The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 14

THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN 1 4 Friday, July 27. 1990 Storm Leaves Few Marks on Lawton State Divides Medicine Park School District he said. A county road was closed by the rain, civil defense director Holly Kelly said. Heavy water washing out culvert pipes caused officials to close the county road three miles south and one-half mile west of Bethel, she plant. It cut a 100-yard swath through there where everything was underwater," pub-he works director Bill Baker said.

Little damage was done to equipment, but workers will clean up the mess in a day or two, Baker said. Workers had to discharge sewage directly into the stream without treating it, "but it was so diluted, we don't feel it was harmful," fire station to 5 inches at the courthouse to 11 inches at television station KSWO. Authorities said they did not hear any reports of flooding, but some roads and streets were at times impassable and the city wastewater plant was flooded by nearby Nine-Mile Creek. "The creek we discharge into overflowed its banks and spilled over into the By Kathi Thacker SiaffWriter LAWTON Parts of Comanche County and Lawton came through 11 inches of rain Wednesday afternoon relatively unscathed, Thursday. Heavy storms hit across the county for about five hours Wednesday and dumped rain totals ranging from 1.97 inches at a Lawton Minor damage was done 1 other county roads in eastern Comanche County, she said.

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The body of the abducted woman, Tammy Garrett, 19, was found the next morning along the Arkansas River. She had been stabbed and her throat slashed. State law limits suits against the city to $100,000 per claim. The Garrett's filed a claim against the city and the police. By Donna Hoffman TULSA Errors by a 911 emergency operator may have cost a woman her life, according to the victim's family, but police say the city's system is one of the finest in the country, and no changes are planned in procedures or training.

The parents of the victim are suing the city and the police department for $200,000, alleging negligence of a 911 operator caused their daughter's death. Police chief Drew Diamond admitted the operator made a tragic error, but said training and proce Wish Granted Oklahoma City police Sgt. Rick Morgan gives airline tickets to 12-year-old James Carney while his aunt, Donna Webb, looks on. James, his aunt and uncle will be flying to Orlando, to visit Walt Disney World and other area attractions as part of the Make A Wish program, sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Police and the Oklahoma State Troopers Association. James is the 92nd child to participate.

FREE ESTIMATES LIGHT COMMERCIAL CUSTOM WORK 3800N.W. 39 943-1988 3800 N.W. 39 943- By Jim Killackey Staff Writer Despite protests from a legislator, the state Board of Education on Thursday reaffirmed its decision to close the Medicine Park school district near Lawton. The board, meeting in Oklahoma City, then approved new school district boundaries that will have 39 current Medicine Park students going to Lawton, and 10 to the Elgin school district in the fall. "This may cause some hardships, but we re serious about improving the educational opportunities for all students," board member Ray Potts said.

The board's move was criticized by state Sen. Roy B. Hooper, D-Lawton. "This wasn't an orderly decision; it's mass confusion," Hooper said. Hooper said Medicine Park, a dependent school district with kindergarten through eighth grade, should be kept open during the 1990-91 school year.

Then, there could be a more orderly merger with one or more districts, he said. The state school board first voted July 10 to close Medicine Park because the district has been in financial default for the past two years and would still be showing a fiscal deficit 1992- A Mandatory annexations are rare, and educators and patrons from Medicine Park have protested the closing. Albert Johnson, Lawton assistant superintendent, said Medicine Park students would need to be transferred to one of Lawton's smaller elementary schools for the best possible adjustment next semester. In other action, the state board was notified of the consolidation of the Fairfax and Ralston school districts, which have formed a district known as Woodlands. Mountain View and Gotebo have consolidated, and will be known as Mountain View-Gotebo.

In addition, the Alfalfa school district has closed and merged with four surrounding school districts: Fort Cobb, Eakly, Carnegie and Washita Heights. The Bradley school district has merged with the Alex district. Oklahoma now has 597 school districts. The state board was told Thursday there is a shortage of instructors for handicapped and special education students. The shortage is particularly acute in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Oklahoma City 1 960 Wetumka Graduates to Meet collect, preserve and promote information about the Kothe fami- A reunion for the Wetumka High School class of 1960 will be Aug. 3-5. Information is available by writing: C. Mangrum, P.O. Box 761, Weleetka, OK fh.

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