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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
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VOLUME 74 — NO. 67 (AP) — (AP WIREPHOTO)
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Cityan Pleads Guilty In Slaying Of F
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late any facts of the case to the court
Steele said he would let his attorney,
Kenneth Youngblood, speak for him
because "I get all choked up when I
think about it "
in mid 1974 and moved the twin boys
here in November of that year
Youngblood said Steele was a student
at the Great Plains Area Vo-Tech
School in auto mechanics and unable to
earn much money but “did the best
he could" and often took the twins to
the health clinic for care
The attorney then related Steele s
version of March 23, the day the
youths died
The boys’ mother left their home at
No 912 Columbia around 4 p m that
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neighbor and told the boys to go to
bed
The twins apparently disobeyed and
he then struck each boy and sent them
to the bathroom and bed, but later
found them standing in the bathroom
having trouble breathing
Youngblood then described attempts
by the defendant to revive the twins
through resuscitation
Steele accompanied the boys to
Southwestern Clinic Hospital where he
was arrested by Law ton police who
“If I have basic differences, I speak
out,” he said
Rockefeller was vague about his own
political future
He would not speculate about the
possibility that he might, himself,
wind up as a candidate in the 1976
presidential race
But he didn’t rule it out, either
And he avoided saying exactly what
his role will be in next year's cam-
paign, noting that the new federal elec
tion law limits him to a $1,000 personal
contribution to Ford and that the Re-
publican party cannot finance a cam-
paign for presidential nomination
“I think that he will be nominated
GETTING READY FOR THANKSGIVING. Miss Barbara Loveall’s classroom at Lee Elementary
School is decorated for Thanksgiving with turkeys, pumpkins, ears of corn, and brightly colored
leaves. Third year students with Miss Loveall are, from left, Tony Snively, Cynthia Rosario, and Ka
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were notified of the youths’ injuries by
hospital officials
The 4 year-olds were flown to Chil-
dren $ Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma
City by a Fort Sill MAST helicopter
but both died around 7 30 p m March
23
During the course of court proceed-
ings for the defendant, Steele often dis-
rupted the county courtrooms with
wild outbursts
Steele was bound over for trial May
29,
Combined Paid Daily
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KILOMFTER EIGHT. Inside Span
- ish Sahara (AP) — In senes
reminiscent of a biblical epic, tens of
thousands of Moroccan volunteers
walked 51 miles through a blinding
dust storm in searind desert heat
today on their “March of Conquest"
into the Spanish Sahara
They walked for three hours to a
point just four kilometers (242 miles)
away from the Spanish so-called “dis-
suasion line" of alleged minefields,
burbl'd wire and heavy armored units
No incidents were reported
A senior police officer controlling the
march said. "We will stay here over-
night and tomorrow morning, we will
see.”
The Moroccan government radio said
the volunteers jubilantly hoisted the
Moroccan flag over a Spanish fort as
they began their march
By W ALTER R MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
VXJASHINGTON lAP) - Vice Presi-
V V dent Nelson A Rockefeller said
today he stepped aside as a prospectiv e
1976 running mate so that President
Ford wouldn’t be plagued by Republi-
can party squabbles
He said he believes Ford “will be
nominated and he's my candidate" for
the White House next year
Rockefeller said he has had his dif-
ferences with the President, as in his
support of the New York City aid Ford
opposes, but he said these “were not
the basic elements in his political de-
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Clearing skies and mild, sunny
weather followed Wednesday night's
storm, which delivered 1 07 inches of
precipitation to downtown Lawton be-
tween 6 pm. Wednesday and 7 a m.
today.
Continued fair to partly cloudy skies
and warmer temperatures will prevail
tonight and Friday with no further
See WEATHER. Page 4
By SKIP GIBSON
Lawton's new $18 5 million sewer
treatment plant is not due to lie com-
pleted for at least another year, ac-
cording to the project resident engi-
neer, a fact which will postpone the an-
nual $700,000 operating cost which had
been expected to hit as early as next
July
City officials will still have to budget
new plant operations in the coming fis-
cal vear starting July 1, 1976
But anticipated annual operating
costs of $700,000 won t lie fully felt un-
til the budget vear starting July 1,
1977
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By DENNIS LANG
TFSSE Lee Steele 24. pleaded guilty
• today before Chief [list Judge J
Winston Raburn to two counts of first
degree manslaughter in the March 23
beating deaths of four year old twins
Freddy and Eddy Arnett
The often fiery defendant, who dis
played a violent temper during court
proceedings here the past eight
months, sat quietly today as he entered
the guilty pleas
Raburn set sentencing from 1 30
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ford has told a group of Egyptian
editors he will urge American business to "vigorously pursue" in-
vestments in their country. “I would certainly hope that American busi-
nessmen would make investments in Egypt," the President said in an
interview with four editors
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, having agreed to require open
meetings of its own committees, voted unanimously today to require
open sessions of most federal agencies, boards and commissions By a
vote of 94-0, the Senate approved "government in the sunshine" bill de-
signed to make the government decision-making processes more acces-
sible to the public
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale
prices leaped 1 8 per cent in October,
the biggest monthly rise in a year the
government reported today The jump
indicated that inflation remains a
serious problem
Price tags on new model cars, lum-
ber and textile products were particu-
larly significant in raising prices last
month, but the increases were spread
almost across the board, the Labor De-
partment said Farm prices also were
up sharply but still about half the rise
in September
October’s increase in the wholesale
price index followed gains of six-tenths
of a per cent in September and eight-
tenths of a per cent in August and was
the sharpest rise since October, 1974
when wholesale prices rose 2 9 per
cent
With a new spurt at the wholesale
level, consumers can expect a substan-
tial rise in the cost of living in the
months ahead as changes in wholesale
prices eventually show up in retail
stores
Over the last three months, whole-
sale prices rose at an annual rate of
13 5 per cent, up from a 6 per cent rate
in the May-July quarter However, the
rate was still less than half the 29.6
per cent rate in the three months
ended last October before the recession
slowed inflation
Wholesale prices last month were 5.1
per cent higher than a year ago The
index moved up to 178.9. meaning it
cost $178.90 in October to buy the same
goods at wholesale which sold for $100
in the 1967 base period
in a separate report, the Labor De-
See PRICES, Page 4
We are so happy this has hap-
pened, " Inocencio said We are very
thankful for the people who have
helped our family "
The Inocencios who had lived in the
country previously from 1964 to 1969
came to the I s again on visitor visas
in 1973, and were granted permission
to stay and work for the Public Health
Service before those visas expired
The Washington, D.C immigration
office had granted that authority in
1973 but the nightmare began when
CURRENT I NIT numbers will be
discontinued in dispatches, units will
be designated by their shift. team and
unit (For instance, unit 1 of the sec-
ond shift of Team A will be designated
as 2-Adam-1 )
Teams will be comprised of three
shifts per day 11 pm to 7 am . 7
am to 3 d m , and 3 pm to 11 pm
As tentatively devised, the number of
officers assigned to each shift of each
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Throughout the march, Spanish heli-
copters and old T6 propeller fighters
buzzed low over the columns but took
no aggressive action
The marchers stopped on a ridge
leading to a valley where the
Spaniards have erected a large number
of signs reading “mine fields" ahead
of the barbed wire barricade
On the horizon, a large number of
Spanish heavy armored vehicles were
dimly visible
On the previously unmarked frontier
line itself, 512 miles to the rear, work
men had hastily erected a triumphal
arch bearing Moroccan flags, huge
portraits of King Hassan and a sym-
bolic lifting barrier
A commentator for the Moroccan
government radio, who said he was
broadcasting from the border, said all
the unarmed marchers who had mas-
sed there before dawn crossed into the
Spanish colonial territory near the
abandoned white-painted border fort of
Tah, and soon hoisted the Moroccan
flag over its walls
He did not say how many persons
were in the first wave, but said Pre-
mier Ahmed Osman and other high-
ranking officials were with the march-
ers An earlier broadcast said thou-
sands of trucks and buses carried
marchers from the tent camps around
Tarfaya to the border 18 miles to the
south
The broadcast said more than 350,000
civilian volunteers for the march had
gathered during the past three weeks
in the vast tent camps established
around Tarfaya.
Hassan received a cable from U N
Security Council President Jacob Ma-
lik of the Soviet Union early in the
morning, relaying the council's plea to
call off the march, but Moroccan offi-
cials said the U N call was "onesided"
and would not deflect the king from
his determination to recover the miner-
al-rich Spanish Sahara
However, Moroccan sources said a
high-ranking Moroccan emissary was
enroute to Madrid with a message
from Hassan There was no indication
of the contents of the message, but the
king had said earlier the march would
not put an end to his efforts to find a
solution to the dispute by diplomatic
means
Hassan, 44, who previously had said
he would lead the march personally,
said in his broadcast Wednesday night
that he would remain at his field head-
quarters in Agadir, 300 miles north of
the frontier, because the duty of a
chief is to remain at the command post.
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and he's my candidate," Rockefeller
said He also said he does not think the
President need worry about the con-
servative challenge of former Califor-
nia Gov Ronald Reagan
But. as for himself. Rockefeller
avoided any clear signal of future
plans.
"I have no plans beyond this press
conference ” he said
Rockefeller began the half-hour, na-
tionally broadcast and televised news
conference with a statement saying
that party squabbling was the real rea-
son for his decision to quit as a pros-
pective Ford partner on the 1976 ticket
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deportation hearing on the charge that
the Inocencios had illegally overstayed
their visitor visas which expired on
Dec 31, 1973
All this came as a surprise to the In
ocencios who had been told their visas
would be placed in the inactive file it
the Public Health Service would state
its need for doctors
The service did and the doctor was
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district will be Team A, six officers
and two investigators, Team B. five of-
ficers and two investigators, Team C.
four officers and two investigators
Team D. five officers and two in
vestigators, and the CID team, three
investigators
One criminal investigations detective
and one juvenile division detective will
THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., THURSDAY, NOVE
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Test Period Set
Bill Madoux, resident engineer,
today said the plant won’t be com-
pleted for at least another year
in addition there s a 90 day oper-
ational period during which workers
have to be trained and facilities tested
out
Environmental Protection Agency
regulations have forced treatment ap-
proaches that contribute to the high
cost of maintenance and operation ac-
cording to Madoux
The old plant is costing the city
$95 000 to operate this year The new
plant, with additional chemical, labor,
and testing requirements will sky-
rocket costs to an estimated $700,000 a
year.
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Youngblood then told the court, "as
the defendant sees the fads of the
case " of Steele's common-law mar-
riage to Mary Martha Arnett, mother
of the slain twins, and their sub-
sequent move to Lawton
Steele came to Lawton from Milo. a
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BELIZE CITY, Belize (AP) — The British-Guatemalan dispute over
tiny Belize heated up today, with Britain rushing reinforcements to the
Central American colony and Guatemala accusing the British of "in-
timidation " “Because of increased Guatemalan military activity near
the border with Belize, the British government has reluctantly decided
that it has no alternative but to increase the small British garrison in
Belize, said a government statement in London
Revenue Outlined
Madoux said, "Sure it will cost more
to operate Everything costs more."
But Madoux pointed out that a mon-
ey-making angle of the plant has large
ly been ignored
I his plant is going to produce clean
water he said, "and up to seven mil-
lions gallons of effluent a day can be
provided by the city to Public Service
Company."
Madoux refers to a contract between
PSC and the City of Lawton reached in
February 1972
That contract stipulates that the city
will provide PSC effluent to cool its
new generating station southeast of
Lawton.
Some $96,000 annual revenue is ex-
pected from the effluent sales
The contract, approved by the Law-
ton City <Council, Feb 22, 1972. charges
PSC 7 5 cents per thousand gallons.
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SOME DETE( TIVES in the criminal
investigations and juvenile divisions
will be assigned to designated dis-
tricts. in the past they have worked in
an all-zones capac ity
Under the proposed program, offi-
cers will be assigned to four qua
drants, with Gore Boulevard and Sheri
dan Road serving as dividing lines
Officers will operate in five teams
A (Adam). B (Bravo). ( (Charley) D
(Delta) one for each of the four qua-
drants, plus a Criminal Investigations
Detachment (CID) team Areas as
signed to each team will encompass
A. north of Gore and east of Sheridan
B. south of Gore and east of Sheridan
C. south of Gore and west of Sheridan
D. north of Gore and west of Sheridan
and the CID team, all districts
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By MIKE R AY
A MAJOR reshuffling of Lawton Po-
lice Department organization and
duties will take effect Monday as offi-
cials attempt to stem the city 's rising
crime rate and improve rapport be-
tween officers and citizens
The changes are planned under a
"team policing" concept developed
during several sessions involving po-
lice officials and City Manager John
Thomson
An outline of the program is to be
delivered to city councilmen today for
their consideration during next
Tuesday’s regular session Chief of Po-
lice Alford T Hennessee is scheduled
to explain the program at the Friday
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Right To Remain
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AT last. Dr Filemon J Inocencio
li Lawton Indian Hospitals only
surgeon, can work in peace
A letter from his lawyer in Dallas
brought the glad tidings Wednesday
The I S Immigration and Natural
ization Board of Appeals has made the
decision to drop deportation proceed-
ings against the doctor
Up until Wednesday Inocencio a
Philippine native, his wife Noemi, a
hospital internist, and three' children.
Pamela. Dixie Lee, and Filemon Jose
Jr had been living with a threat of
deportation due- to a conflict between
the U S immigration office in Wash-
ington D < and the Dallas office
But the deportation proceedings
against the doctor have been dropped
on the basis that the original per-
muission to stay was valid and should
have not been questioned
Although word has not yet been re-
ceived in regards to Noemi’s case in
ocencio felt certain the same decision
will be made for her too
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SEVER AI REVISIONS in the oper
ation and administration of the LPD
will result if team policing is ac-
cepted by the council The changes in
clude division of the city into four dis-
tricts rather than the current 10 zones
implemented March 1 and permanent
assignment of officers to the four dis-
tricts. for purposes of patrolling and
follow up investigations a restructure
of the LPD command functions the
transfer of 10 officers into field oper
ations; and the encouragement of offi-
cers to work in cooperation with resi-
dents for the purpose of combating
crime
Patrolmen will experience little
change in routines under the new pro-
gram as they currently are assigned
to designated areas However, they will
be expected to attain improved pi R
(police-community relations) through
more personal contact with cityans
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p m Monday after Steele waived a pre
sentencing investigation
Steele, also known as Jesse Lee Will
is. was originally named in two first
degree murder charges Dist Alt Don
Beauchamp reduced the charges to
manslaughter shortly before the de-
fendant entered the guilty pleas
Beauchamp said today he will not
recommend sentence for the now con
fessed slayer, but will leave that deci-
sion entirely to the court
After accepting the pleas. Raburn
asked the defendant if he wished to re-
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