Jefferson County Designated in Oklahoma Medical Shortage List
Jefferson County is listed among Oklahoma counties labeled critical medical shortage areas by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The state overall has a doctor patient ratio of 1 to 759, and programs offer National Health Service Corps aid to recruit physicians to rural areas.
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NLY
Oklahoma County
Jefferson
Oklahoma
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
National Health Service Corps
Comanche County
Tommy Throckmorton
Lawton
Oklahoma Health Systems Agency
Charlotte Leach
Oklahoma Health Planning Commission
Ringling
Kansas
Ohlo
State Physician Manpower Training Commission
University of Oklahoma
Major shakeup at Wichita Mountains Refuge eyed with transfers approved
Johnson and three others receive moves as Interior Department confirms personnel changes. Sontag moves to Washington to join a new division. Hutchinson promoted to assistant area manager in Harrisburg. Fears transfers to Havasu Refuge in California. Johnson may seek a Minneapolis post.
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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Interior Department
Albuquerque
Roger Johnson
Johnson
Bill Sontag
Bill Hutchinson
Terry Fears
Needles
Calif
Sontag
Minneapolis
Minn
Thomas Smith
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Smith
Center Bans Visitors Amid City Quarantine at Nursing Center
Lawton officials say intestinal flu not a citywide crisis though Lawton Heights Nursing Center restricts visitors. About 15 patients and five staff ill, center hosts 75 patients. illness began with bed patients, likely from visitors. No dangerous flu strains identified yet.
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Jim Booher
Lawton
Booker
State Health Department
Dan
Lawton Heights Nursing Center
Haynes
Council Debate Over Sewer Plant Costs Shapes Local Race
Lawton discussions focus on operating the new sewer treatment plant with city employees amid projected annual costs rising by about 600000. Mayor Wayne Gilley faces challenger Charles Beller in the March 15 primary as council weighs bids and city labor use.
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Skip Gibson
Charles Beller
Lawton
Beller
Wayne Gilley
Ed Riddle
Deliberately Set Explosion Strikes Strike Bound Quarry
A blast of over 20 tons of dynamite at a Carey quarry hit during a labor strike left about a dozen families homeless. Sheriff and union president deny involvement. no injuries reported.
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Carey, Ohio
Ohio
Explosion rocks Wyandot County quarry in Michigan region
A 3 46 a m blast at a quarry near Wyandot County Detroit area left a 100 by 80 by 50 foot crater and shattered windows up to five miles away. Sheriff Kauble estimated thousands of dollars in damage and said evidence points to intentional detonation by someone with explosives knowledge. Deputies kept onlookers a half mile back as investigators pursue leads.
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Detroit
Wyandot County
Mark R. Kauble
Trial Ordered In Shooting By The Constitution Staff
Hall 29 was ordered to stand trial for shooting James Feaster in a pool game dispute at African Breeze Island B on January 17, 1976. Special District Judge David Carter set bond at 10 000 on the charge of shooting with intent to kill. Feaster testified about the confrontation with Larry Hall and McKinley Hall, the latter later identified as the shooter after a heated exchange.
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Cos
Hall
James Feaster
Isl
David Carter
Feaster
Steve Lile
Kenneth Youngblood
Larry Hall
Carter pushes youth jobs program and human rights policy
President Carter asked Congress to approve a 1.5 billion youth employment program to curb urban joblessness. He stressed U S aid should protect human rights, lifting travel bans on four Communist nations and reassessing policies under the Helsinki accord. An Ohio hostage incident interrupted a news conference but no one was harmed.
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Washington
Carter
U.S
United States
America
Cuba
Cambodia
Vietnam
North Korea
Warrensville Heights
Ohio
Congress
Middle East
Israel
Four Armed Men Seize Part of Bnai Brith HQ in Washington
Four gunmen seized a portion of the B N a i B R i t h International Headquarters seven blocks north of the White House. Police reported seven to 20 hostages and a lull in the downtown area as shots were exchanged and three people injured. Police moved in after the take over on the seventh floor with windows painted over and a helicopter overhead.
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Washington
B’nai B’rith International
White House
A.W. Bell
Joseph Gentile
Shell Explosion Injures Three Teens Near Ft Bragg
Two Robeson County teenagers were hurt when a group of seven M79 grenade launcher shells exploded while they played with them near Fayetteville. Ricky Bryant 13 and Ronald Bryant 17 were hospitalized, with Ricky in guarded condition. A third 13-year-old, James McNeill, was also injured while handling a 40 millimeter shell.
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Fayetteville, N.C
Robeson County
Ft. Bragg
Ricky Bryant
Parkton
Cape Fear Valley Hospital
Ronald Bryant
James McNeill
Fayetteville
Cape Fear Hospital
Army
SHELL
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Raoul Rodriguez
Houston
Robert Metzinger
Lake Lawtonka
Lake Ellsworth
Wicker Construction
Lakes and Lands Commission
J.J. Pursley
By the Constitution Staff
McKinley Hall
Youngblood
Carter Sends Congress
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