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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1954
Page
4
The Redstone tunnel of the Guided Missile Development Division screens hundreds of miniature missile tests. Dr. Ernest Geissler leads the Aero ballistic Laboratory using indirect air flow, prisms, mirrors and high speed cameras to record results remotely.
Officials of the American Legion warn veterans of expirations affecting benefits and urge timely applications. J. L. Zipen notes Korea era veterans must apply by July 16 for mustering-out pay, World War I veterans should remit premiums to the VA Central Office with care to avoid lapse. district offices handle World War I premiums for life insurance. The annual child welfare conference will be held at the American Legion Home School near Ponca City for post officials to meet and discuss sponsored events.
Testi was an uncle, Tommy Walton of Pryor. Walton, 22, was stabbed eight times last December after a Christmas Eve party at his mother’s home. Dodson is being tried in District Judge Josh Evans's court.
Geary Oklahoma April 13 UP A construction foreman Bill McGowan 35 of Watonga fell 120 feet from the top of a bin to a concrete floor and was killed. He was the second worker to die on an Oklahoma elevator project recently, following a death last month at Enid.
Washington April 13 The Air Force will cut aircraft output gradually from about 12 000 planes a year to roughly 6 000 by late 1956 with most cuts coming to combat types as the postwar build up winds down It reflects a shift from wartime production to peacetime air power with steady declines already signaled by Defense officials.
Tulsa reports a new oil pool in the upper Morrow formation in western Kansas. Stanolind officials say the M. Huber No. 1 U.S.A. gas and oil well in Morton County tested at TM feet with 1,475 feet of 40 gravity crude recovered, noting the oil is at a different level than the nearby gas field.
Former Lawton resident Capt Aaron Burleson arrives today for a visit with his mother Mrs Mae Burleson at 7 N 31st. He is stationed at Pepperell air base St Johns Newfoundland.
Dr. Thomas H. Reynolds will retire as head of the history department at Oklahoma A&M College on June 30. He has led the department for 28 years and will pursue other scholarly work.
Salzburg Austria hosts 450 American children from 14 300 in Europe as they study history geography and Austrian culture on tours to Berchtesgaden Hitler's mountain retreat and the Hellbrunn Palace. The renamed St. George School offers German lessons folk songs and crafts with bilingual visual aids and a nurse on site.
Stillwater Oklahoma Dr. Schiller Scroggs dean of the college at A&M has been elected president of the North Rural Association of Academic Deans. He has served at A&M for 26 years.
Tulsa April 13 UP The nation s top tax official predicts Congress will approve plans to end personal income tax returns for about 35 million taxpayers. Commissioner T Coleman Andrews says the Department already favors a bill that would let the revenue service bill for tax due or issue refunds directly. He spoke at a conference and Rotary luncheon in Oklahoma City and doubts further income tax cuts are imminent.
Funeral rites for Kathryn Ann Sims will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the First Methodist Church. Burial follows in Highland Cemetery with Lawton Funeral Home in charge. The child died at 5 a.m. Monday in a Little Rock hospital.
Mrs Ratner born June 5 1891 in Missouri came to Lawton in 1924 from Apache. She married Samuel P Ratner in 1930 at Lawton and was a member of the First Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband two sisters Mrs Meade Lemise Los Rex Shafer Apache.
Blackwell Oklahoma announces Jack ee ee ee ok eatin ot assumed the role of acting postmaster today. He succeeds Charles McMullan in the position.
Harris says the contractor will have materials on site in about two weeks. The armory sits on a 300 by 600 foot park area off U S 62 between Fort Sill Blvd and US 277, with the main building planned in diameter.
Higgins will be offered a position in the motor fuel division of the commission, with Mike Conners stating the plan.
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