Nine Arrested By City Police In Local Busts
Nine people were arrested Monday by city police including Edd Pool 37 junk yard operator charged with receiving stolen property released on 20 dollar bond. Others faced disorderly conduct threat with a gun speeding and drunkenness charges. Several bonds forfeited, fines totaled 170 dollars in municipal court.
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Fort Sill
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Lucas
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E. Gore
Richard Charles Parton
J. Merle Oaks
Beatrice Caldwell
Georgia
Legion To Hold Parley In City
About 100 delegates are expected to meet here March 4 for a sixth district convention of the American Legion. Thirty-two posts will be represented, J. D. Fowler said. Morning sessions will be in the Artillery and Geronimo rooms at the Hotel Lawtonian. Legionnaires will convene in the Lowery Whitehead post at 1 30 p m and auxiliary members will meet in the Artillery room.
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Ike Press Conference Tug Of War Over Announcement
Eisenhower signals March first announcement while press conference talk shifts. Hagerty deflects questions on timing, notes President will announce at his own time. Hunting trip with Humphrey confirmed. Ike to fly back to Washington Saturday amid ongoing speculation.
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Refuge transfer opposition to Fort Sill expansion grows
Interior offered a limited use permit in the refuge dispute, but the Army says this fails to meet range expansion requirements. National wildlife and conservation groups lead a vocal campaign to block the Fort Sill expansion as the dispute drags on.
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Army
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Fort Sill
City Man Denies Bogus Check Count
Charles William Veal 26 alias Charles Blake pleaded innocent to passing a felonious bogus check and was remanded to county jail on a $1000 bond. Peace Justice Marvin E Cameron set the bond and scheduled a preliminary hearing for Feb 28 at 2 pm. Veal was returned to Comanche county from Lockwood California over the weekend and is accused of passing the check on December 16 to Baulmer Motor Co Lawton.
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Lawton
Dog Bites City Youth on North 15th Street
Lawton police were told of another dog bite involving a city youth. Ronnie Wiley, son of Mr and Mrs Robert L Wiley of 1218 Carroll Drive, was bitten by a dog on N 15th around 5 30 p.m Monday while walking. Officers were informed the dog had rabies vaccination but the owner was cautioned to keep the animal tied or penned.
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Bankers Convention Program At Geronimo Hotel
State Banks meeting at 11 a.m. and 1 30 p.m. sessions in the Geronimo J W Glass ballroom. Rev T Rauscher of St Andrew's Episcopal will give the invocation. Raymond J Doll of Federal Reserve in Kansas City will discuss The Current Agricultural Situation. Mrs Joan Webb will read Pygmalion to wives of visiting bankers. Emmett L Keough Henry Weddle Edwin Rumbaugh and George Whitten lead local arrangements.
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Henry Weddle
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Funeral Rites for Hood Killian Pioneer and Farmer
Hood Killian 68 Lawton pioneer died Tuesday morning at his Rt 1 home after a life as a farmer grocer and Bethel resident born February 23 1887 in Montague County Texas He married Effie Peterson in 1908 and is survived by a wife a daughter Vera Hardy a son Walter two brothers a sister five grandchildren and five great grandchildren Funeral services will be at Bethel Community Church with burial at Letitia Cemetery Becker Funeral Home to announce time.
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Mrs John W Malcolm 83 Funeral in Lawton
Mrs John W Malcolm 83 widow of a pioneer Lawton physician died Sunday at her daughter’s home after an extended illness. Funeral services were Tuesday at Becker Memorial chapel with Rev Russell T Rauscher officiating. Burial followed in Highland cemetery. Bearers were Harry Russell E R Matthews W R Levey J C Kennedy Lawrence Keegan and Roy Johnson.
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Educators Join Red Rose Society in Initiation
One hundred attended the initiation and banquet as twenty seven men became members of the Ancient and Beneficent Order of the Red Rose southwest division chapter at Old South cafeteria. Weatherford men Walter Crouch and Ivan Cates and Hack M Donald led the ceremony. New members announced include Jeff Swindle J A McCraw Leo Nease Roy Kiser Joe Thornton Bruce Nelson John McHenry John Littlefield Orvis Rigsby James Phillips Dewey Parker James Roberts Victor Wickersham and Mangum Reeves Nahwooksy Lowell Cable C. M. Ridgway Myles Woes Buck Creach Joe Willon Wes Beard Randlett Alvin Chaney Max Mapp Ferrell Harvey Harley Pierce Kenneth Ellis Macky Payton Clifford Sarah and others from Fletcher Chattanooga Indiahoma and Geronimo.
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Oklahoma City
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Indiahoma
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Orvis Rigsby
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Dewey Parker
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Lawton
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Gun threats and defense testimonies at Stevenson shooting trial
Witnesses described the coffee shop incident as noisy or quiet while defense witnesses disputed timing and alcohol use. Stevenson testified he carried a gun after threats, named Johnny Reece as someone he feared, and explained the weapon could fire seven rounds though only two were used. He said Griffin inflicted two scalp cuts and did not take the gun.
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1955 Calf Crop Estimated At 43 Million Head
Washington agency reports the 1955 calf crop at 43 million head, up one percent from 1954, marking the sixth straight year of growth in the calf crop according to the Agriculture Department.
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1955 Figure Surpasses Long-Term Average by Twenty Percent
The report notes that the 1955 figure exceeded the 1944-54 average by 20 percent, indicating a notable rise. It highlights historical context by comparing the current year to past decades and stresses the significance of the deviation from the long-term trend.
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