Big Caribou Put Through Paces At Sill
The CV-2B Caribou at Fort Sill demonstrated launches from Post Field and a mile high flight over the southeast range. The 57th Caribou company, Fort Sill, is the only active Caribou unit in the United States with 102 enlisted men and 38 officers serving 10 planes under Captain Jack L. Allen.
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Fort Sill
Post Field
57Th Caribou Company
United States
Fort Benning
Jack L. Allen
57Th
Area Weather Forecast and Caribou Demonstration Report
Fair and warmer this afternoon and tonight with increasing clouds and little temperature change through Friday. High 60, low 35, high tomorrow 65, high Wednesday 48, low last night 28. Caribou demonstrations at Post Field by Capt Browder A Willis Jr and crew show slow motion spider like flight and air to air maneuvers. LOLEX low level extraction training to follow with jeep extraction via rear ramp.
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Caribou
Charles H. Gillman Jr
Allen
Joseph M. Arthur Jr
Willis
Post Field
DeHavilland Aircraft
Canada
McNamara Reveals Chinese Guns Supplied to Viet Cong
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said evidence shows increased North Vietnamese support to the Viet Cong with Chinese manufactured weapons now in use. He cited 75 millimeter recoilless guns heavy machine guns and sophisticated mines as examples and said his upcoming fact finding trip will study the duration and intensity of that support.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
McNamara
North Viet Nam
U.S
Nguyen Khanh
Duong van Minh
Cameron Again Tops State College Enrollment
Cameron College again holds the title of Oklahoma's largest junior college with an 18.9 percent spring enrollment increase from 1 329 to 1 589. Statewide higher education enrollment rose to 63 043, up 4 800 from a year ago, per Dr. E T Dunlap.
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Cameron College
Cameron
E. T. Dunlap
Higher Education
Dunlap
Oklahoma
Murray State Junior College
Tishomingo School
Oklahoma Military Academy
Pope
Extension Of Area Drouth Aid Sought In 19 Counties
Rep Victor Wickersham and Senators Monroney and Edmondson asked the USDA to extend drought relief programs in 19 of 23 sixth district counties. They urged through April and May extensions and emergency ACP funds to curb soil erosion via tree planting and vegetation efforts. The relief, approved in October, gave buying and grazing rights on soil bank land and access to reduced price government feed grain.
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Department of Agriculture
Victor Wickersham
Mike Monroney
J. Howard Edmondson
Usda State Disaster Committee
Warm Sun Ends Cold Snap Here
Southwest Oklahoma sees clearing skies and rising temperatures after a brief cold front. Lawton area forecast calls for fair skies today and warmer highs near 60 by today and 65 Friday with overnight lows around 35.
Tepee Ring Mystery Found At Fort Sill
A University of Oklahoma student discovered a circular stone ring on the Fort Sill east range that may be Oklahoma's only tepee ring. Anthropologists excavate nearby while a mammoth remains are found in Cache Creek and a stone scraper and flint knife emerge from the dig.
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James A. Marler
Fort Sill
East Range
Ronald B. Boyce
Col
Mrs
Bery Boyce
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Boyce
Fort Sill Apache
Cache Creek
Southwest
The
Oklahoma Anthropological Society
Tepee
Gillett Griswold
Fort Sill Museum
Southwest Oklahoma
Wyoming
Junior Stock Show Sale Opens Tonight At County Fair
4-H and FFA members cue animals for the Junior Stock Show sale set for 7 p.m. at the county fairgrounds. About 190 animals will be sold including 43 steers 40 lambs and 108 barrows. Premia funded by Lawton merchants and the Lawton Junior Chamber aid exhibitors both sold and unsold as entry to state fair in Oklahoma City. Live stock judging contest also held today with trophies to be awarded at the sale.
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County 4-H
FFA
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Ike Higdon
King Paul of Greece Receives Holy Communion
Athens reports King Paul, 62, hovered between life and death after collapsing five days earlier following February 21 stomach surgery. A palace priest gave communion at Tatoi Palace chapel as Queen Frederika stayed by his bedside. a palace bulletin noted no change in his condition.
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Athens
Paul
Greece
Tatoi Palace
Frederika
MacArthur Faces Exploratory Surgery For Obstructive Jaundice
General Douglas MacArthur, 84, is slated for exploratory abdominal surgery at Walter Reed Army Hospital after tests diagnosed obstructive jaundice of unknown origin. If gallstones or a nonmalignant blockage in the bile duct are found, a corrective procedure may remove the stone and gall bladder.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Hoffa Defiant After Tampering Conviction Verdict
Hoffa denounces the two count jury tampering conviction in Chattanooga Tennessee and says he will appeal. Federal Judge Frank Wilson sets ten days for motions and a hearing on defense claims of government spying. Hoffa bonds posted at seventy five thousand dollars and remaining outwardly undaunted.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
UPI
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Frank Wilson
Wilson
Cop Says Ruby Intended to Shoot Oswald Three Times
Dallas detective Don R. Archer testified that minutes after Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, Ruby cursed Oswald and said he intended to shoot him three times. The defense challenged admissibility, but the judge ruled Archer’s statement admissible as evidence.
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Dallas
UPI
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Don R. Archer
Ruby
L. C. Graves
Oswald
Archer
Dist. Atty
Henry Wade
Glen King
Joe B. Brown
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Stott
B. A. Willis JR
Stott Prete
Anthropological Society
Drouth
Mercury
U. S. Weather Bureau
Tulsa
Post
Paul McClung
Great Plains
Rocky Mountain Region
Fort Sil
Robert E. Bell
Dist
Luther E. Dickerson
Max E. Causey
R. J. Fletchner
J. G. Holton
James E. Cunningham
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