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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1954
Page
10
OKLAHOMA CITY April 29 UP A man told officers Bob Perdue and C M Hinderliter he had a neighbor woman in his car who was going to have a baby The officers rushed to University Hospital and delivered a baby girl named Thelma Newby 26 P
The Constitution's Yesteryears notes Joe R. Reed, president of Reed Air lines, announcing the company will discontinue service May 1. Richard H. Lawrence named manager of the district re employment office in Lawton. M. P. Keleher, county fair chair, outlines about 400 Co manche county 4H and FFA youths for the county junior fair next September. George Overstreet is identified in a separate item. A bicycle collision injures a man named Law. Eddie Reed, Lawton seaman second class, completes boat training at San Diego.
In 1953 the United States exported over one billion dollars in gold while imports of gold were zero, signaling a record outbound balance for the metal and shaping postwar monetary policy.
Memphis oil financier James E. Patteson Jr. testifies as the government’s star witness in a trial of William F. Snakard and Dr. W. J. Devine over a $400,000 oil swindle. He admits using threats to gain control of a $1 million Texas venture and notes a July 16, 1951 hotel room confrontation in Brownwood Texas to sway Snakard and his associates.
Fluorides were planned for Elyria city water last Thursday but complaints about taste flooded the water department. Testing delays meant the additive only entered the supply yesterday.
NATO delegates in Paris assessed Soviet military strength. They report a 22 division Red spearhead in East Germany with 60 more divisions in eastern Europe and West Russia, plus 80 satellite divisions. They warn Russia could swell from 255 to about 400 divisions within 30 days of war.
In Seminole Oklahoma a preliminary hearing was scheduled in Superior Court for Betty Stone age 33 held on a murder charge in the shooting death of her husband Arthur W. Stone 49 at their home Monday night. Stone pleaded innocent at arraignment in justice court.
Skelly Oil Co announces net income of 7,165,481 for the first quarter of 1954 in Tulsa. The report compares with 7,245,187 earned in the same period a year earlier, noting gross figures of 296,900 for the 1954 quarter.
The Salk anti-polio vaccine test proceeds smoothly with inoculations in 83 counties across 27 states. The foundation reports 78 to 90 percent of eligible children vaccinated and only minor brief fevers as after-effects in a few cases.
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More than one million children are expected to take part in the tests. In New York 20,439 of 22,005 youngsters whose parents consented received shots by day two. San Antonio officials who halted the test earlier re instated the program amid a PTA protest.
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