Slayings suspect named in Camp Scott killings
Mayes County DA Sid Said plans a first degree murder warrant for escaped rapist Gene LeRoy Hart in the three Girl Scouts slayings at Camp Scott near Locust Grove Oklahoma. Hart allegedly fled Pryor jail in 1973 after violent crimes and faces a long prison term. OSBI investigates photos linked to the case and identifies women photographed at a Granite area wedding. Officials urge locals to avoid hitchhiking while pursuing leads to Hart and the motive behind the camp murders.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Mayes County
Sid
Gene LeRoy Hart
Here
Wise
Glen H
Pete’’ Weaver
OSBI
Con
Hart
Lori Lee Farmer
Pryor
Oklahoma City Times
Granite Reformatory
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Weaver
Granite
Lewis Lindsay
Camp Scott
Lindsay
Granite Mangum
California
Times
Judy West
Marion West
Reformatory
Peggy Walker
Mangum
Ann Blackmore
Weatherford
Jeff Laird
Moore
Oklahoma City
John Donley
Donley
Akron sewer blast blamed on vandalism rocks city
A sewer line explosion near downtown Akron created a 75 foot crater and a river of sewage as vandals allegedly opened valves at a solvent tank. Fire officials reported 3 000 gallons of petronaptia spilled into the system, with 12 block area evacuated and property damage but no injuries.
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Akron, Ohio
Robert Lord
Patch Rubber Co
Lord
Fritz Warren
Warren
Worldwide Guessing Game Ends Amin Alive in Uganda Radio
Radio Uganda announced Idi Amin is alive and resting after a period of work, citing a military spokesman and suggesting a belated honeymoon with his fifth wife Sarah. location not disclosed. Reports of Amin missing and an assassination attempt fueled three days of uncertainty before the radio statement.
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Sarah
Kampala
Amin
Uganda
Kenya
Nairobi
Daily Nation
Entebbe
Rts
Lawton Officials Eye Extra Pay Increases For Teachers
Lawton public school officials ask the Board of Education to consider a pay schedule with raises above state mandates. The plan, prepared by administrators, seeks adjustments beyond the $900 state raise and a 5 percent statewide increase, with specifics withheld until board review. The board meets at 7 p.m. at Shoemaker Education Center.
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Lawton
Board of Education
John Elkins
Elkins
Richard Neptune
Shoemaker Education Center
Weather outlook Tokyo? Lawtone showers and warm weekend
Forecast calls for cloudy skies with showers and thunderstorms likely through Friday. Downtown Lawtone recorded 38 inches of rain on Wednesday with tonight’s rain probability at 60 percent and Friday’s at 50 percent. High Friday expected in the upper 80s and tonight’s low in the upper 60s. Wednesday’s high was $2 and the low 70.
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Lawtone
Supreme Court limits prisoner union activity in ruling
The Supreme Court ruled prison officials may prohibit inmates from soliciting fellow inmates to join unions and from receiving bulk mailings from external union organizers. The decision reverses a North Carolina ruling, upholding penal management over broad First Amendment access inside prisons. Justices Rehnquist led the majority with five votes. Stevens filed partial concurrence in part and dissent in part. Brennan and Marshall dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
North Carolina
William H. Rehnquist
Rehnquist
John Paul Stevens
William J. Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
May housing surge boosts Awton permits to 48 starts
Awton issued 48 single family permits in May valued at 1.466 million and began a 1 million 146 unit apartment complex west of 11th Street by O W Warner Construction. Year to date starts total 371 valued at 11.2 million with new housing plus 12.2 million overall.
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Constitution
AWTON
May
O.W. Warner Construction Co
A and C Avenues
L1th Street
City Building and Safety Division
Cameron Baptist Church
Stored Supplies Boost Arkla Curtailment Outlook This Winter
Arkla predicts slightly lower curtailments this winter due to more stored gas despite a Federal Power Commission warning of nationwide shortages. Last winter froze supplies to many industries, forcing layoffs and school closures. Arkla faced four stoppages in Lawton during cold spells. FPC expects Arkla United Gas Pipe Line and Transcontinental Pipe Line to face the heaviest curtailments, 38 to 48 percent, with nationwide wholesale demand cuts around 23 percent. Arkla projects 38.58 percent curtailment this season.
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Akansas Louisiana Gas Company
Federal Power Commission
Arkla
Lawton
Interstate Pipeline Company
FPC
United Gas Pipe Line Company
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company
Welfare Fraud Charges Hit 72 City State and Federal Workers
Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola announced that 72 people from city, state, and federal agencies were charged with welfare fraud for simultaneously drawing welfare and holding government jobs. The group includes workers across departments such as Education, Health and Hospitals Corp, Probation, Transit Authority, and the NYC Housing Authority. Merola urged pre hire welfare checks to prevent future fraud.
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New York
Bronx
Mario Merola
Merola
Chicago
Detroit
Board of Education
The
Health and Hospitals Corp
Addictive Services Agency and Drug Centers
Department of Probation
U.S. Treasury Department
New York City Housing Authority
State Attorney General’s Office
State Supreme Court
Transit Authority
Police Department
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Akron
Hugh Bennett
Glendale Cemetery
George Thomas
James R. Russell
James Russell
Mark Kline
Bill Kline
Fort Sill
Dan Childers
Dan Manley
President Amin
Radio
By Mark Kingsolver
David Biggers Jr
David Biggers
Nottingham Road
Biggers
Apache
Jaycees
Boy Scouts
David L. Jones
Department of Correction
By Skip Gibson
Shreveport
Lawton Constitution
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