Report urges scaling down Lawton water needs plan
A short term water study by Skip Gibson urges revising a proposed 24.4 million dollar program. Jim Sauer presented March 7 to Lawton City Council, proposing a Citizens Advisory Water Resources Committee and a water resources coordinator. The plan weighs rebuilding the existing facilities versus a new 10.2 million to 10.2 figure for a supplemental East Lawton plant and outlines phased reviews of priorities and potential summer watering restrictions. The Engineers Horacek Smith Painter Spitz submitted the August 1977 study, which also calls for immediate preliminary engineering on most work.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Horacek, Smith, Painter & Spitz
Sauer
Citizens Advisory Water Resources Committee
Metropolitan Area Water District
Miners told to return to work as court orders issued
Federal marshals delivered back to work court orders to UMW leaders as talks resumed. The 160,000 miners were ordered to return by 7 a.m., but field reports showed little rush to comply. Negotiations continued with UMW President Arnold Miller meeting industry officials to seek a settlement amid ongoing power shortages and layoffs.
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Washington
Federal
Carter
United Mine Workers Union
Coal Industry
UMW
Arnold Miller
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Anthony Harris
Fairmont
W. Va
Harris
Jim Krese
West Virginia
Six Hurt as Phillips Refinery Brick Compressor Explodes
An explosion at the Phillips Petroleum refinery in Kansas City Kansas damaged a brick compressor building injuring six workers who were not in serious condition. Spokesman Philip Caudill said the blast occurred in a brick compressor room and the cause was not yet known. The roof was blown off and walls cracked while four compressors were housed in the block long structure.
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Kansas City, Kan
Phillips Petroleum
Kansas City
Kan
Philip Caudill
Phillips
Bartlesville
Okla
Caudill
Hank Strick
Strick
Jobless Rate Dips as Manufacturing Jobs Rise in February
Washington AP reports unemployment fell to 6.1 percent in February, the fourth straight monthly drop and the lowest since October 1974. January's rate was 6.3 percent. Black and minority workers saw the sharpest gains with joblessness at 11.8 percent, down from 12.7 percent. The coal strike effects appeared limited on overall employment, though 160,000 miners were temporarily out of the labor force. The Labor Department noted 25,500 factory layoffs in the week ending Feb 26 due to coal and electricity shortages, with Indiana bearing much of the impact.
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Washington
Labor Department
Indiana
Rogers to be sworn as U S Marshal Monday in Oklahoma City
Comanche County Sheriff Coy Rogers will be sworn in Monday at 12:30 p m in U S District Judge Fred Daugherty s courtroom in Oklahoma City as U S Marshal for Oklahoma s Western District He plans to resign as sheriff Monday morning and Undersheriff Hayden Ireland will serve as interim sheriff until the commissioners appoint a replacement District 2 Commissioner Bill Griswold said 15 applications have been received for interim sheriff Rogers said he aims to help enforce the Taft Hartley Act and will work under U S Attorney Larry Patton and the FBI while pursuing a Lawton field office expansion.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
U.S
Fred Daugherty
Daugherty
Bartlett
Sen
Dewey Bartlett
R-Okla
Rogers
Comanche County Board of Commissioners
Hayden Ireland
District 2
Bill Griswold
Griswold
Carter
Larry Patton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Marshal’s
Lawton
Federal Building
See Rogers
Recreation Area Work Nears Lake
Tulsa firm submits apparent low bid of 2,006,851 for recreation area construction at Waurika Lake east side sites including Beaver Creek Landing Chisholm Trail and Monika Park below the dam. Eight bids opened. high bid 2,491,688. government estimate 2,052,142. Project covers roads parking facilities buildings restrooms showers laundry and related amenities across lake sites.
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Tulsa
Waurika Lake
Beaver Creek Landing
Chisholm Trail
Monika Park
W.D. McCullough Construction Co
Beaver Creek
Lawton
Duncan
Walters
Comanche
Temple
Waurika
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