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Effective today, September 8, 1982, Delta Electric of
Lawton, Inc. will cease all business operations, due to
illness.
Present contracts will be completed and no new work will
be accepted.
Accounts payable and accounts receivable will be kept
open for 30 days.
Our telephone exchange will be open for 60 days
A complete liquidation sale will be forth-coming with a
future announcement.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our
customers, friends & business associates for their loyalty,
patience and support.
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progress,” in the General Dynamic :
talks. UAW spokesman Karl Mantyla 3
said, but he would not give details
The current contract, covering some 5
5,200 hourly workers, expires at mid- i
night. General Dynamics spokesman 4
Ray Fogbes said the company would #
not comment.
The company bought the former 4
Chrysler defense subsidiary early this a
year. 3
UAW officials would not give vote
totals from balloting Monday by some
Fraser said the union is willing to talk 23,500 Caterpillar workers, but said the Talk also continued between the
about curbing abuses, but has rejected vote was lopsided in favor of UAW and General Motors of Canada
Chrysler’s demands. authorizing the union to strike if con- Ltd., with some progress reported, ac-
Meanwhile, the UAW continued nego- tract talks do not progress satisfactori- cording to Fraser. That contract,
tiations with the nation’s largest de- ly. A three-year contract expires Sept, covering some 30,900 autoworkers, also
fense contractor, General Dynamics 30. runs out at midnight tonight.
Corp, of St. Louis, and voted to autho-
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labor movement in Poland. NBC also NBC quotes Vladimir Sakharov, a
disclosed that the Pope sent a hand- former KGB agent who defected, as
written letter to Soviet President saying that information held by the
Leonid Brezhnev in 1980 in which he Bulgarians would also be known by the
threatened to “lay down the cross of St. KGB.
Peter” and lead the resistance by his. .
Polish countrymen if Soviet troops Student named to post
movedin. JI- JU . Shon T. Erwin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
The letter, delivered by a Vatican William L. Erwin of Lawton, has been
envoy, sparked a secret shuttle mission named Student Association Cultural Af-
between Moscow, Rome and Warsaw fairs Chairman and Features Editor
that led eventually to a temporary for the University student newspaper,
easing of the Soviet-Polish attitude to- The Oracle for the 1982-83 academic
ward Solidarity, NBC said. year at Oral Roberts University in Tul-
The NBC report came after a nine- sa
month investigation by correspondent Shon is a senior at ORU, majoring in
Marvin Kalb and reporter Bill English and history, and is a 1979 grad-
McLaughlin. The network released de- uate of Lawton High School. His
tails of the investigation today in ad- activities at ORU have included dorm
vance of the airing of a documentary, social chairman and honor society
The Man Who Shot the Pope — A membershin
Study in Terrorism." It will be broad-
cast Sept. 21.
NBC traces what it calls an unbroken
line from Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk-
ish gunman convicted for the May 1981
shooting of the Pope to organized crime
elements in Turkey, the Bulgarian se-
cret service and the Soviet KGB.
NBC said bank records show that
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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) - the early morning hours and began Fraser said “the ball is in the compa-
Negotiators for the United Auto Work- returning about 8 a.m., said UAW ny’s court,” but Miner would not com-
ers and Chrysler Corp, resumed con- spokesman David Mitchell. ment on whether the company would
tract talks today, faced with the pros- On Monday, the UAW rejected a present a second proposal.
pect of a strike at midnight by more Chrysler economic offer that included Chrysler’s last economic proposal, to
than 43,000 workers. a cost of living (COLA) allowance but run for two years, would give workers 1
The current contract will not be no wage increase or pension improve- cent an hour more for every 0.35 point
extended unless “we’re in a position at ments. rise in the quarterly consumer price
12 o’clock midnight where we could “When you examine their COLA pro- index if operating profits are more than
reach a settlement realistically in a posal, it’s extremely anemic,” Fraser 2.5 percent of U.S. and Canadian sales,
couple of hours or a couple of days," said at a news conference. after taxes.
said UAW President Douglas A. Fraser Thomas Miner, Chrysler vice presi- If profits drop to less than 2.5 percent
late Monday. “If we don’t have an dent of industrial relations, said Mon- but more than 2 percent, workers
agreement we will (strike).” day the proposal was "modest." would get only half the cost of living
Chrysler’s current contract, covering There was no official report today on raises called for in the formula. They
43,200 U.S. autoworkers plus 40,000 on progress, but a UAW bargainer who would forfeit the raises if operating
indefinite layoff, expires at midnight, asked not to be identified said as he profits fall below 2 percent, Fraser
Among the key issues still unresolved walked into the talks this morning that said, calling that provision
were pay and health care, Fraser said. Chrysler had not presented a formal “unsatisfactory.”
The two sides went home to rest in second proposal. The union has asked for a one-year
economic agreement, including pen-
sion improvements, a cost of living
plan and a wage increase. The union
wants a non-economic agreement to
run for two or three years.
Chrysler workers, now earning an
average $9.07 per hour, gave up cost of
living raises in March 1981 when the
federal government gave Chrysler $1.5
billion in guaranteed loans to help it
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News Agca deposited $10,000 two months be- stave off bankruptcy.
reported today that it had uncovered fore the assassination of Turkish news- Chrysler lost $3.27 billion from 1979 to
evidence suggesting that Pope John paper editor Abdi Ipecki. Agca was 1981.
Paul II was targeted for assassination convicted of the murder, but later Health care also remained a
with the knowledge and perhaps the escaped from a maximum security stumbling block in contract talks. The
assistance of Soviet and Bulgarian in- prison in Turkey. In addition, Agca had company. saying health care will cost
telligence agencies. large sums of money deposited for him about $337 million this year, wants to
NBC said the pope was targeted be- in Turkish banks while he was a stu- institute co-payments and deductibles.
cause of his connection to the Solidarity dent at Istanbul University. n———_
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Bentley, Bill F. The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 14, 1982, newspaper, September 14, 1982; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2039253/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.