The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 200, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 13, 1975 Page: 1 of 20
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VOLUME 73—NO. 200
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The program calls for pay
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Gore Boulevard and Cache
Road
It is one of the local streets
Van Meter said “is falling
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Court of Criminal
Appeals ordered a new trial today for a Lawton bookseller who
was convicted of selling pornographic literature The court or-
dered a new trial for Steven Rellon Hess and the Venus Book
Mart of Lawton on grounds that the district court jury which
convicted him did not receive proper instructions from the
court on which to judge the case.
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COUNCILMEN then went on
to approve M G Fuller for
east Gore on a 7-3 vote. Van
Meter, Roberts, and Chenault
voting against; Hendrick on
38th Street, on a 7-3 vote, the
same three councilmen voting
against; and Horacek, Smith,
Painter, and Spitz on 52nd
Street, Prince and Haynes vot-
ing against on a 8-2 vote.
During debate council mem-
bers Roberts and Chenault
the community, police, courts
and corrections department
"It will take the whole sys-
tem working together to ever
bring about an acceptable rate
of crime," Hennessee said
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WASHINGTON (AP> — Veteran dairy lobbyists and a former
Agriculture Department official hired by farm groups have
been rounding up House votes to override President Ford s
veto of a farm bill Opponents of the bill predicted they would
still win by 20 votes today on the vote to override or sustain
Ford's May 1 veto A two-thirds majority of those voting is
needed to override
HF. CLAIMED east Gore
was "the most difficult job"
and asked why it was going to
"the lowest ranking firm" on
a list of firms prepared by the
city staff for the projects
Ranking is on the basis of
personnel, experience in the
project area and expertise
Prince said the selection
was on the basis of "pertinent
facts" and "who we thought
could best do the job ”
Van Meter, after further de-
bate. solicited from Public
Works Director Paul Brune
the statement that the Fuller
(inn had designed the seg-
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AFTER APPROVING a Van
Meter motion to vote separate-
ly on the firms. Van Meier
then introduced a motion to
name Horacek. Smith, Painter
and Spitz to do east Gore en-
gineering
That vote wound up in a 5-5
tie with Mayor Gilley voting
against the measure and de-
feating it
Councilmen voting against it
included J J Pursley. Robert
Prince, Keith Haynes Donald
Aust, and Harry Anderson
Voting for the Van Meter
motion were Van Meter Nor-
ma Roberts, Fredrick
Chenault, Rex Givens, and
Adam Matthews
your neighbors in guarding
your neighborhood
The (Time problem begin*
with the community victi-
mized by burglars, thieves,
rapists, etc , and deterring
crime must also begin there,
police said
The barrier nf tending
your own business and letting
Spitz, Inc , for four-laning of
52nd Street from U S. 62 north
to Rogers Lane
The firms were recommend-
ed by a council committee
composed of Donald Aust.
Keith Haynes, and Robert
Prince
But councilman Don Van
Meter questioned giving the
east Gore design work which
is in his ward, to Fuller
against corruption in the con-
struction industry
The men in the plant report-
edly demanded that the gov-
ernment kill the legislation
and also bring about a settle-
ment of their 16-month-old
strike against the aircraft
company
They took two women and
eight men hostage They in-
eluded Jose Ledoux, news di-
rector of a local radio station
He gave broadcast reports by
telephone as the police moved
in and reported “a brutal
massacre.”
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ISRAEL forces crossed the
Lebanese border early today
for the second straight day
and brought back three more
Arabs suspected of collaborat-
ing with Palestine guerrillas
the Israeli military command
reported
The raiders searched for
terrorists in the village of Ait
Around, about a mile from the
Israeli border, the command
said
Cloudy and cool weather will
prevail in the Lawton area
tonight
Occasional showers and
thunderstorms are expected to
end early this evening
Tonight's low will be near 50
with winds northerly and from
12 to 22 miles per hour
Wednesday s high will be in
the mid-70s with the probabi-
lity of precipitation decreasing
to 211 per cent
The high Monday was 79
and the low was 61
By SKIP GIBSON
A DIVIDED City Council
today selected engineers for
three separate and future
street improvement projects
and tabled for one week pro-
posed boathouse space fee
hikes at Schoolhouse Slough
The governing body ap-
proved the engineering firms
as recommended by a council
committee that interviewed
six such firms last week, but
only after Mayor Wayne Gilley
broke the first tie vote of his
new term
After considerable debate,
the council approved the fol-
lowing engineering firms on
the basis of future availability
of funds
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payment to use for a down
- payment on a home
The conferees also agreed to
provide an anti-foreclosure
........ program to assist families
whose income has been cut
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WASHINGTON (AP» — American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
has agreed to pay an additional $2.5 million in a third stage
settlement of a job discrimination case, it was announced
today. The bulk of the payment will go to perhaps 1,000 or
more women of all races, the labor Department said The com -
pany agreed to the payment after a special government coordi-’
nating committee found that the nationwide telephone system
had not met 1973 intermediate targets for ending job dis
crimination In many of its companies.
WATERMELON LOVER Robin Barton, 5, Mango, Fla., nears the rind as she
devours her first piece of watermelon of the season. The five-year-old attack-
ed the watermelon at the store instead of waiting for it to be taken home and
Police point out that the
best way for the individual to
deter crime is to be careful —
avoid areas with a high in
odence of crime secure your
property, and cooperate with
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Four policemen were report-
ed injured
The strikers invaded the
plant during a riot at the
main gate which a police
spokesman said might have
been staged to provide cover
for the invasion
The rioters came from a
meeting at a Longueuil arena
at which the president of the
Quebec Federation of Labor.
Louis Laberge, and construe
tion union leader Fernand
Daoust attacked the legisla-
tion which the provincial gov-
ernment proposed after a
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ON MONDAY the Israelis
brought back four men and a
woman "for investigation "
A military spokesman said
"not a bullet was fired" dur-
ing the raid today The Israeli
report of the raid Monday also
said there was no resistance
The command refused to
say why it had was making
the raids, which it says are
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
House and Senate conferees
disclosed today they have
agreed on a massive new
housing bill aimed at produc
ing 400,000 new homes and
HUO,000 new construction jobs
over the next year
The bill also includes pro-
grams to assist families faced
with mortgage foreclosures
because of unemployment and
to end the boom-and-bust pat
tern of the housing industry
by putting a federal ceiling on
interest rates
Four Not Signing
Four House conferees, three
of them Republicans, refused
to sign the conference report
on grounds the program will
be inflationary
President Ford has in
dicated he may veto the mea-
sure on similar grounds when
it reaches his desk
Chairman William Prox
mire, D-Wis , of the Senate
Banking Committee predicted
the net impart of the bill will
be to reduce the federal budg-
et deficit
He said the increased con
struction activity it will cause
over the next year will pro-
duce a $12 billion to $15 billion
addition to the gross national
product and an additional $2
billion increase in federal tax
revenues
Three Options
The anti-recession portion of
the program would be imple-
mented through a series of
three options
—A potential homeowner
could secure a 6 per cent fed
eral mortgage loan which
would gradually increase to
current market levels by the
end of a six-year period
—Or he could select a 7 per
cent mortgage loan which
would remain fixed for the life
of the mortgage
—He could accept a one-
time $1,000 cash incentive
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MTONTREAL (AP) - More
IV1 than 100 riot police early
today freed 10 hostages held
captive in an aircraft plant by
about 50 striking union mem
bers
The police arrested a num
her of the union men and took
control of the building in
which they were barricaded
Police used clubs and tear
gas against the workers, who
broke into a building at the
United Aircraft plant in sub-
urban Longueuil after a Que-
bec Federation of Labor rally
protesting the provincial gov-
ernment’s proposed legislation
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M. G. FULIER and Associ-
ates for east Gore Boulevard
four-laning from the Pioneer
Expressway two and one-half
miles east; Robert P Hendr-
ick for reconstruction of 38th
Street from Gore Boulevard
south to Lee Boulevard; and
Horacek Smith, Painter &
the first in four months But
the Lebanese charge that the
Israelis have sent commando
groups across the border four
times in the past five weeks to
lay mines, apparently to hin-
der Palestine guerrillas from
raiding into Israel
About 15 Lebanese were
captured and taken to Israel
during raids in January All
were released after a month
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The I nited States will fly Marines to
Thailand tn underscore President Ford's demand for the return
of a US cargo ship seized by Cambodia Pentagon sources
said Unlay
However, in Bangkok Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj said
Thailand will not permit the United States to use Thai air
bases for military action against C ambodia including any
armed attempt to secure the return of the Ameri an vessel
Secretary of Stale Henry A Kissinger on a visit to Missouri
said the ( nited states will wait a bit to see what diplomacy
can achive" to gain the return of the merchant ship He said
the United States would take measures necessary to gain the
ship s release
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A $405 million aid bill for Indochina
refugees was approved by the House Appropriations Committee
today aid cleared for full House action Wednesday afternoon
An amendment to cut the money to $373 million was rejected
by voice vote "if a man needs two aspirins, we won't give him
one," said Rep Otto E Passman. D ia . chairman of the sub
committee that drafted the bill "These people are refugees
They're homeless. They're desperate ”
SOVIET Prime Minister
Alexei Kosygin, visiting in
Libya, told the Arab countries
they must resolve their differ-
ences and unite "against im-
perialism and aggression " to
achieve peace in the Middle
East, the Soviet news agency
Tass reported
Speaking at a dinner in his
honor in Tripoli. Kosygin also
called for resumption of the
Geneva peace conference on
the Middle East Secretary of
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s ments of $250 per month for
2 up to two years for approxi-
mately 100,000 homeowners
who have either kost their jobs
or have had their incomes so
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has got Ui stop Hennessee pand ’he program to other
said "What we need is a lot parts of the city, strictly
of nosey, law abiding people " through volunteer efforts of
Watching your neighbor’s concerned citizens
property as well as your own Om the police level, tentative
noting any suspicious activity plans have been laid out to
and notifying police, is a start implement a team policing"
in the right direction, police system to work with the
said neighborhood watch program
The voluntary Neighborhood By assigning a patrolman.
Watch Program started last detective and juvenile officer
year in the Woodland Hills to one of the city’s 1(1 zones
residential section has already permanently, police officials
proved its value Police dis hope tile citizens of Lawton s
patchers say they are now residential and business areas
called every time a strange will become familiar with
car passes through the area see COMSIMED, Poo 4
RELATIVES CRY Relatives of Darold J. Badora, a construction worker trapped
Monday in a tunnel explosion under the Fox River near Green Bay, Wiscry
as they wait for information. Four workmen were trapped in the tunnel and
are believed dead Other workmen are attempting to reach the four.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (API - Former Oklahoma Gov David *3
Hall was ordered today to appear before (he State Supreme Editoriais
(oart to answer charges which could lead to his disbarment A
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Supreme Court order was issued ordering Hall to appear on Brido.
May 26 to "show cause why you should not be disciplined Hospilals
by said court as a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association . . Entertoin
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Almost one in every 10 per
sons — 883 of every 10,000
prople here last year — be
came a victim of a Class (
major offense The rate for
such offenses — criminal
homicide forcible rape ag
gravated assault, robbery,
burglary. larceny and auto
theft — has increased 37.5 per
cent in five years
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F 30 OW do you control Law
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P.4e here say it is a tough questwn
ed and admit the hav m war
cut solutions
B They have some ieas that
WPK ■ vary from the creation of new
■ , police patrol zones and a
neighborhood watch system to
*" prison building and reform
ch Police Chief Alford Hen-
W nessee says that slowing the
• crime rate would require a
d joint effort from rach phas f
E simety involved with erime —
Thailand Unhappy
But hi' would not comment on the report that Marines will be
sent saying it was a delicate situation at the moment " He
also said he did not want to "comment on what might be on
the minds of the Cambodians
After meeting briefly with the President Sen Jacob Javits,
R-N Y and Rep John Anderson R ill cautioned against pre
cipitous action
"There is no question that we have to recover that ship and
its crew," Javits said "I'm confident the President feels the
same way (But) I would fully expect the president would
consult with Congress before taking any military action
A group of about 150 Marines will be airlifted from the U S
naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines to the U S air base
at Utapo in southern Thailand the Pentagon sources said
They said another 1000 Marines have been alerted on Okinawa
for possible movement later
Verbal orders which went out from the pentagon this morn
mg apparently were changed later to scale down the immediate
size of the Marines movement
Situation Delicate
At an impromptu news conference in Bangkok Kukrit said in
response to a question about the seizure of the American ship
“We will not allow the American troops to use our soil for any
war We haw enough trouble with Asian neighbors now
He apparently referred to the 27 (M0 troops the United States
currently has stationed in Thailand Kukrit could not be
reached for comment afterward about the reported airlift of
Marines
As Ford called a meeting of the National Security Council to
discuss the ship's capture, there was no immediate word about
what use would be made of the Mannes once they reached
Thailand
But the move apparently was designed to back up the Presi
dent s warning of possible serious consequences" if the new
Cambodian government does not release the merchant ship
Mayaguez and its in-man crew
Official sources in Washington said Ford hopes to recover the
ship through dipkomatic channels reportedly using China and
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