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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1974
Page
2
Australian star Tim Seres defeats a six club contract after a trump lead. He wins the trump return, ruffs, and squeezes West across three suits to score the final two tricks. The deeply analyzed play ends with West forced to concede. Tomorrow: The Night Before Christmas.
Merchants on Cache Road Square report generally strong sales as inflation drives customers to home sewing. Doug Miller notes more customers seek guidance while B J Messick cites changes to holiday plans and improving business. Local retailers say department stores and drugstores sold more high ticket items with outdoor Christmas lights rising.
Firefighters freed a 36 inch tall girl from a well in a tomato field after she became jammed while water levels rose. Workers reported her cries aided efforts and a pocket of air delayed buoyancy. Police will review possible violation of a county well curbing ordinance.
Heath says he could have been killed after a bomb attack in Broadstairs damaged the balcony and a sitting room while he was hosting a Christmas carol concert. He stayed for tea with friends and planned a Christmas visit to British troops in Northern Ireland despite the incident. Prime Minister Harold Wilson pledged justice for the attackers. A Churchill painting was damaged by bomb splinters.
Lawton Police logs list names and addresses with numerous reports including vandalism thefts and burglaries at residences and businesses. Fire dispatches show multiple grass and trash fires and a minor house fire with 1 810 total dispatches this year.
Lowton Police investigate an injury accident at Seventh and Park reported by officer Lonny Wallace. Sarah Wagner, 65, of 1907 Arlington, was taken to Southwestern Hospital by Kirk's Emergency Service after the 9 33 am incident. Insurance reports show about 100000 drinkers become alcoholics yearly, with more women affected.
The Democratic-led committee urges President Ford to have authority to roll back inflationary wage and price hikes. It favors fiscal and monetary stimulants, argues without new policies a deep recession looms, and calls for oil price rollback paired with new gas pricing. The plan supports expanded public works and unemployment programs.
The bill extends regular unemployment to 52 weeks with 13 weeks of emergency payments, funded by the federal government. States set standards for eligibility, typically based on occupation time and wages, and common weekly payments are about $60. The plan targets about 12 million newly eligible workers with 2 million expected to be unemployed sometime in 1975.
The Lawton Home Builders Association awarded prizes to three residents for outdoor Christmas decorations. First place went to Octavia K. Bowman for the electric yard light, second to Mrs. Hazel Curtsinger for a $25 savings bond, and third to Silas H. Leopard for a battery operated grass trimmer.
City area deaths with services pending at Becker Funeral Home for General L Davidson 80 of 1301 Andrews who died Sunday at a local hospital. Clarence C Glascock 64 of 1312 Ferris died at Reynolds Army Hospital after illness. funeral Tuesday at Greenlawn. Marian J McKinzey 51 died Saturday in Lawton. funeral Tuesday at Lawton Ritter Dalton Chapel. Survivors listed for all, with funeral details and burial locations. Donations requested to Comanche County Cancer Society.
T. J. Roby Jr. 18 Lawton bound over for district court on second degree burglary. Bond set at 2000. Roby linked to October Ace Hardware burglary with 1200 in stereo gear. Nov. 6 raid tied to over 11 burglaries and a juvenile theft ring. other youths face charges in juvenile court.
State Department of Agriculture reports today price ranges for crops across multiple Oklahoma towns. Wheat runs from 4.44 to 5.00 per bushel with regional variations. barley from 2.40 to 2.80. Milo from 5.00 to 6.10 cents per bushel. soybeans from 6.65 to 7.43 per bushel in listed locations.
LARA staff engineer Justice R. Neale and Superintendent Hugh Bish with Lincoln Principal Elbert Bentley redesigned a mid block crossing to Lincoln Elementary. The bus stop was arranged without transferring school land and students will load from the block’s north and south ends.
The court denied review on police warning rights in a Pittsburgh murder confession. It refused to consider bussing state athletic facilities to segregated private Mississippi schools and upheld Michigan limits on teaching birth control in public schools. Wyeth Laboratories was upheld for inadequate warning about polio vaccine dangers after a Texas child contracted polio. The Schick case challenged death penalty application based on a 1972 Supreme Court ruling. A prisoner served 20 years and was moved in 1960 to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.
Spurred by a price surge, brokers expect gold to reach 200 to 300 an ounce before the U S Treasury auction in Washington. Trading volume was light, while London price fixing is seen as a baseline for a large pool of buyers. The Treasury will offer up to 2 million ounces with no obligation to sell all, as the United States holds 276 million ounces in official reserves.
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