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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1956
Page
16
A local listing notes a number of well improved and unimproved farms available in sizes from 80 to 160 acres. Buyers are advised to contact the agent for details on soil, water access, and valuation.
In Harlem the shooting at a West 135th Street bottle club involved singer Billy Daniels and trainer James Jackson. About two dozen officers were questioned about why headquarters weren’t notified for five hours. Daniels, 40, denied gun involvement and posted 2500 bail as a Feb 29 hearing looms. Jackson was shot in the shoulder and recovering. the incident was reportedly known locally.
Women in Lawton and Comanche County can learn meat cooking and judging in an adult program at Emerson school hosted by Lawton High School homemaking department. Marlin Keathley will demonstrate cuts of beef and pork, with two films. A youth session at 9:30 am covers meat judging for 4-H and FFA as prep for the county contest on March 3.
Edwin P. Hobbs of the Lawton VA office states that VA benefits plus GI policy proceeds are tax free and not reportable on federal returns. The list includes Korean GI Bill education allowances, vocational rehab subsistence, disability compensation and pension, wheel chair homes grants, motor vehicle grants, World War I retirement pay, and death benefits to families.
Four long served veterans signed up at the Lawton recruiting station. Sam F. Dunagan and Carl E. Barlow have 14 years each, John A. LaHayne of Altus with 12 years, and Fountain Y. Stubblefield of Duncan with six years. Dunagan and Stubblefield enlist at Fort Sill, Barlow to sea service, LaHayne to artillery.
Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger told a House Appropriations subcommittee that two thirds of narcotics traffic is concentrated in California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Texas due to the leniency of sentences there. He cited Louisiana, Virginia, and New Jersey as examples where tougher courts have curtailed drug trafficking.
Los Angeles reports 65 year old comedian Bob Furns known as the Arkansas bazooka player died yesterday of cancer after six days in a coma. Private funeral and interment are set for tomorrow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
No polio cases were reported in Oklahoma during the two week period ending last Saturday, the Health Department announced. Only three cases have been reported this year compared with ten at the same time a year ago.
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