Lawton Board Approves Broad Educator Salary Schedule
The Lawton Board of Education approved a new salary schedule giving a 10 percent across the board pay hike for school workers, costing about $370,000 in local funds next year. Teacher increments rise with bachelor and master degree steps, and administrators also gain higher yearly increases. Superintendent-elect John Elkins’ salary was set at $34,000 as he prepares to assume duties in July.
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Lawton Board of Education
John Elkins
Elkins
Hugh Bish
Lawton Schools Sell CB Radios Await FCC Approval
Lawton Board of Education voted to sell 30 CB transceivers and antennas for 30 dollars each as FCC licensing for the business band system awaits final approval. Transportation Director Bob Dismuke was authorized to proceed with sales, with many units already sold.
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Lawton Board of Education
FCC
Bob Dismuke
Transportation Center
Lawton Public Schools
Elkins
Final Contract Signatures Awaited for Downtown Post Office Site
The U S Postal Service plans to acquire title to a large downtown tract by January 1978 to build a 2 million facility. LURA authorized selling the land at 1.15 per square foot totaling 207 400 and Delivery of land by January 1978 is expected with architectural work to follow and construction soon after. The site between E and F avenues from Sixth Street east is to replace the Fifth and A facility.
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Lawton
Fifth
A. McClure
Lura
F Avenues
Sixth Street
Lura Board of Commissioners
Postal Service
Department of Housing and Urban Development
McClure
Dallas
Elmore
Post Office
City Hall Post Office Trust Authority
City Hall
Howard Gather
Gather
Gather Artistic Ornamental Iron
Cache Road
High Court Lets Limited Parochial School Aid Stand
The Supreme Court rules states may fund textbooks and certain services for parochial students while banning field trips and lending equipment. Ohio’s $88 million program to provide materials over two years is partially upheld, signaling a narrow allowance of church related aid within the constitutional separation of church and state.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ohio
250 Man Locust Grove Search For Scout Camp Killer
A 250 man posse combs rural Locust Grove Oklahoma for a suspect tied to the deaths of three Girl Scouts at a summer camp. A discarded brown jacket and T shirt were found, but no link to the man seen Thursday fleeing a cave with a gun in each hand. Authorities, state police sharpshooters, off duty officers, and 150 volunteers participate.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Tulsa
Suspect Sought as Skunk Mountain Search Expands Near Camp Scott
Daybreak sweep covers 10 square miles near Skunk Mountain three miles from Camp Scott where three girls were abducted and killed June 13. Sheriff Weaver warns of a tree climbing suspect as SBI agents cast footprints and tracking dogs report injuries. A confessed rapist fugitively linked to the murders was named earlier, with gun sightings and a helicopter aid from Tulsa.
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Skunk Mountain
Vance Briefed On French Soviet Summit Talks in Paris
U S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met with President Giscard d Estaing in Paris to relay information from Giscard about his summit with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Details were not released but Vance promised to pass the briefing to President Carter at breakfast in Washington.
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Paris
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Carter
Leonid Brezhnev
Vance
Washington
Giscard d’Estaing
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Government abandons plan to convert highway signs to metric
Washington AP. Facing heavy public opposition the FHWA drops its metric sign conversion plan. Director William M Cox says over 5000 comments were mostly negative citing a $100 million cost and confusion. The agency will not issue a regulation converting to metric standards.
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Washington
William M. Cox
Federal Highway Administration
FHWA
Cox
Federal Highway
Tration
Rain To Continue Through Tuesday In Lawton Area
The Lawton region expects more light rain into Tuesday with cooler temperatures. Rain totals for the last two days are .53 inches, and June totals reach 15.34 inches. Saturday may bring partly cloudy skies with showers and thundershowers, 60 percent chance tonight and 40 percent on Saturday. Temperatures drop about 5 degrees from the mid 90s to the upper 80s. overnight lows near 70.
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