U S Communities Choose Odd Names Across Towns
Washington writer notes towns from Athens Texas to Zanesville Ohio mirror history humor and geography. Many name changes honor presidents or heroes with processes overseen by the Post Office and Interior boards. Summit and other peculiar names persist across 18 states with dozens renamed yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Texas
Zanes Ville
Ohio
United States
Skull Valley
Ariz
Smoketown
Rough and
Rough and Ready, Calif
Novelty
Bowlegs
Okla
Fishtrap
Odd
W. Va
America
Eisenhower
Truman
Minn
Hoover
Tex
Post Office Department
Interior Department
Board On Geographic Names
Mauch Chunk
Jim Thorpe
Berwyn
Gene Autry
Hell-to-Pay
Wash
Estopia
Hot Springs
N. Mex
Frog Level
S.C
Hot Spot
Berlin
Oklahoma
Paris
Arkansas
London
Moscows
Cairo
Lisbon
Christofer Columbus
Discover
Summit
Elgin Schools List Faculty Ahead of Monday Opening
Elgin announces faculty for the new term with Arthur Farrar as superintendent and Cecil Lamb as high school principal. Other leaders include Jean Owens junior high principal Lee Rhoades grade school head, plus teachers in industrial arts math science English and various grade levels.
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Elgin
Arthur Farrar
Cecil Lamb
Jean B. Owens
Lee J. Rhoades
L. W. Ayala
John D. Jones
Francis Cremer
Kathleen Lambert
Maurine Livingston
Laura McCallister
Velma Ridgeway
Anna Ryan
Nicholas Kirby
Oswald Parton
Cyrilla Goster
Mesdames Beulah Bentley
Ruth Denson
Edna Mae Roberts
Virginia Besell
Mary Grover
Beatrice Johnson
Canee
Leo Bandy
Funeral Rites for One Day Old Beth Ann Hilliard
Beth Ann Hilliard died at 10 a m Saturday at a local hospital. Born Friday afternoon she is the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Eugene Hilliard. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a m in the Becker Memorial chapel with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Bob Wilkerson of the Cameron Church of Christ will officiate. Survivors include her parents a brother Lex William sixteen months paternal grandfather Henry I Hilliard of 209 Euclid and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs L O McClure Chickasha plus great grandparents Mrs M W Gates Anadarko paternal Mr and Mrs W C Hilliard Chickasha and Mr and Mrs John Farley Chickasha. The father is employed by Spartan Aircraft at Fort Sill. The Hil liards have lived here two years coming from Chickasha.
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Beth Ann Hilliard
Walter Eugene
Gene) Hilliard
Becker Memorial Chapel
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Bob Wilkerson
Cameron Church of Christ
Lex Wiliam
Henry I. Hilliard
Euclid
L. O. McClure
Chickasha
M. W. Gates
Anadarko
W. C. Hilliard
John Farley
Spartan Aircraft
Fort Sill
Hilliards
Cotton County Girls Plan To Attend Twirling School
Temple Special Carol Collins Ann Lowe and Sylvia Collins will attend a five day twirling school in Huntsville Texas at Sam Houston State college. James C Deen band instructor said they just returned from a similar school at Cameron college Lawton Deen will teach marching and head drum majoring at the school.
Area Men In Service Leaves Germany On Gyroscope Plan
M Sgt Curtis R Watts and Lt Col Harlen M Love, both stationed overseas, are mentioned in dispatches. Watts, wife Merel of 15 N 28th, is set to depart Germany next month under Operation Gyroscope as the First Infantry division is replaced by the 10th Infantry division and heads to Fort Riley Kansas. Love, wife Rita of 2820 N 23rd, recently graduated from Camp Gordon Provost Marshal General’s school after completing advanced military police training, having entered the Army in 1940 and most recently stationed at Fort Sill.
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Curtis R. Watts
Merel
No. 15
N. 28Th
Germany
United States
Army
Watts
Europe
10Th Infantry Division
Fort Riley
Kan
U.S
Fifth Field Artillery Battalion
Harlen M. Love
Rita
N. 23Rd
Provost Marshal General’s School
Camp Gordon
Elks Parade in Woodward Promises Record Crowd
The 25th annual Elks rodeo parade in Woodward Oklahoma next Thursday is expected to be one of the largest ever. Officials say the parade may extend over four miles and run the full length of Main Street.
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Woodward
Okla
Chamber of Commerce
Main Street
Bats Dying At Carlsbad Caverns In New Mexico
New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns sees thousands of bats dying as insecticide sprayed crops reduce their food. Ranger Hoskins notes the colony exceeds 100000 but may not vanish. bats feed on insects, migrate seasonally to Mexico, and the nightly flight remains a famed tourist draw alongside the caverns’ vast formations.
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Carlsbad
N.M
Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
R. Taylor Hosphins
Hoskins
Jim White
Mexico
Two Drunk Driving Charges Filed In City Court
Two motorists Nathaniel Hendrick 25 and Monell Ornsbey Fort Sill were charged in City Court Saturday with driving while intoxicated after Friday arrests by Lawton police. Complaints signed by Detective Otis Waldron.
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Lawton
Nathaniel Hendrick
Monell Ornsbey
Fort Sill
Otis Waldron
Youths Admit Stealing Nine Guns in Oklahoma City
Three teen aged boys confessed to stealing nine guns from a sports store and robbing a bootlegger of 12 dollars in Oklahoma City on Saturday. A fourth youth remained under investigation. Police caught the quartet after a liquor merchant spotted three boys on the street. two were armed at arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
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Knights of Columbus
McKinley
Third
Columbia
Constitution Press
Washington
Bird-in- Hand
Put-in-Bay
White Settlement
Intercourse
Broken Arrow
Wartrace
Tenn
Sledge
Miss
Paradise
Elgin Schools
OU —Tepgat19 Business College
Southwestern Radio & Sound Phone
RCA Victor
Delas Tti ‘Music Co
Cotton County
Twirling School
Deen
Sgt
Harlan Love
Carlsbad Cavern
James A. Hall
T Street
H. D. Morgan
Ernest Eugene Milner
Duncan
Norman Carroll
Justice of Peace
Woodrow Giles
Henry Franklin Smith
E Street
Marvin Cameron
Carroll
Sylvester Dillon
Electra
Cameron
Leland V. Jones
Bud Williamson
Burn-Ford Drug
Cache
Sheridan Road
Beltone
Bellone
Beltone Hearing Service
Koehler
Floyd Campbell
Mgr
Capitol
Bobby Hackett
Arthur Murray
Big Dave
Orchestra
June Christy
Rachmaninoff
the Record Shop
Hardy Suggs Music Shop
D Avenue
NASH
Jim Gaskins
Hank Eakin
Roy Moyer
Ben Buening
Fey Hillis
E Avenue
2Nd and
C Avenue
ULL
Wallace
Rielw Wale
4Th
F Street
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