Ceremonies Open Kmart Store Here in Lawton
Lawton Oklahoma opens the Kmart discount store at 38th and Cache Road with a ribbon cutting by Ss S Kresge Co and Kresge southern region. The Lawton store, managing by William A Snyder, employs 150 people and is among the chain’s largest.
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Stott
Kmart
38Th
Cache Road
Discount Department
Lawton Kmart
Ss. S. Kresge Co
Kresgepany
Oklahoma City
Robert Head
Lawton Industrial Foundation
Woody Wolverton
Roy B. Hooper Jr
Norma Roberts
Lawton K Mart
Jupiter
Hamilton
Ohio
Kresge
Cincinnati
Wyoming
Lawton
Clearfield
Snyder
Court Refuses To Halt Upcoming City Elections
Lawton court denies delay in city elections as plaintiffs fail to show irreparable harm. March 20 primary ballots printed for seven city posts. general election set for April 3. Plaintiffs challenge ward plan under one person one vote, while defendants include City of Lawton and County Election Board.
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Lawton Redistricting Commission
J. Winston Raburn
Jack Brock
Election Board
J. N. Logan
Olan A. Winham
A. L. Shepler
Don van Meter
van Meter
Law City of
Lawton
County Election Board
Torney
Sam Joyner
James N. Miles
Lou Jean Prince
Githen K. Rhoads
East Lawton
Senate votes to substantially reduce overseas troops
Senate Democrats approved a plan to cut the 600,000 U.S. troops overseas substantially over the next one and a half years. The move aims to ease costs and reflect changing defense needs as Vietnam war wind down.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Whitaker and Three Seekers Win Unopposed City Posts
Mayor Don Whitaker and three council hopefuls were unopposed, with Max Seibold at large post 1 Dan Glascock Ward 3 and Willie Hopkins Ward 7 set to begin public service. The elections remain unsettled five days before final campaigning.
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Don Whitaker
Max Seibold
Dan Glascock
Willie Hopkins
Whitaker
Seibold
Hopkins
Glascock
Two U.S. pilots freed from Red China return home
Two American airmen held since the Vietnam era are returned after days of negotiation. The POWs, released by North Vietnam, include Flynn and Smith who were shot down over China and Vietnam in 1965 and 1967 respectively, and they begin travel home from Clark Air Base.
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U.S
Red China
Smith
China
Hainan Island
Flynn
North Vietna N
Viet Cong
Clark
United States
Hong Kong
Nixon challenges Senate to Supreme Court test on executive privilege
President Nixon invited a court ruling over his refusal to let John W Dean III testify at the FBI director nomination hearing. He said Mitchell and Stans would testify and dismissed executive privilege as shielding them. Senate Judiciary Committee weighs Gray’s qualifications and access to Watergate materials.
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Nixon
Senate
Supreme Court
Washington
John W. Dean Ill
L. Patrick Gray III
FBI
White House
Atty
John Mitchell
Maurice Stans
Gor, Sweets
Senate Judiciary Committee
Watergate Building
Dean
Gray
Judiciary Committee
Dean Joan
Nye Library groundbreaking set at Fort Sill ceremony
A 4 p.m. Friday groundbreaking marks the new 896000 Wilbur S Nye Library at Fort Sill. Post commander Maj. Gen. Roderick Wetherill and Nye widow Mrs. Elleane Nye join Miss Margaret Hardin, post librarian, at the corner of Randolph Road and Fort Sill Blvd. Nye is the author of Carbine and Lance. See LIBRARY, Page 4A, Col. 3.
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Fort Sill
Wilbur S. Nye
Roderick Wetherill
Elleane Nye
Nye
Margaret Hardin
Randolph Road
Fort Sill Blvd
Chimney Rock Landmark Falls in Northwestern Oklahoma
Chimney Rock a famed shale and clay pillar once guided wagons to a Cimarron crossing near Waynoka has fallen. Everett Butler supervisor at Alabaster Caverns State Park will confirm details after visiting the site on the private land near the Woodward Major county line.
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Waynoka
Okla
Chimney Rock
Oklahoma
Cimarron River
Everett Butler
Alabaster Caverns State Park
Cimarron
Woodward-Major
Front Brings Chance Of Rain To Lawton Area
A cold front moves southeast through the state bringing cooler readings and a slight chance of rain to Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma. The forecast lists a W percent possibility for rain in the area.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Derryberry weighs future moves amid Senate talk
Oklahoma City AP Atty. Gen. Larry Derryberry, 33, says he has felt encouragement to run for governor or U S Senate next year and won’t rule out any option. He hints at re election and notes rumors Henry Bellman may retire, while stressing it is too early to decide.
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Jerry Scarbrough
Oklahoma City
Larry Derryberry
U.S. Senate
David Hall
U.S
Henry Bellman
Derryberry
Altus
House of Representatives
G. T
Blankenship
Bellman
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