Cameron University Head to Speak at Lawton Forum
Dr. Don Owen Cameron University president will speak at the Lawton Chamber of Commerce Friday Forum at the Hotel Lawtonian. He will outline the university building program and needs for the coming year and bring three staff members and the student body president to answer questions. Tickets for the luncheon are $3.50 at the door.
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Don Owen
Cameron University
Cameron
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Lawtonian
Owen
NBC to End All News Service After Subscriptions Fail
NBC will shut down its 24 hour News and Information Service by mid next year after failing to attract enough subscribing stations or a large national audience. NBC president Jack Thayer cited only 70 stations and under 250 000 listeners as insufficient for continuation with a six month contract period to run.
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NBC Radio Division
News and Information Service
NIS
All-News Radio Statens
Thayer
NBC
Relief Bill Signed For Sill Dependent
The dependent child of a former Army enlisted man receives 120000 dollars for permanent injuries from Hernia surgery at Reynolds Army Hospital in 1965. President Ford signed a private relief bill offering compensation and potential free Army medical care.
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Gary A. Broyles
Ford
Senate Judiciary Committee
Broyles
Senate
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Army Claims Service
Secretary of the Army
Tremors Rattle Imperial Valley in Southern California
About 30 minor earthquakes shook the Imperial Valley area near Brawley California for several hours late Wednesday night and early Thursday. Cal Tech spokeswoman Rosalind Silver said magnitudes ranged from 2 to 4 on the Richter scale with the quakes centered seven miles north of Brawley.
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Pasadena
Calif
Imperial Valley
California
Rosalind Silver
California Institute of Technology
Brawley
Salton Sea
Cal Tech
Columbia Receives 11 000 Page Oral History of W K Wellington Koo
Columbia University was presented with the memoirs of W K Wellington Koo, a top Chinese diplomat until 1967. The collection spans more than 11 000 pages and is believed to be the longest oral history project ever produced.
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Columbia University
W.K. Wellington Koo
Postwar-born workers formed large share of 1976 labor force
In 1976 about forty percent of the labor force consisted of individuals born after World War II. The statistic highlights the growing influence of the baby boom generation in the workforce during the mid-1970s.
Loyalists in the American Revolution Austerity and exile
The article recalls 1776 loyalists who swore peace to the Crown and the toll of Tory allegiance. It notes 30,000 Americans fought for Britain and 100,000 went into exile, with confiscations and scattered fates from executions to prison. It describes emigres in London facing poverty and isolation, forming exile communities and clubs as they awaited a homeland that would not return.
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Kingston
N.Y
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Framingham
Mass
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Long Island
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Moody
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Pennsylvania Assembly
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Salem
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Thomas Hutchinson
William Smith
John Randolph
Hutchinson
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Samuel Peters
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Media gains greater access to state prisons upheld
A three judge panel of the U S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld broader media access to state jails and prisons than the public. The ruling supports earlier Alameda County Santa Rita jail access while allowing reasonable limits for security and operations.
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U.S
Oliver Carter
Alameda County
Harry Pregerson
Pregerson
Cameron announces LSAT and GRE test dates
Monte Dover of Cameron University says LSAT registration closes Monday and GRE signup deadline is November 10. LSAT tests December 4 and GRE December 11 at Cameron. Registration packets available at the University Testing Center in Nance Boyer Hall.
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Monte Dover
Cameron University
Cameron
Nance Boyer Hall
Three Men Face Amphetamine Delivery Charges in District Court
A preliminary hearing is set for December 15 for Jules Anthony 21 Medicine Park Simon Garcia 23 Indiahoma and Robert Hall 22 Was set on bonds 4000 2000 and 10000 respectively after an undercover purchase of seven packets of amphetamine for 1050 near Medicine Park SH 49 exit US 277. Six law enforcement officers participated in Wednesday arrest.
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Jules Anthony
Medicine Park
David Carter
Simon Garcia
Indiahoma
Robert James Hall
SH 49
U.S. 277
Robbery Probe Focuses on Military Policeman Hoax
Police continued the investigation into a gunpoint robbery of Lawton couple at their home on a Wednesday dawn. Detectives say two men in fatigues posing as MPs forced entry at 2:30 a.m. and stole $5, and investigators stress the suspects were not real military police.
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Lawton
Robert Schulte
Fort Sill
Schulte
David Verduys
Williams
Verdugo
Teaching? No Interest Among Freshmen Declines
The American Council of Education reports only 6.5 percent of this year’s college freshmen plan to become teachers, down from 8.2 percent last year and 21.7 percent in 1966, highlighting a sharp drop in teaching career intent.
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American Council of Education
Federal grant awarded to Cameron School of Nursing
The Cameron School of Nursing received a $21,725 nursing capitation grant announced by U S Rep Tom Steed's office. Dolores Kruger chairwoman says funds will support faculty continuing education and equipment based on student enrollment.
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Cameron School of Nursing
U.S
Tom Steed
Dolores Kruger
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