The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 53, No. 85, Ed. 1 Monday, April 16, 1979 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 53 NO 84
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1979
Price 15c
River Nears
Hundreds Die in Quake
Record Crest
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Sunbelt Area to Grow
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NEWS
BRIEFS
Survey Rates 273 Bases
According to Preference
Firm Robbery
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A WEEK-OLD CALF was found near the Martha Y To
identify, pleasecontact Ed Owens. 482-1876 or Jack Diltz, 482.
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Oki a. Historical Society
HistomicAl Bldg
Oklhom City, 73105
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Lett to right art Joe Buck, chamber president,
Col Ed Chivers, Holsey, Col Allan Walters and
Col, Tim Padden.
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Lincoln Center Left to right are
Cecil Chesser, Doris McWhorter,
Mrs. Grimmett, and Rosanne Ray
8 Reservoir northeast of the city
. reduced the outflow of water
■ there during the night to reduce
■ pressure on Jackson levees, but
B they Mid the outflow would be
PMished Daily (Eneegt saturdav 1 ana sundav M w.w.oao., ,
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TICKET CHAIRMAN, Ray Holsey, center,
distributes tickets to be sold for the annual
Chamber of Commerce banquet slated April 27.
Around Town
Congratulations to LES and SALL.Y BAARTMAN on the
boy Happy birthday wishes to JAY RICHESUN, BOBO
DAWSON and KARYN JESTER . .
Were a little envious of JEFF OWENS, who bagged that
19-pound torn turkey over the weekend . .
The Weather
Altus viecinity - Fair to partly cloudy and warm through
Tuesday A slight chance of thunderstorms tonight and
nuesday Winds south 12 to 22 mph and gusty today, 10 to it
mph tonight and 14 to 24 mph and gusty Tuesday High today
upper MW low tonight near 60 High Tuesday mid-80s
-hance of ram 20 percent tonight and 30 percent Tuesday
Weather readings _ High Sunday 83 Overnight low 53.
Noon today 75.
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Officials of the giant Barnett
LOCAL AUTHORS have donated
their book $ to Mr$ 0 B Grimmett,
seated, for the W C. Davis
Memorial Library located at the
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“ ‘n" ir1 The Easter Sunday quake
THE J At KSON COUNTY Mounted Patrol will hold its
annual Spring horse show May 10 instead of Saturday as
announced in the ATD Sunday edition
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WATERBURY, Conn (UPI)
Three security company
guards were found shot to
death and st least 11 million
stolen from a bullet riddled
brick garage of Purolator
Security Ine today, police said
One body was found inside a
white armored car parked
inside the small, one-story
garage by workers reporting
for the 7 am. morning shift
after the Easter weekend The
other two guards also were shot
z inside the budding None were
d immediately identified
I An FBI spokesman Mid more
I than a millon dollars was taken
but would not speculate on the
Accordtnguthstudy.birh throuanearly -
nearly double their populatlon for the Population ,ld„„„ Uttretoremogntinsallregona, from the Northeast and North
end have almost half the Bureau, a Washington -based factr in "i on . Central regions.
nation s population by the end nonprofit organization special radical 1 henge in the Lm a he study defined the Sunbelt
^Lhe^cwtury , if current trends pop^-rch dutribution patterns of the U.S. “ including vronla. North
.According to the new study, grow pattern oi the 19706 PPhattomigratory pattern
rheuosouuthennnnd.western toe study Mid, to. peaked at theendo World War
meions combined will have 150 Sunbelt will reach 112 mil- u the Mmh Mid
of the Saturday on a complaint of The 70th Annual Banquet of Cifora ptrn al .0, 1
public drunk by Patrolman the Altus Chamber of Core Catetrdum „n y nduhshool the evenings entertainment Walters. 340th Air Refueling
Richard Hill and Danny Miller merce will highlight 70 years of (nw «. sonurid "V.Apr Li i. Tickets are now available Group, Altus AFB, Red River
oftheAltuspoliceDepartmene Altu corn beonhantowencdmnenotmiy fromnethess"ollowinanrannt Federal credi Union
Texan, SalgnarrdtedPonon. generalpaone" U. ? Ray Holsey. banquet
complatnt by Deputy Chuck Department oDerense "oA&ressmcaniomnsteedaanda Bank, First State Bank, still available however seating
bunk of the Jackson County The banquet will begin will e the Altus Huh genda in nal Bank of Commerce, “ limited so ‘I you haven't
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JACKSON, Miss iUPI) -
Jackson’s worst flood in (UPI) - A series o strong Yugoslviawns,gunxe to mt in tearead the quake when it to provide the 183,000 people the homeless
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In Herceg Novi, a resort rhe quake crumbled most
e 30 miles south of alder buildings along the
Dubronk, 21,000 people spent ashore into dust Four sec
the night wrapped in blankets tons of the town's shipyard
<lit in the open while others collapsed into the nea
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Commerce St Journal
There are a number of good Raiderland can slip up from
folks around town who studied timetotime. Not long ago, they
st Texas Tech, including legal discovered that one of their
eagle Joe Watt and fancy main cheerleaders wasn't
hnancier Alien Esker, and all enrolled in school m- A
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0 ......... Thursday at the First NationalBank CalltheCotc the U.s. population 2". untheitirshalfofthe 1970s. West, California, Ari zona, and
for reservations. populaton." “■ ton 25 ■■"" “
Spring Sing Tuesday
The annual spring concert of performing will be the popular program they used in schools, wose mu inetri ,
theWestern Oklahoma State Wosc rock group Rhythm . civic programs .nd other Dury IS
College music department will Image tivities in the college s five Rod Murrowu “tt Un.
bpreeenorguendaz.atp.m. The Pioneer Choir a mixed county servic area .The wosc companist for the Pioneer
Ie student center chorus, will perforn sacred Sage Band mH present a Choir and Prairie singers
v... .1 and secular selections from combination of familiar times David selfischoreoraphetfor
Featured in the concert will different periods in the history as several jazz charts designed prnnisinge orapher to
be the three major college of music The Prairie Singers, a tor jazzensembles Rhythm's
- mtic ensembles, the Ploneer group of the student en- Image will perform pop music A reception for patrons and
’ dhoir.thePrairle Singersand tertainers, will present a in the top 40 popularity ratings students wii immediately
the WOM Stage Band Also portion of the recruiting Director of the four groups is follow the concert
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musical Peter Pan" presented tonight only at
southeast Junior High (See RIVER Page 8)
Play Tonight Police Arrest
At Southeast 16-Year-Old.
w, year-old juvenile Sunday on a
"hen the curtain opens at The Darlings leave for their charge of burglary at the
EydeG Russell Auditorum at party, and that is the cue for parking lot of Jim Click's
Southeast Junior High School Tinker Bell, (Gary Greendyk) Chevrolet
the big stage “ a evidenced only by a light, and According to Major Detective
chirens bedroom. . Peter Pan (Sheryl Patton) to Cecil Wilson of toe Altus Police
Ihe Darling family are enter the bedroom Department the junvenile
preparing to 80 to bed, as While Nana objects, the allegedly stole a spare tire
un wilungly asdo children in children are taught to fly, and from a pick-up truck at Click's
mostashoueholds, and, also that begins the incredible Chevrolet and was arrested
Vpically,the parents are in scenes which follow in Neva moments later
Sorml drew ready to go to a Never Land Patrolman Charles Ortega
PI: n u ___ An animal again has a tat and Jim Hughes of the Altus
Mrs Daring.i concerned, role that becomes momentary Police made the arrest 7 am
and j the dog, played by stardom as the crocodile, with Sunday
wendyBoyles,.s also . Kim Brown inside, sidles The juvenile was turned over
goncerned Something unusual across toe stage in pursuit al to juvenile authorities this
has happened outaide the CaptainHook,playedbyBary mornang,
childre nswindowforanighta Truax, with fuli sound effecta Joe Tatum, «J 309 w
twpoNanadsgsorealqucshe Tonight at 8 o'clock is the Broadway, was .rested
wcmes a dog rather than the only performance " ‘ ’
youthful actor within the
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amount He called its a
"massive lons."
They re still trying to figure
out how much was taken But I
think it's going to be big. said
the spokesman It s a major,
major amount."
Nearly a dozen bullet holes
were visible in the garage’s
outer doors Sts .hols had been
fired through two large blue
wooden garage doors at the
front of the squat building and
tour other holes were visible in
two separate window panes
above the wooden panels A
bullet hole also was visible in
the windshield of one of the
company secuirty vans inside
the garage
seilhelp willmeet at 7p.m. Thursday at the Lincoln Canter What makes a military The results in regard to the weather at Hickam to be a
Ralph Jackson, coordinator, said newly elected mayor, installation good or bad and Air Force portion of the survey factor cleanliness of the oase
I onnie Be vers, will attend, how do you go about the task at showed Hickam AFB, Hawaii good facilities adequate
determining one from the to be the favorite, with housing an outstanding louth I
VICTOR WICKERSHAM OF Mangum, former other? McChord AFB. Washington program I
congressman and state representative, left Dallas Sunday. The Times Magazine, a running second, followed by One reader summed up the I
for a day conference m London with the King's represen- supplement to Army Times, Air Mather AFB, Calf , in third pleasuresof Hickam, while also '
tative fro Saudia Arabia and Saudi businessmen to help et Force Times and Navy Times, place. sting a problem, by describing I
feet s trade of surplus cotton, wheat and cattle for crude oil recently conducted a survey to The least favorite placed (he beautiful weather easy T _
He hopes the trade would result in higher prices for the find out how military people Minot AFB. N.D.on top, with access to fantastic facilities on 0,3“5
fanners and ranchers in Western Oklahoma rate bases Loring AFB. Maine in second Pearl Harbor andin the civilian 8.7
The result* of the magazine's place and Chanute AFB, community, all making We t® I
WESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE College Academic Dean pollweregivenin toe March 19, nlinois in the third spot pleasant and easy, offering no fl
(col R. Chesser recently attended the 84th annual meeting of 179 ““*■ after 1,048 readers Among the least favorites, it challenge, at al l
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools answered a questonnaire on a interesting to note that At the other end of the survey )
toe subject among the three listed, two Minot AFB at North Dakota -
THE TALK-A-LOT CB Club will hold a pot luck supper and . Theypraised and condemned bases, Loring and Chanute are was listed as the least favorite
meeting is opened to persons interested in membership three favorites, and the thre closin
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Hart, Sandra. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 53, No. 85, Ed. 1 Monday, April 16, 1979, newspaper, April 16, 1979; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2123053/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.