Raid Nets Booze Cityan Arrested
Local officers conducted their 13th liquor raid of the year at 1102 Wisconsin and seized four hair pints of whisky. Wade Myers, 47, was charged in Municipal court with illegal liquor possession operating a joint and permitting a public nuisance. He posted 60 dollars bond. Otha Williams 36 was arrested earlier for illegal liquor possession and released on 20 dollars bond. Doris Bailey 30 and Betty Reed 19 were picked up for vagrancy. Edward Montgomery 18 and Sam Stallworth 22 faced improper parking charges and were released on 6 dollars bonds. Three others were arrested for public drunkenness and four for investigation.
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Wisconsin
Wade Myers
Myers
Bryan Logan
Walter Asbery
Lawton
Otha Williams
Euclid
Williams
Doris Bailey
Betty Reed
Snyder
Bailey
Edward Montgomery
Fort Sill
Sam Stallworth
Funeral Rites for George Spears and Robert Tompkins
George C. Spears 92 of Cyril died at home after a heart attack. Born 1863 in Nacogdoches Texas he moved to Oklahoma in 1900 and married Emma Dacus in 1901. Services set for Friday at the Church of Christ with burial at Cement cemetery. Robert A. Tompkins 32 formerly of Lawton died Friday in Fresno Veterans Hospital after Army service. Survived by wife and four children and several relatives. services tentatively Friday in Lawton Funeral Home chapel with Sunset Memorial Gardens burial.
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Cyril
George C. Spears
Nacogdoches
Tex
Oklahoma
Texas
Emma Dacus
Chickasha
Spears
Church of Christ
Fort Stockton
Eula Huffine
Johnny Malone
J. C. Earl
Cement Cemetery
Dalton Funeral Home
Fletcher
Robert A. Tompkins
Lawton
California
Fresno
Calif
Allegan
Mich
Edna Smith
Tompkins
Roberta
Patricia
Larry
Richie
Pearl Tompkins
Otsego
Leon Tompkins
Kalamazoo
Clayton Tompkins
Los Angeles
Judd Taylor
Robert Tait
Detroit
June Palmer
Cleveland
Lawton Funeral Home
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Girl and Two Men Accused in Murder Plot in Scranton
In Scranton Pennsylvania authorities say a high school girl conspired with Samuel Diana and John Pitta to kill her parents and share their wealth. Diana and Pitta masterminded the plot. the girl faces felonious assault charges as the mother is hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting.
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Scranton
Asst. Dist. Atty
Ralph Needle
Samuel Diana
John Pitta
Marlene Chomko
Diana
Taylor
Pitta
Needles
Needle
Marlene
Margaret Chomko
New York
Hospital News Items Admitted and Births in Oklahoma
Readouts list patients admitted or discharged across towns including Cache, Lincoln, Walters, Waurika, and Stonewall. Births noted at Kiowa Apache Geronimo and 12:43 a.m. Feb. 2, with weights 8 lb 2 oz and 7 lb 11 oz. Also reports Oklahoma City cattle and hog prices, plus state agriculture price data for wheat eggs and dairy products.
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A. R. Cole
Stonewall
Frances
Apache
Gilbert Hill
Canton
Rhoda Kowena
Indiahoma
Mary Ann Youngman
Joe Hicks
Frederick
Kate Tahdooahnippah
Geronimo
Jessie Peahway
Freedom Ends For Fort Sill Escaped Soldier
Military Police captured 17 year old Robert L. Porter, an AWOL Fort Ord inmate, who escaped a Fort Sill work detail by climbing a window and hid through the rain. He was found about a mile from the building and not yet sentenced.
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Fort Sill
Public Information Office
Lawton
PIO
Robert L. Porter
Fort Ord
Calif
St. Pauls Cathedral Called Parish Church of Empire
The article notes St Pauls Cathedral described as the parish church of the British Empire reflecting its ceremonial and historical role in imperial governance and national religious life.
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St. Paul’s Cathedral
British Empire
Business Women Plan Banquet For April Date
Plans for the annual International Relations banquet were discussed at a Business and Professional Women club luncheon in the Old South cafeteria. The event will be held this month with date to be announced. Reports covered last weekend’s Oklahoma City state board meeting and the upcoming 1957 state convention to be held in Lawton with invitations to be sent.
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Old South
Mary Pokorny
Bpws
Oklahoma City
Pauline Joyner
Mrs. Pokorny
Lela J. Wilson
Nell Franklin
BPW
Grain and Livestock Prices Rise Slightly in January
Oklahoma farmers saw small gains in grains and livestock on Jan 15 from Dec 15. Wheat at 2.01 per bushel, corn 1.29, sorghum 1.72. hogs 11.30 per cwt. Beef cattle 13.20, alfalfa hay 26.40 per ton, all still below year ago levels.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Nvauseaaiane
Seeeiaedee Cocks Pd
Oklahoma
City Man Returns From California To Face Charges
E. A. Burt, 48, was brought back to Lawton from Ontario, California, by Sheriff Everett Hale to face a felonious bogus check charge. Burt was returned after an extradition hearing in California. He is charged with passing a $49 bogus check.
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E. A. Burt
Lawton
Ontario
Calif
Everett Hale
Burt
California
Clothesline accident claims Detroit boy life
An 8 year old boy, Charles Chamberlain, reached up from a chair to operate a newly installed record player and became entangled in an overhanging basement clothesline. He attempted to record the Lord's Prayer and accidentally strangled.
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Detroit
Charles Chamberlain
May Succeeds Thelen As OU Military Science Professor
Colonel Matthus W. May has been assigned by the Army to replace Colonel Edward F. Thelen as professor of military science at the University of Oklahoma for next year. President George L. Cross announced the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman
Okla
Matthus W. May
Army
Edward F. Thelen
University of Oklahoma
George L. Cross
Ike's Economic Advisor Starts Survey In Turkey
Clarence B. Randall arrives in Istanbul for a 15 day survey of Turkey's financial and economic state as government officials eye a possible 300 million dollar loan from the United States. In Japan a 400 year old clock is recovered on temple steps with a taunting note to police calling them slow pokes.
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Ike
Turkey
Istanbul
Clarence B. Randall
Eisenhower
United States
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