Hospital News Items Kiowa Medical Admits and Births
Kiowa hospital notes list admits and dismissals including Teresa Williams Ronald Harrison and Frederick Shunkahmolah and many others. Births recorded include a son to Tom Leonhardt and a daughter to George Morales, with times and weights noted and several patients listed under admissions and surgeries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teresa Williams
Lawton
Ronald Gene Harrison
Fort Cobb
Frederick Shunkahmolah
Euclid
Dora Totsi
Wichita
Kan
Katie Lorentz
Gracemont
Lillian Cohoe
Riverside Indian School
Anadarko
Elizabeth Barcindebar
John Wermy
Taylor
Roderick Youngman
Comanche Indian Mission
Clarence Tahpay
Cache
Norman Kandlehaule
Ricky Poolaw
Tom Leonhardt
George Morales
Eda Gartrell
W. B. Shearer
Baldwin
Ted Burns
Indiahoma
D. R. Lacy
Norman
R. W. Beauchamp
Clarence Williams
Gore
Sam Barber
G. F. Wood
Williams
J. C. Froneberger
Cheyenne
English Furniture Group Elects Lawton Chapter Chief
Harold English was chosen chairman of the new Furniture division of the Lawton Retail Merchants association at a Tuesday night meeting in the Chamber of Commerce offices. E. B. Lacy became vice chairman with Mrs. Bess Christy as secretary. The first initiative is a nationwide Home Fashion Time promotion set for September 24 to October 3, with attendees including P. G. Waggoner, Lacey Holley, Bill Lacy, D. T. Lacy, and E. B. Lacy, plus guests from Oklahoma City and Lawton leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold English
Lawton Retail Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce
E. B. Lacy
Bess Christy
P. G. Waggoner
Lacey Holley
Bill Lacy
D. T. Lacy
Oklahoma City
Lee Sneed
National Retail Furniture Dealers Association
J. J. Boxberger
Oklahoma City Retailers Association
Aaron Gritzmaker
Oklahoma Retail Merchants Association
Burglars Hit City Drive Inn for Coins
Burglars broke into Copper Kettle Drive Inn at 1101 Summit early today using a hammer and screwdriver to open a coin box in a pinball machine. They took an undetermined amount of coins. box was left on the floor.
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Copper Kettle Drive Inn
Summit
Lawton Man Named Publicity Chief In Water Ski Group
Bernard Szatkowski of Lawton has been named publicity chairman of a new seven state water skiing committee led by Lake Murray’s Gordon Seaman. The group aims to promote the sport from Oklahoma to Louisiana and secure a regional national tournament. Other members include H J Aston Fort Worth secretary Miss Margaret Mangum Wichita Falls and D E Booth Fort Worth. Members urge Lawtonians to contact Szatkowski at 3236-W or 3361-M.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Bernard Szatkowski
South Central Region
American Water Ski Association
Lake Murray
South Central
Szatkowski
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas
New Mexico
Kansas
Louisiana
Gordon Seaman
Lake Murray Lodge
H. J. Aston
Fort Worth
Margaret Mangum
Wichita Falls
John Schneidel
Dallas
Southwest
D. E. Booth
Alvin M. Leaman
Bill and Cotton Eldridge
Kerrville
W. A. Breathwit
Sam T. Moore
Oklahoma City
W. C. Morris
San Antonio
Harvey May
Hobart
City Students College Bound
Lawton high school expects about half of 1953 graduates to enroll in colleges this fall led by 117 of 234 May diploma receivers. Principal Hugh Bish cites Cameron College as economical and notes many Army families push higher education. Transcripts mailed to numerous institutions across Oklahoma and beyond including out of state and nursing schools.
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Lawton High School
Hugh Bish
LHS
Bish
Cameron College
Cameron
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma A&M _ college
Oklahoma College For Women
Oklahoma Baptist University
Abilene Christian College
Texas A&m College
College Station
University of Colorado
Boulder
St. Mary’s of the Woods
Indiana
University of Texas
Austin
Stanford University
California
University of Illinois
Urbana
Juilliard School of Music
New York City
Stephens
Wichita Falls
Texas
Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing
Boston
Texas Christian University School of Nursing
Fort Worth
Indiana FFA team wins land judging contest at Versailles
A Palmyra Indiana Future Farmers of America team won the Indian Oklahoma land judging can ee at the state park in Versailles. Coached by C. M. Foster, Palmyra’s second place 4-H team was also led by Foster. Bartlesville Oklahoma placed third under John Pope. Individual champion was Bartlesville’s John Thornton.
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Versailles
Ind
UPA
Future Farmers of America
Palmyra
Tuesay
C. M. Foster
Bartlesville
Okla
John Pope
John Thornton
Twins Franchise Placed On Block In Sherman Denison
Sherman Denison Twins Class D baseball club owner Arthur Willingham put the franchise on the market citing poor attendance and interest. Asking price is $5,000 plus including some players and equipment but not the ballpark. Team sits fifth in the Sooner State League, 21 games behind Ardmore Indians, with seven straight losses. The franchise moved from Ardmore in 1951, Willingham bought assets for $5,390 earlier and has previously run an East Texas League club. Attendance averaged 200 this season.
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Sherman
Tex
Sherman-Denison Twins
Arthur Willingham
Willingham
Twins
Sooner State
Ardmore Indians
Sherman- Denison
Ardmore
Reds Like U S Chicle in Korea Prison Letters
In Korea, Cpl. Dallas W. Mossnan of Flint Michigan traded letters from a Communist prison camp with his mother who slipped in sticks of gum. The gum vanished en route until he asked a Chinese instructor how the Chinese army could secure chewing gum. In his next letter, the gum was included.
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Freedom Village
Korea
Cpl
Dallas W. Mossnan
Flint
Mich
Mossnan
Air Force ends search for bomber crew members
London reports the search for survivors of the 10 engine V U S Air Force bombers that plunged into the sea west of Ireland last Wednesday has been abandoned. Four airmen were rescued, five bodies recovered, and 14 crew members are presumed lost at sea. One rescuer was Sgt Roy Speer of Bennington Oklahoma.
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London
Ireland
Air Force
Roy Speer
Bennington
Okla
Stalin's Stubborn legacy haunts his heir Malenkov
James Marlow notes Stalin in old age remained a tough agile power broker, gleefully seizing satellites and testing Western resolve. Malenkov offers smoother talk yet shows no real policy break, facing North Atlantic Alliance, Korea, and wartime living costs. His speech hints at change but reveals no fundamental shift from Stalin’s approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow
Washington
Stalin
Malenkov
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Czechoslovakia
America
Korea
Moscow
South Korea
Europe
Jaycees Accept Game Challenge: Practice Is Set
Lawton Junior Chamber of Commerce accepts a softball game challenge from the American Business club. Proceeds aid club activities, tickets are $1, a late August date at Mattie Bear park is planned, with a practice game next Wednesday evening. John Lattimore chaired the program and showed slides of Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Junior Chamber of Commerce
American Business Club
Mattie Bear Park
John Lattimore
Puerto Rico
FHA
Tom Conwell
Earl Botkin
Park Girl Reenters Memorial Hospital After Storm Injury
Peggy Lee Penick, 17, previously treated for a fractured arm from a August windstorm that destroyed her Medicine Park home, was readmitted to Memorial Hospital for a back injury diagnosed today after undergoing arm surgery last week and being discharged several days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy Lee Penick
Medicine Park
Memorial Hospital
Ben Penick
Jobless Rise in Comanche County July Employment
Comanche County July employment slipped by 25 from a year ago with total workers at 16 450, down from 17 775. Government and farm jobs fell 100 each, while unemployment rose to 675. Mrs Virginia Kidson notes limited local stenographers bookkeepers and waitresses in demand with openings for heavy truck drivers aircraft mechanics and service station attendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comancher Ty
Oklahoma State Employment Service
Virginia Kidson
Comanche County
Ithaca couple migrate to gas heated kennel during 1952 ice storm
During a 1952 ice storm near New York City a couple who run a dog kennel left their home after power failed and the oil heating stopped. They relocated to the kennels where gas heating operated without electricity, ensuring warmth for the dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Conservation Group Wrestles With Job Of Law Compliance
In Stillwater Oklahoma a August 26 meeting will map how to fit Oklahoma conservation work to Washington approved practices. Delegates from the Production and Marketing Administration Soil Conservation Service Oklahoma A&M extension service experiment station U S Forestry Service Farm Home Administration and the state Soil Conservation Board will discuss 1954 projects on a package basis to allow farmers to receive payments for their efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma
Washington
Production and Marketing Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Oklahoma A&m Extension Service
Experiment Station
U. S. Forestry Service
Farm Home Administration
State Soil Conservation Board
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VU. E. Skinner
Fletcher
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James Burk
Ash
Bobby Wayne Schritter
Robert Schritter
Martha Jo McCurry
Rex McCurry
Sharon Kay Carskadon
Archie Carskadon
N. 31St
B. F. Cook
Elizabeth Probasco
Surgery
Robert Allen Whisenhunt
E. J. Fortner
N. 16Th
Spencer Hawkins
Arlineten
Q. D. Borden
Joe Ford
Russell - Ford Insurance Agency
City Students College Bound
Chicago
New York
New Orleans
CloseqNet
Admiralee
Allied
Allis
Aarmco
Atchison
Beech Aire
du Pontes
Gulf Oil
P&l
Lion Oil
Lone S Cem
U ‘Martin
McKess &R
Ohio Oil Ee
Phill Pet
Radio Cp
Reyn Met
Reyn Met —-- Ee Ewer
St Jos
Sears Roek
Sinclair O
Socony
Tide
U S Steel
U.S
Frigidaire
Hewett
D Ave
Ensee
Welch Oil Company
Lee
Jaycees
Park
Ai Ei Y-Ee
Zwaan
Wiest
Ave
Radio & Television Service Co
E” Ave
Cache Road
Builders’ Equipment & Supply CO
Abou
Ned
C. Brigham
Brigham Young
OMNG
Koehler
Pattuck
Fairmont Consumer Service
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