Biscuit Girl Era Ends as Martha Burton Remains Legend
Martha Burton known as The Biscuit Girl helped run a Lawton cafe during the 1901 opening, cooking hot biscuits for crowds and earning more from music with Eva and Ben Watkins. Born in 1880 in Illinois, she traveled with relatives, built a life at 711 A, and later taught here. Her memories include Geronimo’s odd gifts, a schooner water glass, and a creed about shared destinies.
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City Men Handed Prison Sentences
Two Lawton men pleaded guilty to second degree burglary in district court. Steve Nathaniel Pearce and Stanley Earl White waived a jury trial and admitted stealing from the Janice Wolff home at 1710 Baldwin last May. They were given 60 days in prison and two year suspended sentences on probation. Pearce previously faced burglary charges in 1971 with a two year suspended sentence.
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Janice Wolff
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State Department of Corrections
Pearce
Sperr family faces loss after Cache mobile home fire
Mrs Sperr recalls the disaster that destroyed their mobile home and six family members, leaving her husband and five children aged seven to 19 to cope. Insurance helps but cannot fix all, and 17 year old Sharon Sperr plans to wed next month despite the tragedy, with possible postponement to summer. The family hopes to rebuild in the Cache area and weighs buying another mobile home.
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Carter Seeks Tax Plan Tied to Energy Bill Delays
President Carter signs a tax program aiming to raise payments by workers and employers starting 1979. With Congress adjourning without an energy bill, advisers estimate no net consumer impact. The plan includes a crude oil tax potentially adding up to 7 to 9 cents per gallon and rebates to offset the cost.
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Social Security overhauls raise taxes to shore up funds
Experts say the 1970s law will provide money to continue pensions through 2007. It doubles the earnings limit for the elderly, raises the cap to 4 000 in 1980 and to 6 000 by 1982, and ends benefits reductions for widows and widowers 60 or older. The reform also halves the long term deficit and includes welfare aid totaling 187 million dollars.
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Sorority sponsors shopping trip for 15 Wichita Falls youths
Delta Sigma Theta community service group took 15 needy children on a shopping trip to Wichita Falls on Monday. Each child received spending money to buy gifts for family members and the group also toured lighted displays sponsored by Midwestern University.
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Oil price row fuels OPEC tensions and security at Doha
OPEC debates price hikes as Iraq Libya and Algeria push for increases while Saudi Arabia and UAE resist. President Perez helps mediate to reunite the cartel after the Doha split. Security for ministers peaks with armored guards, a naval presence, and restricted press access amid regional unrest.
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Christmas music record issued for blind youths by LCMS
The December issue of Teen Time published by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod offers a free flexible record of Christmas music. Free copies are available by contacting the LCMS Board of Missions Library for the Blind in St. Louis Missouri.
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Santa Claus Dowry Legend Among Three Maidens
Fabled tale credits Santa Claus with providing dowries to three maidens by tossing purses of gold to their windows, portraying him as a patron saint of children in a folklore vignette.
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Donations Sought For Goodwill Effort
Lawton Goodwill Industries asks for usable furniture pots and pans dishes and clothing as it faces a critical need. Don Landrum says donations support jobs training for disabled people and tax deductions apply to gifts made before December 31 for 1977 returns.
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Lawton
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Goodwill
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State grain and produce prices reported for Oklahoma City
The State Department of Agriculture lists today s prices for wheat barley Milo and soybeans with regional bids. Wheat ranges from 2 43 to 3 08 per bushel with most towns around 2 50 to 2 60. Barley 1 30 to 1 60 per bushel. Milo 3 00 to 4 05 per cwt with multiple towns cited. Soybeans 5 25 to 6 05 per bushel. Alfalfa hay 60 to 70 per ton native pecans 40 to 48 cents per pound. Broilers live 20 cents per pound eggs large 68 cents dozen mediums 63 cents small 45 cents.
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Two Elgin Students Begin Hospital Internships
Two Elgin students majoring in medical record administration at Southwestern State University will undertake hospital internships from January 2 to 13. Susan Bergeron will work at Pauls Valley General Hospital and Karen Perkins will intern at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Amarillo, Texas.
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Southwestern State University
Allied Health Services Administration
Susan Bergeron
Pauls Valley General Hospital
Karen Perkins
Veterans Administration Hospital
Amarillo
Texas
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