Consultants Aid Students in Lawton Schools
Five consultants and two secretaries at the center screen children for learning disabilities, administer tests with parental permission, and interpret results. They write individual educational prescriptions and provide $150 000 worth of materials to help teachers implement plans. Virginia Virgil joins to identify handicapped children birth to 21 not in services and refer them to agencies.
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Cotton
Comanche Counties
Center
Virginia Virgil
Virgil
Elgin
Lawton
Melva Jo Garrett
Barbara Ferguson
Sandra Boyd
Karol Ellison
Oklahoma
City Hall
Flower Mound Road
City of
Jean McGavie
Defense bill adds women to service academies and funds ships
President Ford signs a 30.86 billion defense bill opening Army Navy and Air Force service academies to women starting with July 1976 classes. The bill also allocates 13.8 million for naval construction on Diego Garcia and extends funding to Oct 1 1976 amid fiscal-year shift. The Coast Guard Academy remains excluded.
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Diego Garcia
Indian Ocean
Ford
Army
Navy
Air Force
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Coast Guard Academy
Transportation Department
Defense Department
Chilean refugees sheltered in Argentina seek safety
A Buenos Aires spokesman claiming Brazilian identity said about a dozen Chileans, including two women, are grouped in Argentina. He noted a family atmosphere and rotating guard duties, warning that police violence would be met with force.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Sill Man Faces Murder Trial at Fort Sill
Richard A. Liniger 21, of Headquarters Btry USAF Fort Sill, ordered to stand trial in district court for second degree murder in the June 18 slaying of Marvin C. Lamb 24 of Pauls Valley. Lamb was killed at 1528 Bessie by two machete blows to the neck. Lamb’s 14 year old brother testified to the fight. Liniger is jailed without bond.
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Richard A. Liniger
Headquarters Btry
Usaf AC
Fort Sill
Marvin C. Lamb
Liniger
Wesley Combs
Lamb
Pauls Valley
Bessie
Lawton
Claude Brazzel
Mitchell
Young Lamb
Pvt
Nelson Hancock
Btry
Hancock
Comanche County
MacArthur Lands in Leyte Ending Promised Return
General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his pledge to return to the Philippines stepping ashore at Leyte on October 20 1944 to lead the reconquest.
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Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Senate debates Sinai technicians funding amid recess clash
Sen. Hubert Humphrey urged adopting House language to align Senate and House resolutions on stationing American technicians in the Sinai as part of the Israel Egypt peace accord. Sen. James Abourezk sought to return the measure to committee, with final action possible this Friday before a weeklong recess.
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Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
House
Congress
Sinai
United States
Israel
Egypt
Ford
James Abourezk
D-S.d
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Sentry lease and Central option eyed at Lawton airport
Airport officials approve a 10 year lease with a 910 dollar monthly option to cover costs of Sentry additions including a 20 square foot storage building and a 100 car lot. Central Construction seeks five acres for a steel plant with 10 year lease at 300 dollars per acre and FAA compliant fencing. Security radios cost 980 dollars. September boardings 3,212, down from 1974 and August.
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Sentry
Gibson
Bill Cox
Lawton
Comanche County Commission
Commission
W. F
Bill) Griswold
Chickasha
Central Construction
Cox
Sheridan and
Coombs Roads
Central
Adam Matthews
Federal Aviation Administration
Lawton Police Department
Spending: Government Expenditures Soar to Per-Household Level
The Tax Foundation reports total government spending at 7 792 per household this year. The figure doubles the level from ten years ago and is 25 times the 1940 amount.
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Tax Foundation
Oklahoma City Market Prices Reported for Grains
State Agriculture Dept lists today’s prices for wheat barley milo and soybeans by city. Wheat ranges 3.76 to 4.44 per bushel with multiple towns cited. barley 1.90 to 2.40. milo 4.30 to 5.35 per hundredweight. soybeans 4.85 to 5.45 per bushel across listed locales.
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Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture
Muskogee
Afton
Banner
Clinton
Kingfisher
Manchester
Medford
Pauls Valley
Weatherford
el Reno
Geary
Okeene
Ponca City
Watonga
Yukon
Eldorado
Hobart
Temple
Keyes
Liberal
Perryton
Gulf
Barley
Campaign push yields over $101,000 in federal drive
Volney Hamm led the general campaign with pep and preparation. Col. Dan Rawls announced a total of $101,913 collected, about 62 percent to the general drive. Fountain noted an 8.6 percent rise over last year and urged continued effort for a stronger campaign.
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Volney Hamm
Dan Rawls
Fountain
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Ers
Armed Services
Sill Man
Sam Brown
Renee Reneue
L.F.C
Comanche County Health Department
Health Department
Sheridan Rd
Jim Booher
Jim Beoher
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