The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 208, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1981 Page: 1 of 52
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and Saturday. The low tonight
should be in the mid-60s. The
high Saturday should be in the
mid-80s. Thursday's high was 75,
and the overnight low was 63.
Members of the Lawton Housing Authority hear letters of approval from the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding resolutions on
rent collection policies, use of community center space and utility allowances,
but federal approval of the 1981-82 budget has been suspended until funds are
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ATTACK! Fort Sill canine control officers Sgt. Paul Howard, right, and CpI. Larry Saddler of
the 546th Military Police Co. show off one of three "military working dogs" during a Law
Enforcement Week exhibit at Central Mall. Howard, the kennelmaster, said the dogs "can
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play with kids but become vicious on command.
Editorials ...4A Church
Classified....6D Sports.
EDITOR'S NOTE. The week of May told of my final task — one day on a An overnight thunderstorm had One black driver somewhat larger at between 7:30 and 8 a.m. when he'll
17-24 is National Public Works Week, city garbage truck. brought cooler temperatures and rain than myself knows who I am. begin coordinating trucks over the
Reporter Steve Patterson spent one "That's only because they can't take still persisted. “You're gonna have fun today,” he city's east side-today's pickup zone,
week working alongside various City of it,” smiles Neil Monoessy, one of 50 1 am at first relieved at the inclement laughs on his way out the door. “Hope I’m introduced to Bell and Monoessy.
Lawton Public Works division employ- sanitation workers who stomp through weather, but then I remember Public you like to get wet.” Bell is talkative. Monoessy is quiet,
ees to gain a first hand look at the city - Works Director Terry Beydler’s cheery “You pack a lunch?” another man We embark about 6:45 a.m. The six-
jobs and workers. st in a series__________I remark. “those guys work out there in asks. year-old truck’s windshield wipers are
By STEVE PATTERSON residential yards and alleys daily in rain, snow or shine ..." “Naw... I don’t eat lunch." only barely effective while they’re
Of the Constitution staff searchof brimming garbage cans. Sunlight remained a thing dreams Laughter follows. , working.
Throughout a week on assorted Monoessy, who has worked in sanita- are made of by the time I arrived at the He don t like to eat lunch, they «y to somebody to fix these.”
Public Works jobs ranging from sewer tion two months, and driver Larry Bell, City Public Works yard promptly at guffaw. says Bell as he activates the wiper
line maintenance to street striping, the a five-year veteran, are my compadres 6:30 am- rain still falling. I am now facing for the first time the knobby using a hand rag.
workers around me made one thing for the day. Once inside the sanitation dispatch realization that my most challenging
clear ... their dedication to city resi- Solid Waste Refuse Collection Divi- area, I am encircled by men readying effort during the week’s Public Works he journey to our garbage route is
dents would stop when it came to sion Superintendent Buddy Cochran themselves for the day by drinking endeavor would be done in a cold rain only minutes old when Bell wheels the
emptying garbage cans. has told me to arrive early, as in 6:30 coffee, rousting raincoats from the di- that had already managed to annoy me 8 packer truck into a convenience
“It’s one thing I'd never do," said a a.m. vision's stockpile and laughing at occa- during my walk from the car. store parking lot 1 he two hop out to
veteran Public Works employee when I awake 30 minutes early and cold, sionaljokes. Th? men tell me Cochran will arrive See Rain, Page 13A
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ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — More than from an ‘unusual event' to a general nuclear plant and requires plant offi-
7,000 gallons of radioactive water emergency.' It looks like this was an cials to have emergency personnel
leaked from a reactor cooling system 'unusual event’ ... It's something that standing by, according to TVA spokes-
at the Browns Ferry power plant today, requires immediate attention, but it man Bruce Cadotte.
forcing one unit of the nation’s largest does not necessarily mean there’s any The plant's safety systems are capa-
nuclear plant to shut down, officials imminent danger.” ble of adding cooling water to the reac-
said. In Washington, NRC spokesman tor as rapidly as 5,000 gallons a minute,
All the radioactive water remained Frank Ingram said the commission Hufman said, but Nuclear Regulatory
in an emergency container inside the was informed of the problem during the Commission regulations require the re-
plant near this north Alabama town, early morning hours as part of normal actor to be shut down for any leak
said officials of the Tennessee Valley procedures. larger than five gallons a minute.
Authority, which operates the plant. Plant operators reduced power and The reactor, which had been
No radiation was released during the then shut down the unit before any of operating at full power, was reduced to
incident, and there was no danger to the reactor’s safety systems operated 30 percent power, then shut down nor-
plant personnel or the public, said Jim automatically, said Hufham. mally at 1:23 a.m., he said.
Hufham, director of TVA’s emergency A “site alert" was declared at 12:45 By 3 a m”. the leakshadfallen t
control center in Chattanooga, Tenn. a.m. CDT when drains in an enclosed gallons a minut ,1indicating. the shut
"This is a problem, but it’s a minor area around the reactor vessel, called downwas contin uing!normally, h e sa id:
one," said TVA spoksman Gil Francis the drywell, indicated cooling water Hufham said plant operators woud
in Knoxville, Tenn. was leking at the rate of 21 Plons a open the enclosed drywell area to ex-
was leaking at the rate or - gallons a amine the leak after the shutdown was
Joe Gilliland, a spokesman for the minu e' 6s ‘ completed today.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission in At- The drywell containment facility was Authorities will not know what
lanta. said there was “no major safety designed to hold leaks from the caused the leak until they complete
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After remarks by the VFW post chap- medley of patriotic songs until the sa- by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1193, from the state until July.
lain and Parks, Dinges and Ron lute is fired at noon. Services at 2:30 p.m. at the Lawton Residents of Apache were among
Shields, the veterans organization’s se- Following the salute, the post flag Public Library are sponsored by the seven state communities which felt the
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“We don’t think it’s very serious in fuel rods at each unit, according to could be no estimate on how long re-
terms of our emergency guidelines,” Francis. pairs will take or when the unit will
Gilliland said. “Our designations for A “site alert” means an actual or resume generating electricity until the
anything potentially serious range potential emergency is under way at a cause of the leak is determined.
City, Sill plan observances
Memorial Day services set
WASHINGTON (AP) —Gasoline and In specific categories in April: —Entertainment prices rose 0.2 per-
grocery prices fell in April, holding the —Housing costs rose 0.7 percent, cent following increases of 1 percent
nation’s overall inflation increase to 0.4 with a 0.2 percent decrease in house and 0.5 percent in February and March
percent — an annual rate of 5.1 percent prices outweighed by a 1.6 percent rise respectively.
and the best monthly performance in mortgage interest costs and a 0.7 The Reagan administration is
since last July, the government percent increase in home fuels and predicting an 11.1 percent rate for this
reported today. utility costs. year, but many economists say overall
Inflation is averaging about 8.4 per- inflation for the year may be lower
cent so far this year, four percentage -PRICES FOR clothing and upkeep than that.
points under the 12.4 percent rate for rose 0.2 percent. Some analysts say the inflation rate
all of last year. —Medical care rose 0.9 percent, the probably won't heat up much until late
The April figure, which follows a 0.6 same as in the previous two months. summer — and maybe not even then
percent increase in March, is the best
since the 0.1 percent rise last July.
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prices for restaurant meals and alco-
holic beverages were slightly higher. LONDON (AP) — Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe showed no emotion. As the
Gasoline prices declined 1.4 percent Sutcliffe was convicted today of the judge concluded, “You may go,” he
in April after rising 13.4 percent in the Yorskhire Ripper murders of 13 women turned on his heels and, flanked by
first three months of the year, the and sentenced to life imprisonment prison guards, stamped heavily down
report said. And economists say that a with a recommendation that he serve a steps from the dock, disappearing into
current worldwide oil-production sur- minimum of 30 years. He showed no the cells below.
plus makes it unlikely that there will be emotion after the jury rejected his plea Doreen Hill, mother of Sutcliffe's last
any big energy-cost increases in the of insanity and returned the verdict. victim slain last November, university
next few months. This is a long period, in my opinion, student Jacqueline Hill who would have
Transportation costs in general but you, I believe, you are an unusually turned 21 today, said: “It was the right
declined 0.1 percent in April, with the dangerous man, the judge. Sir Leslie verdict. I wanted him in a normal
gasoline-price drop-off partly balanced Boreham, told the 34-year-old Sutcliffe, prison so others could get at him. I
by a 1.8 percent rise in new car prices who confessed to the brutal murders, would like him to be hanged. I could kill
with the end of big rebate programs. Britain does not have capital punish- him myself."
All of the figures are adjusted for ment, but the mother of one victim said Sutcliffe, surrounded by five prison
seasonal variations. she wanted Sutcliffe jailed so other officers, stood impassively in the oak-
prisoners "could get at him.” panelled dock of London’s Old Bailey
THE REPORT SAID the unadjusted The judge, watched by the parents of Criminal Court when the jury foreman
consumer price index rose to 266.8 in several of the victims, added. "I ex- pronounced the words “guilty of mur-
April, which means that goods and press the hope that when I say life der" as the names of each of the vic-
services that cost $10 in 1967 would imprisonment, it will mean precisely tims — eight of whom were prostitutes
have cost $26.68 last month. that.” — were read out.
Sutcliffe stared stonily as the judge Long lines formed outside the court.
The Labor Department also said real added: “It is difficult to find words that and about 20 women waving banners
spendable earnings — after taxes and are adequate in my judgment to de- declaring “English Collective of Prosti-
after adjusting for inflation — dropped scribe the brutality and gravity of tutes” kept up a chant demanding a
0.1 percent in April for an average these offenses...! let the catalogue of murder verdict.
married wage-earner with three depen- these crimes speak for itself." After nearly six hours deliberation,
dents. Before the judge passed sentence, the jury of six men and six women
Real spendable earnings were down Attorney-General Sir Michael Havers voted 10-2 that Sutcliffe was guilty of
2.5 percent from April 1980. whlie the said psychiatrists believed "this man murdering each of the 13 women found
CPI was 10 percent higher for that should be locked up for the rest of his brutally hammered to death, mutilated
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By the Constitution staff
The City of Lawton enjoyed a $559,079
payday this month from two cent city
sales tax collections, a better than 11 , . .
percent jump from the May check a Saturday s cleanup drive starting point changed
year ago, according to the Oklahoma
Tax Commission. Starting point for Saturday’s cleanup drive in south Lawton has been moved
May’s $559,079 check represents city from the Central Mall to the southeast corner of Elmer Thomas Park.
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By the Constitution staff wreath at the base of the cemetery full staff as the band plays the national retail sales of almost $28 million. Proclamations from the offices of Lawton Mayor Wayne Gilley and Gov. George
Memorial Day services will be held monument. anthem. The May check is for taxes collected Nigh have established Saturday as Clean Up Oklahoma Day. See story Page 5 B
in Lawton and at Fort Sill Monday to After other representatives of the The Field Artillery Half Section, Fort on retail sales by local merchants in ‛ •
honor Americans who gave their lives VFW post place flowers by the monu- Sill's ceremonial horse-drawn artillery March and remitted to the commission
todefend their country. ment, a firing party of soldiers from unit, will take part in both ceremonies, in April. In May 1980 the city received pln-tir L, .llol. rritirnll\/ iniuro unuths of Belfast
The day’s services begin at Fort Sill, the 14th Aviation Battalion will fire a , , $503,293. The April 1981 check was riaStlC Outlets Critically in/ure yOUTOS OT DeitaST
where two ceremonies are scheduled. rifle salute, and two buglers from the . Both Memoria observances win $536,716, a more than six percent in-
Lawton’s Veterans of Foreign Wars U.S. Army Field Artillery Band will be open to the Puhic in case o bad crease from April last year. Carol Anne Kelly of Belfast, North Ireland, lies critically ill in Belfast's Royal
Post 5263 will hold their observance at 9 play “Taps.” weather, they will be canceled, eCePt Lawton’s check was among $25.9 mil- Victoria Hospital today after being hit by a 4-inch, anti-riot plastic bullet, one of
a.m. at Fort Sill Post Cemetery. The Chaplain Walker will give the bene- for the, gun salute, whi » Wil be lion in tax collections distributed back many fired by British troops. See story, Page 6C
post’s annual Memorial Day ceremony diction to end the observance. fired in front of McNair Hall at noon. to 415 cities and towns this month by__ _ ________________
is scheduled to begin at 11:40 a.m. in The Fort Sill Memorial Day ceremo- . Since Memorial Day is a nation?) the state tax commission.
front of McNair Hall, post headquar- ny in front of McNair Hall will include h0 idayomost activities on post will be The total May payout was up $1.3
ters. a 21-gun salute fired by members of c osed Monday. million from the previous month and
The VFW ceremony will begin with Battery B, 1st Battalion, 2nd Field Ar- Other services will be held at three registered a 36 percent increase from
an invocation by Chaplain (Col.) tillery. The Field Artillery Band will different locations during the day, said May 1980 when 405 communities netted
Conrad N. Walker, Fort Sill chaplain, play patriotic music before and after Bill Corrales, incoming commander for $191 million, according to Al Shelton,
Paul Parks, VFW post commander, the salute. Veteransof Foreign Wars Post 1193. director of the Sales Tax Division.
will introduce Maj. Gen. Edward A. Walker will give the invocation to Services are planned at 10 a.m. at Eleven communities increased their
Dinges, Fort Sill commander, who will begin the observance. After Dinges Highland Cemetery and at 11 a.m. at tax rates effective May 1. Revenue
make a brief address. gives a brief talk, the band will play a Sunset Memorial Gardens, sponsored won't be reported back to the cities
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