Mrs. Thomison Jr. honored at postnuptial shower
A postnuptial shower for Yvonne Ballou Thomison, bride of Raymond L. Thomison Jr., was hosted Tuesday night in the Centenary Methodist church parlors by a group of co hosts. Hostesses included Virginia Barnes Anna Claire Swanson Maerita Riddle Delores Warner and Katy Kay Keathley. Numerous friends relatives and elders from the Ballou and Thomison circles attended and offered gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond L. Thomison Jr
Centenary Methodist Church
Virginia Barnes
Anna Claire Swanson
Maerita Riddle
Delores Warner
Katy Kay Keathley
H. L. Ballou
Ash
Yvonne Ballou
Raymond L. Thomison Sr
Gore
Carol Crossland
Gail Ewing
Mary
Nancy Klass
Virginia Partain
Bernice Smith
Joey Johnston
Hattie Jo Carlton
Joanna Green
Opal Wiley
Alice Shoemaker
Marion Austin
Billie Jean Winter
Shirley Stovall
Kay Kinmonth
Ann Kirkpatrick
Jan Hutchins
Janice Parker
Jane Herskowitz
Phoebe
Former Area Residents Marry in Winnipeg United Church
Miss Flossie Lee and James D. Sawers were married at Harrow United Church in Winnipeg Canada officiated by Rev Bruck Johnson. The couple resides in Woodside Manitoba after a Kenora trip. Miss Lee is the daughter of Clyde Lee Saddle Mountain. Mr Sawers is son of J Sawers Haney B C and the late Mrs Sawers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saddle Mountain
Flossie Lee
James D. Sawers
Harrow United Church
Winnipeg
Canada
Bruck Johnson
Miss Lee
Clyde Lee
J. Sawers
Haney
B. C
Mrs. Sawers
Woodside
Manitoba
Kenora
Cooperton School
Couple To Return From South Africa
Mrs Faye Slohn reports her daughter Mrs Kenneth Paul and her husband have passage on a ship leaving South Africa in October. They expect to arrive around mid November via England. Dr and Mrs Paul residents of Durban for three years will relocate to the United States to settle permanently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saddle Mountain
Faye Slohn
Kenneth Paul
South Africa
England
Paul
Durban
United States
Birthday Party Fetes Joe Spence
Ice cream cake and watermelon were served as friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spence home in Sedan to celebrate his birthday anniversary. Attendees included O. D. Frazier and Duane, Clifford Faulkner and Bob and Art, J. H. Davis, Marvin Winters, Carol Carlton Charlotte, Jean Walker Doris Strader Annette Spence and Bobby King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saddle Mountain
Joe Spence
Sedan
O. D. Frazier
Duane
Clifford Faulkner
Bob
Art
J. H. Davis
Marvin Winters
Carol
Carlton
Charlotte
Jean Walker
Doris Strader
Annette Spence
Bobby King
Smiths Return From 10 Day Trip To Four States
Mr and Mrs Gerald R Smith of 3416 Oak have returned from a 10 day journey through New Mexico and Colorado. They started at Glorieta a Baptist camp for two days of Sunday School Week then visited Creede guests of Sam Arnold in Cordell. They continued to Durango and Mesa Verde National Park, then Gallup and Albuquerque before returning home through Amarillo Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald R. Smith
Oak
Colorado
New Mexico
Glorieta
N.M
Creede
Sam Arnold
Cordell
Smiths
Durango
Mesa_ Verde National park
Gallup
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Texas
Altrusa Members Plan Coke Party
Altrusa club members of Lawton will gather at 8 p.m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. B. K. Fowler to enjoy a Coke party. Mrs. Janet Thompson the Altrusa president urges all members to attend the courtesy event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altrusa Club
Lawton
B. K. Fowler
Janet Thompson
Altrusa
Officers Named At Club Meeting By Mrs Hal Falk
Mrs Hal Falk presided at the Past Noble Grands club meeting at the IOOF hall appointing two officers and three committee members. Musician named Mrs M C Dillingham and song leader Mrs Jack Wheeler with new entertain ment committee members Mesdames Green Brogdon W D White and Wheeler. Opening prayer by Mrs J W Middleton, yearbook presented, then attendees served refreshments at Theta Rho Girls club initiation before adjournment. Mr and Mrs Carlton McMullin returned from a trip to Eagle Nest New Mexico, Colorado Springs, and Hutchinson Kansas with daughter Cindy remaining with grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Falk
Noble Grands Club
IOOF
M. C. Dillingham
Jack Wheeler
Mesdames Green Brogdon
W. D. White
Wheeler
J. W. Middleton
Theta Rho
Carlton McMullin
Arlington
Eagle Nest
N.M
Central Airlines Plans Lawton Hub Flight Schedule
Central Airlines aims to base maintenance staff in Lawton to support an overnight stop as part of a four daily flight plan from Lawton starting Oct 1. The hub will connect Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Dallas with Lawton, Chickasha, Duncan, and Fort Sill serving military and civilian travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Central Airlines
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Fort Worth
Dallas
Keith Kahle
Lawton Area
Fort Sill
American Airlines
Bennie Stephens
Kahle
Central
Civil Aeronautics Board
Chickasha
Duncan
Texas
Two Area Reserve Officers Promoted By Fourth Army
The Fourth Army promotion board advanced Maj. Jim Taylor of Lawton to lieutenant colonel on October 17. Capt. Kenneth J. Fanning of Freda was promoted to major, also effective in October, announced by the Oklahoma Military District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Military District
Fourth Army Promotion Board
Jim Taylor
Lawton
Kenneth J. Fanning
Fredag
Civilian Personnel Chief to Address Lawton Kiwanis Club
Douglas P. Smith, chief of the AG Civilian Personnel division at Fort Sill, will speak on Civil Service at Fort Sill to the Lawton Kiwanis club. He arrived at Sill in 1949 from Camp Chaffee, began Army service in 1941, and worked in officer personnel classifications before his 1948 Camp Chaffee post. William M. Benge will introduce him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas P. Smith
Fort Sill
Civil Service
Pornod
Lawton Kiwanis Club
Baby Hurricane Born In Atlantic
The year's first hurricane formed in the Atlantic about 325 miles east of Daytona Beach Florida and was northeast of its center with winds near 75 mph. The Miami Weather Bureau noted it was small but expected to intensify gradually.
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Miami
Fla.p
Atlantic Ocean
Daytona Beach
Fla
Murray delays firing Matthews from Pike post
Governor Murray has postponed removing Sapulpa publisher R. P. Matthews from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. Matthews opposed three toll road bills backed by Murray, who was advised by toll road boosters to wait until the tolling act's final disposition is clear. The Oklahoma Free Roads Association aims to collect about 48,000 signatures for a vote on the toll road issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Capitol
Johnston Murray
R. P. Matthews
Sapulpa
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Matthews
Murray
Oklahoma Free Roads Association
Area Men In Service In Area Men In Service
Robert R. Burton son of Mr and Mrs Ernest L Burton Walters returned to home port recently aboard the destroyer USS Miller after having participated in a Hunter-Killer task force Burton whose wife Sharon also lives in Walters is a radarman third class and was involved in the operations efforts to locate an enemy submarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert R. Burton
Ernest L. Burton
Walters
Miller
Burton
Sharon
Robert W. White Gets OU Degree
Robert W. White of Lawton earned a bachelor of arts in education at the University of Oklahoma summer commencement. He will teach at Ponca City public schools this fall, joined by his wife who also plans to teach there. His mother Mrs Ference White attended, and the group celebrated at Norman in a home with preserved wedding cake from Aug 2 1952.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. White
Lawton
University of Oklahoma
White
Ponca City
Five Area Indians Teach At OU Linguistics School
Five area Indians will teach at the University of Oklahoma as the Summer Institute of Linguistics opens this week for about 220 students from across the nation and foreign countries. The instructors will help students learn to speak and write languages for foreign missionary work, with Mos es Poolaw and others listed by town. Poolaw will host an August 25 radio program on station WNAD in Norman featuring tribesmen from across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summer Institute of Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
Moses Poolaw
Walters
Emily Riddles
Ethel Heury
Lawton
Wynona Webb
Cache
Gilbert Coonwoop
Poolaw
WNAD
Norman
State
Curious Youths Killed In Mine
In Centerville Iowa three 14 year old boys Carl Hobart Charles Dunham and Mickey Coulter died from deadly gas in a closed coal mine. The youths were Explorer Boy Scouts and friends who planned to explore a cave. A search found Mickey near the entrance of the Shamrock slope mine and the other two bodies nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centerville
Carl Hobart
Charles Dunham
Mickey Coulter
Mickey
Craig
Shamrock Slope
Former Top Justice Dies In Hospital Tulsa
Finis E. Riddle, 82, longtime Tulsa attorney and former Oklahoma Supreme Court justice, died in a hospital after a long illness. Appointed in the early 1920s, he served less than a year and authored about 90 opinions in 10 months. He retired due to failing health and died from a blood ailment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Finis E. Riddle
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Riddle
Oil Shipping Power Plays Global Energy Market
The United States, the world s largest oil consumer, also operates the globe s biggest tankship fleets with about 450 oil carrying vessels at sea. This dominance shapes global energy logistics and transport capacity amid rising demand and policy shifts affecting maritime trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Funeral Rites for Willie Burnette Held at Cement Baptist Church
Last rites were held for Willie M Burnette 62 of Cement at 10 a.m. Thursday at Cement Baptist Church with Rev O T Sutterfield presiding. Burial followed at Cement Cemetery. Burnette died August 10 in a Fort Supply Oklahoma hospital after a long illness. He was a World War I veteran born February 5 189? in Pleasant Hill Indiana. He moved to Cement in 1917. Surviving are his wife Ruby of Cement, his mother Leonia Burnette of Cement, two daughters Lydia Ann Ezell of Elgin and Emma Jean Bowen of Fletcher, one son J W Cement, and 7 grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie M. Burnette
Fletcher
Cement Baptist Church
O. T. Sutterfield
Cement Cemetery
Burnette
Fort Supply
Okla
Pleasant Hill
Ind
Ruby, Fletcher
Leonia Burnette
Cement
Lydia Ann Ezell
Elgin
Emma Jean Bowen
J. W
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