July 30,1971

Slants

Dr. Hubert L. Callaway making phone calls to get voters to turn out for the Tuesday election to create a Junior College District out of the Seminole school district…Senator Allen G. Nichols talking about his boyhood in Newton County, Arkansas, and how he had to work for a college education…Many area schools completing plans for opening the new term on August 18…These include Seminole, New Lima, Bowlegs, Wolf, Maud, Varnum, Pleasant Grove, Strother, Earlsboro, and Prague…George Dees, Maud high school instructor, being named to the Maud Community Center Advisory Board…

Skimming over jagged moon terrain never before seen, Apollo 15’s astronauts shifted their orbit slightly to a more comfortable altitude today and lined up for tonight’s bold landing in a lunar mountain valley.

Oklahoma’s 1971 calf crop is expected to be four per cent larger than the record 1970 crop, state and federal farm observers said today. Lamb and wool crops are expected to decline by five per cent this year.

It was 74 degrees in Seminole at noon today, the local station of the National Weather Service reported after a low Thursday night of 57. High temperature Thursday was 86 degrees. There was a trace of rain in the past 24 hours.

There is no threat of a strike in the Holdenville Police Department it was reported in the Holdenville Daily News Thursday afternoon.