The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 5, 1974 Page: 1 of 68
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Panel Expected To Approve City Road Package Monday
After-Church Session Set
$725,000 Addition Planned
Vo-Tech Expansion
Winters Trial Jury
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The structure, which would archi-
tecturally match the present building,
would be the first major addition to the
vo-tech center since it opened in 1971
School Supt. Milton C Worley said Sat-
urday that the school has the additional
$325,000 needed on hand and it is hoped
that a construction contract could be let
this summer.
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They said they had been assured the
funding would remain in the bill and
they expected approval by the legisla-
ture the bill had cleared both houses be-
fore being sent to the conference com-
mittee
The funding would cover work at four
Nor man-area centers, the center here,
the Gordon Cooper center at Shawnee,
and the central Oklahoma center at
Drumright
Legislative approval is near on a fund-
ing bill which would allow a 1725,000 ex-
pansion of the Great Plains Area Vo-
Tech School, Comanche County legisla-
tors said Saturday
The bill, about to come out of confer-
ence committee, would provide $400,000
for a 40,000-square-foot addition at the
school here, according to the state Budg-
et Department and local legislators
Payne said the commission would also
be asked to extend SH36A on Gore Boule
vard from its present cutoff point of 38th
Street to 53rd Street The change would
allow state funding to be used on the
new highway section
The proposal to be considered Monday
involves about M 5 million in state mon-
ey. 11 7 million in local road bond funds.
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82nd Street and 82nd north to Cache
Road SH7A. thereby making the section
eligible for state assistance
HE SAID several unidentified men de
liberately dug open the dams and let
some of the material spill out
He said Tenneco Oil Co., had the lease
on the land. “I don’t know why they
couldn’t have left those pits alone." he
said.
He showed Lawton Public Works Di-
rector Paul Brune the site of the pits,
about one-quarter mile south of his
farmhouse Drilling efforts had been
abandoned for sometime
At the site Brune found one large pit
and two smaller ones, all of which still
contained a large amount of sludge and
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The highway commission will tie asked
to approve rerouting of two highways, a
federal-local-state funding package to
cover the Lee, Gore, and Sheridan proj
ects, and a federal-state package for
work on Lee west of the city and 82nd
Street from Lee Boulevard north to
Cache Road
Oklahoma 7. now turns north where
Lee and Sheridan meet Payne said the
commission would be asked to designate
Lee Boulevard from 22nd Street west to
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DRAIN PIPES INSTALLED. Freeman Construction workers install new
storm drains Saturday at Second and C Avenue in Lawton Urban
Renewal's Downtown Project. New drains will be placed from Sec-
ond to Fourth Streets on C Avenue and from Gore Boulevard south
two-and one-half blocks on Third Street. The same section of Third
Street will also be widened and repaved in the $1 93,350 project.
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The legislative approved an “Okla-
homa GI Bill ' which would allow veter-
ans who qualify to attend post-high
school vo-tech courses without having to
pay tuition.
"That (bill) will have more affect on
us than any other vo-tech school in the
state," Worley said, adding that the ad-
dition would help the school accom-
modate more students including veter-
ans
Funds Listed
Local legislators said the state funding
was in a general revenue money bill pro-
viding 12.140,000 for capital improve-
ments at vo-tech schools
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The addition, which would run south
from the present building forming a “T”
design, would house new courses in basic
electronics, graphic arts, compact car
mechanics and fashion merchandising.
Construction time is estimated at 12
months and Worley said It was hoped
that the structure would be open by Sep-
tember 1975
Budget Utilized
Worley said the local 1325,000 was
raised "by scrimping on our budget."
The superintendent said the addition
would be an invaluable asset to the
school "It’ll relieve us from having to
turn away about 150 students a year be-
cause we don't have the facilities to offer
them their first or second (subject)
choices,” he said
"It will also give us more flexibility in
working with the Vietnam veterans.”
Worley added
Priorities Cited
The only possible difficulty in obtain-
ing the money, legislators said, was if
the state Board of Vo-Tech Education
failed to follow the priority listing which
placed the center here second in the
funding order
About $890,000 would be left after the
By GARY HEARN
FOUR GOVERNMENT mail bags par-
tially filled with letters and checks dated
during October 1966, were found Satur-
day in a rental residence in the 100 block
of Fort Sill Blvd., police said
Police said they were called at about
5:20 p m. by Jarrel Wade, a rental agent
for Kennedy and Co. Wade said that a
family moving into the residence found
the sacks in the attic of the house.
Investigating officer Steve Abla said
that the mail was apparently stolen Fort
Sill and other federal authorities were
notified when it was discovered that the
mail was addressed to C Battery, U S.
Army Training Center. Fort Sill
THE SACKS contained magazines, per-
sonal letters, newspapers, business let-
ters, several small personal checks, poet-
cards, bilks, travel vouchers, military or-
ders and a company roster
Abla said that the bouse is owned by
state Supreme Court Justice John Doolin
and rental is handled by the Kennedy
and Co., agency
The checks were minor payments
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he expected it to be approved
The package, if remaining hurdles are
clean'd would allow reconstruction of
Gore Boulevard from 38th to 53rd
Streets, Sheridan Road from Lee Boule
vard to Cache Road, Lee Boulevard from
22nd Street to 82nd Street, and 82nd
Street north to Cache Road
Remaining hurdles would include ap-
proval of some projects by either county
commissioners or the City Council, some
right-of-way purchase on Lee Boulevard,
relocation of a water line on Sheridan
WADE TOLD Abla that the family was
moving into the residence and putting
boxes in the attic when they discovered a
small room The bags were in a corner
of the room, he said.
Police said that the federal authorities
will apparently investigate the theft, al
See FOUR Poge 144
By SKIP GIBSON
SPILLAGE OF an undetermined
amount of petroleum sludge into the
Like Ellsworth watershed from an ex-
ploratory drilling operation in Caddo
County was revealed this weekend and is
being investigated by local officials
The spill is believed to have originated
from a set of three slush pits approxima-
tely two and one-half miles north of
Apache, about five miles above the
northern tip of Lake Ellsworth
Calvin Alexander, a farmer on whose
property the spillage occurred, Saturday
afternoon expressed considerable dis-
pleasure with the incident and whoever
was responsible.
Lawton, has worked out a program in-
volving greater state input, thereby sal-
vaging the vital road projects
The roads are crucially important to
industrial development west of the city
Leviton Manufacturing Company and
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have
announced that they will locate large
plants in or adjoining the industrial park
in that area
Payne said Saturday that the funding
package would be considered at the com
mission's 10 a m Monday meeting and
High readings today and Monday are
expected to warm slightly while skies
will remain partly cloudy
No precipitation is forecast dunng the
next two days and winds should be rela-
lively calm
The high reading here Saturday was
78. the low 60
The high reading today should be
about 80 with the overnight low near 60
The high Monday is expected to climb
into the lower 80s
Police Lt. Grady Crabtree exam-
ines some of the mail found in a
UNIVERSITY status for the colleges
had earlier been approved by the legisla-
ture The bill, however, did not contain
an emergency provision which would
have made it effective when signed. It
will becume effective 90 days after the
legislature adjourns
Granting of university status will make
see UNIVERSITY, Poce 144
THERE WAS a gaping V-cut in each
dam of the two smaller pits and evidence
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appointed with Nixon's action. Gordon
said "the case is not over yet."
Even after being returned to con-
finement, Calley would be eligible for pa-
role after less than six months of addi-
tional imprisonment.
Calley, a 30-year-old bachelor, was con-
victed by a court-martial at Ft Benning,
Ga., on March 29, 1971 The court held
(alley guilty of premeditated murder of
at least 22 Vietnamese civilians during a
sweep through the My Lai hamlet on
March 16, 1968
While saying he had no reasonable
doubt of Calley's guilt, the Army secre-
tary said, "There are mitigating circum-
stances indicating Lt. Calley may have
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THE Oklahoma Highway Commission
I is expected to approve Monday a
multi million dollar funding package
which would allow construction of four
major road projects here
The package, Including local, state and
federal funding, would cover work on
Gore and Lee Boulevards, Sheridan
Road, and the industrial access road
west of the city
The package had been threatened by
federal funding changes, but highway
commission Chairman Charlie D Payne.
CAMERON College students will re
turn to Cameron University this fall
Gov David Hall signed a bill into law
Saturday which will give university des
ignation to eight state colleges in Au-
gust.
The eight will join Oklahoma, Okla-
homa State, Central State and Langston
in the public school university group
Hall signed the bill at one of the soon
to-be new universities. Northeastern
State College, Tahlequah With Hall at
the 8 pm ceremony was state House
Speaker Bill Willis, D-Tahlequah
VKJASHINGTON (AP) - President Nix-
W on decided Saturday against any
further reduction of Army Lt. William L.
(’alley’s 10-year sentence for the mas-
sacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
The Army released a memorandum
from Nixon saying
"I have reviewed the record of the
case of the United States vs. ("alley and
have decided that no further action by
me in this case is necessary or appro-
priate.”
At the same time, Secretary of the
Army Howard H Callaway ordered Cal-
ley dismissed from the Army
Nixon upheld Callaway's April 16 ac-
tion in reducing Calley’s prison sentence
from 20 to 10 years. That sentence pre-
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and an additional amount of federal
funds
The package calls for
—lawton to commit $797,000 in federal
urban road development funds for Gore
construction from 17th to 38th Streets
—The state to provide about $700,000 in
highway department funds for Gore con
struction from 38th through 52nd Streets
—Lawton to commit $375,000 of its
available $1 7 million in road bond funds
for construct km of Sheridan Road from
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making progress Judge Brown urged
the jury to "go home and rest and go to
church if you want tn.” but said he
would expect them back in court today.
SATURDAY’S SESSION made the
third straight day-and-night session
without reaching a verdict
The judge told the jurors they could
render a partial verdict and return to
consider the remaining charges Nettle-
ton made no reply, but simply repeated
his statement that the jurors were mak-
ing progress
The jury went into the Saturday night
session after Nettleton told the judge be-
fore the 6 p.m dinner break that they
were making progress.
Earlier Saturday, the jury had report-
ed it was deadlocked and there had been
speculation the judge might declare a
mistrial if the jury remained deadlocked.
THE JURY had sent word at mid aft-
ernoon that no progress was being made,
but Judge Brown apparently helped
break the logjam and when he lectured
the jurors about the need to work togeth-
er in an effort to reach a unanimous ver-
dict
"We’re all human and its difficult to
recede from a position once stated,” he
said "But you should not hesitate to re-
cede from a position if you become con-
vinced you are wrong."
But he also told the jurors they
"should not surrender a firm conviction"
just because the majority disagrees with
them.”
The jury received the extortion, con-
spiracy and mail fraud case against Win-
ters and Robert Grove. Winters’ long-
time attorney and campaign manager,
early Thursday, then worked until 9 p m
both Thursday and Friday before the
judge ordered Saturday’s session
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Public Works Director Paul
Brune points to what he said
were shovel marks. (Staff Photo)
OKLAHOMA CITY ( AP) - The federal
court jury failed to reach a verdict Sat-
urday night in the trial of State Treasur-
er Leo Winters and ( S District < ourt
Judge Wesley E Brown ordered them
back at 1 30 p m. today for another ses-
sion
Judge Brown calk'd the jury in at 9
pm Saturday and jury foreman James
F. Nettleton said the panel still was
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viously had been cut from life imprison-
ment on review by Lt. Gen Albert O
Connor, then commanding the U.S 3rd
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However, (alley is expected to remain
free on bond until a federal judge in Co-
lumbus, Ga , acts in a separate civil case
brought by (alley’s lawyers in an at-
tempt to reverse his courtmartial con-
viction
Calley's civilian attorney, J Houston
Gordon of Covington, Tenn , said Nixon’s
review had "absolutely no effect" on the
civil case.
The attorney said that he and Calley's
other lawyers "are deeply disappointed
in the President's decision to take no
ameliorative action." Although dis-
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