The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 74, No. 166, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1976 Page: 1 of 40
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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
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VOLUME 74 —NO. 166 (AP) — (AP WIREPHOTO)
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Protest To Soviets
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Federal Judges Sue For Higher Pay
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Plans Under Way To Implement
Ford’s Flu Immunization Drive
Site Near Hominy
Picked For Prison
Coke Bottler
Seeks Building
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News In Brief
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View From The Treehouse
Wedding Bells At Deyo And Goodbye To Platt
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Receives Bomb Warning;
No Explosives Discovered
Action Termed ‘Temporary'
Lebanon President Flees Palace
established before the turn of the cen-
tury and the opening of the Kiowa-Co-
the general counsel of the Navy in
Washington LaDonna and her Co-
manche relatives have been associated
with Deyo for years The mission was
Sen. Fred R Harris and his wife,
LaDonna, will interrupt the Harris
presidential campaign to attend the
wedding at 2 p.m. Friday of their
daughter, Kathryn, at Deyo Baptist
Church eight miles west of Lawton
Kathryn Harris graduated from Stan-
ford Law School last year and is now
an attorney with the American Indian
Policy Review Commission The
groom, Manuel Tijerina, is from Casa
Grande, Ariz. and is an attorney for
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential candidate Fred Harris said
Thursday trusted sources have indicated to him that the Ford adminis-
tration is planning a blockade of Cuba if its troops engage in further in-
tervention in Africa At the White House, meanwhile, Press Secretary
Ron Nessen, was asked if the President is considering contingency plans
regarding Cuba Nessen replied: ’ There are a number of matters under
study in this area ’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of crimes reported to police in
the United States increased 9 per cent last year, but murders dropped
for the first time in more than a decade, the FBI said today Murders in
1975 declined 1 per cent from the 1974 total of 20,600, preliminary fig-
ures showed
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — President
Suleiman Franjieh fled under Moslem
bombarbment from the badly damaged
presidential palace early today.
A pro-Franjieh radio station called
the move a "temporary transfer of the
seat of the presidency," however, in-
dicating Franjieh still considered him
self president
The leader of the largest Christian
militia broadcast a call for an all-out
crusade to return the 65-year-old Chris-
tian president to the symbolic seat of
power
But Beirut Radio, controlled by Mos-
lem army commanders reported the
hilltop palace four miles east of Beirut
was wrecked
"The whole place was a shambles,"
said a photographer who visited the
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McAlester, Okla (AP) - The
State Board of Corrections picked Os-
age County today for the location of a
new medium security prison facility in
northeast Oklahoma
An area near Hominy has been one
of five under consideration and was
the only one which drew apparent ma-
jority support for its location, based
on a poll of residents recently.
Other areas mentioned including
some in Tulsa, had drawn strong op-
position.
Funds for the new prison facilities
have been approved by the legislature
Dr .Ned Benton, state corrections di-
rector. said he is pleased with the
board's decision and is anxious to get
construction started
Construction bids for the prison
could be sought by September, offi-
cials said
The site for a proposed similar facil-
ity in the Oklahoma City area is ex-
pected to be picked next month.
The medium security prison near
Hominy will be the first major penal
construction program in more than
half a century in Oklahoma The pris-
on here has been the center of the sys-
tem since statehood Several honor
farms and similar units have been es-
tablished over the years but did not
include a full prison facility.
The new prisons are part of a $23
million state plan including $14 mil-
lion for the Tulsa and Oklahoma City
facilities.
palace. "Chandeliers were all down on
the floor, broken to smithereens The
main two salons on the ground floor
were black, totally black Nothing in
them was left intact."
Franjieh, who defied two weeks of
threats by Moslem military leaders to
bomb him out, left before dawn with
his wife and two sons in a bulletproof
limousine, a palace spokesman report-
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THE CDC will conduct a day long
briefing April 2, inviting every state
health officer and a private physician
of his choice to attend
Fearing an epidemic of flu deaths
next winter, President Ford is asking
Congress for $135 million to finance
production of enough vaccine to protect
200 million Americans against a new
outbreak of swine flu virus
The President said he wants the sup-
plemental appropriation passed before
the lawmakers’ April recess so that by
the end of November nearly every
American citizen can be protected
from the virus, which took 20 million
lives around the world in a 1918 epi-
demic
Ford is to make his request to Con-
gress today.
In Geneva, Switzerland, officials at
World Health Organization headquar-
ters reacted with surprise to the Presi-
dent's announcement The WHO said a
month ago there was no evidence the
virus was spreading
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By The Associated Press
CONTINGENCY plans are under way
for implementing President ford s de
cision to immunize 213 million Ameri-
cans against a possible epidemic next
fall of a long dormant "swine flu"
strain
The national Center for Disease Con-
trol in Atlanta. Ga is working with
health officials from every state, the
American Medical Association and
pharmaceutical manufacturers to de-
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The judges are represented by for-
mer Supreme Court Justice Arthur J
Goldberg The suit was filed in the
Claims Court because that is the forum
for monetary actions against the gov-
ernment
The new developments in the matter
were announced in San Francisco by
U.S. District Judge Spencer Williams
The suit contends that compensation
means purchasing power or real in
come rather than salary and that be-
tween 1969 and 1975 the real income of
district judges declined from $40 000 to
$27,510 and that of Court of Appeals
judges from $42.00 to $29,230
The judges allege that the president
and Congress have failed to carry out
their constitutional duty to correct this
drop in purchasing power and as a re-
sult the "quality and independence of
see JUDGES, Page 4
By The Associated Press
It was a night of wonder and fright throughout the Mississippi River
basin as the New Madrid fault came briefly to life, shaking tables and
rattling dinner plates with two moderate earthquakes The quakes
Wednesday night were measured at between 4 5 and 5 on the Richter
Scale by the National Earthquake Information Service in Golden, Colo
Beirut Radio said the president and
his aides took refuge in Jounieh, the
major Christian stronghold on the
coast 12 miles north of Beirut Its har-
bor is guarded by two pro-Christian
army garrisons and a naval base, and
it is the chief port of entry for arms
for the right-wing Christian militias
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THE OFFICIALS declined further
comment pending contact with U.S. ex-
perts on the American project, which a
spokesman said could have "worldwide
implications."
The spokesman said he knew of no
other country considering similar
plans
The vaccine will be available in Sep-
tember. October and November in
schools, hospitals, doctors offices and
public health facilities in the largest
mass immunization drive in U.S his-
tory Ford said
The government will pay for produc-
tion of the vaccine by private drug
companies, but patients will have to
See FLU Page 4
manche-Apache reservation for settle-
ment
Oklahoma lost its only national park
last week — Platt National Park at
Sulphur — when President Gerald
Ford signed a bill creating the new
Chickasaw National Recreation Area
The recreation area will combine the
912-acre Platt National Park, the 7,003-
acre Arbuckle National Recreation
Area and 1,170 acres of land to be ac-
quired. adjoining the ether two areas
it will be one of only 16 national recre-
ation areas The act provides $4 6 mil-
lion for recreation development to in-
clude five group camps and hiking and
biking trails The mineral springs and
other scenic features at Platt will con-
By WARD BYERS
The Lawton Coca-Cola Bottling Co is
seeking a zoning change to allow con
struction of a new warehouse and ex-
panded production lines at its 511 NW
Second location
The Lawton Metropolitan Planning
Commission is scheduled to hear April
13 a request to change the zoning for
the 500 block of north Second from C-5
(general commercial) to 1-1 (light in-
dustrial) for construction of a nearly
15,000-square-foot warehouse adjoining
the current Coca-Cola plant
The new warehouse will increase
storage at the site and free space for
an expansion of bottling lines inside
the current plant, company officials
said today.
The Lawton Industrial Development
Authority has agreed to help the bot-
tling firm obtain tax free financing for
the warehouse and plant construction
if the zoning change is approved The
entire project, including the new ware-
house, purchase of an existing ware-
house at the site and some $200,000
Partly cloudy skies and contin-
ued warm temperatures with a
chance of thunderstorms tonight
and Friday are forecast for South
west Oklahoma according to the
National Weather Service.
The extended outlook through
Sunday calls for continued fair
and mild conditions. Friday’s high
will be ia the mid-7ls and
tonight s low ia the low Ms.
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termine the best way to reach the en-
tire population, a CDC spokesman said
today
that in 1974 Richard Nixon granted a
7 5 per cent increase in each of the fol-
lowing three years
"These adjustments in judicial sala-
nes would have taken effect if no ac-
tion been taken by either house of Con-
gress," said the complaint filed in the
U S. Court of Claims
"Although the House of Representa-
fives took no action and no other salary
rate was enacted into law, the Senate
disapproved the President’s salary ad-
justments."
That disapproval, said the judges,
"constituted an unlawful, uncon-
stitutional and void exercise of execu-
tive power."
The new plaintiffs include U.S Dis-
trict Judge Julius J Hoffman, who
presided over the Chicago Seven trial
in Chicago Hoffman now is a senior
judge
MOSCOW (AP) — A bomb warning
by an anonymous caller led to evac-
uation of part of the American Em-
bassy today No bomb was found
The warning followed a series of
telephone calls to members of the em-
bassy staff threatening them with re
taliation and even shooting for harass-
ment of Soviet personnel in New York
The embassy lodged a formal pro-
test. charging that the moves were
part of a campaign encouraged and
supported by official Soviet agencies
and warning that such acts could fur
ther jeopardize American-Soviet rela-
tions
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OKLA HISTORICAL SOCIErY
HISTORICAL BUILDING
OKLA CI IY )K
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VIIEW from a Lawton treehouse,
V from wedding bells at Deyo Mis-
sion to the Chickasaw National Recrea-
tion Area and the far reaches of Okla-
homa historic sites:
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Newsday
NEW YORK — About a half-century ago, the parlor piano was a focal
- ’ point for family entertainment a place to listen and perhaps sing
something like "Yes, We Have No Bananas" or "Five Foot Two. Eyes of
Blue With a few changes, that acene is being repeated these days, if
the growing volume of sheet-music sales is any indicator
Chances are that the songs are quite different from those of 50 years
ago. maybe something like "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover or "All By
Myself It s a good bet, too, that instead of a bulky upright piano, the
instrument is a compact electronic keyboard substitute that gives the
same sound, or perhaps a guitar
Regardless, sales of sheet music are at an all-time high, according to
industry figures The national volume of sheet music sales in 1907 was
estimated at $72 million, by 1974 the figure had climbed to $170 million
the National Music Publishers' Association reports No figures are avail
able for 1975, but the association expects another increase
The association's executive vice president, Leonard Feist, said that
sales of single-song sheet music as well as folios (song books) have en-
joyed a steady growth "but in the last dozen or so years the market has
really exploded " Folios usually sell for $4 95 to $7 95, single songs usu-
ally go for $1.50.
The upswing in sales is attributed to several factors A major one is
that song sellers are marketing and merchandising their products in
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tinue to be protected, but the emphasis
at the recreation area will be on recre-
ation such as swimming boating, fish-
ing camping and picnicking
Melvin Shaw of Altus writes. Being
relatively new to Oklahoma, I have
been trying to acquaint myself with
the history of the region . . Can you
tell me where I might be able to locate
a map or do some research so I can
mark a map of my own, with the loca-
tions of these and other sites. I have a
special interest around the period
when the army first came to this area
and when Fort Sill was established,
along with the period of the Indian
problems, and in the era of the open-
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Ties Strained
Ties between the two countries are
already strained over Soviet in-
volvement in Angola
There was no explosion, and a search
of the building turned up no trace of a
bomb, an Embassy spokesman said
He said the caller had described the
device as a four-pound block of “C4
(plastic explosive) with detonators."
The spokesman said about 50 per
sons working on the ground floor of the
Embassy were evacuated after the tele
phone call at noon warned that the
bomb would go off at 12:27 p m The
caller spoke in unaccented English, the
spokesman added
Fourteen children in a nursery
schoo class in the Embassy basement
were also led quietly into the courtyard
of the 10-story building on Tchaikovsky
Street. There was no panic.
First Since 1971
An Embassy spokeman said it was
the first such scare since 1971, when
Americans in Moscow were harassed
and their cars vandalized in retaliation
for attacks by militant Jews on Soviet
offices and citizens in New York
At least two Soviet plainclothesmen
were added today to the Embassy
guard of half a dozen uniformed Soviet
police after the Embassy protested to
the Soviet Foreign Office about the
threatening nocturnal phone calls
American diplomats have been receiv-
ing
Embassy sources said some mem-
bers of the staff have gotten three or
four calls at home in the middle of the
night Typical of the calls. a source
said, was one saying, "Our people are
not being treated well. Things could
become much worse for you "
Some of the callers warned that cars
belonging to Embassy staff members
might be damaged, the sources said
Crank calls to Embassy personnel
and other members of the foreign
community in Moscow are fairly com-
mon. but the informants said these ha-
rassing calls have been much more
frequent than usual and apparently
were part of a concerted campaign
Because the calls were on the same
subject and because it is very difficult
for an ordinary Soviet citizen to obtain
personal telephone numbers, U.S offi-
cials said they believe the campaign
was officially organized Telephone di-
rectories are hard to find in Moscow,
although a directory is available to the
foreign community.
The sources said checks among Em-
bassy staff members today indicate
the largest number of phone calls
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V ASHINGTON (AP) - Thirty-seven
VV federal judges joined 44 of their
colleagues today in a lawsuit against
the government seeking higher pay.
They added a new charge that the Sen-
ate illegally blocked a pay raise for
them
The 44 judges who first filed suit on
Feb 11 had claimed their com-
pensation was eroded by inflation and
this violated a constitutional ban
against reducing their pay
A I S District judge earns $42,000 a
year A judge of the U S Court of Ap-
peals makes $44,625
All 91 judges claim their com-
pensation should have kept pace with a
34 5 per cent increase in the consumer
price index between March 15, 1969.
and Oct 1, 1675
In addition they say Congress grant-
ed the President power to adjust judi-
cial salaries in every fourth year and
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NO PARKING? Despite the injunction at right, many Lawton motorists have been parked, tempora-
rily at least, on west Gore Boulevard as work proceeds on widening and repaving of the street.
Construction crews have used the recent good weather to speed work on the project. (Staff Photo)
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