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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1963
Page
5
Police court records show multiple defendants from Oklahoma City and surrounding areas faced fines for speeding improper exhaust no driver's license and vagrancy by no visible means of support. Dispositions include fines ranging from 1 to 23 dollars and several bond forfeitures.
The Civil Aeronautics Board says determining the crash cause may take weeks after a Northwest Orient jet with eight crew and 25 passengers, mostly Illinois tourists, vanished in murky weather near Miami. Forty three aboard died, one body unrecovered beneath a wing fragment in the Everglades.
The Japanese men's swimming team caused a scene at a Perth hotel when they tried to enter a room marked women. Startled Australian women's team members were inside. Hotel management added signs in Japanese to prevent repeats.
Joseph M. Obert prominent farmer stockman of Boone died at home about 11 p m from an apparent heart attack. He born April 4 1877 near Olney Illinois moved to Altus then Apache. Survivors include wife three sons David Eugene Paul and others and 21 grandchildren. Rosary and mass scheduled with burial at Fairview Apache.
In Rome a hotel hosted a 600 guest dinner recreating a 2,000 year old banquet with Caesar figure Cesare Fornara and scholar Mario A. Levi as guides. Courses included gusium versatile and pultes Julianae while guests dined on modern forks at tables. The event, sponsored by an Italian firm, aimed to showcase Rome’s culinary heritage beyond its ruins.
A 16 year old Texan with over $6000 in his possession was arrested by highway patrol officers and fined 416 in two cases. Earl Mitchell 60 Tulsa Tex pleaded guilty to reckless driving and transporting an opened bottle of liquor receiving fines and costs. Eddie Tom Ozio 22 Marion was charged with driving without a license. Gerald Ray King 27 Enid faced a failure to yield charge. A 35 year old man was fined 50 and costs and given 10 days jail for public drunkenness.
The notice lists numerous admissions and discharges across Oklahoma facilities. It includes newborns born Feb 10 11 and 14 15, with parent names and addresses, and many patients admitted for medical or surgical care. Dismissals include several residents from Anadarko Konawa Fletcher Walters and nearby towns.
Robert W. Osborn of Chickasha was elected grand master of Oklahoma Masonry. Other elected officers include Carson Scott Okmulgee deputy grand master Aubrey Erhart Guyman senior grand warden James Blan Loflin Muskogee junior grand warden and Ernie Morris Drumright grand lecturer. J Fred Latham Guthrie re elected grand secretary and Claud M. March Oklahoma City to his 27th term as grand treasurer. Muskogee picked as site for the 1964 grand lodge.
The Labor Department reports January average factory work week fell 0.4 hours to 40.1 hours, the second straight decline. Unemployment rose by 850000 to 4.7 million, matching January 1962 levels.
Eula Pearl Hardrick, 2106 Washington, pleaded innocence at arraignment on third degree arson charges for a house fire set last Friday night. Judge Jack Brock set $4,000 bond and a preliminary hearing for 2 p.m. February 26.
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