School Workers Eligible Again for Unemployment Pay
School support personnel including cooks and secretaries who earned SUA benefits last summer will likely qualify again next summer. The extension to March 31 1977 keeps benefits for nine month workers, with no claims after December 31 1976. Strong entities include Oklahoma Employment Security Commission and Lawton Public Schools.
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Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
SUA
Sonal
W. J. Bowman
Bowman
Lawton School System
Lawton School
Howard Rainey
Sistant
Oklahoma State Employment Service
Rainey
Fort Sill shuttle service fails to attract riders
Response to Fort Sill experimental shuttle bus service records dwindling riders with 3 on opening day, 2 next day, and zero on the latest run. Sgt. Maj. David Oliver notes few post residents need transport and no route changes will occur through September 19.
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Fort Sill
Maj
David Oliver
Post
Oliver
OPEC Moderation May Curb Oil Price Hikes Fear of Veto Override
Senate leaders fear failing to override President Ford on extending oil price controls. Treasury official Parsky predicts moderate OPEC voices will limit increases to about 1 to 1.50 dollars, with Saudi Arabia likely moderating. A Treasury study projects U S imports rising to 133 billion by 1985 from 37 billion last year.
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Treasury Department
Gerald L. Parsky
Treasury
Organization of Oil Exporting Countries
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Ford Administration
Congress
Australian cowboy nets giant white pointer sharks near Albany
Colin Ostle a 33 year old Fisheries and Wildlife officer in Western Australia earns the nickname Cowboy of the Sea for lassoing great white sharks from a boat off King George Sound near Albany. His latest catch is described as the largest to date within a favored sound region.
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America
Bruce
Australia
Colin Ostle
Fisheries and Wildlife
King George Sound
Albany
Western Australia
Ostle
Lawton Schools Hope for $1.85 Million Impact Aid
If the Senate overrides President Ford and the House already did, Lawton Public Schools would receive about 1.85 million dollars in federal impact aid. The package also includes about 1 million dollars in other funds for City of Lawton schools across ten programs including Title I and an Indian program.
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U.S. Senate
Ford
House
Lawton Public
Lawton
Senate
Haskell Evans
Lawton Schools
Hugh Bish
Washington
Oklahoma
Capitol
Hospitals accumulate unpaid Medicaid bills in Oklahoma
Memorial Hospital in Enid and Lawton's Southwestern Hospital report unpaid Medicaid charges totaling about 57 000 dollars since August 13 when HEW halted Medicaid payments to over 130 Oklahoma hospitals. Memorial lists 40 000 to 50 000 owed. Southwestern 5 000 to 7 000.
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Lynn Callison
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Lawton
Southwestern Hospital
Oklahoma
Lloyd Rader
Memorial Hospital
John Coffey
Memorial
Coffey
Oklahoma Hospital Association
Tom Banowetz
Southwestern
Banowetz
Weather Update for Southwest Oklahoma This Week
The National Weather Service reports a 20 percent chance of showers or storms through Thursday. Daytime highs will be in the low 90s with night lows around 70. Tuesday saw a high of 90 and a low of 69.
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National Weather Service Today
Oklahoma
Teachers Strike Shuts Chicago Schools and NYC Delays
Teachers in New York and Chicago remained on strike as negotiations continued. Chicago public schools were closed. New York said the system was shut down for practical purposes though a few schools opened for a small number of students. A House committee authorized subpoenas for intelligence briefing papers given to presidents before major 1960s and 1970s crises.
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Associated Press
New York
Chicago
Washington
House
Middle East
Turkey
Cyprus
Ceup
Portugal
Lawton Man Shot Head Six Times Released From Hospital
Ted Kirk, 22, of Lawton Oklahoma, was released from University Hospital in Oklahoma City after being shot six times in the head on August 31. Authorities say two bullets remain in his brain and he is permanently blinded. His wife Deborah 18 and Tommy Jackson 19 were arrested. Jackson charged with a crime related to the case.
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Lawton
University Hospital
Oklahoma City
Ted Kirk
S. 13Th
Kirk
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Comanche County
Ex Duncan Resident Dies In Area Crash
A 34 year old former Duncan resident Robert Tyson died in a single car crash in Stephens County Oklahoma. His Station wagon left a county road 100 yards south of SH 7 seven miles west of Duncan at high speed and overturned trapping him beneath the vehicle after 113 feet of skid marks and a 44 foot slide.
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Stephens County
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Robert Tyson
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