Supreme Court bans gender bias in estate law
The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Idaho rules that favor men over women in estate administration. Chief Justice Warren Burger said arbitrary discrimination violates the 14th Amendment. Mrs Sally Reed, denied as administratrix, welcomed the ruling as a win for women. The decision questions state power to differentiate in similar cases.
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Warren E. Burger
Idaho
United States
Sally Reed
Ada County
Cecil Reed
Richard
Downtown fire gutts three stores in Lawton
Fire investigators probed a Sunday morning blaze that gutted The Stag Shop Cherokee News and Arcade in the 300 block of C Avenue. Damage was estimated at 135000 dollars as the building housing the three stores burned. smoke damaged nearby businesses. Fire Chief said crews from four stations battled the flames, with roof collapses delaying containment. No serious injuries reported.
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Lawton
Jeff Dixon
C Avenue
Ray Catlin
Hussein Safady
Cherokee News and Arcade
Bill Dean
Sixth
Dean
Deas
Safady
Texas
Catlin
Earl’s Drug
Fourth and C
Mer- See
Regents Hear Owen Murray on Cameron Two-Year Programs
Dr. Don Owen and Dr. Richard Murray spoke to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education opposing a board policy that could drop Cameron College two-year programs. Cameron filed an eight-page consultant report by Daryl Pendergraft highlighting an area of concern.
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Don Owen
Cameron College
Richard Murray
Oklahoma State Regents For Higher Education
Cameron
North Central Association
Daryl Pendergraft
Long service Clarence Scott resigns as Comanche County schools head
Clarence Scott, superintendent since 1935, resigns due to ill health. Effective Nov 30, 1972, he leaves a 37 year tenure. His district covers Bishop, Stoney Point, Flower Mound Elementary, Medicine Park and Faxon schools. A successor will be appointed soon. eligibility requires a master's in education, administrator certificate, and 10 years teaching.
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Clarence Scott
Comanche County
Scott
Bishop
Stoney Point
Flower Mound
Medicine Park
Faxon
Frank White
Fires kill nineteen in Michigan Alaska and California
Weekend blazes in Michigan Alaska and California kill nineteen people including fifteen children. Police suspect arson in the Pontiac Michigan fire that claimed two men a woman and four of her five children.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Alaska
California
Pontiac
Mich
Mayor Whitaker to represent city in Honolulu congress
Mayor Don Whitaker has been named a voting delegate to the 48th Annual Congress of Cities in Honolulu November 28 to December 1. He will join five municipal officials on a November 30 workshop panel on organizing small cities to cope with expanded responsibilities and will participate in policy revisions and officer elections.
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Skip Gibson
Don Whitaker
Honolulu
Whitaker
Congress
Marshall Kaplan
Washington D.C
Lee
Cold Front Brings Light Sleet Snow to Oklahoma
A cold front moving in from the northeast brought colder air to Lawton and southwest Oklahoma with cloudy skies and scattered light rain or sleet. Temperatures will dip to mid-30s tonight, with a gradual warm up to the upper 50s by Tuesday as precipitation chances ease.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Great Lakes
Oklahoma City
Apache
Tulsa
Constitution & Morning Press
Third
A. Altus
Ardmore
Fort Sill
Butz Wins Okay Of Senate Panel
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved President Nixon's nominee Earl Butz as secretary of agriculture by an 8 to 6 vote. The panel attached conditions requiring a blind trust for his stock and sale of agribusiness holdings within 90 days, plus a ban on further agribusiness stock if confirmed.
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Butz
Senate
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Nixon
Earl Butz
Ralston-Purina
Stokley van Camp
International Minerals and Chemicals
Purdue
Pay Boards OK Of Wage Hike Blasted
Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally condemned the Pay Board for approving a 15 percent coal wage increase and accused AFL-CIO president George Meany of arrogant conduct. He urged cooperation with the board and called a Group of Ten meeting in Rome for Nov. 30, while praising early inflation progress after the wage price freeze and suggesting tax programs will boost recovery. Meany defended his conduct at the Miami convention, denying rude treatment of Nixon. Connally criticized Meany for snubbing Nixon and warned against an uncooperative AFL-CIO stance toward the Pay Board.
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Washington (Ap
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Connally
Meany
United States
Cost of Living Council
Nixon
Rome
Congress
Bal Harbor
Fla
Miami
South Viets Launch New Offensive In Cambodia
South Vietnamese troops aided by U S air power launched a new push into eastern Cambodia aimed at disrupting North Vietnamese supply depots and divisions. A 1 000 man ranger and armor task force led the operation near Tay Ninh, with 3 000 more troops held in reserve as U S helicopters and advisers reinforce the effort.
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Cambodia
AIGON
U.S
Chrum
Highway 7
Saigon
Phnom Penh
Associated Press
George Esper
Tay Ninh
North Vietnam
7Th Division
Ith
9Th
Dam Be
Sth
7Th
Krek
South Vietnam
Highway 6
Esper
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Karachi
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Abba Eban
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Israel
Eban
Sadat
Oklahoma Regents For Higher Education
Peggy JO Orinson
Gage
Guyman
Miami Beach
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