Major Collier’s Vietnam fight ends with heavy NVA losses
In Mo Duc the 2nd Division air and artillery support helped Maj. Collier repel several NVA assaults over two days. He recounts intense close quarters fighting, near misses, and heavy casualties on both sides with roughly 200 enemy bodies counted. His wife Patricia and two children live in Lawton. Collier has 12 years in the Army and has served three tours at Fort Sill.
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Mo Duc
NVA
Mas. Collier
Patricia
Lawton
Collier
Seiling
Sullivan Village
Tricia
William P. III
Trey
Maj. Collier
Portsmouth
Army
Fort Sill
Artillery Training Center
Field Artillery School Brigade
Field Artillery School
Vietnam
Mas
Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts
Chickasha
Grain shipments to Russia tracked by U.S. cargo rules
American and Soviet negotiators debate how one third of current grain shipments to Russia will be carried on American vessels under the U.S. Cargo Preference Act. Seafarers union officials seek government guarantees and monitor rules as four million tons already shipped are allocated in a three way split. Previous eight year dispute over loading Russian wheat was settled by President Johnson.
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U.S
Russia
Union
Soviet Union
Maritime Administration
State Department
Aflcio International Longshoremen’s Association
National Maritime Union
Roth amendment defeat delays welfare reform tests
Senators rejected the Roth amendment which would delay action on welfare reform by five to eight years and fund two to four year tests at forty million dollars annually. Oklahoma Senator Bellmon supported the measure while Senator Harris opposed it, reflecting administration opposition to the test plan. Secretary Richardson warned the delay would stall reform for at least five years.
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Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
Oklahoma
Henry Bellman
Fred Harris
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Elliott L. Richardson
Nixon proposes railroad retirement boosts amid veto count
Nixon argues financing would bankrupt the system in 13 years with benefits split between Social Security and the Railroad Retirement Trust Fund. He says retired railroad workers would gain about 28 dollars a month single and 47 for couples, with the plan using half the increases of a vetoed bill. Administration officials say the rises are half of those in the vetoed measure. White House spokesman Ron Ziegler notes this is Nixon's 18th veto and fourth this year.
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Railroad Retirement Trust Fund
Nixon
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Funeral notices for Walter T. Groom 89 Walters
Walter T. Groom aged 89 of Walters died Tuesday morning in a Walters nursing home. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Weldon Rightmer presiding. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
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Walter T. Groom
Walters
Walters Nursing Home
Lawton-Ritter- Dalton Funeral Home
Weldon Rightmer
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Funeral services for Toy Lee Bean in Idabel
Toy Lee Bean 48 of 1111 Dearborn died at 5 p.m. Monday in a local hospital. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Baptist Church in Idabel with burial in the cemetery there under the direction of Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home.
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Toy Lee Bean
Dearborn
Baptist Church
Idabel
Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
Indian School unrest ends as classes resume after sit-in
About 50 protesters including 40 students disrupted the Indian School this fall. Four people were arrested but released by Tuesday afternoon. Windows and doors were damaged, and FBI agents surveyed the scene. Seven tribal chairmen planned to form a committee to address the unrest with students and staff.
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Yeahqua
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fire alarms answered by Lawton Fire Department
Fire units responded to a car fire at 1309 Tennessee Tuesday at 1 30 p m and a trash fire at 120 N 44th at 9 17 p m.
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The
Lawton Fire Department
Tennessee
North Vietnam war actions amid Typhoon Lorna halt
U S and allied forces report reduced air operations over North Vietnam as Typhoon Lorna nears and passes. Enterprise returns to the war zone with 75 jets while F111s resume training. Shelling hits Lai Khe and Quang Ngai area amid intensified Saigon region attacks and B52 missions northern and around Saigon.
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North Vietnam
U.S
Thailand
Vinh
Demilitarized Zone
Panhandle
Associated Press
Holger Jensen
da Nang
Hoi An
Quang Ngai
Saigon
Nixon
Lai Khe
An Loc
More Fair Mild Weather Forecast For Lawton Area
Fair skies and mild temperatures are forecast for Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma through tonight with increasing cloudiness on Thursday. Highs today and Thursday expected in the mid 80s, with a low tonight in the upper 50s. Tuesday's high was 86 and low 58.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
World Deaths Harry B Coffee
In Omaha Nebraska Harry Buffington Coffee 82 a former Nebraska congressman who served four terms as a Democrat died Tuesday He retired after an 1942 Senate defeat and later led the Union Stock Yards Co credited with making Omaha stockyards the world’s largest. In Boston Clarence E Knapp 80 founder of Knapp Brothers Shoe Manufacturing Corp died Monday He built a major shoe firm with brother Edwin D Knapp. In Pittsburgh Gladys Schmitt 63 author and Carnegie Mellon English professor died Tuesday Her latest novel was The Godforgotten.
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Omaha, Neb
Harry Buffington Coffee
Nebraska
U.S. Senate
Union Stock Yards Co
Omaha
Boston
Clarence E. Knapp
Knapp Brothers Shoe Manufacturing Corp
Edwin D. Knapp
Pittsburgh
Gladys Schmitt
Literary Guild
Carnegie-Mellon University
Fountaine Named City Manager in Pinellas Park
Don Whitaker announces Fountaine will meet 30-day notice in Pinellas Park on Oct 12 and start duties by Nov 16. Fountaine, a Korean War veteran and former Berkley and Palmer officials, owns a former Anchorage realty company. He has three daughters Cynthia 16 Rebecca 15 Kimberly 11 and broad support from eight council members at the appointment meeting.
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Fountainer
Anchorage
Don Whitaker
Fountaine
Pinellas Park
Laurie
Cynthia
Rebecca
Kimberly
Whitaker
Cleo Craig
Max Seibold
Larry Ferguson
Ernest Roper
Roy B. Hooper, Jr
Harrell Moore
Charles Beller
Woody Wolverton
Youth football player dies after injury at Walters game
A Temple Junior High School eighth grader and defensive end died after collapsing on the Walters Junior High field following a second play of a game between Temple and Walters. He previously suffered a head injury a week earlier and was released by a Walters physician. Arrangements are pending at Wyatt Funeral Home.
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Temple
Walters
Roy Masoner
Blair
Masoner
Temple Junior High
First Baptist Church
Terry
Donna Faye
Wyatt Funeral Home
Government sues GM over bus monopoly claim
The suit alleges the Fixible Co dominates bus production for public transit, assembled from GM parts and once controlled by a GM officer. It accuses artificial pricing and blocked competition, noting a 1956–1965 case that ended without divestiture and questioning the consent decree.
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Come
Fixible Co
Charles F. Kettering
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