The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 20, 1980 Page: 1 of 72
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readily reached in Panama.
There was no immediate reaction
from President Julio Cesar Turbay
Saturday. Some 32 units took part in the parade, part of the
Shriners’ convention here.
Fair and mild through Monday.
Highs today should be in the low 80s.
Lows tonight should be in the low 50s.
Highs Monday should be in the mid-
80s. The high Saturday was 81 and the
low was 44.
PART OF Carter’s sanctions program is a ban on American travel to Iran.
But the ban did not deter Mrs. Timm, 42, mother of hostage Kevin Hermening,
a 20-year-old Marine sergeant.
KIDS LOVE CLOWNS. An youngster waits to accept a balloon
from downs as shriners on horseback pass by during the India
Temple of Oklahoma City Shriners parade in downtown Lawton
date.
Two Colombian citizens, a photogra
diet that contracts on improvements planned
for 2nd Street, Old Cache Road and East Gore
Boulevard can all be let by December.
“We've got our time schedule and the
environmentalists and others have theirs,"
said Highway Department Dist. Engineer Bob
Green.
A 1%2-mile portion of Old Cache Road is on
the state’s calendar for contract letting in the
last days of May. Roughly, a contract on East
Gore is planned for fall, while a 2ndStreet
agreement is hoped in December.
Expansion of Cache Road from two to five
“WE ARE NOT afraid. . We are all prepared to die," one of the militants
was quoted as saying in a telephone interview w ith the Courier-Post newspaper
of Camden, N.J. He said the militants still demand return to Iran of the exiled
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, now living in Egypt, in exchange for the
hostages' release.
The Iranian government announced it was cutting off oil exports to Portugal,
which on Thursday joined the Carter campaign by banning Portuguese-Iranian
trade, and said any oil company selling Iranian petroleum to Portugal would
be blacklisted by Tehran.
Portugal last year obtained some 20 percent of its oil from Iran. But an
official of Portugal’s National Fuel Board said in Lisbon Saturday that Iran's
share this year would drop to 2.8 percent “and that has already been
delivered”.
A spokesman for Portugal's state oil company, PetrogaL told reporters,
"The prohibition of Iranian oil supply to Portugal will force a rearrangement
of a number of alternate supply plans for the country. We don't foresee
insurmountable difficulties in stabilizing the national oil supply . "
good faith. It was not known why the
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Page one is shared by a murder story and ads
for lumber, implements, grain, harness, wagons,
blacksmithing and “good grub." This was the Hale
City Times, Volume 1, No. 1, Hale City, Mo.,
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Hostage mother Barbara Timm talked Saturday to the Moslem militants
who have held her son prisoner at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for 168 days and
said chances were "pretty good" she will visit him.
But first she might have to make a face-to-face appeal to Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini.
"We’ll not be pushy about it. .. We’ll let them (the militants) decide,” the
Wisconsin woman, weary after days of travel and frustration, said in Tehran
Mrs. Timm’s journey to the Iranian capital came as Iran's foreign minister,
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, concluded a mysterious trip to Paris He reportedly met
See related stories, page 9C__
there with men said to have acted as intermediaries in the crisis negotiations,
but the exact nature of his mission was not divulged
The embassy militants and the Iranian government remained defiant of the
U.S.-led economic embargo and President Carter’s hints at military action
against Iran if the hostages are not freed.
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Lawton's J.C Kennedy was elected a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention while Comanche County
Republicans chose delegates to district and national con-
ventions during area political meetings Saturday.
Kennedy was among three national convention dele-
gates elected by Fourth District Democrats at Chickasha
to support President Carter. A fourth delegate will be
committed to Massachussetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.
County Republicans elected 63 persons to attend the
party’s district convention in two weeks. They’ll have 17
votes between them. Another group of 63 was chosen to
attend the state convention, with 27 delegate votes.
A majority of those attending both conventions are
pro-Reagan, after a straw poll conducted among county
lanes from U.S. 62 to 1.00(1 feet west of North-
west 67th became top priority because off-
system federal road funds now available for
the project will be withdrawn by July 1 if not
spoken for.
Originally estimated at a total cost of $2.46
million with the city sharing costs with state
and federal sources at an approximate 50/50
clip, the effort has already seen a $50,000 jump
in right of way costs alone.
City Councilman Vic Ramirez recently said
thV city “took a beating” on right of way prices
paid along Old Cache.
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Of the (Mnxtitution Haff
Lawton’s three latest bond issue supported
street projects have ridden their share of hard
times since voters supported them with an
earmarked sales tax in 1978.
Gone are the times when building a road was
a simple undertaking.
If it’s not concern over destruction of a his-
torically valuable site, it's inflated cost of
right of way or materials that stretches a pro-
ject out over years instead of months.
State highway officials now cautiously pre-
others.
Costa Rican Consul Rolando Blanco
was set free in midafternoon and drove
away from the embassy in a car,
waving to newsmen standing behind
police lines. He was taken to a military
hospital for examination but appeared
to be in good health.
U.S. Ambassador Diego Asencio is
among the 17 diplomats still held, and
Saturday was their 53d day as prison-
ers of the M-19 guerrillas who invaded
the embassy during a reception on Feb.
27. They are demanding that seven of
their jailed comrades be released, but
the government has refused, saying
that would violate the constitution.
zens of Lawton and fair to the develop-
ers.”
Some motel operators expressed con-
cern that the LMAAA might get
involved in financing the development.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Lawton chil-
dren will benefit from an unusual court
settlement stemming from a gambling
raid.
A federal judge ordered a U.S. attor-
ney to supervise distribution of 7,000
stuffed animals and 25,000 other toys to
hospitals, orphanages and welfare
agencies.
The toys were seized along with 156-
gambling devices by the Internal Reve-
nue Service in a 1978 raid at the State
Fair of Oklahoma.
Western Dist. U.S. Marshal Coy Rog-
ers said Saturday he and his wife
agreed to distribute several hundred
toys and stuffed animals in Lawton to
pher and free-lance writer, were
trapped in the embassy with the diplo-
mats and they reportedly were again
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)-Guerril- The guerrillas had indicated they Caicedo, said the guerrillas had given
las holding the Dominican Republic would release at least one hostage on him the proposal earlier in the week.
Embassy freed one of their 18 Saturday, the anniversary of a presi- He said the guerrillas said they
diplomat-hostages Saturday and dential election April 19, 1970, that the wanted to "avert a bloodbath, but the
proposed that a negotiationg summit M-19 group claims was rigged. The lives of the hostages were in danger it
be held in Panama on the fate of the guerrillas take their name from that the government didn t negotiate in
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City Attorney Russell Bennett sees a trend.
“People do not have the same attitude about
donating right of way as they once did,” he
said. "That public spirit of sacrificing for ev-
eryone’s mutual good is no big deal anymore.
Now, a buck's a buck.”
With litigation still pending on purchase of
at least five parcels, the city currently owes
affected landowners $205,643. Original offers
from Lawton based on appraised value totaled
only $141,088.
The cost would be even greater if not for
See CONTRACTS, Poge 12A
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be modified to take slugs rather than Three members of the authority were charged for three separate tracts of air-
coins. absent Saturday, but remaining port property. Plans call for construc-
The settlement between prosecutors LMAAA members approved the ar- tion of a 100- to 120-unit motel at an
and carnival operators allows the oper- rangement without dissent. estimated cost of $2 to $3 million, with
ators to avoid liability and even take a Authority Chairman Lew Johnson later expansion and/or addition of
see toys. Page 12a said the agreement is “fair to the citi- motel-related services.
The lease sets fixed rents for the first
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Youth Shelter and the children’s ward agreeing to grant a one-year option but Johnson said this concern was un-
at Comanche County Memorial Hospi- paving the way for proposed develop- founded.
tai. as well as to children's homes in ment of a motel complex on approxi- “The developers are arranging their
Oklahoma City and Pauls Valley. mately six acres of airport property own financing," he said. "We’re not
Rogers said the toy distribution was west of South 11th Street. issuing any industrial bonds and we’re
approved through an agreement with “By approving the option we are also not serving as a vehicle for any type of
the defendants in the case, rather than approving the lease agreement,” said financing."
charging them storage for the toys. He Roy Burrows, chairman of the airport He commended Burrows for his ef-
expected to hand out the toys here with- authority’s leasing committee. “This fort in “tying together" the agreement,
in the next two weeks gives them a year to look into and make Investors in the proposed motel com-
U.S. Dist. Judge Fred Daugherty, a going concern of the motel complex." plex include Dr. Gilbert Gibson,
who issued a court order approving the The brief LMAAA session was Law ton bank executive; William
distribution. Friday also ordered U.S. scheduled because Thursday’s meeting Crawford, Frederick banker, and Ed
attorney Larry Patton to see that the was adjourned in an attempt to have all Warmack, Central Mall developer,
gambling devices be donated to veter- airport authority members present The lease, effective through Dec. 31,
ans hospitals for the amusement of Saturday for consideration of the lease 2019, and including a 20-year renewal
given a chance to leave but refused. Ayala, but the proposal was delivered
Government sources have said the two to him by Justice Minister Hugo
plan to produce a book on the siege. Escobar Sierra.
The guerrillas previously freed 37 of The guerrillas told Castro Caicedo
their captives and one escaped. the Panama summit would have to be
A Colombian journalist reported personally approved by Gen. Omar
M-19 leaders told him a summit meet- Torrijos, head of Panama's national
ing should be held May 1 in Panama guard and Panama’s former
and the hostage-crisis could be re- strongman-leader. Torrijos reportedly
solved in "half an hour " was in Spain and could not be reached
The reporter, German Castro for comment.
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By BILL BRAUN
Of the Constilution staff
Six months of negotiations
it took the better part of 60 minutes to do it,
but the Varsity finally overhauled the willing-but-
weary Alumni, 9-8, in Cameron University 's annual
spring football game Saturday. Later on, the Mag-
nificent Seven ended their Cameron University
basketball careers the same way they began —
with style.
See sports, page 1C
Republicans at precinct caucuses two weeks ago showed
90 percent favoring the former California governor.
Nearly 100 county Republicans attended Saturday's
convention at the Ramada Inn, approving nearly 50 reso-
lutions while rejecting only a statement in support of a
presidential preference primary and a resolution
supporting separation of politics and international athlet-
ics.
An emotional vote favoring a right-to-life amendment
sparked resolutions from the floor Saturday. The anti-
abortion statement passed by a mere two votes.
The Fourth District Republican Convention is
scheduled in Lawton May 3, with New Hampshire U.S.
Sen. Gordon Humphrey the scheduled guest speaker.
In Chickasha, Kennedy was elected along with Betty
McElderry, Purcell, and Herman Braswell, Anadarko, to
See DEMO, Page 12A
Right of way costs increase
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