Local ROTC Cadets to Attend AUSA Convention
Ten Reserve Officers Training Corps cadets from Lawton area high schools will attend the Association of the United States Army Convention in Washington, D C October 15 to 17. The trip is sponsored by the Southwest Oklahoma AUSA chapter which also backs the senior ROTC field training at Cameron College and the area drill meets. The cadets will represent all local public high schools and colleges.
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Reserve Officers Training Corps
Lawton
Association of the U. S. Army
Washington, D. C
Southwest Oklahoma Ausa
Cameron College
Oklahoma City Debates Ban On Topless Dancing
City ministers press council to ban topless dancing amid moral arguments while a nightclub petition with thousands of names supports the act. Council directs counselor to research legality as debate centers on virtue and public order.
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Oklahoma City
Jim Cole
Rome
Council
Goree James
James
Topress
Hospital Births and Admits List Brightens Local Scene
Births include a son to William and Margaret Fulner born Oct 8 at 2:45 pm weighing 7 9 and a son to Steven A Smith born Oct 8 at 9:57 am weighing 10 pounds 3 pounds 4 ounces. A wide roster of patients named with ages and housing at multiple facilities shows admissions and discharges across the area.
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William Fulner
Steven A. Smith
S. 52Nd
Donald Haury
Oklahoma City
Alabama Apple Growers See Harvest Similar to 1972 Volume
Alabama apple growers project harvests around the same volume as in 1972. The estimate reflects recent growing conditions and market trends affecting fruit production in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Public Records Offts Lawton Police Complaints List
Public records list numerous complaints from Lawton residents and businesses including thefts bicycle and scooter battery and television burglary vandalism loss and attempted assault across locations such as Best Motel 1308 S Second Cattlemen's Cafeteria 327 C and Arrow Motel 1401 Cache Road. Names include Jerry Ryder Iva Barnett Gene Warren Anna Rodgers and Dennis Smith among others with incidents reported at Fort Sill Plaza Trailer Park and Sheridan Road areas.
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Lawton
de- Best
Cattlemen's
Little Giant Grocery
Gore
W. T. Hartline
Jerry Ryder
Avalon
Iva Barnett
Smith
Stockord Realty Co
Sheridan Road
Ryans
Raymond Roberts
Williams
Seen Meyer
Billy Cooper
Gene Warren
Cheyenne
Claude Combs
Best Motel
Michael French
Fort Sill
Kenny Fobes
Johnnie Duncan
Bedford Drive
Anna Rodgers
S. Ninth
Arrow Motel
Cache Road
Victoria Tonsky
Irwin
Greg Jefferson
Plaza Trailer Pork
Brenda Smith
Je—s Heatley Jr
Elis "Tehers
Garfield
Earl's Drug Store
Mary Walker
Lincoln
Mollie Randolph
Bill Stelnecker
S. 45Th
S&h Motors
E Avenue
Cor
Lyle Butler
Frank Buchanan
Irwin Dennis Smith
William Harrison
Arlington
Nancy Baggett
Fire crews respond to two calls in Lowton Monday night
The Lowton Fire Department battled a minor house fire at 1506 Tennessee Street at 9 28 p m and a school building fire at Cache at 9 4 p m. Crews returned to quarters after extinguishing both incidents.
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Tennessee
Cache
Lowton
Bock
Defensive Driving School Slated by Lawton Police
The Lawton Police Department will start a defensive driving course at 7 p.m. today at the police station. Eighteen police employees and two civilians attend the eight hour program with future sessions for city workers and two hours of classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Certificates will be awarded and civilian and civic club attendance may be opened if interest and vacancies exist. Interested individuals may call the police department for enrollment. Plans call for two schools monthly through February.
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Lawton
Police Department
Bill Ward
Ward
Group To Honor Sill Museum
The Council on Abandoned Military Posts CAMP will present plaques at Fort Sill praising the Fort Sill Museum and the Oklahoma Historical Society. Col. O. W. Martin will deliver the plaque to Brig. Gen. Robert J. Koch at 9:30 a.m. in Koch's office, then recognize Jordan Reaves of the Oklahoma Historical Society for Camp Washita restoration.
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Council On
CAMP
Fort Sill
Oklahoma Historical Society
O. W. Martin
Military Review
Robert J. Koch
U.S. Army Field Artillery School
Gen. Koch
Martin
Jordan Reaves
Camp Washita
Post Escapees Still At Large From Fort Sill Stockade
Two Fort Sill men, Dan F. Hudges aged 18 and Mickey Dash aged 19 of A Battery 1st Battalion 30th Field Artillery, fled the stockade Monday night. A tower guard fired a warning shot as they climbed the fence at 9 p.m. and remained at large.
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Fort Sill
Dan F. Hudges
Mickey Dash
30Th Field Artillery
Fund Raising Meeting Set Here for Israel Bonds
Jews in Lawton and across the nation rally behind Israel as war enters its fourth day. Oklahoma meetings seek to raise 2.5 to 3 million in Israeli bonds by Sunday with leaders Stolow and Sugarman organizing the Tulsa Duncan Oklahoma City and Lawton events at 8 p.m. The mood mixes tension with confidence as rabbi and community members pray for peace and support Israel’s defense.
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Israel
Tulsa
Duncan
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Oklahoma
Eugene Stolow
Dallas
Stolow
Louis Sugarman
National Council of Jewish Women
Village Green Apartments
Middle East
David Zalis
Fort Sill
Zalis
New York
Israel Bonds
Funeral Rites Set for Wilber Allen Shuck in Indiahoma
Wilber Allen Shuck 80, longtime Indiahoma resident, died after a heart attack at Lawton hospital. Funeral 2 p.m. Wednesday at Indiahoma Assembly of God Church with burial at Post Oak Cemetery under Huddleston's Cache Funeral Home. Shuck, born May 11, 1893 in Bunch Iowa, married Hattie Miller in 1914 Lawton. Survived by wife, two sons Danny L. and Robert, four daughters Jessie McClung Naomi Barr Nadine Keritza Dorothy Williams, one sister Maude Jett, 17 grandchildren, 42 great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren.
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Cache
Wilber Allen Shuck
Indiahoma
Lawton Hospital
Indiahoma Assembly of God Church
Post Oak Cemetery
Huddleston
Cache Funeral Home
Mr. Shuck
Bunch
Iowa
Hattie Miller
Lawton
Shuck
The
Christian Church
Danny L
Robert
Bisbee
Ariz
Jessie McClung
Naomi Barr
Wichita Falls
Tex
Nadine Keritza
Sobrante
Calif
Dorothy Williams
Suisun City
Maude Jett
Plainview
Ark
Funeral services for Sophia Baker in Lincoln
Sophia Baker aged 56 of 1315 S 26th will receive services at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church at 10 30 a.m. Thursday with Rev Larry Kowalski officiating A rosary will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Becker Funeral Home Burial is at Sunset Gardens Cemetery Baker was found dead Sunday in her home by a neighbor
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Sophia Baker
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
Larry Kowalski
Becker Funeral Home
Sunset Gardens
Cityan's Heroin Trial Under Way
The District Court trial of Charles Pat Patterson 41 Lawton on a charge of delivery of heroin began today. Testimony started about 10:30 a.m. and focused on the sale of a small quantity of heroin to a police undercover agent last May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cityan
Charles
Pat) Patterson
Lawton
Extradition Waived In Glennan Death Case
Murder suspect Paul May 43 waived extradition in his California jail. He will be returned to Lawton to face a second degree murder charge for the June 23 slaying of 81 year old Florence Glennan. Also named in the probe is Marvin Glen Earnest 24 awaiting a preliminary hearing for a related charge. A third suspect Donald Ray Ficklin 28 hanged himself in city jail after arrest. The Glennan case was described by a state pathologist as one of the most brutal deaths he had seen.
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Comanche County
California
Lawton
Paul May
Florence Glennan
Blythe
Calif
U.S. District Court
Riverside
State of
Oklahoma
May
Don Beauchamp
Rhythe
Marvin Glen Earnest
Marie Letzo
Donald Ray Ficklin
Lawton zoning plans reviewed by Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
The Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission holds a 3 p.m public hearing on the Lawton land use plan and county zoning proposal to reserve about 90 percent of three miles outside Lawton for agriculture. The plan also urges limited commercial rezoning and traffic arterial changes. Also, Connectors Corporation motel rezoning request likely denied.
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Lawton
Lawton Metropolitan
LMAPC
Connectors Corporation
Dallas
Tex
Fort Sill Boulevard
Larry Giles
Giles
Stock Market Mixed Amid Court Move In Telex Case
NEW YORK AP Stocks were mixed as traders awaited a Tulsa court order on the IBM Telex antitrust case. The Dow fell 5.65 to 972.00. Amex index rose to 107.34 as Buttes Gas led declines. Oklahoma cattle and hog price reports showed slower/slightly lower slaughter cows and steady hogs with active demand in places.
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New York
Mideast
IBM
American Stock Exchange
Amex
Buttes Gas
Oklahoma City
Dalhousie Named for Earl of Dalhousie in Nova Scotia
Dalhousie in Nova Scotia was named in honor of the Earl of Dalhousie who served as Governor in Chief. The naming reflects colonial acknowledgment of his high office and influence in the region.
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Dalhousie
Nova Scotia
Earl of
Hospital Chapel OKed By Board
The hospital board of trustees approved a small chapel planned with the Lawton Ministerial Alliance. Dr. Dix started duties Oct 1 after moving from Terre Haute Indiana. George Magee was named hospital personnel director and will work at a Fort Smith Arkansas hospital. Annual audit and cost savings of 205000 in 1972 73 were reported. Bids awarded covered filing cabinets ambulance service film supplies retirement materials and a printer from multiple suppliers.
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Hospital Board of Trustees
Lawton
Dix
Terre Haute
Ind
Boatsman
George Magee
Magee
Mae Cence Esse Ee
Fort Smith
Ark
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Oklahoma City
Brock’s
Kirk
Merkel X-Ray Co
Four Teens Held In Cache School Fire Attack
Four Cache High School youths were jailed for questioning after a fire caused minor damage Monday night. Witnesses saw two Molotov cocktails hurled at a roof area above Principal Dennis Haxton's office. Firefighters contained the blaze. a gas and soft drink bottle was found at the scene. Investigators questioned four boys from Cache. no charges filed yet.
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Cache
Dennis Haxton
Lawton
Comanche County
Hospital Damage Suit Settled Out Of Court
A $661,000 civil suit filed by the widow of Lawton rancher W D Cosgrove against Southwestern Hospital is settled out of court. The August 1971 negligence case, originally seeking more than $1 million for injuries from an electrical shock in September 1970, was to go before a district court jury this term. Cosgrove died May 26, 1972. widow Gladys Cosgrove amended her petition to seek $61,000 in damages.
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Southwestern Hospital
Lawton
District Court
W. D. Cosgrove
Route 1
Cosgrove
Gladys
Gospel Group To Appear Here
The Galileans a Dallas gospel recording group will perform at 7 30 p m today at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church Apache There is no admission charge but an offering will be taken Rev Ralph Davis is pastor
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Dallas
Tex
First Pentecostal Holiness Church
Apache
Ralph Davis
Rideau Canal Built for Ottawa Military Waterway Link
The Rideau Canal running through central Ottawa was constructed in the 1820s as a military project to create a water route between Montreal and Lake Ontario that bypassed the St. Lawrence River.
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Rideau Canal
Ottawa
Montreal
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence
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