Hospital Births and Admissions Across Regions
Births list twin boys for Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Lamb in Geronimo born August 18 and 19 with weights 1 lb 4½ oz and 1 lb 4 oz and a son for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Griffin born August 19 at 6:45 am weighing 7 lb 12 oz. Multiple admissions and dismissals noted across Kiowa Anadarko Southwestern regions including polio cases and surgeries. Local families named with addresses and medical statuses reflect hospital activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D. Lamb
Geronimo
Edward Griffin
Lawson Rd
Tommy Lee Caldwell
C. C. Caldwell
Roosevelt
Alfred Hennessee
Charles Kenneth Phillip Jr
Charles K. Phillip
Phillips Marsh
Ralph A. Hudson
Douglas
Garfield Dixon Jr
Bell
Frank Novak
Fletcher
Gerald Dean Nester
Thomas Nester
Lawton
Jack Wesland
Lloyd Ray Howard
Riley Howard
Grandfield
Cecil Douglas Purcell
Vernon Purcell
Kingsbury
Kiowa
Lyman Yellowfish
Anadarko
LeRoy Kadayso
Chester Tieyah
Elgin
Lloyd LaMotte
Oklahoma City
Earl Cable
Cache
Gordon Tahquechi Jr
Patricia Gooday
Apache
Medi
Pilot recounts night helicopter missions in Korea
Capt Brake, a helicopter pilot in Korea 1952 53, recalls dim cockpit lights and risky landings behind enemy lines. He details a 489 evacuated in October 1952 during the Triangle Hill Whitehorse and Jane Russell actions, his 2500 flight hours, and his family and postwar teaching duties in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triangle Hill
Whitehorse
Jane Russell Battle
Brake
Korea
Mach
Iron Triangle
Chorwon
30Th Engineer Base Topographical Battalion
Alaska
California
Army
Navy
South Pacific
Lansing
Mich
Michigan National Guard
George E. Brake
Lake Odessa
James C. Styron
Hobart
45Th
Capt. Brake
West Mistletoe
San Antonio
Allies clash over Red Cross acts amid repatriation drive
Allied forces denounce Red Cross workers as propaganda agents in Seoul while Rhee urges repatriates to join a northern advance. A large convoy returns to Panmunjom in trucks as Haven and Marine Adder prepare to ship home hundreds of prisoners. United Nations teams begin neutral inspections at five ports as transfers continue. A returning POW from Danbury recalls Nazi and Communist camps as equally brutal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friedersdorff
Red Cross
Seoul
ROK
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
North Korea
Panmunjom
Haven
Inchon Harbor
Japan
Inchon
San Francisco
U. N. Command
South Korea
U. N
Peiping
Freedom
Pfe
Alexander Kreizer
Danbury
Conn
Kreizer
Czechoslovakia
Area Methodist Youths To Attend Fellowship Parley
About 80 teenagers from 13 area Methodist churches will attend a sub district Methodist Youth fellowship meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in First Methodist Church. The program includes a skit titled Christianity Confronts Communism with Ellen Ewing Guy Wilson and Leigh Ewing. Similar monthly meetings are held in churches across the sub-district for junior and senior high students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Youth Fellowship
First Methodist
Monticello Built On Level Mountain Top
Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, sits atop a leveled mountain peak described in historical notes. The site’s topography was altered to create a prominent residence and vantage point for the early American statesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Funeral Rites for Mrs. Ralph W. Fately
Obituary item recounts the death of 64 year old Elizabeth Swabb Fately at her ash street home after a heart attack. born 1889 in Vinita moved to El Reno then Apache then Lawton. Survived by husband three daughters a sister a brother nine grandchildren and a great granddaughter. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Becker Funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph W. Fately
Ash
Vinita
el Reno
Elizabeth Swabb
Apache
Lawton
Liberty Heights
Becker Funeral Home
Twin infant dies. Lamb infant obituary notice
Johnny R. Lamb infant son of Mr and Mrs Lester Dale Lamb of Geronimo died at 5 15 am in a local hospital born Tuesday evening weighing 1 pound 442 ounces funeral services to be announced by Becker Funeral home survivors include three brothers, one sister and paternal grandparents Mrs Blanche Silcott a veteran Lawton resident dies at 2 15 am after a year long illness born in Youngstown Ohio on July 20 1873 she came to the Indian Territory in 1896 taught kindergarten at Rainy Mountain and Fort Sill schools for seven years married Walter D Silcott on March 7 1903 in Lawton funeral services set for 2 30 pm Thursday at First Presbyterian church burial in Highland cemetery under the direction of the (illegible) family noted survivors include son Walter two daughters Mrs Damon Garrett Tokyo Japan Mrs Stanley J Young Tulsa one sister Mrs Carl Zur Muhller Deer Lodge Montana six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Myers
Davis
Crested Vein
Colo
Woodward County
Okla
Hobart
Lawton
Fort Sill
Lydia West
Lone Wolf
Dolores Yoder
Orphea Burk
Rosewell
N.M
Pauline Snyder
Brownfield
Tex
Charles
Omar
Ezz Schall
Johnny R. Lamb
Lester Dale Lamb
Geronimo
Becker Funeral Home
Ronald Dale
Laren Eugene
Gary Lee
Barbara Sue
O. W. Lamb
Warroad
Minn
Blanche Silcott
Oklahoma
Youngstown
Ohio
Indian Territory
Rainy Mountain
Walter D. Silcott
Carl Zur- Muhller
Deer Lodge
Mont
Shah of Iran says he fled to avoid bloodshed
In Rome the Shah told reporters he left Iran to spare the people, claiming 99 percent backing and denouncing communists. He said military leaders engineered the overthrow, and that plans to march on Tehran were halted after guards failed. He planned to go to Azerbaijan, then Baghdad, then Rome due to the Queen’s health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mossadegh
Shah
Rome
Tehran
Pahlavan
Azerbaijan
Iran
Baghdad
Iraq
Lawton Safety Program To Be Merged With Council
Safety committee will be dissolved and the program placed in council hands. Col George Buell announced Purdue University Safety Institute will resurvey the Lawton Police Department August 24 after a model traffic ordinance approval. State safety officials will join Purdue’s representative for a meeting with the Safety committee police chief mayor and council. The panel also debated switching garbage collection to a contract type, fearing possible inadequate service and bonding difficulties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Buell
Fort Sill
Safety Institute of
Purdue University
Lawton
Purdue Institute
Purdues
Joe McCain
Claude Myers Dies After Three Months Illness at Local Hospital
Claude Myers 40 of 311% H died at 12:50 a.m. after a three month illness. Born November 16 1912 in Chickasha he moved to Lawton in 1921 and worked as a driver for Safety Cab. Services 2 p.m. Friday at Becker Memorial chapel with Rev LeRoy Looper officiating. Burial Highland cemetery. Survived by son Roger Claude Myers 12 of 1417 Irwin, his mother Mrs Nannie Myers, and sister Mrs J O Cooper Walters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Myers
Chickasha
Lawton
Safety Cab Company
Becker Memorial Chapel
LeRoy Looper
Letitia Baptist Church
Highland Cemetery
Roger Claude Myers
Irwin
Nannie Myers
J. O. Cooper
Walters
Markets Chicago Butter and Oklahoma City Produce
Chicago butter market reports 1,123,258 pounds steady with various price scores. Oklahoma City affirm on broilers and hens with spot and farm prices listed, plus egg and butterfat updates. Wheat and watermelons noted with regional price points and arrivals from multiple Oklahoma towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Broilers
FOB Farm
Muskogee
Vinita
Altus
Seminole
Poteau
Cordell
Shawnee
Blackwell
Tulsa
Alva
Ardmore
Chickasha
Lawton
Elk City
McAlester
Durant
Enid
Laverne
Fairview
Candled Poteau
el Reno
Wheat
Kingfisher
Hennessey
Med
Schools Hire Speech Teacher for Lawton District
Mrs. Mary Brett will serve as speech correctionist for Lawton public schools. The 1953-54 year marks the first full term for the program after a successful Lincoln school trial. Classes will be held in less crowded buildings with students bussed from other campuses. state aid will partly fund her salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Brett
Lawton
Lincoln School
John Shoemaker
Brett
University of Oklahoma
Lawton Alum Earns Rice Institute Dean's Honor Roll
Joel Erdwinn, a 1951 Lawton High School graduate, is listed on Rice Institute's dean's honor roll. Principal Hugh Bish presented the honor. Erdwinn was an honor student during Lawton High School years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton High School
Rice
Joel Erdwinn
Rice Institute
Hugh Bish
LHS
Erdwinn
Showers Seen Today Aid Oklahoma Crops Outlook
Widespread rains in southwestern Oklahoma eased conditions for cotton and feed crops. Over an inch fell in Comanche and nearby counties, with Lawton at .42 inches and Grandfield at .74. Farmers warn of possible cotton pests amid high moisture. additional showers expected with temperatures in the 80s and low 60s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Comanche
Lawton
Grandfield
Waurika
Chattanooga
Walters
Family tragedy reported in quiet home
Linda, six, was shot in the head while in the kitchen at about 10:30 on Tuesday night. A boy in a crib was also shot as he played, and Mrs. Lawson lay in the little girl's bedroom with a pistol by her side. The scene shows a mother and two children dead or injured in a distressing domestic incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda
Mrs. Lawson
Bar Crackdown Tightens Public Drunkenness Rules
County attorney reviewing whether patrons can be charged with drinking intoxicants in public places amid a bar crackdown. The action follows a conference between Redman and Sheriff Everett Hale. Sheriff appoints Roberson to accompany Ridgeway in serving notices on nightclubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redman
Everett Hale
Roberson
Ridgeway
Second Feed Request Set for Second Month Allotment
PMA officials announced that requests for the second month’s emergency feed allotment will be accepted starting Monday August 24. Bill Sieg the PMA supervisor said farmers not yet receiving their original feed requests are still included and some protein feed requests will be filled as shipments arrive. All corn applications are filled and oats requests should be completed soon. The county PMA has delivered 31 carloads of emergency cattle feed to over 400 stockmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PMA
Bill Sieg
Sieg
Ife Nigeria Declared Spiritual Headquarters of Yoruba
The city of Ife in Nigeria is described as the spiritual headquarters of the Yoruba people, a designation highlighting its cultural and religious significance within the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ife
Nigeria
Singing male crickets and their world in brief
A compact look at crickets covering male songs produced by wing rubbing, generations per year, May or June egg hatch, and inch-long adults. It notes cricket pets in Japan, China cricket fighting, sale values up to 50 dollars, global eating habits, Oklahoma winter beliefs, and farm insect control with arsenicals and products like Ortho-Klor and Two-Way Roac spray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orient
Japan
China
Jamaica
Oklahoma
Lawton
Churchill returns to Chartwell after London trip
Prime Minister Churchill came home to Chartwell from London pale and slow after attending his first cabinet meeting in two months of rest ordered by doctors. He left his official residence and walked to a car for the country estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
Chartwell
Buffalo Returns Home to Oklahoma Pet
Hugo Oklahoma August 19 A bull buffalo kept as a pet by Mr and Mrs A R Jordan near here has returned to its home pastures after escaping and being missing for several days Jordan said Wednesday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Hugo
Okla
A. R. Jordan
Jordan
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Cal
Nellie Dodson
Francis Ward
Burkburnett
Southwestern
Robert Crews
R. L. Crews Jr
C. J. McCaig
Sidney Ahlschlager
H. O. Ahlschlager
O. H. Carter
G. T Foster
Leonard W. Robinson
Edward Hunter
Williams
Methodist
Pick & Pat Cleaners
Cache Road
John E. Ray
Old Post Chapel
Russell T. Rauscher
Post Cemetery
J. F. Brittingham
Stewart Yeo
W. H. Hoover
Walter Lattimore
L. A. Blakely
Raymond Barringer
Claude F. Davis
Mrs
H.S
State Poultry & Eggs
Raskins
Blunt Zorger Jewelry
E Avenue
M. B
Lawton Tent & Awning Co
C Avenue
Winnie
Tucko
Ana
D Avenue
A. L. Pollard Sporting Goods
Typewriter Serv CO
Eece
J. D. Suggs
Wolverton Harware
M & D Finance CO
E Ave
JO G. Andrews
D Ave
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