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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1947
Page
1
Lawton hosts the Sixth District American Legion convention with hundreds expected. Charles B. Duffy, department commander, will deliver the keynote address as activities begin Saturday afternoon at the Lowery-Whitehead hut.
Severele reports Fort Sill’s airstrip costing 750000 was completed today and opens for traffic Monday. The runway 5000 feet long and 265 feet wide, with center thickness 23 inches and edge 19 inches, lacks night lighting still being completed. Expected to be in operation in March. The facility is among Oklahoma’s most modern and will handle planes up to and including the army.
Oklahoma City reports teachers at the Oklahoma Education convention urged immediate effects for last November school finance amendments and restoration of high teaching standards. Resolutions pressed retirement benefits reciprocity and sickness plans, and called canceling emergency war certificates by June 40, 1947 to restore standards. New officers announced for the classroom teachers group. In Lawton, four auto dealers highlighted the car industry as a major local employer with 203 workers and sales totaling about 4.77 million dollars last year, noting a lean year and rising parts costs.
About six thousand miners quit work across Lansford as a sympathy action for thirteen hard coal diggers trapped in a sitdown protest four hundred feet underground. The Panther Valley AFL UMW committee ordered a halt beginning with the night shift to support the docked pay dispute. Despite the disruption, comrades supplied the sitdown strikers with food and blankets while most Lansford miners remained at the workings. The local chairman said the men are serious, not a joke, with an average age around forty five.
Grandview Missouri February 14 Mrs Martha Ellen Truman mother of President Harry S Truman fractured her hip in a fall at her home last night Miss Mary Jane Truman said this afternoon her mother was resting very comfortably She is in bed at the home
A World War II memorial plaque for the 18th Field Artillery battalion will be presented Sunday at 2:30 p m in the New Post Chapel Fort Sill. Maj Frederick M Dearborn will donate and present the plaque with Lt Col John Bennon accepting on behalf of the unit. Major General CHE Andrus will speak. veterans and the public invited. A prior meeting for battalion members is set Saturday at 7 p m at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall near the Fort Sill Veterinary Hospital. The program will feature Army Signal Corps motion pictures of European campaigns. The battalion has five major campaigns in France Belgium and Germany and is now at Fort Sill.
A two room tourist cabin fire near Eldorado Kansas claimed the lives of three children aged one to three years Sue Carol Roderick Patricia Lee Roderick and Ronald K Roderick. Their bodies were found in a baby bed. Mrs Albert Roderick mother of the children was at a filling station lunchroom when the blaze was found and the father an oil field worker was not at home. Mrs Roderick was hospitalized in shock.
The British government announced it will refer the Palestine question to the United Nations. In Washington the War Assets Administration disclosed the sale of the government owned Big and Little Inch pipelines to the Tran Eastern Transmission Corporation of Houston Texas for 143127000 dollars.
Secretary of State Marshall told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the world is in a very critical condition as he summarized a 90 minute briefing on international hotspots. He noted the recall of Ambassador Lane to report on Poland does not imply a rupture in relations and declined to say if Lane would return to Warsaw.
MUSKOGEE Okla Feb 14 The Masonic Grand Lodge of Oklahoma last night elected E Ey McCorskey of Asher Oklahoma as grand worshipful master succeeding M M Bramslett of Ardmore Other officers elected included Deputy grand master Dr John C Hubbart Oklahoma City senior grand warden Claud A Babb Grove junior grand warden Harold Cook Guthrie grand treasurer Claude March Oklahoma City grand secretary Claud A Sturgeon Guthrie grand lecturer Murray L Coppock Cherokee and grand orator Austin Rittenhouse Oklahoma City
At the Odd Fellows ball in Muskogee Oklahoma yesterday a fire on asphalt tile injures workers. Robert Coley 13 suffered first degree burns while his father John Coley 43 and J B Allen 72 received light burns. Two other workers escaped without serious harm. One patient remained in serious condition at Muskogee General Hospital.
State highway patrolmen killed G W Beasley a 22 year old Garvin County farmer near Council Hill in Okmulgee county after a manhunt for the deputy sheriff killer. Beasley was driving toward central Oklahoma with his wife and child aboard when halted one mile south of Council Hill.
The Lawton Chamber of Commerce released the 19 committees for 1947, with Ron Stephens announcing chairmen and members chosen by a dedicated committee on committees led by J. C. Kemnedy. Stephens stressed the importance of these assignments to chamber success and noted possible changes during the year. Jake Witzel oversees committee work, signaling a new supervisory approach.
London report says Prime Minister Attlee sought a date to end Britain's industrial shutdown. A government spokesman noted signs the crisis may ease as Attlee declined Truman's diversion of Europe-bound coal, saying Europe still needed fuel. Despite continuing electricity restrictions, officials expect a gradual return to normal as the nation endures the cold and hardship.
Washington Feb 14 Senator C Douglass Buck Republican Delaware introduced legislation to permit rent boosts up to 10 percent and replace rent control by court enforcement through OPA Buck chairs a senate banking sub committee drafting post June 30 rent control plan He seeks to extend the program with a regulated framework.
Washington February 14 AP The 102 member budget committee voted 34 to 23 to reject a compromise reducing President Truman's budget to 4150 billion and to consider a $6 billion to 4150 billion slash. The fight centered on army navy funding and security.
Lynda Kay Williamson seven month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Alvin Williamson 615 Monroe died at 9 p m Thursday in a local hospital after a brief illness Death attributed to pneumonia Born July 12 1946 in this city she is survived by brother Billy Warren Williamson serving with a navy unit at Bremerton WA and two sisters Camila Ruth and Luquetta Joy eighth grade students at Lawton Junior High Also surviving are Mrs Julia Thompson paternal grandfather J R Williamson paternal grandmother Mrs Minnie Adkins maternal grandmother The father is a Lawson police officer Services 2:30 p m Saturday at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev Squyres officiating Burial in Highland Cemetery directed by Becker Funeral Home
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