Lawton School Board Moves to Seize Building Site
Lawton's board of education authorized condemnation proceedings to acquire a central block on block A and B avenues and 13th streets for a future junior or senior high school. The session also approved a $1,206 roof contract, equipment purchases totaling over $14,000, and a new front curtain for the Joe Lawton High auditorium. The board planned a special session May 5 to confirm next year’s staffing and budget, with state aid funds to be sought.
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Oklaha City
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Black’ Tor Co
Jake Witzel
Ford
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Rice’ S Machinery Co
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Rites Conducted For Mrs. Ferrell
Funeral services for Mrs Tha Moe Ferrell, 67, were held Monday afternoon 12 miles north of Lawton. The Lawton funeral home, with W A Wilcox of the First Baptist church, officiated. Music by Martha Jane Wilcoxson and Jack Ballew. Pallbearers were Carl Marxeen Albert Marxsen Bill Dinge Morris Bay Red Davis and Kenneth Clapp. Burial in Highland cemetery. Resident of Comanche county for about 30 years, she died in her sleep last Wednesday night.
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Lawton
Lawton Funeral
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Jack Ballew
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Albert Marxsen
Bill Dinge
Morris Bay
Red Davis
Kenneth Clapp
Highland Cemetery
Mra. Forrest
Comanche County
Cameron Students To Present Tribal Songs And Dances
Cameron college hosts a Tilanahe club program titled Teepee Tales with tribal songs and dances. Delegations from Fort Sill and Riverside Indian Schools perform in Cameron auditorium. Harnest Oldshield, a Cameron sophomore and Seneca Sioux, serves as master of ceremonies. The event includes a coronation of the Teepee Tales princess chosen from Ittawaha girls Paula Chant Deuna Myers Mabel Coffey and Delores Toyeba vote counting determines the winner. Proceeds fund Cameron delegates to the state Ittawaha convention at Oklahoma A and M Stillwater next Friday and Saturday featuring state officers and the Ittan Khe queen.
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Bunny" Rhoades
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Comanche
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Osage
Hominy
Lawton High School Hosts Dinner for Officials and Wives
Lawton high school homemaking students prepared a formal dinner for school officials and their wives Monday night at the high school home economics department. Hosts included Mrs Ruth Spencer, Miss Carriq Fisher, and Mrs Opal Clare with senior students assisting.
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Lawton High School
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Tustin Kuntz
Hugh Bish
Misa
A. Richardson
Joe Porter
Roy Burt
David Sly
Exall English
Donald Arigus
Mike Brandan
Board of Education
Ruth & Spencer
Carriq Fisher
Opal Clare
Ninth grade Homemaking Team Names Missing Members
Food related note lists Donna Shaw Shirley Turner Gerry Truesdale Emma Lou Whiting and Edith Whiting as participants with incomplete context from a ninth grade Homemaking class item.
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Donna Shaw
Shirley Turner
Gerry Truesdale
Emma Lou Whiting
Edith Whiting
Dining room hostesses named in service roster
The roster lists dining room hostesses including Thelma Seale Marjorie Brandon Betty Edwards Jo Van Stane Norma Jean Spencer Helen Hughes and Wanda Burt.
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Thelma Seale
Marjorie Brandon
Betty Edwards
Jo van Stane
Norma Jean Spencer
Helen Hughes
Wanda Burt
New taxi fleet grows as cabs outpace prewar numbers
New tax cabs around NW York report a fleet surge with over two to one more cabs than prewar vehicles. About 7,450 new cabs were delivered in the last year, bringing the total operating cabs to roughly 11,080.
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York
New York
Moss Patterson Named Member of Affairs Board
Oklahoma City April 4. Moss Patterson prominent Oklahoma rancher and Mid-Continent Trailways president was named to the state board of affairs effective April 15. He replaces Jerry Cravens Seminole who resigned to focus on business. Gov Roy J Turner cited Patterson as a long time friend and noted Patterson’s prior service on the McAlester school board and in civic roles. Patterson has ties to Hereford country in southern Oklahoma and has served as a bank vice president and Rotary district governor.
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Turner
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