July 6, 1971

Slants

Newton Wyler enjoying a day on Wewoka Lake… More Betty Crocker coupons for the kidney machine being donated by the Progress Homemakers group…Little Kathy Kahn and Stacy Watkins enjoying a Fourth of July picnic…Tony Doudican, local golf pro, cleaning up after the very successful tournament over the holiday…

The “disastrous” July the Fourth holiday weekend ended with 636 killed in auto accidents and 190 drownings, a final United Press International count showed today. “It was a bad weekend,”

“It was a bad weekend,” a National Safety Council spokesman said Monday night, well before the final count was in. “It was disastrous.”

Two county officials—Treasurer James Harrod and County Superintendent of Schools Curtis Christian—start new terms of office. They were to be sworn in for the new terms at 2 p.m. by Special Judge Walter Billingsley.

Warm southerly winds eroded the effects of a stationary cool front that hovered over Oklahoma today, and temperatures soared toward the 90s and beyond.

Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin started 20 days of launch site isolation today in preparation for their flight to the moon July 26.

Two students from Seminole are among 281 named to the Dean’s Honor roll for the spring semester at Oklahoma Baptist University.