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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1956
Page
2
Mayor C. R. Ellsworth reported after a Lawton Industrial Developers clean-up Committee meeting. Stock purchases reached 88,600 with 700 turned in that day and about 87,900 sold previously. He urged large Lawton firms to contribute and warned the missing funds could attract new industries.
Officials discuss how to address liquor topics in schools without harming core curricula. Educators warn against overloading lessons, noting health and moral messaging already appear in textbooks. Authorities stress home church and school collaboration and consider audio visual aids to teach safe living while avoiding policy overreach.
Needham states the world’s most modern telephone equipment will require about four million connections and 75 000 man hours for installation. The system features Bell Labs’ wire relay with 11 parts and 11 hand operations, replacing older relays with 56 operations. Thousands of relays will equip the city system, offering subscribers greater privacy and convenience plus local dialing and long distance capability.
SEMINOLE Okla The $600 robbery last night of a Seminole supermarket remained unsolved today as two men apparently made good their escape after the hold up. Roadblocks failed to turn up the pair dressed in oil field garb who accosted the store manager and another employee shortly before closing time.
Bad weather delayed the Sixth district Democratic convention from Elk City to February 10. About 50 Comanche delegates will attend the Elk City event at Monahan's cafe at 6 p.m. The district includes 23 counties and will elect a chairman co chairman and secretary treasurer for the state executive committee.
Bert Hughes of Imperial Kansas was elected president of the National Association of Wheat Growers in Portland Oregon. John S Newlin of Lewis Kansas was named secretary treasurer. Elected vice presidents include Carrol Boyd Dumas Texas R L Patterson Oxford Kansas Floyd Root Wasco Oregon Lester Mort Venango Nebraska Theodore F Field er Holyoke Colorado and John Stevenson Benge Washington.
Eden praised progress at talks with Eisenhower and argued for dialogue with Communist leaders to keep tensions from rising. He urged China to withdraw Nationalist forces from Quemoy and Matsus, warned against invasion of Formosa, and endorsed periodic reviews of trade controls with Red China while reaffirming allied aims for German unity and security in the free world.
Court arraignment set for Monday to appoint attorneys for Robert Daniel Archie 19 Booker T Gilbert 39 Candy Jo Neal Williamson who pleaded innocent to armed robbery first degree rape and false pretenses respectively John Brandt charged with second degree burglary and second degree forgery Freddie O Neal charged with robbery by force George Ashby charged with burglary and Donald Edward Hammond charged with second degree burglary.
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