Weatherford chosen for 1964 Southwest District DEA meeting
Southwestern State College in Weatherford will host the 1964 Southwest District Oklahoma Education Association conference. The selection was approved at a directors meeting at the Holiday Inn with John Shoemaker and Dr Grace Burcham supporting the Weatherford site. Dr Al Harris named W C Burris as 194 convention chairman. Burris was a former Lawton high counselor. Altus also bid for the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Gilley
W. C. Burris
Southwestern State College
Weatherford
Mary Sue Silk
Oklahoma Education Association
Jim Smalling
John Shoemaker
OEA
Lawton Public Schools
Burris
Board of Directors
Holiday Inn
Lawton
DEA
Grace Burcham
al Harris
Southwestern
Lawton High
Altus
Bill Brinkman
Syria turmoil deepens with Baath shift and Arab ties
Rebels in Syria push for distance from Egypt while signaling openness to Cairo Baghdad and San a. Iraq backs the revolution warning that intervention equals war. Cairo and Damascus deny mutiny reports as Syria moves from U A R union toward broader Arab alignment.
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Syria
United Nations
U.A.R. A
Egypt
Arab “Baath” Socialist Party
Baghdad
U.A.R
Iraq
Revolutionary Command
Cairo
San‘a
Algiers
Damascus
National Council of the Revolutionary Command
Middle East
Cairo Radio
United Arab Republic
Nazem el Kadi
Let's Keep Jerry Brandon Our Councilman In Ward 2
Campaign message by Jerry Brandon outlining his Lawton roots education and civic service. He cites roles in Chamber of Commerce Rotary Club school board two mayoral terms and church leadership and urges support at the March 19 election for Ward 2 councilman.
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Jerry Brandon
Waurika
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Lawton
Pol
Nazi Leader Bruised in Court After Jail Altercation
John McClure head of the American Nazi party arrived in Miami court with a blackeye and facial cuts claiming his cellmates beat him in jail. Authorities say he reportedly fell from a second-deck bunk as he faced illegal firearms charges.
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Miami
UPI
John McClure
City
McClure
Ex Con Gets 3 Year Term in Oklahoma Sentence
A 48-year-old Georgia man Henry V Starratt pleaded guilty to attempting to burglarize a church vending machine and received a three-year term. District Judge Luther B Eubanks sentenced Starratt in Lawton after Starratt had recently completed a ten-year Wisconsin prison term.
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Georgia
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Luther B. Eubanks
Henry V. Starratt
Columbus
Central Baptist Church
Starratt
Wisconsin
Lawton
Gracemont
Charles Domebo
Stanley Mahan
Doyle Daugherty
Dick Cawley
Highway Patrol
Daugherty
Raymond L. French
Marshall Arthur Bradley
Jerry Wesley Bryan
Houston
Tex
Lylitha Beaver
Actor Van Johnson Undergoes Skin Cancer Surgery
Hollywood AP Van Johnson 46 is at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for a mild skin cancer on his left thigh. Paramount says doctors expect him back to work by March 18 after immediate treatment following a Thursday admission. Johnson had been away from films for four years and recently starred in Music Man in London and a Broadway show last year.
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Hollywood
van Johnson
Cedars of Lebanon
Johnson
Friends
Paramount Studios
London
Bryan County Eligible For Aid
Bryan County Oklahoma is among 25 new labor market areas approved for accelerated public works aid by the Labor Department. The designation targets regions with high unemployment or redevelopment status, as announced Thursday. The report also names four local youths from Mt Park and Snyder in related notices.
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Washington
Bryan County
Oklahoma
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
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Janice Harwell
Burns
Richard Neptune
Eisenhower
Khaled el- Azem
Nasser
Edwin A. Walker
Billy James Hargis
Tulsa
Okla
Hargis
Walker
Atlanta
Brandon
Cameron College
New Mexico
Clinton
Continental Oil Co
Coy Edward Mitchell
Jimmie Richard Cook
Frankie Joe Myers
Mt. Park
Donald Lee Daniel
Snyder
Home Equity
Otlehome
Gore Boulevard
Lawton Ada
Ardmore, Duncan
Oklahoma City
Yanky
Norge
44Th and
Cache Road
Discount Department Store
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