McMahon Foundation Gives 1000 To Woodward Relief Fund
The McMahon Foundation and Mrs Louise D McMahon add 1300 to the Lawton Help Woodward fund raising total 3870 58 with 16 other donors contributing 262 50 in the last 24 hours to aid the town stricken by disaster. Board trustees include Winchell Barber Lawrence Keegan Charles Bledsoe John Shoemaker Mrs Ross Porter Ned Shepler and Mrs McMahon.
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McMahon Foundation
Louise D. McMahon
San Antonio
Eugene McMahon
Lawton
Woodward
Mr. Mhon
Winchell Barber
Lawrence Keegan
Charles Bledsoe
John Shoemaker
Ross Porter
Ned Shepler
McMahon
O. L. Parsons
M. M.nelmczyk
Centenary Methodist Sunday School
The
Parisian
E. EB. Neptune
Loyd
Edna Hermessee
Lou Sparlin
Co. D. Campbell
W. J
Bill) Davis
F. P. Aycock
WM. S. Trope
M. B. Trope
First Presbyterian Church
Arthur O'Holiday
J. W. Pruett
Medicine Park
J. S. Kuntz
Chief Renews Price Stand
President Truman urged business leaders at the U S Chamber of Commerce to reduce prices at all levels and fight inflation. He emphasized careful planning and waste elimination to lower costs while expanding production, saying private enterprise should move toward freer, broader competition.
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Washington
Truman
Partey
U. S. Chamber Od Commerce
John R. Steelman
Imodl
Man
New
United States
M&<s
Jow Pricks
Welleoaid Workingen
Womken
Chamber
Council to Appoint Sims as Policeman
Chief Joe Cable announced he would ask the council at tonight’s session to appoint Howard Sims of 1423 Ash as a member of the police department. Sims is the son of Mr and Mrs Sims of 318 Summit and Cal Sim is employed as a plain ordman in the department.
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Vf.ce
Joe Cable
Council
Howard Sims
Ash
Sims
Summit
Cal Simin Wis
Cable
Anchoo
Washington, D. C
Baseball Season Opener Slated in Lawton and Duncan
The Sooner State baseball opener is set for 3 pm at Me Park with Lawton facing Duncan in a three game series. Dick Ward says season tickets will be honored, regular admission charged, and concession rights awarded to PR. Ramey. Mein Fredericks, Giants ace, will start for Lawton.
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Mepark
Lawton
Duncan Beore
Dick Ward
PR. Ramey
Lawton Business
Wail Yezin
Mein Fredericks
Ace
Giants
Mosad
Lawton Club
Lawton Schools Awarded Lanham Act Aid
Lawton board of education announced federal grants under the Lanham Act totaling 54 870 to aid operating costs for the coming year. U S Sen Elmer Thomas and Rep Toby Morris wired the board secretary J 9 Kuntz that the Federal Works Administration approved the aid, though at 12 000 dollars. The smaller amount aids teacher salaries as the district remains crowded and had previously received 20 000 and 27 600 in prior years. Members pressed for approval and sought influence from Thomas and Morris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Board of Education
Lawton
U. S
Elmer Thomas
Toby Morris
Kuntz
Federal Works Administration
Thomas
Morris
Five Suspects Arraigned in $4900 Local Armed Robbery
Vernon Loveall, 31, Lawton, last of five suspects charged, seeks bond via writ of habeas corpus before District Judge Floyd Jackson. Four other defendants from Los Angeles and Lawton face charges. arraignment set for Monday, with all held without bond.
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Vernon Joe Loveaul
Lawton
Floyd Jackson
Jack Cummins
Loveall
John Manning
Bob Landers, Jr
Sagiatant
Robery
Perry Pugh
Sam Agriata
Emil Crowell
Los Angeles
Calif
Carl Eugene Duncan
Lawton Cook
Lovyeall
Pugh
Duncan
Crowell
Agriste
Manning
California
Laveall
W. G
Dick) Snell
Jack Greer
Sudanese Rising Against Indonesian Republic Reported
In Batavia on April 29 reports said about 200000 armed Sudanese in western Java revolted against the Indonesian republic. Heavy fighting was under way as the revolt threatened to split the new state. Premier Sutan Sjahrier led a movement that had secured a largely autonomous DUCKA government within the Dutch Sphere.
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Batavia
Java
Sutan Sjahrier
Dukca
Morris Seeks Homes Probe Over Lawton Project
Rep. Toby Morris asks VA and FHA to investigate complaints from wartime veterans who bought homes in Lawton Oklahoma under GI loan guarantees. He cites cement block construction and seepage in 40 unit Husley Spanish Village project, with 34 paid to veterans and six near completion. VA and FHA say Lawton project not FHA financed and no standards enforcement pending.
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Washington
Toby Morris
D-Okla
Lawton
Okla
Husley Spanish Village
Morris
Veterans Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Lawton-Fort Sill
Veterans of Foreign Wars
St. Louis
FHA
Aggie Students to Present Spring College Concert
Cameron college music department presents an 8 16 p m recital in Cameron auditorium featuring the college band under Hardy Suggs piano solos mixed quartet and boys quartet college mixed chorus and a choral Rosamunde cantata by Franz Schubert Elaine Smith music department head directs the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron College
College
Cameron Auditorium
Hardy Suggs
UN Palestine debate: Russia backs Arabs for British pledge
At the United Nations in Flushing, Russia backed Arab and Indian calls for Britain to pledge enforcement of any Palestine settlement. Britain signaled reservations on enforcing a UN recommended plan without wider support, while Gromyko signaled Soviet support for immediate Palestinian independence debate.
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United Nations Hall
Flushing
N. Y
India
Russia
United Nations
Great Britain
Palestine
Assembly
Britain
Holy Land
Asaf Ali
Alexander Cadigan
Wold
Nossia
Andrei Gromy
Egypt
Oswaldo Aranban
Brazil
Gromkin
Cadigan
Ali
Aniby Gromyko
Lenat
Aryanda
Teeson
Young Heiress Loses Plea For Separate Trial
Louise Overett a 1 year old heiress loses bid for separate trial and will face charges of murdering her parents with George Gollum 21 on May 26 in Banta Ana California. Superior Judge Franklin G West with special prosecutor Eugene D Williams rules jury can consider both counts of murder on the amended indictment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banta Ana
Calif
Louise Overett
George Gollum
Walter B. Overell
Franklin G. West
Eugene D. Williams
City Woman Fatally Hurt In Road Crash
Rites were pending at Marietta for Mrs. Sarah Emily Heldton 75 Lawton woman fatally injured in a traffic crash Monday evening on state highway No 7 two miles west of the Lawton Duncan. The accident left her skull fracture and brain concussion while her daughter Mrs Goldie Haster and son in law Leonard A Easter received minor injuries. Details were unavailable this afternoon. Mrs Heldton died at 10 in a Duncan hospital after being brought to Lawton in a Beeson Grantham ambulance. Mr Easter was dismissed after treatment and Mrs Easter was recovering today. Born October 16 1870 at McKinney Texas she was a widow living with the Easters at 20045 Sixth. Surviving children include Mrs Doris Coles Mrs Katie Easter W A Heldton Bruce Heldton and others plus eight grandchildren and three sisters. Her body was moved to a Marietta funeral home.
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Marietta
Sarah Emily Heldton
Lawton
Lawton-Duncan
Heldton
Goldie Haster
Leonard A. Easter
Easters
Doris Coles
le Sowel Sartin
Port Worth
Katie Easter
Ardmore
W. A. Heldton
Bruce Heldton
Prams
Ola Lewis
Alice Stewart
Wilson, Okla
Idi Rogers
Marietta Funeral
Oil Slick Near Vancouver Tied to Missing TCA Plane
An airman searching for a Trans-Canada Airlines plane missing with 16 aboard reports an oil slick one to two acres in size located one mile from Vancouver. The discovery suggests a possible link to the missing aircraft.
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Vancouver
B.C
iPi
Trans-Canada Airlines
City Dads to Hear Paying Complaint Over District 67
City council session to consider protests from District 67 in Fields and Dunning about paying assessments not properly levied. Some owners allege parcels lie outside city limits. former city engineer Wyatt Hendrick says assessments follow state statute interpretations. A paying committee plans to meet to review protests this afternoon, with attorneys possible at tonight's meeting.
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Bard of
Jone
Wryatt Hendrick
Marshall says Russia stalls but urges action on Europe recovery
Secretary of State Marshall reports to the nation that Stalin urged delaying major settlements until exhaustion ends. He pins blame on Russia for Moscow talks failure and cites the need for rapid moves toward economic unity of the American and British occupation zones in Germany.
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Ashington
United States
Russia
Europe
Stalin
Marshall
Kremlin
Marshail
Austria
Germany
Washington
Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
George
Marshall Tellay
Moscow
Marsh
Joack Stalin
Gram
Slidin
Soviet Union
Union Charges Firm Refuses Bargain Plan
The 23 day telephone strike hit a wall as AT&T refused a union wage offer with vice president Robert Creasey accusing the company of refusal to bargain. AT&T executive A T Dring countered that they are willing to arbitrate, with Creasey noting demands of 6 dollars weekly or 15 cents hourly boosts. Federal Mediator Margolis recessed the session after a half hour, promising separate talks to try again. Conciliations with Southwestern Bell and Western Electric were delayed. some expect a wage offer after other companies respond.
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Washington
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Robert Creasey
Long Lines
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Teft
Lieson Impany
George S Dring
A. ‘T. & T. Long Lines
Creasey
Deing
William N. Margolis
Southwestern Bed Telephone Co
Western Electric Co
AT & T
Jong Lines
Northwestern Telephone
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Missed era obituary for Lawton woman Beulah Pannell
Mrs Beulah Pannell 49 of Lawton died Monday at her home 413 Jefferson funeral services pending. She had lived in Lawton since 1943 and was a Baptist church member. Survived by husband W S Pannell two children Ray and Ralph six brothers a sister and many grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Beulah Pannell
Jefferson
California
Becker Funeral Home
Pannell
Woolsey
Okla
Cement
Montague County
Texas
Oklahoma
Walters
Hosie Lyle
Park
LeRoy Goodgson
Needles
Calif
Raymond Vowell
Temple
Raymond Vowel
G. Alan
C. W. Gray
Armsags Pass
Tex
B. F. Grayson
Route One
R. E
J. E. Grayson
Harlingen
H. L. Grayson
Chickasha
L. D. Grayson
San Bonita
Mra
Alice Kerkendall
Hace Yingen
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A.T
Chier
Iatim Pasha
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Andrus
Department of Communication
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Voice of America
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