Snow Flurries Hit Lawton Meers as Front Spreads
Snow began in the Lawton area around noon with Meers seeing heavy flakes at 10 30 am as a cold front barrels through Oklahoma. Turnpike crews stockpile sand and salt on six toll roads to fight icing while temps dip into the 20s.
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Lawton
Sooners
National Weather Service
Altus
Weather Service
Meers
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
W. D. Hoback
OTA
Hoback
Texas
Panhandle Plains
Lone Star
Supreme Court delays Texas execution of Robert White
The Supreme Court indefinitely postponed the Friday execution of Robert Excell White, a 30 year old Waco drifter who said he deserved to die. The court also voided a death penalty where a juror was excluded for general scruples against capital punishment.
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Supreme Court
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Robert Excell White
Waco
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Utah
Gary Mark Gilmore
White
William H. Rehnquist
Georgia
Currew Davis
Austin
Congress
J.E. Abernathy
Abernathy
Carter Signals Tax Cut Not Certain for Next Year
President-elect Jimmy Carter said a tax cut next year is not a virtual certainty and wants to keep options open. He will consult Congress before deciding and possible measures include a tax cut or work programs to curb unemployment. Budget director nominee Thomas Lance claimed a tax cut is virtually certain, but Carter disagreed.
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Congress
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Bert” Lance
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Lance
Los Angeles Times
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Couple Killed In Post Crash On Fort Sill
A 21 year old Fort Sill soldier and his wife were killed in a head on collision on post. A Fort Sill man is in critical condition at Reynolds Army Hospital. Sgt. J C Allen R Carlson 39 of E Battery 1st Cannon Training Battalion was cited for failure to keep right of road. The crash occurred at 642 p m inside Gate 3 on Fort Sill Boulevard as the couple’s car traveled north at 40 mph. Names withheld pending next of kin notification. The wreck led to a minor accident as two cars attempted to slow.
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Reynolds Army Hospital
J.C. Allen R. Carlson
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1St Cannon Training Battalion
Fort Sill Boulevard
Carlson
Council Reviews Multi Million Street Bond Proposal
City council weighs a proposed street bond of about five million dollars to fund at least three reconstruction projects. Staff memos suggest preliminary engineering and planning, with matching funds and grants possible. Priorities include West Gore Boulevard, Sheridan Road, Second Street, and Cache Road.
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Reuben Brown
Belland
Second Street
Ferris Avenue
Cache Road
East Gore
Bell
West Gore Boulevard
17Th
53Rd Streets
Sheridan Road
Rogers
ONeill Set As Speaker As House Democrats Choose Leaders
Washington AP The House Democrats select Thomas P. ONeill as speaker and a new majority leader race tightens among Phillip Burton Richard Bolling Jim Wright and John J McFall. McFall trails after a funding disclosure and the vote proceeds by secret ballot with ONeill promising cooperation.
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House
Thomas P. O'Neill
O'Neill
Massachusetts
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Phillip Burton
California
Burton
Richard Bolling
Missouri
Jim Wright
Texas
Officials Prepare Charge In Slaying
A felony complaint is being drawn against Willie George Steward 21 in the November 21 shooting death of Spec. 4 Terence Johnson 22. Detectives McFarland and Schulte said Steward already faces a firearm possession charge stemming from a prior felony. The .22 pistol recovered Tuesday is identified as the murder weapon. Johnson was found dead in his apartment at 9 30 a m.
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Terence Johnson
Ferris
Mark McFarland
Robert Schulte
Assisant
Looney
Steward
Smith
Schulte
McFarland
Johnson
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