EPA grants $8.7 million for Lawton sewer upgrade plan
The Environmental Protection Agency approves 8,749,340 dollars in matching funds for Lawton's 14.8 million sewer project, enabling a new waste treatment plant and outfall lines. City officials expect bids later this summer or fall as funding climbs from 55 to up to 75 percent of costs.
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Tom Steed
Henry Bellman
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Don Whitaker
Whitaker
Pioneer Expressway
Lee Boulevard
Cache Creek
U S Planes Raid Enemy in Panhandle
U S planes conducted more than 120 strikes in the southern North Vietnam panhandle over two days. The Pentagon reported the loss of one fighter bomber and two airmen in the last three weeks, with total losses rising to 28 aircraft and 9 percent of airmen killed captured or missing.
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Panhandle
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U.S. Command
South Vietnam
Mekong
Can Tho
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Nixon
Hanoi
Haiphong
City Lakes Hit By Snow and Incoming Arctic Storm
A winter storm drenched Lawton and southwest Oklahoma with drizzle rain and snow. Reservoirs and watersheds received substantial precipitation. A second arctic air mass is expected tonight bringing more clouds and colder temperatures with a 20 percent snow chance on Thursday. Highs near 40 fading to upper 20s by Thursday morning.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Peace Talk Prep Under Way in Paris for Vietnam Talks
North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho flew to Paris to resume negotiations with Henry Kissinger as U S and North Vietnamese teams meet in St Nom Breteche to finalize details. The talks follow a bombing halt agreed by Washington and include a Thursday four party semipublic session and planned top level talks next week. Tho also met Premier Chou En Lai in Peking and was to visit Moscow en route to Paris for the new round of discussions.
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Hanoi
Henry A. Kissinger
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Haiphong
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Peking
Tho
Chou En-lai
Hsinhua
Moscow
Kissinger
United States
Hanoi- Haiphong
Washington
Rabies Outbreak Strikes Vietnam
In Saigon the US Command fights a rabies outbreak among stray dogs after a soldier bitten by an infected puppy falls critically ill. More than 300 U.S. servicemen have been bitten in the past year and authorities order elimination of roving dog packs near Tan Son Nhut air base with police to shoot unapprehended dogs.
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U.S
Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Armed Services
Lawton Reinstates Stockyards Salvage Yard Purchase Priority
Lawton Urban Renewal Authority restored high priority to buying the stockyards and salvage yards for the Neighborhood Development Program. The decision, made at a special meeting, reverses December actions amid budget and relocation site concerns.
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11Th Street
93rd Congress Opens with Democratic Leadership Set
The 93rd Congress begins with Democratic majorities in both houses and aims to challenge President Nixon on Indochina war and spending. Senate picks Mansfield as Democratic leader. House reaffirms Ford and Arends leaderships as party caucuses meet before noon. Congress vows to assert checks and balances.
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Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Senate
Pat Jennings
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Frank E. Moss
Utah
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
John Anderson
Congress
U.S
Executive Branch
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Nuclear moratorium urged on proposed power plants
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and the Union of Concerned Scientists urged a moratorium on building proposed nuclear power plants until safety issues are resolved. They called for up to a 50 percent power cutback at 29 plants now operating as 76 plants are on order and 55 more at various construction stages. Dr. Henry W. Kendall of MIT supported the group noting major cities like New York City and Chicago are especially vulnerable to catastrophic accidents.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
Nader
Henry W. Kendall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Toledo
Ohio
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Boston
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Washington, D.C
Arraignment Set In First Skyjack Attempt Of ’73
Charles A. Wenige a 37 year old Baltimore man stormed a Piedmont Airlines plane and held two stewardesses hostage demanding Toronto. After negotiations with FBI agent Thomas H Farrow Cardinal Shehan and Dr John Lyon Wenige surrendered. He claimed military service and Korea war injuries and said he was released from Fairfax hospital.
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FBI
Charles A. Wenige
Piedmont Airlines
Toronto
Canada
Thomas H. Farrow
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan
John Lyon
Lyon
Wenige
Farrow
Fairfax
Korea
Divers Search For Plane Bodies Off San Juan
U S Navy divers plunged into the Atlantic off San Juan to recover the bodies of baseball star Roberto Clemente and four others from a mercy plane crash on New Year’s Eve. Coast Guard reports the DC7 wreckage remains missing and seas run up to six feet as divers searched about two miles north of the city, in 80 to 150 feet of water.
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