Goodyear Groundbreaking Signals Massive Lawton Plant
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company announced a 1.2 million square foot plant near Lawton Oklahoma with Gov. David Boren attending as earthmovers began site work. Brown and Root was named general contractor as 1400 jobs were promised in coming years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodyear West Lawton
America
Oklahoma
C. Watts Construction Co
Oklahoma City
Gernstenmaier
Brown and Root Engineering Contractors
Houston
Halliburton Services
David Boren
Boren
Southwest
Goodyear
John H. Gerstenmaier
Great Plains Coliseum
West
Lawton
Oklahoma Legislature Near Final Vote on Seven Appropriation Bills
Oklahoma House and Senate prepared to vote final passage on seven appropriation measures as the special session nears its Friday deadline. The Senate fast tracked a 39.3 million transportation bill and a 9.6 million tourism and recreation bill. The House debates a 322 million common school appropriation with a failed amendment to raise pay for part time workers. The tourism bill faced opposition over pork projects before passage. Governor Boren’s proposed constitutional amendment to shorten the session is noted.
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Oklahoma City
House
Senate
State Transportation Department
Department of Tourism and Recreation
Glenn Floyd
D-Norman
David Boren
John McCune
Boren
Bloody Footprints Hint At Camp Scott Killings
A Mayes County deputy questions an unemployed Locust Grove man in Miami about the three Girl Scout murders at Camp Scott. Investigators found bloody footprints on a wooden tent platform and a red flashlight near the bodies. Autopsy reports indicate the girls were sexually molested.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Mayes County
Ottawa County
Miami
Floyd Ingram
Ingram
Hugh Horton
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
State Crime Bureau
Oklahoma City
Sid Wise
Camp Scott
Lori Lee Farmer
Doris Denise Milner
Tulsa
Michelle Guse
Wise
Decision Due Today on Prison Population Reductions
Gov. Boren planned to decide today whether to appeal a federal order reducing inmate counts at McAlester Penitentiary by 100 monthly and Granite Reformatory by 50, starting in August. Current totals were 1,560 and 690. the judge said reductions continue until 800 and 450, with no early releases intended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
David Boren
U.S. District Court
Luther Bohanon
Oklahoma
McAlester Penitentiary
Granite Reformatory
Bohanan
McAlester
Granite
State Corrections
Boren
Bohanon
Ned Benton
Bobby Battle
U. S. Justice Department
American Civil Liberties Union
Battle
Lights at S2nd and Cache Road debated by city officials
Instapoll questions reveal debate over installing a traffic light at the intersection of S2nd Street and Cache Road. City Traffic Engineer G W Marshall cites state highway study needs due to U S highway involvement and heavier local traffic granting city street right of way.
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State Highway Department
U.S
G. W. Marshall
Traffic flow concerns at Cache Road and 53rd Street
Marshall notes halting light traffic can back up thousands of cars while letting few through. City studies the area to coordinate water costs and street use, with Brune estimating about 25 cents of the water bill relates to bringing water to homes versus city tax.
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Marshall
Old Cache Road
53Rd Street
Lawton
Paul Brune
City Public Works
Weather outlook includes heat and scattered storms
The forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and hot temperatures through Thursday with highs in the low 90s and overnight lows around 69 to 70. Friday and Saturday forecast scattered thundershowers with highs in the upper 90s and lows in the low 70s.
House Debating Labor-HEW Bill in Congress
The House moves to debate the 61.3 billion Labor-HEW appropriations bill, larger than President Carter’s request and sparking clash with Congress over education funding. Controversy also centers on a ban on federal funds for abortion except to save a life.
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House
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
House Appropriations Committee
Apache youth among Oklahoma train cycle crash deaths
An Apache youth, Bobby Prouty, 17, died when his motorcycle hit a train crossing in Apache. In Washita County a three-vehicle head on collision killed Lisa Diane Johnson 23 of Dill City and Richard James Phillips 18 of Burns Flat along with a hospital death of a third passenger. The state traffic toll rose to 347.
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Apache
Burns Flat
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Oklahoma
Gene Cain
Bobby Prouty
Cain
Prouty
Roman Prouty
Lisa Diane Johnson
Dill City
Betty C. Johnson
Clinton
Richard James Phillips
Phillips
Clinton Hospital
Priority list set for 1.3 million in federal funds
Lawton city council approved East and West Gore Boulevard improvements, Lake Helen, and seven city park projects totaling 1.3 million in federal public works financing under the Economic Stimulus package. Projects aim to start this summer with a 26 day application deadline and include bridge work on East Gore and park enhancements.
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Awton
West Gore
Lake Helen
Economic Development Administration
EDA
West Gore Boulevard
53Rd
67Th Street
East Gore Boulevard
Cache Creek
Elmer Thomas Park
Gore
East Gore
East
Reuben Brown
Lawton
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Mammoth Goodyear
By the Constitution Staff
Oodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Earthmovers
United States
Gerstenmaier
Cookson Hills
Instapoll
S2nd
New Cache Road
U.S. 62
Washington
Carter
Congress
By Dan Manley
By Skip Gibson
Lee Council
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