Obituary notices for Burk Mahaffey and Ashbrook in Lawton area
Funeral notices honor Ollie Burk a former Galveston resident with long Salvation Army service. Fred Mahaffey, Cache farmer, and Ernest Ashbrook, Army veteran, are also remembered with details on births, marriages, survivors, and services in Lawton area notices.
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Ollie Burk
Star Route
Becker Funeral Home
Mr. Burk
Arkansas
Lawton
Galveston
Tex
Burk
Mima Burk
Salvation Army
Merle Verner
Midland
June Greenlee
Indiahoma
Fred Monroe Mahaffey
Rt. 2
Huddleston
Cache Funeral Home
Rodney Carroll
Cache Church of Christ
Cache Cemetery
Mr. Mahaffey
Cache
Cache-Indiahoma
Mary Omarra
Wichita Falls
Robert Mahaffey
Roberta Lee
Pleasant Hills
Calif
Marian Snell
Oklahoma City
Willene Long
Rt. 1
Ernest Clyde Ashbrook
Columbia
Reynolds Army Hospital
Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Ashbrook
England
Cora Macklin
Camp Kilmore
N.J
Comanche-Ute Treaty Group Schedules Meeting and Powwow
The Comanche-Ute Treaty Group plans a 7 p.m. Wednesday meeting at the Comanche Tribal Culture Center west of Cache to organize a powwow and a July treaty ceremony in Colorado. The powwow follows at 6 p.m. Friday with gourd war and social dances. Proceeds will help defray Comanche travel costs to Colorado July 21 24.
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Cache
Colorado
Debate on Carter proposals nears Senate clash over rebate
Senators weigh replacing President Carter’s $50 per person rebate with a permanent tax cut. Debate begins next week and could extend past Easter recess. House backed the rebate amid party splits. Republicans favor a permanent tax cut with varying savings by income.
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Washington
Carter
Senate
Congress
White House
Senate Finance Committee
Harry Byrd
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Floyd Haskell
D-Colo
House
South makes four spades despite impossible layout
In a bridge deal South overcomes a doomed position by a star play. West leads clubs and declarer ruffs, draws trumps, and uses a nine of clubs from dummy to squeeze East. East discards poorly, allowing South to secure four spades, with the closing note predicting a math pun for tomorrow.
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South
West
Declarer
East
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Welty Sentenced To Prison Term In Oklahoma Case
Tony Kim Welty, facing three felony counts, was sentenced to 12 years in state prison after pleading guilty in Norman to shooting with intent to kill. He admitted firing at Ann Decker and leaving her at Lake Thunderbird as he fled from Lawton authorities. Preliminary hearings on related charges in Lawton are set for April 6.
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Tony Kim Welty
Norman
Welty
Ann Decker
Lake Thunderbird
Lawton
Alma Wilson
Cleveland County
Cromwell
Sheila
Kathryn Sproat
Miss Decker
Oklahoma City
Thunderbird Lake
Shawnee
Sproat Sisters
Bids Awarded for McMahon Tomlinson Nursing Home Addition
The board approved a $743000 bid from O W Warner Construction for a 42 bed addition to McMahon Tomlinson Nursing Home with a city approval contingency. It also awarded $24069 for expanding hospital parking, same city approval requirement, amid ongoing drainage dispute history with Lawton.
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McMahon-Tomlinson Nursing Home
O.W. Warner Construction
Memorial Hospital
John Coffey
Coffey
City of
Lawton
Memorial Hospital Board
Police Report: Local theft complaints filed in Lawton
The Lawton Police Department lists complainants and addresses for theft and vandalism reports. Entries include Burrs Self Service Car Wash thefts, Robody 4 Bromsett burglary, Luther's Body Shop shotgun theft, and Patterson suspects throwing rocks at a pickup near Utah and Ceyotes, plus numerous residence thefts and property losses.
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Lawton
Burrs
Lee Bird
Bromsett
Highlander Circle
Luther's Body Shop
Lath and Park
Cort R. Armstrong
Benny F. Dallas
Robert L. Carroll
Kuntz Elementary
Smith
Norman Romans
Mission Boulevard
Double Ace Electronics
Woodland Hills School
Sorting Zip Codes Boosted by New USPS Machines
USPS installs upgraded sorting machines allowing one operator to sort up to 36 000 letters per hour into 277 zip code bins. Current use totals 560 machines with 150 more on order, dramatically expanding capacity from 9 564 letters per hour with older equipment.
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U.S. Postal Service
Some Do Some Don't About Smoking Trends
An estimated fifty four million Americans still smoke while about thirty million have quit over the years. The contrast highlights ongoing tobacco use despite cessation efforts.
Ice Cream Stores Reach 5451 amid $356 Million Sales
Census Bureau figures show 5 451 ice cream and frozen custard stands operating across the United States with annual sales totaling 356 3 million.
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United States
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Harry F. Byrd Jr
Virginia
Bate
House Conference Committee
King of Clubs
North Pass
South Dale
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Leonard Knowles
Ronnie Brewer
Lawton Fence Co., Inc
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America
H.R. Orsburn
D.C
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Chrysier
Ysler
Zyloprim
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
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