Public Service Deposit Change Sparks Protest
The Lawton Board of Realtors protested a Public Service deposit increase affecting new customers in Western Division cities like Lawton, Duncan, Chickasha and Clinton. PSC officials defend the change as needed, noting deposits are refundable with interest after service ends.
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Public Service
PSC
Lawton Board of Realtors
Len Parks
Winstead
Lawton
Hugh McVey
Duncan
Oklahoma
Chickasha
Hobart
Clinton
Beavis
Airport security plan eyed as waiting area expansion urged
Airport authority chair Dr. Gilbert Gibson announced leftover bond funds will back an isolation area and urged immediate security improvements. A new waiting room could take six months to a year, with a public hearing set for January 30 to discuss airport planning and insurance needs.
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Gilbert Gibson
Airport Authority
Gibson
Cox
John Allman
Lawton
Hydrant dispute trains city water policy over private lines
In a memo to City Manager Fountaine, the city questions use of a plastic line for a subdivision and warns Richards that plastic cannot be permitted. Richards says water lines are public and has not applied for a meter. school fire protection remains at risk. Chuck Wade Jr. represents both Richards and the Lawton school board.
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Larry Fountaine
Mike Johnson
Richards
Fountaine
Lawton Supt. of Schools
Hugh Bish
Bish
Chuck Wade Jr
Frank Richards
Lawton School Board
Dubai visit by Jets foreign relations chair on Middle East talks
The Jets Foreign Relations Committee on Middle East Affairs arrived in Dubai to meet Arab leaders about oil producing countries and consumers. Lebanese Premier Rashid Solh denied Al Yom reports of Syrian military aid to Lebanon but confirmed a confidential mutual defense pact between Syria's Hafez Assad and Lebanon's Suleiman Franjieh.
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Middle East
Persian Gulf
Dubai
Rashid Solh
Beirut
al Yom
Lebanon
Israel
Solh
Lebanese Information Ministry
Hafez Assad
Syria
Suleiman Franjieh
City considers retroactive system change for pension plan
Proposal to retroactively adopt a new retirement system if approved by councilmen. The city has budgeted 170000 for this fiscal year for contributions, split evenly between old and new plans. The City Pension Trust Commission administers the system with life insurance via Wichita National Life and premiums around 2100 to 2300 monthly.
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City Pension Trust Commission
Wichita National Life
Trust Commission
Pension Trust Commission
Floyd W. Kennedy
Haskell Evans
Frank J. Lovell
Wylie G. Sartin
John Millar
Earl Jackson
Robert Bridwell
Vietnam farmland gains and Tet holiday easing
The 1974 Vietnamese cultivation area rose by a W per cent from 1973 and accounted for 11.6 per cent of South Vietnam’s total acreage, including 2 840 000 acres west of Saigon. The government said civil servants will have only two days off for Tet to share hardships faced by front line soldiers as Tet begins February 11.
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South Vietnam
Saigon
Oklahoma House Speaker Warns on State Budget Wisely
Oklahoma House Speaker Bill Willis warned lawmakers to be careful with new surplus funds in the 1975 session. He said delaying a permanent tax cut, preferring temporary relief, and pursuing cautious budgeting could avert later tax increases.
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Klahoma City
Oklahoma
House
Bill Willis
Willis
David Boren
David Hall
Hall
Boren
Jerry Smith
Tulsa
Welfare Department
Department of Corrections
Notable Public Service Career Highlighted by Ford
Ford praised Richardson for a long record of public service from Massachusetts to federal posts including under secretary of state HEW defense and attorney general. The remarks emphasized Richardson’s intelligence and total commitment to public service at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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Ford
Massachusetts
HEW
Defense
Richardson
The
Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars
Labor market turmoil and strikes hit across industries
The Labor Department reported a 28 year high weekly tax cut benefit and 2.8 million new claims last month. Oil workers threaten a nationwide strike over contracts for 430 locals while the Sheet Metal Workers union targets five railroads. Bankruptcy filings rise toward a record 231,669, with widespread layoffs at Goodyear Firestone Seiberling GM Ford and Texas Instruments. Polaroid pauses salary hikes for nonunion staff.
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Labor Department
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
A.F. Grospiron
Sheet Metal Workers Union
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Texas Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
Seaboard Coast Line
United States Courts
Goodyear Tire — Rubber Co
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Seiberling Tire and Rubber Co
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Polaroid Corp
Texas Instruments
Oklahoma City market reports lift cattle and grain prices
Oklahoma livestock trading opened moderately active with feeder steers mostly steady and some classes down. Holsteins and feeder heifers show varied prices, hogs steady to strong in early sales, while statewide grain prices list wheat around 3.95 to 4.50 dollars per bushel and eggs at 62 cents per dozen for a large size.
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Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture
Afton
Altus
Hobart
Manchester
Pauls Valley
Weatherford
Keyes
Liberal
Perryton
Clinton
el Reno
Geary
Kingfisher
Okeene
Ponca City
Yukon
Medford
Temple
Gulf
Pentagon seeks 300 million supplemental to restore aid
The administration prepares a 300 million supplemental request to restore cuts approved by Congress last month. Congress cut military aid to Cambodia by about half from the prior year, placing a 200 million ceiling on U S aid and reserving 47 million in military equipment drawn from Defense stocks.
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Congress
Cambodia
U.S
Defense Department
Vo-Tech bids adjust wall carpet and school project
Atlas Oklahoma City bids total 1 058 100 with 903 000 for shell and 8 000 deduction for car pet. The board hears filing for Zone 1 school board election Jan 13 15 covering Cache and Indiahoma areas. North Central Association will evaluate the school in early March. Worley re employed next year with salary pending. Laurence Kelley hired for medical transcription night classes. Wesley Dunbar resigns work study. Elizabeth Armstrong hired as work study.
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Atlas
Oklahoma City
Shell
A. B. Moore
Cache
Indiahoma
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Worley
Larence Kelley
Wesley Dunbar
Elizabeth Armstrong
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Richard Briley
Lee Boulevard
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Bishop Road
Henry Zwaan
Lawton Association of Insurance Agents
Zwaan
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Jets
Vietnam
Post
Aid
Vo-Tech
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of
William P. Jolly
West Gore Boulevard
Magnavox
Frank Sinatra
Hank Aaron
NBC
Coles Magnavox
Cache Rd
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