Hotel Parking Pact Eyed in Street Vacation Plan
City debate centers on a hotel parking strip from F to E Avenues and a vacated alley. If hotel owners reject the plan the city may pursue condemnation of E Avenue. Nearby actions include a fair housing ordinance and a shift in childcare services funding discussions at the Multi Purpose Center.
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Fourth Street
F Avenue
E Avenue
Warmack
Cabana
Ernest Godlove
Pursley
Jones
Lawton
Sam Ard
Godlove
Fourth
Fifth
Great Plains Improvement Foundation
Reuben Brown
GPIF
Turnpike Industrial Park
READ-a-Thon Call Issued To Lawton Students
Lawton elementary students are urged to join the National MS Society READ-a-Thon. Last year the event raised 9407 dollars with 4810 students reading 9803 books. Library circulation rose 15 percent in Feb and Mar, with 2300 books checked out. Prizes go to top readers and fundraisers. March 22 is the final money turn-in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
National
Betty Arnold
el Reno
Joyce Goeke
Lawton Public Library
Senate leaders weigh Panama Canal treaty actions
Ten senators who visited Panama last weekend back the treaty, with Sen. Leahy urging ratification as justice and Sen. Durkin noting uncertainty. The Stennis committee advances hearings though no jurisdiction, and a parade of anti treaty witnesses questions expect war risks in Latin America while a State Department legal expert dodges labeling Torrijos a dictator.
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Senate
John Durkin
D-N.h
Patrick J. Leahy
D-Vt
Panama
Stennis
State Department
Gen
Omar Torrijos
Record Storm Snowbound Stockpiles Freeze Across Nation
Storm stockpiles lie beneath snowdrifts from heavy snowfall. Travel advisories span from southern South Dakota to northern Texas and Wisconsin to Kentucky. Freezing rain and snow linger in parts of the South with a warm break in the West. Very cold conditions persist in Montana and the northern Plains with subzero readings in International Falls. Temperatures nationwide range from 61 in Miami to 30 below in Minnesota.
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South Dakota
Texas
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Lousiana
Alabama
Oklahoma
Arkansas
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Montana
Plains
Minnesota
Ohio Valley
Rockies
Washington
Oregon
California
Southwest
Miami
International Falls
Minn
Army leadership shifts cut nonessential courses
General Bolger notes the Field Artillery School reorganization in 1975 trimmed curricula not directly tied to officer duties. Younger captains were moved into advanced courses to prepare them for immediate postschool assignments. The program adopted a leadership seminar model emphasizing morality ethics and officer responsibility and trust.
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Bolger
Army
Field Artillery
Freedom Bid Fails For Lawton Heroin Seller
Lawton man Marshall Bobo Gee, serving 20 years for selling heroin to undercover officers, lost his writ of habeas corpus in district court. Judge Jack Brock ruled no grounds for release, with Assistant District Attorney Mark Clark assisting in the appeal.
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Lawton
Marshall
Bobo) Gee
Jack Brock
Gee
Atty
Mark Clark
Farmers' strike tests Carter on farm program promises
President Carter defends the fall farm program revamp as the solution to the cost-price crunch while rejecting new legislation to meet strikers demands as unrealistic. Grassley presses Bergland on Soviet grain financing amid protests, with AAM rallying farmers in corridors outside hearings. The movement pushes for a parity price law and mandatory marketing certificates to curb production.
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Carter
Charles Grassley
Lowa
Bergland
Soviet Union
Europe
U.S
AAM
Congress
Deferred Term Set On Assault Charge
Willie Eugene Williams, 16, of 1201 Texas, received a two year deferred sentence after pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon. He had been certified to stand trial as an adult on two counts tied to threats against two Lawton women in October. Chris Van Burks, 21, got three concurrent ten year sentences for feloniously pointing a firearm and carrying a weapon in the same offense. Police said Burks threatened the two women with a gun and forced them to partially disrobe. Williams was charged with threatening the women with a knife.
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Willie Eugene Williams
Texas
Lawton
Chris van Burks
Burks
Williams
Sill Man Treated After Auto Crashes
Fort Sillman Eldon M. Lainhart aged 27 is treated at Reynold's Army hospital for broken leg and arm injuries after a high speed pursuit ended near a bridge on U S 62 west of 82nd street. Police say speeds reached about 85 mph as pursuing units chased his car from the 6400 block of northwest Compass. The car left the road, hit a guard rail and a bridge before stopping about 80 feet from the road.
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Fort Sillman
Reynold’s Army Hospital
Eldon M. Lainhart
U.S. 62
82Nd Street
Northwest Compass
OSU Elects 45 to Student Senate Includes Kelsey and Taylor
Ellen Kelsey senior accounting major and Dwight Taylor architectural studies junior are among 45 OSU students elected to the OSU Student Senate. Kelsey will represent OSU town students and Taylor will represent the Residence Halls Association.
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Lawton
Oklahoma State University
Ellen Kelsey
Dwight Taylor
OSU
Miss Kelsey
Taylor
Residence Halls Association
Ice storm deaths and hazardous roads plague Oklahoma
Four deaths were attributed to the storm in traffic including Sharon K. Mustin of Wapanuka near Atoka. Two other fatalities occurred south of Oklahoma City while a Tulsa area accident left an Oklahoma City woman dead. The Turner Turnpike faced 88 miles of jackknifed trucks and gates closed as immobilized vehicles halted westbound travel. Highways statewide were glazed and very slick with fog and drizzle freezing on roads, and temperatures to rise into the 30s later in the day before dipping again tonight.
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Atoka
Sharon K. Mustin
Wapanuka
Oklahoma City
Turner Turnpike
Tulsa
The
Highway Patrol
Lawsen
Cimarron County
Panhandle
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Wayne Gilley
Edwin C. Campbell
Jo Johnson
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Lawton Recreation Commission
Jake Garn
Utah
Garn
House
John Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Committee
Air Force Chief of
David C. Jones
Sears Roebuck & Co
FTD
Valentine
W. Gore
Grain
Sill Man
Senators
Naima
Assembly of God Church
Anene
Ana
Benkhmerherd
Wise
S.W
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