Scout Officials Press Support In Fund Shortfall
Scout finance chairman Thurston D. Nicklas said many calls indicate a community concern as the Girl Scouts withdraw from the Community Chest drive due to a budget cut. The Lawton unit received 1185.45 of a requested 4000, forcing a self-run drive to continue the program next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurston D. Nicklas
United Fund
United Fund-Red Cross
Nicklas
Lawton
Lawton Girl Scouts Association
Lloyd Bendure
Security Bank & Trust Company
Ten Years Ago In The Constitution Files
Ten years ago atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima signaled end of Pacific war and new era. Nancy Braggs, 17, leads Tulson birthday parade. Pete Danley sustains skull fracture in rodeo. Twenty years ago dances and a band concert marked city birthday. A CCC project at Fort Sill costs 18000 dollars. Fort Sill seeks two old army cannons lost in South Fork of Canadian River.
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Constitution Files
Liroshima
Nancy Braggs
Tulson
Lawton
Pete Danley
Union Park
CCC
Fort Sill
Sill
South
Canadian River
Edgar Hayes
Medicine Bluff
W .B. Bizzell
University of Oklahoma
Demonstration Clubs to Meet at Oklahoma A&M Campus
About 2,500 state home demonstration club members gather on the Oklahoma A&M campus in Stillwater for the 38th annual Farm Home conference. The four day event is sponsored by the college agricultural extension service.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma A&m
Agricultural Extension Service
Lee O. Evans Rites Planned in Sterling Church
Lee O. Evans 79 of Sterling died Wednesday at his daughter's home after years of illness. A retired farmer born in Stevensville Texas in 1876, he leaves three sons Earl Emmett Elmo. five daughters Iva Liles Goldie Greene Elsie DeSalvo Sybil Dunham. 19 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Sterling Baptist Church with burial in Rush Springs cemetery. Dalton Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include a brother and three sisters.
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Fletcher
Lee O. Evans
Sterling
Iva Liles
Evans
Stevensville
Tex
Sterling Baptist Church
Fred Cox
Howard Harrod
Rush Springs
Dalton Funeral Home
Earl Evans
Emmett Evans
Boise
Idaho
Elmo Evans
Elgin
Liles
Goldie Liles
Gladys Greene
Elsie DeSalvo
Nurnberg
Germany
Sybil Dunham
Lawton
C. G. Evans
Live Oak
Calif
Jennie Creveling
Oklahoma City
Julia Brummett
Dallas
Grace Cole
Oxnard
Price Of Eggs Rises Again In Local Market
Eggs have increased in price twice in two days per current market quoters. The price moved from 30 to .33 on Thursday and then to .35 today. Lawton Produce company cites a market shortage as the reason for the rise.
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Lawton Produce Company
Sears Celebrates First Birthday at Lawton Store
Sears Roebuck marked its first year at the 11th and Gore location with a large party drawing hundreds of shoppers. Dignitaries including O B Lord and I L Ginn helped slice a 240 pound birthday cake made with eggs, flour, butter, sugar, and milk as decorations weighed 100 pounds. Rain fell during the event witnessed by Lawton businessmen and many children.
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Sears Roebuck
11Th and Gore
C. R. Ellsworth
O. B. Lord
Lord
Bill Wilder
Lawton
D. J. Wagg
Sears Southwestern Territorial
I. L. Ginn
Sears
Oklahoma
Indian Schooling Fund Talk Stated
Indian education funds will be discussed by Lee McDonald of the Indian Education department in Oklahoma City at a meeting August 9 in the county superintendent’s office in the Comanche county courthouse. Superintendents of schools with Indian enrollment from Lawton Cache Indiahoma Geronimo Elgin Faxon Sterling Fletcher and Stony Point are invited to the 9 to 11 30 a.m. conference, Clarence Scott announced. The amount is set by district evaluation and Indian to white student ratio, typically about 28 cents a day.
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Lee McDonald
Indian Education Department
Oklahoma City
Comanche County
Clarence Scott
Lawton
Cache
Indiahoma
Geronimo
Elgin
Faxon
Sterling
Fletcher
Stony Point
Scott
Board To Study Carroll Request
Highway Patrol Chief Jack Rollins said Thursday that Trooper Norman Carroll’s 30 day suspension will be studied by a three man appeal board. No hearing date has been set. Carroll sought reopening after the board recently exonerated Trooper Bud Williamson in the same accident case. The panel includes Jim Lookabaugh Mac Q Williamson and Julius Cox.
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Highway Patrol
Jack Rollins
Norman Carroll
Patrol
Carroll
Lawton
Faxon
Oran H. Carson
Jim Lookabaugh
Three Man Board
Bud Williamson
Lookabaugh
Mac Q. Williamson
Julius Cox
Boise Ity
Nurses To Attend Capital Session
A group of practical nurses from Lawton and surrounding Comanche-Cotton county, Oklahoma Association of Licensed Practical Nurses members, plan to attend a state meeting on September 1 in Oklahoma City. Louise Moore of the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare will speak on extension courses and general education. Attendees should contact Alberta Tahkofper, local president.
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Lawton
Comanche-Cotton County
Oklahoma Association of Licensed Practical Nurses
Oklahoma City
Louise Moore
U. S. Department of Health Education and Welfare
Alberta Tahkofper
Convention Set At Hotel Lawtonian November
Mrs. Irma Stakely secretary and third vice president of the state association will chair the state convention at the Hotel Lawtonian from November 10 to 12. She is named chairman of the ways and means committee. During the Civil War Winchester Virginia changed hands 73 times, four times in one day.
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Irma Stakely
Vention
Lawtonian
Ways and Means
Winchester
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Yesteryears
Igre
Indian Schooling Fund
Roaches
Scorpions
Virgil Laird
D. Raibourn
Chester McCord
Appel
Yisntail
Biamond Guarantee
Jewelers
D Avenue
Everett Thompson
Gilbert-Woods Drug CO
Davenue
Napier
Pontiac
Oscar Cox
C’’ Avenue
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