Troop Drawdown Debate Shapes Europe Policy
Washington plans to reduce overseas forces by rotating Air Force units based in Britain, France and Spain while keeping six German ground divisions. The Pentagon seeks savings without weakening defense as Deputy Secretary Gilpatric touts a multi-base concept and Secretary Rusk reassures Germany. The Lawton item notes local franchise actions and city council bids and appointments, including an African American officer, with traffic signal plans at U.S. 277 Rogers Lane.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
U.S
Europe
Germany
Britain
France
Spain
Pentagon
Defense
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Chicago
United Press International Editors and Publishers
Gilpatric
Dean Rusk
Frankfurt
Lawton
Public Service Co
Highway Department
State Highway Commission
U.S. 277
Rogers Lane
Glenn Dutcher
Dutcher
U. S. 277
Finance Committee
Police Department
Roy Morse
Oak
Preston Tachawiekah
David G
Signups Start For Drouth Aid In Comanche County
Applications for drouth relief aid will be accepted this afternoon by the county Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service in Floyd Hawk announces. The program helps farmers rent soil bank land for grazing and buy government grain at reduced cost to weather winter. Grain sorghum appears to be the only feed grain available. The disaster aid plan for Comanche County follows approval by Secretary Orville Freeman amid broader drought relief in 24 states.
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County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Liberty
Floyd Hawk
Comanche County
Hawk
Orville L. Freeman
Caddo
Grady
Stephens
Henry Bellmon
Bellmon
Baptists Prepare Budget Kickoff in Memphis Church
Dr. Ramsey Pollard will speak at Bellevue Baptist Memphis during the annual budget kickoff banquet at First Baptist. Over 500 church leaders are expected for the 6 15 to 7 p m dinner in the church basement. The 1964 church budget aims for 301 496 dollars with Commitment Day on November 3 and Victory Day on November 10 when vows for the budget will be subscribed.
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Ramsey Pollard
Bellevue Baptist Church
Memphis
Tenn
Southern Baptist Convention
First Baptist Church
Meadors
Troops Wrap Up Pershing Missile Tests at Wingate
Fort Sill soldiers completed the Army overland Pershing test series with a 230 mile flight from Ft Wingate to White Sands. A seventh launch was scrapped due to technical difficulties, and officials said objectives were met.
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FT. Wingate
N. M
UPI
Fort Sill
Okla
44Th Artillery
Ft. Sill
Army
White Sands
Blanding
Utah
Henco Range
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Lawton School Progress Report to be Presented at Chamber Luncheon
John Shoemaker Lawton public schools superintendent will outline progress and future needs at a noon Chamber of Commerce forum luncheon in the Hotel Lawtonian. He is introduced by education committee chair T. D. Nicklas. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. president W. R. Stephens will speak at the November 8 luncheon with Fred Greshman as program chairman.
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Lawton Public Schools
John Shoemaker
Chamber of Commerce Forum
Lawtonian
T. D. Nicklas
Chamber
W. R. Stephens
Arkansas - Louisiana Gas Co
Fred Greshman
Nixon Could Be Yankee Churchill Says Evangelist
Evangelist Billy Graham says Richard M. Nixon has possibilities of being an American Winston Churchill. At a Houston news conference on Monday Graham compared Nixon's leadership and statesmanship with those of the former British prime minister.
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Houston
Tex
Billy Graham
Richard M. Nixon
Winston) Churchill
Graham
Hurricane Ginny Douses New England Coast
Hurricane Ginny moved up the Atlantic coast bringing rain and relief from drought. It forced gale warnings from Provincetown to Block Island and caused telephone outages while the 90 foot dragger Casco Bay faced trouble near Portland before righting its pumps.
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Boston
Ginny
Atlantic
New England
Provincetown
Block Island
R.I
Eastport
Maine
Nantucket Island
Weather Bureau
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
Casco Bay
Portland
Oklahoma to build 147.8 mile free highway chain
Tulsa officials and Merrill Lynch representative celebrate Turnpike funding for an 86 mile eastern Oklahoma expressway from Tulsa to Henryetta and McAlester with plans to extend from McAlester to Hugo, expanding free and toll road connections over more than a decade of effort.
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Bill Henthorne
The
Tulsa World
City of
Tulsa
Tulsa Chamber of Commerce
C. V. Cecil
Merrill Lynch
Oklahoma
Henrietta
Henryetta
McAlester
Hugo
Former Empress Soraya to Play Princess in Film
Former Empress Soraya of Iran will portray an Italian princess in a planned film before potentially playing Catherine the Great in a second project. Producer Dino de Laurentiis, under contract with Soraya, announced the first movie titled The Secret a modern love story set in an international backdrop.
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Rome
Soraya
Iran
Catherine the Great
Russia
Soviet Union
Dino de Laurentiis
Catherine
Oklahoma City Women Die in Separate Traffic Incidents
An Oklahoma City woman died in a Sunday accident when her car struck a truck loaded with aluminum siding rolls, the windshield shattered by debris. Another Oklahoma City woman died Monday after being struck while crossing a northwest street, raising the 1963 state traffic toll.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Violet Arnold
Ada H. Plumley
Arnold
St. Anthony Hospital
Austin Kidwell
Plumley
Kiss and Tell Details on Baker Outside Deals Emphasized
A German Embassy spokesman cited the woman as a security risk due to her high living in Washington while denying any security violation. A congressional inquiry will review Baker s outside interests including a vending machine venture with defense contracts, a $1.2 million Maryland motel stake, a Washington travel agency, a Capitol Hill home, a $38 000 stock windfall, and ties to the Quorum Club and Luther Hodges in a North Carolina motel partnership.
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Washington
Baker
Defense Industries
Maryland
Quorum Club
Capitol Hill
Congress
Nancy Carole Tyler
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
Halloween prank alters rest room signs at San Francisco Hall of Justice
UPI reports pranksters swapped the first floor rest room signs marked men and women at the San Francisco Hall of Justice. Janitors later replaced the signs with no reported injuries or further trouble.
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San Francisco
UPI
Voting rights debate and civil rights actions across the U S
Nationally a voting rights plan limits coverage to federal elections and preserves three judge court review of suits while dropping a bid to grant rights before litigation. Jackson seeks injunctive relief over protests, New Orleans hears Negro student needs, Macon defendants stand for trial, Richmond discusses tuition grants, UN draft on racial discrimination approved 89 0 with Western abstentions.
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Jackson
Miss
Chancery
Stokes Robertson
Mississippi
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Matthew R. Sutherland
Richmond
Surry County
United Nations
N.Y
United Nations General Assembly
United States
UNICEF Canvass Scheduled Tonight
Hundreds of youths will canvass residential areas tonight seeking contributions for UNICEF and underprivileged children overseas. The annual campaign includes 90 Lawton High School Key Club members and youth groups from several churches Camp Fire and Blue Birds girls.
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Unicef
Lawton High School Key Club
Camp Fire
Blue Birds
Funeral Services for Lawrence Taylor of Stecker
Funeral services for Lawrence Taylor 52 of Stecker will be held 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Apache Church of Christ. Mr. Taylor died unexpectedly Sunday night in Oklahoma City. The Rev. W. H. Baker will officiate and burial in Fairview cemetery Apache. He was born January 7, 1911 and lived with his aunt Mrs Walter Tripp in Stecker. He had earlier resided in Wichita Falls Texas. He is survived by a daughter Mrs Paula Jean Keck of Cherryvale Kansas, four aunts and three uncles.
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Lawrence Taylor
Stecker
Apache Church of Christ
Taylor
Oklahoma City
W. H. Baker
Fairview Cemetery
Apache
Crews Funeral Home
Mr. Taylor
Walter Tripp
Wichita Falls
Tex
Paula Jean Keck
Cherryvale
Kans
Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Hopkins Fletcher
Services for 85 year old Mrs. Mattie Hopkins Fletcher, a former Lawton and Fletcher resident, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Dalton Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Guy Swanson officiating. Burial follows in Denton cemetery east of Lawton. Surviving are son George Webb of Odessa, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Fletcher
Mattie Hopkins
Lawton and Fletcher
Odessa
Tex
Dalton Funeral Home
Guy Swanson
Denton
Lawton
Funeral services for L. E. Burnett
Funeral services for L. E. Burnett, 62, who died Saturday, were held Monday in the chapel of the First Baptist Church. Dr. H. Tom Wiles officiated. Burial was in Sunset Memorial Gardens under Lawton funeral home direction. Bearers were Tommy Ashmore, Lester Stout, Austin Parker, Don Billingsly, Truman Parks and Grant Mangum.
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L. E. Burnett
First Baptist Church
H. Tom Wiles
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Lawton Funeral Home
Tommy Ashmore
Lester Stout
Austin Parker
Don Billingsly
Truman Parks
Grant Mangum
Services for Mrs. Della Pearl Mavity
Services will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at Ritter Dalton Funeral Home chapel for Mrs Della Pearl Mavity 78 of 1615 9 Dearborn who died Sunday in a local hospital Rev Donald McDougle will officiate Burial will be in Highland cemetery She was born May 13 1885 in Indiana married Ed Mavity in 1906 and they moved to the Lawton area in 1928 Mr Mavity died in 1946 She is survived by three cousins.
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Della Pearl Mavity
Dearborn
Ritter- Dalton Funeral Home
Donald McDougle
Congregational Church
Highland Cemetery
Mavity
Indiana
Ed Mavity
Lawton
Carnival Planned At Lawton Center
Children in the Douglass school community are invited to a Halloween party Wednesday at Patterson Community Center. Mrs. Alice Harkey is chairman with Mrs. Jo Ann James as co chair. The Sunshine Benevolent club sponsors the event from 7 to 10 p.m. A spook parade with prizes for ugliest and most appropriate costumes will highlight the evening. Entertainment includes fortune telling dancing games and booths. Refreshments will be available.
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Douglass School
Hallowe’n
Patterson Community Center
Alice Harkey
Sunshine Benevolent Club
East Arlington
Jo Ann James
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Drouth Aid
M. & D. Finance CO
E Avenue
Zales
Quality Optical Service
Baptists
DR. Ramsey Pollard
Nixon
Yankee Churchill
Harold Sturgess
Due Roberts
Discount Department Store
44Th and
Cache Road
Lawton, Okla
Clark & Hart, Inc. Stock Brokers
D Ave
Jimmie Johnson
Mgr
ARKLA
LOANS
Developers
Gore
53Rd Street
Country Club West
Drive-in Teller
4Th& C
Tub
Frigidaire
Minty
Mrs. Della Mavity
Lawton Center
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