Living Furnaces Heat AT&T Building headquarters
AT&T’s new Basking Ridge complex is heated mainly by employee body heat and heat from lights and machines. About 2,200 workers contribute to warming offices, with ceiling vents reclaiming heat to warm water and air, cutting oil use and energy costs. Draper notes average workers emit 350 BTU per hour, roughly a 100 watt bulb's output.
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Basking Ridge
N.J
Jane
Bob
Mary
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
At&t
William Draper
Draper
John Washburn
Robert Korec
World Trade Center Towers
New York City
Sid Collis
Bell System
Bell
Collis
Comanche Center Hosts History Event And Peace Ceremony Plans
A series of events at the Comanche Cultural Center near Cache includes an oral history luncheon, a planning session for the Comanche Ute Peace Ceremony in Ignacio Colorado, and a community powwow with proceeds funding travel to the ceremony.
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Cache
Comanche Tribal Center
Ignacio
Colo
Goodwill to Present Annual Worker Award
Goodwill Industries will honor its Worker of the Year at the annual meeting held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Hotel Lawtonian. George A. Miller, secretary to DISRS director Lloyd Rader, will speak. New officers will be elected. current president is J. C. Kennedy.
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Goodwill
Goodwill Industries
Lawtonian
George A. Miller
Lloyd Rader
Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services
DISRS
J. C. Kennedy
Voting Shows Support For Sudan President
Sudanese President Jaafar el Numairi won a 99.1 percent endorsement in a three week referendum. Six million voters participated as Numairi, the sole candidate, is to be sworn in May 24 after a bloodless rise to power in 1969 and multiple coup attempts. He has steered away from leftist policies and welcomed private enterprise and Western investment.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Jaafar el Numairi
Numairi
Attorney Richard Williams Joins District Attorney Staff
Richard Williams formerly of Chickasha has joined the district attorney's office as an attorney. A 1976 graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law, he practiced privately in Chickasha after being admitted to the bar last October. Williams, a Oklahoma City native reared in Chickasha, is the son of Sam Williams district judge for Grady and Kiowa Counties. He studied at the University of Oklahoma and Southwestern University in Weatherford.
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Richard Williams
Chickasha
Williams
Oklahoma City University Law School
Oklahoma City
Sam Williams
Grady
Kiowa
University of Oklahoma
Southwestern University
Weatherford
Coffee's Spread From Arab Goatherd to New World
A legend places coffee discovery with an Arab goatherd around 850 A.D. It reached Europe in the 16th century and by 1690 was enjoyed in Boston New York Philadelphia and other New World communities.
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Europe
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
New World
Ceremony Planned For Ethnic Center In Lawton Opening
A new Governor's Advisory Council on Spanish American relations office will open at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Multi Purpose Building. Carmen Ozuna will coordinate five other offices from the Lawton facility and oversee outreach workers in Altus Frederick Binger Hobart and Terral. Bob Burke will attend with Mayor Wayne Gilley and state legislators. Workers will partner with teachers to help parents of students facing language or other school problems and connect families with Head Start and volunteer programs.
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Governor's Advisory Council On
Carmen Ozuna
Lawton
Bob Burke
Department of Economics and
Altus
Frederick
Binger
Hobart
Terral
Ozuna
Reports From City Police List Local Property Complaints
A compilation of complainants and addresses filed with the Lowton Police Department. Items include smashed building glass, scratched car paint, broken auto windows, thefts of rifles clocks radios CB radios batteries TVs jewelry wallets and bicycles, a house ransack with holes in nails and ceiling, a car fire started by burglars, and a stolen tag. Names span Johnston Carter Vinson White Grigsby Loscano Steadman Pollock Corrales Christy Settie Barfield Shepherd Fox Whisenont Bobby Boucher Lewis Everett and others.
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Lowton
PH. Johnston
Gore Blvd
Veto Carter
Nottingham
Thurse Vinson
Lincoln
Elmer C. White
Alfred J. Grigsby
H. Loscano
Lou Steadman
Camden Way
Ronnie Pollock
Showcase Cinema
Cache Road
Arthur Corrales
Cache
Martin Christy
Apt. A
David T. Settie
Apt. B
Jerry Barfield
Cowie Road
Andrew Shepherd
Jefferson
Joan H. Fox
Summit
Julia Whisenont
Leeds
Ala
Bobby Boucher
Atom
Judy Lewis
Arlington
Guvnn Everett
S. 24Th
Sheridan
Billie Lou Jean Smith
Mental Meet Set At Lawton City Hall
A joint meeting on community mental health needs is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Lawton City Hall. Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center and the Comanche County Mental Health Association sponsor with Dr. Royce Means presenting. Means and other Taliaferro staff will join a question and answer session after a short film on community mental health.
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Lawton City Hall
Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center
Comanche County Mental Health Association
Royce Means
Taliaferro
Means
Early artificial silk from cellulose in England 1883
The piece notes that the first man made fiber was a cellulose based artificial silk produced in England in 1883 and contrasts it with today's abundance of synthetic fibers.
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England
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Sears, Roebuck and CO
Llth & Gore
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Southwestern
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