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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1953
Page
12
The Lawton Constitution listing provides names for editorial and business roles including Bill F. Bentley as Business Manager, Ted Ralston, managing editor, W. R. Rice, advertising manager, and W. D. Hargraves, mechanical superintendent, with a general contact phone line for all departments at 620.
A reflective religious note cites I Peter 5 14 and Kennedy praising peace as divine power guiding souls toward God. It contrasts peace with ongoing striving and tears, urging spiritual consolation for believers.
War reports from the Korean War era describe repatriated American and UN soldiers returning in poor health with rampant tuberculosis. Accounts include jeering charges of coercion, staged propaganda by Reds, and prisoners bearing evidence of starvation, gaunt bodies, and injuries. The piece denounces Communist tricks and questions moral displacement.
The piece weighs whether Malenkov lied about the U S losing its hydrogen bomb edge. It explains long range detection, tritium scarcity, and the heavy cost of tritium versus plutonium, concluding the claim is serious but not necessarily fatal for the U S, and warns against sacrificing plutonium bombs for a single two megaton hydrogen device.
The schedule lists NBC MBS ABC and CBS programs with anchors and show times from 5:00 to 8:55 PM CST. Notable entries include Eddie Fisher Rosemary Clooney Doris Day Johnny Dollar and 21st Precinct plus news segments hosted by Murrow Heatter Parsons and De Canham.
Dr Edwin P Jordan discusses a reader's 4-year-old daughter who is constantly restless and fussy. He notes normal limits of concentration at that age, warns against overindulgence, stresses parental security and balanced discipline, and urges watching physical and mental development while modeling calm behavior.
In Burbank California Lockheed Aircraft Corp began upgrading its wind tunnel facilities on Tuesday to test engines with more than twice the thrust of the most powerful jet then existing.
Carl S Wilson son of Mr and Mrs Leslie J Wilson Rt 2 Law ton is completing basic air man indoctrination at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas. He is receiving training to prepare for entry into Air Force technical training and eventual unit assignment.
Hollywood reports Paul Mantz piloted a hedgehop across the U S in a B25 with a three-eyed Cinerama camera, filming 32 countries for a new feature tentatively titled Seven Wonders of the World. He dodged danger, described as a genius, and praised by Todd Oviatt for perfectionism and caution. Joan Crawford was nearly cast in From Here to Eternity, while Robert Cohn suffered a heart attack and Frances Heflin stirred a shop dispute. Republic announced Tobor, a Science Fiction thriller using Vistarama, and Wall Street sees cinema rebounding as TV and radio rise. In Las Vegas the Flamingo plans a 31-inch screen for the casino and What’s My Line may air there.
Dr Otis F Curtiss of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station reports a new hormone brush killer for destroying small trees and brush. It can be sprayed on leaves or painted on trunks when mixed with kerosene or fuel oil, providing a practical application method.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seeks a peaceful Korea truce amid hard lines from Syngman Rhee and U.N. allies. He weighs six month patience for reunification against a fragile alliance, stressing the unprovoked aggression clause while striving to please both Washington and Seoul.
A compact crossword style item listing across and down clues for a television actress theme with several botanic and archaic terms, including Papal cape and Century as clue hints. The grid references many common crossword entries such as edibles, tools, and natural phenomena, inviting solution of a connected actor name.
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In Pacoima California motorist William J Stickler was arrested after a four mile chase in which he allegedly committed 18 traffic violations. He protested I always drive that way as police halted him. In Columbus Ohio State Auditor James A Rhodes told Athalia village it must stop fining drunks under its ordinance. The audit found no ordinance authorizing drunkenness fines and ordered reimbursements to any offender who paid.
In Houston on August 11 Sheriff’s Warrant Officer G R Poole recovered a missing watch. He traced the item to the bottom of a bathtub used by his pet raccoon Rocky, after a night of quiet theft.
It cost 400 dollars to replace a broken window at the Iowa State Capitol. Most of the money funded an eighty seven foot scaffold to reach the window in the capitol dome.
PANMUNJOM Korea Aug 11 Allied officers said South Korean farmers attacked a convoy of Communist prisoners Monday not from political sentiment but because the prisoners did not strip and toss their clothing as customary. The farmers wanted the clothing for themselves.
President Virgil M. Hancher of the University of Iowa presided as two presidential sons received degrees in Iowa City. Virgil M. Hancher Jr and Robert A Jesup, son of former president Walter A Jesup who led from 1916 to 1934, were honored with their degrees.
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