Lawton Constitution August 27 1956 Editorial Notes
The Lawton Constitution lists staff including Ned Shepler Eds Bill Bentley Ted Ralston and advertising manager Rice Hargraves plus a notice about circulation and publication times Monday through Friday. It notes Lawton Oklahoma postal designation as second class mail under the 1878 act and references associations. It ends with a biblical quote and a Prentiss attribution.
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Ned Shepler
Bill ¥. Bentley
Ted Ralston
Wnor
Rice Advertisine
Wol. Hargraves
Lawton
Oklahoma
Congress
Mefauer
The
Oklahoma Press Association
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
GOP Talkers Not Marilyn
The 1956 Republican Convention showed modern adman techniques and TV production cannot replace traditional American politics. The Women Speak program featured fifteen volunteers, mostly local women with young helpers, delivering brief topics while pretty placards flashed. The piece argues political events still hinge on politicians, not entertainment pros, and predicts pressure to return to stump speeches despite TVads.
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San Francisco
Marilyn Monroe Miller
Kim Novak
Marilyn Monroe
Elphie Stulin
Iowa
Mardyn Monroe
George Murphy
Murphy
New York Herald Tribune, Inc
Truman's Chicago clash with Stevenson stirs party rift
Former president Harry Truman publicly backed Averell Harriman at Chicago and attacked Adlai Stevenson as too conservative. The confrontation risks hurting Stevenson while boosting Truman's lingering, divisive influence as the Democratic Party moves on from the era of the Missouri figure.
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Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Averell Harriman
Stevenson
Harrison
Chicago
Mr. Truman
Truman
Harriman
Courthouse
Democratic Party
Missouri
Kansas City
Times
Origin and misuse of the term skinflint and other Q A items
A compilation of quick Q A style facts covering linguistics about skinflint origins and calendar first days, global rice dependence, Peelfoot Lake formed by quake, postal treaty powers, Peary Arctic findings, Federal Hall as first U S Capitol, fifth column term origin, and Father Damien the Leper Priest.
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United States
Federal Hall
New York City
City Hall
Three Year Old Jimmy Morrison Drowns at Danielson Lake
WEWOKA A Shawnee three year old, Jimmy Donald Morrison, son of Mr and Mrs Junior Morrison, drowned yesterday at Danielson Lake while playing with other children. The boy entered about two feet of water and could not be revived.
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Wewoka
Jimmy Donald Morrison
Shawnee
Danielson Lake
Junior Morrison
Weekend arrests yield varied charges in city police report
Sixteen people were taken into custody over the weekend. Among bootleggers named are Doris James, Helen Hudson and William L. Rogers. Women posted $20 bonds. Rogers sent to county authorities. Other arrests include nine for reckless driving, a driving without license, assault charges, and public drunkenness. Several suspects released to military authorities or on bonds.
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Doris James
Helen Hudson
William L
Shortie) Rogers
Rogers
James Hampton
Sheppard Air Force Base
Kenneth Trey Campbell
Roosevelts
Robert Coleman Copeland
Lawton
Campton
Copeland
Campbell
William Joseph Morgan
Jefferson
James Alex
Fort Sill
Tom Ward
Rhea Ingraham
Oklahoma City Stock Market Report and State Prices
Oklahoma City livestock receipts reach 9 500 cattle and 1 500 hogs amid slow trade. Cattle runs show steers and heifers steady to weak with cows down 25 to 50 cents. stockers mixed. Slaughter steer prices 15.00 20.00, heifers 15.00 19.00, bulls 12.50 13.00, hogs 16.50 17.75, sows weak. Sheep slow with lambs 17.50 19.50 and feeder lambs 14.00 35.00. State poultry and eggs prices list wheat, broilers, hens, eggs steady with regional variations across Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma City
State Board of Agriculture Today
Frederick
Hennessey
Alva
Bison
Clinton
el Reno
Enid
Kingfisher
Medford
Yukon
Blackwell
Hobart
Vici
Guymon
Hooker
Muskogee
Tulsa
Vinita
Lawton
Pauls Valley
Watenga
Laverne
Elk City
Woodward
Watonga
Geblins
Chicago
Jermaine Chicago
Shana Wane
City Bootlegger Charged After Lawton Raid
County Attorney Manville Redman charged Ralph Hudson, city bootlegger, with illegal possession of liquor after a raid Saturday morning by Redman and Sheriff Deputy Arvil Roberson. The raid north of Bishop school yielded 520 bottles of liquor, including 258 half pints whisky and various spirits. Hudson to arraignment this afternoon.
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Manville Redman
Ralph Hudson
Redman
Arvil Roberson
Hudson
Roy Jenkins
Jenkins
Former Lawtonian Denies Charge
Kenneth Short, a former Lawton resident, pleaded innocent to forging a $10 check drawn on Ross McCracken and cashed at 277 Salvage last June. He was jailed on 42,000 bond and a preliminary hearing was set for 2 p.m. Thursday before Justice of the Peace Woodrow Giles after his Jackson County, Mississippi arrest and return by Deputy Sheriff Oral Ridgeway.
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Kenneth Short
Jackson County
Miss
Oral Ridgeway
City Man Bitten By Pet Monkey
Police desk reports document a minor theft and animal bite incidents. Alberta Williams, 1913 Monroe, reports a brown purse stolen at Wrights cafe at about 9 p.m. Saturday. Eddie Ohicker, 108 D, bitten on both hands by a pet monkey owned by Jerome Beard, 325, Sunday afternoon. Robert Hurley, 316 Jefferson, bitten by two dogs near Hillis Seper Market, animal placed in shelter for observation.
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R. A. Davis
Alberta Williams
Monroe
Wright
Cachet Road
Eddie Ohicker
Jerome Beard
Beard Home
Robert Hurley
Jefferson
Hillis Seper Market
Crawfords Welcome Dees Family Visitor In Fort Sill
Personal Col and Mrs Stuart F Crawford host their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Jackie Dees of Oklahoma City at 423 Hamilton Road Fort Sill for a week before Edmond where Dees will attend Central State College as a senior. A cyclone named Charlotte forms southeast of Okinawa with top winds of 5 miles per hour.
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Stuart F. Crawford
Hamilton Road
Fort Sill
Jackie Dees
Oklahoma City
Tokyo
Air Force
Charlotte
Okinawa
The Worry Clinic Wife Beats Glamorous Ghost Opal
Dr George W Crane counsels Opal G 22 married ix months to win back Frank by acting devoted, sharing meals games and affection while maintaining idealism. He claims any man can be made to love with prescribed actions, urges sending for a 200 point tests guide.
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Opal
George W. Crane
Opal G
Frank Ante
Dr. Crane
Frank
Husbands & Wives
The
Hopkins Syndicate, Inc
Washington Becomes Campaign Center
Washington becomes the national campaign hub as both parties establish headquarters downtown ahead of the November 6 election. Democratic officials occupy multiple buildings near Farragut Square while Republicans center at 1625 I Street, exact outcome uncertain with polls downplayed this cycle.
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Charles 0
Gridley
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
White House
Congress
U.S
Democrat Party
GOP
16Th Street
Connecticut Avenue
Democratic National Committee
Connecticut
Stevenson
LaSalle Building
Stoneleigh Court
Eisenhower
New York City
Barry Bingham
Louisville Ky
Efison Dick
Chicago
Farragut Square
Republican
I Street
United States
Stevneoson
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Stevenson-Kefauver
One Killed and 200 Wounded in India Police Hall Riot
A Sunday night riot in Ahmedabad left one dead and about 200 injured as police fired on crowds at a meeting led by Moraji Desai, the Bombay state chief minister. Rioters attempted to pull leaders of the All-Indian Congress Party from the speakers’ platform during the confrontation before police dispersed the 50,000-strong crowd.
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Bombay
India
Ahmedabad
Moraji Desai
All- Imiian Congress Party
Jawaharlal Nehru
Air and Sea crossword puzzle clues list
A mixed list of across and down clues appears as an air and sea themed crossword puzzle with entries like blackbird sea eagle garden tool love god born indebtedness pronoun ornaments revokes lateral part supply with weapons Boston’s favorite rib specks near east liquor gets up amatory traveling bag deduce ardor drogосs scoundrel number places prayers splendor dove’s call fermented dough light brown feminine appellation insect metric measures doze sea crusts unusual vegetable noxious lake ganoid fish Turkish inn theater seat amphitheater puzzling network cape whispers mistake prescribed amounts cavern spoken expansions coarse grass pueblo pro b d oscises ceremonis mock chamber light prefix chilled bell ow take for melt grant ed Mnock.
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Boston
Car strike claims 68 year old in Oklahoma City
Mrs. Mattie Smith aged 68 of Oklahoma City died from injuries after being struck by a car near her home last Friday. She was the state's 42nd traffic fatality of the year.
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Oklahoma City
Mattie Smith
Oklahoma
Spinster Duped Into Embezzling Bank Funds in Chicago
Chicago report says Miss Bessie E. Roth 49 led by six neighborhood businessmen used as a dupe to divert 467288 from Lawndale National Bank. Roth, a 33 year clerk, claims she did not keep any money but helped others out of trouble. She is charged with misappropriating 3756. others face embezzlement and conspiracy accusations. The case cites federal banking law violations and possible further charges.
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Chicago
FBI
Bessie E. Roth
Lawndale National Bank
Roth
Ovners
Seven Altus airmen missing in Alaska
Eight men bailed from a KC-97 over Fire Island near Anchorage early today. One rescued. seven remain missing after two of four engines failed and the crew jumped. Captain Alva L. Wilkerson stayed with the aircraft and landed it safely from Altus Air Force Base. If the seven reached Cook Inlet, survival odds were virtually nil due to frigid waters.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Fire Island
Here
Alva L. Wilkerson
Altus
Obila
Altus Air Force Base
Air Force
Elmendorf Afb
Cook Inlet
City Man Accused of Assaulting Wife
W. E. Finley of 1202 Washington was charged with assault and battery in a complaint signed by his wife and filed before Justice of Peace Marvin Cameron. He is accused of striking Mrs. Jewel Finley with his hands fists and feet last Tuesday and will be arraigned this afternoon.
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W. E. Finley
Washington
Justice of Peace
Marvin Cameron
Finley
Jewel Finley
Cameron Instructor Earns Master in Music Education
Cameron college music department chairman Melvin L. Keeney was among 205 graduates receiving master degrees at North Texas State College in Denton Texas. Keeney, a Mutual high school graduate, earned a Master of Music Education and lives at 724 N. 32nd.
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Melvin L. Keeney
Cameron College
North Texas State College
Denton
Tex
Keeney
Mutual High School
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