Urban Renewal Agency Formed By Lawton City Council
The Lawton City Council created an Urban Renewal Agency of five members with an at large member to oversee slum clearance and rehabilitation in the Lawton View addition. Vernon Howell will chair, Hubert Green vice chair, with Orwell Currey Vernon I. Cannon and Rev. H. F. Parrish as members. The plan targets a defined blighted area bounded by Lee Blvd 17th and surrounding streets and seeks federal aid for surveys and planning. The program may use temporary loans with two thirds federal funding for net costs, and requires approval of a workable plan before contracts.
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Lawton View Addition
Lee Blvd
Vernon Howell
Cameron Collge
City National Bank
Hubert Green
Orwell Currey
Vernon I. Cannon
Jefferson
H. F. Parrish
Union Baptist Church
Atra
Lee
Washington
17Th
Lawton
Federal Housing Agency
Cityans Attend Camp In Texas Cityans Attend Camp In Texas
Seven Lawtonians attend a week-long summer encampment near Cisco Texas led by Rev Weldon Rightmer and adults James Roberts and Paul Allen. Participants include Calvin Kilgore Charles Rightmer Pamela Laird Kenneth Besson and Troy Allen with addresses listed. The encampment ends Friday with religious activities and group supervision.
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Raymond Besson
Kingsbury
Troy Allen
Noble Allen
World's First Spaceman Returns Home After Record Flight
Maj. David G. Simons, 75, a Lancaster, Pa. native and Air Force physician, landed near Elm Lake, South Dakota, at 6:28 pm EDT after a 32 hour balloon flight reaching at least 19 miles. He was greeted by two farm youths and later transported by helicopter to Fargo and then Minneapolis to rest. Simons will hold a news conference, saying his greatest thrill was returning to earth and praising the capsule gondolas' performance.
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Frederick
David G. Simons
Air Force
Elm Lake
South Dakota
Simons
Lancaster
Theo
Ello
Fred Schense
Olio Winzen
Fargo
N.D
Alamogordo
N.M
Aeromedicine Research Center
Minneapois
Tattoo remark ties memory to divorce in Jersey City man
Joseph Godski, 38, of Jersey City, was arrested in Bayonne for disorderly conduct after being asked about a tattoo that read in memory of his wife Helen. He stated he had it tattooed the day she divorced him.
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Bayonne
Joseph Godski
Jersey City
Helen
Witness Faces Perjury Charge in Lawton Murder Hearing
County Attorney Warren Crane filed a perjury charge against 22 year old Robert Lee Guice of 20 B Lawton after he testified in a preliminary hearing for two Lawton sisters Edith Mae Johnson and Betty Jean Bacom 25 and 23 charged with first degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of John Armstrong Russell 23 of 221% B on July 23. Judge John P Fuller ton led the proceeding.
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Warren Crane
Lawton
Robert Lee Guice
John Armstrong Russell
Guice
Crane
Edith Mae Johnson
Betty Jean Baucom
John P. Fullerton
Secretaries Welcome New Members At Lawton Chapter
During the August meeting the Lawton chapter of the National Secretaries Association International held a hamburger fry to introduce two new members, Mrs. Christa Cloyd and Mrs. Kay Wilson. Guests included Miss Doloris Carpenter and Mrs. Ray Whittock. The social was at Mrs. Martha Saffit’s home, 1430 North 22nd, chapter president, with a dinner meeting planned at Carl’s Restaurant on September 16.
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Lawton
National Secretaries Association-International
Christa Cloyd
Kay Wilson
Doloris Carpenter
Ray Whittock
Martha Saffit
Carl’s
Widow sues Oklahoma City trucker in Bartlesville death
The Tulsa case names James Wesley Shook and J. B. Action Inc. as defendants. Mrs. Robert F. Davis and Lynda Anne Davis claim Shook, under alcohol influence and speeding, caused the Bartlesville man's death while he stood beside his parked car on a Tulsa street. Shook faces manslaughter charges and a preliminary hearing is set.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Bartlesville
Robert F. Davis
Lynda Anne. Davis
Actien
James Wesley Shook
J. B. Action, Inc
Davis
Shook
Theft Report Details From Page One
A report lists losses including $1,200 continued from page one with a $1,200 amount, an amusement machine, $4.85 removed from a cigarette vending machine, two cartons of beer stolen, five or six cigarette packs missing, and a display card with 12 earrings taken.
Governor weighs dam relocation costs and road funding
Governor Gary warned final estimates for dam relocation roads are not ready and the program could take ten years. He said funding shifts may delay other projects, and people might approve canceling some work if needed. Cartwright, in Durant, said a sacrifice is unavoidable without more funds.
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Oklahoma
Cartwright
Durant
No Let Up Seen In Road Building Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City reports a steady highway construction boom will take months to unfold as the State Highway Commission approves 30 projects totaling 4.45 million dollars. Among the contracts are 11 projects previously rejected for exceeding estimates, with eight bids below estimates and three above. The Oklahoma county project calls for 2.794 miles of four lane road work on the U S 77 east by pass, Amis Construction Co. of Oklahoma City low bidder at 1.512 million dollars, about 7 thousand under its prior rejected bid but roughly 97 thousand over the estimate.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Highway Commission
State Capitol
C. A. Stoldt
Commission
Oklahoma County
U.S. 77 East
Amis Construction Co
Cushing Woman Accused In Theft
LIBERTY, Mo. Okla homaswoman Agnessa Yvonne Presley of Cushing is free on 31000 bond awaiting trial in the November circuit court term on robbery charges. Sam Earl Montgomery of Kansas City is jailed on 32500 bond in the same case and set to appear August 27 before Magistrate Judge John R Lodwick Jr. They were arrested in Kansas City August 8 on a complaint by C. E. B. Wright alleging the theft of a wrist watch a fountain pen and two cigarette lighters after drinking.
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Liberty
Honor Sgt York to be honored by 82nd Airborne
In Jamestown Tennessee civic and military leaders will join the 82nd Airborne Division Association in a ceremony honoring World War I hero Alvin York who killed 25 Germans and captured 130 others.
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York
Jamestown, Tenn
Alvin York
82Nd Airborne Division Association
Eisenhower comments on Syria civil rights plan and Congress
In remarks about Middle East rules and civil rights, President Eisenhower says Syrian rule resembles Soviet style control and that Republicans plan to break the civil rights stalemate with his approval. He blames the Democratic Congress for slow progress and says the third term ban was not decisive. He declines to regret running for a second term.
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Kopt
Eisenhower
House
Congress
Polio Vaccine Clinic Expands To Adults For Mass Inoculation
The published piece notes 30,000 needles and syringes prepared for a mass inoculation drive led by Mrs. Lansden and Mrs. Ralston to vaccinate up to 10,000 adults. It describes the Salk vaccine campaign now extending beyond children ages 0 to 19 and pregnant women to include adults as a concluding phase. The clinic will deliver first and second shots four weeks apart with a third shot seven months later for maximum immunity. Volunteers are invited to assist.
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Lansden
Ralston
Budget figures delayed as city council debates raises
Budget details for 24 general fund departments were not available at noon. The excise board is expected to approve about 1 126 000, roughly 831 500 above the 1956 57 budget. Mayor Ellsworth and the finance committee supported a 25 monthly raise for uniformed police and other department employees, citing job demands.
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Excise Board
Elsworth
Ellsworth
River yields body of Stigler man in Oklahoma river
WHITEFIELD Okla UP The body of Jimmy Dale Wicker sham 21 who drowned Monday was recovered today from the South Canadian River near here Army units from Camp Chaf fee Ark had been requested to join in the search Firemen and officers from Muskogee Eufaula and other nearby cities had been dragging the river for the body of the Stigler man.
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Whitefield
Okla
Jimmy Dale Wickersham
Morday
South Canadian
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Muskogee
Eufaula
Stigler
Trial details probe nude pool party linked to John Carroll
Testimony earnt from Gloria Wellman, daughter of director William Wellman, describes involvement in an alleged nude swimming pool party at actor John Carrolls home. The state pursues criminal libel charges over Confidential Magazine article It was John Carrolls party but no John.
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Sdyearvld
John Carroll
Gloria Wellman
William Wellman
John
Buried Alive Rescue Leaves Fraser Hospitalized
Bob Fraser, 25, a city employee in Columbia Tennessee, was treated for a broken leg and minor injuries after being buried alive for 30 minutes in a ditch cave-in. Fellow workers rescued him Tuesday, freeing him from the pit.
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Columbia, Tenn
Bobby Fraser
Fraser
Open meeting hosts named for District No 33 event
Will be hosts for the open meeting of District No 33 on Friday August 23 at 7 p.m. All Masons wives and guests are invited. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. followed by a program at 8 p.m.
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Lawton Cons
Texas
Ares
Press Sun
Osner ‘Couallee “S & Bites
Press & Sun
Earth
Page
Gary
Cushing
Mercury
Buster Wyatt
Southwest Oklahoma
Lawton, Oklahoma
General Fund
Jewel Baylor
Mee
Php
Toy Ace
Zele Jewelry Co
Pace One
Masonic Lodge
Zale
Fahae
Idk
C. Delamond
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