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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1977
Page
4
Lawton’s bookmobile continues to circulate and entertain while seeking county funding for expansion. Volunteers describe stops as neighborhood gathering points, especially the nursing homes, where staff deliver books door to door and take special requests. The crew maintains small but loyal waits and notes popular titles like Roots and Gone with the Wind.
Lawton Public Library bookmobile operates on a two week cycle with three stops per day. This week lists stops at Lawton Heights Nursing Home Josephs Nursing Center Crosby Park Elementary School Pioneer Park School Arlington Manor Cotton Nursing Home Woodland Hills Elementary School Cleveland Elementary School Kuntz Elementary School. Next week adds McMahon Tomlinson Nursing Center Cotton Retirement Home Village Green Shopping Center Almor West Elementary School Benjamin Davis High Rise Pleasant Valley Senior Citizens Center Multi Purpose Center B C Swinney Cedar Crest Manor Flower Mound Elementary MacArthur Junior Senior High Sullivan Village Elementary School.
Local radio KLAW FM won permission to stage a kite contest at Elmer Thomas Park on April 9 at 2 p.m. Prizes include oldest and youngest fliers, highest, largest, smallest, and most unique kites. Organizers aim to create a Guinness record for smallest kite flown. About 2 000 people attended last year with no admission charge.
Morarji Desai, 81, is sworn in as India's fourth prime minister and signals a shift toward nonalignment and an end to special links with the Soviet Union. He states the 1971 treaty must not hinder relations with other states. Desai aims for broader foreign policy independence.
Ben Moore a Cache banker was charged in district court with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in the hatchet attack on Cache school board member Tuesday Special District Judge David Carter set bond at 1000 and the count carries up to five years in prison Robert P Cook remained in good condition at Comanche County Memorial Hospital with a head wound after the attack in attorney Allan Sassers office in Cache County witnesses said Moore struck Cook with the hatchet and stated Ive been wanting to do that for 15 years Moore was not jailed at the time and faces arraignment today Deputy Richard Briley led the investigation.
A 30 year old Lawton man Ronald McClain was jailed in Comanche County after DUI and open container charges. He stopped breathing in his cell at 9:50 am and was treated by sheriff's deputies and Kirk's Emergency personnel en route to Southwestern Hospital in critical condition. Two medicine bottles were found in his belongings as authorities investigate possible drug overdose.
Temple met with state civil defense representatives on Wednesday to assess the risk to Lawton’s water. They discussed the possibility of bringing in drinking water by truck if conditions worsen. Lawton’s two municipal reservoirs, Lake Lawtonka and Lake Ellsworth, remain below last year’s levels but are not as dire as Temple’s area.
Dent urged a shift in policy arguing the Carter administration supports indexing future minimum wage raises to smooth irregular adjustment patterns amid current economic conditions.
District attorney files petition with juvenile authorities to remove four children ages six months to seven from a city couple arrested on child neglect. Police found the kids home alone while parents worked at a club. children were later placed with a shelter.
Dick Williams of Western Hills Christian Church will preside over the Oklahoma Christian Convention at Oklahoma City's Civic Center Music Hall on Friday and Saturday. He will give the closing message at 3 p.m. Saturday. Attendees include Lucia Miller Miss Oklahoma Wayne Smith Lexington Ky and the Good Twins from Joplin Mo.
The Lawton Publishing Company installed a VDT system from ECRM, becoming the nation’s first to use the technology. The system has been adopted by many newspapers and by a major chain, with the renovation delivering high quality reader news. Mrs. Bentley stated the paper will continue to improve the daily newspaper.
Cotton County Extension Director Bill Lucas and others report dry fields with sufficient subsoil moisture but call for a slow two inch rain to improve the outlook. Temple wells run dry and the city lake is dangerously low while some wheat shows sunburn from heat and dryness across Jackson and Caddo counties.
Legislation proposed by Senator Dole and Agriculture Committee chair Herman Talmadge would extend farm policy with target prices at 2.91 dollars per bushel for wheat and 2.28 dollars for corn.
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