Births and admissions update from area hospitals
Births listed for families including Barber Ring Cotton Humble with April dates and weights. Large roster of admitted and discharged patients across town hospitals with multiple names and homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Barber
Rodney Ring
Ferris
George Cotton
Keith Humble
Chattanooga
Retail Sales Up Two Million in Comanche County
February retail sales in Comanche County totaled 11 753 300, up nearly 2 million from a year earlier, per the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Lawton February sales reached 11 283 450 based on two cent state sales tax, excluding autos and other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Lawton
Arty National Library Week Sets Arts Focus in Lawton
Lawton observes National Library Week April 16 22 with an arty theme. Carnegie Library hosts daily events including a home poisons display an art print checkout area and a pet display for kids. Demonstrations by Mrs Dimondo and Mrs Bradley at 230 pm Tuesday and Wednesday and OTIS service demos Thursday.
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National Library
Lawton
Carnegie Public Library
Fifth
B Avenues
Lucy Dimondo
Comanche County Improvement Foundation Inc
William Bradley
Carnegie Library
OTIS
Oklahoma
Children’s Department
National Library Week
Nixon
Lawton National Library Week
Henry Nabers
E. G. Haney
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Charles Green
Library Board
Beverly Stapleton
Kswo Television
Bill Crawford
The
Lawton Constitution Press
Students Place In Cameron College Foreign Language Meet
Fourteen Eisenhower High School students nine Lawton High students and one MacArthur student earned places at Cameron College Foreign Language Competition. Winners received dictionaries and all placers certificates professors from Cameron judged. named by school and language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower High School
Lawton High
MacArthur
Cameron College
Cameron
Eisenhower High
Pat Arena
Yvonne Willis
Ariane Kuhni
Christiane Kuhni
Eisenhower
Cornelia Mitchell
Bonita Lawrence
Yvonne Stephenson
Peggy Horton
Joan Hunt
Wolfgang Davidson
Regina Glen
Linda Cole
Origin of Yellow Journalism Traced to The Yellow Kid
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that yellow journalism emerged in the 1890s from a comic series titled The Yellow Kid. It was produced alternately by rival New York newspapers, shaping sensationalist reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Funeral services for Moss and two other local figures
Funeral services are set in Okeene for Edward Roy Moss 80 with burial in Rose lawn Cemetery following a 2 p.m. service at the First United Methodist Church led by Rev. Ken Tobler. Moss had been a Ford dealer and farming community leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Roy Moss
Okeene
Donald L. Means
Okeene First United
Lawton
Mr. Moss
Freeport
Kaw
Irene G. Morgan
Wichita
Kan
Ford Automobile Agency
Okeene Milling Company
Okeene First
Hanau
Germany
Nester
McArthur Junior High School
Bishop Riding Club
Flower Mound United Methodist Church
Fort Worth
Tex
Tresa Katherine Walker
Bakersfield
Calif
Jimmy Lee Daniels
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Junior Wright
Kingfisher
Nola Ann Dodson
Key Largo
June Hembree
Douglasville
Lawton High Wins Sweepstakes at Comanche Meet
Lawton High School captured the sweepstakes trophy at a beginner's speech tournament in Comanche. It was the third trophy in five tournaments this year with eight superior ratings six ex cellents and one good earning the top points total, said speech department chairwoman Leslie Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton High School
Comanche
LHS
Leslie Howard
Earth Week Proclaimed Here by Mayor Whitaker
Mayor Don Whitaker signed a proclamation declaring this week Earth Week in Lawton. The Environmental Quality Advisory Board will award each month to the school business or individual contributing most to environmental improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Whitaker
Environmental Quality Advisory Board
Lawton
Whitaker
Deadliest reef creature the stonefish described
The article warns that the stonefish is the deadliest reef creature with thirteen spines on its back. Each spine injects venom from paired glands, delivering a potent nerve poison with no known antidote.
Sheridan Road PTA Plans Word Book Fair
Sheridan Road Elementary School PTA members plan a paperback book fair at the school Tuesday through Thursday. They aim to sell about 1500 books from 9 am to 5 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday and 9 am to noon on Thursday. All students made bookmarks and posters for attendees. Books are supplied by a local bookstore with the PTA keeping 20 percent of sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheridan Road
PTA
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