The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 80, No. 144, Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 1982 Page: 1 of 24
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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
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for city streets
Bond package include
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tion and the number of accidents are
Street.
Debbie Jones, senior planner, said likely to increase.
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Gasutility Crash survivor felt craft shudder
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Deke Slayton packs up memories
from the corps.
See story, Page 11B
mately $35 million.
See story and photos, Page 3A
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HOUSTON - A whole generation has come of age since the first
American astronauts stepped forward in 1959 as instant heroes, and now
the last of the acclaimed Original Seven, Donald K. Slayton, is retiring
know the details of right-of-way acqui-
sition and other considerations, she
said. The first year of the long-range
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Variations in the inactive ingredients are potentially
harmful because they affect the amount and speed of the
active ingredients’ entry into the patient’s bloodstream,
the government says.
Inactive ingredients include the drug’s coating, capsules
and the substances that bind the various chemicals togeth-
er.
The "active" ingredients of generic drugs are supposed
to be the same as the FDA-approved active ingredients in
brand-name products. The active ingredients in generic
drugs were not specifically at issue in the case acted on
today.
The government charged that Generix Drug Corp, had
not obtained the required FDA approval for certain generic
drugs it was selling, and sought a bar to their sale without
approval.
Sunny and warm through Tues-
day. Fair and mild tonight. The
low tonight should be in the mid-
40s. High Tuesday, around 80.
The high Sunday was 59, and the
overnight low was 33.
witness to appear at the opening day of hearings
before an NTSB board of inquiry.
Asked whether she now plans to continue
working as a flight attendant. Ms. Duncan told
her questioner, “Yes. sir, I will."
She said she had had to swim to the surface
and then fought through pieces of ice back to the
tail section, where she awaited a rescue helicop-
ter.
Describing her nearly 30 minutes in the icy
water, Ms. Duncan said she had opened a life
jacket for another survivor with her teeth be-
cause her hands were too cold.
Duncan told the National Transportation Safety
Board hearing.
“The takeoff wasn’t as loud as it usually is. It
seemed like an unusually long time before we
pulled off the runway."
Federal investigators have said they believed
ice in the engines may have caused an indicator
to give the pilot a false reading as to the amount
of thrust he was getting during the takeoff roll.
The aircraft, with 79 passengers aboard, be-
gan losing altitude almost immediately after
takeoff, struck a busy commuter bridge and
plunged into the Potomac. Seventy-eight people
DOUGHNUT SHOP MISHAP. Master Officer Harry Ezell inspects a car driven by Gary Gause,
26, of 2005 Oak, which ran into the Tender Bite doughnut shop at 1924 Cache Road at about
8:30 a.m. today. The accident was caused by brake failure, Ezell said. (Staff photo)
on the plane and four on the bridge were killed.
As soon as the aircraft was in the air, Ms.
Duncan said, it “started to shudder and it got
increasingly more violent.”
The stewardess, who was sitting near the rear
of the plane, said she did not remember the
impact.
"My next feeling was that I was floating. ... I
fell I was dying and I just thought, I m not
ready to die.”’
The Air Florida flight attendant, one of only
five people on board to survive, was the second
ty last Oct. 20 where a Brink’s guard
and two police officers were killed:
"We also wish to express our solidarity
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By GREG HARDIN
Of the Constitution staff
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FIVE MINUTES after the final blast,
a man telephoned The Associated
Press and claimed to be from the
FALN.
“Listen to me closely. I’m only going
Capital
STREETS
Improvements
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The surviving stew-
ardess from the Air Florida flight that crashed
into the Potomac River testified today that the
plane began shuddering as it took off and that in
the seconds before hitting the water was
Temple man killed
WALTERS (Staff) — A first-degree murder charge is being prepared
against a Temple man who allegedly struck and killed another Temple
man with a tire jack, said Assistant Dist. Atty. Steve Brinkley.
See story, Page 2A
packed the power of three or four sticks
of dynamite — shattered windows at
the New York Stock Exchange and
surrounding buildings and blew out
part of a wall at the American Stock
Exchange shortly before midnight Sun-
day, police said.
Both exchanges were open for nor-
mal trading today.
Meanwhile, a demonstration was
scheduled today by another organiza-
tion to commemorate the 28th anniver-
sary of the attack on Congress, in
which Puerto Rican nationalists
opened fire on legislators from the visi-
tors’gallery of the the House of Repre-
sentatives. Five congressmen were
wounded.
THE DEMONSTRATORS, organized
by the New Movement in Solidarity
with Puerto Rican Independence and
Socialism, planned to rally outside the
federal prison in lower Manhattan to
demand the release of two men
Capital improvements
Lawton voters will be casting ballots March 16 on six propositions
authorizing a 10-year Capital Improvements Program costing approxi-
wracked by violent sensations.
Once the Boeing 737 hit the water. Kelly
Another public utility company will Duncan told a hearing, “My next feeling was
be serving Comanche county residents that I was floating.... I felt I was dying and I just
by late spring after the company re- thought, ‘I’m not ready to die.”’ Seventy-aight
ceived a green light today from the people died in the Jan. 13 crash.
district attorney. Even before the plane left the National Airport
District Attorney Dick Tannery ruled runway, she felt something was wrong, Ms.
that under state law the utility meets
ern sections be increased to four-lane Jones said. work.
capacity.” she said. “It was a standard bridge in terms of "Everyone in the city who has driven
City Planner Paul Cullen said the the county using it for rural traffic,” Ferris or 11th streets...is very pleased
38th Street and 52nd Street improve- she said. About a year ago, a portion of with this typeof work," she said.
ments will help deal with traffic con- that bridge collapsed and had to be The package also includes $525,000 to
gestion associated with Fort Sill, by fixed as a stopgap measure. See Bond, Page 2A
FALN takes blame
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By TOM JACKSON studies by both the city’s planning de-
Of the Constitution staff partment and the Oklahoma Depart-
, ,1.0. ment of Transportation have shown
Street improvements included in the that expansion of Rogers Lane is the
proposed Capital Improvements Plan best way to deal with east-west traffic,
would relieve traffic overload and im- "We face an overload on Cache
prove street surfaces all over the city, Road We’re rapidly approaching an
according to a city planner who has overload on Gore," she said. "We have
worked closely with the program. to come up with an east-west corridor
The package includes $9,830,000 for to relieve Cache Road and Gore."
street improvements, including "I personally hope Lawton grows at a
$5,189,000 for expansion of Rogers Lane reasonable rate in the future,” she
from the Pioneer Expressway to 82nd said. As the city grows, traffic conges-
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with the three North Americans
captured in the Brink’s exprpriation
(sic)."
Eight people, including members of
the terrrorist Weather Underground,
have been indicted in that case.
The first explosion occurred at 11:25
p.m. Sunday at the Merrill Lynch
Building at 1 Liberty Plaza, LeSchack
said. The second and third blasts at the
New York Stock Exchange at 20 Broad
Street and the Chase Manhattan bank
at 1 Chase Plaza occurred at 11:35
p.m., he said. The fourth hit the Ameri-
can Stock Exchange at 81 Trinity Place
at 11:55 p.m.
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"We start on land that we already Administration.
own I understand that it will be ap- The justices said they will review a lower-court ruling
proximately two weeks before the com- last year that FDA approval is not needed before a generic
missioners rule on our request to use drug is offered for sale.
the public rights-of-way," Hendrick Generic drugs are chemical equivalents of higher-priced,
said. brand-name prescription drugs. They have become in-
The commissioners were set to ap- creasingly popular as medical costs in general continue to
prove the request during a meeting this rise.
morning, but put the proposal on hold Getting FDA approval for any new drug planned for
after Western District Commissioner marketing is often a costly and time-consuming process.
Frank Hawthorne objected to the way The government argues that FDA approval is needed
the request was worded. when — as is often the case — the inactive ingredients of
“They had asked to use open cuts new generic drugs differ from those in the brand-name
See Utility, Page 2A products.
ing some of the load away from Fort In addition, the city would overlay 14
and Sheridan. streets which are collectors in neigh-
mother important project is to re- borhoods for large amounts of traffic.
$113/ uw 4v« v~r ice a bridge on Rogers Lane located (See the list at the end of this story),
from Rogers Lane to U.S. bz, au. . miles east of U.S. 62. The bridge The asphalt overlay would increase
$1,672,000 to expand 38th Street from needs to be made strong enough to the life of the streets and improve the
Rogers Lane to Cache Road. support the weight of garbage trucks riding surface, said Ms Jones. Ferris
Both are overloaded, said Ms. Jones, and fire trucks from the new fire sta- from 2nd to 11th and 11th from Gore to
"We’re recommending those two north- tion and 9th and N.E. Rogers Lane, Ms. Ferris are examples of this type of
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NEW YORK (AP)—A Puerto Rican "The FALN assumes full responsibil- THE COMMUNIQUE also decried
nationalist group claimed responsibili- ity for the bombings which have occur- "Yankee imperialism" and "Yankee
ty for setting off powerful bombs that red in the financial section of Wall capitalism," police said. No demands
rocked the two major stock exchanges Street on Sunday, Feb. 28, 1982," the were made and there were no warnings
and other buildings along Wall Street letter said. Police dusted it for finger- of more blasts.
but caused no injuries, police said early prints. It also referred to the aborted $1.6
today. million Brink’s heist in Rockland Coun-
The four blasts — which sources said
imprisoned in Puerto Rico for refusing Devices went off at lower to repeat this once,” the caller said.
agrandpuryonsretne right, the New York Stock Ex. cThimuniqheaEAlNstet’andkfvef
FALN took responsibility in a neatly change, upper right, Chase SideDrive.”
typed five-page communique which Manhattan Bank, lower left, LeSchack said the explosive devices
was discovered taped to a telephone American Stock Exchange and were "a high order of explosives, possi-
booth on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, . , AAAc11 i,ne bly dynamite” and were carefully
Sgt. Edward LeSchack, a police de- upper lett, tne e y placed outside the doorway of each
partment spokesman, said early today, building. (AP Laserphoto) building.
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HISTORICAL RICAL SOCIETY
OKLA cirp-oBUILDING
all the state requirements and should . . f I Z /
and Venus orobe
The utility, Comanche Natural Gas J \ G 6 •3 f “ f I “ V *e” l IUU KZ f *« • *
Company, Inc., was originally formed "
n1ga bsopretblenn &omipnysupom MOSCOW (AP) - A Soviet space periment will significantly widen the research program ir>1961 -Ayearlater
operating until now. probe made a soft landing on the planet information about the planet nearest to the U.S space probe Manner 2 passed
' The new utility will not be in direct Venus today and was sending back the Earth, Tass said. The news agen- by the plane.
competition with Arkansas Louisiana photographs and information from soil cy said the probe had already sent bac In 1967, a U.S. probe under the Mari-
Gas Company, which serves Lawton. samples, the official news agency Tass photographs and scooped up a soil sam- ner program and a Soviet probe
"We have a supply of gas from east- reported. ple. . . reached the planet within a few hours
ern Comanche County so we have gone The Soviets and the United States The descent vehicle transmitted in- of each other.
ahead with plans to begin laying gas have previously landed unmanned formation from the surface of the plan- nfom
lines and 1 ave applied for permission space probes on Venus, the nearest et for 127 minutes today, according to The Soviet p o e dinfor-
to cross county roadways and use coun- planet to Earth. Tass said a second Tass. , ma tion for about 75 minut es, stopping
ty rights-of-way,” Robert P. Hendrick, module is due to land on Venus Friday. Venus 13 was launched Oct. 30, 1981, after temperatures above 500 degrees
president of the utility, said today. Tass said a module descended from Tass said Venus 4, launched on Nov. 4 Fahrenheit were recorded at what was
The company orginally planned to the unmanned Venus 13 spacecraft ear- will reach the planet on Friday. Both later determined t e
serve customers in northern Comanche ly this morning after a four-month craft were launched from a satellite in from the planet s sur .
County but now the utility is trying to Flight. earth orbit, Tass said, probe. Manner 5. passed about 6,000
provide gas service to customers as far “The results of the new cosmic ex- The Soviet Union started its Venus miles from the planet s surface.
west as Indiahoma. _
"That area west of Cache is also gm, e | l •
me Generic drug ruling due
Hendrick said the utility is going *
ahead with plans to begin laying pipe-
lines this week while waiting for a WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court today
ruling from Comanche County commis- agreed to rule whether increasingly popular generic drugs
sioners concerning their application. can be sold before they are reviewed by the Food and Drug
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Bentley, Bill F. The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 80, No. 144, Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 1982, newspaper, March 1, 1982; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2039386/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.