City Councilmen Seek Charter Provisions Vote
City leaders discuss charter provisions with Sneed defending eight wards and two at large councilmen along with mayor veto as a tool. Freeholders and citizens claim broad support while groups like the Comanche County Black Caucus and NAACP show campaign interest.
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Sneed
Lawton- Fort Sill
Board of Freeholders
Sam Joyner III
Dan Glascock
Howard Way
Tom Strickland
Charles Wade
Comanche County Black Caucus
NAACP
Debt limit fight pivots on closing 6 billion loopholes
Congress debates a debt ceiling bill to close alleged six billion dollar loopholes favoring high income taxpayers and business. Ways and Means chair Mills backs a spending ceiling but questions its effectiveness while the panel likely to approve the debt limit request. The current ceiling is 450 billion with administration seeking 465 billion through June 30, or a November drop to 400 billion if unchanged.
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Congress
Ways and Means
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Nixon
Fair Skies and Warm Weather Forecast for Southwest Oklahoma
The Lawton forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and hot temperatures through Tuesday. Highs in the upper 90s with tonight's low in the mid 70s. Winds southerly 10 to 20 mph today, easing to 8 to 15 mph tonight. Sunday record high 97 and low 75.
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Oklahoma
City hearings set on zoning changes and street projects
Public hearing on Central Business District zoning and land uses. SMAPC recommends approval. Bids opened Sept 13 for street sweeper drafting equipment and police auction junk iron. Frisco Railroad cost share for signals eyed. Traffic engineer backs Eighth Street closure, pole cat derrick purchase, and bids for self propelled paint stripper. Temporary signal at Fourth and Lee approved. Hardship mobile home space permit for John L Burden requested. Public hearings on rezoning, Wood land Hills plat Part 15, curb cuts policy, and renovations to McMahon Auditorium. Banner for 4H Clubs Comanche County and two city street light resolutions eyed. Mayor and council reports on agenda.
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North 27Th Street
West Euclid Avenue
SMAPC
Central Business District
Frisco Railroad
Eighth Street
Fourth Street
Lee Boulevard
John L. Burden
Swa Ave
Woodland Hills Addition
LMAPC
McMahon Auditorium
Comanche County
Public Service Company
Mozambique to Link Europe and U S by Satellite Ground Station
Mozambique will be linked to Europe and the United States by satellite communications via a ground station near Lourenco Marques scheduled for completion early in 1974.
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Lourenco Marques, Mozambique
Mozambique
Europe
United States
Here
Funeral Rites for Lee Mallow Walters
Lee Mallow Walters age 83 of Walters dies in a Lawton hospital. Funeral at First Baptist Church Tuesday with Rev. George McDow and Rev. Paul Trammell officiating. Burial in Walters Cemetery under Wyatt Funeral Home. Survived by wife Zora, son Louis, daughter Bernice Chance, three brothers, 11 grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. He was born September 6 1889 in Oil Trough Arkansas. He moved to Walters in 1966 from a farm northwest of the city and worked 21 years for the State Highway Department. He was a member of New Salem Baptist Church.
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Walters
Lee Mallow
First Baptist Church
George McDow
Paul Trammell
New Salem Baptist Church
Walters Cemetery
Wayatt Funeral Home
Mallow
Lawton
Oil Trough
Ark
Zora Stephens
Cotton County
State Highway Department
New Salem
Geronimo
Woods
Hoquiam, Wash
Obituary of Mrs. Lillian Belle Turpin
Mrs. Lillian Belle Turpin 71 died Sunday night in a Lawton nursing home. Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home handles arrangements. She was born June 29 1901 in Kansas City Missouri and married William C Turpin in 1916. Survivors include two sons two daughters a brother two sisters nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was a member of the Methodist Church the American Legion Auxiliary and the Gold Star Mothers.
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Hann- Cook Street
Draper Funeral Home
Oklahoma City
Lillian Belle Turpin
Lawton
Lawton-Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
Kansas City
William C. Turpin
Turpin
Methodist Church
American Legion Auxiliary
Gold Star
Clayton
Wayne
Wayne Eaton
Jeryal Nichols
Charles E
POW Release in Hanoi and U.S. Prisoner Talks
North Vietnam announced September 2 that Charles, Elias and Gartley would be released. A delegation of antiwar activists and two American women, arriving in Hanoi on Aeroflot, plan to stay several days before returning home later this week as Nixon ties POW release to a settlement.
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South
U.S
Indochina
Nixon
United States
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Aeroflot
Charles
Elias
Gartley
Peace Group
Chickasha Liberal Arts College Placed on Probation
Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts was placed on probation by the North Central Association, an accrediting body, a state higher education board learned today.
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Chickasha Liberal Arts College
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts
The
North-Central Association
State Regents For Higher Education
Crash and traffic toll rise in Oklahoma Sunday
A bicycle collision near Fort Sill injures a Apache youth while eight other deaths push the 1972 Oklahoma traffic toll to 607. Separate crashes claim teens in Hugo Bartlesville and other towns as officials cite glare from headlights and failure to yield.
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Fort Sill Indian Hospital
Parton
Roman Prouty
Johnny Lee Coontz
Prouty
Coontz
Highway Patrol
Oklahoma
U.S. 271
Hugo
Boogie Loyd Finch Jr
Goodland
Linda Samis
Soper
Jack Himes
Juanita Marie Haggar
Fort Towson
Jay Henton
Bartlesville
Ponca City
U.S. 60
Coweta
Wesley McKittrick
Wagoner County
McKittrick
Jacqueline Lucia Burge
Quinton
Muskogee Fairgrounds
Clifford Ellis
Wynnewood
Beckham County
Wilson Oscar Ball
Nightly air losses mount in Vietnam drive
U S command reports 98 American jets downed in the current air campaign over North Vietnam including 20 by MiGs and 30 by surface to air missiles. 104 pilots listed missing, about one third believed captured. South Vietnamese forces push through Quang Tri Citadel area with renewed operations as Mo Duc in Quang Ngai province sees ongoing fighting and heavy casualties on both sides.
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U.S
North Vietnam
Quang Tri
Petition Filed To Certify City Murder Suspect
A petition was filed in district court today to certify 17 year old Lawton youth Jack Wayne Tisdale as an adult so he could be charged with murder. The stabbing of 18 year old Ronnie Jo Mayfield occurred at 622 Bishop Road during a family argument. Mayfield died at Memorial Hospital from a heart wound. Tisdale was arrested at the scene and admitted involvement. The case remains juvenile until the judge approves adult certification by Associate District Judge John Fullerton.
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Lawton
Jack Wayne Tisdale
Bishop Road
Ronnie Jo Mayfield
Mayfield
Memorial Hospital
Jose Rosell
Tisdale
Tom Wisener
Wisener
John Fullerton
Cathy Tisdale
Medici Grants Large Indigenous Reservation in Brazil
President Emilio Garrastazu Medici signed a decree setting aside a substantial tract of land for the Fieste Xavante Indians in Brasilia Brazil. The move expands officially recognized indigenous territory and aims to safeguard ancestral lands for the Xavante people.
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Brasilia
Brazil
Emilio Garrastazu Medici
Nixon unveils aggressive international drug control push
President Nixon vows a global narcotics war, claiming Southeast Asia finances heroin trafficking. He cites cooperation with 50 countries, a planned 750 million budget, and capacity to treat 250 000 addicts next year. McGovern counters that U S policy fuels Southeast Asian heroin and calls for stricter action.
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Southeast Asia
Laos
Thailand
South Vietnam
Nixon
McGovern
Foreign Service
France
Paraguay
Turkey
State Department
Congress
United States
Denture adhesive promises firmer hold for dentures
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Lawton Morning Press
Lawton Constitution and Morning Press
Lawton Publishing Co., Inc
Ord & A Ave
Okio
Fort Sill
Constitution Press
Coast Press
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Constitution, Press
Const.Press & Sun
APO
Mo Press
Sundey
Const. & Sundey
Press
Sundey Const.Press
Redskins
Vikings
NFL
Bruce Carter
Chickasha
Carter
JETS
Rogers County
St. Francis Hospital
Tulsa
Mo Duc
Quang Ngai
da Nang
Saigon
Wiest Auto Service
4Th & B
Mathes
Television & Electronic Inc
Gayle Strickland
William P. Rogers
Richard Helms
John Ingersoll
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Nelson Gross
Gross
New York City
Boston
Baltimore
Home Savings & Loan
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