perjury and awaits additional indictments in a Nassau County jewel robbery and other charges.
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Colombo
Nassau County
Speck death penalty appeal cites juror scruples and publicity
Speck seeks to overturn his 1967 murder conviction and death sentence in Peoria for the July 1966 Chicago nurse killings. His attorneys fault 50 prospective jurors for objections to capital punishment and argue pretrial publicity prejudiced the jury. The case cites the Witherspoon precedent and questions capital punishment legality.
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Speck
Peoria
South Chicago
Philippines
Corazon Amarao
Cook County Chicago Hospital
Study Planned On Street Play Health Risks
Britain's Department of the Environment will study whether children playing in streets face poisoning risks from dirt and dust contaminated by exhaust fumes.
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London
Britain
Department of the Environment
Const. Press and Sunday Const Press and Sun
Newspaper clippings show an item titled Const Press and Sunday with notices about editions and newspaper branding. The readable fragment suggests a publication schedule note or masthead reference rather than a full news story.
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Press & Sun
Press
Postponed restrained from printing top secret Pentagon papers
The government claims national security requires restraint on printing top secret Pentagon documents. Time and Newsweek discuss Dean Rusk’s 1961 cable to JFK opposing troop deployment. A Gallup survey finds 48 percent disapprove of blocking the papers, 33 percent support it, and 19 percent lack opinion. Naval Adm. Sharp says the 1964 retaliatory strikes momentum could have ended the war sooner.
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Sun-Times
U.S
Vietnam
Time Magazine
Dean Rusk
John F. Kennedy
Maxwell W. Taylor
Rusk
Newsweek Magazine
Grant Sharp
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Gulf of Tonkin
North Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Navy to Guantanamo Naval Hospital
The Navy said a service member was moved to the naval hospital at Guantanamo after an incident. Details on condition and next steps were not provided.
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Ated
Naval Hospital
Guantanamo
Navy
Ozark Regional Planners Meet
Seventeen representatives from Oklahoma Arkansas Kansas and Missouri were to gather at Arrowhead Lodge near Eufaula to hear a proposed five year development plan. E L Bud Stewart federal co chairman of the Ozarks Regional Commission will explain the plan at the executive committee meeting of the Ozarks Regional Development Association.
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Muskogee
Okla
Arrowhead Lodge
Eufaula
E. L. Bud Stewart
Ozarks
Knoxville merchant offers $200 reward for narcotics pusher
A Knoxville merchant places a $200 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any narcotics pusher selling drugs to students in schools.
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Knoxville
Oklahoma teachers attend Indian culture institute at vo-tech
More than 40 teachers from Oklahoma high schools and area vo-tech schools attend an institute at the vo-tech school. They will visit Ardmore and Durant vo-techs to meet Indian students and hear experts on Indian history and environments. Indian students from Lawton area take part in a panel. Consultants include Beverly Gerard from Riverside.
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Oklahoma
Vo-Tech
City
Sequoyah Carpet Mills
Riverside Indian School
Anadarko
Lawton
Ardmore
Durant
Beverly Gerard
Riverside
Feast pigs and piggy banks in Dutch and German history
In Holland and parts of Germany of the past, children were urged to save pennies in pig shaped earthenware boxes called feast pigs, now better known as piggy banks.
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Holland
Germany
Ceremony Marks 4th to 5th Army Merger at Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston hosts a 4th Army to 5th Army consolidation ceremony at 4 p.m. Gen Ralph E. Haines Jr. reviews and addresses the new 5th Army troops with Lt Gen George Underwood Jr. as host. Leaders from Fort Sill and Fort Sheridan attend as 5th Army flags and unit colors are exchanged and the merged command is officially inaugurated.
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Stock Prices Trend Down Amid Slow Trading Action
New York stocks drifted lower as investors paused. The noon Dow fell 4.09 to 872.59 as institutions reshuffled portfolios amid a sluggish market. Oklahoma listings show cattle hogs sheep prices with modest gains and broad sector declines on the exchange.
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New York Stock Exchange
Avestor Participation
Public Records Report From Lawton Police Complaint List
Names and firms appear in reports to the Lawton Department for thefts and vandalism. Items include theft of vending keys, motorcycles, a juke box coin box, larceny from a residence, and vandalism to a well house with an estimated $200 damage. Several addresses and individuals are named as complainants.
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Lawton Department
Mike Mohaffay
Strd
Alfred Carlyn
Kenneth Seals
Bell
Well House
Pam Henderson
Coche
Sterling Man Found Dead Near Sterling Field
The decomposed body of 79 year old C W Magnusen was found Monday in a field two and a half miles south of Sterling and 600 yards west of US 65. Deputy Sheriff William Banks said Magnusen was last seen alive at 9 a.m. Saturday.
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Sterling
US 65
William Banks
C. W. Magnusen
Banks
Giant Jefferson statue towers over crowds at memorial
More than a million visitors annually walk through the Thomas Jefferson National Memorial to view the 19 foot high statue of the third President.
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Thomas Jefferson National Memorial
Alaska’s Vast Wealth Untapped Yet Across Rich Resources
Alaska remains a source of fantastic wealth largely untapped with seafood, oil, minerals, hydroelectric power, natural gas and vast forests of prize timber and pulpwood.
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Alaska
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