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Lawton Constitution

Location

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Oct 02, 1973

Page

8

Births Reported at City Hospital

Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Vermie Lambert in dishoma born at 3 36 am Sept 38 weight 8 pounds 13 ounces a daughter to Mr and Mrs Ermus Revels Jr 1915 D born 12 01 pm Sept 30 weight 6 pounds 5 ounces a baby son born 12 38 am Oct 1 weight 6 pounds 1 ounce. Admitted Mickey D Bartley Apache medical Sherry L Barton 7307 For Vickie L Bass 608 Columbia medical Gary G Coffey Altus surgery Dorothy E Cox 5312 Liberty admitted for care.

Vermie Lambert Indishoma Ermus Revels Jr Mickey D. Bartley Apache Sherry L. Barton Vickie L. Bass Columbia Medical Gary G. Coffey Altus Dorothy E. Cox Liberty Sur Warren F. Kruger Tommy D. Ledford Chris E. O'Connor Jr S. 49Th Mary L. Odom N. 40Th Beverly A. Penick Lawton Alyce M. Rejda Elgin Patricia M. Eertain View Lindy Donal Smith N. 50Th Carolyn Smith Longview Judith C. Stallsmith Oklahoma City Etta Faye Turney Carnegie Kenneth D. Wilson S. 17Th Fred M. Bass Stephanie R. Logdson Greenmeadow Drive A. W. McGinnas Karen S. Murphy Geronimo John R. Provine Euclid

Funeral Rites and Obituaries Enter Tipton Area

A Tipton resident Gordon P. Stanford 67 of Rt 1 died Monday at Till Memorial in Ripley Miss He worked as a well pumper and moved to Tipton in 1931 Funeral services set for 2 30 p m Wednesday at Huddleston Funeral Home Chapel Rev Forrest L Keener officiating Burial in Post Cemetery Fort Sill Also noted is the funeral of former Lawton resident Mrs Bertha Ann Peelle 79 to be held Thursday in Lawton with survivors listed and memorials to Eastern Star. Additional notices list many local residents with illnesses and surgeries.

Tipton Gordon P. Stanford Rt. 1 Ripley Miss Willa Faye Canae Corbitt Ray Huddleston Funeral Home Forrest L. Keener Bethel Baptist Church Post Cemetery Fort Sill Floe W. Va Ray Lawton Bertha Ann Peelle Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Oklhoma City Oklahoma City Peelle Trilla Earl Peelle Eastern Star Ernest Wisely Rogers, Ark Lawton-Fort Sill Lawton Public Schools Douglass Learning Center Finley’s Realty Central Junior High School Carpenter Bus Sales Elgin Oklahoma Education Association Kathryn Aaron Wilson Yolanda Auguster Douglass Vivian Henderson Gwenis Ann

Lawton Board adopts textbook bias free policy

Lawton Oklahoma adopts a policy requiring textbooks to be free of bias and accurately portray minority group participation in American life. The OU graduate group helped push the measure, making Lawton the first in the state to adopt such a policy.

AL Ses Lawton Board of Education University of Oklahoma Lawton Board Ted Horton Buckner and Moore Horton State Department of Education Glenn Dosser State Education Department

Episcopal Church to list candidates for top post

At the 6th General Convention in Louisville, the House of Bishops voted to reveal nominees for the retiring Presiding Bishop position. The election is set for Thursday amid debate over transparency and women’s roles within the church.

Louisville Episcopal Church House of Bishops John E. Hines Freedom Hall

Senate Approves Hard Won Foreign Aid Plan Vote Near Deadline

The Senate curbed a $3 billion development loan fund and pressed ahead with a $1.23 billion fiscal 1974 foreign aid authorization. The panel deleted the fund by voice vote and will revisit it with pending trade bills. An Abourezk bid to ban aid to rights abusing countries failed. A windstorm to hurricane note follows.

Washington Senate U.S Senate Finance Committee Russell B. Long D-La James Abourezk D-S.d Abourezk U. S

Staneks Strive For Normal Life Amid Six Births

Edna and Eugene Stanek in Lakewood Colorado cope with six newborns and a four year old as they seek privacy and practical help. Doctors warn space and feeding logistics will challenge the family while neighbors offer aid and volunteers consider live-in support.

Lakewood Colo Edna Eugene Stanek Stanek General Hospital James Strain Staneks Stanek Strain Gene Gregory

Senate approves 156,100 man military cut amid inflation fight

The Senate voted 91 to 1 to send the reduction bill to conference with the House while rejecting a $500 million cut as an inflation weapon. A 51 to 47 vote approved spending authority cuts, with later changes trimming the target to align with a $268.7 billion spending ceiling.

Senate Washington House Congress Nixon John C. Stennis Dmiss Soviet Union Humphrey Byrd

Stocks Show Gain As Trading Begins

New York markets opened with gains as easing short term rates and lower commodity prices boosted sentiment. Dow Jones industrial average rose to 951.23 at noon with advances outweighing declines on the NYSE. CNAs and Gulf Oil moved in reaction to deals and earnings while various grains and livestock prices were listed for Oklahoma prices.

New York New York Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange Gulf CNA

Public Records Reported Burglary And Theft Incidents In Lawton

Lawton Police report lists complainants and incidents including Patterson Tool Co burglary at 432 G and Central Pawn Shop burglary threats to 25 caliber pistol theft, with numerous reports of burglary theft of cash purse vandalism and assault on a minor. Names include John Neilson George Collier Ramon Lesmeister and others with addresses across the city.

Lawton Patterson Tool Co Central Pawn Shop Is. L. Co Ae Eustus Cornell Anna Choate Oak Tommy Phelps S. Soth Evin Smumote S. Sheriden Road J. Long Gore Blvd Bill Young Joseph Ferrante

Fire Reports From Lowton Fire Calls

Times and locations show responses by Lowton Fire Department including 9:12 p.m. at No 68 South Seventh Avenue for a clarms failure and at 9:58 a.m. on Tuesday at 1711 F for a resuscitation call.

Lowton S. Seventh Cor

Bertrand Russell on government dogmas and world peace

Bertrand Russell argues in Unpopular Essays that divergent government dogmas fuel hostility among creeds. He suggests peace requires either no dogma or universal inculcation of the same beliefs.

Bertrand Russell Newspaper Enterprise Assn

Brockland Tax Assessment Due on Water and Paving Projects

The remaining 31,469.67 in 1973 Brockland assessment taxes are now due at the Comanche County Treasurer office per Treasurer Lillian Waid. Taxes cover water, street paving and sewer projects. Earlier payments went to the city clerk. Ad valorem statements for county property owners will be mailed in November and due in December.

Brockland Comanche County Lillian Waid

Armed Robbers Hit Food Store Convent Junction

Police report two armed robbers, described as Black men, robbed a clerk at a convent food store located at 1816 S. 11th Street before midnight Monday. The pair fled the Jiff Store scene with money after forcing a clerk to hand over cash.

Monda Register

Polluted Pacific Coast Waters Linked to Harmful Fish

Research detects alarming mercury and other toxins in fish near Japan's coast. Officials warn contamination may have affected thousands exposed over recent years, leaving hundreds crippled or ill from contaminated seafood.

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City Hospital Gordon Stanford Bertha Peelle Barthie Rogers Williams Marion Ronio Ave. I Willi Russell Gore Patricia Shelton Ben Hats Gnd Dae L. Smith Bedford Wade Smith Bedford Precious Strickland Myrtle Thomason Duncan Anna Valenti Bist Wiliam G. Weaver Mangum Jeff Wilkerson Fletcher E. L. Poindexter Med Cordie E. Reynolds Surgery Phil A Santis Randy Chambers Teresia Yeast McKinley Daniel W. Zeller PHS Gery Verna V. Gossett Charles King Denver Allende Vader Allende Skirble Miami Lende Santiago State Department Supt Hugh Bish Oklahoma Richard Tipton Dambold & Associates Eisenhow Laura Howell Angela Magruder Judy Maxwell Joy Aduddel Almor West Marlene Cagle MacArthur High Gwenis Ann Laura Debbie Burnham Vicki Garvin Charlie Leonhardt Mildred Beadle Vivion Henderson Pat Sullivan Raymond Reece Ronald Best Monta Collins Ruby Forbess Charles Henry Andrew Hill Carol Lubke Herman Milford A. B. Norman Vivian Wall Lea Pentagon South Vietnam Laos Senate House State Department of Agriculture Keyes Liberal Perryton Aston Clinton Hobart Medford Weatherford Manchester el Reno Geary Muskogee Okeene Temple Watonga Yukon Afton Milo Chickasha Pauls Valley Gulf Oil CNA Financial Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co A&p Public Records
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