Lawton Studies Para transit for elderly and handicapped
City officials examine a para transit plan to aid about 5,000 residents over 65 and 2,000 handicapped citizens. Options include a share-a-fare program, dial-a-ride scheduling, or coordinating agency buses, with a leaning toward share-a-fare after reviewing Oklahoma City. A final report to the council is planned for early 1978.
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Lawton
Frank Robinson
Robinson
Oklahoma City
Council
Problems of Architecture
Carter lands in Riyadh to warm royal welcome
President Carter arrived in Riyadh greeted by King Khaled and Crown Prince Fahd amid a 21 gun salute and formal ceremony. He and Mrs. Carter reviewed a royal guard as U.S. and Saudi anthems played. Officials note Saudi backing away from an independent Palestinian state as part of a Middle East settlement. Carter also visited a village near New Delhi and signed the Delhi Declaration with Morarji Desai.
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Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Carter
Khaled
Fahd
Middle East
India
U. S
Air Force One
Mideast
Palestine
Egypt
Israel
Daulatpur-Nasirabad
New Delhi
Delhi
Morarji Desai
In Riyahh
Kahled
America
Governor seeks ninety million budget hike for Oklahoma
Governor David Boren asked the Oklahoma Legislature to approve about a 90 million increase for the next fiscal year's budget. Education would gain 52.5 million with higher education 17.3 million and common school financing rising 35.2 million, including a 700 dollar raise for teachers. The plan also adds 6 million for highways, 2 million for rural school bus bridge work, 300 thousand for a Water Development Authority, 900 thousand to help counties pay officials, and 300 thousand to boost audit staff at the Corporation Commission. Boren urged raises averaging 6.2 percent for state workers and a 40 to 80 dollar monthly wage increase, while opposing drawing from the state reserve. The total budget stands at 814.9 million in state spending, about 65 million more than last year but shown as a 90 million increase due to fewer one time capital items.
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Oklahoma City
David Boren
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Water Development Authority
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Boren
Baker's Vote Called Pivotal In Panama Canal Pact
Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker travels to Panama for a five day visit with Gen Omar Torrijos to press congressional approval of the canal pact. He is joined by Senators Chafee and Garn and White House lobbyist Frank Moore as Carter backs the treaty amid strong public opposition. The visit tests Baker's pivotal vote on ratification and party support.
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Washington
Senate
Howard Baker
Panama
Baker
Omar Torrijos
John Chafee
Rhode Island
Jake Garn
Utah
Carter
Capitol Hill
Chafee
Navy
Garn
Five Times Per Day forefathers Boozed It Up
AP reports University of Washington historian William Rorabaugh concluded Americans 1790 to 1830 drank about 17 gallons per year. Men drank before breakfast and at multiple times daily. Whiskey was cheap, cider common, beer scarce before German brewers arrived. Drinking reinforced liberty and equality.
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Seattle
William Rorabaugh
University of Washington
Rorabaugh
Metzinger reshuffles staff naming Wiseman and Beydler
City Manager Robert Metzinger appointed Edgar E. Wiseman as administrative assistant and interim city engineer Terry Beydler to head the engineering office. Wiseman, 38, a Northrop veteran, was chosen from 43 applicants to aid council research and correspondence. Beydler, 34, had served as interim engineer since October amid understaffing and project backlogs. A broader reorganization moves five divisions of Recreation and Supply under Public Works Director Paul Brune, forming a Parks and Recreation Department as a director is named.
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Robert Metzinger
Edgar E. Wiseman
Terry Beydler
Wiseman
SW 50Th
Northrop Worldwide Aircraft Services Inc
Beydler
Crosby Park Blvd
Fred Kasper
Metzinger
Move Metzinger
Recreation and Supply Department
Public Works
Paul Brune
Lawtonk
Lakes Ellsworth
Lawtonka
McMahon Auditorium
Great Plains Museum
Department
Parks and Recreation
Gil Schumpert
Woodward
City Finance Department
Valve Opening Blamed For Deaths At Oil Refinery
In Benicia California investigators say a valve opening allowed deadly carbon monoxide to seep into Exxon's refinery coker unit during maintenance killing three workers and injuring eleven The unit was shut for routine maintenance ten days earlier Exxon OSHA and coroner officials identified carbon monoxide as the cause while Timec contractors were among the workers involved
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Benicia
Calif
Exxon
Michael Schneider
California
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Schneider
OSHA
Mark Wonacott
Solano County
al Vela
Vela
San Francisco
Jerald Johnson
Vacaville
David Soffer
William Scott
Vallejo
Edward Stephens
Vallejo General Hospital
James Lyons
Timec
Bakersfield
Weather forecast with warming trend through Wednesday
Fair skies and rising temperatures expected through Wednesday. Today's high will be in the mid-50s with a low near 30. Wednesday's high rises to the upper 50s. Monday posted a high of 42 and a low of 26.
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MacArthur Junior High
East Lawton
MacArthur
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