State Prison Guards Use Water Hose on Inmates
In McAlester Oklahoma guards at the state prison fired a high pressure hose to disperse about 44 inmates in segregation cells after they hurled human waste and food trays onto runs outside disciplinary cells during a disturbance around 12 30 a m. Warden Richard Crisp linked the incident to a prior flare up on the fifth and sixth floors of the new cellhouse about a month earlier. He said some inmates viewed themselves as political prisoners protesting being locked up.
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Mcalester
Okla
Richard Crisp
Crisp
Platt Murder Hearing Set For June 17
Roy Lee Shoemaker, 22, of Duncanville Texas, charged with first degree murder in the June 2 death of Marina Rose Howeth in Platt National Park, has a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 17 in Muskogee federal court. He is held on 100000 bond and has signed a confession. mental observation may follow at a federal hospital in Springfield Missouri.
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Muskogee
Roy Lee Shoeme
Ser
Shoemaker
Marina Rose Howeth
Platt National Park
Duncanville
Tex
Muskogee City
Miss Howeth
Platt
Pavillion Springs
Park
Counties Divided Nearly Sixty Thousand in Asphalt Suit
Almost $60,000 was distributed last week among Coal Murray and Seminole counties for damages from the asphalt price fixing case. Seminole County received $44,902, Murray $8,713.50, and Coal $5,526.40. Coal County plans to use its share to repair damaged roads, as bridges from 1910 1911 require costly replacement. Atty Gen Larry Derryberry noted the settlement enables increased public services in the communities.
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Coal
Murray
Seminole Counties
Seminole County
Murray County
Coal County
Sam Nelson
Nelson
Larry Derryberry
Derryberry
Texas Lawmaker Sees Oil Price Decontrol Likely
U S Rep Robert C Krueger of Texas argues Congress will approve some form of crude oil price decontrol. He cited presidential calls for deregulation and said energy bills will need deregulation or face a veto. The comment came at a meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America as a Commerce panel eyed phased price reforms by 1980.
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San Francisco
Texas
Congress
U.S
Robert C. Krueger
D-Tex
House
Ford
Krueger
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Washington
House Commerce Committee
Africans Move Into City Slums
Lagos Nigeria and other major African cities face a rural exodus with slums and overcrowded services. A Ford Foundation study calls Lagos Calcutta of Africa as traffic power cuts water shortages strain utilities. UN projections show rapid urban growth across 35 nations, Abidjan expanding to over a million by 1980, while governments struggle to respond.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Ford Foundation
Calcutta
Af T.’Asl
Africa
Latin America
United States
Europe
Kinshasa
Zaire
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Dakar
Senegal
Accra
Ghana
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
United Nations
U.N
Cameroon
Arthur Ling
Commonwealth Town Planning Institute
Upper Volta
Mali
Paris
West Africa
OPEC Considers SDR Pricing for Oil
OPEC agrees to quote crude prices in IMF SDR rather than dollars. A committee weighs two options based on SDR values from October or January, potentially lifting base price from the current $10.46 per barrel.
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OPEC
Libreville
Gabon
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
International Monetary Fund
Committee of Experts
Allen History Being Compiled for Early Residents
The Bicentennial Historical Committee is compiling a brief history of Allen with sketches of residents before 1910. Chairwoman Mrs. Hope McInroy asks early-day families to prepare their family histories and contact her by call or writing.
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Allen
Hope McInroy
Government Agencies Ponder Problem What Do We Do With Nation's Nuclear Wastes
Mary Schurz reports on how the United States faces a growing stockpile of nearly 80 million gallons of dangerous radioactive waste from military, research, and civilian nuclear programs. Agencies debate disposal methods from deep salt mines to interim storage while ERDA and NRC reassess plans.
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Mary Schurz
Associated Press
Pacific Ocean
Chicago
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
AEC
Lyons
Kans
Batelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory
West Valley
N.Y
Buffalo
Hanford
Wash
Savannah River
Aiken
S.C
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U. S
Richard Pyle
Pyle
Springfield
Ardmore
Robert Eckhardt
West Germany
Switzerland
South Carolina
Jerry Starbrough
Commonwealth Edison
Nuclear Fuel Service
West Wall
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