Nursing Home Residents Helped In Storms Wake
Insurance officials estimate storm damage exceeding half a million dollars with thousands of claims. In Lawton Oklahoma elderly residents from Josephs Nursing Home and other facilities were moved to temporary quarters as tornadic winds damaged roofs fences and lines. Patients were shifted to Lawton hospitals and Cotton Nursing Home while volunteers aided in relief efforts.
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Insurance Company
West Lawton
Joseph's Nursing Home
Lawton
Sonnel
Joseph
Dorothy Amyx
Cotton
Melba Beale
Lawton Nursing Homes
Kennety Frazier
Council OKs Boathouse Fees and Lake Use Increases
The Lawton Oklahoma council approved higher boathouse space fees at Lake Lawtonka and Lake Elsworth and voted to raise most other lake related uses including boats fishing hunting and related permits. The increases affect front foot fees and annual permits with several council members opposing parts of the plan. A separate item authorized a higher late payment penalty for utilities effective July 1.
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Lawtonka
Elsworth
Lake Lawtonka
Don van Meter
Norma Roberts
Adam Matthews
Frederick Chenault
van Meter
Ford vetoes strip mining bill citing job losses fear
President Ford vetoed a bill to curb coal strip mining saying it would cause as many as 36 000 layoffs and raise consumer fuel bills. He warned the nation faced higher unemployment and greater dependence on foreign oil without a balanced energy program. Opponents expect a tight House vote while the Senate may override.
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Ford
America
House
Frank G. Zarb
Federal Energy Administration
Congress
Senate
Fire exchange near Beirut injures pedestrians before cease fire
Palestinian guerrillas and Lebanon's Phalange party traded rifle and machine gun fire near a suburb east of Beirut. Four pedestrians were slightly injured before a cease-fire was agreed, police said.
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Lebanon
Phalange Party
Beirut
Dekwandi
Lawton Philharmonic Receives ASCAP Service Award
The Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Gene Chartier Smith were named recipients of a $200 ASCAP prize for service to contemporary music. The award will be presented June 12 at the American Symphony Orchestra League conference in San Diego, with Morton Gould presenting the honor. The event was announced at the Philharmonic Society luncheon at Cameron’s Shepherd Center. The program also noted the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra under Ainslee Cox.
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Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra
Gene Chartier Smith
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
ASCAP
The
Philharmonic Society
Cameron
Shepter Center
Lawton Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra League
San Diego
Calif
Morton Gould
Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra
Ainslee Cox
Mild Penalty For Hitting Teacher Spurs Probe Here
A six member PEAL committee in Lawton investigates Associate Dist. Judge Chad Bledsoe's handling of a case where a Eisenhower Junior High student struck teacher Joan Shutts after a hall scuffle. Shutts required medical care for a sprained wrist.
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Lawton Educators
Chad Bledsoe
Eisenhower
Representative Council of
The
Professional Educators’ Association of Lawton
PEAL
Eisenhower Junior High
Abe Deutschendorf
Joan Shutts
James Brock
Tomlinson
Ron Jarvis
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