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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1976
Page
1
Tomlinson Junior High held a anonymous Q A event for seventh to ninth graders with a panel of juvenile officers and counselors. The program covered drugs and alcohol car theft abuse runaways curfews and general topics.
President elect Jimmy Carter met with top aides at his Plains home and planned a working vacation on the Georgia coast. Gerald Ford, defeated but active, prepared a brief vacation before the transfer of power as electoral totals show Carter with 297 to Ford 241.
A sequence of more than 60 quakes struck a wide area near Brawley and the Salton Sea predawn, with a 5.7 reading at Berkeley and a 4.9 at Caltech. Police reported minor damage in markets totaling about 200 dollars and no serious injuries.
Brigadier Andrew L. Watson, commander of the British Army Staff in Washington and military attaché, visited Fort Sill for a two day tour. He contrasted the British Army’s smaller size with the U S Army noting greater unit cohesion and the ability for a soldier to spend an entire career with one unit. Watson cited his service with the Black Watch and said British soldiers are not pushed to make the service a career unless they remain useful.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he will remain in office until noon January 20 and will facilitate an orderly transition to the Carter administration. He offered the incoming team a chance to present views on the next defense budget but did not commit to letting them steer current Ford decisions. He noted key January decisions on the BI bomber and XM1 tank development amid Carter opposition to bomber production.
The Labor Department reports a 0.6 percent October increase in wholesale prices led by automobiles and fuel, marking the second large monthly rise and the third sharp rise this year. Agricultural prices declined, limiting overall inflation signals as the Carter era approached.
Lawton High and Eisenhower high schools face possible cancellation of their Friday football showdown due to vandalism threats and egg throwing. Superintendent Hugh Bish and principals Richard Neptune and Kenneth Bridges urged calm, noting repeated property damage and vandalized signals but stressing the rivalry should continue.
Three killed and four injured when a van collided with a car on U.S. 270 near the North Canadian River bridge Blaine County. The van plunged 40 feet to a dry river bed. Victims include an 18 year old Watonga driver and a five month old passenger. Eight others were hurt with one in critical condition.
Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a district court order directing Lawton to issue a tavern permit to Gordon Heying for Grand Central Station at 402 G, rejecting the city's appeal as filed past the proper deadline. The case stemmed from a council dispute last fall and included threats against the assistant city attorney.
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