Trading Volume In Stocks Lowest Since June 1954
New York market reports show week long decline in volume with 8,694,470 shares traded and a 1,738,895 average daily turnover. Industrials, rails, and utilities fell, while copper shares and aircrafts held gains despite a lack of leadership. Analysts see reduced liquidation and rising caution as signs for the market.
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New York
DuPont
Chemical Department
Motors
General Motors
Chrysler
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Sears Roebuck
Rock Island
New York Central
Procter and Gamble
Officials Announce Lawton Pre School Activities Schedule
Lawton school superintendent John Shoemaker announced the opening plan for the new year. Key dates include August 30 for principals meeting and locker sales, August 31 for teacher meetings, September 1 enrollments at Senior High and Douglass High, September 2 for junior and elementary enrollments, and September 6 as first regular class day. Birth date rules restrict enrollment for children turning six after November 2, with vaccination recommended but not required.
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John Shoemaker
Lawton
Douglass High
Douglass School
Douglass High School
Supt
Shoemaker
Supt. Shoemaker
Grain Surpluses Bring Down Board Prices
Grain futures fell on the Chicago Board of Trade as large surpluses and forecast bumper crops pressured 1955 and 1956 price supports. Wheat was trimmed by 1 quarter to 1 cent, corn and oats declined, while soybeans and lard moved differently. The Agriculture Department plans changes to the 1956 wheat price support to discourage inferior grain production.
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Lawton Constitution and Morning Press
U.S
Chicago
Board of Trade
Agriculture Department
Department
Federal Crop Estimates Drop Price of Cotton
New York reports a sharp retreat in cotton prices after the government crop estimate surprised markets with 12.728 million bales. Prices slipped as much as 80 points, while analysts cite overseas sales uncertainty, textile demand slowdowns, and surplus disposal questions as key factors.
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New York
Liverpool
International Cotton Advisory Committee
Frederick Pair Going To Texas Teaching Posts
Frederick Pair reports that Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gambill and their children Clinton and Sheryl will move to Big Spring Texas to take teaching positions. Gambill will teach diversified occupations and mathematics at Big Spring High School while Mrs. Gambill leads choral music. Walter T Gambill of Stamford Texas will manage Gambills Variety in Frederick, succeeding his son who has run the Frederick store for three years.
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Frederick
Forrest Gambill
Clinton
Sheryl
Big Spring
Tex
Gambill
Big Spring High School
W. T. Gambill
Stamford
Polio Victim Receives Hundreds Of Birthday Cards
Temple residents and The Temple Tribune publicized a plan for 21 year old polio patient Mrs Wilma Wampler to receive between 200 and 300 birthday cards as she undergoes bulbar polio treatment in a Houston hospital. Her husband Kenneth reports 117 cards arrived in one day and she is improving enough to be off the iron lung for short periods.
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Temple
Temple Tribune
Wilma Wampler
Houston
Wampler
Comanche Eyes Future Growth
Comanche seeks growth plans as town board discusses sewer maintenance tax. Current records show 1,024 water taps. Board orders indoor electric meters moved outside to speed readings. Council approves street vendors permits for farmers selling on the streets at 15 dollars for six months or 25 dollars for a year.
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Comanche
Loco approves 25 year gas franchise for Lone Star Gas
Citizens of Loco voted unanimously 25 to 0 on Friday to grant Lone Star Gas Co a 25 year franchise to sell and distribute gas in the city. The decision concludes the local franchise referendum with broad support for the utility.
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LOCO
Lone Star Gas Co
Temple Farmers Stocking Ponds In Cotton County
Temple farmers stock ponds and Lake Moon ey with bass raised in a broad pond behind the municipal lake. They fish legally with tackle and licenses while Woodrow Wilson Cotton county game ranger oversees the stocking effort.
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Temple
Cotton County
Lake Mooney
Woodrow Wilson
Court Notes Court notes county civil and superior civil docket
A list of beer license applications for Ward American Bar Sooner Lanes Coffee Shop Tokyo Inn Apex Bar Rialto Bar and Grill Hillside Drive In and related civil actions including damages money judgments and foreclosures across multiple cases. Parties include Paul E Bell versus Arnice Huard Whetzel Gayle Russell versus Orin Bryce Russell Joe L Porter versus Winkelman Winkelman Edna Tague versus Judith Cleaver J O Bailey versus Marion Sanford and others.
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van Yersal
Sooner
Lanes Coffee Shop
Bertha Burke
Tokyo Inn
Elton Huggins
Apex Bar
George Hillis
Rialto Bar and Grill
J. M. Thompson
Hillside Drive
Gayle Russell
Orin Bryce Russell
Joe L. Porter
A. M. Winkelman
Helen Winkelman
A.M. Winkelman
Edna Tague
Dba Tague
The
Lumberman
Judith Cleaver
J. O. Bailey
Marion Eugene Sanford
J. Weger
John Helzer
Brooklyn Savings Bank
A Corp
Hiram B. Bourland
Glenna E. Bourland
Maude B. Laud
Board of County Commissioners
Hubert Harold Harras
Cortez Scott
Charlesetta Mitchell
Rodney H. Mitchell
Uniform Support Act
J. C. Bell
L. M. Ledford
Lonnie Simmons
H. C. Cash
Norman Methodist Minister To Speak At Frederick Club
The Frederick Frederick Club hosts the Norman Methodist minister at its regular monthly dinner meeting on Thursday Aug. 18 at 7 30 p m Dr Finis Crutchfield pastor of McFarlin Methodist Norman is the featured after dinner speaker one of the state's outstanding speakers.
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Frederick Club
Frederick
First Methodist Church
Finis Crutchfield
McFarlin Methodist Church
Norman
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Lyon’s Hobby Center
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