Memorial Day Observed With Ceremonies At Fort Sill
Lawton Fort Sill area marked Memorial Day with four ceremonies led by Post Commander Maj. Gen. David E. Ott. He noted origins may trace to Confederate women placing flowers on Civil War graves. Ott urged remembrance of those who sacrificed for country as long as two survive. Ceremonies included a 10 a.m. service at Fort Sill Post Cemetery and an 11:40 a.m. ceremony at McNair Hall with a 21 gun salute by Salute Battery. Additional observances occurred at two city cemeteries at 10:30 a.m. See page 2 for HONORED.
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Sterling girl killed in Rush Springs wreck at highway intersection
A 15 year old Dana Renee Henderson of Sterling died at the scene after a collision with a truck at the SH 17 US 81 intersection in Rush Springs. Driver Steve Wayne Bartlett, 18, Marlow, was hospitalized in Oklahoma City with trunk head and other injuries.
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Tornadoes and Heavy Rains Plague Southwest Oklahoma
Severe thunderstorms battered southwest Oklahoma with 70 mph winds in Altus, tornadoes, large hail and two inches of rain in several counties. In Tulsa area flooding and damage followed, with one death on the Turner Turnpike and numerous mobile homes and residences damaged.
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Mingon Creek
Officer Who Wrote Taps Bugle Call
Civil War general Daniel Butterfield composed Taps in 1862 to calm troops after the Peninsula Campaign. He refined a gentler melody at Berkeley Plantation, guiding bugler Oliver Norton to debut the final version for the Army of the Potomac.
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Tidwater Virginia
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America pauses to remember war dead on Memorial Day
The nation honored its war dead with ceremonies from Arlington National Cemetery to cemeteries nationwide. President Ford laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and urged renewed commitment to liberty and peace. Traffic fatalities were forecast around 340 to 400 for Memorial Day weekend.
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Storms Rip Through Oklahoma With Severe May Weather
Storms battered Oklahoma in May with heavy rain hail and tornadoes. Waurika and McAlester saw two to four inches while Lawton recorded over an inch as a fatal automobile crash linked to rain obscured visibility. Ingram and McFall were involved. McFall died and his wife was injured. May page 2.
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McAlester
Lawton
Texas
Carl Sam McFall
Marilyn Lou Ingram
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Martha Mitchell Dies At 57 Noted Nixon Era Figure
Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at 57 from multiple myeloma. Known for outspoken defense of Nixon then critical role during Watergate, she faced separation from her husband in 1973 and legal fights over back alimony.
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Philadelphia Seeks 15000 Federal Troops for Bicentennial
Mayor Frank Rizzo asks for 15 000 federal troops to police Philadelphia for the Fourth of July Bicentennial amid threats of disruption by radicals. Governor Shapp will refer the request to the Secret Service, with President Ford visiting. FBI investigates possible civil disorder linked to Rich Off Our Backs Coalition and rallies planned in Philadelphia including a tent city in Fairmount Park.
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Washington
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee
Revolutionary Student Brigade
Fairmount Park
Be irut Ceasefire Effort Under Sarkis Halt Nears
President elect Elias Sarkis arranged a temporary pause in Beirut shelling as violence spread to two Christian towns in northern Lebanon. Police report about 300 killed and 700 wounded in 48 hours amid a 14 month civil war, with no precise figures.
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Syria
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