Lawton Morning Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1977, Lawton, Oklahoma Highlanders Post Third Win Over Altus Wolverines Slip By Moore Combined Paid Daily Circulation LAWTON MORNING PRESS Aggies Face UALR Quint See Details Sports Section VOLUME 44 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS THIRD AND A AVE LAWTON OKLAHOMA SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12 40 PAGES 4 SECTIONS SINGLE COPY PRICE Cameron Fire Finds Hydrants Not Workable By CLYDE FOSTER For the second time in less than a month Lawton firemen answered a fire call Friday and found thai when they got they were unable to gel water with which to fight the fire Firemen were called to the Cameron University campus when fire broke out in the auto maintenance garage Friday afternoon The fire was extinguished with water from the lank trucks after estimated damage of to the building and contents District Chief Bob Houser said there were two fire plugs close enough to the building to handle the blaze but ther of them could be operated Houser said one of the hydrants had a broken slem and that the other could nol be opened because of damage to the plug It looked like somebody had been after it with a pipe wrench and the corners were so rounded that we could not get our wrenches to open Houser said The fire department official said thai because the Cameron campus is state property the city fire department is not responsible for inspecting and maintaining the fire hydrants on campus It is slate property and we don't have anything to do with it ex- cept that we do provide fire protection for the Houser said chief engineer for the maintenance department at Cameron University said his department has never done any maintenance on the hydrants I think the fire department has See HYDRANTS Stafl Firemen use a line from one of the pumper trucks to get water to a blaze at Cameron University's auto maintenance building after two fire hydrants in the area would not work because of damage to them Firemen had enough water in the pumpers to extinguish the blaze which caused damage estimated at Dog Mauls Deputy Regents Hike OSU Dorm decking House Coach g A Comanche County deputy sheriff received emergency treatment at manche County Memorial Hospital Friday afternoon after being bitten by a dog while checking on what he thought might have been a burglary victim's residence Kenny Stradley said he and another deputy saw an unfamiliar car around a house east of Lawton Friday afternoon and thought it could be the auto driven by burglars who have staged a number of daylight thefts in the area during the past two weeks The other officer followed the car when it left and in plain and driving an unmarked car drove to the house to check and see if it could have been burglarized When he approached the house he drove into the wrong drive and got his car stuck in a road leading to the barn and started walking toward the house He said a girl at the house ly became frightened and turned a large German Shepherd loose The dog attacked Stradley injuring his right See DOG MAULS By The Morning Press Staff THE BOARD of regents for homa State University and Colleges Friday raised dorm prices at OSU scolded the president of Langston and indicated that final selection of a new OSU president would be made within a few weeks The regents called a special meeting for Feb 28 when the final dations of the presidential selection committee will be presented according to the committee chairman The athletic council of the meeting in an unannounced session at the Montego Bay Motel late Friday night voted to submit a tion on whether to renew the contract of OSU basketball coach Guy Strong but did not reveal the decision from the board will be given to the president of the university in the future to decide whether Strong's contract will be re- before the contract expires in Tom Sharrock AROUND THE HUB Royko a Chicago Daily News staffer was getting a haircut last month and the biggest slory of his life fell into his lap It will have national reverberations Our most cherished institutions may be overthrown There can be war The energy crisis will be back page compared to what Mike discovered The nation is facing a shortage of Mike's haircut was interrupted two or thief times by worried hairy types who had once been hairier who came In awl asked for hair restorers To which the barber growled Mac I don't keep BO hair restorers and works Your hair is just falling Thoughtfully Mike checked around aad leaned there is a frantic wide nsh for hair restorers filly he checked with psychologists who said there can be disasters Riots War The Right Now generation is not quite 35 Now as It was and its lag Fathers are Going Bald say hair was such a symbol that they may uot be able to cope with Its loss Which confirms what Hub always suspected Growing hair down to their has put an overload on their These worried balding folks are time who had The Answers All The Answers All Right Answers Never had there been such folks They made a cult of said Dr Frank Clark Hair is their ner a symbol of immortality Many are now over 35 and their banner is tattered There can be serious downs Which is perhaps too pessimistic Those who sported His and Her fashion wigs can look forward to His and Her upper plates It is difficult lor a member of the generation to realize the crisis we face Having very few Right An- swers themselves folks looked upon baldness as a natural non and no more serious than snoring wives Some even felt pride when their sons said Cut it like with a hole in the back The sons were very young and at the time had no Right Answers Now they are facing reality and find selves peculiarly unfit A out on Hub Street got his first haircut in 15 years the other day After examining it gravely in the mirror he told the A little longer on top please Poor poor Right Mow folks Never before has a generation watched Us dreams literally go down the drain Bat cheer up You can too avoid falling hair Jump out of the way Floyd Gass athletic director said There has been speculation Strong's contract would not be renewed because he has not posted a winning season since taking over the reins at OSU and because the basketball program this year was the subject of an in- by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the forfeit of some games in which a disputed er appeared OSU is overall this year and tied See REGENTS Page Cameron Site OK'd For U.S Choral Group By EVE SANDSTROM The Regents for Oklahoma State Uni- versity and Colleges meeting Friday on the campus of Cameron Uni- versity have okayed the sale of a foot square plot of land on the eron campus to the American Choral Directors Association The plot located on just north of the Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center will be used as a site for the ACDA national headquarters The regents also approved the for bids for the second phase of the Louise D McMahon Fine Arts Center which will be a theatre and approved the employment of Jenny Dona Geiszler as an instructor in the nursing department The property which is to be deeded to the ACDA is currently the property of the Department of Mental Health The department board has agreed to return the plot to Cameron so that it may be used for the ACDA ters The price set for the lot is The regents set March 8 as the date for opening the bids for the new eron theatre The bids would been be presented to the regents during their March meeting Mrs Geiszler will be employed as a nursing instructor at for the spring semester She received her degree in nursing from eron and holds a BS degree from homa Baptist University She has done graduate work at OSU at Kansas State College at Pittsburg and at Wichita State University She has both nursing and teaching experience The change of status of Beverly Burnett from an instructor to time instructor in the nursing ment was also approved Her rate of compensation per month is to re- main the same The regents also approved participation in the Amigos Sw CAMERON President To Send Delegates To Hanoi To End MI A Dispute Chief Of GSA Axed In Fight To Pick Aides WASHINGTON AP Jimmy ter in a flurry of activity before re- turning to Georgia for the first time as President said he would send a gation to Vietnam to resolve the tion of military personnel missing in action The President also said through his spokesman that the present head of the General Services Administration was being replaced in a dispute over whether the GSA chief could name his own assistants Revealed Carter also revealed some of the de- tails of a trust agreement designed to insulate his personal financial holdings from presidential decisions and an- that he wes sending his year-old mother to represent him at the funeral of the president of India Carter chose for his trip to a Boeing 747 jet outfitted as a flying command post for use in a nuclear at- tack No President had previously flown on the Air Force plane The President Signed an executive order setting up a commission to over- see the search for a new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation within the next 90 days Canal Talks Eyed Met with his ambassadors ing negotiations over the future of the Panama Canal Spoke in the White House with New York City Mayor Abraham B Beame about the city's financial ation Beame later said he told Carter he expects no immediate federal help in paying off billion in short-term loans Nominated Daniel J Meador a University of Virginia Law School to the new post of assistant at- torney general for improvements in the administration of justice Spokesman Jody Powell announced that Jack Eckerd head of the General Services Administration since Oct 15 be leaving his post despite an announcement Monday that he had accepted Carter's invitation to remain in office Misunderstanding Cited Eckerd a Republican who built up a drug store chain in Florida was ing after being told that he could not choose his own deputies Powell acknowledged that Eckerd after Eckerd had met with Carter at which he was asked to stay on had the impression that he would be given free rein in picking assistants Powell called this an honest standing House Speaker Thomas P O'Neill has recommended Robert Griffin a career civil servant who has spent 25 of his 33 years as a federal employe with the GSA for the job of deputy administrator Griffin is now directing planning for the John F Kennedy Library in Boston and Powell said there was no plan to give him the No 1 job In a meeting with members of the National League of Families Carter repeated his campaign pledge that his administration would directly contact the Vietnamese government to resolve Sec CHIEF Page Law Officers To Host Explorer Scouts Of 9 States LOCAL law enforcement and Boy Scout officials met Friday to lay the groundwork for an coming law enforcement ence and prepare for a visit by more than Explorers from nine states Representatives from the Lawton Police Department Comanche County sheriff's department homa Highway Patrol U.S office FBI and other law enforcement agencies made tive plans for the event scheduled for April 29 30 and May 1 Fort Sill will host the young men and women from the southwest United States during the three-day event The program was held in Dallas Tex in 1976 and homa City in 1975 The programs are designed for Explorers interested in law en- forcement as a career Boy Scout officials said Law enforcement agencies are being asked to make presentations displays and Participants may also get the opportunity to ride in patrol units and watch law officers in action Gov David Boren is expected to participate in part of the ties officials said More meetings are scheduled to complete plans for the event At Least 6 Persons Die In Kansas Plane Crash ANTHONY Kan AP A private plane crashed into a dy farm field late Friday about 6 miles of here killing at least six persons The Harper County sheriff said the plane crashed during a rainstorm into a field on the farm of Glenn ville Mandeville reached by telephone said the plane crashed into a field about two miles from his house He said the bodies and wreckage were widely scattered over the field Mandeville said the bodies were all of adults and he believed there were four men and two women We had just drove into the yard shortly after 5 p.m when we got a phone call from our daughter Rita Miller who lives on the adjoining farm about two miles from Mandeville Lawton State Welcome Rains A LEISURELY low pressure system moved through Oklahoma Friday bringing welcome rainfall of more than an inch to most of west Oklahoma and some rain to tually all areas of the state except the Panhandle By late Friday the center had drifted to near Wichita Falls and rainfall had ended in the Lawton area However some sections of the state particularly the southeast expect continued rain until some time this morning followed by a clearing trend in time to give most of the state a good weekend There were 1.2 inches of rainfall at the Building at 3rd and A in downtown Lawton and other reports in the area ranged from 86 in in Hobart to 1.6 inches at Lake tonka Duncan posted 1.45 inches and Fort Sill recorded 1.44 Today's Weather Decreasing cloudiness this fair and cooler tonight Sunny and mild Sunday High today mid low tonight near 30 High Sunday near 61 Friday's high was 51 low 46 said She said she thought a plane had crashed into one of our fields and said for us to investigate it said the plane was tered over approximately ters of a mile He said the bodies were apparently thrown from the plane anD were not found in the wreckage I was the first on the scene but the sheriff arrived about the same time They roped off the area and ordered Mandeville said The coroner was there when I he added And I left my pickup for their use Mandeville said no identification of the plane or passengers had been made while he was there He said he saw some numbers on a wing but did not remember what they were A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Wichita said neither the plane nor its occupants could be identified A spokesman for the Federal tion approach control in Wichita said the plane had not con- the Wichita airport He said the plane was about the right distance from the airport to begin making con- tact if it intended to land in Wichita The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that it had heard that muddy ground had hindered investigators in getting into the wreckage The Harper County Sheriff said any additional information concerning the crash would be released after 8 today Death Penalty Set In OC Murder Case OKLAHOMA CITY AP An homa County District Court jury a death penalty Friday night for Warmer Houston Irvin 41 convicted in the shooting death of a security guard The verdict was returned shortly be- fore 8 p.m Friday after District Court Judge Floyd Martin had earlier re- fused to accept a recommendation of life imprisonment because jurors said that recommendation was not mous The death penalty recommendation carries an automatic appeal Grain Dealer Named In Charge WICHITA FALLS Tex AP North Texas grain dealer Robert Johnson who dis- appeared Jan 3 while on a yacht in the Gulf of Mexico was named Friday in a complaint charging him with transporting stolen property The charges filed with U.S Magistrate Gene Richie accused Johnson of shipping stolen bushels of wheat worth more thank from Geronimo Okla to Fort Worth Initial reports on the disappearance of son stated that he had drowned after falling from a pleasure boat near Port Aransas But last Sunday Port Aransas Constable Ben Cash stated he had definite information that Johnson is alive Cash said Johnson went to Belize in Central America for several days after the alleged drowning incident and finally went to a ranch in Mexico some 75 miles from Eagle Pass Tex State investigators who checked grain tors operated by Johnson in Wichita Falls and Iowa Park said they found bushels ing
