Chariots and Horses Return To Easter Sunrise Service
Lawton once used city horses as garbage teams but at the Easter Sunrise Service they doubled as Herod’s chariots in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge pageant. A lighting mishap spooked four teams, ending the chariot scene and ending the practice due to ruined gear and dwindling harnesses.
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Lawton
Herod
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Maude Smith
Holy City
Heagerty
Deadlock Persists in Mack Case After Long Deliberations
Oklahoma City lawyer Mack faces a hung jury as jurors could not reach a verdict after nearly 12 hours of back and forth. Judge Brock discarded a request for bond on recognizance and signaled a third trial may follow after the mistrial.
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Garland Bloodworth
Oklahoma City
Mack
Brock
Bloodworth
Atty
Steve Lile
Lile
Edgar Martin
Martin
Bill Banks
Banks
Pageant at Service Wildlife Refuge Draws 400 Cast
The three hour religious drama about Jesus Christ runs at the Wildlife Refuge with a cast over 400. In 1974 about 15 000 attended but cold winds forced many away before it ended. Pageant director Wes Miller warns attendees to prepare fuel water and oil and to bring hot drinks. He notes no tents or fires on Audience Hill or in the Holy City and motorists should signal for help by tying a cloth to an antenna or raising the hood.
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Loveland
Heagerty
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Herod
Wildlife Refuge
Wes Miller
Miller
Audience Hill
Holy City
Judge Denies Bond for Bill Roberts in Double Murder Case
Judge J. Winston Raburn rejected bail for 32 year old Bill Roberts accused of first degree murder in the Feb 7 slayings of Terry Womack, 34, and J. L. Nash, 37. Roberts plans an appeal, per attorney Ron Callicott. He remains jailed after being bound over March 10. A separate appeal on the single murder count is pending.
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J. Winston Raburn
Bill Roberts
Terry Womack
J. L. Nash
Raburn
Ron Callicott
Roberts
Callicott
Comanche County
Womack and
Nash
Zodiac Club
Atty
Richard Robertson
Special Dist
David Carter
Tax cut plan faces Senate veto as House backs compromise
The 24.8 billion tax bill, trimmed from a Senate 34.4 billion package, includes 10 percent 1974 rebates up to 200, a 30 dollar 1975 tax credit per taxpayer family, a 50 dollar Social Security pensioner payment, and a 5 percent 1975 home purchase credit up to 2 000. Repeal of oil depletion for majors saves 2.5 billion. independents keep theirs. The House rejected a motion to send back the bill 214 to 197, signaling trouble for a veto risk.
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House-Senate
Ford
Senate
White House
Sen
Russell B. Long
Dla
Senate Finance Committee
Long
Congress
al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Ways and Means
Fire units respond to house blaze near 52nd and Cache Road
Lawton Fire Department logged 387 dispatches this year including a Thursday 1:17 am call three miles west of 52nd and Cache Road for a house fire. Also listed is a 7:55 pm wash down at 2214 Hoover. John James Audubon is noted as a leading American bird artist.
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Lawton
Hoover
52Nd and
Cache Road
Emergency Farm Aid Threatened With Veto
The emergency farm aid bill faces a presidential veto threat as the Agriculture Department warns it would raise dairy prices. Senate passage 57-25 prompts a House Senate conference to reconcile with a lo wersupport House bill. The measure expands parity, targets, and parity duration, boosting costs to government and consumers while tobacco subsidies rise to 70 percent of parity.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
Earl L. Butz
Ford
House
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Senate Agriculture Committee
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Lawton Oklahoma City and Mule Market Prospect
The item highlights Lawton in the Southwest with strong water supply and gravity pressure, low insurance rates, a 61 000 acre government zoological garden, Medicine Park as a unique summer resort, Fort Sill Army post set to become the largest, and Lawton at the foot of the Wichita Mountains. It notes over 2 million dollars in bank deposits, a government irrigation project, two national highways under construction the Meridian Road from Canada to the Gulf and the Ozark Trail Ocean to ocean, and that Lawton is a junction point with helpful information available on request.
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Government Zoological Garden
Medicine Park
Fort Sill
U.S
Lawton
Wichita Mountains
Government Experimental Farm
Canada
Gulf
Ocean
Bomb blasts target government offices across Bay Area
A series of explosions rocked San Jose and Berkeley with no injuries reported. Police sought two suspects who fled in a white pickup and an older car after the Hicks substation blasts, which cut power to about 20 miles around Almaden Valley. A later bomb at the Berkeley FBI office prompted a warning call and a communique claiming Red Guerrilla Family responsibility in solidarity with the SLA.
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3Rd St
KFWB
Fidel Castro
Pan American Government Tourist Bureau
San Jose
Hicks
Santa Clara County
Berkeley
Chronicle
KCBS
San Francisco
Red
FBI
SLA
Symbionese Liberation Army
Amerikan
Sic
Thieu Closes Opposition Paper in Saigon
In Saigon the daily Dai Dan Toc, the last opposition newspaper to President Nguyen Van Thieu, was shut down by Interior Minister Le Cong Chat for stated concerns over security and public order. Publication barred until further notice.
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LA Times
Washington
Saigon
Dai Dan Toc
Nguyen van Thieu
le Cong Chat
Teenager Held In Lawton Rape and Assault Case
Police arrested a 15 year old male suspect at his northwest Lawton home after a lunch hour assault on a woman returning to class near Cache Road Square. An orange bicycle linked to the case was found at the residence. The youth resisted arrest and faced charges of rape and assault and resisting arrest.
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Page One
Morford Hills
Cache Road Square
McFarland
Ronald Ward
Lawton
Larry Salmon
Morton L Dent Named Ford Trade Negotiator and Interior Appointee
Morton Erick B. Dent, commerce secretary since 1972, sworn in as Ford special representative for trade negotiations. Dicks expects little Senate opposition to Dent’s nomination, citing his prior Senate confirmation to Interior in 1971 and long service with Ford in Congress. Dent, 60, previously ran in food and flour ventures and chaired the Republican National Committee from 1969 to 1971. He succeeds Walter Hickel after a controversial firing.
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Erick B. Dent
Commerce
Ford
Morton
Senate
Commerce Committee
Interior Post
House of Representatives
Congress
GOP
House
Walter J. Hickel
Nixon
Oklahoma City market upquaint cattle and hog prices
Oklahoma City AP market report shows cattle and calves at 8000 head with feeder prices across weight ranges. Hogs 900 head down for barrows and gilts while sows ease. State grain and wheat prices listed by city and farm region with several towns at 3.59 to 4.14 a bushel.
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Oklahoma Livestock
Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture
Afton
Altus
Hobart
Keyes
Liberal
Manchester
Pauls Valley
Perryton
Clinton
el Reno
Geary
Kingfisher
Medford
Okeene
Ponca City
Temple
Watonga
Weatherford
Yukon
Gulf
Lefors Tornado Damage Tops Local News
A tornado severely damaged Lefors and nearby mobile homes injuring over 60 people and killing 3 year old Stephenie Ann Anzakiua. The storm also destroyed the Alzaldua mobile home and left debris across Guthrie and Elk City while hospitals treated the injured.
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Cimarron
Guthrie
Lefors
Stephenie Ann Anzakiua
Raul Alzaldua
Pampa
Amarillo
Elk City
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
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Lewton Publising Co., Inc
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Okla
Fort Sak
Rae
MAI
Sundey
OER
Afo's
John James Audubon
Parents Assn
Frank E. Moss
Moss
City
Thieu
Baldwin Lawton
Twisters
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