Cooper Receives Space Medal and Heroic Welcome in DC
Air Force Maj. L. Gordon Cooper was awarded a presidential "well done" medal in a White House ceremony and lauded by Congress. Kennedy praised him as a national hero as dignitaries filled the rose garden. Cooper recalled flying past the sunken Arizona after Pearl Harbor.
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Maj. L. Gordon Cooper
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Kennedy
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Cooper
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Manind
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Kearsarge
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Andrews
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Col
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Hattie Cooper
Camala
Janita Cooper
Virgil Grissom
Alan Shepard
Walter Schirra
Donald Slayton
Ada booster outlines Y turnpike plans in Oklahoma
Oklahoma officials hear Ada leader Bill Hoover urge building a two northern leg Y turnpike from Henryetta and Oklahoma City to Ada with a southern leg to an I 35 intersection near Sulphur. He envisions tie ins to future interstate mileage and possible links to Denver New Orleans routes.
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Oklahoma City
Bill Hoover
Ada
House Roads and Highways Committee
Oklahoma
Mover
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
al Nichols
Wewoka
Joe Bailey Cobb
Tishomingo
Henryetta
Sulphur
Hoover
McAlester
Hugo
Adas
Congress
Galveston
Dallas
Kansas City
Tulsa
Senate Hikes Highway Fund in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Senate Appropriations Committee approved a rewritten bill for a 95.2 million dollar two year highway program, boosting funding by 4 million above the budget proposal. The plan uses 24 million general revenue including 2 million from surplus, with remainder from earmarked taxes.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Tom Tipps
Ardmore
Senate Roads and Highways Committee
General Fund
Senate
Tipps
Sen
Ray Fine
Gore
Highway Commission
Oklahoma
The
Moisture Slated To Return Today
The U S Weather Bureau reports increasing cloudiness in southwest Oklahoma with light moisture possible this afternoon. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies, mild conditions, and a few light showers tonight and tomorrow with temperatures peaking near 75 today and dropping to the mid 70s tomorrow.
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Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Middas
Wes Hamm Named Top Lawton Senior
Wes Hamm son of Velma Hamm 814 G was named Lawton High School top graduating senior at the annual senior awards assembly. He received multiple honors including the American Legion citizenship medal Elks lodge most valuable student plaque L club best athlete trophy and Lions club athlete with the highest scholarship title. He plans to attend the University of Oklahoma under the Junior GI Bill and has served as student council president football captain and member of the National Honor Society.
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Velma Hamm
Lawton High School
T Tech
American Legion
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Lions Club
Lawton Public School
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Hamm
University of Oklahoma
National Honor Society
L” Club
Judi Phillips
Cameron College
American Business Women's Association
Carl Cooper
Wilma Rigsby
Pamela Ann Tieyah
Cameron
Business and
Professional Women’s Club
Ruth Stanard
Edwin Chappabitty Jr
Lawton Lee
October Vote On Redistrict Plans Agreed
The Oklahoma conference reapportionment committee agreed to submit a reapportionment amendment to the voters on October 1. It calls for a 15 October special session to finalize the formula for 1964 elections, with area as the controlling factor and multiple counties limited to three senators. Oklahoma and Tulsa counties would each have three senators. Oklahoma County would gain 19 house members and Tulsa County 15. total house members about 140 pending population changes. The plan envisions enforcement by the legislature, an apportionment commission, then the state supreme court.
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Walt Allen
Chickasha
Laurence Howze
Seminole
Senate
House
Allen
Oklahoma
Tulsa
U. S
Oklahoma County
Tulsa County
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Council annexes two areas west of city
City council members annexed two areas including land between Gore and Lee Blvd and east of 52nd with major business firms on Cache Road. They authorized a General Neighborhood Renewal Plan for Lawton View, and signed a contract with the Urban Renewal Authority for planning staff services. A temporary seven member board was approved to operate the former USO YWCA building now Patterson Community Center.
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Urban Renewal Authority
Mercury Ambulance Co
Council Action
Gore and
Lee Blvd
52Nd
County Club Heights Addition
Cameron College
Crestview Addition
Gore
40Th
Cache Road
Rogers Lane
44Th
Wayne Gilley
Uso-Ywca
Arlington Drive
Larrance
Army
USO
Patterson Community Center
Douglass High School
Operaton
Everett Hill
John Henry Nelson
John R. Sadberry
Eugene Owens
Mary Nell Walker
Charles Jefferson
Lemuel Harkey
East Lawton
Lawton View Addition
All- See Council
Texas Okays Removal Of Satanta's Remains
Gov. Connally signed a law authorizing the repatriation of Kiowa Chief Satanta’s remains from the Texas prison cemetery to Oklahoma. Satanta’s grandson James Auchiah of Carnegie led the effort after previous debates over relic exchanges and grave location.
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Phil Ford
James Auchiah
Texas
John B. Connally
Satanta
Oklahoma
Auchiah
Carnegie
Panhandle Plains
Canyon
Tex
Kan
Rural Citizens Seek Intervention in Redistricting Mandamus
A Rural Citizens and Property Owners association petitions to intervene in a mandamus suit challenging current county commissioner districts. District Judge Luther B. Eu banks ordered redistricting or a show cause hearing by Thursday. Ard claims district No. 2 includes 61,697 people per 1960 reports.
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Board of
Alabama Trustees Admit Two Negroes to University
University of Alabama trustees agreed to admit Vivian J. Malone of Mobile and Dave M. McGlathery of Huntsville to the all white campus but asked a federal judge to delay their admittance until racial tensions ease in Alabama.
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Birmingham
Ala
University of Alabama
Alabama
Hubert E. Mate
Vivian J. Malone
Mobile
Dave M. MecGlathery
Huntsville
University Extension Center
Soeprine
Peremee Grim
Fate in Making for Wheat Plan
President Kennedy watches a pivotal vote as up to 1.5 million farmers decide on a government plan to curb wheat production. Ballots close in about 40,000 communities with results expected early Wednesday. If approved, 1964 output would fall 10 percent. defeat would pressure a low supports alternative. The outcome could reshape federal farming policy and government role.
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Washington
Kennedy
Orville L. Freeman
Farm Bureau
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