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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1955
Page
24
New York markets show industrials at peak levels for the period with a weekly gain near five points. Rails and utilities ease amid Santa Fe stock-split disappointment, while aircrafts and oil shares rally on strong orders and cold weather.
Whittier elementary students have saved 1042.10 over 11 weeks, about 100 weekly, in U S Savings Stamps. Principal S J McIntosh says 75 percent of 370 pupils participate, with one child earning a $25 bond. Students bring funds Wednesdays to be exchanged at the post office, then pasted into stamp books.
Two people were injured, not seriously, in a one car crash Saturday about 12 15 a m near E Gore and S E Sixth. Curtis Brandon 25 driver and Colon H Craft 21 passenger both of Fort Sill were treated at Fort Sill hospital. Brandon drove from Gore onto S E Sixth when the 1952 Ford left the road and hit a telephone pole.
Fire from a flue to a wood stove caused extensive damage to the ceiling and roof of a two room frame house at 1113 New York Avenue about 1 p.m. Saturday. Owner Albert Blackburn lived alone. damage estimated at 200 dollars. Blackburn and his sister in law Minnie Black Star of Walters escaped unharmed. Firefighters also put out a flash fire in a grease rack at the nearby service station 1015 Lee, owned by Charlie Bynum, on the return from the scene.
Oklahoma City laborer Virgil Acree, 35, is set for a lie detector test Monday as detectives pursue the death of Edith Christian, 33, Apache. Her badly decomposed body was found under a culvert in southwest Oklahoma City on November 23. Acree, arrested after being identified as the last person seen with Christian, claimed to have lived with her in various places and denied knowledge of her death.
Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary said an Oklahoma City reservoir plan may flood about 1,000 acres near Stringtown, forcing the shift of the state training school for boys to Helena and shelving the plan for a prison farm. He noted roughly 2,000 acres could be submerged, with half state owned, as voters weigh bonds for the project next Tuesday.
Guadalupe Peak rises to 8751 feet and stands as the highest mountain in Texas. The summit marks the top point in the state’s landscape, attracting hikers and geographers interested in its prominence and location within the Guadalupe Mountains.
MSgt. W. D. Horn reported no reports of dangerous explosives from Lawton residents this week. He urged residents to report locations to avoid fatalities, noting owners may not be punished and explosives will be removed by the 61st Ordnance Detachment. Contact police sheriff or MP, or Fort Sill EOD at 2-6116, or Lawton EOD men at 7055 3055 3735 9120-M.
John W. Carruthers Jr., 26, pleaded guilty to forging and cashing a government check made out to Orman Bradford of Muskogee. Bond set at 2500 dollars by U S Commissioner Philip Douglas. He is the fifth man arrested as postal inspectors say $15000 in government checks were stolen by the ring. the others also pleaded guilty.
Ardmore residents crowded police, newspaper offices, and Ardmore Air Force Base with calls about a round bright object seen in the sky. Capt. Robert Derrickson, base weather officer, tracked the drifting figure and identified it as a plastic weather balloon.
Judge J. Merle Oaks Saturday assessed 94 dollars in fines and ordered 64 dollars in bonds forfeited in a 10 case municipal court session. Four public drunkenness and four traffic cases were heard with specific fines for Bobby Myers 29, running a red light, 11 dollars. Lon Dugger 32, blocking an alley, 3 dollars. W R Bill Davidson 54, assault, 20 dollars. and three drunkenness offenders at 20 dollars each. Bonds forfeited included William Mullins 32, reckless driving by drinking, 20 dollars. Max E Peterson 23, speeding, 20 dollars. Bobby Pulliam 20, disturbance, 12 dollars. and two additional drunkenness cases with 12 and 20 dollars bonds.
John Anthony Barry, 38, of Fort Sill Indian School, was fined 100 dollars and costs and sentenced to 10 days in county jail after pleading guilty to drunken driving. County Attorney Manville Redman filed the complaint signed by Patrolman Melvin Kelley. Judge S. R. Harper imposed the sentence in county court after a three-vehicle crash at Second and Ferris at 12 48 a.m. Saturday. no injuries were reported.
Astronomers at three California observatories report a new age for the expanding universe of minus 5.4 billion years with a margin of error near one billion. The finding, if confirmed, adjusts current cosmological timelines and challenges existing models.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson rejects expanding the pork buying program despite Iowa Governor Leo A. Hoegh urging expansion. The plan remains to buy 170 million pounds of processed pork and 30 million pounds of lard for 85 million dollars through next August. Benson says the current hog purchase program will continue and urges farmers to adapt breeding to market demand. A push for an immediate beef purchase program is urged by Montana's Democratic congressional delegation to secure better prices for farmers.
Sens. James E. Murray and Mike Mansfield and Rep. Lee Metcalf warned Senator Benson that the cattle sector has passed the undue disaster threshold requiring action. They cited $115 million in tariff funds and several million dollars for school lunch programs, plus an unfilled relief-beef demand from agencies.
A historical note states that male natives of New Guinea may wear the fur of the flying fox on their waistbands, an adornment reserved for the successful head-hunter. The practice marks status and achievement among the tribes mentioned in the source.
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