The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • Page 18

66 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Friday, August 1977 KLAHOMA By The Axseciatcd Press TWELVE GOVERNORS convene at Grand Lake in in Afton. next week to mull over problems of energy, health care, water and agriculture at the Midwestern Governors Conference. The three-day meeting begins Monday with an address by John O'Leary, federal energy administrator, who will address governors and their staff members after a panel discussion on the impact of President Carter's energy plan. On the panel will be W.W. Rostow, former national security advisor to President Lyndon Johnson, now a professor of economics and history at the University of Texas, and Daniel Demlow, chairman of the Michigan Public Service Commission.

Tulsan Wayne Swearington will assess problems of energy production and John P. Millhone, director, Minnesota Energy Agency, will speak on conservation. ft ft ft OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Gov. David Boren Thursday appointed Don R. Johnson of Claremore to the State Board of Polygraph Examiners and Betty Drummond of Pawhuska to the Board of Trustees for University Hospital.

Johnson, operator of a Tulsa security firm, will succeed Floyd Nash of Norman. He will serve a six-year term. Mrs. Drummond was named to a three-year term succeeding Carolyn Sams of Muskogee. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a degree in journalism.

ft ft ft MADILL (AP) A New Mexico man was killed Thursday when he was struck in the head by a cable that snapped at an oil rig northeast of here, authorities said. Officers said Larry Don Davis, 30, of Hobbs, an employe of the Dallas- based Schlensker Drilling was standing near equipment that was being hoisted onto a rig when the cable snapped. He was listed as dead at the scene and was taken to Oklahoma City for an autopsy. MIAMI (AP) A threat to fire the 62 city employes participating in a sickout in a dispute over wages apparently worked here. The employes returned to their jobs Thursday after officials threatened to fire anyone with an unexcused absence.

On Wednesday city officials announced they would fire anyone who did not have a physician's statement to justify the employe remaining away from work more than three days. The employes had called in sick Tuesday and Wednesday! The sickout began after city officials refused to come up with a requested wage increases of between 11 and 17 per cent. SEMINOLE (AP) A Mclntosh County jail escapee was captured Thursday after a chase at speeds of up to 110 miles per hour down a two-lane road ended when a Highway Patrol trooper fired two warning shots. patrol identified the escapee as Mickey Mulley, 21, and said he fled at Eufaula last month. spokesman said Trooper Charlie Blunt started chasing Mulley tne interstate and roadswln te for eedin 8 He said Mulle raced 99 before leading Blunt on 20-minute chase over county through the area.

Check our tot bargains on the and our cool savings on the inside. NEW SELECTION OF INDIAN JEWELRY SAVE SAVE OR SELECTED GROUP OF GIFTWARE SELECTED GROUP OF WATCHES SAVE SAVE SELECTED GROUP OF DIAMONDS The Diamond Stone Jlly USDA Predicting 'Some Increases' In Retail Meat Prices WASHINGTON (AP) Even though the U.S. supply of red meat and chickens continues to be large and consumers are eating slightly less this year, the Agriculture Department is predicting "some increases" in retail meat prices. The Outlook and Situation Board based the general prediction Thursday on two forces: consumers having more to spend this year on food, pushing up demand, and wholesalers' and retailers' being overdue in raising prices to recover lost profits. The large meat supplies and feed cheap enough to discourage significant cutbacks "will probably prevent any large year-to-year increases in beef and pork prices" when the final averages are taken, it said.

But the gradual decline in the cattle population that the livestock industry has been undertaking for more than a year will begin to raise prices sometime next year, the board said. The retail prices for choice-grade beef for the last six months of this year are expected to come out 4 or 5 per cent above the average for the first half of 1977 or the last half of 1976, the report said. Pork prices are expected to rise 10 per cent above the first half, to a level about 4 or 5 per cent above a year ago. Ranchers and feeders have been trying to lift their slaughter prices by reducing the large cattle inventory, but the low grain prices have been encouraging production at the same time. The result, the report noted, was a slight increase by July 1 from a year earlier in the number of steers and heifers weighing more than 500 pounds.

A large supply of younger animals to be fed grain for slaughter later means a continued steady rate of meat moving to market into next year. The forecasters projected a slight decline in beef production, from the 6.25 million pounds estimated for the July- September quarter to 6,1 million in the first three months of 1978. despite the huge incoming feed grain crop. But an increase in pork production from 3.05 million pounds to 3.5 million by then put the estimated winter red- Muskogee Grand Jury Indicts Former Highway Commissioner MUSKOGEE (AP) A political associate of former Gov. David Hall has pleaded innocent and been released on $500 bond on charges he illegally profited from a road contract while.sitting on the Oklahoma Highway Commission.

D. K. Swon, 50, was indicted on the charges Thursday by a state grand jury. The panel also called for the ouster of several elected city officials at Haskell, criticized comedian Redd Foxx's. involvement with the town of Taft and recommended an extended curfew in Fort Gibson.

Swon was the sixth person indicted by the grand jury, which is known to be investigating ousted District Court judge Bill Haworth in connection with an alleged bribery attempt during the 1974 judicial campaign. Swon was accused of having a conflict of interest between Oct. 1, 1974, and March 1, 1975. The former highway commissioner was accused of selling fill dirt to the Cornell Construction the prime contractor on a U. S.

62 paving project, while serving as commissioner. The information accused Swon of making the offer to John Cornell, construction company owner, and benefit- ting financially after the offer was accepted. Swon, a native of Vian was Hall's election campaign coordinator in 1970 for 19 eastern Oklahoma counties. Hall appointed Swon to the commission in 1971. Swon served four years on the commission before announcing his candidacy Congress from the Second District, but he withdrew before the primary election.

The grand jury, directed by Dist. Atty. Julian File, criticized the Haskell council for allowing "City Supt. and Chief of Police Dean Beene to have full control of the town." The secret panel accused Beene of "partiality of select employes and citizens" and being responsible for the resignations of one policeman and other city employes. The panel said the Haskell council neglected its duties through "failure to acknowledge the legitimate voice of the citizens at council meetings." Haskell has its own gas company and elected officials and city employes have received the service free, Fite said.

The panel called for the removal of Beene, Mayor Frank Polk and council members Don LaFerry, Norman Bailey, E. W. Beaver and Richard Lechner. meat total at 9.83 million pounds. decline of 1 per cent from last winter.

Despite the "higher consumer incomes" basis for the higher prices, the report also showed that red meat is being bought at an annual rate of 190 pounds per person, 3 pounds below last year's record level. The board said that it did not expect the consumption rates to increase for red meat for the rest of the year and it predicted a rise for the last six months of the year of only one pound per person in the amount of broiler chickens consumed in 1976. Higher meat prices dampens demand, past USDA studies show. That and a continued large slaughter do not give cattlemen much optimism for higher farm prices until the supply of feeder cattle declines at year's end, the board said. The total cattle and calf inventory by then should be between 117 million and 118 million head, about the same as on Jan.

1, 1972, and well below the 132 million cattle on the hoof three years later, the report said. That means higher retail beef prices in the years ahead. The combination of a huge corn crop and better slaughter prices for hogs, however, points to higher levels of pork production through 1978, the board said. But that also means that "hog prices during 1978 could decline to levels at which producer profits are squeezed, even with. costs below the 1977 level." Another cycle of cutbacks could result.

Meanwhile, several changes in the compensation programs for cattle and swine producers whose animals have been exposed to brucellosis have been proposed by the Agriculture Department. The regulations changes announced Thursday could be modified and would not become effective until September. For the cattle program, the proposal would allow USDA to pay the in- ANIMAL EMERGENCY CLINK WIIKDATS p.m. til m.m. NMT WIIKfNOI 1 p.m.

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Sheridan 355-5071 Now Even Further Reductions Women's Shoes On Racks One Group TENNIS Men's Shoes and Women's Handbags also reduced. 415 demnities at a flat rate based on the class of animal, for cattle exposed to the highly infectious disease and then destroyed even though they do not react. The present system for non-reactor cattle, which allows payments when funds are available, appraises the cat- tie on the basis of current market value with the compensation making up the difference between that and the actual sale price of the culled animal. The payments have averaged about 12 per animal while the appraisal costs $4. The proposal would allow flat payments of SSO for graded cattle, 100 for purebreds.

the current maximum payments under the appraisal system. The swine-program changes would allow payments of $25 a head for registered breeding stock and S10 for other breeding animals when the swine are slaughtered after reacting to tests for brucellosis. No payments are made now for the reactors that are destroyed to prevent spread of the disease. A series of requirements similar to those of the cattle testing and compensation program would have to be met before the indemnities could be paid, a spokesman said. On another front, the Safety and Quality Service is trying a new commodity in its program of iuying foods in bulk for school lunches child nutrition and its other feeding activities: fresh Bartlett pears.

Its offer to buy 27 trucklots df the fruit, made public Thursday, was presented as a test case to see if perishable items can be used as a practical matter in the programs. The trucklots with 840 contahers each will be distributed only in tali- fornia, Idaho and Nevada. FULL SWING! Our price-cutting party is still on! Drexel Heritage L-. Drexel and Heritage Furniture reduced up to This if me ploce and the salel Imagine! Sale prices apply to our entire selection of Drexel I and Heritage! living rooms, dining rooms, and occasional furniture. Transform every comer of your home! Today's a perfect day for your visit, buy from in-stock or special order.

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