Attica Prison Guards Hurt in Sunday Disturbance
At Attica in New York six guards were injured in a clash with about 200 inmates. Five were hospitalized, one with knife wounds. no inmates were hurt. The disturbance lasted under four hours as officers restored order by 1:45 a.m. and released back-up staff by 3 a.m. The incident involved 139 inmates in D block yard and 90 in A block yard.
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Attica
N.Y
Attica Prison
Benjamin Merriweather
Ruby Ryles
State Correctional Services Department
Legislators Probe Rule Curtailing Arkla Gas Supplies
State Sen. Al Terrill of Lawton heads a Special Investigating Committee on Public Utilities to study the FPC order limiting Arkla Gas and its impact on new industrial customers in Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma. The panel will open hearings at the state capitol, pursue witnesses, and examine utility rate practices and corporate relationships.
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Federal Power Commission
Arka Gas Company
Lawton
Southwest
Oklahoma
Special Investigating Committee On
Public Utilities
al Terrill
State Capitol
Terrill
FPC
Arkla Gas
Cities Service Co
Arkla
Legislative
PFC
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Capitol Building
Carter Eyes Running Mate as Democrats Open Convention
New York The Democratic convention opened with rare unity as Jimmy Carter moves to select a running mate. Carter interviewed Sen. Frank Church and Sen. Adlai Stevenson III while saying a decision would follow the presidential vote on Wednesday night. Hubert Humphrey urged delegation support for Carter, stressing he is the party’s candidate, with California Gov. Ed Brown Jr. remaining a nominal contender.
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New York
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
Georgia
Adlai Stevenson III
Ilinois
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Humphrey
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Weather forecast for Southwest Oklahoma through Tuesday
Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with a 40 percent chance of rain are forecast for southwest Oklahoma through Tuesday. Southerly winds at five to 10 mph tonight bring mid 60s temperatures. Tuesday's high in the mid 80s. Sunday's high reached 82 with a low of 64.
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Oklahoma
Back Pay Demanded For Juvenile Workers Case
Judge Chad Bledsoe charged six juvenile bureau and Marie Detty Youth Center workers were short changed on salary raises and pension benefits. He demanded the Comanche County commission pay the workers to correct rank discrimination as they settled control of Marie Detty and transferred the state grant administration to the Juvenile Bureau. The action followed an April 7 agreement ending four months of wrangling over program management and funding.
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Chad Bledsoe
Juvenile Bureau and
Marie Detty Youth Center
Bledsoe
Comanche County Commission
Marie Detty
Juvenile Bureau
Harry Garrett
Charles Ellenbrook
Commis
Sioners
Public Programs Office
Mexico condemns Israeli Uganda hostage rescue action
Mexico at the United Nations denounced Israel's commando raid that freed over 100 hostages in Uganda as a grave violation of the U N Charter and international law. Ambassador Roberto de Rosenzweig Diaz de Leon warned the move creates dangerous precedents for civilized existence.
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United Nations, N.Y
Mexico
United Nations Today
Israel
Uganda
Security Council
Roberto de Rosenzwig Diaz
U.N
Lawton Board to Decide on Pay Increases and Athletic Director
Lawton Oklahoma The Board of Education plans a 7 p.m. meeting at Shoemaker Education Center to vote on salary increases for administrators teachers and support staff retroactive to July 1 and to decide on hiring an athletic director who would oversee coaching scheduling and centralized athletic purchases. Supt Hugh Bish presents two salary proposals including a PMP backed plan offering principal raises and a nine percent rise for teachers and support staff with new pay starting fall term. Also on the agenda renewal of Whittier Elementary renovations and health services contract with the City County Health Department.
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Lawton Board of Education
Shoemaker Education Center
Supt. of
Hugh Bish
Bish
PMP
City School Board
Lawton
Whittier
Man and boy drown in Oklahoma lake mishaps
Two drownings occurred Sunday in state lakes. Five year old Channon Coffman of Mountain Park died after the small boat he rode in with his father and two men capsized while they were untangling fishing lines at Tom Steed Reservoir. A diver recovered the boy’s body. In a separate incident at Lake Thunderbird east of Norman, 34 year old Gerald Bruce of Oklahoma City drowned when his fishing boat capsized and he could not swim. his body was recovered about an hour later in nine feet of water.
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Constitution
State Lake
Mountain Park
Oklahoma City
Channon Coffman
Dean Coffman
John Moore
Here
Danny Burden
Mangum
Glenn Creek
Tom Steed Reservoir
Altus
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Lake Patrol Division
Lake Thunderbird
Norman
Gerald Bruce
Lake
Herman Douglas
Bruce
Oklahoma delegates stall on Carter pledge cards
Oklahoma's 37 Democratic delegates split on Carter pledges with 17 signed by Sunday. Some uncommitted delegates delay endorsement to preclude limiting platform amendments as Carter prepares for the convention on the first ballot, while several named delegates have already aligned.
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New York
Oklahoma
Jimmy Carter
J. C. Kennedy
Lawton
Kennedy
Carter
Jamison resigns as Lawton housing chief
Jamison, executive director of the Lawton Public Housing Authority, submitted his resignation effective September 1. He disclosed the move July 1 to LPHA chairman Donald Landrum and will discuss reasons at the Thursday board meeting. Jamison is the sixth senior official to resign in recent months amid mayoral and city staff changes. He joined the authority in 1973 after serving in the U.S. Army and on the Lawton Urban Renewal staff.
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Judy van Restobert L. Jamison
Lawton Public Housing Authority
Jamison
Donald C. Landrum
LPHA
Landrum
Alford Hennessee
Jerry Cude
Art South
South
Cude
Arch March
Lawton Urban Renewal Authority
Lura Board
Lawton
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Ward Byers
Juvenile Counseling and Detention Center
U.N. General Assembly
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Luis Echeverria
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Mexican Hotel Association
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