Cartoon poll shows top and bottom comics in readers taste
Peanuts leads the Constitution poll followed by Beetle Bailey Hi and Lois Hagar the Horrible Tumbleweeds Archie and The Heart of Juliet Jones. The Press shows Blondie Dick Tracy Buz Sawyer Gasoline Riley Bringing Up Father Steve Canyon Li ll Abner Andy Capp and Dr Smock top readers votes. The editors say the poll is not scientific and reflects several hundred ballots mailed in. Associate Editor Steve Bentley notes further reader opinions from Sunday Constitution comics and Press readers will be surveyed soon.
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Constitution
Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
Hi and Lois
Hagar the Horrible
Tumbleweeds
Archie
Juliet Jones
Blondie
Dick Tracy
Buz Sawyer
Gasoline Riley
Up Father
Steve Canyon
Li'l Abner
Andy Capp
Dr. Smock
Steve Bentley
Constitution and Press Daily Comics
Multiple Funeral Services Held for Penland Hodges and Family
Funeral services are announced for Eugene Penland 75 of Rt. 1 who died in a local nursing home after a long illness with burial at Allendale Cemetery. Also death notices for Lisa M. Penland two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Guy Penland and Daisy M. Hodges 66 with services at Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel and burial at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Hodges born March 30 1909 at Throckmorton Texas was married to John A Hodges in Anadarko in June 1924 and survived by five sons six daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Burial locations and officiants are listed with several next of kin across Oklahoma and California.
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Eugene Penland
Rt. 1
Huddleston
NW 47Th
Weldon Rightmer
Allendale Cemetery
Lisa M. Penland
Guy Penland
Sullivan Drive
Becker Funeral Home Memorial
A. J. Jorgenson
Highland Cemetery
Becker's
Daisy M. Hodges
McKinley
Dick Williams
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Hodges
Throckmorton
Tex
John A. Hodges
Anadarko
Wanda Simmons
Fletcher
Airlines gain broad new powers under proposed aviation bill
Secretary Coleman outlines a White House plan to let airlines set nonstop US routes after 1981, allow foreign carriers more entry and service, curb CAB control on entry, and end antitrust exemptions while permitting carrier agreements for baggage, tickets, and joint reservations.
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United States
Secretary of Transportation
William T. Coleman
White House
Home Destroyed by Suspected Arson in Lawton
A mobile home at 2101 McKinley was destroyed late Tuesday in a suspected arson case. A 52 year old Lawton man was held in city jail awaiting further investigation after police arrested him at 1:45 a.m. The fire followed a prior apartment blaze on Arlington Street where 21 year old Michael Tuma faces arson charges.
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McKinley
Lawton
Lee
Ray Catlin
Arlington
Michael Tuma
David Derrico
C. S. Williams
Walters
Tuma
Bill May
Turma
Vo Tech Board Faces Supreme Court Suit Over Jurisdiction
Regents filed suit to decide if post high school vo tech classes fall under their authority or the Vocational Education Board. The Supreme Court did not rule yet, two weeks for motions granted. New programs approved include FAA ground school for private pilot written exam and a cooperative program for unemployed vo tech graduates.
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Vocational Education Foundation
Worley
Regents
Supreme Court
Vo-Tech Education Board
Vo-Tech Board
Federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Go-Tech School Board
Tom Wilkerson
Vo-Ted
Holiday Delivery Schedule Slated
The U S Postal Service says regular residential and business mail deliveries will not be made next Monday in observance of Columbus Day.
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Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Switchboard Handles 24 Hour Calls Across City Agencies
Sharp notes most calls target utility collections water and sewer issues and public safety services. Police assistance forms the largest share while the mayor and city manager also receive numerous inquiries. The 24 hour switchboard runs three shifts with reduced staffing three days weekly and aims to top one million calls in 1974. Minnesota Territory creation by Congress in 1849 is noted.
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Sharp
Security plan left in press area risks presidential route
Detail of a security plan for a presidential parade lists West Virginia State Police sniper teams and escape routes. A Secret Service agent dismissed the material as unimportant before aides, including Pappy Noel, discovered and preserved it. White House staff say they are investigating the incident.
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West Virginia
State Conservation Officers
Secret Service
Pappy Noel
Noel
White House
Washington
Fire alarms respond to multiple calls across Lawton area
Fire Department logs show alarms on Tuesday at 12 57 p m at 11th and A for a minor fire and at 7 19 p m in Abilene on M40 for a child trapped. The 11 3 0 pm call at 2101 MecKinney involved a trailer house fire. Dispatches total 202 for the year.
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Lawton
Prison Jailer Attacked as Trio Overpowers Guard
Elvis McCoy surrendered hours after Jim Bunch and Randle Gresham allegedly overpowered jailer Steve Crowell with clubs at Hughes County jail. Crowell fought back after a black jack broke. Bunch and Gresham fled in a car and police later dropped pursuit citing a freight train escape theory. Bunch faces transfer to McAlester, Gresham jailed on auto theft.
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Scott
Highway Patrol
Jim Bunch
Randle Wayne Gresham
Hughes County
Elvis McCoy
Holdenville
Steve Crowell
Bunch
McAlester
Randle
Longtime Oklahoma utility commissioner to retire
Stillwater native and Democrat Jones announces retirement from the three member Oklahoma Corporation Commission after 12 Senate years and five six year terms on the panel. He cites back problems and says he is ready to start taking it easy.
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Jones
Stillwater
State Senate
Corporation Commission
John Rogers
House of Representatives
Boren
Oklahoma City Council
Jerome Byrd
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Minnesota Territory
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Wall's
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Crowell
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