Lawton Teachers Seek Summer Unemployment Benefits
About 250 Lawton Public Schools workers including five teachers filed for summer unemployment with the Oklahoma State Employment Service arguing seasonal employment. Eligibility decisions will rest with the State Employment Security Commission in Oklahoma City, with benefits ranging from 16 to 72 dollars weekly.
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OME
Lawton
Oklahoma State Employment Service
State
Unemployment Security Commission
Gible
Shoemaker Education Center
Lawton Public
Don Smith
State Employment Security Commission
Oklahoma City
Dick Riggs
Duncan
Cotton County
Riggs
Missouri
Louisiana
Arkansas
Washington, D.C
House
Senate
Explosion injures eight at Fort Sill dayroom
An explosion in building 3424 dayroom at Fort Sill wounded eight soldiers, three seriously. Four were treated and released, one admitted for observation, with identities released for four, while investigators probe whether mortar shell or hand grenade caused the blast.
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Fort Sill
1St Field Artillery
Takto Ital
Woodrow Braswell
Hattiesburg
Miss
David Huffman
Lawton
Jessie Matthews
Shelby, Miss
William Reeder
Reeder
Braswell
S. 24Th
Huffman
Pennsylvania
Cause
Provost Marshal's Office
Hathaway OK'd As Interior Secretary
Stanley K. Hathaway won Senate confirmation today as Interior Secretary amid Senate accusations he wavered on a tough environmental strip mining bill. The vote followed Muskie appeals for hearings and noted his later conditional support to veto the measure. Hathaway, a Wyoming Republican and former governor, replaces Rogers Morton as cabinet member.
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Ashington
Stanley K. Hathaway
Senate
Interior
Hathaway
Wyoming
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Interior Committee
Ford
House
Gale McGee
D-Wyo
Clifford P. Hansen
R-Wyo
James McClure
Idaho
Senate Interior Committee
Denmark approves purchase of 48 YF16 fighters
The Danish parliament by 114 to 48 vote approves initial purchase of 48 General Dynamics YF16 aircraft with an option for 10 more. Kissinger expected to visit Egypt Syria and Jordan in June with proposals on Israeli withdrawals. OPEC ministers postpone price rise action and shift to potential use of special drawing rights. Ford pushes for interim Egypt Israel peace progress after Oval Office talks with Rabin. US to reimburse states for refugee welfare costs after resettlement of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
General Dynamics
Felketing
Amman
Jordan
Henry A. Kissinger
Egypt
Syria
Golan Heights
West Bank of
Libreville
Gabon
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Washington
Ford
Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Oval Office
White House
Ben Nessen
Caspar W. Weinberger
Unseasonably cool spell with scattered showers and clear stretch
The region endured cool conditions with light showers tapering today. Tonight will be fair to partly cloudy with a low in the low 50s and northwest winds of 8 to 16 mph. Thursday warms to mid 80s with no precipitation and fair skies. Weekend highs reach the 60s to 80s with scattered thunderstorms forecast on Sunday.
Hostage siege ends at British Columbia prison
Captives overpower inmates after 41 hours. One female hostage Mary Steinhouser, 32, dies from injuries. Officials report two inmates and a hospital worker injured as police and prison guards move in. Police say the hostage death may be a stabbing or a chest wound as tactical squads retake the facility.
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Jim Murphy
Federal Penitentiary Service
Mary Steinhouser
New Westminster
Westminster
B.C
British Columbia
Allmand
President to Act Quickly On CIA Oversight Reform
President Ford plans rapid action on Rockefeller Commission findings to curb unlawful CIA domestic activities within two months with probes wrapped by Sept 1. Senate moves pursue a joint permanent congressional oversight panel led by Church and supported by Weicker Baker and others.
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CIA
Sion
Frank Church
Senate
Central Intelligence Agency
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Congressional Oversight Committee
Mike Mansfield
Senate Committee
Church
Idaho
Joint
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Reynolds
Hathaway Ok'd
Torrington
Wyo
Environmental Defense Fund
Grand Teton National Park
Citizens National Bank and Trust Co
Rogers C.B. Morton
Commerce
Atty
Edward H. Levi
Labor
John Dunlop
Transportation
William T. Coleman
Carla A. Hills
Housing and Urban Development
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Treasury
William E. Simon
Health
Education
Welfare
Renee
Sresareenned
Abby
Warren Alimand
Toronto
Rod Keary
Montana
Rockefeller Commission
Richard Bissell
Department of
Rockefeller
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