Indian School Singing Class Builds Muscle And Memory
The Lawton Indian Student Services offers seven traditional crafts courses with a first year singing class taught by Ralph Kotay and Raymond Nauni. Twenty one Lawton Indians study drum based songs emphasizing rhythm memory and cultural protocol at Lawton High. An open house is planned at 7 p.m. Thursday so all classes can display their skills.
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Lawton
Lawton Public Schools
Lawton High School
Delores Twohatchet
Indian Student Services
Lawton High
Kotay
South Dakota
Nauni
Defense Secretary Opposes Nuclear Weapons Study
Defense Secretary Harold Brown opposed a State Department proposal urging a UN disarmament session to study cutting production and transfer of fissionable materials. Brown argued the U S stockpiles are now roughly equal to the Soviet Union and warned verification would be hard, suggesting weapons builds might be needed if talks fail.
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Washington
State Department
Defense
Harold Brown
Carter
Administration
Brown
Cyrus Vance
Paul Warnke
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Vance-Warnke
White House
Defense Department
Vance and Warnke
United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
George S. Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Council Hints Major Street Project Cost Cuts Possible
Council workshop outlines potential savings on the Second Street reconstruction moving from Ferris Avenue to the B and C Avenue alley. Poe and Associates cites trimming $143,000 for a new Ferris Second intersection, $168,000 in lighting, $48,690 in signing and striping, and $9,600 for lighting right of way with proportional reductions in engineering and admin costs.
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Cecil Cotner
Poe and Associates
Ferris Avenue
C Avenues
Conner
Ferris
Cycle Wreck Kills Area Teen Agers
Four area teens died in Oklahoma traffic crashes over the weekend including 18 year old Bradford Haag and his 16 year old wife Rhonda Haag from Mountain View. The couple were on a Sunday ride when their cycle struck a U turning pickup on SH 115 north of Mountain View. Craig Dean Harris 16 of Mountain View drove the pickup and was not hurt. Haag died en route to Carnegie hospital with massive head injuries and Rhonda Haag died from head and internal injuries after being ejected over the pickup.
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Mountain View
Oklahoma
Highway Patrol
Bradford Donald Haag
Rhonda Haag
SH 115
Craig Dean Harris
Haag
Carnegie Hospital
Carter ends Africa tour with warning on South Africa Namibia
President Carter wraps up his visit to Africa with a warning that South Africa’s refusal to a reasonable Namibia solution could trigger sharper U.S.-South Africa ties. He urged nonmilitary outside influence ends, cited Cuba and Soviet troops in Angola and the Horn of Africa, and pressed for an Africa free from external interference. Tolbert urged creative U.S. policy to curb external subversion and proxy interventions. Carter met 250 Peace Corps volunteers in Monrovia before flying home.
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Monrovia
Liberia
Carter
Black Africa
Namibia
United States
Air Force One
Olusegun Obasanjo
Cuba
Africa
William R. Tolbert Jr
Angola
Horn of Africa
Soviet Union
Tolbert
Peace Corps
Lagos
Obasanjo
South-West Africa
Rhodesia
South Africa
Lawton Teachers Criticize Publicity Over Dismissal
Lawton's Teachers Association objects to publicizing the name of Joyce Gross a veteran kindergarten teacher denied a contract for next year. Officials say state law requires public notice at a meeting and a possible resignation option was offered. Gross plans an appeal and seeks OEA legal counsel ahead of a public hearing.
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Lawton
Association of
Richard Neptune
Gross
Neptune
OEA
Russians Work On Establishing Space Colonies
SPACE CENTER Houston AP Embarrassed by American moon successes the Soviet Union aims to be first to establish permanent space colonies James Oberg an expert on the Russian space program says space crafts will orbit Earth with men and women living there long term raising families in a closed system growing food and making oxygen He predicts continued Russian lead with five to six years experience and says Americans may build outposts after the shuttle program begins Oberg who lectures for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics notes his remarks are personal he cites the 1960s moon race as a trigger for the current colonization effort and mentions a year ago a historic three spacecraft linkup by the Soviets as proof of space colony feasibility He adds the linkup will push the colonization idea forward this year and beyond He is a Johnson Space Center computer specialist and space program expert. See SPACE Page 4.
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United States
Oberg
America
Steel Producer Plans To Lower Price Increase
U S Steel Corp the nations leading producer said it would roll back a 10 50 a ton price increase to stay competitive with other mills The move followed White House pressure and matched a market wide average rise of 5 50 a ton by major producers Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel also rolled back prices to meet competition The industry now aligns with the 5 50 a ton hike expected across the sector
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
White House
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel
Rain Clouds Hang Over City Area
The Lawton area faced scattered thunderstorms moving in from northeast Texas. Rain chances are 20 percent today and tonight with highs in the lower 80s and nights in the mid-50s, while Tuesday should reach the upper 70s. Saturday’s storms brought rain hail and the season's first tornado warning to Southwest Oklahoma, totaling 1.4 inches of rainfall in Lawton.
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Lawton
Sooner
Texas
Oklahoma
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Ralph Kotay
Raymond Nauni
Lonnie James Pavney
Wilson Elementary School
Lonnie
James Pauley
Lake
Bill Dixon
By Skip Gibson
Council
Lawton Teachers’ Association
Lawton Media
John Elkins
ACT Executive Board
Joyce Gross
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