Council Tables Engineering Fee Action in Lawton
Lawton City Council tabled a $93,000 contract for east Lawton water system engineering and plans to renegotiate the fee after a 26 minute executive session. Discussion included local engineering preferences and a March 14 meeting to tackle a mobile home tie down proposal amid tornado damage concerns.
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E City
East Lawton
Manda
Robert Prince
Adam Mat
Thews
Prince
Public Works
Paul Brune
Benham-Blair Affiliates, Inc
Oklahoma City
Keith Haynes
Benham Blair
Haynes
Wayne Smith
Anderson
Senate backs quick tax cut plan amid oil depletion standoff
A Senate Finance Committee move to finish a 21.3 billion tax cut by March 21 avoids an oil depletion repeal amendment. Senator Long of Louisiana seeks quick passage while promising hearings on ending depletion allowances by July. Support from Ribicoff Mondale Hassell Nelson. conservative committee members approved. Hathaway opposed. See UNIT Page 4.
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Ate Finance
Gobimitee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate
Selons
Long
House
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Floyd Haskell
D-Colo
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Ford vetoes halt in oil tariff hike defers 60 days
President Ford vetoed a bill suspending oil import tariff increases and deferred 2 of the 3 dollars for 60 days while pursuing a compromise energy program with Congress. House plans a vote on overriding or sustaining the veto as talks focus on economy and energy. Ford urged a simple tax cut and emphasized energy concerns during brief Oval Office remarks.
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Washington
Congress
House
Oval Office
White House
Rep
Carroll Hubbard Jr
Kentucky
Hubbard
Henry A. Kissinger
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
Vietnam
Cambodia
Middle East
Timothy Wirth
Colo- See
Sign Language Group Quietly Advances Here
In Lawton, Cameron University BSU hosts day and night sign language classes led by Tate and assisted by Jimmy Walls. The pair train 21 residents in the manual alphabet, enabling communication beyond spoken words.
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Richard Tate
Tate
The
National
Association of Deaf Interpreters
Baptist Student Union
Cameron University
Lawton
Cameron Bsu
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Stormy February Drops Rain and Tragedy on Lawton
February brought heavy precipitation to Lawton including rain sleet and snow with a tornadic storm causing four deaths and many injuries and displacements. Downtown Lawton recorded 2.20 inches for the month while Fire Station No. 5 noted 1.95 inches as construction work slowed.
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53Rd
Gore
Gore Boulevard
Comanche County
Warmer Weather Forecast for Lawton Area
Pleasant weather dominates the Lawton area through Wednesday with fair to partly cloudy skies. Southerly winds pick up tonight with a low around the low 30s, Wednesday highs near 60, and a Thursday to Saturday stretch into the lower 70s. Monday's temps ranged from 34 to 33.
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Lawton
Boumedienne Proposes Oil Price Freeze for Development Fund
Algerian President Boumedienne opened the OPEC summit proposing a real terms price freeze until 1980 and the creation of a 15 billion dollar development fund to aid third world growth. He urged help for importing nations and broader development cooperation with industrialized countries.
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Algiers
Houari Boumedienne
Boumedienne
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
OPEC
FAA approves Concorde flights into New York and Dulles
The FAA recommends that British Airways and Air France be allowed four supersonic flights daily to New York and two daily to Dulles starting next year. This follows an EPA proposal to ease noise standards for SSTs on entry to the United States.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
Europe
New York
Environmental Protection Agency
United States
FAA
British Airways
Air France
John F. Kennedy
Dulles International
Housing Starts Jump in February for Ingle Family
Ingle family housing starts rose sharply in February from a year earlier with seventeen single family homes started totaling 443 900 while remodeling and business permits declined in value. Remodeling saw four projects worth 21 000 and nine projects at 51 000. Business permits totaled 41 valued at 175 100, down from last year’s 595 000.
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Wilfred Beeney
Lake Lawtonka
Ex-Labor Chief Says Hall Did Not Pressure Vote
Former Oklahoma Labor Commissioner L. P. Williams testified that Governor David Hall did not pressure his retirement fund vote. Williams, a fund board member appointed by Hall, said he proposed adopting the investment plan as a sound choice. Earlier, Attorney General Larry Derryberry finished testimony in Hall and W. W. Doc Taylor bribery case.
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Jerry Scarbrough
Oklahoma City
L. P. Williams
David Hall
Williams
Hall
Retirement Fund Board
Larry Derryberry
Dallas
W. W
Doc”’ Taylor
Solons Urge Limited Cambodia Army Aid For June Fighting Window
A House delegation urged limited U S military aid to Cambodia to arm government troops through June 30 to avoid a bloodbath if the government falls. They advised funding potentially $48.7 million total, with some estimates around $125 million including shipping.
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Cambodia
Washington
Congress
Indochina
U.S
House
Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee
Ford
Paul N. McCloskey
Calif
Sen
Dewey F. Bartlett
R-Okla
NBC
Today Show
McCloskey
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