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The first installment, $476,479, was in the beyond current aid.
Whitaker early this month joined mayors in
were wounded in the exchange
delphia, picked up the grenade
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As the steak and potatoes of federal urban water pollution control this year and no more
to cities, Whitaker and other maygors will
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around the DMZ. About 2,000
announced the final totals
Oklahoma
the first six months, will be
The South Vietnamese com-
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Doctor Worries Over Truman's Heart
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for
DMZ and targets just south of
the zone above Quang Tri City.
Two more B52 missions were
flown in the southern part of
North Vietnam and 10 in South
Vietnam. A B52 mission usual-
great journalistic pioneers. Its Thursday was 27. The mercury
launching in 1936 opened a reached the 27 degree mark at
Edit. Office . 353-0620
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ment news agency said.
The professor, six other pas-
another helicopter. One man
was wounded.
Oklahoma state, county and
local governments.
Oklahoma congressional lead-
parade.
The parade is scheduled to
start at 10 a.m. at the inter-
section of Sixth Street and
C, proceed east on C to
Third Street, then south of
Third Street to D. and west
on D to Sixth Street.
Parade entries should as-
semble on C between Sixth
and Tenth Streets at 9 a.m .
Ron Cole, Jaycee parade
chairman, said.
Should inclement weather
necessitate the canceling of
1 the parade, local radio and
1 television stations will be no-
sent out the first week in
January.
The first six-month total for
state, county and local govern-
systems and other items. Fire
fighting and prevention equip-
ment for use in the county also
may be purchased or maintain-
ed and operated.
In the environmental protec-
tion area some projects that can
See COUNTY, Poo* 4, Col. 1
of considerable irritability and wife nor Iris daughter was at day and on Thursday as "the
stress ... President Truman the hospital this morning. See TRUMAN. Page 4, cm. 2
Ababa.
“The wound-be hijackers ex-
ploded a grenade which dam-
aged the aircraft. One engine
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spacemen slumbered. Apollo 17 small rocket thrust of about
streaked past the halfway point one second would change the
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61 wounded. 11970 and smaller deficits in 1971
Ground fighting was reported and 1972,” the publisher said.
It was the second day
centrated U.S. bomfbing
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FOR
CONGRATULATIONS GENERAL, Maj. Gen. Rod
erick Wetherill, left, congratulates newly-promoted
Brig. Gen. Tom Perkins at ceremonies this morning
in the Fort Sill Officers Club. Mrs. Perkins is at
in Quang Tri Province, where
South Vietnamese marines and
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sengers and two stewardesses
revenue sharing act went on
the books last September.
Oklahoma City saw its wind-
fall from the act drop about
$1.3 million below what was an-
ticipated, while Tulsa will get
some $1.2 million more than
had been expected.
A partial explanation of the
discrepancy between earlier es-
timates and actual payments
was contained in a letter from
the Treasury Department to
Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla.,
and Rep. Tom Steed, D-Okla.
ing up and hurling a live gre-
nade as security guards shot
and killed seven air pirates, in- mail to Lawton this week. But Mayor Don
City Due Over $1 Million; Mayor
Safely; Nine Girds To Defend Current Income
President Nixon announced to-
day he ts retaining Atty. Gen.
Richard Kleindienst in his sec-
ond-term Cabinet but disclos-
ed a major shake up among
other top Justice Department
officials. The White House also
revealed that Louis R. Bruce
is being removed as Indian
affairs commissioner and that
Harrison Loesch is leaving as
assistant interior secretary.
cial visit of the 1972 Yule
season here Saturday. He will
greet city and area children
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1:00 a.m. 27
North Vietnamese and Viet Henry Luce.
Cong were killed, while govern-; l
ment losses were 16 tailed and substantial deficits in 1969 and
miomiiilInWSEIISIEImmTIIwDunIu
See Slate Totals, Page 18
See LIFE, Poge 4, Col. 1
myeoewmuu ree
tiffed no later than 8 a.m.
Saturday, Cole stated.
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U.S. fighter-bombers flew 40
strikes against North Vietnam NEW YORK (AP) — Life' ' a.__p
and 300 against targets in the magazine will discontinue pub- took shape,
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miles per hour. by an excess of rocket thrust'
ra auuo u -3 guu Apollo 17’s command ship, Thursday morning when Apollo
SchmEt, who stayed up America, and lunar module, 17 was fired out of earth orbit
and the hijackers that took gorical grants.” Such grants have provided
mrmreme,
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U.S. Professor Picks Up, t ows Live Grenade
moment, the spacecraft was spacecraft into the proper posi-
132,096 miles from both earth tion on Sunday to settle it into
and moon. lunar orbit.
share. The earlier estimates of commissioners, said today.
were based on 1965 and 1966 tax The second half of the 1972 al-
data while the new calculations location should be received in 29
are based on tax figures for mid-January, White noted.
tonsn nonhs wrandrdaye"ana lowest in n months, the report dropped s 12 to$138.01 because
noon Thursday within a 10-mile said. of a decline in the average
radius of the North Vietnamese The total number of unem- number of hours worked.
town of Ben Quang, just above ployed dropped more than 200,- Average weekly earnings
the demarcation line, 000 to 4.2 million, the Bureau of were still up $8.88 or 6.9 per
From noon Thursday until 6 Labor Statistics reported. It cent from a year ago, more white workers declined from 5.0
northeast and southwest ofHospitais....
THE LAWTON CPNSTITUTION
the night by Mission Control.
"How do things look?” the
commander asked.
"We all feel pretty good this The speed of the spacecraft. The course correction bum is
which has been declining stead- scheduled for 12:03 p m. EST.
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L. .1. . entree of more than 91 million in general rev-
helped to foil the hijacking of enue sharing funds Lawton will devour annual-
ly for at least the next five years.
can Seventh Day Adventist
,97 Skyjackers Killed
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rocket firing aimed at an on-
target arrival in moon orbit. morning," said Schmitt.
Astronauts Eugene A. Cer- Giving the. medical morning
nan. Ronald E. Evans and Dr. report, Schmitt said Ceman got
Harrison H. Schmitt reported 6% hours good sleep and
Evans 7% hours of "very good
PACE CENTER, Houston which was monitored through
By SKIP GIBSON
(ITY coffers should have experienced a
- pleasant bulge by this time next week
when the U.S. Treasury dishes up its first
than was anticipated after the while riding in the Lawton
Jaycee’s annual Christmas
ABABA, Ethiopia
paratroopers are trying tore- . .. ______
take territory captured by the ".....8
North Vietnamese in their of- /
fensive last spring. । Markets .... 2
The Saigon command report- Classitied ' 26
ed firefights and artillery duels .............
SANTA Claus is scheduled
• to make his first offi-
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Emergency Calls ,
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; I IANSAS CITY (AP) — The has improved in some areas A 7 a.m. EST briefing had
I K doctor attending former but shown no improvement in listed Truman s temperature at
I Presiden Harrv S Troman ex- others," Graham said. 100.2 degrees and said it contin-
■ Presid5 concern today Dlout Truman, who entered the hos- ued to fluctuate .That state-
I STheart of has patient, who is pital Tuesday evening surfering ment also gsadonTrumanes
[ on the critical list at Research from lung conges tion. and.4 "Puilse andb Pressure
■ Hospital and Medical Center, weakened heart, was first mained stable
■ placed on the critical list The former president s tem-
■ “His heart condition is not as Wednesday night. perature was not reported at 10
U good this morning as.weshad John Droves, hospital public am.
M hoped it would be, Dr. Wal relations director, said the 88- Thursday, after a visit with
9 mnentrrdhama5i the hospital year-oid former chietexgcutiye her father, Margaret Truman
- at 10 a.m. EST. in "idler an internist: Daniel described the difference
■ "His heart is showing signs Dreves said neither Truman's between her father on Wednes-
fight not to lose them. They are telling the
"feds” to keep their thumbs off the meat
scales: In other words, “don’t try to curtail
categorical grants just because we won the
battle for general revenue sharing.”
What it amounts to is protection of the claim
that general revenue sharing was intended as
a vehicle for fiscal relief to cities, above and
each got a good night of rest.
Ceman about' Wordpawrari, a while after his crewmates Challenger, stil linked
Deputy Under. Secretary
James E. Smith said some
cities will not receive as much
as was anticipated because of a
change in computing their local
revenues. Distribution formulas
per” fashion, passed the mid- "You guys look super,” Mis- streaked past the halfway point one second would change the
wav noint of its voyage to the sion Control replied. of its outward journey. At that flight path enough to bring the
’ . । w "wak. "That's a nice way to wake
moon today. I « up „ said a pleased, but still
ened later to prepare for a sleepy Cernan.
___ ____ dropped by a panicky hijacker ban renewal, Model Cities, law enforcement,
/supply routes across the de- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Americans with jobs remained The unemployment rate for and hurled it toward an empty senior citizens programs, highway improve-
itarized zone today, drop • nation's unemployment rate virtually unchanged at 82.7 mil- men declined from 3.9 to 3.6 seat in front of him. He was ments, airport expansion and mental health,
g another 1,000 tons of dropped sharply in November bion, the bureau Sald. per cent with a total of 1.573,006'among the wounded.
Revenue Shuring^ sued
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course but operating in a "su-
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Ry, since it rocketed out of Mission Control said the off-
earth orbit, was then 3,083 course flight path was caused
transportation, health, recrea-
tion, libraries, social services
for the poor or aged, and fi- P
nancial administration are au-
thorized to receive financial as-
sistance from the funds.
Public safety in the county
could be aided by the funds
with the purchase of or repair
and maintenance of sheriff’s de-
partment equipment including a,
automobiles, communications “
am today, the B52s blasted was the lowest level since Sep- than double the 3.4 per cent to 4 6 per cent while the rate Hospital in Addis Ababa, hospi-
supply caches five miles south tember of 1970. At the same rise in living costs for the same for non-whites—mostly Ne- tal sources said. He came to
of Ben Quang, nearby in the tune, the total number of period. See rate, poS» 4, Col. 3 the Ethiopian capital to help
“ *----— . “ arrange student exchanges.
Life Magazine To Fold; Another Arctic smziimyxeie -
p_In T J The identity of the hijackers
Continued Losses' Cited Blast Due Today Mua
bombs ...I 01’ Man Winter continues to aratist guerrilla movement in
raise his cold and icy head in Eritrea, a province in northern
Life! “As our projections for 1973 Lawton and Southwest Oklaho-Ethiopia. The plane had been
-— — -- - a , magazine win aiscununue puu- wuk shape, however, they ma with another blast of Arctic scheduled to stop in the Erit- approximately e same 4s o
South, the U.S. Command re- lication with the issue of Dec. showed a resumption of heavy air expected to skid into the rean capital, Asmara.
ported.,y Lerv, »• Time, Inc” announced to- losses, and the indications for area late today, tumbling the The explosion knocked out
A U.S. Army light 0 serv a 1974 were even more unfavor- temperature to the upper teens . ■ the rudder con-
tain helicopter was shotsdown The publisher said the 36- able,” he added. tonight and bringing a 20 to 40 o] engine government news
12 miles southwest osaigor year-old magazine, famous for At about 10:45 a.m., grim- per cent possibility for snow toney Sid but the aircrart
Thursday, e escued bv its pioneering use of news pho- faced staff members of the through Saturday. made-assare landing at Addis ments, is about $600,000 less
' n 5 tographs, will be folded be- magazine began to gather for a a 20 per cent chance for snow Ababa.
cause of "continuing losses.” meeting on the eighth floor of was listed for this afternoon, 30 The first official statement
The year-end double issue the Time-Life building at Sixth per cent tonight and 40 per cent said. .<An attempted hijacking
mand claimedlthat,in ground will mark the close of the Avenue and 50th Street. Coturdav Soturdav’e hich ie ‘
action across the country, 244 weekly magazine founded by * "
governmental 1971, the Treasury Department The funds can be used for
units Thursday for the first half said. maintenance and operating ex-
of 1973. Checks for the second Of the $29,102,495 which Okla- pensesfor local units of gover. >
half of the year, expected to be See states. Page 4, col. 6 ment. The funds can be spent at
- ---- ---any given time, or saved and
added with funds to be received
in the future, then used toft- s,
nance a single, large county “
project.
How the county’s portion is to
be spent in areas authorized un-
der the revenue sharing funds “
legislation is the decision of the
county commissioners.
Maintenance and operating
expenses for public safety, en- M
vironmental protection, public
airliner took off from Addis Ab-
aba.
Hijacker Panics
retired, said he slept about six nose, were streaking on a colli-
hours. sion course with the moon.
At 6:36 a.m. EST, while the But ground controllers said a
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right. Gen. Perkins, former chief of staff at Fort Sill,
has been assigned as commanding general of the
56th Artillery Brigade in Germany,
(Staff Photo)
eluding a woman, th# govern- Whitaker has already joined thousands of city Indianapolis, Ind, at the 49th annual meeting
officials across the nation to warn the govern- of the National League of Cities to issue the
ment against trying to trim previously estab- warning. A number of urban related problems
' lished forms of federal assistance, and issues were slated for debate. Revenue
_____________ The traditional bill of fare to cities has been sharing stole the show, as mayors bore down
of fire between security guards what those in bureaucratic circles call “cate- on what they obviously considered their major
* - - - interest.
place shortly after an Ethiopian Lawton with virtually all of its federal funds Whitaker said the call for continued cate- 1
to date. gorical grant spending "with no slackening of
Such grants to Lawton totaled an estimated previous efforts’’ is warranted but should not
$13.5 million in 1971 and will have been as cause any local panic. The warning came after
Prof. Roderick Hilsinger of much or more by the end of 1972. This ex- and was generated by a Nixon Administration $
Temple University, Phila- eludes federal aid to education and welfare. decision to spend less than it has been author-
The grants fund such local programs as ur- ized by Congress for water pollution.
Late in November the administration an-
nounced it would spend no more than $2 bil- g
lion of the $5 billion Congress appropriated for “ •
By PEGGY JO ORMSON 2$
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rewards localities for levying lo- COMANCHE County is slated
i wwnwRAi nmont cal taxes - the higher the local to receive half of its $341,-
THE FEDERAL government taxes in comparison with other 186 in 1972 revenue sharing
was mailing $29.1 million in cities and counties and states, funds next week. Frank White, #
revenue sharing checks today to the greater their revenue chairman of the county board
, , „ ,11 said: "An attempted hijacking
Saturday. Saturday s high is ex- by a group of persons against
About 250 to 306 staff workers pected to be in the mid-205. an Ethiopian airline jetliner
___ sat in chairs or stood against Northerly winds of from 8 to 16 as successfully foiled 13 min-
Life was published at "very the walls, waiting for the meet- miles per hour were expected tes after takeoff from Addis
ing, which was closed to out- through tonight.
siders, to begin at ll a m. Temperatures today were ex-
Life lasted more than a year pected to reach 32 before the
longer than its chief com- new surge of Arcticair moves
W.. r A, whih coosed into the area. The front had al-
P . nt 1# ase readv moved into extreme
publi won Qct.19, 1971 Northwest Oklahoma this
Loogsalso blamedattsing Mieh temperatures for to- bulletin
especially postal ra 55 day have already been reached;
-----, In announcing the decision to in the Panhandle with the mer- CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP)-
...9 fold Life, Hedley Donovan, edi- expected to dip into the
' ’ ' 25 i tor-in-chief of Time, Inc., and mid teens there this afternoon,
2 Andrew Heiskell, chairman of falling to between zero and five
the board, declared: above tonight.
Life has been one of the High and low in Lawton
Quang Tri City and said the Enterlainment..
South Vietnamese were hit by d
nearly 700 rounds of 130mm ar-; “2k29
tillery and 82mm mortar fire. €y
The command reported 44
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B52s Hit Red U. S. Unemployment Rate
SupoylinesDrops During November
ibers kept up their satura- ■ w
bombing of North Vietnam-
nose-to- See APOLLO. Page 4. Col. f
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