Jones Collection Draws Attention at Museum of Great Plains
Aileen Waggoner Jones Memorial Collection of 800 photographs 300 manuscripts and documents highlights Wichita Falls and north Texas history at the Museum of the Great Plains. Visitors see 1918 19 Burkburnet boom days photos and 1882 Wichita Falls town images with signed memorabilia from Sam Houston era documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Museum of the
Marvin Tong Jr
McMahon
Wichita Falls
North Texas
Burkburnet
Red River
Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
Jones
Texas
Morris Swett
Museum of the Great Plains
Library and Archives
Aileen Waggoner Jones
Lester Jones
Tex
Bellmon Completes Road Group Amid Appointee Battle
Oklahoma Governor Bellmon filled three more highway posts as part of a larger reshuffle. Senate confirmation is pending for several picks including Bud Stewart Jr. while a closed session heatedly debated his 4th District seat. Other appointments to the highway panel and parole board were announced.
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Oklahoma City
Henry Bellmon
Highway Commission
Senate
E. L
Bud) Stewart Jr
Shawnee
Stewart
Roads and Highways Committee
Nat Irish
Muskogee Cotton Oil Co
Muskogee
K. D. Bailey
Okmulgee
John Cooper West
Elk City
Gene Grubitz Jr
Robert Newhouse
Tulsa Oil
Harold Stuart
Tulsa
Bellman
State Pardon and Parole Board
Parole Board
Bob Ewing
Durant
James P. Garrett
Mangum
R. B. Taylor Jr
Emery H. Jennings
John F. Montroy
John H. Robinson
Charles Chesnut
Miami
State Supreme Court
Rhoem West
Court of Criminal Appeals
Ewing
Seanton L. Leininger
Lawton
State Tax Commission
Kenneth G. Braley
Cherokee
State Banking Board
Joseph Peter Carey
Guthrie
State Insurance Board
J. Howard Edmondson
Martin Garber
Enid
Virgil Jumper
C. Hubert Gragg
T. H. McCasland Duncan
Bailey
Grubitz
Stuart
Turkish Officers Tour Fort Sill Look at U S Army Center
Maj. Gen. Nazami Karkoc chief of staff Ground Forces Command Turkey leads a two day visit at the U S Army Artillery and Missile Center with Brig. Gen. Omer Ozkan Col Hayri Yalciner and Maj. Rahmi Ozer. They met Center commander Maj. Gen. L S Griffing on Monday.
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Nazami Karkoc
Ground Forces Command
Turkey
U. S. Army Artillery and Missile Center
Karkoc
Omer Ozkan
Hayri Yalciner
Rahmi Ozer
L. S. Griffing
Loan Approved for Sterling Water Works Upgrade
The Community Facilities Administration approved a $118,000 loan to Sterling Oklahoma for sewer and water facility improvements and the purchase of the local water works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Community Facilities Administration
Sterling
Okla
Officers Assigned to Batteries at Field Artillery Center
Lt. Clarence Z. Wurts and Lt. Peter C. Ochs, recent Artillery Officer Orientation Course graduates, have been assigned to batteries with the 3rd Training Battalion, U S Army Training Center Field Artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Z. Wurts
Peter C. Ochs
U. S. Army Training Center
Field Artillery
Veterans Name New Commander In Lawton
A. K. Hovind at 1705 Kinyon was elected commander of Lawton World War I veterans at a regular meeting. Officers elected include W R Chamberlin first vice commander Ernest O Floyd second vice commander W Smith quartermaster Pete Jepsen chaplain and C S Love Claude Watson and W Creagle trustees. Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month at 7 30 p m at People's Baptist church 202 S Eighth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. K. Hovind
Kinyon
Lawton
W R. Chamberlin
Ernest O. Floyd
W. Smith
Pete Jepsen
W. Creagle
Claude Watson
C. S. Love
People’s Baptist Church
S. Eighth
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Bellmon
Tom Tipps
Ardmore
Senate Roads and Highways Committee
Fort Sill
Richard Strait
Ferris Dial
STATE
FARL
Life Insurance Company
Blington
Tts
Landers-Zwaan Insurance
City National
4Th & D
Lawton - Free
F.d.lc
FDIC
Gene Clark, Jr
Xit Ranch
Yellowstone
Kentucky
ONE Distillery CO
Louisville—Owensboro, EY
Chevrolet
FORD
Felix Rogers
Garland Corban
Louis Pickens
Bill Robinson
Jim Recer
Joe Assery Blair Taliaferro
Oliver Lee
Fay Hillis
Earl Simmons
GMC
DODGE
Bobby Joe Miller
John Collins
Harold Coslow
Jack Dees
Howard Gather
al Powers
Mark Kelley
Raymond McSwane
Piillips
Sheridan
Truck Center
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!