Wichita Wilderness Areas Near Untouched By Man
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge preserves about 8 900 acres designated as wilderness and a 5 000 acre Charons Gardens area open to visitors. A guided hike through Charons Gardens is planned for October 27 and 28 led by refuge staff, with rugged terrain, four hour duration, and preparations advised.
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Ray Rauch
Wichita Will
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
North Mountain
Charons Gardens
Congress
Twin Rocks
Bat Cave
Styx
Charens Gardens
National Wildlife Refuge
Refuge
Cache
Estate-Planning Course Slated in Comanche County
An OSU Extension estate planning short course for farm families begins Nov. 13 at the Comanche County Fairgrounds exhibit building. Cecil Maynard Elmer Provence lead six hours of instruction over three Tuesday sessions with a $6 single or $9 couple fee. Enrollment due by Nov. 7 through John Moten.
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Comanche County
Oklahoma State University
Comanche County Fairgrounds
Moten
Oklahoma
Ben Franklin On English Roast Beef Critique
The London based Benjamin Franklin criticizes the English dinner of a joint of meat and a pudding calling it pot luck and bad luck in England.
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Ben Franklin
London
England
Sharp Market Slide as Nixon Inquiry Looms and Mideast Fights Continue
The Dow fell 9.41 to 951.16 at noon as the House moves to impeach Nixon and Middle East fighting resumes despite a cease fire. The NYSE composite lost 55 to 58.33. AMEX showed more decliners than gainers. Oil and autos slipped amid global jitters and Japanese inflation fears. Market leaders included Sony, with broader declines in international stocks. Agricultural prices in Oklahoma varied, with wheat around 4.20 to 4.74 per bushel and alfalfa hay at 40 to 45 dollars per ton.
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New York
House
Nixon
Mideast
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
Libya Offers Pay to Pilots Delivering Planes
Libyan Embassy in Moscow says Libya will pay pilots who fly planes for Israel the value of any aircraft they deliver to an Arab country. The statement, claimed by the Libyan government, targets volunteers recruited by Israel and cites U S West Germany the Netherlands and other imperialist nations as aiding the effort.
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Moscow
Libya
Israel
United States
West Germany
Netherlands
State To Contest Ruling On Implied Consent Law
Oklahoma Department of Public Safety says it will appeal a Tulsa judge ruling that the implied consent law is unconstitutional. The law requires a motorist suspected of drunken driving to take tests and allows suspension of a license for refusal.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Department of Public Safety
Tulsa
The
Safety Department
Inmates Begin Regular Hot Meals at McAlester Prison
McALESTER Okla AP inmates at the state prison started receiving a regular hot meal daily announced by Warden Park Anderson The first hot lunch was served Monday in their cells over about three hours with ham hocks and beans as today’s main course 110 inmates previously working in demolition got hot meals in the yard Repairs to the dining hall will take about 10 days and then hot breakfasts will begin served in the dining hall in small groups
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Mcalester
Okla
Park Anderson
Anderson
Lawton students attend national FFA convention in Kansas City
Chris Veasy national DECA president and Carter Gale national VICA president, both from Lawton, attended the 46th National Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City Missouri. Veasy, a freshman at Central State University in Edmond, previously belonged to the Great Plains Area Vo Tech DECA chapter and Gale to the Great Plains Vo Tech School VICA chapter.
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Lawton
Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
VICA
Distributive Education Clubs of America
DECA
Future Farmers of America
Kansas
City
Chris Veasy
Great Plains
Carter Gale
Veasy
Central State University
Edmond
Funeral rites for Mrs Issey E McIntosh in Elgin
Funeral services for 79 year old Mrs Issey E McIntosh of Rt 1 Fletcher will be held at 2 p m Thursday at Becker Funeral Home. Rev Don Berger will officiate at First Baptist Church Elgin. Burial follows at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
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Issey E. McIntosh
Fletcher
Becker Funeral Home
Don Bergeron
First Baptist Church
Elgin
Win
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Jesse Lincoln Stovall
Atlanta
Cedar Crest Manor
Forrest Siler
H. Tom Wiles
Stovall
Wacker’s Stores Inc
Services set for infant Keri Sheller at Becker Funeral Home
Funeral services pending for infant Keri Sheller daughter of Spec 5 Floyd Sheller and Mrs. Sheller of 112 S 18th died at birth Saturday Reynolds Army Hospital Fort Sill. Surviving are parents and grandparents Floyd Sheller Athens Texas and James M Ferguson Brownwood Texas.
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Keri Sheller
Floyd Sheller
S. 18Th
Becker Funeral Home
Reynolds Army Hospital
Fort Sill
Athens
Tex
James M. Ferguson
Brownwood
Reeder Twins Graveside Rites Held In Lawton
Graveside services for the twin sons of Mr and Mrs William E Reeder were held at Sunset Memorial Gardens at 3 p.m. under Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home. The infants died shortly after birth Monday. Rev Charles Baggett officiated. Survivors include the parents a sister Stacy Kay grandparents and great grandparents with listed addresses.
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William E. Reeder
Liberty
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
Charles Baggett
Calvary Baptist Church
Stacy Kay
Viola Gibson
Briarwood
Joseph Nebel
Monroe
Hattie Porter
Cache Road
Elmer Garrison
S. 34Th
Giant Simmental Bull Displayed Ahead of Oklahoma Sale
A 2 900 pound Simmental bull named Salvator is on display at Harold Wilson ranch west of town and will remain through the Wilson production sale starting at 12 30 p m. The sale offers 150 head including purebred Simmentals with Dr William J Waldrip set to speak at 12 15. Salvator owned by Salvator Cattle Co was sired by the first purebred Simmental bull sold in the United States and is valued at 250000 dollars.
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Tom Sharrock
America
Harold Wilson
Town
Wilson
Kansas City
William J
Salvator Cattle Company
Sam Wier
Loyal
United States
Paul Grieder
Congerville
Ill
Simmental
South Vietnam Reports Heavy Fighting Across Regions
Government planes and artillery bombarded Viet Cong and North Vietnamese positions after shelling on Lai Khe division base camp north of Saigon killed five civilians. The Saigon command cited 124 cease-fire violations in 24 hours, while Viet Cong denounced land grabs in the central highlands and Mekong Delta and vowed to fight back. A government helicopter was shot down near Bao Loc, 90 miles northeast of Saigon, wounding four. In Dinh Tuong Province 14 government positions were attacked. 16 soldiers killed, 14 wounded, 13 missing, 11 enemy dead. Trains were blown up near Da Nang Hue and near Long Khanh. a school in Bien Hoa Province saw 10 children wounded. In Phnom Penh, Lon Nol reopened the Cambodian parliament.
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South Vietnam
Central Highlands
Mekong
Saigon
Phuoc Long
Quang Duc
Highlands
Chau Duc
Bao Loc
Dinh Tuong
da Nang
Hue
Long Khanh
Bien Hoa
Phnom Penh
Lon Nol
Alcoholism Talk Slated Thursday in Comanche County
Dr. Alfonso Paredes director of the Oklahoma alcoholism division speaks at 7 30 p m to the Comanche County Mental Health Association. He notes federal taxes on alcohol totaling 5 billion yearly contrasted with only 30 million spent on treatment. Roy Moore says the program is free and open to the public.
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Alfonso Paredes
Alcoholism
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health
Alcoholic Research Center
Comanche County Mental Health Association
Paredes
Roy Moore
Comanche County
Transit System Poll Being Taken
A poll of local residents to gauge attitudes toward a mass transit system is conducted in Lawton this week. The Oklahoma Lung Association and Environmental Improvement Organization run the survey with the 23rd National Cleaner Air Week observance.
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Lawton
Oklahoma Lung Association
The
Environmental Improvement Organization
Public records: thefts and vandalism reports to city police
A list of complainants reported to the Lowton Police Department includes Virginia Barnes theft from a auto gas cap starter, Sam Chapman burglary and theft of multiple items, David Fisher vandalism to an auto, and numerous others reporting thefts, vandalism, or loss of property from residences cars and tools.
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Lowton
Virginia Barnes
Cache Road
Sam Chapman
Douglas
Robert J. Patterson
Fort Sill
S. First
Hudson of Co
Hennah Price
Lindy
William L. Felts
Lindon Myers
Ave
Jack McKinnis
Bill Wood
Jock Shutts
David Fisher
Gore
Ae Oller
Richard Minnich
Gerry Brown
Compass
Bell
Sketly Station
Randall Martin
Mission Biod
James Butler
Tommy Rankin
Hunter Road
Balloon lands on rest home lawn in Veterans Day display
Two men floated down to the lawn of a Greentree rest home in an eight story red white and blue balloon as an unusual Veterans Day tribute. Balloonist Tom McFadden explained the stunt was done to honor veterans.
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Pittsburgh
Greentree
Tom McFadden
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Altus
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Okeene
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Claude Fletcher
Claude Everett Fletcher
Elmer Schwartz
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
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Gladys Herren
Shirley Atkinson
Meadowbrook Drive
Dorothy Schultze
Washington
Iowa
Joyce Gillette
Appleton
Wis
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Rainsboro
Ohio
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Beta
Frank Fletcher
Elsie Lenert
Margaret Kolkay
Jesse L. Stovall
Mr. Stoval
Mill Creek
Mill Creek-Sulphur
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Stovalls
Lindsay
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Chamber of Commerce
Terry
Reeder Twins
Simmentals
Lai Khe
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E-Lim
Gibson Pharmacy
DIAL
Raulston Furniture
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