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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1975
Page
3
The Lawton Municipal Library Board weighed a four county multi county system with a master card catalogue and shared materials. Esther Hencke outlined funding via a 2 mill tax levy and cited benefits seen in Chickasha and Muskogee.
Mooney and Taylor, both arrested in Oklahoma City and Jackson Mississippi, faced $25,000 bonds. Court documents allege they offered to pay 31,250 to influence the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System. Rogers chaired the board overseeing the $93 million fund. Stange said they pressed for a $10 million investment in Southwest Mortgage, led by Taylor.
The Comanche County Improvement Foundation received two grants to support general operations and emergency food and medical programs. The Oklahoma Division of Economic Opportunity provided 3000 dollars to aid those on Social Security or in financial distress to buy groceries or cover medical needs.
Riggs wrote Green Grow the Lilacs which became the basis for Oklahoma Oklahoma official state song. Draper’s bill moves to the Senate. Senator Herschal Crow introduces a pay raise package for Highway Patrol troopers and public safety officials. House adopts a new rule to require recorded votes in committee of the whole to boost government openness.
Kissinger warns that race toward Geneva as a negotiating forum could freeze positions and block compromises. He favors a sequence of limited pacts to ease Arab Israeli relations, while Sadat rejects a unilateral Sinai troop pullback without broader shifts in Syria and the West Bank.
A woman visits a former feed store, confirms unpaid accounts were marked as losses, then later sends a $26 check with a note of repentance and a Bible quote. She explains she owed the debt, moved for work, and says the Lord reminded her to pay her bills. The Watsons acknowledge the payment.
The steering panel voted against automatic renomination of chairs and moved to secret-ballot selection per committee. Patman blames banking interests for defeat while Hays laments his loss and suspects enemies influenced rivals. Brademas and leaders deny engineering the upsets amid post election reforms.
The union threatens a 4 p.m. local time strike against Texaco, the nation’s fourth largest refiner. Amoco also faces a deadline as talks stall over retirement provisions, with 60,000 workers across nine states and major refineries in Indiana Wyoming Illinois Texas Utah North Dakota and Missouri involved.
The State Department of Agriculture lists current prices for wheat barley milo and soybeans across multiple Oklahoma towns with ranges for each commodity. Alfalfa hay and egg prices are shown for Chickasha Pauls Valley and egg sizes with dot pricing.
Kennedy by Gil Burk and Irvine Ungerman clash over corrections policy as Thompson eyed to succeed McEnroe with Tim Curtin's term expiring March 15. Curtin may be replaced or reappointed, but no majority on the seven member board without further resignations. In Muskogee, federal grand jury questions guards over the McAlester gas attack on May 20 seeking civil rights violations in the death of inmate Robert Forsythe.
An Erick woman, 75, Mrs. Joe Hendrix, died after being struck by a pickup driven by Gary Lee White, 16. He left 30 feet of skidmarks before impact and was involved in the fatal crossing at an Erick intersection.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary officers searched the area for Robert Lee Richardson a 30 year old trusty who escaped from the prison Wednesday evening Richardson was serving a 20 year armed robbery sentence from Caddo County authorities said Adkins convicted of second degree manslaughter for a sexual attack on a 76 year old woman faces up to four years and a $1000 fine with sentencing set for January 24 by Judge Harold C Theus
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