Toughies Calm Down In His Art Classes
Del City High School in Oklahoma City uses art class to reform discipline with 36 year old Montee Hoke, a former Marine and wrestling coach. About 10 percent of his students arrive from other classes for behavior issues, but they often become engaged in art and improve in other subjects. Hoke allows freedom in class and supports self expression, including painting a purple cow. He balances art with wrestling coaching and finances summer studies through selling his pottery.
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Ansas City
Washington
District of Columbia
del City High School
Oklahoma City
Montee Hoke
National Art Education Association
Hoke
Michigan State University
Marines
Cameron College expands with new library and science hall
Cameron College launches major construction as ground work begins on a $477000 library administration building and a $264890 science hall. Financed by an $800000 state bond allocation and a $760000 housing loan, the project includes 150 male beds, a 600 seat student union dining area, and conversion of Cameron Hall for women students.
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Cameron College
Richard Burch
Munger-Emmons Construction Co
Enid
H. W. H. Construction Co
Stillwater
Noftiger and
Lawrence
Oklahoma
State College
Cameron
Community Facility Administration
Washington
Clarence Davis
Aggie Science
State Court Upholds Liquor Price-Fix Ban
Oklahoma City report says the state supreme court upheld a lower court ruling against alleged liquor price fixing for now, while an ABC Board appeal remains to be heard. Senate appropriations members questioned ABC Director Roy Parham on pricing policies as the board adopted an average price rather than the lowest.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
State Supreme Court
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Senate Appropriations Committee
ABC
Roy Parham
J. L. Jennings
Bartlesville
Gov
Henry Bellman
Jennings
John Brett
ABC Board
Brett
Parham
Sen
Don Baldwin
Anadarko
Doctor Dies in Broken Arrow Founder of Hospital
Dr. Onis Franklin aged 80 died Monday in Broken Arrow. He arrived in 1909 and founded Broken Arrow Hospital in 1944 after practicing medicine for over five decades.
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Broken Arrow
Onis Franklin
Broken Arrow Hospital
City council approves planning items and park land deed
The Lawton council approved multiple planning items including auto repair and trailer park sites, a medical center, and a six acre park parcel in Sullivan's Village named Ras Sullivan Park. It also accepted a sewer project for Ranch Oaks addition and final plat by Southern Builders, plus traffic and street light measures and three fire police department appointments.
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Planning Commission
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Ras Sullivan
State Health Department
Ranch Oaks
Southern Builders of
Lawton
Railroad and F
Airport Board
13Th
Laird
16Th
43Rd
Santa Fe
Kinyon
Lincoln
Fire
James Bloomer
Charles E. Berry
Albert Turner
Welfare Bill Eyes Near-Certain Pass In Oklahoma House
Oklahoma House Speaker J D McCarty backs the welfare transfer bill and expects about 70 votes to pass, transferring 11.5 million in welfare funds to seven mental institutions as part of a budget plan to end the logjam and aim for May 15 adjournment.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
J. D. McCarty
McCarty
House
Social Welfare Committee
Henry Bellman
Bellman
Senate
Roy Beecher
Heavy Floods Hit Kentucky Across Multiple States
Heavy rains and melting snow sweep Kentucky Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia prompting mass evacuations. Flooding swamps Harlan and Hazard towns cutting roads and stranding residents with thousands homeless and one death reported. Police report rail and highway washouts as relief and emergency calls surge.
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United Press International
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Harlan
Allegheny Mountain
Richlands
Shelbiana
Riverside School
Breathitt County
Hazard
Kentucky River
Springer Hoskins
Harlan Enterprise
Vinson Pushes Record Military Fund Through House
The House approved a four year military authorization bill championed by Rep. Carl Vinson 387 to 3 for 15.8 billion in missiles planes and warships. The plan would boost Kennedy arms budget by about 498 million to fund RS70 aircraft two more test models and two nuclear powered attack submarines costing 134 million as McNamara questions further RS70 development.
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Washington
UPI
Carl Vinson
House
Armed Services Committee
Vinson
U. S
D-Ga
Wetancman
Glen Aes Leis
Kennedy
Severe Storm Dumps Deep Snow Across Northwest Kansas
A winter storm moved into northwestern Kansas with 8 to 15 inches expected in Cheyenne and Sherman counties. Roads are impassable and motorists stranded as snow spreads east to Colby and Topeka by noon. School buses to be held. livestock precautions urged. warning of prolonged, dangerous conditions.
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Woodland
Kan
Kansas
Goodland Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Sherman
Bureau
Colby, Kane
Colby
Northwest
Topeka
Weather Bureau
Cold Front To Spread Through Area Tonight
The U S Weather Bureau forecast a new cold front moving into Oklahoma with rain and snow. Temperatures will fall from the 70s in the southeast to the 30s in the northwest, with highs in the 40s on Wednesday and lows near freezing in many areas.
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Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lawton
Broken Bow
Ponca City
Guymon
McAlester
Pay Increase For U S. Service Members Backed By Committee
The House Armed Services Committee prepared to approve legislation to raise pay for about 2.5 million service members. The panel aimed to exceed the administration’s $1.4 billion request while keeping overseas and sea duty pay. Defense Secretary McNamara had proposed replacing both with a hardship pay.
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Washington
UPI
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
House
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Plane Skids on Snow at Logan Airport No Injuries Reported
An Eastern Airlines DC7 with 15 passengers and five crew slid on a slushy Logan runway and went into a snow bank but no injuries were reported. Pilot Capt Edward Liedecker said braking action was nil on touchdown and the craft sustained minor damage to landing gear and propellers.
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Boston
Eastern Airlines
Logan
Frank Sweeney
Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission
Sweeney
Edward R. Liedecker
McLean
Washington
Name of New Juvenile Officer Submitted for Confirmation
County Judge Inez Manning submitted the name of Jack Leach, 26, of 1139 Maple, for confirmation as the new juvenile officer. Leach signed an oath of office this morning after assuming duties.
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Inez Manning
Board of County Commissioners
Jack Leach
Routine Atlas ICBM Launch From Vandenberg Base
The Air Force launched an Atlas ICBM from Vandenberg California Monday night in a routine training flight toward an unspecified target area.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Racial Guides Debated at Oklahoma Church Assembly
Delegates in Oklahoma consider a nonmandatory message on race relations at the annual council session held at Wallock Memorial Congregational church. Budget actions and a luncheon address by Charles Parlin are also noted as key items.
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Assembly
The
Oklahoma Council of Churches
Wallock Memorial Congregational Church
W. S. Parish Jr
First Christian Church
Oklahoma Council
Charles C. Parlin
World Council of Churches
Parlin
State Council
First Presbyterian Church
New York City
Shearman and Sterling
U. S. and Foreign Securities Corporation
Celanese Corp. of America
First National City Bank of New York
National Council of Churches
World Council
New Delhi Assembly
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Bob Trent
Caney
By Jim Belcher
Sand Springs
Pauls Valley
Vinita
Norman
Fort Supply
Taft
Senate General Investigating Committee
J. Leland Gourley
Beaver Creek
Floyd County
Prestonsburg
Harlan County
Pikeville
Floyd
Pike Counties
Big Sandy
Rep
Vinson Ramrods
United States
H.W.H. Construction Co
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