The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 190, Ed. 1 Monday, April 28, 1980 Page: 3 of 22
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ASTRONOMICAL DATA
Sun rises Tuesday at 6 41 am
and sets at 8 15 p.m Civil twi
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and sets at 8:42 pm Moon
phase, first auarter, rises at 6 53
p.m Monday and sets at 6 36
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OKLAHOMA ZONES
ZONES 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18,
19 — Mostly fair and warmer
through Tuesday Winds light
northwesterly becoming light
and variable tonight and south
erly 5 to 15 mph Tuesday Highs
Tuesday upper 70s Lows tonight
mid 40s
ZONE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
17 — Mostly fair and warmer
through Tuesday Winds light
northwesterly becoming light
and variable tonight and Tues
day Highs Tuesday upper 70s
Lows tonight mid 40s
ZONE 20, 21 — Mostly fair and
warmer through Tuesday Winds
light westerly becoming light
and variable tonight and south
erly 5 to 15 mph Tuesday Highs
Tuesday mid 70s Lows tonight
upper 40s
OUT-OF STATE FORECASTS
NORTH TEXAS — Not avail
able
KANSAS — Clear tonight Sun
ny again Tuesday. Highs Tues
day 70 to 75 Lows tonight in the
low to mid 40s
ARKANSAS - Fair and cool
tonight Mostly sunny and a little
warmer Tuesday Highs Tues
day 70s Lows tonight near 40 to
upper 40s.
COLORADO — Partly cloudy
tonight with isolated afternoon
and evening showers and thun
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— Mississippi resident. An Illinois man wrote: "I am the type
Gacy is one of 26 men sentenced to of individual who works with life and
die in Illinois’ electric chair. death on a daily basis I am a licensed
The state has no official "volunteer funeral director and embalmer in the
executioner" program, but the Depart- state."
merit of Corrections doesn’t want its "I admire your legal system, your
own people to perform any executions, laws and your (correctional system)
6 said Michael Lane, an assistant Illinois and would be pleased to serve your
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"I will soon ... be appearing before the ■
board of parole and I do need a job. plus
a new start in life. I know a little about
electricity, but then again. I am quick
to learn."
derstorms mainly mountains and
west Variable cloudiness Tues
day with scattered showers and
thunderstorms mountains and
west, isolated east Slightly
warmer daytime temperatures
east Highs Tuesday 60s to low
70s with 55 to 65 mountains
Lows tonight 30s to mid 40s with
upper 20s and 30s mountains
NEW MEXICO — Clear to
partly cloudy tonight with
isolated showers and thunder
showers mainly northern moun
tains. Increasing cloudiness west
Tuesday with widely scattered
showers and thundershowers
Spi coding over the state by
Tuesday night Slightly cooler
west Tuesday otherwise little
change in temperatures Highs
Tuesday 50s and 60s mountains
and north to low 80s south Lows
tonight 30s mountains and north
to 40s elsewhere
MISSOURI - Partly cloudy
and mild tonight and Tuesday
Highs Tuesday in the 60s Lows
tonight in the 40s
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SPRINGFIELD, III (AP) - Some John Wayne Gacy," wrote a 68-year-old A London bank teller wrote: "I am 30 designed so that when the victim sits on
sav they want the pleasure of "pulling Illinois retiree. “I want them all. years of age, male, single and consid- > 1 automatica ygotso . in a
the switch on John W Gacy.” Others "I know that doing this job is not eredby other people to be cool, calm, way the victim would pull the
sav it would be like jury dutv. They’re something desirable, I’m not thrilled at confident, meticulous and a discreet SW1 " ,
all volunteers - a minister, a funeral the prospect of doing it, but someone quiet young man. I believe firmly in the An Illinois man described a timing
director, a born-again Christian - has to," wrote a Baptist minister from death penalty." device strapped to the victim and
looking for a job as executioner for Illi- Florida. • Other writers offered advice to Gayle activated by his heartbenat
nois One man offered to execute all the Franzen, state corrections director. a person knows that f he com
Hundreds of letters have poured in men on Death Row for $500. A New A senior citizen, who signed his letter nuts a crime he is punishable by death
from around the country and overseas Jersey man wanted "$75 (for) each ex- "just a New Yorker in favor of capital and will be his own executioner, he
since authorities said in mid-March ecution.” punishment," advised using comput- may have second thoughts before he
that they were thinking of using volun- "I feel no pleasure in killing, but I ers to activate the electric chair. crime- he wrote_
teers to carry out the state's 1977 death would do it for the money," wrote a A 72-year-old Arizona woman The average family income in 1970
penalty law. man from Vienna, Austria. suggested having “an electric chair was $14,465.
WEATHER FORECAST. The National Weather Service predicts The idea first was voiced when Gacy Some of the job applicants sent
rain until Tuesday morning for the Northeast. Showers are fore- was convicted of killing 33 young men printed resumes; others talked about
cast for the Southwest and northern Rockies. Cool weather is and boys and sentenced to death related job experience
forecast for the Northwest ond Northeast, but most of the nation
will be warm. (AP Laserphoto Map) John w. Gacy Jr." wrote a 73-year-old tion of animals."
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Bentley, Bill F. The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 190, Ed. 1 Monday, April 28, 1980, newspaper, April 28, 1980; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2039818/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.