Relief Seeks 200 Families Sign On for Emergency Food
Comanche county relief rolls reach 200 in Central district with 153 signing on the first registration day. By noon 198 names listed, most from the Negro community hardest hit by farm work loss. Registration continues at least until Thursday as lists are certified for county food distribution via transfer warehouse on D Ave.
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Comanche County
Central District
Oklahoma City
OK Transfer and Storage Company
D Ave
MOS branch department heads new reservist training at Fort Sill
Reserve courses expand at Fort Sill under Maj. Wendell Phillips with five classifications for enlisted reservists including clerk typist cooks and signal corps lineman. Officers may enroll while serving in their units. Classes meet twice monthly and drill pay increases to 12 per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Pain
Artilery
MOS
Wendell Phillips
Lawton
Signal Corps
Fort Sill
Drama Workshop Program Slated at Lawton Little Theater
A drama workshop featuring readings from The Voice the Turtle will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Civic room of Security Bank and Trust. Rickert directs the program with Charles Kimball as narrator. Cast includes Eva Kramer Charlice McMillion and Charles Wilson. A business session follows the platform drama.
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Voice the Turtle
Lawton Little Theater
Civic Room
Security Bank & Trust
Comae Rickert
Charles Kimball
Eva Kramer
Charlice McMillion
Charles Wilson
Doc Fal Dopey Aw On Fort Sill Blvd Near Fort Sill
Townsfolk recount the misadventure of Doc Fal Dopey who sped the wrong way on a one way street near Fort Sill Blvd. His wife and teens chorus mocked his error before a confrontational exchange with a female driver. He later reflects on the incident and resumes careful driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doc
Son No
Milady
Oklahoma City Grain and Livestock Markets Slump Mixed
Oklahoma City market notes show No 1 hard wheat around 2.14 to 2.18 a bushel with varied regional quotes. Live cattle receipts total 4,500 with steers and heifers steady to strong, cows and bulls largely unchanged, slaughter calves strong, stockers and feeders active. hogs and lambs mostly lower on lighter demand.
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Oklahoma City
SDA
Oklahoma
Hobart
el Reno
Bison
Alva
Hennessey
Kingfisher
Blackwell
Hobart Medford
Vici
Clinton
Enid
Fairview
Yukon
Lawton
Frederick
Guyman
Hooker
Broilers
F.o.b
Farm Vinita
Muskogee
Ardmore
Tulsa
Hens
McAlester
Laverne
Elk City
Vinita
Chickasha
Pauls Valley
Watonga
Chandler
Durant
Sereen
Reno
USDA
Oklahoma City man dies after Saturday crash
A 22 year old Harold Bonner Roberts of Oklahoma City died Tuesday from head injuries after losing control of his car at Classen and Northwest Eighth Street Saturday night. The vehicle overturned several times in the one vehicle accident.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
U. S. 69
Atoka
Harold Bonner Roberts
Classen
Northwest Eighth Street
Suspect linked to Payton death in stockyard beating case
Investigators traced a $2,200 check to a suspect after Payton was found beaten dead. Autopsy disclosed a clubbing wound from behind rather than a gunshot. Hendrix, a former convict, is jailed as James Ince and Sheriff Thomas report a jail note implying admission. Payton’s body was found near Seminole after being moved from an old building by stockyards.
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Thomas
Hendrix
Sher- James Ince
Payton
Ince
Henrix
Seminole
Quartet Auditions Set At Lawton High Tonight
Students are reminded of quartet auditions for 1954 55 with girls to try out at 7 p m and boys at 8 p m in the vocal music room of the new high school Miss Ira Jean Snow directs the vocal music program at Lawton High School
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Ira Jean Snow
Lawton High School Vocal A
Court bars Safeway in trade stamp case ruling
Van Meter issued a temporary restraining order against Safeway and kept the case open to Oct 1. The judge found trade stamps cannot justify violating the unfair sales act and upheld that a rival may not meet an illegal price under competition. The association plans further actions if violations recur. W. A. Christensen, Oklahoma.
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van Meter
Safeway
W. A. Christensen
Oklahoma
Mrs Mike Brandon Under Treatment At Scott White
Mrs Mike Brandon of 711 South Ninth is being treated for a dislocated vertebra at Scott White hospital in Temple Texas. She is expected to stay hospitalized for two to three weeks with Mr and Mrs Brandon traveling to Temple Sunday morning and Mr Brandon returning home later.
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Mike Brandon
S. Ninth
Scott-White Hospital
Temple
Texas
Brandon
Sanitary Office May Be Created
An amendment to the city sanitary ordinance would allow appointment of an assistant superintendent in charge of the city dump. Mayor Joe McCain plans to ask the council to create the position at tonight’s regular meeting. The agenda also includes plans for city boundary expansion and a community park project in Ferris and North Second.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe McCain
Ferris
North Second
Son
United Fund Sets Final Campaign Goal in Lawton Area
A joint United Fund Red Cross drive committee fixed an overall goal of 83 990 to guide a campaign covering the Community Chest and Lawton Red Cross. The plan splits 71 990 for the Chest and 12 000 for Lawton Red Cross, with Fort Sill running its own March drive separately.
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United Fund
Red Cross
Fort Sill
Lawton
School Readiness and Child Health Inquiry
A pediatric screening asks parents about the child’s ability to follow simple directions and recite nursery rhymes along with favorite stories. It questions emotional control, happiness away from parents, adaptability to school, possession sense, social interaction, obedience, and respect for authority. It also covers hearing sight dental health tonisils adenoids nutrition vaccination and organ function.
Hospital Births and Admissions Mixed in News Item
Births listed for families in Carnegie Cache and Oklahoma areas with times and weights. Numerous admissions and discharges noted for patients in Mountain View Walters Shawnee and nearby towns, detailing names, ages, and medical or surgical statuses.
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Ralph Williams
Mountain View
Joe Redbird
Carnegie
Elmer Thomas Hoag
Binger
Harold Kauligg
Dorothy Jessepe
Oklahoma City
Robert Komesaraddle Jr
Oklahoma storm brings twister and wind damage across counties
An observer logged up to .30 inches of rain with an inch estimated between there and Seiling. A tornado touched woodlands in Texas and caused wind damage in Valliant and Hugo area counties. Banks, farms, and power lines suffered, while temperatures ranged from 96 to 106 across cities.
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Mutual
Seiling
Valliant
McCurtain County
Woodland
Kanawha
Red River
Texas
Farmers State Bank
Hugo
Spencerville
Choctaw County
Ardmore
Sacie Vase
Diane
Maine Mercury
Ft. Lillee
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Hobart
Gage
Ponca City
Guymon
Jaws Wenved
McAlester
Tax collection delays force warrant mailouts across county
Hale states warrants for small property tax amounts will be mailed as dozens of deputies would be needed to deliver over $50,000 in warrants. Many offenders are servicemen from Fort Sill now out of state or overseas. Those remaining in Comanche County face seizure and sale under state law.
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Hale
Fort Sill
Comanche County
Amateur Artists Paintings Sold at Lawton Show
The first prize painting by Mrs. Miller of the Cache Road Fort Sill underpass scene was sold. Mrs Harold Redding bought the work as a birthday gift for her husband, the contractor on the project. Earlier, second and third prize paintings depicting the Hotel Lawtonian were sold as well. Louise
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Amateur Artist Association
Miller
Cache Road
Fort Sill Bevard
Harold Redding
Husee
Lawtonian
Louise
Movie crew scouts Wichita as potential studio hub
About two weeks of filming plans with eight to ten dozen movie men including actors and executives in Wichita. No official word yet from Republic Pictures in Hollywood after the go ahead signal. If developments continue Wichita may become a mecca for movie studios.
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Octo
Republic
Hollywood
Wichitas
School group names listed for Jefferson Garfield programs
Faculty Milton Worley and others head committees for a series of NEA OEA and CTA activities. The Classroom Teachers group led by Mrs Ford will present a skit St Peters Gate at the Wednesday teachers meeting with cast including Earl Hamburger Robert Gemmell and George Walkers.
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Milton Worley
Mary Thomas Jane McCracken
Lee Perge
Vanita Lee
Louise Kirkham
Pete Rhames
Gwen Cox
Lawrence Laird
Opal Brown
Lizzie Swinney
Helen McIntosh
Inez
Ford
St. Peter’s Gate
NEA
OEA
CTA
Earl Hamburger
Robert Gemmell
George Walkers
Effie Wickman
Velma Hoffman
Ruth Rivers
Louise Scott
Lawton
Board of Education Visitation
Mary French
Beatrice Hoover
Ward McCracken
John Littlefield
Dean Dillingham
Wynona New- Paan
Frances Curb
Myrtle Sorrow
Vivian Wee
Elizabeth Oleta Littlefield
Gladys Fullerton
Gertrude Cook
Frankie van Hoozer
Curb
Faye Glick
Mildred Howard
Clarice McMillion
Elizabeth Everly
Mary Thomas
Gladys Hamburger
Mary Sue Silk
Minnie Attaway
Dorothy Goode
Gussie Barnett
Ester Denison
Mary Grundy
Craig Pierson
Helen McCrory
Marcella Dayton
Ethel Blair
Helen Crutcher
Blanche McMahon
Edyth Adams
Dorothy Worthen
Betty Provine
Jo Anne Gross
Elizabeth Maupin
Jefferson and
Garfield
McCarthy Contempt Charge Opens Senate Hearings
The Senate panel spent two hours laying groundwork for hearings while reading into the record a correspondence about McCarthy contempt of a Senate subcommittee on elections and privileges. Edward Bennett Williams moved to dismiss the charge as legally insufficient. Watkins urged the issue remains relevant. McCarthy read a firm statement denouncing what he called an unholy alliance and aggressive anticommunism.
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Senate
McCarthy
Senate Rules Committee
Edward Bennett Williams
Williams
Watkins
Utah
Sena
McCa
McCarty
Tenkin
Death notice for Levey family member with Lawton ties
Funeral rites for a Lawton born man with ties to Soa te hammed merman and ally are planned. He worked at Lawton public schools and the Lawton Constitution, owned Clover Printing, and moved to Fresno about eight years ago. Survived by wife in Fresno, two daughters Anita Eakin and Mary, two sons William B. Levey in Germany and Herbert, a brother W. B. Sevey of Lawton, seven grandchildren, and several relatives visiting for services yet to be arranged. Burial details are pending.
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Lawton
Lawton Constitution
Sevey Printing Co
Bell
Clover Printing Company
Fresno
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Harvery
William B. Levey
Germany
Anita Eakin
Mary
Herbert
W. B. Sevey
Cherry Street
Mrs Minnie Walston Rites Planned at Lawton
Mrs Minnie Walston died after a year of illness at her home here. Services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lawton Funeral Home chapel with Rev C W Sasser officiating. Burial will be in Cache cemetery. She was born January 16 1877 in Texas and was a member of Cavalry Baptist Church. Survivors include three daughters Irene Wade Cadhe Grace Perry Lydia Phelps a son John Cody a brother John Fletcher and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Wal Ok
Rie Jeanes
Lawton Funeral Home
C. W. Sasser
Cache Cemetery
Walston
Texas
Cavalry Baptist Church
Irene Wade
Cadhe
Grace Perry
Grand Falls
Tex
Lydia Phelps
Jefferson
John Cody
California
John Fletcher
Sacramento
Calif
Funeral for Sfc Alvin Curl in Fort Sill rites
Sfc. Alvin Curl 42 died in Frankfurt Germany June 24. Services at Becker Memorial chapel Saturday 10:30 a.m. with military honors at Fort Sill cemetery. He lived here 12 years wife Deborah Ann 4 and parents Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Curl and sister Mrs. George Harshaw Okmulgee survive him.
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Sfc
Alvin Curl
Frankfurt
Germany
Becker
Curl
Deborah Ann
L. L. Curl
McKinley
George Harshaw
Okmulgee
Customer walks out with bacon by mistake at Lincoln market
Lincoln Nebraska. A shopper left a supermarket with bacon and half returned them after realizing the error. He explained he picked up the checks by mistake with a package of bacon and placed them in his sack with groceries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Potter assails Army McCarthy hearings at public forum
In a congressional hearing context Senator Potter criticizes the Army-McCarthy hearings and the FBI letter on Fort Monmouth. He accuses McCarthy of knowledge or tolerance of Roy Cohn's pursuit of favors for Schine and asserts Cohn abused his position to press for Army favors. He condemns using government power for personal aims and warns of systemic chaos.
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Tieanak
Potter
Army-McCarthy
Michigan
FBI
Fort Monmouth
Joseph R. McCarthy
Subcommittee
Roy M. Cohn
Army
Cohn
Pvt
G. David
McCarthy
Sen. McCarthy
Schine
Women Join CD Unit Training In Police Work
The CD unit announces new training for women including judo, shooting, traffic instruction, first aid, pistol and rifle use, and police detection lessons. Mrs English rejects special favors while stressing equal opportunity. the department says more members are welcome and age checks are being considered.
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Drama Workshop
Red Face Dept
Fort Sill Blvd
Reuben L. Thomas Jr
17Th Field Artillery Group
Ernest N. Kelly
A&r
U.S. Army
Ulletin
Scott-White
Gregory Haumpy
el Pahcheka Jr
Cache
Clinton Turner
Conn Hammer
Reed
Okla
G. A. Williams
Taylor
Lola Harbison
A. J. Theissen
Shawnee
Alvin Briscoe
Walters
Les Mann
Lloyd King
Willie Copeland
Lee
Willie Ray Pollard
Dearborn
Ronnie Coombs
Dink Coombs
Josephine Brashier
Elgin
Sylvia Bennett
Martha Privett
Sid Ludwig
Irwin
Edward Totty
Lowell Hogan
Columbia
Royce David
R. L. David
Sterling
Colo
Gayla Beauchamp
Beauchamp
Indiahoma
Charley L. Speck
Claude E Shelton
Willard Petty
Jessie Cline
Park
Shirley Ann Ford
Herman Ford
Atlanta
Crawford M. Hawkins
Sidonie Manuel
S. Seventh
Herman F. Priest
Washington
Dewey W. Smith
Altus
Katherine Witzel
Jake Witzel
Elm
Henry Weddle
Oe D. R. Pochel
Carl L. Fox
Cornell
Euehter
T. M. Taylor
Fletcher
George Boyd
Tipton
Maud Mullins
Jean Simmons
Joe C. Richard
Erry
May Brooking
McCord
Bendix
Southwestern Radio & Sound
Alan Sevey
Minnie Walston
M & D Finance CO
Western
JO G. Andrews
MEL
Hunting & Fishing
A. L. Pollard Sporting Goods
D Avenue
Cameron
Good Housekeeping Institute
Howell
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