Plans For Squaw Creek Correction Discussed In Lawton
City and Comanche county officials meet in Lawton to discuss a Farmers proposed plan to widen deepen and straighten Squaw creek south of Lawton to carry flood waters. The proposal opposes the Army Corps diversion canal plan and targets riprapping near new bridges and culverts in west and northwest Lawton as funded in this year’s budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Ellsworth
Squaw Creek
Lawton
Army Corps of Engineers
Squaw
Cache Creeks
Cache Creek
Comanche County
West Lawton
Douglas L. Smith
City Council
Bottlers Convention Schedule Promises Speakers and Events
The Bottlers convention at Lawton features Skinny Ennis and orchestra in the Hotel Lawtonian ballroom with registration opening Feb 12 at noon. A Sunday golf tournament, hotel buffet, and Feb 13 sessions include Wheeler as noon speaker and Oscar Monrad on Industry in Oklahoma. Election of officers planned. A women’s luncheon and style show chaired by Mrs. Ross H. Porter. Forio, Coca Cola executive, recounts long career culminating as staff vice president. Wheeler hailed as a top sales speaker. Monrad to discuss industry in Oklahoma. notable industry leaders attend.
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Vention
Skinny Ennis
Lawtonian
Lawton’s
Wheeler
Oscar Monrad
First National Bank & Trust Co
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Ross H. Porter
New Orleans
Forio
Tulane
Loyola
Marine Corps
Coca-Cola Co
Chicago
Atlanta
Coca- Cola Co
Washington, D. C
Reader’s Digest
Time Magazine
Mansfield
American Bottlers
Newark, N. J
Lawton Republicans Attend District Parley in Chickasha
County GOP members Claude Martin Mrs. Morris Eckhart O W Northrop and Grover Viney traveled by bus to Chickasha for the Sixth Congressional District convention. Inclement weather kept several Lawton Republicans away. Mrs. Walter Wolverton released a list of 33 county delegates for the state convention in Oklahoma City and noted J B Colwell, new Comanche county GOP chairman, cannot attend due to injuries from a recent car crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Martin
Morris Eckhart
O. W. Northrop
Grover Viney
Lawton
Chickasha
Walter Wolverton
Reese L. Russell
H. P. Cook
H. Ben Turner
R. R. Connor
Paul Busby
G. M. Brooks
Warren M. Wolverton
C. Tom Bullock
E. Bruce Spivey
Arling Eckhart
Charles Belcher
Robert Brown
A. M. Fullerton
G. A. Kluck
Albert Hager
George Bohl
John Spauffer
Bernie Beauchamp
Fred Laging
Elmo Hinson
W. H. Kleeman
Joe Fullerton
J. B. Colwell
Comanche County
Republicans
Colwell
Memorial Hospital
Lawton Plans Public Forum On Chronic Disease Hospital Bond
A four physician panel including Dr. Dunlap and Dr. Angus will join a Friday public forum to discuss a proposed chronic disease hospital. Mrs. Day has written 500 letters seeking civic opinions on the bond election, while officials note the plan would connect to Memorial via a ramp and mirror the main hospital’s design. County commissioners plan to wait for public input before calling the election.
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Memorial Hospital
Lawton
Margaret Day
Memorial Board
Love
Memorial
Emil Woesner
Central District
Knights of Columbus gree present will be Joseph Wein zapfel
The gathering lists Joseph Weinzapfel of Munster Texas Gus Deitz of Happy Texas and Fred Joseph of Taylor Texas plus R A Morin past master of Oklahoma City. Jack Naughton chairs with Julius Banta Keough and G Clifton Webb as co chairs. Several Lawton Fort Sill men and out of town leaders among those to be exemplified follow including dozens of names and titles.
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Gree
Joseph Weinzapfel
Munster
Tex
Gus Deitz
Happy
Fred Joseph
Taylor
R. A. Morin
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Jack Naughton
Cochairmen
Julius Banta
Keough
G. Clifton Webb
Lawtonians
Fort Sill
Philip M. B. Reid
Dominick A. Rizzo
William V
James A. Thibeault
Gerald J. Slack
Lawrence M. Kelly
Maj
R. D. Barrett
Thomas F. MceCarthy
Robert B. Seeley
Alfred M. Fiasco
Robert P. Little
Joseph C. Jones
William F. Rohenhohl
Nick A. Albarano
Harry A. Buzzert
Edward LeRoy Corbin
Jack O. Conroy
George J. Matetich
Richard J. Henry
C. Enrico
Howard J. Finnan Jr
John Shonkwiler
Timothy Sullivan
Lucas B. Maltese
John P. Delamore
William J. O’melia
Brody G. Eggers
Kahle C. Koury
Manuel R. Castellard
Edward A. Briggs
Val Holleran
Clifford A. Sousa
R. D. Mahan
Bernard J. Loftus
John Robinson
532nd Battalion Expands Basic Training Plan
The 532nd will begin its second eight weeks of basic training after completing the first half at various posts nationwide. Trainees are assigned to five platoons and headquarters, with processing this weekend. They will receive radar, flash ranging, sound ranging, communications, survey and meteorology instruction before next spring’s gyro operation. Lt. Col. L. B. Cheek Jr. commands the unit and extra buildings were added to support the larger program.
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532Nd
L. B. Cheek Jr
Violence erupts at Westinghouse in Lima strike
Violence broke out as Westinghouse pickets and sympathizers clashed with officers and about 300 workers returning to the Lima plant. Sheriff Cotterman called the scene out of hand and asked Governor Lausche to send National Guard, a request he refused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Ohio
Westinghouse
Clay T. Cotterman
Frank J. Lausche
National Guard
Lausche
Columbus
The Caspian Sea Crowned World’s Largest Inland Water Body
The Caspian Sea stands as the largest inland body of water on Earth, surpassing all other lakes in surface area and volume. This vast division of brackish water borders multiple nations and has long influenced regional climate, trade routes, and ecological debates.
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Caspian Sea
Judge Forfeits $194 In Bonds At Local Court Session
Judge J Merle Oaks forfeited $194 in bonds and issued $165 in fines across 20 cases in a busy municipal court session. Traffic, vagrancy, public drunkenness and resisting arrest dominated the docket, with Roy D Houston and others facing multiple driving related charges and fines.
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J. Merle Oaks
Roy D. Houston
Rt. 3
Ringling
Houston
A. B. Lowe
Sfc
Herbert Nelson
Fort Sill
Pfc
Sammie Fugett Jr
Washington
Jeanldine Watley
Frankie Rush
East C
Elizabeth Young
S. 13Th
Harvey Prince
Nathaniel Eckandah
Lee
Willie Martinez
Garfield
Woodrow Bates
Geneva
Seven Gas Tanks Explode At Tulsa
Seven tanks of raw gas at the Mid-Continent Petroleum Co refinery in West Tulsa exploded and burned early today injuring no one. Fire alarmed residents at about 3 am, with 3 or 4 blasts and flames reaching rooftops. The fire was controlled after two hours and damage centered in the lubrication division. seven tanks of 1800 barrels each were wrecked, with losses in the thousands, cause still undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Mid-Continent Petroleum Co
West
Ed Dons
Anere
Ons
Dons
Icy Roads Blamed For 3 Auto Deaths
Three traffic deaths blamed on icy highways Friday plus a fourth fatality raised Oklahoma's 1956 highway toll to 60, one more than for the same period last year. The dead were Perry Jessie Copas, 46, Bristow. an unidentified Bristow woman. Weldon Kenneth Odell, 29, Raina. Linda Kane, 14 months, daughter of Mrs. Carol Jean Kane, Bluff City, Kan.
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Oklahoma
Perry Jessie Copas
Bristow
Weldon Kenneth Odell
Raina
Linda Kane
Carol Jean Kane
Bluff City
Kan
Santa Fe Gives Girl Scouts Station House in Waynoka
The Santa Fe Railroad presented the Waynoka Girl Scout Council with its station master house here. The house, located west of the depot, will be moved and remodeled.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Girl Scouts
Waynoka, Okla
Waynoka
Girl Scout Council
War Veterans Commission Set Meeting Date in Oklahoma City
The state War Veterans Commission will meet February 18 in the Historical Building at Oklahoma City. The monthly session was called by Jack L. Newman Jr., Ponca City chairman of the commission.
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Oklahoma City
State War Veterans Commission
Jack L. Newman Jr
Ponca City
Last Bicycle Mail Carrier Retires After 270000 Miles
In Elizabeth New Jersey Leroy Precheur the last bicycle carrier at the Elizabeth Post Office has retired at 63 after 27 years of service and an estimated 250000 miles pedaled. He hung up his trouser clip several days ago marking the end of an era.
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Elizabeth
N.J
Elizabeth Post Office
Leroy Precheur
Department
Ladejinsky Fired As Foreign Aid Expert In Viet
Washington reports that Wolf Ladejinsky, a controversial land reform expert, was fired by the International Cooperation Administration for conflict of interests. He had bought stock in a Formosa company receiving U.S. aid while serving in Viet Nam, though no U.S. law was violated.
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Ladejinsky
Viet
Gaylord P. Godwin
Washington
Wolf Ladejinsky
International Co - Operation Administration
ICA
Viet Nam
Formosa
United States
U. S
Japan
Amtorg Trading Co
Russia
William J. Caldwell
Formosa Company
Picup 2Nd Pgh
The
International the International Co-operation Administration
Washington Farm
Laddejinsky
Agriculture Department
Marines Ditch Bomber Two Die Near Ft Lauderdale
Four Marines abandoned a flaming flying boxcar over the Atlantic near Miami Beach. Pilot Capt Robert W Anderson survived with another Marine. Two others died from parachute entanglement after ditching offshore. Navy destroyers rescued the men about an hour later. one died at pick up and another later in hospital.
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FT. Lauderdale
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Navy
Robert W. Anderson
West Palm Beach
Miami Beach
Truman Lashes GOP on Welfare Plans in Election Year
Former President Truman jeered the Eisenhower administration over health education and welfare policy and warned the GOP may be seeking “deathbed repentance” in an election year. He blamed big business for stalling progress and criticized Oveta Hobby’s leadership of HEW.
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Boston
Truman
Eisenhower
Oveta Culp) Hobby
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Democratic Party
Republican Party
City Snow Disrupts Air and Bus Traffic in Lawton
Saturday saw Continental Air Lines report routine flights but Central Air Lines faced ice and de-icing delays. Lawton city buses ran 15 to 20 minutes late under slick conditions. Police logged 17 accidents by 9 p.m., with one injury. A 10-year-old boy was hurt in a two-vehicle crash at 15th and G. one driver charged with improper license. Heavy snows may disrupt schedules. farmers welcome moisture.
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E. L. Woodall
Lawton-Fort Sill
Sixth
Lee
John Bjurman
Continental Air Lines
Lawton
Central Airlines
Dallas
Fort Worth
Duncan
Okla City
Stillwater
Wichita
Bob Knox
Central
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Knox
Kelter
Frank Gatliff
Richard Gatliff
Donald Ray
15Th
Walter Murl Baggett
Donald Gatliff
21St
Lindy
Euclid
Ferris
Weather and travel woes across Oklahoma slow roads
Dozens of buses and drivers were halted as roads blocked by snow and drifts stranded travelers near Wetumka. Radar showed light showers and freezing drizzle across central Oklahoma with snow and sleet in several cities. Deep snow blocked westbound traffic from Texas Panhandle while moisture brought cautious smiles to farmers.
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U. S
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
McAlester
Tulsa
Ardmore
Enid
Gage
Hobart
Ponca City
Texas Panhandle
Plainview
Cement FFA members study parliamentary procedure for contests
Special rules of parliamentary procedure are studied by Cement chapter members of the Future Farmers of America. They prepare for interschool contest this week and will present a program for the local Lions club. The team will also enter the county contest on February 20 in Anadarko.
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Cement
Future Farmers of America
Lions Club
Anadarko
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E. J. Forio
GOP
E. B. Dunlap
Donald Angus
James Bushart
Frank Austin
K of
Clingan Sand & Gravel
Denison
Sheridan Road
New York
N. Y
Associated Press
Centrair Airlines
Norton-Kitchens
Buick Co
Ma Auto
Garber’s
Jewelers
Diamond Importers
Gers
Wetumka
Wolverton Electric and Appliance
S. Std
Sheridan Rd
NicCord’s
C Avenue
Eugene L. Bowman
Roger Wilkerson
Serv
Mgr
Alway Duff F Hardware CO
3Rd
D Avenue
Bernell
Gilbert’s Pharmacy
Russell Stover
Valentine Hearts
Gore
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