Red Cross Opens New Lawton Chapter Headquarters Today
Lawton residents may tour the new Lawton chapter American Red Cross headquarters at 912 C this afternoon from 2 to 5. Vernon S. Carmichael, chapter president, will lead a receiving line with officers including Mrs G Goodier and E Price Jr. The site offers space for disaster gear, home nursing items, wheel chairs, and records, with a first floor housing offices, a kitchen, and a home service room. Junior Red Cross work and wrapped gifts for hospitals will be displayed along with demonstrations of home service operations.
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Board of Directors
Home Service
Lyndia Blunt
Red Cross
Carmichael
Missak
G. Goodier
E. Price Jr
Hugh Bish
Olen Conner
Volunteers
Wayne Gilley
Lydia Blount
Lawton
American Red Cross
World's Just A Big Stage
In Burlington North Carolina city officials decree 26 park ducks no longer cute juveniles will be culled for Christmas dinners for 26 needy families.
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Burlington
N.C
Bakery thief flees leaving bracelet reading Stop Thief
Cincinnati bakery operator Frank Jones reported a thief took a dozen doughnuts on Friday and fled so quickly he dropped a bracelet inscribed Stop Thief, helping identify the suspect.
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Cincinnati
Frank Jones
Lost teeth napkin bundle haunts Christmas dinner
Clinton Illinois reports Dean Vinson misplaced a napkin wrapped bundle containing his false teeth last Friday. Residents and authorities search the area hoping to recover the denture set before Christmas dinner.
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Clinton, Ill
Dean Vinson
Davy Crockett Born in Los Angeles Hospital
Hollywood announces the birth in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Los Angeles of a nine pound baby named Davy Crockett. He is described as a sixth generation Crockett per a family Bible dating to 1700.
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Hollywood
Davy Crockett
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Los Angeles
Tennessee
Davy
Crockett
Secretary Benson Accepts Gift Pig From Swine Council
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson declined a plan to shrink pork supply by slaughtering hogs but did not receive gratitude from the gift pig. Benson accepted the animal on behalf of President Eisenhower, but the pig wandered to a pail instead of showing appreciation.
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Washington
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
National
Swine Growers Council
Eisenhower
Benedt
Negro Youth Center Fund Drive Launched
Douglass Negro Youth Center begins a $20,000 fundraising campaign to build a youth center near Douglass high school. Over 100 attended a Friday banquet headlined by Mrs. Cenoria D. Johnson of the Oklahoma City Urban League urging budget plans to support after school activities and youth leadership. Mayor Ellsworth urged community support as Quay Barfield invites Lawton residents to join business sessions.
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Douglass Negro Youth Center
Douglass High School
Cenoria D. Johnson
Oklahoma City Urban League
Funeral Rites for James I. Brown at Becker Chapel
Funeral services were held at 2 30 p m in Becker Memorial chapel for James I Brown 76 of Rt 2 Walters with Rev Guy Swanson Baptist minister officiating Burial followed in Pecan cemetery Brown died unexpectedly at a daughter’s home at 1 a m after suffering a stroke Tuesday Bearers were S S Curtis Paul Zeller Geronimo Tom Ferrell Mancy Tompkins L C Clingan Clyde Lee Lon Wilson and Clarence McDowell Walters
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James I. Brown
Rt. 2
Walters
Becker Memorial Chapel
Guy Swanson
Pecan
Brown
S. S. Curtis
Paul Zeller
Geronimo
Tom Ferrell
Mancy Tompkins
L. C. Clingan
Clyde Lee
Lawton
Lon Wilson
Clarence McDowell
Imprisoned Red Says SS Checks Being Withheld
New York report that Communist party leader Alexander Bittelman, jailed for conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government, alleges his Social Security checks are withheld. He is 65, began serving a sentence in Atlanta in February, with $13.10 of $88.10 monthly benefits deposited to his account and $75 to his wife. He claims the October check was impounded by the prison warden at the request of the Federal Prison Director, without a given reason.
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New York
Alexander Bittelman
Communist Party
U.S
Bittelman
Atlanta
Bittelman’s Prison Act Ap
Federal
John J. Bennett
Pioneer State Dentist T H Williams 86 Dies
CHICKASHA Okla Dr T H Williams 86 one of the states oldest practicing dentists died here yesterday Williams a past president of the Oklahoma Dental Society came to Indian Territory from New Mexico in 1892 and practiced dentistry at Ft Sill and Anna He moved to Chickasha in
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Chickasha
Okla
T. H. Williams
Williams
The
Oklahoma Dental Society
Indian Territory
New Mexico
Ft. Sill and
Anna
Parties join in first bipartisan national fundraising drive
Beverly Hills Calif UP two major parties agree on a bipartisan fund raising campaign for the first time in history Democratic Party National Chairman Paul Butler says Republicans and Democrats accept the idea urged by Philip Graham publisher of the Washington Post and Times Herald Details to be worked out before next spring campaign Contributions would be directed to the national committee of the party chosen A proposed tax rule would allow a 100 personal deduction for political contributions and the combined limit could rise from 3 million to about 8 million
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Democratic Party
Paul Butler
Butler
Philip Graham
Washington Post
Times-Herald
National Committee
Rogers Family Makes Notable Farm Progress in 1955
Leonard C. Wiley reports Comanche County FHA records show William E. Rogers and family advancing farm operations in 1955. Non irrigated cotton yield reached 722 pounds per acre on 12.8 acres bottom land, with sales per acre at 201 dollars. The 130 acre Beaver Creek farm included wheat alfalfa sudan hegari and dairy sales totaling 1 265 from 11 dual purpose cows and 1 080 from yearlings and calves. Net worth rose 1 319 while FHA loan payments of 1 141 were made. The Rogers loan began in 1951 for 3 500 dollars and matures in five years. FHA aid aims to help with stock machinery and soil conservation planning.
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Wiley
Rogers
Beaver Creek
Rt. 2
Lawton
Sudan
FHA
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Farmers Home
Leonard C. Wiley
Comanche County
Scott's A Conditioning Inc
Southwestern Radio & Sound
4Th & E
Simmons
Axminster
D Avenue
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