Jail Escapees Evade Capture in Durant Oklahoma
Eddie Lee Turner and Thomas A Royal escaped Bryan County Jail after wounding a trustee with a .22 pistol. They reportedly stole a pickup from Sam Hale in Kenefick area Sunday, flagging Hale down and forcing him at gunpoint. Hale described the tense encounter and the escapees claim they had broken jail.
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Durant
Okla
Oklahoma
Eddie Lee Turner
Thomas A. Royal
Bryan County
Sam Hale
Kenefick
Hale
Pope
Nixon Reads On China Trip Date Amid Reports
President Nixon plans to announce a date for his trip to Red China and will meet Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in December. Ziegler said consultations with allies will inform and include their views while Nixon aims to relax tensions with Beijing Moscow and Tokyo.
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Nixon
China
Washington
West Germany
Japan
Canada
White House
Peking
Moscow
Ziegler
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
NEA Finds Younger Better Educated Teachers in Survey
The National Education Association reports teachers are younger and more educated, with 64-item survey of 1,819 public school teachers yielding 1,543 responses. Median age down to 35 from 41 in 1961. women’s age drop mainly drives the shift. Degrees have risen with under 3 percent lacking a bachelor’s, and 27 percent holding master’s degrees. 61 percent earned credits in last three years. Most degrees now from public institutions.
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Ashington
National Education Association
PTA
NEA
Educa
Tional
Extensive Air Sea Search For Lost American Troops In Crash
The Associated Press reports Pakistan and India clash across East and West Pakistan with heavy fighting around Jessore and Dinajpur. Pakistan says Indian forces suffered heavy losses and that two Indian divisions plus armored units were involved. casualties include soldiers and civilians in multiple skirmishes.
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Jessore
East Pakistan
Dacca
Jibannagar
Rawalpindi
West Pakistan
India
West Bengal
Jibannager
Pachagarh
Balurghat
West Dinajpur
Associated Press
Dennis Neeld
Neeld
Hussein name successor to slain Jordan prime minister
King Hussein appointed Ahmed Lozi to head the Jordanian cabinet after Wasfi Tell was assassinated in Cairo. The royal decree set Lozi, 51, to continue Tell's mandate as prime minister. Tell’s funeral drew about 3,000 mourners and a 21 gun salute.
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Cairo
Egypt
Arab Defense Council
Arab League
Tell
MMAN
Jordan
Hussein
Ahmed Lozi
Wasfi Tell
Lozi
Amman
Abdullah
Sheraton Hotel
Abdullah Salah
Middle East
Monzie Khalifa
Helicopter Disappears in Vietnam With 33 Missing
In a thunderstorm off the northern coast of South Vietnam a CH47 Chinook with 5 crew and 28 passengers from the 101st Airborne disappeared after an emergency radio call. The Epperon led an extensive air and sea search as losses mounted for U.S. aircraft.
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Gardner
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
da Nang
Phu Bai
U.S
Panhandle
Laos
Nha Be
Saigon
South Vietnam
Highlands
Jeffreys Named To School Post
Curtis Jeffreys a Medicine Park school teacher was named Comanche County superintendent of schools to fill the unexpired term of Clarence Scott who resigned for ill health. Scott’s resignation takes effect November 30 with the term expiring in July 1973. Jeffreys, 40, studied at Mississippi State College and earned a master’s in education from Oklahoma State University. He teaches seventh and eighth grades at Medicine Park.
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Curtis Jeffreys
Medicine Park
Comanche County
Board of County Commissioners
Jeffreys
Clarence Scott
Scott
Mississippi State College
Starkville
Miss
Oklahoma State University
Med
Cold, Wet Weather For Lawton And Southwest Oklahoma
Cold weather continues across Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma with heavy cloudiness and a chance of light rain through Tuesday. A Pacific cold front moves in early Tuesday as scattered showers develop, possibly mixing with snow in the west. Highs reach the upper 40s Tuesday, with about 30 percent rain chances. today’s high near 45, tonight near 30. Sunday’s high was 51, low 35.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Hijackers Admit Killing New Mexico Trooper on Cuba Flight
A Trans World Airlines hijack to Cuba ended with one of the three hijackers admitting the killing of state trooper Robert Rosenbloom near Albuquerque. The three men, identified as Michael Finney Ralph Goodwin and Charles Hill, boarded in Albuquerque and forced the crew at knife point.
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Trans World Airlines
Cuba
New Mexico
Michael
Mahda
Ann Harrell
Miami
Havana
FBI
Robert Rosenbloom
Albuquerque
N.M
Michael R. Finney
San Francisco
Berkeley
Calif
Ralph L. Goodwin
Charles Hill
John McGhee
McGhee
Betty Caubre
Africa
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