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East Central Included With $182,000 For Library And Shop Building OKLAHOMA CITY, July 25.— (®)—The State regents for higher education have allocated $3,276, 000 to Oklahoma colleges for their first big building program in 15 years. The funds, appropriated by the 20th legislature, will be used for buildings and improvements in the next biennium. Dr. M. A. Nash, chancellor, said labor and material shortages will probably delay much of the construction until after the war. Largest share of yesterday’s al locations went to the university of Oklahoma at Norman, which received $1,092,000 for classroom construction, engineering, re search and press buildings and land. Oklahoma A. and M. col lege, Stillwater, was second with $842,400 for library, classroom and home economics facilities. Other allocations: Oklahoma Military Academy, Claremore, $34,000 for a shops building, ordnance building and campus improvements. Northern Oklahoma Junior col lege, Tonkawa, $50,000, addition on physical education building. Northeastern Oklahoma A. and M. college, Miami, $1,500 for cam pus improvements. Murray State School of Agri culture, Tishomingo. $36,300 for additional library facilities and improvements. Fastern Oklahoma A. and M. college, Wilburton, $50,000 for home economics and agricultural building facilities. Connors State School of Agri culture, Warner, $3,700 for barns, sheds, and campus improvements. Cameron State Agricultural college, Lawton, $75,000 for con struction of physical education building. Southwestern Institute of Tech nology, Weatherford, $60,300 for improvements to heating and water systems, and shops addi tions. Southeastern State college, Du rant, $98,000 for shops construc tion, alterations and land. Northwestern State college, Alva, $52,000 for completion of science building and campus im provements. Northeastern State college, Tahlequah, $117,500 for use on li brary, shops and heating plant. East Central State college, Ada, $182,509 for library and shops building. Central State college, Edmond, $150,000 for science classroom building. Langston University, Langston $200,000 for classroom building and improvements. Panhandle A. and M. college. Goodwell, $75,000 for physical education building. Oklahoma College for Women, Chickasha, $155,800 for library, heating plant, land and altera tions. The allocations were made from a total of $5,292,000 appro priated by the last legislature for building at the institutions in the next two years. The regents re-elected John H. Kane, Bartlesville, as chairman of the board for the next year. Other officers were W. D. Little, Ada, vice chairman; Dial Currin, Shawnee, secretary; and Guy H James, Oklahoma City, assistant secretary. The regents adopted a require ment of six semester hours col lege credit in U. S. history and government for each student re ceiving a degree in a college in the state system, applying to all students who enter college after September 1, 1945. Churchill, wearing civilian clo thing, flew from Potsdam, where he has been attending the Big Three conference. He went im mediately to his official resi dence, No. 10 Downing street. Britain awaited today without visible signs of excitement an nouncement of the results of the July 5 parliamentary elections, which will determine whether Prime Minister Churchill is to re main at the head of the govern ment upon whose shoulders will fail the task of prosecuting the war against Japan. Five Hours For Counting It is expected that the first re turns will start trickling in from the nation’s 640 districts about noon tomorrow (6 a.m. central war time), and that the bulk of the votes will be tabulated with in the next five hours. The British press association and Exchange Telegraph have combined their newsgathering services to obtain and tabulate the results quickly.
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Ada Weekly News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jul 26, 1945
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