State Trooper slain on Turner Turnpike by hitchhiker youths
Five people including four juveniles and a 25 year old hitchhiker were held after Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Larry Crabtree was fatally shot on the Turner Turnpike. Crabtree, 43, a 13 year veteran from Sapulpa, was killed when a shotgun blast struck him as he stopped a speeding Volkswagen. suspects were captured near Stroud after motorists alerted authorities. Governor Boren offered condolences and noted Crabtree as the 12th OHP officer to die in the line of duty.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Larry Crabtree
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Turner Turnpike
Joplin
Chase Crabtree
Bristow
Volkswagon
Argo
Newman
David Boren
Crabtree
Arkansas City
Kan
Cleveland
Oklahoma State University
Beverley Ann
Mike
Ronnie
Tony
Oklahoma Highway
Carter asks Congress to keep food stamp aid level
President Carter urged Congress to maintain current food stamp benefits for most recipients while ending the payment requirement for grocery stamps. The plan would cut 600,000 families from benefits and affect 1.58 million with reductions, with 3.26 million kept at or near existing levels. The proposal aims to include 880,000 households now without cash for stamps and faces mixed Senate opinions.
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Brian B. King
Washington
Carter
Congress
Frederick W. Richmond
Dn.y
Northeast
Training Nears For Plant Jobs
Goodyear plant job training will start about June 1 at the Great Plains Area Vo-Tech School. The first group of 30 to 40 trainees will be interviewed by two vo-tech staffers while Goodyear makes final job selections. Ninety to eighty-one hundred students enrolled for 1977 78. adult classes begin April 25 with welding filled. Board approved two summer programs for high schoolers including a June orientation and cooperative vocation program.
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Goodyear
Great Plains Area
Vo- Tech
Vo-Tech
Milton Worley
Worley
Vo-Tech School Board
City crime soars in March with major offenses rising
March major crimes climbed 28 percent from February to 443 reports, though first quarter totals still fall short of 1976. Police statistician Dee Voss notes February’s shorter month but urges vigilance as burglaries, robberies, and assaults rise.
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Dee Voss
Robert Gillian
Last Rehearsal Nears for Easter Sunrise Pageant
The 52nd annual Easter Sunrise Service is set for April 10 at Holy City in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Daytime rehearsal drew about 400 cast members plus technicians and several hundred extras, sunbathing and snapping photos as actors received final directions. A burro moved between set buildings while repair work continued on the native rock tomb and other scene details. The only remaining night rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m. today.
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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Michael Henson
Stephanie Roloff
Ecology Explorer
Boy Scouts
Lawton Heights Methodist Church
Mt. Scott
Holy City
Police search for abducted six year old near Lake
Police hunt a six year old girl abducted at 3817 Lake at 8 30 a m today by two white males in a white compact car with black stripes The girl Mary Fowler daughter of Mrs Connie Fowler is 4 ft 5 in 85 pounds with brown hair brown eyes wearing red pants a white blouse and sneakers One suspect is 5 ft 8 in 170 pounds with reddish blond hair and green eyes Call police with information.
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3817
Lake
Mary Fowler
Connie Fowler
Police Department
PSO asks for 17.5 million annual rate hike in Oklahoma
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma seeks a 17.5 million dollar yearly rate increase citing inflation rising demand and the cost of coal fired plants. Tulsa firm notes a prior 15.6 million rise two years ago and details two new coal plants at Oologah plus two nuclear units planned for 1983 and 1985 to diversify fuel sources.
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Oklahoma City
Public Service Co. of
Oklahoma
State Corporation Commission
William B. Carpenter
PSO
Carpenter
Oologah
Frost risk eases as Lawton area waits for last frost
Local nursery owner Hugh Payne says fruit trees should do well if weather stays mild, with a 75 percent chance of a freeze possible through April 13. He advises delaying planting of tender plants like tomatoes until after April 10, as temperatures dip to near freezing could damage crops. The forecast calls for a warming trend with highs in the 70s through the week.
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Nless
Lawton
Hugh Payne
Payne
Lawton Publishing Company
United States Weather Bureau
Oklahoma City
Lawtonka
Lake Elsworth
Barnhisel buys over two million in City Properties
Barnhisel of Lawton purchases more than 2 million in properties from Frascon Inc. The assets include Baskin Robbins and McDonalds stores, Der Weinersnitzel, Sirloin Stockade, Mobile Service Station, Amber Bottle Antique Shop, Embassy Arms and Holiday Plaza apartments, Kathy Courts, a 2.39 acre vacant lot, and two apartment complexes at 80 and 51 units. Leases remain in place with planned future development on the vacant land. Ferguson noted the land had been owned by Frascon since May 1960.
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Barnhisel
Northrop Worldwide Aircraft Services, Inc
Frascon
Ferguson
Frascon Inc
Freeman Enterprises Inc
Floyd Freeman
James Freeman
Barnchisel
Baskin-Robbins
McDonalds Restau
Rant
der Weinersnitzel
Sirloin Stockade
Mobile Service Station
Amber Bottle Antique Shop
Embassy Arms
Holiday Plaza
Kathy Courts
20Th
Hoover
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Georgia
Rudy Kapustin
National Transportation Safety Board
Southern
William McKenzie
la Place
Lyman Keele
College Park
Plete
Kapustin
Board
By Dan Manley
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Pioneer Realty
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