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VOLUME 78—NO. 138
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Bob The Slob Sends A Valentine
British Lovers Pour Out Their Hearts In Ads
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Hostage Release Plan OK’d?
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Chicago Firefighters Strike
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hostages were still in detention.
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walked off the job today and refused to tion Administration spokesman said 12 a very encouraging number.”
wore on.
It was the first strike by Chicago returned to work.
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Military briefings at Fort Sill were part of a tour of three area counties
by Gov George Nigh today. The governor attended briefings on Fort Sill,
defense and Army appropriations, and TACFIRE, a computerized fire
HOWEVER. MACBRIDE said in a
telephone interview from his Dublin
home that because of the latest devel-
opments, the hostages possibly could
By STEVE PATTERSON
Of The Constitution Staff
Medicine Park residents still face a
or an unusually warm February, more than
2,000 British abandoned their fabled reserve,
compared to a previous record of 832.
“It’s been amazing,” said Brian Wexham,
the Times’ classified manager. “We've had
people queuing up, guys in bowler hats grip-
ping their valentine messages. Some of them
spent 100 pounds," which is $230.
The minimum charge for a three-line val-
entine was 9 pounds, or $21. Loved ones re-
ceived advance notice of publication and a
book of love poems.
Beloveds this year ranged from Lambchop
And, Lt. Thomas O'Connell, Fire De-
partment spokesman, said enough
paramedics had signed in this morning
to allow the city to cancel its alert to
private ambulance companies,
Earlier, Mayor Jane Byrne warned
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LONDON (AP) — Thwarted last year by
the Times of London strike, British lovers
returned to their favorite forum today with
more than 2,000 valentines in the classified
section of their favorite newspaper.
The wry, mushy and fervent Valentine’s
Day declarations that blossom traditionally
in the Times were missing last year while the
paper was closed by a labor dispute.
RUGGLES — all my love, Snuggles. Sorry
we missed out last year,” wrote one of the
returnees today.
Whether from two years of pent-up passion
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ByMIKEKIMBRLLL
Of The Constitution Staff
Paced by sharply higher burglary and larceny figures, the total number of
Class I crimes reported to the Lawton Police Department last month rose to
over 500, the highest number of crimes reported for the first month of the year
since 1976.
Statistics released by the city police department on the seven categories of
major crime are probably a reflection of the mild weather enjoyed in South-
west Oklahoma for this time of the year, police said.
The ice and snow that has blanketed the state during January in recent years
served to keep the number of crimes reported to police under 400 until this
year, police said.
The seven Class I crimes are homicide, rape, robbery, larceny, burglary,
assault and auto theft.
The sharpest jump in crime reported last month came in larceny, which
traditionally leads all categories in the total number of cases reported. The 283
cases reported in January, however, was 13 more than the total reported in
December, which is usually a month marked by a very high instance of theft.
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be turned over to the panel itself, and possible water cutoff unless the town's
that he definitely did not foresee the officials agree this week to move a con-
panel holding its inquiries while the troversial pumpstation
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to Snugglechat but ran heavily to the porcine
Piglet, Piggywig and Hoglet. Lovers often
styled themselves humbly — Watery Knees,
Animal Stinker. Bob the Slob (with no job).
Some of the violets were blue, said
Wexham, “We had to reject quite a few.”
One that got by: “CASEY JONES - You
can stoke my engine anytime, if you’ll be my
Valentine.”
Most of the messages were old-fashioned
romantic, including liberal doses of classical
English poetry and a half-dozen proposals of
Around the city, firefighters — who
are demanding a written contract with
the city instead of the traditional hand-
shake agreement — clustered outside
stations and patrolled picket lines in
pre-dawn darkness after the strike was
called at 5:15 a.m.
The job action affected 97 percent of
the 4,350 firemen and left the city of 3.5
million people almost defenseless
against fire.
A Fire Department spokesman said
there had been no major fires during
the first three hours of the walkout but
there were some small car or trash
fires. All were controlled by superviso-
ry personnel.
City officials were trying to imple-
ment contingency plans. They included
using suburban fire departments, city
employees and Fire Academy students
to answer fire calls and summoning
private ambulances to answer medical
emergencies.
The city has a mutual aid pact with
some suburban fire departments but it
would not cover fires in downtown Chi-
cago.
The strike also affected protection at
O’Hare International Airport, the na-
tion's busiest, where 35 city firemen
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Firefighters are normally on duty. A Federal Avia- ber (of firefighters) are on duty and it's
Prize for his negotiating of the
Namibia cris, said the commission now j .
agreed upon would “investigate the ex- l
tent to which the regime of the shah '
may have committed offenses under in- .
reopened after seven firefighters
no agreement is reached “in the next
few days."
The dear water well, located adja-
cent to Lawton’s Medicine Park Water
Treatment Plant, is leaking an
estimated 800,000 gallons of water into
Medicine Creek daily.
Beydler describes the structure as a
“ground level storage tank” with a
three million gallon capacity.
"It’s one of two tanks where all our
treated water is stored,” he said.
Beydler has attempted to reach Med-
icine Park Mayor Edward Hilliary Jr.
today, seeking a commitment on the
town’s plans relating to the pump sta-
tion.
“I've called and left a message with
his wife," he said. “I don't plan to pur-
sue it any further If he doesn't call
back or attempt to let us know of his
plans, we'll just proceed with our own
plans to shut down the clear well.”
Repeated attempts by the Lawton
Constitution to contact Hilliary for
comment have failed.
In a related development, Metzinger
today denied Hilliary’s reported state-
See MEDICINE PARK. Page 2A
By The Associated Press
FORMER FOREIGN Minister Sean
MacBride of Ireland said today the
United States and "the Iranians” have
agreed to a plan to release the U.S.
hostages "before or concurrently with"
the opening of a U.N.-sponsored inqui-
ry into the shah’s regime.
MacBride, who has made several
trips to Iran on U.N. missions, said it
was his "understanding" the plan had
been approved by Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, Iran's revolutionary leader.
President Carter also gave qualified
approval to a commission, a condition
set forth by Iranian President
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.
But the militants holding the approx-
imately 50 hostages at the U.S. Embas-
sy in Tehran said today, the 103rd day
of captivity for the Americans, that
they did not believe Khomeini had
approved the plan, as Bani-Sadr has
stated, and that the Iranian president's
statement likely was his own idea.
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MOST LUCKY FELLOW. Ron Pennington, an employee at Phillips
Aubrey Chevrolet, 807 N. Sheridan, had paint splattered on his
face this morning when a compressor blew up in the company
paint shop, ripping a huge hole in the back wall, right. No one
was seriously injured. See Story, Page‘2A. (Staff Photo's)
firemen and came just three days after Jay McMullen, Mayor Jane Byrne’s thatany firemen who walked off the job
public school teachers ended their own press secretary and husband, said at “can forget they were ever members of
two-week walkout to protest layoffs and midmorning that “a substantial num- the Chicago Fire Department.”
delayed paychecks.
answer fire calls, leaving only skeleton supervisors were filling in and said
crews to watch empty firehouses in the coverage was "adeqate at this time.”
nation’s second-largest city. A spokes- Meigs Field, a small airport on the
man for the mayor said some shore of Lake Michigan in downtown
firefighters were returning as the day Chicago, was shut down briefly but
Iranian militants seized the embassy to discuss or to comment further upon
that Carter did not insist that the re- any specific efforts that may be under-
lease of the captive Americans be the way or any proposals that may be use-
first step in any deeal to end the crisis, ful in ending this crisis," said the pres-
Carter had no comment on the other ident.
two demands by Bani-Sadr, made However, State Department spokes-
public Monday in an interview with the man Hodding Carter said earlier this
French newspaper Le Monde: that the week the United States would not "pro-
United States admit its “crimes" in fess guilt." And he said Wednesday
Iran over the past 25 years and promise that the extradition question would be-
not to interfere in Iranian affairs, and come a matter to be decided by Iran
that it acknowledge the right of Iran to and Panama, which has given the shah
"I have always held to the position quent water bills to the City of Lawton
that it would be impossible to hold an Wednesday relieved the community of
inquiry until they were released," one threat to its water supply, there
MacBride said. “The sooner the situa- remains the pump station situated atop
tion is defused the better. In a situation a leaking clear water well.
where you have 50 hostages being held Lawton Public Works Director Terry
by more than 100 students an accident Beydler said today he has yet to receive
could happen at any time ” any verbal or written commitment
He said the key factor to the from Medicine Park officials of their
negotiated arrangement was the elec- intent to arrange for an alternate water
tion Jan. 25 of Bani-Sadr, which tended source so the City of Lawton can repair
to cut down the factional strife that has the leak.
complicated Iran since Khomeini’s “We notified Medicine Park in writ-
ouster of Shah Mohammad Reza ing last August of our plans to shut
Pahlavi 13 months ago, down that well, inspect and repair the
leak,” Beydler said. “They still ha-
MACBRIDE SAID he hoped the ven’t moved the pump station.”
makeup of the inquiry panel will be City Manager Robert Metzinger said
finalized “urgently.” He said those be- today he’ll pursue original plans to
ing considered were representatives of place a legal newspaper advertisement
Algeria, Mexico, Bangladesh, and oth- notifying Medicine Park residents
er Third World nations. He also said their water will be shut off in 10 days if
the panel probably would include him-
self and Louis Pettiti, head of the Paris
Bar Association.
MacBride, who won the Nobel Peace
matrimony, delivered variously in English.
French, Latin, Yiddish, Urdu and code.
Some valentines were anonymous for good
reason: “MY DEAREST Poop, I 'uvs you
muchly. Lots of love, your Booties. Squidgley
Roo.”
Others named names: "Eilis Maire
Philomena Burke. Do not consider any old
jerk, but for a perk, try a Turk,” or "ETHEL
CHANG, Ethel Chang, Ethel Chang, Ethel
Chang. I love you in secret. Ethel Chang,
Ethel Chang."
Some were tart: “I worshipped you from
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Skies should be mostly
cloudy and temperatures
cooler with a chance of rain
or showers tonight and Fri-
day. Low tonight, upper 30s.
High Friday near 50.
Wednesday’s high was 62
and the overnight low was
10.
afar, I worshipped you from Angar (a town in
Indonesia), now I just put up with you."
Some matter-of-fact: "VICTORIA — Too
disorganized to send you a card. I hope this
will do. All my love, J.”
Some rapturous: "O NEWSAGENT'S
daughter divine, Amazonian Psyche, be
mine."
The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, the Daily
Mail and the Daily Telegraph also carried
valentines from their readers, but I heirs
were just a trickle compared to the flood in
the Times.
VALENTINE FOR TEACHER. Today may be Valentine’s Day, but it's also Teacher Appreci-
ation Week. Mayor Wayne Gilley asked students not to forget their teacher today, and
7-year-old Sam Price didn't forget his second grade teacher at Carriage Hills Elementary,
Mrs. Terri Burk. Sam is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Price, 901 Bell. (Staff Photo)
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ternational law.”
Though he refused to speculate on <
any sort of timetable, MacBride said he I
anticipated the commission would open |
its hearings in Tehran and possibly I
hold later hearings elsewhere.
Carter told a news conference
Wednesday the United Stales would (
agree to a commission appointed by I
U.N. Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim to go to Iran and investigate
the revolutionary regime’s charges
against the ousted shah.
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