Ford Eager to Consider Douglas Successor for Supreme Court
President Ford is very eager to start considering a successor to retired Justice William O. Douglas. Douglas, aged 77 and paralyzed since a stroke, retires effective immediately and says he hopes to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful. Ford will ask the American Bar Association to provide input and plans a broader list of possible names as he moves quickly to restore full operating strength of the court.
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Ford
American Bar Association
Douglas
Buchen
Supreme Court
Local agency gets $580,217 federal grant for training program
Comanche County Comprehensive Employment and Training Act agency receives a 580217 grant from the Department of Labor to fund training at six local schools. The money covers the fifth quarter of the current federal fiscal year, extending to September 30, 1976 as Washington shifts to a new funding year starting October 1.
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Paul Hart
Comanche County
Dave Mayfield
CETA
Great Plains
Vo-Tech Center
Cameron University
Eve’s Beauty School
Oklahoma
Oklahoma County
Tulsa
Panel Refuses Third Nominee in Senate Rejection Fallout
Washington AP report notes Congress blocks Isabel Burgess renomination to the National Transportation Safety Board for a third time in two weeks. The 10-7 Senate Commerce Committee vote split along party lines with liberals defeating the nomination. The piece also covers CETA funding for Oklahoma counties and planned job training programs across the state.
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Washington
Congress
Isabel Burgess
National Transportation Safety Board
Burgess
Nixon
Senate Commerce Committee
Ben B. Blackburn
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Senate
Blackburn
Georgia
Commerce Committee
Ford
Joseph Coors
The
Public Broadcasting Corp
John O. Pastore
D-R.i
Coors
Tele
President seeks weaker federal trucking controls to boost competition
President Ford urged Congress to curb federal trucking regulation to spur competition and cut consumer costs. The plan would loosen rate bureau rules, allow agricultural carriers more freedom, permit private carriers to serve affiliates, and create a zone of reasonableness for rate changes while keeping ICC oversight. It faces opposition from trucking firms and the ICC.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
White House
Postmarks Bring Christmas Cheer Across States
Lawton postmaster Kinley McClure announces a pre Christmas message urging stamp collectors to note that many place names coincide with holiday postmarks. The piece lists dozens of towns and states with names such as May Idaho and Santa Claus Indiana while noting three North Poles in Alaska Colorado and New York and Bethlehem locations in several states. It also mentions a classroom of holiday postmarks including Nazareths and Fairyland represented in various regions.
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Dickens
Christmas Carroll
Santa Claus
Lawton
Kinley McClure
United States
May
Idaho
Oklahoma
Texas
Story
Wyoming
Arkansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Florida
Carroll
Ohio
Maine
Blessing
Mississippi
Michigan
New York
Indiana
West Virginia
Noel
Missouri
Alaska
Colorado
Bethlehems
Connecticut
Georgia
Kentucky
Maryland
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
California
Alabama
Kansas
North
Ford to visit China Indonesia and the Philippines
President Ford will make a five day trip to mainland China early next month and visit Indonesia and the Philippines on the way home. He departs Washington November 29 with an overnight Alaska stop and one or two events.
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Washington
Ford
China
Indonesia
Philippines
Ron Nessen
Alaska
Cold snap continues for Lawten with freezing nights
Lawten residents can seek temperatures at or below freezing for a second straight night. Tonight's low will be in the upper 20s to low 30s with southerly winds 6 to 12 mph. Friday's high expected in the lower 60s. Wednesday reached a 52 degree high and a 2 degree low.
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Lawten
Portugal Rebel Workers Besiege Premier's Home
About 20,000 striking workers backed by Communist farmers besieged Lisbon parliament and trapped Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo in his residence. Demonstrators invaded the parliament briefly, demanded wage hikes up to 44 percent, and chanted for a pro Communist return. Guards cleared the garden as a military helicopter evacuated lawmakers. The siege drew reactions from Socialist and Popular Democratic parties while the premier weighed military action.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo
Constituent Assembly
Assembly
Azevedo
Vasco Goncalves
Socialist
Popular Democratic
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Jorge Campinos
Associated Press
Campinos
Communist Party
Presidential hopeful Carter guarded by tight lawman security
Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter visited Lawton with heavy federal and local protection. Secret Service agents coordinated arrival and speech at the Hotel Lawtonian, with FBI cooperation and a five car motorcade. No disturbances occurred though a man was escorted from a reception room after attempting to deliver a letter.
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Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Lawton
Gerald Ford
Carter
U.S. Secret Service
Presi
Dential
Lawtonian
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Secret Service
Lawton Airport
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U.S. Labor Department
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New County
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Cache
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Lee
Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Carlos Arias Navarro
Donald H. Rumsfeld
State
Defense
Rumsfeld
Senate Armed Services Committee
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