Court Keeps Kytle Zoning Order In Lawton
Lawton Superior Court Judge Landers kept the restraining order against the city in the Jack Kytle zoning dispute and gave both sides extra time to file briefs. The case tests the legality of Lawton’s zoning ordinance used to bar Kytle from operating a real estate office in a restricted residential area. Kytle, at 1802 Sheridan Road, had been charged in municipal court with violating the ordinance. Githen Rhoads, city special counsel, said briefs are due. both sides are expected to file.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Robert S. Landers
City of
Lawton
Jack Kytle
Kytle
Sheridan Road
Githen Rhoads
City
Small Employment Dip Fails To Blur Total Area Outlook
Comanche county mid July employment shows a small drop in agricultural workers offset by gains in non agricultural areas bringing total to 16 350 from 16 525 in mid June and 17 575 last July. Placement activity rose in agriculture with broom corn crops and non agricultural sectors showed steady gains led by wholesale retail trade and public utilities.
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Comanche County
Virginia Kidson
State Employment Service
Stephens, Cotton
Comanche Counties
Lawton
Stephens
Cotton
The
Employment Service
Thunderbirds training camp eyes Fort Hood encampment
Thunderbirds aim to cut expenses and gain two nights in the field at Fort Hood with the Oklahoma National Guard. Maj. Gen. Hal Muldrow announced extended field training to test big guns and other weapons not usable at armories while allowing bivouacs and semi tactical drills. Gov. Raymond Gary planned a mid encampment visit as commander in chief, with Lawton personnel listed across units and ranks from headquarters to co. A. The roster spans officers noncommissioned staff and enlisted men from multiple grades.
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Fort Hood
Hal Muldrow
Guard
Thunderbirds
Army
Raymond Gary
Oklahoma National Guard
Preliminary Set For Negro Woman In Mate's Death
Mary Hamilton, 39, Lawton, charged with murder in the shooting of her husband at 216 North First Street after a dispute. She pleaded innocent before City Judge Ralph Cline and was jailed without bond. Preliminary hearing set for 9:30 a.m. Thursday. investigation ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Hamilton
Lawton
Ralph Cline
Lewis Derke
Pioneer Woman Parade Highlights Lawton Event
The parade featured Marsha Brown daughter of Lt Col and Mrs Phillip Brown and a rep of the Pioneer Woman statue led by Keith Aycock. It included many entries such as Pioneer club Old Settlers Forget Me Not club and the Lawton FFA chapter with riding clubs Walters and Lawton. City dignitaries on the reviewing stand included Civic club presidents and Mayor C R Ellsworth among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marsha Brown
Phillip Brown
Fort Sill
Walters
Betsy
Hunters Club
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Pioneer Club
Old Settlers Organization
Forget-Me-Not Club
Business and Professional Women's Club
la Fiesta
Hillside 4-H
Red Cross
Comanche County Amateur Radio Emergency Club
Unity Rebekah Lodge
Lions Club
VFW Post 1193
Lawton Ffa Chapter
Abe March
Oklahoma
Keith Aycock
G. M. Brooks
Lawton
Lawtonians
Civic Club
J. O. Conner
Jack Carter
Hugh Bish
Manville Redman
Clarence Aubrey
Nell Franklin
Elmer Bauman
Latha H. Prosser
R. M. Dodson
C. R. Ellsworth
Emmett Keough
Don Drum
Carrie Atkins
Jack Spencer
Lodell Goodey
Hubert Young
Renard Stringer
Exall English
Vernon Howell
William A. Campbell
H. D. Hastings
John Shoemaker
Hal Hallett
Harris Hancock
Ralph Hennessee
Gladys Corrales
Ralph Holt
Gertrude Furman
Cecil Carter
Ray Young
Leroy Leister
Fred Larrance Sr
Clark Botkin
City budget details major capital and department gains
The plan authorizes a 12000 dollar city match with federal funds for a 24000 dollar health unit addition, trims park board requests by 39000, and grants 8000 more than last year for the department. It funds bridges, drainage, measuring stations, and riprapping. plus new utilities gear, an ordinance codification project, legal expense cuts, garbage trucks, and plant improvements with detailed itemized costs.
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Park Board
Ellsworth
24Th
North 23Rd
Baltimore
Cheyenne
Atlanta
25Th
Squaw Creek
Utilities Department
McMahon Auditorium Board
Pioneer Day Program Highlights Lawton Pioneer Club
Memorial services featured Auld Lang Syne as the Lawton Pioneer Day program closed. Lawton High School band under George Walters performed. Cpl Proctor sang The Star Spangled Banner. The Pioneer Women’s club, begun January 1938 by seven women at Anna Ingraham’s home, aims to unite Lawton pioneers and celebrate Lawton’s birthday each August 6. Officers listed along with current committee assignments and past presidents from 1938 to 1953.
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Lawton High School
George Walters
Cpl
Carroll Proctor
Pioneer Women's Club
Anna Ingraham
Lawton
March
John March
Stella DeBoy
R. B. Stewart
Clements
J. W. Middleton
Nettie Pippin
Stewart
Fred Heinz
W. E. Provine
Olive Herron
W. M. Matthews
Parks
Helen Bowlin
Bess Belcin
Rufus Carothers
John Seaman
J. D. Pool Sr
Bertha Chapman
DeBoy
Ida Whitescarver
Neville Carlock
Ruth Clark
Pippin
Probing Search For Sapulpa Man Drowned At Reservoir
Firemen and state troopers dragged the Heyburn reservoir without success Saturday in a search for a 42 year old Sapulpa man believed drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sapulpa
Okla
Heyburn
Sunray Net Income Tops $17 Million
Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. and subsidiaries report net income of $17,628,546 for the first half of 1955 in Tulsa. Gross income reached $147,509,980 while depletion and related costs were $21,074,145 and taxes $8,997,741. Earnings on common stock stood at $1.06 per share as of June 30, 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co
City drives fund drives to support agencies this year
The article notes money from United Fund Red Cross to operate next fiscal year and that Girl Scouts accuse discrimination and have started their own drive. Cabinet plans emphasize employee giving with a goal of a day's wages from every firm employee. Drive is later this year due to busy school openings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Fund - Red Cross
Enroll For Second Week Of YM Day Camp
Thirty five boys have enrolled in the YMCA day camp at Union Park Warren W. Smith announces. The three week camp runs August first to August nineteenth with daily 9 am activities including leather craft photography nature study and kickball tournaments. Four teams Dodgers Giants Cardinals Yankees compete while tours of local firms and visits to Fort Sill swimming instruction and recreation continue.
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Union Park
Fifth
Eighth Streets
Warren W. Smith
YMCA
Dodgers
Yankees
Giants
Cardinals
Dodger
Giant
Lawton Constitution-Morning
City Post Office
Mead’s Bakery
KSWO
Public Service Co
Fort Sill
Earl Hamberger
Joe Crosby
Leo Woodall
Mike Wyant
Smitty Barnes
Jerry Thomason
Phil Clark
Funeral Rites For Sterling Farmer Mote At 74
Sterling resident Thomas A Mote a farmer for 35 years died Saturday at age 74. Services set for 2 pm Tuesday at the Baptist church with Rev Fred Cox officiating. burial in Sterling cemetery. Born November 1 1880 in Macon Georgia he is survived by two sons Jim Mote Sterling and Dale Mote San Antonio ten grandchildren and several brothers and sisters.
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Sterling
Thomas A. Mote
Baptist Church
Fred Cox
Sterling Cemetery
Mote
Macon
Jim Mote
Dale Mote
San Antonio
Tex
Loyce Lindstrom
San Bernardino
Calif
Berwyn Alvardo
LaVerne Montgomery
Ann Anderson
Oklahoma City
la Vera Sena
Wells Mote
Tulia
E. H. Mote
DeRitter
Carroll Mote
Greenwood
Beatrice Wood
Fort Worth
Edna Atkenson
Decatur
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Lawton Constitution & Morning Press
Milton C. Worley
George M. Donovan
Benson Hargett
Wayne C. Hendrix
Ralph W. Correll
John E. Plank
Robert E. Sims
CWOW
Dale Ward
John Cremer
Jerry Glandon
Gene Ingle
Joseph D. Johnson
Arthur Bigson
Charles Myers
Charles Cremer
Norman W. Foster
Howard Hudson
Forrest Kassanavoid
Henry N. King Jr
Marvin Lowe
Tommy McCullar
Royse Moore
Darwen Porter
Murl Porter
Joe Skrole Jr
James Waller
Eugene E. Carter
Jimmie Glandon
Joe Grayson
Henry W. Shehorn
Delmas L. Jackson
Roy West
Glenn R. Headley
Lyman B. Kidwell Jr
Laurence E. Morgan Jr
Kenneth Rose
Leonard Teakell
Harvey W. Townsend
Jack Kidder
Wesley Lackey
Kenneth McCullar
Elwyn Metcalf
Lyle Whatley
Jimmy Wiersema
Franklin Williams
Ronald Yoder
Norman Monroe
Hugh G. Payne Jr
Bill C. Kiser
Jimmy R. Newman
Charles R. Goodin
Leo Holmes
Clyde Jameson
Ford Verma
Sfc
McEdward Law
Vernon H. Allison
Cecil Chatham
Billy Cummings
John Grose
Royce Mahavier
Bobby Mansell
Bob Nauman
Francis Varline
Leonard Vowell
Doug Beasley
Virgil Brower
Otto Byars Jr
Ronnie Choat
Billy Davis
Milton Peabeashy
Ruben Ringgold
Tommy Wells
Ray Williams
Charles Wootten
Joe D. Cummins
Phillip Gillock
William Jones
Floyd McAdams
James McGinley
Bob Nottingham
Chadwick Payne Jr
Rudolph Perez
Jack Reynolds
Herbert Riddle
Milton Roth
Franklin Smith
William Stearns
Ollie Vice
William Waller
Charles Warehime
Jerry Weaver
Huey Wyles
Raymond Harris
James May
Horace Wheeler
Donnie Bowden
Fred Collier
Carrol Dlugosch
Jerry Hoopert
Gary
Billy A. Jones
John J. Jacques
John R. Mavity
Joe Musgrove
Donald Sawin
Capps Tehauno
Jimmy A. Branstetter
Charles E. Cole
Harvey W. Cornwell
Alvis G. Gibson
James L. Hawkins
Joe D. Helvey
Jackie L. Hall
Gail E. Nance
Donald G. Poolaw
Paul A. Seigler
Charles F. Seigler
Luther O. Shipman
Jimmy W. Atterberry
Paul Carson
Harold Crawford
Jimmy Huddleston
Kenneth Hilliary
Jimmy Lanman
William Nelson
Robert Runyan
Arthur Shepler
James Smith
Herman Simpson
Harlon Speigel
Charles Westfall
Wayne Young
John Andrews
William Barnett
Donald Brown
James Daubenspeck
Jon Hair
Lawrence Hughes
Danny Martin
Robert Muse
Paul Sears
Alfred Slatten
Glen Thompson
Bennie Wimple
Almus V._ Dickenson
Harold Johnson
Marcos Quinones
Derrell Musgrove
Troy Weddle
Ray Boone
Glen Briggs
Wayland Brown
Leland Brown
Clyde Cornell
Melton Davis
Avery Thompson
Don Wooth
Janette Rowell
Lillie Leininger
Ingraham
Mattie Ozman
Heinz
Florence White
Evans
Seaman
Percival
Robert Brown
Matthews
Sunray
le Vole
Jo. G. Andrews
M & D Finance CO
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Burns Ford Drug
Sheridan
Cache Road
Mathes
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