1000 Artillerymen Prepare for Fort Sill Biglift
Fort Sill will deploy 1 000 artillerymen in Operation Biglift to Europe. The 1st Battalion 31st and 2nd Battalion 36th Artillery depart from Wichita Falls to Sheppard AFB then fly to Germany for airlift maneuvers. Units carry rifles, 8 inch and 155 mm howitzers. NATO tasking totals about 15 000 troops with a 10 million dollar plan.
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Bebop
56Th Artillery
Lawton
Fort Sill
Sheppard Afb
Wichita Falls
Sill
31St Artillery
John J. Sawbridge
36Th Artillery
Douglas Harper
Sheppard
Germany
Europe
NATO
Defense Department
Defense
Robert McNamara
United States
McNamara
L. S. Griffing
Fort Sil
Gen. Griffing
State Prisons Upgrade at McAlester With 500000 Value
Oklahoma officials announce a plan to invest 83000 in state funds for construction at McAlester prison totaling about 500000. The project adds two buildings at McLeod honor farm a women's ward a parole separation center and renovation of the old ward. The program aims to double the honor farm population to 300 and reduce inmates inside the walls as rehabilitation improves.
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Oklahoma City
UPIH
Ted Parkinson
McAlester
McLeod Honor Farm
Oklahoma Ordnance Works
Parkinson
Garvin Likely to Run for 6th District Seat
Oklahoma City AP Harold Garvin state senator from Duncan says he probably will announce a run for the 6th District congressional seat around December 1. He would be the second possible Democratic candidate next year for the post held by Rep. Victor Wickersham. Earlier Gene Grubitz Jr. of Elk City said he may announce around January 1.
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Oklahoma City
Harold Garvin
Duncan
Garvin
Victor Wickersham
D-Okla
Gene Grubitz Jr
Elk City
Weather Bureau
Stillwater
Guymon
Ponca City
Bellmon
Oklahoma
Ed Edmondson
Helicopters Nab Melons From Colorado Ranch Patch
Rancher Ed Wilkins recounts two Army helicopters landing in his watermelon patch in Colorado. A man leaped from each craft, seized a melon, and the aircraft flew off as swiftly as they arrived. Wilkins says he could only watch in disbelief.
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Colo. (Ap
Ed Wilkins
Wilkins
Oklahoma drought aid row prompts governors stance
Gov Henry Bellman resisted new drought relief pressure while confirming he is studying the drought situation. Light statewide showers offered little help as Stillwater logged 0.95 inches and other towns saw near 0.33 inch. A 12 member delegation urged disaster declarations and criticized past relief as inadequate, urging self reliance over government guarantees.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Bellman
Central Oklahoma Milk Producers Association
Haskell County
Senate
Roy Beecher
W. R. Criffith
McClain County Dairyman
Chebie) Graham
The
Milk Association
Britons and Australian Win Nobel Prize in Medicine
Two Britons Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley and Australian Sir John Eccles won the 1963 Nobel Prize in medicine for work on the nervous system. Eccles is a physiology professor at Australian National University.
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Stockholm
API
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Britain
Sir John Carew Eccles
Australia
Sweden
Caroline Institute
U.S
Linus Pauling
Oslo
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Eccles
Huxley
Hodgkin
Australian National Analogy
Australian National University
Canberra
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Pope
Indians to Restore Tribal Government Mass Meeting Slated
Indians call a mass meeting of Comanche Kiowa and Apache tribes to restore tribal government. The gathering is set for Saturday November 2 at 1 30 p m in Carnegie junior high auditorium. Nightly meetings precede the event with venues in Indian homa Lawton and Walters. The November 2 meeting aims to be the largest since the January 19 dissolution of the intertribal business committee and repeal of its constitution and bylaws.
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Carnegie
Joe Neide
Indiahoma
Charles Wahnee
Lawton
REA
Walters
Intertribal Business Committee
John A. Carver
Interior
John Crow
Will J. Pitner
Kennedy Signs Big Defense Bill
President Kennedy signed the second largest peacetime defense spending bill, totaling 347.2 billion for the current fiscal year. The Air Force gets 18.4 billion, Navy 14.3 billion, Army 12.1 billion, with joint defense agencies covering the rest. Congress approved a compromise on Oct. 8, keeping a 2.7 million strong military.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
America
Congress
Air Force
Navy
Army
House
Senate
Rain Potential Breaks Dry Spell in Oklahoma
Rain may arrive in Lawton and southwest Oklahoma today or tonight as scattered showers and thundershowers spread from the north and west to the eastern part by Friday. The first rain in nearly three weeks eases drought fears, with Liberal Kansas reporting over five inches. In Oklahoma, Laverne leads with 1.35 inches, while Stillwater and Tulsa register lighter totals.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Liberal
Kan
Laverne
Harper County
Stillwater
Tito Begins 10 Day Tour Visit To United States
President Tito of Yugoslavia arrives at the White House for a 10 day US tour amid protests and tight security. Kennedy and Tito plan private talks and a luncheon as Tito tours Washington and prepares to visit Yosemite and San Francisco before addressing the UN General Assembly in New York.
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Washington
Tito
Yugoslavia
White House
Kennedy
United States
Pennsylvania Avenue
Moscow
State Department
Williamsburg
General Assembly of
United Nations
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Congress
Tite
Massachusetts
Republican Finance Committee
Barry ,Goldwater
Arizona
Senate
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Yosemite National Park
California
San Francisco
Edmund G. Brown
New York
U.N. General Assembly
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