Atmospheric blast rattles Cache Road shops at Fort Sill
Early today a routine ammunition disposal blast on Fort Sill West Range caused intense sound waves to bounce westward due to a high altitude inversion layer. Four Cache Road Square stores suffered window damage while police guarded the area. workers replaced glass by noon. The 61st Ordnance Detachment EOD led by Capt. Clarence C. Greenhill conducted the disposal.
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Cache Road Square
Post
Lawton
Fort Sills West Range
Carlton Mountain
61St Ordnance Detachment Eod
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Clarence C. Greenhill
R. L. Gilbert
Gilbert-Woods Drug
Fort Sill
Bill Ward
West Range
Cache Road
Pentagon weighs TFX plane choices in Navy contest
A Navy captain's memo finds no clear winner between General Dynamics and Boeing for the TFX project while a rear admiral questions the GD bid. Secretary McNamara defends GD as saving at least a billion in life‑cycle costs as the Senate subcommittee probes the award process.
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Washington
Pentagon
General Dynamics Corp
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
General Dynamics
Fort Worth
Tex
Boeing Co
Seattle
Wash
McNamara
Defense Procurement
Senate House Economic Committee
John T. Sheppard
Navy Cochairman
Sheppard
Boeing
Frederick L. Ashworth
Source Selection Board
Selection Board
Ashworth
Navy
Amendment Reinstates Old Salary Stabilization Board
Oklahoma Senate appropriations committee moved to remove the merit system for state workers and restore the old salary stabilization board, risking the proposed state employee retirement plan. Gov. Bellmon backs retirement but favors keeping the merit system as debate continues and the house weighs a separate retirement bill.
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Old Salary Stabilization Board
Oklahoma City
UPS
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ray Fine
Gore
Senate
Don Baldwin
Anadarko
Leroy McClendon
Idabel
Salary Administration Board
Eldridge Colston
Marietta
Fine
Henry Bellmon
House
Bob Trent
Wilson
Kxmer Gow
Howard Edmond Ams
Perma
Joe Bailey Cobb
Ed Berrong
Weatherford
Hal Muldrow
Norman
Byron Dacus
Hobart
Clem McSpadden
Nowata
Leon Field
Texhoma
Ralph Graves
Shawnee
Colston
McClendon
Fees Delay School Bill Faces Opposition In Oklahoma
Oklahoma House debated a free school transfer bill by Rep. Bill Shipley but faced strong opposition over potential consolidation of small districts. The plan would let county superintendents transfer students between districts without restriction, with athletic transfers barred for two years unless due to address change. Opponents argued it could erode districts. supporters said it would raise education quality for high IQ students.
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House
Bill Shipley
Nowata
House Common Education Committee
Scholo Board of Niscigight
Herman Baumert
Coalgate
Shipley
Oklahoma
I. Q
Hold-Outs Keep Presses Quiet
A small group of union photoengravers rejected a proposed contract keeping eight New York dailies off the streets. The AFL-CIO Local 1 vote 191 111 ended talks. Times and Herald Tribune prepared to resume at higher prices as editors and staff awaited next moves.
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NEW York
New York City
Veda
Afl-Cio
Robert F. Wagner
The
Times
Herald Tribune
Turner Catledge
New York Times
Harvey House Developer Dies in Lawton Rites Set
William Harvey House 47 of 1317 Cherry Lawton died at 5:12 am after a heart attack. Services 10:50 am Saturday at First Baptist Church with Dr H Tom Wiles officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survivor: wife Edna Alene Pharris House and five children. memorials to church mission fund or Heart fund. He was a builder and developer active in Lawton and surrounding towns.
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Wiliam Harvey House
Cherry
Lawton
Sumiay Nigit
Firm Baptist Church
H. Tom Wiles
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Becker Funeral Home
Mr. House
Edna Alene Pharris
Cache Rd
Cache Road Square
Mangum
Clinton
Cordell, Fletcher, Elgin
Geronimo
House
N. 38Th
N. 40Th
First Baptist Church
Northwest
Kiwanis Club
Lawton Real Estate Board
Insurance Board
Home Builders Associatem
TSES
Sears
Judy
Martha
Anna Beth
Robert
Dennis
Ralph House
Irwin
Floyd Parks
Lula House
Mission Fund
The
Heart Fund
Body Of Sooner Found In Bay
Authorities tentatively identify an elderly woman found in San Diego Bay as Opal Caldwell of Oklahoma City. The body was recovered Wednesday and the coroner said she had drowned about 24 hours earlier.
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San Diego, Calif
UPI
San Diego Bay
Opa! Caldwell
Oklahoma City
Mercury To Hit 88 Here This Afternoon
Fair and warm weather dominates southwest Oklahoma as the U S Weather Bureau predicts the day’s high will reach 88 degrees, the year’s peak so far, with previous highs at 86 and 83. Tonight's low around 53, with a warm Friday ahead under clear to partly cloudy skies.
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Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lawton
Weather Bureau
Sherman Air Force Base
Saturn-1 poised for seven minute spaceflight delay
CAPE CANAVERAL UPI A Saturn-1 rocket was set for a seven minute test flight but launch was postponed after trouble with one of the satellite instruments. A Delta rocket with a 416 pound atmospheric satellite also faced postponement, delaying space lessons into early morning.
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Cape Canaveral
UPI
EER NR Ween
Rout Real Apace Agency
Saturn
Space Agency
Earth
Fugitive Bidault Delays Exit From Portugal
Georges Bidault, 63, former French premier and leader of a movement against Charles de Gaulle, delayed his departure from Portugal as police ordered him to leave. The fugitive sought a political haven amid mounting pressure.
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Lisbon
Portugal
UPI
Georges Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
Lawton Federal Building Contract Awarded
Rep. Victor Wickersham announced the GSA will award an architectural and engineering contract Friday for converting the Lawton post office and courthouse into a federal office building. The contract goes to Lawton Architect James Marshal. No amount was disclosed. A construction contract is expected next January and completion is set for December 1964.
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Washington
Victor Wickersham
General Services Administration
Lawton
James Marshal
GSA
Wickersham
Police Host Newlyweds at Wimbledon Station
Mr and Mrs James Hope spent their wedding night under guard at Wimbledon police station after a hotel reservation mix up. The desk sergeant transformed the station waiting room into a makeshift boudoir and provided bedding ensuring the couple were not disturbed.
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Aan
England
UPI
James Hope
Wimbledon
Waurika Hearing Planned April 3
Washington reports a House Public Works Subcommittee hearing set for April 3 on the 25 million Waurika dam project in Jefferson County Oklahoma. The multi purpose plan would supply municipal water to Lawton Comanche Waurika Waiters Duncan and Temple, and shifts the project to Corps of Engineers status to avoid a subcommittee obstruction tied to inter state water talks.
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Washington
House Public Works Subcommittee
Jefferson County
Oklahoma
Waurika
Lawton
Comanche
Waiters
Duncan
Temple
House Reclamation
Congress
Walter Rogers
Tex
Rogers
North Texas
Texas
Corps of Engineers
Roger
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