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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1973
Page
5
Era Hospital notes Bertie Ballard of Sterling and Thelma Dillard of Duncan among medical updates. Brief entries record their status and ongoing care.
Funeral services announced for Donris Everett Tompkins 72 of McMahon Tomlinson Nursing Home to be held at First Church of the Nazarene in Rockford with burial in a local cemetery under Becker Funeral Home directions. The notice lists numerous survivors and related medical and birth notices across Elgin Lawton Anadarko Enid and nearby towns.
More than six contestants and 150 spectators attended the first National Fishing and Hunting Day competition at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Youths 16 and under competed in fishing, waterfowl calling, fly tying and lure making with prizes awarded by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Robert Greiner, Carl Meighen and Joe Musgrove of the Great Plains Field and Stream Association. Jack Breathwit won in four waterfowl calls, and Scott Joiner, president of the Southwest All-Sports Association, presented the awards.
A Fort Sill incident reports a driver named Folger destroying about 15 feet of wire mesh fence at 11 p.m. He crashed after hitting a sign and a tree and was taken into custody by Lawton police on a traffic charge. Military Police charged him with destruction of property.
Public records summarize thefts and vandalism across multiple locations. Incidents include thefts of television sets shower curtains purses and vandalism reports at residences laundries and businesses in Durant and surrounding areas with several named individuals and addresses.
Sunday and Monday fire reports list several calls including trash fires at Fifth and D and 712 Ariington, a house fire at 41 Elmhurst, car fires at 7th End Park and Fourth and Lee Booseverd, plus an electrical incident at 614 Washington and a gasoline washdown at Second Street.
Steve Carel, 25, and Randy Griffin, 26, both teachers, were ordered bound over for trial by Judge John Taylor on alleged statutory sexual assaults involving a 15 year old Lawton girl, with Carel also linked to another case with a 14 year old. Both were suspended with pay. hearings followed by arraignments expected today.
Delores Kruger head of Camer on College Nursing will preside over the 65th annual Oklahoma State Nurses Association convention in Tulsa. Dorothy Hall of Miami will be installed as president. Evelyn Bartritt of Iowa College of Nursing will deliver the keynote on Ax for Practice. The Oklahoma Nurse of the Year will be announced. Joyce Gale of Comanche County Memorial Hospital serves as treasurer and will present financial reports.
Two Fort Sill men were jailed after Friday arrests for alleged sale of synthetic marijuana to a police agent. One 19 held on sale of THC and another 18 held on possession charges. The deal occurred in an apartment rented by the 18-year-old.
Lawton woman Royce Jo Linker faces a second degree murder charge for the July 15 killing of Durwood Owens in Chattanooga. The same week Tom Michelle Ford's first degree manslaughter charge was dismissed after a judge suppressed evidence in the July 26 death of Lloyd Matthews Jr. A two week jury term also includes 19 civil cases.
RECA Buerki a 22 year old Swiss extern becomes the first medical student employed as a nurse's aide at Southwestern Hospital. She will gain practical experience in the ICU X ray department and laboratory before returning to Switzerland in mid October.
Profit taking cooled stock market gains with the Dow slipping to 942.50 at noon and the blue chips down after a two week rally. Fannie Mae led on the Big Board as declines outweighed advances and trading volume remained active. Oklahoma reports follow with cattle and grain prices across wheat barley milo alfalfa hay and broilers.
World Deaths reports on W. H. Auden English poet who became American citizen dying in Vienna at 66. Harold L. Dash architect and lawyer, brother of Senate Watergate counsel, dies at 51. Harry Rosin famed American sculptor dies at 75 in New Hope Pennsylvania. Juliette Murphy dancer and wife of former actor and U.S. Senator George Murphy dies in Beverly Hills at 71. James Todd former Moberly Monitor-Index publisher dies at 87. former Missouri press leader and newspaper executive.
English circus performer Harry Yelding used 22 foot stilts in his act, believed to be the tallest ever.
Iola Hayden scheduled to speak in Lawton October 11 to address Oklahoma for Indian Opportunity leaders during Indian Achievement Week, with O10 officials and local businessmen present at the Hotel Lawtonian Comanche Room. Hayden, ex O10 director, returned from Washington to lead the Norman based group amid lingering disputes with LaDonna Harris over funds and duties.
The Southwest Oklahoma Ski Club will hold its first meeting of the season from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fort Sill Polo Club. The gathering offers a barbecue for members and potential joiners and notes ski trips to Crested Butte Colorado Brora MO and Taos New Mexico.
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