Funding Plan For Parking Area Fought By Local Critics
The final public hearing on a $6.1 million first year community development plan faced criticism mainly over buying $1.4 million worth of parking land to back a downtown redevelopment. Two businessmen urged delay while supporters argued parking land is essential for the urban renewal project.
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Lawton Urban Renewal
Lawton
John Guy Irwin
Chuck Wade
Frank Richards
Lawton Urban Renewal Authority
Bill Grebb
LURA
Vince Elmore
Mail
Lawton Parking Authority
Don Whitaker
Heavy voter turnout marks city primary election day
Voters flock to the polls in large numbers as the city holds a mayoral race and five City Council seats with 17 candidates. Polls stay open until 7 pm and a transit measure prompts local interest. At noon turnout appeared heavier than usual with precincts reporting strong morning participation.
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Donna Evers
Theie
Jimmie Nell Logan
County Election Board
Thieu orders paratroops to reinforce Saigon defenses
President Nguyen Van Thieu shifts a Da Nang paratrooper division to Saigon as North Vietnamese forces press the capital. Refugees flood central highlands as three western provinces are abandoned. Ban Me Thuot falls and Pleiku airfields are disrupted amid retreat.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thien
da Nang
Dinh Quan
Long Khanh
Central Highlands
Western Highlands
Nguyen van Thieu
Kontum
Pleiku
Darlac
Maryland
Ban Me Thuot
Easter candy prices rise with inflation effects on bunnies and beans
Costs for chocolate bunnies jelly beans and marshmallow eggs are up 25 to 30 percent this Easter due to higher sugar and cocoa prices. Prices vary by store with examples in Buffalo and the East Coast showing notable increases. The National Confectioners Association notes record candy production in 1970 and Easter candy accounts for about 200 million pounds of the total.
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National Confectioners Association of the
United States
Buffalo
N.Y
Confectioners Association
Lawton Population Tops 80 000 County Share Grows
Comanche County population centers around Lawton with Lawton city at 80 400 residents as of July 1, 1974, eight percent above 1970. The city accounts for about 76 percent of the county total, up from 69 percent in 1970, framing the county’s growth dynamics.
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Comanche County
Lawton
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
Supreme Court voids stage obscenity ban on Hair
The Supreme Court in a 6 to 3 ruling overturns a Chattanooga Municipal Auditorium Board ban on a Hair stage performance. Justice Blackmun writes that prior restraint on live theater is unconstitutional unless a brief stated period elapses or a court hearing follows to justify longer restraint.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Harry A. Blackmun
Chattanooga, Tenn
Municipal Auditorium Board
Blackmun
Warm Sunny Period Opens After Rain Streak
Oklahoma drying out after a night of rainfall with sun and mild temperatures through Thursday. Lawton saw thunderstorms and drizzle with downtown Lawton recording 12 inches of rainfall by noon. Tonight’s low around 40s, high near 70 on Wednesday, winds light.
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Oklahoma
Lawton
Liquor Raid Leads to Charges Against City Club Managers
Municipal charges of operating an open saloon filed against 14 managers of city clubs after a February 25 raid on 18 county and city clubs that yielded about 2600 bottles of liquor. A. P. Tuck owner of AP's Lounge Medicine Park faced a district court count with bond set at 250 dollars and a jury trial granted. Glenda Smothchey waitress also arraigned on the same charge with bond set at 250 and a jury trial.
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A. P. Tuck
Medicine Park
Tuck
Glenda Smothchey
Don Cunningham
Museum Wins Army Grant for Great Salt Plains Study
The Museum of the Great Plains received a $22,737 archaeological contract from the Tulsa District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a reconnaissance survey of cultural resources in an 16 000 acre area in northwestern Oklahoma. Lead by Steve Wilson, the project targets sites along the Great Salt Plains Salt Fork Arkansas River in Alfalfa County and Buffalo Creek and the Cimarron River areas, supporting the Arkansas River Chlo ride Control Project.
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Museum of the Great Plains
Tulsa
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Steve Wilson
Great Salt Plains
Oklahoma
Wilson
Red River
Salt Fork
Arkansas River
Alfalfa County
Buffalo Creek
Cimarron River
Woods, Wood
Oklahoma Capitol Evacuated After Bomb Threat
An anonymous caller warned of a bomb at the Oklahoma Capitol around 1 p.m. Capitol police evacuated the building starting with the top floors and then the entire structure. The Legislature was to convene at 1 p.m. and the call reached the governor’s office at about 12:30 p.m.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Capitol
Governor
Oklahoma
Ford to propose 2 billion annual road fund for states
President Ford plans a new federal highway program returning half of the four cent per gallon gasoline tax to the states, about 2 billion dollars yearly, for flexible road use. Indiana Governor Bowen said his state already diverts tax receipts as it advances its highways.
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Ashington
Ford
White House
Congress
Indiana
Otis R. Bowen
South Bend
Ind
Notre Dame University
Bowen
Rail Service Here Threatened By Rock Island Collapse
Lawton faces potential loss of Rock Island rail service if the line collapses amid reorganization. George Reid, Lawton station agent, cites abandonment of branch lines as likely with Penn Central and Missouri-Kansas-Texas examples. If Rock Island closes, Frisco may struggle to take over. The two branches connect Chickasha to Mangum and Richards Spur to Waurika, serving Lawton Fort Sill with several weekly trains and a daily quarry run to Oklahoma City. The tax issue compounds the danger as $15,158.68 is due this year, with a possible 3 percent penalty.
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AWTON
Rock Island
Lawton
George Reid
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Western Oklahoma
Reid
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Lawton- Fort Sill
Richards Spur
Oklahoma City
Trans
Oklahoma County
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