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4A THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Friday, September 16, 1977 Mano 53, Dies PARIS (AP) Maria Callas, stormy American-born diva famed also for her romance with the late Aristotle Onusis, died at her Paris home today, the Pathe Marconi recording company said. She was 53. A spokesman said the company was notified by friends of the singer's death from natural causes. Born in New York and Greek by Mood, La Callas was among the great sopranos of the 20th century. But much of Her fame stemmed also from her relationship with Onassis, a nine-year romance that ended when he married Jacqueline Kennedy in October 1968.

Tbe dark-eyed diva was also famed as "opera's bad girl" because she walked out on so many performances in her career. Miss Callas had been living quietly in Paris in recent years, and there had beea no hint that she was ill. Born Sophie C. Kalos in Brooklyn, she renounced her American citizenship in 1966, apparently to ease financial complications connected with her divorce from Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian industrialist she left for Onassis. Miss Callas began to study music when she was eight and by 14 had won a number ol amateur radio contests.

Trapped abroad at the beginning of World War II, she studied at the Royal Conservatory. She made her debut in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" at the Royal Opera House in Athens at 14. But her career flourished when the great La Scala Opera House in Milan offered her a role in "Aida" and then signed her on as a member of the company in 1951. She made her American debut in 1954, performing the title role of Bellini's "Norma" at Chicago's Lyric Theater and in subsequent years she won wide acclaim for her roles in "Pu- "Lucia" and many other operas. She also made numerous recordings.

including 19 complete operas and 10 albums of operatic selections for Angel Records. Time magazine once wrote: "As actress, Callas is more exciting than any singer has a right to be." Of her voice, the magazine wrote: "The special quality of the Callas voice is not tone, It is the extraordinary ability to carry, as can no other, the inflections and nuances of emotion, from mordant intensity to hushed delicacy." In 1965, Miss Callas retired from concert singing because of ill health. But she returned after nine years in February 1974. She was greeted with enthusiasm by sellout audiences, but some critics were disappointed. Top Nurse Picked Jim Booher, health director of the City-County Health Department, today announced the appointment of Jimmie Ewing, Altus, as supervising nurse for Comanche County.

Mrs. Ewing, who is already supervising nurse for Jackson, Beckham, Custer, Harmon, Killman, Kiowa and Greer Counties, will add Comanche County to her duties until a full-time nurse for the Comanche-Caddo County district is found, Booher said. Mrs. Ewing, who has been associated with the health department for 15 years, will replace Adeline Yerkes, who is! to take a position with the state health department Oct. 1.

Mrs. Ewing will assume her new duties Oct. 1. Evenings Except Sal. and Sun.

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I am very well." She sued in a Paris court to have a magazine seized and tapes of a radio station sequestered because of mention of the reported suicide. Miss Callas had troubles at the start. of her singing career with overweight problems, but the doors of the top opera houses of the world were opened to her after a strenuous reducing campaign. In recent years she had been living in a luxurious apartment in Paris. Continued from Page One "beefed up" to handle the increasing paperwork.

The doctor draft be reinstated. Funds for contracting privating physicians at RAH be located. And that retirees be refused care "with compassion." Birk announced Sept. 6 that medical care in four categories would be completely cut off, limited in five others and continued in five more. Birk said he has taken numerous measures including operation of an acute minor illness clinic, hiring private physicians, extended use of physician assistants and nurses and negotiating the contracting of care to private facilities to lessen the burden on the retirees.

"But the outlook is bleak. Those persons we've provided care to for some time those on medication, some seriously ill will continue to help until they can find a private physician. But as of June (1978), I can't promise anything," Birk said. The categories cut from care eventually include psychiatry, internal medicine, podiatry and orthepedics. Limited categories include obstetrics- gynecology, pediatrics, family practice, eye, nose and throat and optometry.

Davis and Birk each said that the shortage of doctors was brought on by the elimination of the physician draft in 1973 and end of service for many doctors who had earlier been granted exemptions from the draft while they interned. "This is a national problem that Fort Sill has managed to avoid until now," Davis said. Maj. Gen. Donald Keith echoed those sentiments in opening the meeting.

"This has been coming for some time and we have been trying our best to seek a solution. It is not just a local problem. We've been able to handle it better than others so far. But we just can't be satisfied to bemoan the fact that what we feel is a sacred contract with the government has been breached," he said. "Seeking a local solution in my opinion is probably the best," he said.

Gtyan Wounded A 17-year-old Lawton girl received a shoulder wound either from a knife or a razor Thursday night, police reported. A 19-year-old woman was being held in the city jail in connection with the incident, which occurred at the Patterson Center, officers reported. The injured woman did not require hospitalization. Ancient Romans who saved the life of a citizen in battle while at the same time killing the opponent and 'holding the ground on which the fight took were awarded the "civic crown," a wreath of oak leaves and acorns. Recipients were excused from al! laboai- ous duties and services.

Continued from Page One son, Kay and Payne County Health Departments. She joined the state department in April 1976 as chief of maternal and child health services and was named deputy commissioner for personal health services a year ago. "Most of my goals revolve around getting a good understanding of our program by both the people and the legislature," Dr. Leavitt explained. "Any time you're dependent on the legislature for funds, you can't ignore politics, of course, but we're not partisan." As health commissioner Dr.

Leavitt sees extended health education as a possible need. "We not only need to tell people 'you should get your eyes tested for glaucoma, have a yearly breast exam', for example, we need to get people to understand why." Pollution may also continue to be a problem, she said, mentioning water quality and solid waste disposal as two areas of concern. Personal health problem areas remain venereal disease and family planning, Dr. Leavitt said. Oklahoma's health problems are basically those of a rural area, she explained.

"We have a geographical shortage of doctors," she said, "and, of course, we will continue to work with the planning agencies on this. But we have an even more acute shortage of dentists. There are counties in Oklahoma without a single dentist." As commissioner of health Dr. Leavitt is a member of two 'mini- cabinets' established by Gov. Boren.

One deals with environmental problems and the second with health problems, These bring department heads together weekly to discuss statewide problems. Is public health a good field for women? "There are a lot of women already in public health," Dr. Leavitt said quickly. "I'm not a women's liberationist. I think women should do what they want to do.

I've really enjoyed public health." An active career did not interfere with her own family life, Dr. Leavitt said. A number of her own professional moves corresponded with those of her husband, a band director. The couple has two married children and one grandchild. Today's visit was Dr.

Leavitl's first to the City-County Health Department since she became health commissioner. OKLAHOMA LIVESTOCK OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Compared with last week, feeder cattle and calves closed lower with some sales 2,00 lower on choice offerings under 500 thin fleshed cattle suitable for grazing in good demand and holding up best; cows closed higher, late sales utility and commercial 2-3 23.75-27.25, cutter 1-3 22.00-24.00; bulls were fully steady, late sales utility grade 1-2 1000-1300 lb. 30.25-33.00. THURSDAY FEEDER AUC-TION: FEEDER STEERS: Choice 300-500 lb. 42.50-45.00, part load 400 lb.

at 49.00, 500-600 lb. 40.00-43.25, 600-700 lb. 38.0040.00, 700-800 lb. 37.75-39.75, 800-875 lb. 37.75-38.50; mixed good and choice 300500 lb.

38.75^13.00, 500-800 lb. 37.0038.75, a few 800-925 lb. 36.25-37.00; good 300-700 lb. 35.00-37.75,. a few 700-875 lb.

35.75-36.75; part lod good Holstein steers at 29.30. FEEDER HEIFERS: Choice 300-500 lb. 33.25-37.75, 500-700 lb. 33.75-37.00, part load fleshy 803 lb. at 35.60; mixed good and choice 300-SOO lb.

32.00-33.50; good 300-700 lb. 28.00-32.75. HOGS: Compared with late last week, barrows and gilts uneven from day to day, closing steady to 25 higher; sows mostly 50 higher after losing part of tohe early advance; feeder pigs under 90 lb. 4.00-6.00 lower, over 90 lb. 2.003.00 tower.

BARROWS AND GILTS: US 1-3 38.00-42.00. SOWS: US 1-3 34.5036.60. BOARS: 28.00-34.10. Test Deadline Set Registration deadline for the Graduate Record required for admission to many graduate colleges, is Monday, Monte Dover, coordinator of testing at Cameron University, said today. The test will be given Oct.

15 at Cameron. Registration packets, which contain a sample test, may be obtained at the University Testing Center, Room 2021. Nance-Boyer Hall. 703 S. 8th St.

I SIDING DQ HOME IMPROVEMENT COMPANY an WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE GRAND OPENING OF OUR NEW WAREHOUSE OPENING SOON IN AT 618 G. Continued from Page One examination on the question of whether Lance misled the committee about his financial affairs, before the panel recommended that he be confirmed to head the Office of Management and Budget for President Carter. But Lance declared Thursday that "I disclosed the various financial matters which now are the focus of this hearing." Lance noted that allegations of a cover-up were the most fundamental charge to be discussed at this hearing." Lance said he told committee investigators looking into his qualifications for the federal post that he had written overdrafts on his account at the bank he ran to help finance his 1974 campaign for governor. And he said he told the investigators about the Justice Department inquiry into the overdrafts, and about his Calhoun (Ga.) First National Bank's trouble with federal banking examiners who said the bank was poorly managed. But the statements conflicted with those of staff employes and committee members who have said they did not have complete knowledge of Lance's tangled financial problems.

During Thursday's hearing, Javits first suggested calling the committee staff members. And Sen. Charles Percy, one of Lance's most vocal critics, said, "I think it's rather critical to determine what we were told. The question is, what was the staff actually told and what did the staff tell Ribicoff and Percy?" Sen. Abraham A.

Ribicoff, is chairman of the Senate committee. President Carter, who at first strongly defended Lance, said Thursday he would await the end of the hearings before deciding on Lance's future. Despite a mood among White House and Capitol workers a Lance's resignation seems inevitable, the former Georgia banker has been insistent that he will not quit. Carter, speaking to members of the Radio and Television News Directors Association, said, "I am sure that the decision that I make along with Bert Lance will be satisfactory to the American people." Carter said, as Lance did in his testimony Thursday, that some of the allegations against the budget director are false. "Those that prove to be correct, I will have to make a judgment on them later." the President added.

Both in his statement and repeatedly under questioning, Lance said the liberal overdraft policy of the Calhoun bank, which stopped alter it was criticized by federal examiners, was applied to all customers and not just to members of his family. "That's a part of what we were about as a bank," he said. "It was one of the things that enabled us to show continued progress and growth." Assets of the bank increased from $11.9 million in 1963. when he became president, to 554.1 million by a recent accounting. Henry M.

Jackson. said he viewed the overdrafts as a crucial issue because "the average man in the street has a deep concern about a course of conduct here." Lance said he viewed the overdrafts as a useful policy to win friends and customers for the bank. But Javits countered. "You weren't a new customer. Nobody had to encourage or solicit your business.

You were the chief executive officer." Lance replied that he kept large cash balances in the bank, which he said helped the bank. And he added that his wife and her relatives were rich and always had enough assets to cover their overdrafts, which reportedly were as much as $450,000 at one time. The Lance affair came up Thursday at a breakfast Carter held for Republican senators. Carter felt compelled to assure the Republicans that the White House is not keeping an "enemies list." The statement was obviously a response to an admission by Press Secretary Jody Powell that he had tried to palm off politically harmful rumors about Percy to newspapers in the senator's home state. Meanwhile, Ribicoff said it appeared certain the Lance hearings would last at least through Saturday.

Percy said they were sure to run over into next week. The Office of Management and Budget, which Lance heads, reviews spending proposals by federal agencies before they are submitted to Congress. Carter, who formed a close friendship with Lance in Georgia in the 1960s, relies on him heavily for advice in his avowed campaigns to make government more efficient and balance the budget. Lance's supporters in the packed hearing room twice broke into applause on Thursday. Jailer Overpowered By Two Prisoners BY The Contlitutum Staff CORDELL Two prisoners escaped from the Washita County Jail here at gunpoint today after a trustee obtained a pistol.

Both men are considered armed and dangerous, Washita County Sheriff Ron Mazurek said. Area authorities were still seeking the escapees at noon. Kenneth Flitch. 44, was being held for auto theft and burglary and Alfred Bessler. 39, for forgery, auto theft and burglary when the incident took place at 11 a.m..

Mazurek said. One of the men got access to a caliber pistol and held it to the jailer's head, took his keys and put the man in the drunk tank. The jailer was not injured, the sheriff reported. The men took two shotguns from the sheriff's department, then stole a white and maroon 1975 Chevrolet for their escape. Roadblocks were set up in Washita County and surrounding counties and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol was alerted.

Flitch was described as 5-foot-7 inches tall. 140 pounds with curly red hair and a tattoo of a skunk on one arm. Bessler is described as 6-foot. 170 pounds with black hair and possibly mutton-chop sideburns. Continued Page One which the city accepted, included relocating play fields identified as non- complying in the Elmer Thomas Park improvement plant to the new park, that the foundation approve the design of the active recreational facility, that the city assure continuing maintenance, that matching funds be made available, that the park be named Louise D.

McMahon Park and that the city use Oblinger-Smith as planners for the park. The planning commission Wednesday urged the foundation and city to get together on the issue because of the park's importance. Today, Ruff said that after the planning commission meeting Sneeds' comments were read in the newspaper. Sneed's confidence in the city commitment, "clearly indicate that the confusion in this matter is indeed "PERHAPS THE information which was earlier received by the city council is not an accurate reflection of the McMahon Board's real intent," he said. Continued from Page One plan had been to call not only Bunker but also his co-negotiator, Sol Linowitz, and Adm.

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