Lawton Comanche County Stand To Receive 2 Million From Mills Bill
Lawton and Comanche County would get over 2 million in the first year of a proposed five year revenue sharing plan. The Mills Bill allocates 1.60 million to Lawton and 599 thousand to Comanche County with total state and local shares outlined. The plan funds maintenance and operation costs for police fire inspection supervision and transit as well as capital projects like sewage systems and street work. The administration bill is noted as having fewer restrictions on expenditures than the House version.
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Lawton
Comanche County
Associated Press
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
Ways and Means
Rep
Wilber D. Mills
D-Ark
Oklahoma
Gene Walker
Walker
Seven Chosen For Hall Of Fame
Seven individuals are elected to The Oklahoma Hall of Fame by the Oklahoma Heritage Association board. The slate includes four residents and three native-born Oklahomans who rose to prominence nationally after leaving the state. Induction will occur at the Statehood Day banquet on November 16.
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Oklahoma Hall of Fame
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Heritage Association
Henry C. Hitch Sr
Guyman
Robert B. Kamm
Stillwater
Oklahoma State University
Oral Roberts
Tulsa
Maria Tallchief
Chicago
ROTC Day Proclaimed in City By Mayor Whitaker
Mayor Don Whitaker proclaims Tuesday as Army ROTC Day highlighting ROTC programs at Eisenhower and Lawton High Schools and Cameron College. Awards Day for ROTC cadets to be held at Cameron College with Maj. Gen. Roderick Wetherill addressing at 1 30 p m in the Shepler Center mezzanine, featuring the Superior Cadet Award among honors.
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Don Whitaker
Army Reserve Officers Training Corps
Eisenhower
Lawton
Cameron College
Roderick Wetherill
Fort Sil
Shepler Center
ROTC Cadets To Be Honored At OSU Awards Day
Twelve Lawton area ROTC cadets will be honored at Oklahoma State University's Army-Navy Joint Awards Day in Stillwater. Recipients include Frank Matlock for Scabbard and Blade best drilled sophomore and James Dunn Jr for Scabbard and Blade military award and AU SA award. Other honorees include Gary Martin Alfred Drummond and Kent Ervin with multiple awards. Additional awards go to Thomas Carraway James Kennedy James Cantwell Clarence Mansfield and OSU Department of Defense awardees James Roling James Walker George Waller Troy Taylor.
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Oklahoma State University
Army-Navy
Stillwater
Frank Matlock
Lawton
James Dunn Jr
AUSA
Gary Martin
Defense Supply Agency
Society of American Military Engineers
Department of the Army
Kent Ervin
Alfred Drummond
Thomas Carraway
Altus
James Kennedy
Stillwater News-Press
James Cantwell
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
Clarence Mansfield
William Scott Cutter
OSU Department of Defense
James Roling
James Walker
Snyder
George Waller
Cyril
Troy Taylor
County Board Buys Truck Tractor and Opens Equipment Bids
County commissioners voted to lease purchase a 1961 International truck tractor from Vernon Klein Truck and Equipment for 2000 dollars. Bids on a bulldozer low-boy trailer and chip spreader were opened from several firms with multiple trade-in deductions. Contracts to be awarded after bid study. April receipts total 6637.73 dollars deposited to general fund.
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County Board of Commissioners
Vernon Klein Truck and Equipment Co
Lawton
Independent Industries Inc
Oklahoma City
W. E. Manufacturing Co
Clarence L. Boyd, Co
Interstate Engineering Co
Enid
Flaherty
Bert Smith Road Machinery Co. Inc
Rosa Hines
Hall To Address Cameron Grads
Gov. David Hall will be commencement speaker at Cameron College graduation on May 19 at 8 p.m. in Cameron Stadium. He is an OU and Tulsa Law School graduate, Phi Beta Kappa, UT Outstanding Law Student in 1958 and 1959.
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David Hall
Cameron College
Cameron Public Relations Department
Cameron Stadium
Hall
University of Oklahoma
University of Tulsa School of Law
Gunman Robs Jiffy Store on 11th and H
A lone gunman robbed the Jiffy Food Store at 11th and H early Sunday taking an undetermined cash amount. Employee Raymond Curry said the assailant, armed with a .38 caliber pistol, forced him to empty the register and lie on the floor before fleeing. The suspect was described as about 5-9, 170 pounds with shoulder length dark hair, of Indian or Mexican appearance.
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11Th and H
Raymond Curry
Saigon Nervous Over Quiet Amid War Silence
Saigon faces unusual calm as Hanoi drives the April offensive on multiple fronts. Officials predict attacks may come Monday or around the 18th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu. Residents fear the lull could end with rockets, while curfew and food hoarding mark growing unease.
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Saigon
Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Women urged to seek office at caucus meeting
Tulsa Oklahoma. Rep. Hannah Atkins, a black Oklahoma City legislator, urged about 60 women at the first public meeting of the Women’s Political Caucus to give up background roles and seek office, saying women should participate at the highest levels of the party.
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Tulsa, Okla
Oklahoma City
Hannah Atkins
Women’s Political Caucus
Traffic Death Toll Reaches 230 After Ponca City Crash
Brian Popham, 16, was killed Sunday night when his car ran off a Ponca City street and struck an iron fence. He was thrown from the vehicle as police said. The toll for Oklahoma this year rose to 230, up from 225 this time last year.
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Brian Popham
Ponca City
Popham
Oklahoma
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