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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1956
Page
6
New York report notes oil firms raised hourly pay by about 15 cents this year after a 10 cent rise in 1955. Steel negotiations loom largest with a 52 week layoff plan likely and demands for higher wages shorter work weeks and more holidays. Industry hopes keep mills running if business remains strong. unions may push harder if demand softens.
Oklahoma City report details a 1954 unidentified dead man found on an Adair County mountainside near Stilwell. About Christmas a farmer found bones. a pathologist notes a tall, oddly shaped skull and reversed limb lengths suggesting possible left handedness. He wore grey blue trousers and a panama hat with seven headache pills found in a rusty box. Autopsy did not reveal cause of death or timeframe, and investigators have no leads on identity.
Multiple funeral notices from Oklahoma reveal death of Cyril Spears 92 at home after heart attack. Survivors include wife Emma and children J. C. Spears and Eula Huffine, with extensive grandchildren. Toland family and others also mourn, including E. E. Lovelace and Alma Toles, with services and burial details across Cyril, Cooperton, Temple, and Phoenix regions.
Fourth grade students presented The March of Time and The Wish Machine under teacher Mrs. Pauline Vanis with music director Miss Trela Hodges assisting. Cast included Bill Seip Judy Jansen Donney Allen Jack David Smith Linda McAfee Gaila Wilson Barbara McCutchen and others.
In London, Emil Kekich of the U S Embassy promotes Britain's worm picking craft to meet a demand from the Wholesale Bait Co of Hamilton Ohio seeking 25 million lobworms. Scottish and English pickers like Jim Crookshank foresee daily yields of a thousand worms, gathered by night using moss and a candle, then shipped to America within 12 hours.
La Prensa reappeared in Buenos Aires under the Pax family banner with editor Alberto Gainza Pax starting the presses. The first edition vows to prevent dictatorship, recounting its 1951 closure, exile of Gainza Paz, and later restoration of the plant by a new government.
Truck driver Clarence Payne paid a $5 traffic fine and told Judge Charles Peery he would go to Australia to become a farmer. The judge quipped that during the 2 o'clock rush hour he wished he were in Australia too.
Congress returns to routine bills as senators seek support for a Monday vote on exempting natural gas producers from direct federal regulation for 14 days. Fulbright predicts approval of selling the Institute synthetic rubber plant to Goodrich Gulf Chemicals. Flood issues surface as Army engineers warn costs rise with delayed action. Eisenhower signs $100 million extra flood lending and the Senate passes a liberalized disaster home repair loan bill.
David Cooper Nelson 35 signed extradition waiver in Las Vegas and will be sent Friday to face first degree murder charges in Valencia county New Mexico for the killing of Ralph H. Rainey 48 of Santa Monica. Nelson also linked to kidnapping burglary and the disappearance of Kenneth Short 36 North Hollywood. Rainey’s body was found in a Budville New Mexico culvert January 10 and his car later located in Low Utah. FBI reports fingerprint match on a box of tissue paper in the car. Nelson claims amnesia and memory gaps after arrest in Caliente Nevada.
The Bethel Assembly of God church will host an all day service to honor Pastor Rev H Davis on Sunday at 12th and D. Guest speaker Rev Stephen Vandermerwe of South Africa will lead the 2 p.m. services and Rev W C Cropp Jr of Fort Worth will speak at the evening services. Davis, son of the late Rev T K Davis, is a Southwestern Bible Institute graduate and began pastoral duties Feb 3 1947 after serving in the U S Army.
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