Hurricane Anita Clips Texas Misses Hit Mexican Coast
Hurricane Anita struck the northeast Mexican coast with winds up to 155 mph, washing out roads and uprooting trees in fishing villages. Evacuations occurred before landfall, with no immediate casualties reported and power outages in Soto La Marina.
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Anita
Texas
Mexican Coast
Tampico
Mexico
Mexican
Mario Flores
Tamaulipas
Soto la Marina
la Pesca
Laguna Madre
Flores
Leonel Tavares
Village
Sote la Marina
Ella
Alfaro
National Weather Service
Brownsville
Texas-Mexico
Ciudad Victoria
Tex
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Corpus Christi
Here
San Fernando
Smith calls Rhodesia peace plan crazy suggestions
Prime Minister Ian Smith condemned key provisions of the British American Rhodesia peace plan as crazy suggestions while not yet rejecting it. He accused Britain of revenge for the 1965 independence declaration. The plan, presented by Andrew Young and David Owen, aims to end the guerrilla war and transfer power to black majority next year.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Smith
Britain
Andrew Young
David Owen
London
Owen
United Nations
U.N
Salisbury
Young
Patriotic Front
Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
Poge
August unemployment rise narrows to black jobless spike
The Labor Department reports the national jobless rate rose from 6.9 to 7.1 percent in August with black unemployment climbing from 13.2 to 14.5 percent, matching a postwar high. Whites held at 6.1 percent while overall joblessness hovered near 7 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Carter
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Julius Shiskin
Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Weekend Forecast Calls For Warm, Partly Cloudy Skies
The forecast shows fair to partly cloudy conditions through Saturday with highs near 90 and a tonight low around 79. Thursday's high reached 90 with an overnight low around 70. An extended outlook calls for partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with isolated thunderstorms possible Monday and Tuesday, highs near 92 and lows around 67.
City backs Continental substitute to Metro airline plan
City council and Lawton Metro politan Area Airport Authority endorsed Continental Airlines bid to substitute service with Metro Airlines, despite Mayor Gilley decrying the move. The decision follows CAB proceedings and outlines a subsidy, with Metro limited to Lawton link only as substitute.
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Metro
Lawton Metropolitan Area
Continental
Gilley
Service
Metro Airlines
Tom Corrigan
Chamber, Aviation and
Lawton
Wichita Falls
Midland-Odessa
Texas
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Rio Airways
Civil Aeronautics Board
Rio
CAB
Airport Authority
Bill Cox
Pete McKenna
Frank Robinson
Dallas
Signatures Still Needed Excise Panel Gives OK To County Budget Plan
The Lawton Constitution reports the 1977 county budget, criticized by Sheriff Coy Rogers as partial, is tentatively approved by the excise board. L. M. Knight says approval hinged on commissioners signing it, with next Wednesday likely for final signing as Frank White’s illness delayed action.
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Constitution
Coy Rogers
Excise Board
Lawton
L.M. Knight
Knight
Commission
Bill Griswold
Rogers
White
Labor Day Closings and Jaycees Fund Drive
Labor Day activities include government offices banks and schools closing. Lawton Jaycees host coffee break for travelers and join Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon from 10 30 p m Sunday to 6 p m Monday with volunteers offering coffee soft drinks and donuts amid highway safety efforts. They seek Muscular Dystrophy donations and operate 6 p m today to 5 p m Monday.
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Lawton Jaycees
Jaycees
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
East Gore Boulevard
Jack Shearer
Oklahoma
Start Planned Mall Progress Outlined
Developer Ed Warmack told city officials that the downtown mall is on track for early 1978 construction and a mid-1979 opening. He outlined anchoring department store agreements, a $13 million shell cost, and a land-take pact signed April 19 with a Little Rock contractor to be, with many subs, involved in the project.
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Owntown
Ed Warmack
Chamber of Commerce
Warmack
Mall Shell
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al Dreamont
Lee
Eisenhower High School
Robert A. Dobkin
By Mark Kingsolver
Griswold
Frank White
Pat Hollis
The
Constitution Staff
Little Rock
General Con
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