Officials Urged to Gather Ballot Petitions for Four Year Terms
County officials from District 6 gathered to push signatures for petitions seeking four year terms for county officers. Gragin Smith chaired the County Officers association petition drive aiming 96 000 signatures. Roy Johnson noted about 2000 signatures in Comanche County. The plan would affect judges clerks attorneys sheriffs treasurers surveyors assessors school superintendents and commissioners with potential impact on Co manche City Court. District Judge Toby Morris welcomed attendees from multiple counties.
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Gragin Smith
Oklahoma County
District 6
Smith
County Officers Association
Roy Johnson
Comanche
Sam Wall
Caddo
Comanche County
Toby Morris
Cotton
Stephens
Jefferson
Greer
Gracy
Tillman
Oklahoma
Vernon Smith
J. W. Littlefield
Scott Burson
Pageant casts grow for Easter service at Fort Sill
The Easter morning pageant at Fort Sill is set for April 1 at midnight. Returning cast members include Mrs. Reece Russell John Scherler and Lawton high seniors Don Kouri Marilyn Salyer. Five new cast members join Susie Stowe Jerry Hoopert Jim Maddox Lt Frank Benedict and Lt James Harris.
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Reece Russell
John Scherler
Lawton High School
Don Kouri
Marilyn Salyer
Jerry Hoopert
Cameron College
Jim Maddox
LHS
Frank Benedict
James Harris
Batten
John Keathley
Walter Wolverton
I. G. Cole
Bert Blasingame
John Thomas Jr
Oklahoma Grain Prices and Oklahoma City Livestock Report
Oklahoma state Department of Agriculture prices list wheat hogs cattle and sheep by location and grade. No 1 hard wheat steady at 2.03 2.04 with various Ozarks districts. eggs butterfat and broiler prices also noted. Oklahoma City livestock report records cattle hogs and lamb values and movements with prices across weights and grades.
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Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture Today
Bison
Hennessey
Hobart
Lawton
Clinton
el Reno
Enid
Kingfisher
Yukon
Blackwell
Frederick
Medford
Vici
Guymon
Hooker
Broilers
Muskogee
Tulsa
Vinita
Alva
Woodward
Laverne
Watonga
Pauls Valley
Sayre
Elk City
Enij
Oklahoma City Livestock
USDA
Five Arrested For Loitering At No. 21 B Joint
Police last night picked up five more persons for loitering in a joint and arrested a Negro man accused of operating it at 21 B. The four white men named Wilkinson Waitman Ken ner Gilliam, all aged 28, 24, 20, and 21, plus S. D. Lenox 32, were charged with vagrancy by loitering. Ed Burton 47 was charged with operating the joint. All four whites and Lenox posted $20 bonds. Overnight arrests also included three traffic violators, a bootlegging suspect, and a man turned to military authorities. Sp. Robert L. Parr 18 and Pvt. James L. Landreth 21, both Fort Sill, posted bonds for driving without license and related offenses. Abie Tiddark 26 of 1716 S. 13th posted $11 for driving without license.
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Duncan
David E. Wilkinson
Orville Edward Waitman
Jay D. Kenner
Robert Gilliam
S. D. Lenox
Ed Burton
Fort Sill
Pvt
James L. Landreth
Abie Tiddark
S. 13Th
Ford Motor Co First Year Output Noted
The Ford Motor Company produced 1,708 cars in its inaugural year of operation in 1903, marking an early milestone in the automaker’s history.
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Ford Motor Co
Meat Demonstration on Beef Cuts at Lawton High
An adult program at 7 30 p m today in Emerson auditorium by Lawton High School home economics department and local groups offers expert schooling on meat. Keathley demonstrates cutting beef carcasses and a supporting film will be shown. Public invited to attend.
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Curtis Ellsworth
Emerson Auditorium
Home Economics Department
Lawton High School
Lawton
Comanche County
Keathley
Lawton Man Sues City Auto Firm Over Truck Warranty
Lawton man Guy Clapton files in district court seeking 1576.74 against Knox Jensen Motor Co for breach of warranty on a 1954 Dodge pickup bought January 13. He says parts failed, lowering value to 500, and alleges the 90 day or 4000 mile Exhibit A warranty was not honored.
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Lawton
Knox-Jensen Motor Co
Guy Clapton
Clopton
Gardner Named Assistant Secretary of Defense Programs
Gardner, a Cardiff, Wales native and naturalized American since 1937, previously led developmental engineering on atomic bomb projects at Caltech under government contracts. His Senate confirmation faced friction in 1954 due to ties to Oppenheimer, who has been barred from official secrets by the Atomic Energy Commission as a security risk. Air Force research budgets are set at 551 million this year with a request for 610 million for the next fiscal year starting July 1.
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Air Force
Gardner
Washington
California Institute of Technology
Cardiff
Wales
Eisenhower
Senate
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Atomic Energy Commission
Lawton School Board approves portable classrooms and bids
Lawton Public Schools move to ease crowding by adding two steel portable classrooms at Roosevelt Elementary after plans by Lawrence. Bids open March 5 for Delta saws and Powermatic jointer. Heating upgrades and a $50 deductible bail-insurance clause approved. Tests for statewide high school instruction to be conducted. budget plan for next year to be presented.
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Lawton Citizens Council On Education
Central Junior High
Babbitt
Justin Kuntz
Roosevelt Elementary School
Taft School
Roosevelt School
Lawrence
Delta
Kilpatrick Brothers
Oklahoma City
Midoke Supply Co
Powermatic
Long Bell Lumber Co
Lawton
Paramore Industry Supply Co
Duncan, and Rice Machinery Co
R. C. Lollar
Consolidated Gas Utilities
Central
Shoemaker
Oklahoma
Lawton and
Douglass High School
Dance hall raid details and vagrancy arrests reported
County authorities describe two raids on a dance hall leading to nuisance permits and a temporary injunction. Bonded individuals include a Troutman woman and Rosie Lee Ward. many vagrancy defendants paid $20 fines. Police noted a disorderly venue with whisky bottles and intoxicated patrons during the Jan 29 raid.
Voters Face Federal Social Security Question for City Schools
Gov. Gary requires certification details for a secret ballot referendum on social security participation by city school employees. The measure asks if teachers covered by the state retirement plan should join the federal program with a 2 percent salary tax, amid prior straw polls and a $15,000 escrow set aside to protect older teachers. Apache and Cache area towns have conducted elections.
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Gary
Ment
Board of Education
Shoemaker
Apache
Cache
Murray and Miskovsky in Tulsa courtroom exchange
In Tulsa yesterday Murray faced questioning for about two hours as Miskovsky told him that the latch string was out and Murray showed little reaction. Mrs Murray supplied letters Murray had written to her husband Willie, acknowledging handwriting and terms of affection such as Sugar and Sugar Pie.
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Tulsa
Miskovsky
Murray
Willie
Forty six percent of autos left outdoors overnight
A survey reports that forty six percent of all automobiles in the United States are parked outside overnight. The data highlight widespread outdoor parking habits and potential exposure to weather conditions across regions.
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United States
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Hal Hallett
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KEY Termite & Pest Control CO
M & D Finance CO
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A L. Pollard Sporting Goods
D. Ave. Pho
M. B. Dickson
Lawton Man
City Automobile
Edwards & Edwards
Orville D. Pope Insurance
Graham
Graham Pest Control
Ward Tractor Sales
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Troutman
Rosie Lee Ward
Redman
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