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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1957
Page
14
The Lawton Kiwanis Club plans its annual Pancake Day from 7 am to 9 pm Tuesday at the Southwestern Bell Telephone building. Proceeds aid underprivileged children. Howard L. Freeman chairs. Wayne Gilley and Floyd Oak assist. Pancake menu includes pancakes eggs bacon sausage and beverages. tickets are $1 and sold by Downtown Kiwanian members.
Students presented the play In Booklead directed by Mrs Verda Lee Glass at Emerson Elementary. Fourth grade cast included Johnny Mayes Kathy Dayton Jeanette Royce Patty Johnson Janet Brown George Auzins Mike Flat hart Craig Downing Linda Kisay Victor Taylor Wilbur Pippi laudine Monfort Kathleen Klin kole Anne Lindblow John Adair.
Frederick Frederick Band returns from the Altaxy Band festival with three trophies. They took second in marching with excellent, second in sight reading with superior, and fourth in concert playing with excellent. A sax quartet earned excellent. Soloists and players earned ratings from superior to good across multiple members.
The Lawton Business and Professional Women hosts a Rural Acquaintance Dinner at noon Wednesday in the Old South Cafeteria club room. Miss Leta Smith, BPW club president, will preside at the annual event honoring area farm women.
Funeral services were conducted at First Christian church in Apache at 3 p m Friday officiated by Rev Owen W Reece with bearers C M Warner Gene Vail Charles Moran J B Roberts Bob Eeds all Apache and Jay Robert Fletcher. Burial followed at Fairview cemetery. A second service is planned for John Lee Carter at 2 30 p m Monday in Ridter Funeral home chapel. Carter 52 of 808 Jefferson died Friday at a local hospital. He was employed by Fort Sill civil service.
Shelton Taylor of Temple will represent the southwestern region of Oklahoma in the state Soil Conservation FFA speech contest later this month, representing his locality in the FFA event.
Salvation Army Captain Margaret Moore, a Nigeria mission worker, will speak at 7 30 p m Monday at the Salvation Army Citadel 1314 E Lawton unit unites in sponsorship from Altus and Chickasha. She has served five years in Africa and is on home leave. Native of Arkansas she studied at Oklahoma A&M College.
Special agent Earl Bowen has been designated to conduct the annual school census in Apache district in cooperation with the statewide survey. This assignment aims to update student counts for planning and funding purposes across the district.
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