Mental Health Branch Office To Open Here
Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center will open a branch office and treatment facility in Lawton likely in November. The site at Ith and Lee will serve many elderly clients with four consultation rooms and office space. A full time secretary will be hired and staff will rotate to provide complete services.
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Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center
Lawton
Royce Means
Ith and Lee
Means
Taliaferro
Short Jail Sentences Used To Help Deter Future Crime
Ohio discusses shock parole and shock probation as alternatives to long sentences. Since 1965 about 7,000 released under shock probation and 1,600 under shock parole, with roughly 15 percent returning to prison. Critics say parole is overused. supporters cite reduced prison costs and populations.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Shoemaker
Ohio Adult Parole Authority
Shoemaker
Parole Authority
Alan E. Norris
County Sheriff Post Fallout and Parole Board Debates
Reports swirl that Rogers may leave the Comanche County sheriff post due to budget clashes, with background checks underway and an array of possible successors. The article also tracks Ohio shock parole, its early high release numbers, notable cases like Robert Grant and Carlos Aleman Jr., and calls for stricter eligibility and oversight.
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FBI
Rogers
Comanche County Board of Commissioners
Frank White
Bill Griswold
County Public Trust
Harry Garrett
Garrett
Paul Elkins
Shoemaker
Ohio
Norris
Norris Ys
Robert A. Grant
Grant
Alabama
Mansfield
Columbus
Ruby Underwood
Carlos Aleman Jr
Aleman
Cleveland
Parole Authority
Indian Parents Form Lawton Johnson-O'Malley Group
Lawton parents meeting to form the city's first Johnson-O'Malley group to contract for $340,000 in JOM funds with the Comanche Tribe. Delores Twohatchet notes a possible Title IV advisory committee. 55 schools in 12 districts participate. No income limits for JOM participants.
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Lawton
Johnson-O’malley
Comanche Tribe
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Cotton
Comanche
Lawton Public Library
Delores R. Twohatchet
Lawton Public Schools
Balerma Burgess
Ms. Burgess
Lawton Man Charged With Beating 10 Month Old Son
Ernest Charles Jr. 24 faces a felony charge of child beating in district court after his 10 month old son Ernest Charles III suffered multiple bruises and a black eye. Police say the child was beaten when he began crying on October 5 and was treated at Comanche County Memorial Hospital.
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Lawton
Ernest Charles Jr
S. Sheridan
Ernest Charles III
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Historic building placed on National Registry after library move
The former civic structure, vacated years ago when the new Public Library opened, has been recognized for its significance by being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lawton grocer chases off would-be bandit with club
Sixty-six year old Harris of the Nite & Day Store fought back Sunday when a blue jean clad robber drew a knife after selecting dog food and cigarettes. Harris, who has run the shop 14 years, says he has been robbed 10 times and beaten twice. He keeps resisting, hoping others follow suit. He has four children in college and military service.
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B.W. Harris
Lawton
Harris
Nite & Day
Tahlequah to Lindsay and Duncan to Antlers Forecast
The front from Tahlequah to Lindsay and Duncan to Antlers brought very little precipitation. Wednesday will be fair and warmer with a high in the low 70s. Thursday through Saturday offer fair to partly cloudy skies, cool nights and mild days, with widely scattered showers possible Saturday. lows in the 40s and highs mostly in the 70s.
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Tahlequah
Lindsay
Duncan
Antlers
Taliaferro Center Evaluation Begins
The Taliaferro Center starts a confidentiality filled evaluation today with eight page forms from 30 community mental health centers in a national pilot by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Dr Royce Means says about 80 forms will be completed and results will be announced early next year.
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Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Royce Means
Means
Taliaferro
Joint Commission
Soviet space program faces docking and safety hurdles
Spacecraft performance promised by Western experts contrasts with ongoing Soviet setbacks. The sequence includes the 1967 Soyuz crash that killed Vladimir Komarov, a failed 1971 Salyut-1 linkup, the 1970s deaths from decompression on Soyuz-111, a 1976 docking failure with Salyut-5 on Soyuz-23, and a successful 19 day joint mission of Soyuz-25 with Salyut-5 featuring two cosmonauts last February.
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Earth
Vladimir Komarov
Funeral for Sgt George Siereveld in Chattanooga
Former Lawton resident Sgt George W Siereveld 49 died after heart attack in Lawton hospital Funeral at First Baptist Church Chattanooga with Rev Bill Ashworth officiating Burial in Chattanooga Cemetery Huddleston's Funeral Home of Lawton directed He served in Navy Sea Bees Air Force and Army retiring in 1961 Korea and Vietnam survivor list includes wife Jean Atkins four sons three daughters two brothers two sisters and one grandson
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Chattanooga
Fomer Lawton
J.C
George W. Siereveld
Lawton
First Baptist Church
Bill Ashworth
Huddleston
Liereveld
Covington
Navy
Seabees
Air Force
Army
Korea
Vietnam
Jean Atkins
Sumter
S.C
Masonic Lodge
Eastern Star
Charity
VFW
George
Gary
John
Gerald
Laura Hamlett
Lynn Siereveld
Lisa Siereveld
Cincinnati
Ohio
Arthur
Edith Dent
Ruby Perry
Dayton
Senators Seek First Hand View of Panama Canal Defenses
A fact-finding trip to Panama is being organized for canal commission members led by Sen. Frank Church. Church argues the group should inspect the canal and its defenses before voting on the treaty. Several opponents of the agreement have already visited Panama in recent months.
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Panama
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
San Diego County Vegetable Crop Value Climbs in 1976
San Diego County California vegetable crops produced 1976 valued at 73.75 million dollars, up from 68.89 million dollars in 1975. Growers earned increases across lettuce onions and peppers with continued county level agricultural data reported.
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San Diego County
Calif
Annexation Bid And Zoning Changes For Lawton Area
The Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in City Hall to consider an annexation request by Ben Horton for the northeast corner of 67th Street and U.S. 62 with a land use plan amendment to C-3 and a zoning change. A public hearing will be held. A second hearing will review Foodmaker Inc. for a zoning change to R-4 to use a tract at 2121 W. Gore as a commercial parking lot. Final plats for several additions will be reviewed, and a discussion on extending the Lawton Transportation Study area will occur.
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67Th and
U.S. 62
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Lawton
Fort Sill School Benefit Basketball Game Held Thursday
The Fort Sill Indian School hosts a benefit basketball game with school staff facing PHS Indian Hospital staff at 7 p.m. in the gym. Proceeds go to the senior class of 1978. Public invited. tickets cost 50 for adults and 25 for students.
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Fort Sill
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