The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 100, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 26, 1978 Page: 1 of 16
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The Altus TIMES-DEMOCRA’T
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26. 1978
VOL 52 NO 100
Price 15c
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Bases To Be Closed
At Graduation
(See BASES Page Ml
Carter Says
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Arts Council
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NEWS
BRIEFS
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Around Town
Someone mentioned that SANDY PETERS and MARY
MASTERSON are visiting TERESA and RONAL.D SMALTS
ANNA NUCCI calls with a reminder
The Senate County. State and Federal Government
Committee met with Crisp behind closed doors for JO minutes
Tuesday and recommended his confirmation
Dunlap Speaker Senate To
Override
THE MlSEU M OF the Western Prairie will present Mrs
Norma Wilson reading poetry from her new bout. Wild
Ina Sunday at 3 psn iti the Braddock Gallery
A reception and autograph party will follow the reading
until4p.m Mrs Wilson and her husband. Jerry, sre Martha
residents and teach in the English department of WOSC
ALTUS MASONIC LODGE will meet Thursday at 7 p m
for work in the fellow craft degree
A Senate committee Tuesday approved former state
penitentiary warden Richard (Crisp s bid to become director
of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
A full Senate vote on the nomination has been scheduled for
today and Sen E W Keller R- Bethany in whose district
Crisp lives, said he would push for Craps confirmation
The ABC Board picked Crisp Friday to head the agency ,
left without a leader since the same Senate committee
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THE ALTUS FIRE Department answered a call at the
intersection of Kellwood and Broadway Tuesday
A 197 4 Maida station a agon owned by Mrs J D Hunsucker
at Lawton sustained H400 damages from a fire that was
caused by an electrical short
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Dauphin island Inactivate
Air Force station with lows of 7
military positions
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First Budgets
Preliminary budgets for the 1978-79 fiscal year were
presented to the City Parks and Recreation Advisory Board
at its Tuesday session totaling 5183,354 for parks and $87,750
for recreation, but no official action was Uken since all
budgets must be reworked and approved by the city council
The parks budget which also includes maintenance and
cleanliness of ditches along city streets, grass cutting and
park improvements, showed labor as the biggest item of
5113,743. with the balance for supplies and certain im-
provements in parks
if the budget is approved new parks would be built at
English Village, Heritage Acres and north of the city airport,
while improvements will be made at Westside Cole Heights,
Lincoln and Hightower Parks
Englisn Village Park would receive a picnic shelter sand
box, swing set, slide and climber at a cost of $2 585
A basketball court and sand box would be built at Westside
Park, at a cost of $1,500.
Improvements at Cole Heights would include a picnic
shelter, sand box, two water fountains, while the train and
missile would be painted, costing 12 300
1 Ancoln Park would receive two outside tables slide and
climber, basketball court and picnic shelter, at a cost at
$3,630
Hightower Park (East City Park improvements would
include a picnic shelter, buck-about, and painting of the
airplane, costing $2,075.
Heritage Park would receive a picnic shelter and table
swing set, see-saw, monkey ladder and merry go-round, all
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RENNY FANNING and Dana
Wooten rehearse "I'll Never Fall In
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Emerqency
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BEGINNING APRIL M, the Altus banks will no longer
except Ccounter checks, and counter checks from the Altus
banks will no longer be available at businesses
However, counter checks on other banks in the area will be
excepted at the Altus banks for deposit
SATURDAY IS THE day Sweet Adelines have set aside for
a benefit show, in conjunction with The Lawtonaires, a men i
barbershop chorus from Lawton Proceeds will go to the
Tipton Children s Home to help defray loses incurred during
a fire several weeks ago
Admission to the show will be free, but donations will be
accepted The show will begin at 1 p m at the Altus High
School Auditorium
Sweet Adelines chapter will meet at 8 36 pm, Thursday
for show rehearsal and election of officers
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CURTIS WHrTE, 31. 1315 W Victory was arrested
Tuesday on a charge of possession of marijuana by Sgt
George Dickerson and Patrolman Bob Lane of the Altus
Mice Department.
David Marshal Leach, 28, Altus was arrested on a charge
of obtaining merchandise under false pretenses Tuesday by
Deputy CD McDonel of the Jackson County Sheriffs
Department
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Carter says he will
must on a 825 billion tax cut
despite strong congressional
eipport for a smaller reduction.
Carter told a nationally
broadcast news conference
Tuesday that in his judgment, s
125 billion reduction in taxes is
about the right figure and
would not be inflationary
if the proposed tax cut were
to be blocked it would mean
that we would have a million
people out of work by the end
t the first 12 months after the
tai reduction would have been
enacted."
Carter also made a strong
ptch for tax reform, which
appears doomed in Congress
this year
Speaking emotionally. Carter
told reporters we have a lot of
abuses in the system that ought
to be eliminated."
To stress his point, he cited
the case at a surgeon who took
a $14,000 tax credit for has
yacht last year and a busines-
man who charged off 338
unches last year, more than
$10,000 in so-called business
unches
He said such cases were a
gross abuse d the average
Americanfamily" and were the
kind of problems his plan hopes
to correct
Carter blamed congressional
Chancellor of the Oklahoma
State System of Higher
Education and executive of-
ficer of the Oklahoma State
Regents for Higher Education,
Dr ET Dunlap will deliver the
commenccement address to the
fiftieth graduating class of
Western Oklahoma State
College May 13 at 5 p m in the
WOSC physical education
center gymnasium
Dr Dunlap began his
education career in Oklahoma
st the age of 15 as the teacher in
s two-room school near his
hometown of Red Oak After
threw years of teaching in the
I a timer County Schools, be
was elected Latimer County
superintendent of schools two
consecutive terms
in 1542 he became a high
"MAGIC FLUTE" poster for the opera to be
presented here Saturday night is discussed by
Mrs. Nancy Lillard with Northeast vocalists, from
left, Scott Marcha, Linda Woods and Lori Wash
burn The opera, in English, will be presented at 8
p m at the First United Methodist Church
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p.m. Shown here are Karen Estes,
left, and Terry Werner, Altus,
rehearsing a medley from
"Oliver." Entertainment will be
numbers from famous Broadway
musicals.
Promises" for the WOSC dinner the income tax laws of our
theater production country at the expense of the
average American family'
DEBBIE MALENA has a knack for tying knots in things
MARY SHARPE makes a nice chaperone . RICHARD
ANDERSON is torn between two lovers . .
The Weather
Altus vicinity - Partly cloudy and mild through Thursday
Weather readings - High Tuesday 67. Overnight low 45
Noon today 87
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Commerce St. Journal
Here is sane good advice spending a good bit of tune on
that comes via a bunch of the road
duffers lined up at the first tee, Aa one observing duffer put it
as another duffer blasts a long to the tong-knotker "Its not
from "Promises.
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resistance to his reform propos- rejected the nomination of Ernest J Istook
als on an unbelievable number Acetion on (risp s conf irmation came quickly in the (ounty.
d highly qualified, very intel- State and Federal Government Committee headed by Sen
i gent. very effective lobbyists Bob Wadley, D- Claremore
tying to induce the members Crisp. 48 is a native of Mangum and a graduate of the
uf Congress to preserve those University of Oklahoma He served 21 years in the Army,
special privileges for people most of it in the fields of corrections and law enforcement
who have them, because they before becoming assistant warden at McAlester
are so powerful and so Three years later he was named warden and served nearly
influential now and in the past three years until he resigned in January with a charge that
they could carve out for the Corrections I epartment was not comcentra ting sufficlent
themselves some special deal in resources on the McAlester facility
school inspector for ac-
creditation for the Oklahoma post since the creation of the
State Department of State System in 1541
Education in 1545 he returned He attended Eastern
to Red Oak as superintendent of Oklahoma State College, and he
schools fa ax years He also received his bachelor s degree
was elected to the Oklahoma from Southeastern Oklahoma
House of Representatives in State University He received
1546. chaired the committee on his master's and doctor's
education, and was principal degrees from Oklahoma State
author of the education code University. Stillwater He has
which was signed into law in also done graduate work at the
1949. University of Chicago.
From 1951 to 1961 he was Dr Dunlap holds two
president of Eastern Oklahoma honorary degrees the doctor of
Rate College Wuburton from humane letters from Oklahoma
which be resigned to become Qty University and the doctor
chancellor Dr Dunlap is only of laws from John Brown
the second person to hold that University
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State Award
The Altus arts council is due
a Governor s award, according
to Jane Dobbs, president of
Shortgrass Arts and
Humanities Council
The Governor s Arts Awards
luncheon Friday at Skirvin
Plaza Hotel Oklahoma City,
will honor four community arts
councils in non-metropolitan
areas
Councils in Tahlequah. Ada.
Antlers, and lawton will be
recipients of Lt. Gov George
Nigh s "Arts Against the Odds”
awards Special recognition
will be given to the Altus
Council as well
in addition to the arts
awards, a number of com-
munity service awards will be
presented by Gov David Harn
to Oklahomans who have
distinguished themselves in
arts endeavors.
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ouuoMACIy opt administration wants to close have received no advance Officials said the proposals training canters in the country, number at civilian jobs in-
_ ' . .. at otherwise 'realign” 85 notice saying any bases in would meet guidelines laid and a nearby Navy training volved was still uncertain
in4t5 ac * PoA military bases across the Oklahoma are being considered (town by Defense Secretary center were among candidates because final figures had not
mtempgoday °i rtf . 0i country, eliminating several and Rep Steed is very op- Harold Brown who is seeking for consolidiation with bases been provided by all the
. open . thousand civilian jobs in an timistic that Altus AFB, Tinker greater savings than were elsewhere services
C gnKrn8 4"e Somgen. effort to save $336 million a AFB or Fort Sill are not in- achieved in the last round of Fort Di X, N J . and Fort Following is a state-by-state
11 " " year for other defense pro- eluded in fact, several projects base ■ cutbacks proposed by the Jackson, S( . both Army basic list at proposed actions in the
“ Eor. ha i c,. , A,, grams are in the null for the in- Ford administration training centers, were being administration s military base
.i ha a I".o. A formal announcement list stallations and closings are not That group, proposed in 1976, studied foe closure as well as closure and realignment
mCWdi: "aupogow: ing the affected bases was being considered projected 5248 million in yearly Fort Sheridan Hl, and the program
tesye.o gad", expected from the administra- The list, which concentrates savings, but it has not yet military Presidio in San Fran- Alabama
"E" ttion today, but defense officials on training installations as an taken effect because of congres- cisco, sources said
The House "uesday voted17, were trying to cushion expected area which can best be cut sional opposition and lengthy Among Air Force installa-
18 to overrtdesthe veto with a opposition by giving advance back, originally was scheduled environmental and economic tions named were Chanute Air
votes required for success notice Tuesday to congressmen for action last fall It was impact study requirements Force Base III and Goodfel-
Boren immediately issued a and senators whose areas will delayed until early this year Full details at the proposed low AFB Texas both training
news release saying that i the be involved and President Carter ordered it closings were not available, but installations The Navy was
Senate vMes to override it wU Timos-Democrat talked held up again until the Panama sources said the big Marine * heduled to lose its air station
simply be giving in to the greed —
of the special interests ' m aa i
.xyasrs! Bellmon Fiqhts
been virtually robbed for years •
by a disgraceful workers r , rr |.
cmnaayaremysermdbnytd For C5 Funding
financial interests of a small —
special interest group Sen Henry Bellmon Tuesday successfully defended the
Borei said the previous budget for updating the C5 aircraft from a group of
manual abor definition of senators who wanted to slash the total defense budget by
disabtlity, which would be $1.4 billion
restored by the bill, was a key Following a two-hour debate led by Bellmon and joined
to that rotten system by Sen Barry Goldwater the Senate voted 70 to 21 against
The House and Senate both an amendment to the defense budget offered by Sen
have before them bills which Thomas Eagleton
they can pa* to help the small Eagleton s amendment would have reduced the defense
businesses, he said "These budget the Senate Budget Committee recommended to the
bills exempt the small business- level President Carter suggested At the same time, the
man without going back to the amendment would have cut $7 2 million earmarked for
old special interest definition of putting nra wings on the C5 aircraft .An aircraft training
disability " wing which uses the C5 is based at Altus Air Force Base
The bill also would restore Eagleton wanted to end the updating of the CS and
the present requirements fa replace the plane with Boeing 747‛s The O a huge cargo
workers’compensationrequired plane, is the only aircraft available to transport wide-
coverage which is limuted to bodied weapons such as army tanks and personnel
workers in jobs defined by state carriers
lawashazardous. Bellmon argued that the 747 is inadequate for the
Meanwhile Houseand Senate mi in wry cargo role at the CI
leaders Mid final adjoumnment The debate Bellmon touched off during hu defense of
dthe i egialature Lkely the C3 west into al aspects of the nation’s defense
will occur Thursday afternoon mission
Rorpn € Vptn WASHINGTON 1 UPI i - Con- with Vaughn Clark, an aide to (anal treaties cleared Con (orps recruitment depot in San at Key West Fla
•VIVI • "VIV ress is on notice that the Rep Tom Steed today We ress Diego, one at two Marine basic Officials said the exact
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