Stolen Property Reported Across City Break-ins
Police detail a series of residential thefts totaling about 10000 dollars across multiple addresses over the weekend. Two 21 year old Fort Sillmen were arrested early Saturday at Timbers Apartments, tied to a pickup break-in, with a stolen tool box found in their vehicle. Largest loss traced to 1916 Andrews at seven thousand five hundred dollars, including jewelry from Roy Meeks. Other incidents included thefts at Crosby Park Apartments and numerous residences on Roosevelt, McKinley, Taylor, NW 14th, 8 N 3rd, Andrews, Georgia and Wisconsin parking lots and units with radios, tape decks, and rings.
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Rita Herring
Lindsay
Terry Kelley
Cache Road
Apt
James Ward
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Roosevelt
Janice Blix
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Roy Meeks
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Nadine E. Potts
Taylor
Tim Whittington
Dollar pact aims to steady slumping greenback amid oil tensions
The United States and West Germany announced a currency swap expansion from 2 to 4 billion, plus IMF asset sales and flexibility to draw more SDRs to prop up the dollar. The joint plan aims to calm rapid FX fluctuations as Arab and non Arab oil producers debate price moves and oil payments in dollars. A Bonn-Copenhagen summit window and energy policy pressure loom as Bonn urges broader U.S. energy action.
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Federal Republic of Germany
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European Common Market
Copenhagen
France hinges on left grip after first round results
In the first round the Socialists lead the Communists 23.5 percent to 19.8 as analysts weigh a Socialist Communist coalition. A left alliance could push France toward a Socialist Communist cabinet under Giscard d Estaing, risking a clash with the weakened Fourth Republic framework and the Franco American alliance amid a record 83 percent voter turnout.
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Charles de Gaulle
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Altus Dam Safe For Now But Adjacent Dikes Need Upgrades
Altus Dam on the North Fork of the Red River 18 miles north of Altus would withstand a maximum probable flood, but adjacent dikes would fail from overtopping. May 1977 floods caused evacuations downstream. a much larger flood could occur. Steps are under way to improve flood warnings and inspections ongoing by the bureau and Corps of Engineers.
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Sheriff resigns. acting head to be named in Comanche County
Comanche County sheriff Rogers submitted his resignation this morning at about 8:30. Undersheriff Hayden Ireland will serve as acting sheriff until the county commissioners, meeting Wednesday, appoint a replacement. Rogers had served since November 1974 and was reelected in 1976. under a new law the appointee will serve until the November general election.
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Comanche County
Hayden Ireland
Journalists Win Four Honors at Oklahoma Interscholastic Press
Lawton High School Tatler staff members win awards in February OIPA contest. Curtis Stolp takes first in the in-depth story category. Debbie Parr Lauri White and Mollie Ridgway receive runners-up in features editorials and sports respectively.
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Miners face curtailments as talks fail over health funds
Tens of thousands lose work as power utilities push to end a national coal strike. Federal orders target UMW locals and coal operators with a 4:30 p.m. deadline after industry wide bargaining broke down. Company by company talks resume amid union resistance while health care and pension funding plans swirl.
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UMW
Union
BCOA
Attorney General Nominee Civiletti Hearing Key Developments
The Justice Department released unedited affidavits after the Judiciary Committee pressed for the records. Civiletti, serving about a year as assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, was excused as a witness as hearings entered their 13th day amid questions over Marston’s removal related to Carter’s nomination.
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Marston
Carter
Civiletti
Train Of Wagons Boosts Oklahoma Easter Seal Drive
A wagon train supporting the Oklahoma Easter Seal campaign will spend March 25 in Elmer Thomas Park after traveling from Duncan on March 23 and joining with other trains in Oklahoma City on April 1. Eleven wagons are expected with routes through Duncan Apache Anadarko Chickasha Norman Moore and Lawton before the Easter Telethon in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma Society For Crippled Children
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Oklahoma City
Woodward
Sallisaw
Lawton
Lee
11Th
Ferris
Museum of the Great Plains
Central High Community
Apache
Anadarko
Chickasha
Tuttle
Norman
Moore
Crossroads Mall
Farm Bureau meeting disrupted by protesting farmers
Threats were heard toward directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation at a Capitol Hill hotel restaurant. Pete Hively, director of news services, said 30 to 40 farmers tried to disrupt the meeting. Police were called after hotel security alarm. Bergland stayed about an hour and was escorted out through the kitchen to avoid protesters.
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American Farm Bureau Federation
Capitol Hill Hotel
Pete Hively
Hively
Bergland
Riverside orange capital citrus growers visit UC Riverside
Last year 95 citrus growers from 45 countries visited the Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of California Riverside. Even the Chinese travel halfway around the world to Riverside to seek counsel for their orchards in the land where the naval orange began.
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University of California, Riverside
Riverside
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