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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1976
Page
1
A 7.5 quake shook Guatemala City and nearby areas with aftershocks. Casualties ranged up to about 500 dead and 2,000 injured per CARE reports. Roads, utilities, and hotels suffered damage as rescue operations began amid widespread panic.
Transportation Secretary William Coleman approves a 16 month Concorde test allowing British Airways and Air France to operate up to two daily flights into Kennedy Airport and one daily flight into Dulles between 7 am and 10 pm. The decision hinges on FAA abatement measures and environmental data collection.
Comanche County's three district judges will convene as a panel in early March to decide the constitutionality of three city club and liquor ordinances. A temporary injunction hearing was postponed as the panel reviews the measures while Anna Van Pelt faces repeated citations for operating Jackie's Lounge without a license.
In New York an upper West Side fire caused 10 deaths including seven children and sent 10 to hospital, driving 30 families into freezing air. In Cicero a fourth floor blaze at a nursing home killed six and injured 23, with five dead patients. In Djibouti a hijacked bus shootout left a French schoolgirl, five others, and a Somali soldier dead or wounded as 30 French children and two adults were held hostage.
The Senate approved federal mediator W. J. Usery Jr. as Ford’s third secretary of labor. Usery, 52, led the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and was chosen to succeed John T. Dunlop. confirmation passed 79 to 7.
The city accelerates pumping from Lake Ellsworth to Lake Lawtonka, its main water source, starting this month to lift Lawtonka from record low levels. As of January 31, Lawtonka sits 3.8 feet below floodgate top, Ellsworth two feet down. last month pumping totaled 80 hours producing 76.8 million gallons. Pumping will run about 450 hours this month to meet demand amid a prolonged dry spell.
Lawton files appeal with the state Supreme Court over Dist. Judge Joe Cannon's Jan. 5 ruling that the Lawton spring water feeding Lake Lawtonka is stream water not ground water. The dispute centers on rights to about 130 million gallons used for domestic supply amid board decisions and prior city claims.
Riverside Indian School in Anadarko resumed classes as police withdrawn from campus. About 50 students clashed with officers in a rock throwing melee that damaged cars and shattered windows. an Anadarko officer was injured. FBI cooperates with the investigation while officials pursue multiple leads, with no charges yet filed.
Lawtonians face a sharp cold snap as Old Man Winter returns with single digit wind chill in the Panhandle and a low around mid-20s. Temperatures drop to 15 in the Panhandle and 30 in the southeast with a 20 percent precip chance in Lawton tonight and Thursday. Northerly winds 14 to 24 mph push wind chills well below zero while Thursday highs only reach the lower 40s.
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