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2A THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Thursday, May 7, 1981
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The mayor had been released from
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apparent heart attack on April 17, but
was readmitted Sunday.
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Earl Wesley Webster Indiahoma reported assault.
Fred Hale Elgin reported breaking and entering at
residential garage
classes.”
Morford said he still hoped to avoid
having to implement Mrs. Kuchta’s
proposals, but said he would rather cut
teacher’s aides than double up classes,
“if it came down toeither/or."
He said he has talked to several
principals and teachers since the Mon-
day night meeting. "A lot of them said
we could get along without those aides
if we had to,” he said.
Programs required by the govern-
No. 8802 Upright Vacuums................................................
No. 4000 Canister Vacuums...............................................
No. 5042 2-motor vacuum-Limited Quantity. Reg. 249.99
No. 1809 18-cu. ft. refrigerator Wards low price...............
20-pe Wheat Ironstone dishes. Reg. $30.00.......................
Wards boat cushion. Reg. 8.99...........................................
Men’s Skips’ jogging shoe (sizes 6%-9% only) Reg. $15....
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NO LAUGHING MATTER. Robert Lee Wilson, 3, of Houston, took it seriously when his leg got
caught between the metal rods of a dolly, and he had to be rescued by firemen. It took only
a few minutes, and about that long again for Robert to dry his tears and continue to play.
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Comanche County Southwest 5th and C reported
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Following are names and addresses of persons or
businesses listed as complainants on reports received
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Jim Graves Elgin reported damage to Richards Spur
Baptist Church
Betty Jeon Cornwell Fletcher reported trash
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Following ore nomes ond addresses of persons or
businesses listed os complainants on reports received
by the Lawton Police Deportment
Harvey Creosmon 5803 Glenn reported larceny
from vehicle
Debi A Extine 421 NW 55th reported larceny from
vehicle
Terry Rodandello 2211 Ozmun reported larceny of
bicycle from residence
Safeway Food Store Southwest 11th and A reported
attempt to obtain money under false pretenses
Milton Kohut 2418 Jefferson reported residential
burglary
Robert Cook 715 SW 45th reported damage to
residential property
Kozuko A Turner 1521 Lincoln reported larceny of
bicycle from residence
Michael W Crowder 4522 Cherokee reported larce-
ny from residence
Diana l Nichols 407 NW 12th reported residential
burglary and arson
Wondo Pace 1608 Toft reported attempted residen-
tial burglary
Helen R Young 602 H reported lost checks
Howard Pamplin 509 Douglass reported larceny
from auto
Allan R Myers 1522 NW 81 st reported larceny from
auto
Susan A Kershner 2121 Arlington reported larceny
from auto
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the IRA’s demand that its members be “I think that we’re going to have to
given political prisoner status. Hours cut all the way across,” Morford said,
after his death. British Prime Minister "We’re going to have to raise the pu-
Margaret Thatcher said the demand pil/teacher ratio probably in all the
Funeral for former Lawton resident state’s congressional delegation has congressmen to try to agree on a plan.
Tharpe Allen Bomar, 64, who died Sat- been unable to work out a compromise The big problem, Draper and York
urday in a Clinton hospital after a long on redistricting, so the Oklahoma Leg- agreed, is a dispute between Rep.
illness, was Monday in Prescott, Ark. islature will draw the new congressio- James R. Jones, D-Tulsa, and Rep.
Born Jan. 16. 1917, in Prescott, he nal districts. House Speaker Dan Drap- MikeSynar, D-Muskogee.
moved to Lawton in 1948. He was a er said today. Jones, who needs to pick up some
World War II veteran and a member of Draper, a Stillwater Democrat, said new territory in his 1st Congressional
the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bomar the congressmen had been given a District to raise his voter population
operated a car dealership here for 30 deadline to reach agreement, and to- total, wants to take heavily Democratic
years. day was the dav the deadline expired. Okmulgee County away from Synar’s
Survivors include his wife, Pearl, Senate President Pro Tem Marvin 2nd District.
Clinton; a son, Kenny, Dallas; a daugh- York, D-Oklahoma City, said the Synar is resisting Jones’efforts.
ter, Annette Briley, Lawton; a sister, congressmen “have the rest of today to There also are some differences be-
Nell Tarver, Benton, Ark.; two broth- get an agreement, but I’m not optimis- tween 6th District Rep. Glenn English,
ers: Alvis, Camden, Ark., and Ernest, tic. I think we’ll have the draw the D-Cordell. and 4th District Rep. David
El Dorado, Ark.; and three plan.” McCurdy. D-Norman. English also has
grandchildren. Draper said the Legislature needs to a population shortage.
begin winding down the session in prep-
aration for adjournment and can not
Mayor Gilley moved
from ICU at Memorial
Mourners throng Belfast
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — After the service, the light oak coffin, Protestant-owned stores were open al-
In a drizzling rain, a hearse bearing the closed and with a single candle on top. though there were few shoppers.
coffin of Bobby Sands made a slow was carried outside where some 20,000
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march was led by a single bagpiper, Six hooded Irish Republican Army andinswhichnearlyi.opeopleshave
followed by the coffin and hundreds of men, wearing combat jackets and _ rethan1,000 ple,many
women carrying yellow and white black berets, formed a guard of honor wearing blackar
wreaths. and draped the coffin in the green, "oehumm
As Catholics mourned the Irish Re- white and orange flag of the Irish Re- Mullan offered prayers for all who
publican Army hunger striker, some public. had died in the years of violence and
3,000 Protestants attended a rally to A British army helicopter — symbol specifically for the two men killed since
honor victims of IRA violence at of the tight security clamped on the violence erupted following Sands'
Belfast's city hall and sang Britain's city — hovered overhead as Sands' death — a Protestant policeman shot
national anthem. “God Save the coffin, carried initially by four pall by a sniper overnight and a young
Queen.” bearers and then placed in a hearse. Catholic blown up by a bomb he was
The Rev. Ian Paisley, the hardline began the slow procession. carrying early today.
Protestant leader, led the singing from Businesses in the city’s Catholic dis-
his position on the back of a truck and tricts were reported responding “100 Hundreds of mourners took Holy
said world attention had “unjustly” percent” to orders they close as a mark Communion. The vessels for the sacra-
focusedon Sands' funeral. of respect for Sands, according to the ment were first handed to the priest by
Security forces were deployed National H-Block Committee, named Sands' son, Gerard, 7. The boy, who
around the city and on alert, but after the H-shaped Maze Prison in was dry-eyed, was assisted by Sands’
deliberately kept a low profile. Troops which Sands died. sister, Marcella Kelly, and brother,
threw up vast canvas screens alongside In Belfast’s city center, the mainly Sean.
the sole Protestant housing district,
Suffolk-Blacks Road, near where the A • I I 1• f l
procession passed Behind the screens, jDGC IO GUUCOflOll I UHOS
troops and police in full riot gear pa- -H5- " "r
Dozens of members of the outlawed cl:..I A.- co.I.I..I
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heard the officiating priest at the Req- • *
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Protestant violence. New fighting, the Continued from Page One ment have been a particular peeve of
Rev. Liam Mullan said, “would be an Mrs. Kuchta’s other proposal was to Dr. John Elkins, superintendent of
insult to the work, to the life and to the lay off 19 teacher’s aides for educable schools in Lawton.
memory of Bobby Sands." mentally handicapped classes, a move . The thing that has irritated and
The hearse, carrying the coffin with which Neptune estimated would save irked me most as superintendent of
a black beret and gloves on top, was $100,000. Mrs. Kuchta said educable schools has been mandated programs
flanked by hooded IRA men. Sands’ mentally handicapped classes are the from the federal government and even
family followed in a black limousine for area which she felt could get by without from the state which have no funds
the 312 mile procession from St. Luke’s teacher's aides, accompanying them, he said.
Church in the West Belfast Catholic Both proposals were tabled by the Federal flow through money is "only
district to the Milltown Cemetery, on board at the request of Dr. Robert a drop in the bucket" compared to the
the edge of another Catholic housing Morford, a board member particularly actual costs of programs for the handi-
Sands' grave is in a part of the ceme- grams. Morford said he hoped the "When they mandate these things
tery reserved for IRA men and women, school system would find the money to it‘s your problem not theirs " he said
Sands, serving a 14-year term at Maze avoid either alternative. "In my estimation, they should not
Prison outside Belfast for possession of Morford said Tuesday he did not be- mandate if they're not going to fund
an illegal handgun, died early Tuesday lieve special education should be ex- it
on the 66th day of a fast in support of empt from budget cutting proposals.
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Contest to unite Cyril family
By BENHERRINGTON The Knoxes plans to stay here until June 3, and “it’ll go
cypiorthe Constitution staff by like the snap of a finger for me,” she said.
i 15K «(Staff) — A euphoric Mrs. Anna Lee Stallings is During that time, they plan to visit friends in Lawton,
looking forward to a Mother's Day reunion with “my Fort Sill and Medicine Park, where Roberta grew up.
baby girl, my 28-year-old baby girl” whom she hasn't Roberta will also visit her father Bill Carver and grand-
seenin2myears.,. motber Clara Carver, both of Elgin.
1 hanks to an Oklahoma City radio station contest, Knox, a Ohio native, is a career soldier who met—and
Mrs. Stallings will greet Bill and Roberta Knox at Will married — Roberta while stationed at Fort Sill eight
Rogers World Airport Wednesday afternoon. The two years ago. Currently a non-commissioned officer in the
—Vein Anchorage, Alaska. medical corps, he is enrolled in an officers training
r or a 65-year-old woman, the good Lord’s blessed me course. Roberta works for the Alaska department of
a whole bunch, Mrs. Stallings said today. "I told my agriculture as a snow surveyor.
mother 'Momma, the good Lord saw a lonesome mother "She’s quite a kid - but that’s a mother talking, ” Mrs.
and her broke kids and decided to get them together.’ ” Stallings said with a laugh.
The KOMA Radio contest drawing, offering transpor- The last time Mrs. Stallings saw her daughter was 2%2
tation for any daughter or son home for Mother’s Day, years ago, when she visited them in Anchorage, the
was held Monday morning. She said winning was “the longest, farthest and most exciting vacation she’s ever
only way we could have got together. That’s an answer to taken.
a prayer. "It‘s a beautiful place,” she said. "I always thought
"Roberta called to thank them for sending a homesick Alaska was iceand snow, but it'snot.”
Okie back home for Mother’s Day," she added. Since then she's been sending weekly packages every
She is planning a family reunion May 15 to celebrate, to Monday containing the Lawton Constitution, cassette
include her mother, Mrs. Maudie Bates, also of Cyril, tapes, letters and other fragments of home. This is the
several of her other sons and daughters, and “my three first Monday she hasn’t sent a package, she said. “This
beautiful granddaughters and six-month-old great- time I'm going to hand it to them when they get off the
grandson.” plane.
The aging Mrs. Bates is “going to be right there with "I’ve never won anything," Mrs. Stallings said. The
me" when the plane lands Wednesday, she added. drawing was held on the air, and "when they said my
• “She said she didn’t want to be a bother, but I said, name, my heart was pounding like mad. They said you
‘Look, Momma, if it wasn’t for you, all this wouldn't have have 15 minutes and 20 seconds to call back and win.
happened.’ ” Well, I called back in about 15 seconds.”
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