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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1954
Page
4
In Wisconsin the recall vote looms as analysts debate Senator Joseph McCarthy’s home state appeal. Critics see a tight race with MCarthy facing potential opposition and his stance drawing mixed reactions from Appleton supporters and GOP backers alike.
In Egypt the old order shifts as Nasser consolidates power after Naguib’s brief cabinet reorganization. A decree issued under Naguib shifts influence toward Nasser, while the Revolu Council’s actions intensify the political struggle.
A Methodist layman from Louisiana, Bob Lay, will be the guest speaker at a Lawton Methodist Men meeting Friday night. The event aims to discuss church work and lay leadership within the local conference.
The federal home loan bank board debates a rule to ban dividend advertising by 3,304 insured savings and loan associations and similar restrictions for radio and TV ads. The measure aims to curb funds shifting from low to high dividend areas and concerns about advertising’s alignment with thrift and home financing goals. Also mentions two other rule reviews on advertising and insurance reserves. A separate brief notes Walter Dodson in Grandfield Oklahoma discovering a buried water meter after 30 years found it still works.
The Easter weekend claimed one life on Oklahoma highways, bringing the 1954 toll to 165. David Lee Nowab, 16, Talihina, died when his car overturned near Bentley in Atoka County. Passenger James Monroe Melton, 25, Antlers, suffered a fractured leg and head injuries. The state tally notes several high fatal weekends this year.
Census data show 116079 people on public payrolls across state and local units. About 5 percent work in arena government, with employment split among state, county, and city authorities.
April 19 observance honors Ernie Pyle the American journalist killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet nine years ago after landing with the Seventh Infantry Division. The ceremony featured bugles and taps to remember Pyle and his wartime reporting.
The pope pleads for a worldwide ban on the H-bomb, warning of fear and disaster from a potential third world war. He speaks while recovering from a stomach ailment and urges leaders to act before fatal despair takes hold.
British Communist movement faces a sharp drop from a peak strength of about sixty thousand in 1943 to a present maximum near thirty five thousand. It lost its only House of Commons seat in 1950 and now clamps onto the Electrical Trades Union with about one hundred fifty thousand members. In the past two months it failed to win leadership bids for Harry Pollitt the long time party figure born 1894 and a veteran boilermaker who helped form the party.
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