Festival of Fine Arts Month Hits Lawton April
Lawton for Fort Sill to enjoy a busy April calendar as the Festival of Fine Arts Month replaces a week long event. A comedy, three children's theatre shows, art exhibits and two jazz concerts plus a chamber recital fill the schedule. The Don Shirley Trio performs April 9 in McMahon Memorial Auditorium under the Community Concert association.
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Darrell Woolwine
Eisenhower drama _ students
Jerry Long
Old Fort
Red Barn
David McClung
Central Junior High
Southwestern Oklahoma
Comanche County Fairgrounds
Greater Lawton
McMahon
George Binet
Woman's Forum Arts and Crafts Department
Junior Service League
Oklahoma City Symphony String Quartet
Lawton Arts and Entertainment Lineup for April Events
The town hosts a Ray Charles show at Lawton High Fieldhouse with Raelets on April 11, plus a Don Shirley Trio program for Lawton Community Concerts. A wide slate follows including Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp and several school and community theatre productions across April at Lawton venues.
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Ray Charles
Lawton High
Charles
Don Shirley
Lawton
American Association of University Women
New Books Added to Carnegie Library Shelves
Sixteen new titles arrive this week across non fiction and fiction. Notable non fiction selections include The Fat Boy Goes Polyunsaturated Elmer Wheeler and The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Fiction highlights include The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton and The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
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Carnegie Library
Elmer Wheeler
Glenn
Harold Glenn
James Baldwin
James Daniel
Virginia Hamilton
Mary Lasswell
E. B. White
Richard Poirier
Emilie Loring
Jetta Carleton
W. C. Heinz
Gunter Grass
Pueblo
Kinglsey West
Mary Stewart
Menna Gallie
Storm Jameson
TV Westerns Face As Film Stables Stir
AP film writer notes television Westerns drop to two shows next season with Gunsmoke and Wagon Train leading. NBC adds Bonanza and The Virginian. CBS shifts Wagon Train to 90 minutes. ABC plans Jamie McPheeters. Meanwhile film Westerns revive as studios ready McClintock Hud and Two for Texas with Wayne Newman Sinatra.
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CBS
NBC
ABC
Jamie McPheeters
Dan O'Herlihy
Dakotas
Stony Burke
Arizona
United Artists
John Wayne
McClintock
Paramount
Paul Newman
Warners
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Robert Aldrich
Baby Jane
Texas
Anita Ekberg
Scouts Endure 36 Hour Shelter Test For Survival Badges
In Carthage Missouri 822 Boy Scouts endure a 36 hour Civil Defense shelter drill at Our Lady of Ozarks College. With limited CD survival crackers and water they earn merit badges in first aid radiological monitoring and communications. Some ask when the next test will be.
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Carthage
Graham
Michael Randall
Joplin
Ronnie Hailey
Randall
Our Lady of Ozarks College
Missouri
Kansas
R. S. Currey
Currey
ABC Moves To Undercut CBS Comedy Lineup In Fall
ABC TV unveils a fall slate aimed at counter programming against CBS comedy stars Lucille Ball Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith. New ABC dramas replace many CBS entries including Wagon Train Ben Casey and The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Hollywood
UPI
ABCTV
Allstar
Cbs-Tv
Lucille Ball
ABC
CBS
Miss Ball
Danny Thomas
Andy Griffith
Ben Casey
Dick van Dyke
Ed Sullivan
Judy Gar
Post Entertainment Finals On Top At Fort Sill
Fort Sill stages its annual entertainment finals on April 9 at 8 15 p m in Theatre No 3 featuring a wide range of winners from post preliminaries The event leads to Fourth Army entertainment finals in May hosted by Fort Sill Special Services Entertain ment division Winners span Service Clubs 1 3 6 with solos groups and classical numbers by named soldiers and bands including the 97th Army Band and multiple privates specials and noncommissioned officers.
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the Post
Fourth Army
Special Services
Service Club No
James Bruhn
Otis Bell
Dennis Castellano
Robert Carlson
Walter Notwicz
General’'s Men
97Th Army Band
Sois
Ken Miller
Gary Ainscough
Alvin Beck
David Ferguson
Pfc
James Rochell
Richard Massie
Max Gibson
William Jones
Kenneth Reynolds
Chuck Miller
Alphonso King
Service Club
Jessie Yawn
Thomas Shakelford
Charmers
Brenda Young
Gwendolyn Redding
Lamont Moore
Joseph Ferreira
Franklin Schneider
Michael Barton
Zen Forowycz
Richard Cuthill
Ford Gibson
Clearth
Craterville Festival Draws Texas and Oklahoma Teens
Hundreds of southwest Oklahoma and north Texas teen musicians converge on Craterville Park near Altus April 12-13 for the tenth annual Craterville trophy band festival. Hiram Henry of Oklahoma State University will judge, with no entry fee and awards for travel, color, showmanship, and sweepstakes.
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North Texas
Craterville Park
Altus
Hiram Henry
Oklahoma State University
Frank Rush
Lone Wolf
Okla
Altus Man Killed In Plane Crash Near Jal
Coleman Wade 41, of Altus Oklahoma, died in a light airplane crash. The wreckage was found near Jal New Mexico, eight miles northwest of town, with FAA noting the craft disappeared three days earlier. Wade, once a Plainview Texas contractor who helped build grain elevators for Billie Sol Estes, is identified in the report.
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N. M
UPI
Altus
Okla
Federal Aviation Agency
Coleman Wade
New Mexico- Texas
Kenneth Snyder
Wade
Plainview
Tex
Billie Sol Estes
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