Senate committee backs 8.66 percent federal pay raise
The Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee voted 7 to 2 to push an 8.66 percent federal pay raise, affecting Congress and all white collar federal workers and military personnel. If enacted, the increase would cost over 3.5 billion and may take effect Oct 1 unless the House or Senate changes the President's 5 percent recommendation.
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Ashington
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Ford
Senate
Congress
House Res
Lee Metcalf
D-Mont
Rural Tax Study Sparks Officials’ Caution Over Equity
Oklahoma officials warn the tentative Tax Commission study may mislead on property tax equity. It shows Comanche County rural land at 3.56 percent of sale price, far below state urban and rural medians, but officials say the figures exclude in county book-value discrepancies and 1974 sales-only comparisons.
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Oklahoma Tax Commission
Comanche County
Oklahoma
County Equalization Board
J. L. Merrill
Oklahoma Supreme Court
State Equalization Board
Bill Poulos
Tulsa
Greer County
Delaware County
Tulsa County
Pittsburg
Lewis Bohr
Commission
Bohr
Pittsburg County
Lincoln County
Wagoner County
McCurtain County
Poulaos
Tax Commission
Stanley Sasser
Comanche
Ford Opens Keene Swing in Wyman Senate Push
President Ford launched a GOP vote hunting tour in Keene New Hampshire urging voters to back Louis C Wyman in the upcoming special election against Democrat John A Durkin. Secret Service agent Buendorf aided after a Sacramento pistol incident as Ford rode a topless limousine through 14 communities over a 120 mile route.
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Keene
N.H
Ford
New Hampshire
Senate
Louis C. Wyman
Sacramento
Calif
Wyman
John A. Durkin
Secret Service
Larry Buendorf
Charles Manson
Portsmouth
House OKs 60 day oil price control extension
The House approved a voice vote to extend domestic oil price controls to October 31, 60 days, to aid talks with President Ford on a broader energy compromise. The move follows the Senate's failure to override Ford’s veto of a six month extension.
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Washington
House
Ford
House Commerce Committee
Harley O. Staggers
Dw.va
America
Senate
John Dingell
D-Mich
Energy and Power Subcommittee
Dingell
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Brown
Football Fans Await Cool Spell With OU OSU Opener
A cold front will bring possible thunderstorms tonight and Friday to Norman and Stillwater as Oklahoma football fans anticipate weekend games. Saturday promises fair skies and mild weather with temperatures in the 70s for the OU Sooners and OSU Cowboys season openers. Lawton area shows a 40 percent rain chance with southerly winds shifting to northerly tonight. Today's highs near 60s to low 60s at night, with Friday highs in the mid 70s.
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Oklahoma
Norman
Stillwater
OU Sooners
OSU Cowboys
Lawton
Crime rise in Lawton: bike thefts and auto larcenies lead
August crime in Lawton rose 11 percent with bicycle thefts and larcenies from autos forming the bulk of Class I offenses. Police report 671 offenses, up from July, and 85.9 percent higher auto thefts than 1974, while bike thefts jumped 103 percent from July. Chief Hennessee expects a drop as students return to school.
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Lawton
Dee Voss
Alford Hennessee
Lawton Panel backs Continental service switch to Rio Airways
Lawton Airport Authority votes 5 to 0 to replace Continental Airlines flights with Rio Airways service for five years. Abstaining member Adam Matthews cites insufficient study. mayor attacks plan for not boosting traffic. Board cites improved frequency and morning service potential with Rio operation.
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Lawton
Continental Airlines
T. J. Henry
Adam Matthews
Matthews
Wayne Gilley
Continental
Gilbert Gibson
Charles Wingate
Fort Sill
Wingate
Henry
Authority
Rio Airways
Ex-UMW Leader Boyle Sentenced to Three Life Terms
W A Boyle former United Mine Workers president was given three consecutive life terms in Delaware County Court for ordering the killings of Joseph Yablonski his wife and daughter He proclaimed his innocence before Judge Francis J Catania as authorities escorted him to the bar with his attorney and court officers present.
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Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
UMW
Francis J. Catania
Delaware County
Boyle
Catania
Charles Peruto
Peruto
Union Leader Boyle Plans Appeal to Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Boyle, former head of the United Automobile Workers, plans to appeal his 1970 murder convictions to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The 11 year tenure as union president included a life sentence on three murder counts. The Yablonskis were killed on December 31, 1969 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania. Boyle , 73, suffers heart and stomach problems and is hospitalized in Middletown after a year in federal prison.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Boyle
Coal Miners’ Union
Yablonskis
Riddle Memorial Hospital
Middletown
UAW
John L. Lewis
Springfield
Clarksville
Rough Ridin and City Politicking From Lawton Scrapbooks
The column recalls old Lawton headlines from 1940 and 1945 about city budgets and payrolls, noting rough streets and council debates. It highlights Dr Dan Woesner and Emil Woesner, along with Scribe Thompson’s poem Rough Ridin about Lawton streets.
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Lawton
Dan Woesner
Emil Woesner
Scribe Thompson
Cecil Easton
Lawton Streets
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Karen Widman
Jeff Davis
Marilyn Davis
Kay Kolstrom
Carl Albert
Democratic Congress
Albert
Damocles
Continental Bid
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Richard A. Sprague
Yablonski
Dear Abby
GRIER
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By Paul McClung
Norma Roberts
Woesner
O. L. Bondurant
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