Witness Jailed For Refusing To Name Gun Source
District court hearing in Cadhe banker Jimmy D Harrell case continued to December 18 after state witness Charles G Johnson twice refused to answer a question under a court order and was jailed for contempt. Johnson admitted selling weapons tied to the Duncan firearms theft but again refused to identify the supplier. Harrell remains free on bond as the prosecution relies on Johnson’s testimony when the hearing resumes.
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Charles G. Johnson
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J. Roy Cocke
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Tom Wisener
Steve Lile
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Hospital Board Approves Multiple Bids and Audit Change
Comanche County Memorial Hospital directors approved several purchases including a 1976 Chevrolet Bel Air for 4224.45 and office forms totaling 750 plus items. A semi-audit report urged switching to a yearly audit, which the board approved, while Blue Cross figures showed Lawton costs below state averages.
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Tulsa
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Lawton
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Mail order delays frustrate customers say FTC
The FTC reports consumer anger over slow responses to mail order inquiries and unresolved orders. It notes delays often stem from sellers lacking stock and advertising orders without sufficient supply, with distance shielding firms from direct complaint handling.
Tulsa brothers face murder trial in Gould bank slaying
Prosecution completes second day of testimony in the first degree murder trial of Algin W. Clark and Herman Tracy Clark for the slaying of Wanda Masters at the First State Bank of Gould. Jana Robinson, a bank employee shot in the face, testified among eleven witnesses. Masters and Robinson were hostages. the robbers fled. The Clarks had previously pleaded no contest in federal court to bank robbery and kidnapping, receiving life sentences.
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Gould
Oklahoma Governor Probes Open Meeting Questions
Reaction was awaited from Gov. David Boren after questions about legality of closed-door meetings by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents and the State Corrections Board. Atty. Gen. Larry Derryberry declined to comment without official knowledge on potential violations of the open meeting law.
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Tulsa Officer Stabs Woman Near River. Suspect Booked
A 25-year-old man was booked for questioning in the Aug. 27 stabbing death of Suzanne Oakley, 24, a Tulsa planning commission employee who was jogging along the Arkansas River. Officer G. L. Stephenson arrested him after he allegedly threatened a woman by phone and promised to repeat his act. The arrest occurred while the call was in progress and followed several hours of questioning. investigators did not deem him the chief suspect.
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G. L. Stephenson
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Oakley
Officials Race to Secure $30 Million in Redeemed Notes
Frantic activity as brokers arrive with about $30 million in notes and receipts promising exchange for cash by 2 p.m. Albany's Court of Appeals clears the way for the state to use police pension funds to raise 250 million for a cash-strapped city. In New York City the United Federation of Teachers withholds 150 million in retirement funds from a 2.3 billion bailout, despite talks with Mayor Beame. Albert Shanker reiterates opposition to using teacher pensions.
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Hamlet Freed After Fugitive Slave Act Arrest in New York
James Hamlet a free Black man was arrested in New York as a fugitive slave from Baltimore under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Public indignation grew and Hamlet was redeemed and freed.
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New York
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Funeral services for Luther Pendergraft in Walters
Luther C. Pendergraft 91 died Wednesday in a Walters nursing home. Services at 2:30 pm Saturday at Union Valley Baptist Church west of Walters with Rev. Arduary Ritter officiating. Burial in Walters Cemetery. Survived by wife Gertrude, two sons Duane and Harold, one brother Clarence, five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. He was a retired farmer, member of the Methodist church since 1920.
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Fullerton
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Nobel Prizes Announced Across Fields Highlighting Discoveries
The Swedish Academy awarded three physicists equal shares of 143000 for nuclear structure work linking collective and particle motion. Rainwater, 57, becomes the fifth American Nobel laureate in 1975. Koopmans and Kantorovich shared the economics prize, Baltimore Temin and Dulbecco claimed medicine honors, and Sakharov won the peace prize on Oct. 9.
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Rainwater
Tjalling C. Koopmans
Yale University
Leonid Kantorovich
Soviet Union
David Baltimore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard Temin
University of Wisconsin
Renato Dulbecco
London
Andrei Sakharov
Sill county property marking helps recover stolen items
Hulley notes marked property is key to recovery, since thieves pawn stolen goods and shops compare their intake against reported losses. He says pawn shops often refuse unmarked items and require full name and social security number from sellers, aiding traceability.
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