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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1971
Page
4
Witnesses dispute land and business tax assessments under Clark administration. Wilson asserts tax increases while Clark defends corrections on a misread 1971 business tax sheet. Cross examination reveals alleged kickback tales, blackmail offers, and office gambling during a contentious hearing.
The list shows 48 out of state applicants among about 3,500 total. Elk hunt runs three weeks starting Nov 3 with 42 hunters per week, mandatory briefings, and three open ranges Mt Pinchot Graham Flat and Quanah Elk Mountain. Only female and spike bulls may be taken and no antlered elk this year.
The article notes Bong’s Loyal Opposition party winning seats in the National Assembly and Thieu weighing Bong for premier or a senior cabinet role to gain broader support. In a separate action, a U S helicopter was downed near Saigon with casualties among crew and Vietnamese militiamen, amid Viet Cong attacks. An accompanying air strike targeted a surface to air missile site in North Vietnam and B52s hit logistics routes into the A Shau valley, as U S forces conduct ongoing operations against North Vietnamese defenses.
Seven men and five women were empaneled as jurors in the trial of Edward Schultz 56 of 1005 S Seventh charged with shooting his former wife Frances 55 at her Washington apartment. The victim was found bleeding from a head wound and said I ve been shot. Schultz was arrested at a local tavern about three hours later as district attorney David Aubrey opened the case. Jurors listed include Ella Banks Clarence J Tillotson Thelma Kirkpatrick Mabel Holbert Jack Hutson Mary Freeman Edward R Smith Ray Lehman Lawrence Greb Anna Verner Ernest L McAllister and Billy Blackburn.
The chamber committee delayed a water delivery plan weighing 4.2 million for 16 miles of pipeline to Ellsworth or southeast Lawton plus 5 million for a new filter plant. Storage and related facilities could cost 1.4 million with financing through the conservancy district and local bond issues.
A 1968 Senate election figure is to attend a November 19 banquet at the Fort Sill Noncom Officers Club with a social hour at 7 p.m. Special guests include waiting wives invited by AUSA. Complimentary tickets via wives clubs. other tickets from Lawton banks Gilbert-Woods Drug Ford Painter Drug Earl Drug Sears Montgomery Ward and the Hotel Lawtonian. at Fort Sill through major commands and units representatives.
Miss McQueen of Livonia and Miss Wains tein of Skokie Illinois were set on fire in the kitchen of Miss Wains tein s apartment near the University of Michigan campus. An unidentified caller notified police and firefighters responded, breaking through a door and removing the injured students to the university burn center.
Washington AP reports the foreign aid fight rests on two truths of Congress. Major bills rarely fail and annual spending lags, prompting a continuing resolution to extend funds while authorization lags.
Gen. Westmoreland arrives as secretary of the Army on July 1 and is greeted with a 19 gun salute and four Ruffles and Flourishes. His career began after West Point, with early service at Fort Sill and the 34th Field Artillery in North Africa and Sicily during World War II, culminating in a Presidential Unit Citation.
A federal court jury acquitted Roy Worley, 53, a former Guymon bank employee, of embezzling $3,250 from City National Bank of Guymon. Worley testified he was framed as bank officials disputed his account of loan denials and checks.
The first surviving mahogany use is a rough hewn cross in Santo Domingo Cathedral finished in 1540. The church’s carved woodwork remains in good condition and visible today.
A Kansas man identified as Johnnie McDiarmid of Independence received a kidney transplant at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. The donor kidney traveled from Dallas using a machine developed by Dr. Wolcott Stewart of Fort Worth, enabling a 15 hour total interval between removal and transplantation.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. December 13 for Jess Dixon 16 of Medicine Park charged with second degree burglary alongside two younger youths James Dixon 14 and Joseph Squyres 15 also from Medicine Park. Bond set at 1000. The case involves a report of weapons stolen from a Medicine Park home used in an attempted armed robbery at a nearby service station.
The English royal House of Plantagenet derives its name from a founder who wore a broom branch in his cap. The French term plante de genet inspired the nickname and then the dynasty.
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