Beckwith Arrested In New Orleans On Weapons Charges
Byron De La Beckwith, twice tried for the Medgar Evers slaying, was arrested entering New Orleans with a dynamite time bomb and a .45 caliber pistol. Police also found parts of a .50 caliber weapon in the car and booked him on illegal weapons charges and attempted aggravated arson.
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New Orleans
Byron de la Beckwith
Medgar Evers
Beckwith
Greenwood
Miss
Evers
Ellsworth Lake Rises to New High Prompting Possible Flood Gates
Ellsworth Lake reached an all time level with 2.85 feet to go before the top of the 10 foot floodgates. Officials warn more rain could force opening gates as runoff from Wednesday’s storm adds 2 to 3 inches. Cache Creek and tributaries are flowing as forecasts call for continued rain through Friday.
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Ellsworth
Paul Brune
Lawton
Cache Creek
F. Garrison
Fiter
Lake Ellsworth
Brune
Tony Creek
Lake Lawtonka
Lawtonka
Medicine Creek
Soviet Launch Sends First Manned Flight Since 1971
The Soviet Union launched Soyuz 12 with cosmonauts Lt. Col. Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov reporting a normal craft and systems. Tass noted no linkup with a space laboratory and highlighted testing of automatic and manual controls and earth-surface spectrography for data on economic problems.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Vasily Lazarev
Oleg Makarov
Salyut Space Station
Earth
Space Lab
Space Laboratory
Agnew Will Try To Halt Jury Probe In Baltimore Grand Jury
A federal grand jury in Baltimore began hearing evidence involving Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as his lawyers consider an injunction to halt the inquiry. Judge Walter Hoffman would decide any blocking effort, with prosecutors weighing daily sessions to speed the probe.
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Agnew
Baltimore
Spiro T. Agnew
Judah Best
Best
Aitheult
Grand Jury
Carl Albert
House of Representatives
U.S. Dist
Walter Hoffman
Norfolk
Maryland
Elliot L. Richardson
N. Dale Anderson
Baltimore County
Older shoppers drive shoplifting rise in Lawton stores
A Constitution survey shows shoplifting in Lawton grocery stores largely unchanged by high prices, but theft offenders are aging. Managers report ongoing losses across large grocers with more older people stealing cosmetics and drugs while smaller stores see steady or rising property losses.
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Lawton
Retail Merchants Association
Len Riggins
Humpty Food
S. Fort Sill Blvd
Riggins
Charges Dropped for Two Ex Prisoners War Censured
Navy Secretary John Warner dropped mutiny and related charges against Marine Lt. Col. Edison Wainright Miller and Navy Capt. Walter E. Wilber after a three month investigation. Warner censured the two in their files and noted they are leaving military service. Miller was from Tus tin California and Wilber from Columbia Crossroads Pennsylvania. Both were fighter pilots downed over North Vietnam. Stockdale had filed charges June 2.
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Washington
Navy
John Warner
Warner
James B. Stockdale
Edison Wainright Miller
Tus
Wilber
Miller
Nixon Narrowly Wins Sub Bill Fight in Senate
The Senate approved the Navy’s fast track for Trident submarines by a 49 to 47 vote, defeating an amendment to cut 885.4 million from a 21 billion weapons bill and delaying the first unit from 1978 to 1980. The chamber also debated overseas force cuts, with shifts in several votes and a possible Humphrey amendment looming.
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Senate
Navy
Nixon
Defense Department
Administration
United States
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
J. Bennett Johnston Jr
D-La
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Warren G. Magnuson
D Wash
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Milton R. Young
N.D
Electric Plant To Begin Testing at Comanche Station
Comanche Station east of Lawton will start testing a new 120000 kilowatt steam generating unit this weekend under PSC district manager John Winstead. Steam will be expelled intermittently through mid October with nightly halts around 9 p.m. Westinghouse engineers supervise. The plant adds 240000 kilowatts and uses a packaged combined cycle design with waste heat from gas turbines to boost steam production, aiding natural gas conservation.
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Public Service Company
Comanche Station
Lawton
John Winstead
Winstead
Westinghouse
PSC
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