Lake Project Bids Prompt Funding Dilemma at City Lakes
City Lakes and Lands Commission weighs using 16 000 in general revenue sharing funds for riprap at Schoolhouse Slough dike and picnic tables. Bids exceeded the 10 000 suggested limit and council action due next Tuesday will decide whether to approve the full 16 000 or only 10 000, with boathouse owners covering the rest. The panel also recommended against bidding hay leases at Lakes Lawtonka and Ellsworth to protect quail and wildlife.
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City Lakes and Lands Commission
City Lakes
Slough
Commission
Action Commission
Lawtonka
Ellsworth
Fort Sill to Replace Firepower Exercise With Student Run Simulations
Fort Sill plans a cheaper training shift from a large firepower exercise to student run massed fire simulations. Advanced Course officers and some Basic Course officers will participate in a two battalion exercise twice yearly, involving three to four hundred soldiers and substantial cost reduction. Fifteen annual problems will substitute the older costly drills, with no public attendance or narrators.
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Fort Sill
Adams Hill
Lawton Youth Group Gives Mobile Meals $463.75
Lawton area youth group from St. Pauls United Methodist Church completed a 24 hour fast and raised 463.75 to support Mobile Meals. The gift will fund a full week of meals for shut ins as Mobile Meals serves 58 clients with one hot meal daily.
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Enty
Lawton
St. Paul's
Gwenell Shearer
Vivan Becker
Lawton Mobile Meals
Becker
Taxi Driver Robbed and Stabbed by Two Suspects
Dennis Lang reports a 53 year old Checker Cab driver was stabbed twice in the chest and neck during a robbery by two black males after a pickup at Nite Owl Cafe. The victim, Robert Troy Hutchins, remained in serious condition at Comanche County Memorial Hospital after surgery. Police have no leads and will question Hutchins.
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Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Robert Troy Hutchins
Washington
Checker Cab Co
Hutchins
Pvt
Ervin Graham
Fort Sill
Reynolds Army Hospital
Chat & Chew
Bell
Aubrey Lee Ephriam
Garfield
Graham
Ephriam
Checker Cab
Nite Owl
Fort Sill Bivd
J Avenue
Memorial Hospital
Kirk
Don Cunningham
Unrest in Organized Labor Over Economy and Ford Budget Critique
The AFL-CIO convened its general board in emergency session to publicize unemployment and propose an economic turnaround. Leaders from electrical, tobacco, and textile unions urged mass demonstrations. Woodcock condemned Ford's budget predicting 8 percent jobless rates for two years as a planned recession.
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Afl-Cio
General Board
National Press Club
Woodcock
Ford
Guilty Plea Brings Deferred Sentences for Lawton Man
An 18 year old Lawton man, David R Romo, pleaded guilty in district court to marijuana possession and driving while impaired by drugs and liquor. A 14 year old girl was found unconscious in the back seat and a 16 year old boy fled, later captured, as police recovered a bag of marijuana in the car. The judge granted a one year deferred term on the marijuana count and a six month deferred term on the traffic charge.
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Lawton
David R. Ronio
Mike Watkins
Romo
David Carter
Richard Robertson
Society Sets Benefit Dance for Brain Cancer Child
An old fashioned Indian benefit dance to raise funds to send Trina Marie Ullea, seven, a first grader at Indiahoma, to Washington, D.C., will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Tia Piah Park dance building near Medicine Park.
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Washington, D.C
Trina Marie Ullea
Indiahoma
Tia-Piah Society of Oklahoma
Tia-Piah Park
Medicine Park Y
Lawton
Nelson Big Bow
Gay Munsell
Community Action Agency
C. Lawton
Indiahoma Young Homemakers of America Club
Trina Ula
Edgar Monetathchi
Texas braces for Arctic air and snow across Panhandle
Cold air grips Texas as wintry weather spreads from the Panhandle with snow dusting parts of the region and fog reducing travel. Tuesday saw a high 46 and low 27 with arctic gusts following a line of storms and a tornado near Plainview causing no damage.
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Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
North
Plainview
Gromyko Visit to the Middle East Reportedly Explored
Soviet diplomatic sources said Gromyko planned a possible trip to Iraq after visiting Syria and Egypt. A Tass report quoted a Soviet-Egyptian statement insisting peace in the Middle East requires Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands and recognition of the Palestinian Arab people's national rights.
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Gromyko
Iraq
Egypt
Syria
Moscow
Tass
Middle East
Palestine
Oklahoma City market prices for grains and livestock released
State Agriculture Department reports current values for wheat at 3.68 to 4.235 per bushel across multiple towns, barley 2.20 to 2.75, Milo 4.00 to 5.00, soybeans 5.19 to 6.09, alfalfa hay 65 to 75 per ton, broilers 224 per pound, eggs about 63 dozen. Cattle and calves trading moderately, feeder activity expected. hogs active with barrows and gilts 37.50 to 42.20 and sows 35 to 35.70.
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Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture
Afton
Altus
Hobart
Manchester
Pauls Valley
Keyes
Liberal
Perryton
Clinton
el Reno
Geary
Kingfisher
Okeene
Ponca City
Watonga
Weatherford
Yukon
Medford
Temple
Gulf
Aston
Banner
Head in Lawton Industrial Park highlighted by development leader
J T Neal outlined the Lawton Industrial Park project scope and value. The foundation owns 120 acres of the 216 acre site and carries notes totaling over 50 000 dollars, giving a net land value of 283 015 dollars. The board discussed road water and sewer planning to attract industry and approved Southwestern Bell Telephone right of way for underground cables through the park.
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Lawton
Foundation
J. T. Neal
Head
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Rules Committee Shifts On Income Tax Compromise
Willis says a majority of the House Rules Committee will not actively oppose the income tax compromise and will send it to the House floor. The governor’s income tax proposal has been introduced in both chambers and given a double committee assignment in the House.
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Rules Committee
Willis
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Terms Given For Burglary
Two Lawton men were granted two year deferred sentences for a December 19 1974 burglary of Pizza Hut in Lawton. Emmitt Carter and Robert Dillard must pay 35 restitution within days and stay out of further trouble. Police found them inside after an alarm at 3 35 am. One dollar was taken from the cash register.
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Lawton
Pizza Hut
Lee
Emmitt Carter
Roosevelt
Robert Dillard
Wisconsin
David Carter
Robert Looney
Wichita
Kaw
Carter and Dillard
Alvie Attockine
City-County Health Department to Close for Holidays and Training
The City-County Health Department will close on February 17 for George Washington’s Birthday holiday and on February 24 for staff training.
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George Washington
Ford energy policy faces House vote over oil tariff hike
Flynt reports Ford told Democrats to propose a better alternative or accept worse. Ford spokesmen defend the oil tariff increase as part of a conservation plan joined by Kissinger Simon and other officials. Leaders weigh if the House can override a promised veto as tariffs rise from $1 to $3 by April.
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Page
Flynt
Ford
White House
Ron Nelsen
Paul Simon
Henry A. Kissinger
Treasury
William E. Simon
House
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