Arson Probe Intensifies Over City Fires In Lawton
Investigators push to identify suspects in a 30000 church fire at 1608 Euclid early Monday while discounting entry at Beal Heights Presbyterian. Leads are scarce as patrols and canvasses continue around Rose Hill area amid a rash of late night and daytime fires.
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ASON
Lawton
Church of God
Beal Heights Presbyterian Church
Park
Ray Catlin
Catlin
South
Lawton House
11Th Street
Douglas
Bly
Council Reduces Gore Boulevard Widening to 58 Feet
City council votes 5-3 to narrow Gore Boulevard widening from 64 feet to 58 feet between 17th and 23rd Streets. Action follows a shopping center owner request to avoid parking loss, with council viewing property and debating further cuts.
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Gore
17Th
23Rd Streets
Gore Plaza
Charles Beller
Larry Ferguson
Council
Delia Expected To Hit Coastline Of Texas Today
Tropical Storm Delia aimed for Texas upper Gulf Coast with 65 to 70 mph winds. Forecasters projected landfall between Port Arthur and High Island around 5 to 7 p m local time as evacuations continued along the Sabine area and Galveston Bay beaches.
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Delia
Texas
Galveston, Tex
Gulf Coast
Port Arthur
National Weather Service
High Island
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Galveston
Louisiana
Sabine River
Upper Texas Coast
Galveston-Freeport
Sabine Pass
Louisiana Line
Bolivar Peninsula
Galveston Bay
Brazosport
Freeport
Colby Becomes CIA Chief In Nixon Swearing-In
President Nixon swore in William E. Colby as director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Oval Office. Nixon praised Colby as a true professional and noted his leadership of pacification programs in South Vietnam from 1968 to 1971. Colby, 53, previously deputy CIA director for plans, promised to combine facts with human values in analysis.
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Washington
Nixon
William E. Colby
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Oval Office
Colby
South Vietnam
Office of Strategic Services
Senators pledge full disclosure of campaign funds
Oklahoma City AP reports U S Senator Henry Bellman commits to disclose every penny spent on his re election campaign and urges fellow Senate candidates to follow suit. Washington AP notes Congress returns from recess to press year end agenda including war powers spending and pension bills and foreign trade, while Beirut AP covers Arab petroleum ministers meeting in Kuwait to discuss policy towardthe United States and Israel with possible limits on production.
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Oklahoma City
U.S
Henry Bellman
Rokla
Senate
Washington
Congress
Nixon
Beirut
Lebanon
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Kuwait
United States
Israel
Hobart Hit By Five Inches Of Rain In Front Passage
Heavy rains drenched Southwest Oklahoma as a cold front moved through with up to five inches in Hobart and hail and high winds in Roosevelt Kiowa County. Lawton saw lighter totals. power was out in parts of both towns for about an hour.
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Oklahoma
Hobart
Roosevelt
Kiowa County
Elk Creek
Frances L. Lowell
Kiowa
Break-In Case Charges Malled Break-In Case Charges Malled
A Los Angeles county grand jury met to hear final evidence on potential indictments in the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist office. They expected to review Ehrlichman testimony tapes and White House memo highlights, with indictments likely by Wednesday.
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Los Angeles
Daniel Ellsberg
Dist
Atty
Joseph Busch
John D. Ehrlichman
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
Ehrlichman
Egil Krogh
David Young
G. Gordon Liddy
Lawton Ends Holiday Toll With Teacher Dieing In Driveway Crash
Maj. (Ret.) Robert L. Vowell 58 a Eisenhower Junior High School teacher died after a car backed into a driveway crush between his vehicle and a house and a second car struck the auto. The incident followed an earlier holiday death and raises the city toll to two local fatalities and a larger statewide count.
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Lawton
Robert L. Vowell
Eisenhower Junior High School
Herman G. Madden
Sedalia
Bishop Road
Lone Wolf
Kiowa County
Teacher Dies After Car Collision Near NW 55th Street
Investigating officer Delous Allen said a car driven by John Paul Cook Jr. struck teacher Vowell between the vehicle and a house, pinning him in the driveway at NW 55th Street. Vowell died at Reynolds Army Hospital at 10 p.m. Monday.
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THE
Highway Patrol
Donna Kay Evans
Lone Wolf
Vowell
Columbia
Delous Allen
Allen
NW 55Th Street
John Paul Cook Jr
54Th
Clarence Hill
Cook
Vowel
Reynolds Army Hospital
Miss Evans
Scarce Ealing wire sold out at Lawton Co-op session
Nearly 200 farmers crowded the Lawton Co-op Services to buy scarce Ealing wire arriving at 8 30 am. A total of 207 bales were sold first come first served with two rolls per customer, 197 farmers ultimately receiving their allotment.
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Lawton Co-op Services, Inc
Co-Op
Lawton Co-op
Polone
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Euclid
Alford Hennessee
Hennessee
Chuck Wade
Pete Collins
Jack McComb
Lawton Public Library
4Th and B
By Peggy Joorinson
Lake Lawtonka
Lake Ellsworth
Meers
Lawtonka
Ellsworth
Lawton Publishing Co
Third
53Rd
Gore Boulevard
West Lawton
Abby
Asee
Ealing
Rex Polone
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