High Court Strikes Down Oklahoma Judge Gag Order
The Supreme Court temporarily struck down Oklahoma County Judge Charles E Halley’s order barring media from publishing or broadcasting the 11 year old murder suspect’s name or photo. The stay follows a Nebraska case holding pre trial reporting restraints are often unjustified. The newspapers sought full coverage of the boy Brewer’s sentencing as the case draws renewed attention.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Charles E. Halley
Nebraska
Supreme Court
The
Oklahoma Publishing Co
Daily
Oklahoman
Oklahoma City Times
Sunday Oklahoman
Byron R
Larry Donnel Brewer
Oklahoma City
Halley
Bev
Cial
Oklahoma Supreme Court
High Court
Justice White
Ing Company
William J. Brennan Jr
Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
Potter Stewart
Bush to resign as CIA director effective inauguration day
George Bush announced he will quit as head of the Central Intelligence Agency on inauguration day and stay until January 2 1977. He pledged full assistance to President elect Jimmy Carter during the transition and said his future plans are not known. Bush briefed Carter for nearly six hours and declined to discuss his own plans or possible replacement.
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Washington
George Bush
Central Intelligence Agency
Coggressman
CIA
Jimmy Carter
Bush
Ford
Carter
Plains
Georgia
Carter Carter
Major Quake Strikes Eastern Turkey Killing Hundreds
A powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey near the Soviet border, killing hundreds and causing widespread destruction, according to Turkish state radio reports.
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Turkey
Istanbul
Fort Sill Named Runner up in Defense Conservation Award
Fort Sill ranked first among Army posts for conservation and represented the Army in a three year judging period 1973 1975 earning special recognition for outstanding achievement. DFAE F Col Richard G Huber accepted the honor at the Pentagon from Dale Babione.
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Fort Sill
Secretary of Defense Natural Resources
Army
Secretary of Defense
Richard G. Huber
Directorate of Facilities Engineering
DFAEF
Dale Babione
Pentagon
Southwest Oklahoma Forecast Sounds Sunny and Warm
The National Weather Service expects a sunny warm Thanksgiving in Southwest Oklahoma on Thursday. Tonight winds will be southerly at six to 12 mph with temperatures in the upper 30s. Thursday highs near the lower 70s. Tuesday reached 60 and dipped to 38.
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Oklahoma
National Weather Service
Indian Claims Settlement Checks To Be Mailed
Thousands of Kiowa Comanche and Kiowa Apache members will receive settlement checks Dec. 9 from the federal government. About 16 120 Indians share 35 065 000 with 20 percent set for tribal programs and 7 013 000 set aside for development while individuals get roughly 1 700 each.
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Federal Accounting Center
Denver
Dennis Wickliffe
Anadarke
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Wickliffe
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Indian Claims Commission
Congress
Four Oklahoma youths die on Turner Turnpike crash
A fiery Turner Turnpike wreck near Wellston killed three Oklahoma City siblings Russell Cole 17 Donna Cole 11 Donald Cole 1 and Saundra Cobb 17 and another driver. A Maysville man Gary Bivins 36 died near Logan County when his car left U.S. 74, overturned into a creek. The state highway toll rose to 750 for 1976.
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Turner Turnpike
Wellston
Maysville
Logan County
Oklahoma
Highway Patrol
Russell Lee Cole
Donna L. Cole
Donald W. Cole
Saundra Kay Cobb
Oklahoma City
U.S. 177
Gary Dwane Bivins
U.S. 74
Oklahoma 33
Lawton NAMES Metzinger City Manager Amid Vote
Lawton City Council selected Robert Metzinger of Joplin Missouri as city manager after a 7 to 1 vote. Fredrick Chenault opposed claiming the item was not on the agenda. Metzinger, 42, has over 17 years in Missouri and Kansas city management and starts at 30000 a year with a car and benefits.
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Lawton
Robert FE. Metzinger
Joplin
Jack Norrell
Charles Gibbs
Metzinger
Fredrick Chenault
Missouri
Kansas
J.J. Pursiey
Council
Wm Lawton
Parsons, Kan
el Dorado
Kan
Kentucky
Coffeyville
University of Kansas
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