State Probes Water Permits In Southwest Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board will begin recertifying irrigation and other surface water permits in five southwest counties Beaver Cow Creek area and across Comanche Cotton Jefferson Stephens Grady to ensure full use of authorized water. Investigations will compare permit rights with yearly use cards and may cancel or reduce rights for unused or overused water with hearings for affected landowners.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Water Resources Board
Water Board
Harold
Springer
Beaver Cow Creek
Comanche
Cotton
Jefferson
Stephens
Grady
Study paints shocking picture of U S literacy
A four year study by the U S Office of Education and University of Texas at Austin finds more than 23 million adults functionally illiterate. About 34.7 million flunked consumer economics and 39 million are functional but not proficient in tasks like reading a newspaper ad. See LITERACY, Page 4A.
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Washington
U.S. Office of Education Today
U.S
University of Texas At Austin
Ford vows veto of federal bailout for New York City
President Ford declared he will veto any federal bailout bill for New York City even as he pledged help to maintain police and fire protection if the city defaults. He described a court supervised reorganization plan and warned federal aid would only come under such a framework, not as a bailout.
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Washington
Ford
New York City
Ares
National Press Club
New York
Lockheed Aircraft
Lockheed
Fighting Worsens In Beirut Trapped Tourists Evacuated
In Beirut fighting between Christian and Moslem gunmen escalated as security forces evacuated a dozen foreigners from two hotels the Holiday Inn and the Phoenicia. Rescues also freed Chicago Tribune correspondent Phil Caputo from a maternity clinic with help from U S Marines and the ambassador's armored limousine.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Holiday Inn
Phoenicia
Christian Phalange Party
Associated Press
Edward Cody
An Nahar
Paris
Jean Sauvagnargues
Chicago Tribune
Phil Caputo
U.S
Walter Braun
Caputo
Pumping Restarted From Ellsworth to Lawtonka
Water operations resume pumping from Lake Ellsworth to Lake Lawtonka as Lawtonka fell to 2.07 feet below floodgates. City policy restricts pumping to 100 hours per month while Ellsworth stood 1.60 feet below its floodgate top this weekend. The filter plant, drawing Lawtonka directly, feeds the municipal supply and connects to Ellsworth via a pump-fed line.
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Lake Ellsworth
Lake Lawtonka
Lawtonka
Auditors hail city progress in annual audit
The Stanfield and O'Dell audit to the City Council credits improved records and accountability though noting weak internal controls. It highlights better delinquent account reviews, improved accounting reports, water bill reforms, a cash fund in recreation, and calls for recodification of the City Code and a fixed asset fund with a physical inventory already in place.
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Skip Gibson
Stanfield & O'Dell
Helen Bost
Certified Public Accountant
Lawton Street Fund Gap Closed In Council Action
Councilmen voted Tuesday to use community development funds to close a $587 000 gap in Gore Sheridan and Lee road projects and approve a revised schedule. The plan aligns with a tentative agreement with the State Highway Department and aims for Gore Lee and Sheridan construction to begin in 1976. Another $400 000 was identified.
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Lawton
Gore, Lee
Sheridan
State Highway Department
John Thomson
Thomson
Gore
Lee
Weather and city bond actions affect schedules this week
Fair conditions are forecast for Law ton through Saturday with lows in the lower 40s and a high on Thursday near 68. Earlier, Tuesday night council decided to keep a $400,000 water works item in that program and cover the difference with community development funds, affecting a $987,000 draw from next year's federal grant.
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Lawton
State Highway Department
Lee Boulevard
Pentagon May Reinstate 2300 Army Officers
A regulation violation may force the Pentagon to reinstate more than 2300 career officers who were twice passed over for promotion and told to leave the service. The Army has refused to keep them on active duty during review as some have become civilians. The officers, all captains, majors, and warrant officers, faced twice being passed over amid manpower declines. A federal judge in Baltimore ordered a records corrections board to rule by Jan 1 on complaints by Maj. Douglas Maxfield that Callaway ignored regulations in promotion board convening from 1974 onward.
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Army
Pentagon
Howard H. Callaway
Callaway
Ford
Douglas Maxfield
Promotion Research Committee
Baltimore
Army Records Corrections Board
Maxfield
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