Carter Energy Plan Proposes Broad Tax Increases
President Carter outlined a comprehensive energy program including a standby gasoline tax rising to 50 cents, taxes on gas guzzlers, new crude oil taxes, rebates for conservation, and mandatory efficiency standards. The plan faces partisan scrutiny and regional opposition, with emphasis on conservation incentives and national energy goals.
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Page
Carter
Congress
Percy
House
Barber B. Conable Jr
R-N.y
Conable
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Jackson
United States
Public Hearing Set On Subdivision Regulations Amendment
Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission will hold a final public hearing at 1 30 p m on April 27 1977 in Lawton Oklahoma City Hall to consider amending Article 7 Chapter 25 of the Lawton City Codes 1975 Subdivision Regulations Copies of the proposals available at Lawton Public Library Planning Division City Hall Lawton Board of Realtors and Lawton Home Builders Association Citizens may speak.
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Lawton
Lawton Metrpolitan Area Planning Commission
Council Chambers
City Hall
Oklahoma
Lawton Public Library
4Th Street
Planning Division
Lawton Board of Realtors
Lawton Homebuilders Association
Lawton Metapolitan Area Planning Commission
Roberts
Paul S. Cullen
Sheriff's Dept Probes West Lawton Burglary
The sheriff's department investigates a burglary west of Lawton after a television and microwave oven were stolen from the home of Donald Garton two miles west and half a mile south of 82nd and Cache Road. Deputies say the thieves forced the door with a hammer.
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Lawton
Sheriff's Department
Dave Brinson
Donald Garton
82Nd
Cache Road
Brinson
Housing Authority and Officials Face Major Lawsuit
Rita Mountain, a Fletcher Comanche Indian, sues the Comanche tribal housing authority, Comanche County officials, and others in district court for $500,000 claiming illegal eviction from her home last year. The suit accuses Deputy Roberson, Sheriff Rogers, and executive director Jerree Toyebo of enforcing eviction despite exemptions and court actions. Mountain seeks $100,000 for wrongful eviction, $100,000 for mental anguish, and $300,000 in exemplary damages.
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Mike Ray
Comanche Tribal Housing Authority
Comanche County
Fletcher
Rita Mountain
Board of County Commissioners
Coy Rogers
Ed Roberson
Western Surety Company
Sheriff's Department Bonding Agency
Housing Authority of
Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma
Jerree L
Caddo County
Ms. Mountain
Roberson
Garden Heights
Scaggs
Rogers
Ms. Toyebo
Housing Authority
Ms. Toyobo
Price Rises Drive Pace 1976 Report Across Foods and Fuel
The government attributes higher food and fuel costs as the main drivers of March price gains. Food items climbed with coffee and fruit leading, while fresh vegetables and beef edged lower. Frozen orange juice surged nearly 12 percent due to the Florida citrus freeze. Nonfood prices also rose, and the Labor Department notes a 0.1 percent dip in workers purchasing power from higher taxes.
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Florida
Labor Department
Center Opens Governor's Advisory Council on Spanish-American Relations
Ceremonies at 7 30 p m Friday in the Multi-Purpose Center will open a new office of the Governor's Advisory Council on Spanish-American Relations Carmen Ozuna director of community affairs for the southwest section will coordinate five offices from the facility Speakers include Bob Burke director of the Department of Economics and Community Affairs and Mayor Wayne Gilley State legislators and southwest Oklahoma Hispanic groups will participate.
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Governor's Advisory Council On
Carmen Ozuna
Bob Burke
Department of Economics and Community Affairs
Wayne Gilley
Southwest Oklahoma
City council mulls at large elections and veto powers
Council considers keeping at large representation while redistricting eight wards to six as required by the city charter this year. Proposals include allowing the mayor to vote in more cases and possibly extending veto authority to resolutions. Public vote on electing the police chief discussed, date uncertain.
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Riddle
Harry Anderson
Vic Ramirez
Ramirez
Cameron High School Business Contest Set Tuesday
About 35 southwest Oklahoma communities send students to Cameron University for the Cameron Business Contests. Registration starts 8 a.m. in the fieldhouse, general meeting at 8 45 p.m., competitions at 9 a.m. in Howell Hall, with awards at 2 p.m. in the fieldhouse for typewriting shorthand bookkeeping business math business English and economics.
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Oklahoma
Cameron Business
Cameron University
Howell Hall
Obituary for Youth From Oklahoma City
A youth born July 28 1962 in Oklahoma City died recently. He was a ninth grade student at Tomlinson Junior High School and a member of Explorer Troop 112 and St Pauls United Methodist Church. He is survived by his parents two brothers Kyle T and Stephen K a sister Helen K and maternal and paternal grandparents and great grandparents in Rush Springs Quinton and other relatives.
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Becker Funeral Home
Oklahoma City
Tomlinson Junior High School
Explorer Troop 112
St. Paul's
James P. Henry
Ruth Irwin
Rush Springs
Burlin Wilcox
Quinton
Warrant Issued for Duncan Man in Auto Theft Case
A 21-year-old Duncan man Richard Lee McNair faces district court charges for auto theft after a new car stolen from Howard Smith Ford on April 11 was found stripped and burned in Duncan three days later. Det. Jack Shutts said an arrest warrant was issued after McNair was released on his own recognizance. Parts from the Mustang were found on his vehicle.
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Duncan
Jack Shutts
Richard Lee McNair
Stephens County
Howard Smith Ford
Cameron Univ scholarship deadline announced for women students
May 6 marks the deadline for a $500 scholarship for the 1977-78 academic year at Cameron University. The La Sill Oma Chapter of the American Business Women's Association will award it to a fulltime sophomore woman student enrolled at Cameron. Applications available from Mrs Laura Bryd Room 145 Cameron Administration Building.
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Cameron University
la Sill- Oma
American Business Women’s Association
Cameron
Laura Bryd
Cameron Administration
Fort Sill Selects Longmore as Chief of Staff
Maj. Gen. Donald R. Keith announces Col. Myron J. Longmore will succeed Col. Clayton L. Moran as Fort Sill chief of staff around Aug. 1. Longmore, commander of FA School evaluation since 1976, will coordinate staff actions in support of Field Artillery Center missions.
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Donald R. Keith
Fort Sill
Col
Myron J. Longmore
Clayton L. Moran
Moran
U.S. Army Military Personnel Center
Alexandria
Longmore
U.S. Army Field Artillery School
Field Artillery Center
Lawton High Tatler Earns Highest Honors in Oklahoma Contest
The Lawton High School Tatler student newspaper received a highest honors listing in the Oklahoma Interscholastic contest. The award was announced during a meeting in Norman on Friday. It marked the Tatler’s first such listing in five years.
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Lawton High School
Tatler
Norman
Bondsman Admits Counts and Is Sentenced
Randale Lasiter 31 pleaded guilty in district court to two counts of embezzlement by an employee and received two 2 year suspended sentences to run concurrently. A third count was dismissed. He must repay Sentinel Bonding Company 3000 in 24 equal payments as probation. An administrative hearing in Oklahoma City on reinstating his licensed surety bondsman status was continued to March 28.
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Randale Lasiter
Sentinel Bonding Company
Lasiter
Sentinel
Dist
Jack Brock
State Insurance Commissioner's Office
Oklahoma City
Girl Admits Guilt To Alarm Charge
A young girl, adjudged delinquent in a Lawton district court juvenile hearing, admitted turning in a false 911 alarm to the Lawton Fire Department. The hearing before Associate Dist. Judge Chad Bledsoe accepted the admission tied to an April 9 false report, with a disposition hearing set for May 11. The court may retain jurisdiction until she is 21 since the offense occurred while she was a juvenile.
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Lawton
Chad Bledsoe
Bledsoe
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