Lawmakers OK 5000 and 10000 pledge for Beal Mansion
Oklahoma lawmakers approved a 5000 appropriation with a plan for an additional 10000 next January to preserve the Mattie Beal Payne Mansion in Lawton. Southwestern Hospital agrees to sell for 21500, and a Lawton Heritage Association will take charge.
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Lawton
Mattie Beal Payne
Fifth and Summit
Southwestern Hospital
Toney Brooks
Arts and Humanities Council
Brooks
Lawton Heritage Association
Mattie Beal
Oklahoma Historical Society
State Senate
House
David Hall
al Terrill
Senate
Jim Taliaferro Terrill
Terrill
Don Davis
D-Lawton
State Agencies Future in Doubt in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City AP report says the fate of agencies created by executive order is unsettled after a last minute legislative move killed a bill to preserve them. The Crime Manpower Planning Commission and Bi Centennial Commission are affected. State Attorney General Larry Derryberry has previously ruled the governor lacked authority to create agencies by executive order.
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Oklahoma City
State Crime Manpower Planning Commission
Oklahoma
Larry Derryberry
Lee
Helicopter crash at CAMP GRUBER injures one
Oklahoma National Guard reports a military helicopter crash at Camp Gruber injuring one of two occupants who were aiding field maneuvers for the 1st Battalion of the 279th Infantry Tulsa headquarters. The injured man’s name remains withheld pending family notification.
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Camp Gruber
Okla
Oklahoma National Guard
279Th Infantry
Tulsa
Four Murder Suspects Caught
Four men sought in the killings of six Georgia family members surrendered peacefully in Welch West Virginia as police and bloodhounds found them sleeping beneath a cliff. State Trooper F E Thomas said the three captured today offered no resistance and appeared exhausted and exposed. The fourth fugitive was captured Thursday night after the group abandoned their car to dodge a police roadblock set after a store robbery.
Gen Ralph Pennell, Fort Sill Chief, Dies at 90
Gen Ralph McTyeire Pennell 90 longtime Lawton resident and former Fort Sill commander died Thursday in Atlanta after collapsing during a reunion trip. Born in South Carolina 1882 he served 40 years in the Army including 12 years at Fort Sill and retirement in 1946. He later led Fort Sill National Bank into 1962 and was active in St Andrews Church. A funeral procession horse will honor him at Armed Forces Day in Lawton.
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Atlanta
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Norma
Pennell
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West Point
N.Y
School of Fire
The
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Armed Forces
Chamber of Commerce
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Brezhnev and Brandt Begin Five Day Summit in Bonn
Soviet leader Brezhnev opened a five day summit with West German Chancellor Brandt in Bonn. They touted a durable peace for Europe built on the 1970 nonaggression pact and urged closer East West ties amid past enmity. Brandt called the visit a sign that Europe seeks peace and a new beginning. Demonstrators gathered but were kept from the tarmac.
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Germany
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Willy Brandt
Russia
Moscow
Brandt
West Germany
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Federal Republic of
Europe
East Berlin
Richardson selects Archibald Cox as Watergate special prosecutor
Senate sources report Attorney General designate Elliot L. Richardson has chosen Archibald Cox of Harvard Law School to serve as special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
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Washington
Senate
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Archibald Cox
Harvard Law School
Mild Weather Stays Through Weekend in Lawton Area
Forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures in Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma through Saturday. Highs are expected in the middle to upper 80s with a low near 60 tonight. Thursday’s high reached 80 with a matching low.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Skylab sunshade repair mission planned for next Friday
Astronauts and engineers across the country refine equipment and procedures for a dramatic Skylab repair mission to shade the overheated space station. Two 400 square foot sunshades will be carried to orbit and erected to cool the lab. a space walk is required to install the device.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab Space Station
Orbiting Lab
Space Agency
Aide Offered Clemency in Watergate Case
James McCord Jr. testified that a White House aide urged silence and suggested executive clemency while claiming Nixon knew of the Watergate wiretap. He quoted Caulfield warning the administration could fall over another Teapot Dome style scandal.
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Washington
James W. McCord Jr
White House
Nixon
McCord
John J. Caulfield
Caulfield
Treasury Department
Armed Forces Day Parade Promises Big Lawton Event
Sun to Smile for Armed Forces Day in Lawton Fort Sill with a 10 a.m. downtown parade. The annual observance features the II Corps Artillery coordinating the military segment along with the 77th U S Army Band and the horse drawn Artillery Half Section. Big Deuce the donkey mascot will debut in a personal trailer. A long list of veterans, women’s groups, scouts, ROTC and civic organizations join the celebration.
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77Th U. S. Army Band
Big Deuce
2Nd Battalion
2Nd Field Artillery
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