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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1973
Page
4
In a move the author calls absurd, France plans to replace Anglicisms with 350 official terms in the Official Gazette. Critics say language evolves and warn of slippery consequences including mocked examples like barbecue and McDonald’s.
Municipalities confront new rules for court of record eligibility affecting appeals to district court or the Court of Criminal Appeals. The plan could require cities to hire lawyers, clerks, and public defenders, or join with others to share costs and revenue from fines. Smaller cities would bear the greatest impact.
A massive blast at the Cherokee Nitrogen Co warehouse in Pryor knocked guards down and halted firefighting. No looting reported. Ammonium nitrate products spread to National Gypsum plants nearby causing about 1 million in damage and a 60 day shutdown. One worker injured. fire officials and police cite rapid evacuation by eight employees.
Scientists widely accept the sea as the origin of life with early oceans hosting chemical evolution. The view spans research on hydrothermal vents, primordial chemistry, and early microbial life forming in ancient waters.
Leary left Switzerland for Vienna then Afghanistan and arrived in Kabul where Afghan authorities arrested him and seized his U S passport. The passport was handed to the U S Embassy which issued an ID card to permit travel back to the United States. Miss Harcourt-Smith is 26 and British and coauthored The Green Book. British immigration refused Leary entry to Britain. Harcourt-Smith was allowed to stay. U S narcotics agents had accompanied Leary from Kabul.
First Lt Pamela Reid will assume command of Fort Sill's Women's Army Corps Battery in a Friday ceremony. Reid currently serves in the Tactics and Combined Arms Department at the U S Army Field Artillery School. Capt Kathryn De Dupré moves to a recruiting command in Minnesota.
Reda Pump Co of Bartlesville Oklahoma said it signed a contract with the Soviet Union to manufacture about 20 million dollars worth of electric oil field equipment for Russian use. President James R Dunn said the pact covers auxiliary gear parts and training for operators. TRW Inc unit Reda will send advisors to Russia to supervise installation and create about 100 additional local jobs. Equipment slated for deep well drilling in the next year.
Warden Johnny Grider plans to ask the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board at its February meeting to consider releasing 14 year old Douglas D. Ballard from the state reformatory. Ballard has served about three months of a five year sentence after pleading guilty to two armed robbery charges and was certified as an adult by Creek County Judge Wesley Whittley.
Chief Justice Warren Burger temporarily blocked the Berrigan brothers from traveling to Hanoi. He acted at the Justice Department request and stayed a circuit court ruling. He said the matter would be referred to all Supreme Court members at their Friday conference.
Haig’s Paris meetings with Thieu hint at an early cease fire accord followed by initialing of the peace treaty. He then met Lon Nol in Phnom Penh and Souvanna Phouma in Vientiane, with Thai leaders in Bangkok as Washington trims Thai forces after a Vietnam withdrawal. Officials debate prisoner exchanges DMZ borders and an eight post international force.
Gls forces and hundreds of District of Columbia National Guards men will assist Metropolitan police in traffic control and security during the weekend through inaugural activities. About 7,000 military personnel join ceremonial duties with no crowd-control role. A dozen women from diverse groups urge counter-inaugural actions nationwide. Betty Friedan links liberation to ending the war, while Reps Abzug Holtzman Schroeder address attendance and protests across the country.
Reported remarks show the president anticipates a more achievable sense of achievement at the second inauguration, claiming he is no longer a minority president. An official booklet guides attire at Agnew receptions and balls. A 33 page advisory manual and 500 volunteers support visitors across 12 hotels. Police face souvenir competition and confiscate signs banning parade parking.
Three Lawton residents plan to attend inauguration festivities in Washington DC this weekend. Dr and Mrs Paul N Vann of 1310 Cherry street and Mark Frost of 2325 N 411st will be present for the events.
U S forces report 335 fighter bomber strikes in 24 hours ending 8 a m. near Quang Tri City one North Vietnamese tank and one armored personnel carrier destroyed B 52s executed 90 strikes dropping about 2700 tons of explosives, mostly below the DMZ and along the Saigon River corridor South Vietnamese tanks sweep northwest of Saigon with no major fighting reported Viet Cong protest accuses Nixon of halting bombing and demands adherence to the October 20 1972 agreement Radio Hanoi says a U S recon plane was shot down near the DMZ but no crew losses confirmed by U S Command.
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