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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1955
Page
5
Secretary of Labor James P Mitchell writes for United Press on Labor Day 1955 about peak prosperity, wage gains, and record production. He notes low inflation, high employment, rising real wages, and growing labor management maturity, urging continued confidence in economic stability and democratic ideals.
Mr and Mrs Ivan H Crooks of Victoria devised a handicap system for ponies at Exhibition Park race track in Vancouver. Using the Chinese alphabetical system they held identical tickets on the daily double and won 2575 dollars.
Chicago up sheriff Joseph Lohman created a jail library on Monday and immediately banned a book titled How to Escape by an ex convict. In Karlsruhe Germany therapists discussed face lifting as cost effective therapy with a Berlin surgeon noting women face battle for existence amid facial inferiority complexes.
The Oklahoma City Weather Bureau announced its roof sprang a leak during a violent Monday night thunderstorm. In London the zoo stated that the recently deceased kiss named Kenneth should have been Kathy, clarifying the long beaked New Zealand bird was female and beloved by children.
Police filed charges of illegal liquor possession running a joint and public nuisance against Wayne Tisdel and Jack Shaw after Monday raids. At 2109 Roosevelt about 9 30 p m officers seized whisky and gin. at 2001 Cache road about 6 15 p m a service station raid yielded more whisky and gin. Night Chief Pete Fuller Patrolmen R A Davis Kenneth Stradley and Patrolman Eulis Young led the operations with Justice Woodrow Giles signing the warrants.
Boston report states Selective Service Director Lewis B Hershey forecast that the new reserve plan would yield the same effect as universal military training in five or six years. He told reporters that by then nearly everyone available would be drafted or join the voluntary active reserve after a brief training period at a Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment event.
A report shows Southern pine makes up 43 percent of the nation’s total pulpwood consumption, underscoring its dominant role in the US timber and paper industries.
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