Carter unveils urban policy linking EPA and health drives
The plan targets clean air and water, with $150 million for urban health clinics and home rehabilitation loans, $150 million for day care Meals on Wheels and social services, and $40 million for neighborhood volunteers. It also requests $550 million for Commerce HUD development arms and $15 million for neighborhood rehab projects. The proposed development bank would subsidize loans at about 7 percent and may guarantee up to $11 billion, coordinating $550 million in new economic development grants.
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EPA
Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development
Development Bank
HUD
Patricia Harris
Army Officials Meeting Steed at Fort Sill
U S Rep Tom Steed visits Fort Sill to confer with Army officials on post needs and progress. He is guest of honor at a Lawton Chamber barbecue honoring Maj Gen Jack Merritt at LO Ranch. Steed meets with Lawton Action Task Force, then lunch, and later attends briefings on physician shortage construction needs and Field Artillery School developments. New Fort Sill officers Col William Owell and Col Richard Griffin are to be recognized.
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U.S
Tom Steed
Fort Sill
Steed
Lawton
Lawton Action Task Force
Ramada Inn
Field Artillery School
Military Affairs Committee
Col
William Owell
Quality of Life
Richard Griffin
Tradoc Systems
Firefinder
Miners Return to Work Amid Picket Line Tensions
Consolidation Coal Co reports about 2,500 miners idle across 11 of 51 mines in West Virginia Pennsylvania and Ohio due to picket lines but some shafts resumed at 12 01 shift. Workers express relief and a return to mining duties with remarks from Ron Young and Calvin Porter highlighting missed camaraderie and work.
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Consolidation Coal Co
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Raccoon No. 3
Wilkesville
Stonega
Subscriptions Offer Details Clarified
Copy states that for subscriptions under one year a monthly rate applies with 2 percent sales tax already included. The note emphasizes pricing structure and tax inclusion for short term plans.
Lawton Restaurant Operator Arrested In Rape Case
A 44 year old Lawton restaurant operator was arrested at 9 45 p m on suspicion of beating and raping a 23 year old woman in his business restroom an hour earlier. The assault followed an offer to drive her to eat. She was treated at Comanche County Memorial Hospital.
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Lawton
Jay Vickers
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Vickers
Glenda Seigler
Woman Bound Over For Trial In Kindergarten Abduction
A 30-year-old woman Kathy Lynn Hinkle was bound over for trial on child stealing in Lawton for abducting six-year-old Rhonda Phelps from Cleveland Elementary last March. Rhonda was found unharmed near her home about 45 minutes after the incident. The mother Margie Phelps of 2003 Lee Blvd did not know the suspect.
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Lawton
Jack Atkinson
Kathy Lynn Hinkle
Rhonda Phelps
Cleveland Elementary
Margie Phelps
Lee Blvd
Public Hearing Set On Lawton Zoning Sign Rule Change
Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission will hold a 1:30 p.m. hearing on April 17 1978 in City Hall Lawton to amend Section 1664 10 Uses Permitted for R-1 Single Family District sign requirements. The ordinance will be on file for review. citizens and parties in interest may be heard. Paul S Cullen Secretary.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Paul S. Cullen
Lawton Planning Commission to Hold April Public Hearing
Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 1:30 p.m. April 12, 1978 in City Hall Council Chambers Lowton Comanche County Oklahoma. The hearing will consider amending the Land Use Plan from Residential to Commercial and changing zoning from A-2 Suburban to C-1 Local Commercial on described tracts. Paul S. Cullen, City Planner.
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Lawton
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Planning Department
Paul S. Cullen
City
Ciy
Oklahoma
Office
City Planning Department
Comenche County
Nurses Debate LPN Roles in Modern Healthcare
A Lawton Memorial discussion highlights that LPNs have become integral to nursing teams as hospitals push to phase out LPNs in favor of RNs. Nurses note practical training for LPNs, the need to balance theory and hands on care, and the lack of national standards guiding LPN duties.
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Jackson
LPN
Vo-Tech
Gale
Memorial
Lawton
Lpns
Radical attack at Tokyo airport control tower sparks police response
Six radicals infiltrated the Tokyo airport control tower on the 13th floor, barricading themselves for two hours and wrecking equipment before arrest. Five employees fled to the roof and escaped by helicopter as police fired warning rounds. Authorities vow severe action. cabinet meetings planned amid political fallout and security criticisms.
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Japan
Takeo Fukuda
Shintaro Abe
Yomiuri
Japan Times
Court Action Curtails Police To Stop People
The Supreme Court let stand a ruling curtailing police to stop and detain, upholding Pennsylvania's limit on evidence from an unlawful stop. The case centers on Jones, a suspect tied to a murder and gun warrant, prior stops by Trooper Hoffman, and a judge ruling the initial stop lacked probable cause.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Norristown
Eleanor Friday
Friday
Thomas Carl Jones
Jones
Missouri
Herbert Hoffman
Rolla
Hoffman
National Crime Information Center
Montgomery County
Robert W. Tredinnick
Tredinnick
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
City weighs nutrition center purchase with mixed funding
The city panel debated pursuing a nutrition center purchase after an initial appraisal set at 690000, while only 465000 in community development block grant funds are identified. Council vote March 14 was 6 to 4 to pursue negotiations, not approve buying. Opponents favored buying vacant land at 20th and Taylor for 20000, with remaining funds to back the service facility.
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20Th and
Taylor
High Speed Chase Follows Stabbing
An 18 year old Kansas City Kansas man Bobby Joe Harris walked to a police station at 3 45 a m bleeding from a stab wound to the stomach and reported being stabbed by a small black homosexual on First Street near the Realto Bar in Lawton. He underwent surgery and was listed in satisfactory condition in the intensive care unit at Southwestern Hospital. A witness who offered to meet police fled, leading four patrol cars on a 15 mile high speed chase along Highway 277 281 reaching 95 mph before the vehicle was lost near Porter Hill with help from Elgin and Fletcher police.
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First Street
Realto Bar
Bruce Justice
Bobby Joe Harris
Kansas City
Kan
Lawton
J Avenue
Justice
Harris
Southwestern Hospital
Pioneer Park
Rogers Lane
Highway 277
Gate 2
Hwy. 277
Rodney Lambert
Ed Richardson
Porter Hill
Elgin and Fletcher Police Department
Funerals for Mrs Ina Biles and Mrs Clara Cooper set
Mrs Ina Biles 71 of 4644 Beta died Sunday after a heart attack at home funeral Tuesday 10 am Lawton Ritter Dalton Funeral Home with Dick Williams officiating graveside 3 pm Medlin Cemetery Roanoke Texas she was born May 16 1906 in Walker Missouri moved to Lawton 1926 married to Arthur Biles July 19 1920 in Tulsa he died 1951 survived by son Arthur A Biles Port Arthur Texas two daughters Edith Kolker Sand Springs and Jennie Biles sister Mrs C E Gatewood Laird Hill Texas brother O K Allison Spokane Washington and four grandchildren. Mrs Clara D Cooper 87 of 1202 Arlington died Sunday night in a local nursing home funeral Tuesday 2 pm at Home with Rev N N Antonson Trinity Baptist Church officiating burial Oxon Cemetery born June 2 1900 in Clarkton Missouri moved to Faxon 1905 married Gene M Bailey 1906 he died 1950s later married W W Cooper 1955 he died late 1950s member First Baptist Church Faxon survived by two daughters Opal Medford 411 Bell and Ovie Lee Chiniquy Los Angeles two brothers M B Capshaw Tulsa and W J Capshaw Chattanooga six grandchildren 12 great grandchildren seven great great grandchildren.
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Ina Biles
Lawton-Ritter-Dalton
Dick Williams
Western Hills Christian Church
Medlin
Roanoke
Texas
Biles
Walker
Lawton
Tulsa
Clara D. Cooper
Arlington
N.N. Antonson
Trinity Baptist Church
Oxon
Cooper
Clarkton
Faxon
Gene M. Bailey
W.W. Cooper
First Baptist Church of
Opal Medford
Bell
Ovie Lee Chiniquy
Los Angeles
Calif
M.B. Capshaw
W.J. Capshaw
Chattanooga
Funeral for Mrs Alma M Smith Held Tuesday
Funeral services for 53 year old Alma M Smith of 6933 Eisenhower Drive will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Becker Funeral Home with the Rev Doug Passmore, associate pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating.
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Alma M. Smith
Eisenhower Drive
Becker Funeral Home
Doug Passmore
First Baptist Church
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