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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1954
Page
5
Washington notes show congressmen enjoy fewer letters from home as campaigns loom. Army uranium plays may enrich Sgt Lawrence F. Sullivan near Globe Arizona with $300000 potential. National Geographic notes fish prefer company, goldfish alone go stir crazy.
The Post Office tests new red white and blue mail trucks amid old green ones causing laughs and mishaps. In a social note the wife of Brazilian Ambassador Muniz shares a five minute floor rest between sessions and a tea to dinner ritual followed by soapy cam. A CIA taxi drop trick saves 20 cents. At the zoo a young African vulture and an aged crow become unlikely roommates with the crow sampling the crow and vegetables while the vulture eats meat.
The American housewife will pay two to 10 cents less per pound of coffee within 30 days as Brazil moves to new currency exchange rules. The drop began at wholesale after Brazil's announcement, with Santos coffee futures down two cents a pound on the New York exchange.
Miss Mary Lou Stubbeman nine years as director of student Union activities at the University of Oklahoma resigns to accept a similar post at the University of Hawaii. She will direct extra curricular activities of students.
Bernard Baruch, soon to be 84, looks back on a long career serving six presidents and his private business in a Manhattan office. He discusses peace, defense, America’s future, education, youth, and aging with blunt, personal insight.
Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski, made her stage debut at the Pocono Play House in Mountainhome Pa playing a princess in Ferenc Molnar’s The Swan. She faced nerves but won cheers from a full house and praise for a promising start. Her husband did not attend the premiere.
The Senate voted to cite Corliss Lamont and two New Yorkers Abraham Unger and Albert Shadowitz for contempt for refusing to testify before Senator McCarthy's subcommittee. The action, opposed by Lehman but supported by others, sent the cases to the Justice Department for prosecution. Lamont claimed First Amendment protections and challenged the inquiry as improper.
Hail stones the size of tennis balls fell in the District of Columbia during a freak storm on May 26 1953. Scientists noted the hail was radioactive but of low value and posed no apparent ill effects on children who swallowed the stones.
CANON CITY Colo Aug 17 Police admit a gang of shoplifters eluded a police cordon at Royal Gorge by mingling with tourists and boarding the incline railway. They carried $900 in jewelry cameras and silverware stolen from a Royal Gorge tourist shop on Saturday. The thieves rode the railway down to escape as officers failed to station on the railway. Authorities suspect the same gang staged a $500 robbery at Wagon Wheel coffee shop on Sunday.
A blaze last night caused about $50,000 in damage to the elevator section of the Thompson Mill and Elevator building in Prague Oklahoma. Officials cited faulty wiring as the probable cause.
Berlin scene shifts as Allied powers identify Dr Otto John as Russia's master German spy. Once security chief in Bonn and longtime West German espionage operative, he moved between British and American circles before defecting to East Berlin. His past tangled with Lufthansa, Nazi networks, and covert pacts. A German officer later killed during questioning in the Johns case added to the intrigue.
Payne County officials ordered an autopsy on Carmelita Langford to aid the investigation into her drowning at Lake Carl Blackwell. Oklahoma City party members and owner John Breitschwertz were questioned as authorities seek details of the weekend outing and the events surrounding the death.
FBI agents investigated near Poteau Oklahoma into an alleged rape of a 13 year old Fort Smith Arkansas girl to determine federal involvement. Leflore County Sheriff Jack Craig said Easton Ray McKinzie 32 of Fort Smith was being questioned about luring the brother.
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