Social Calendar Highlights From Local Clubs
A dense listing of community gatherings schedules in Howell Lawton and surrounding areas featuring Dads Club Royal Neighbors Of America PEO Sisterhood and many more groups with meeting times venues leaders and planned activities including lectures dinners dances and service projects. Potatoes carrots and other root vegetables retain more of their nutritive value if cooked in their jackets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howell Dads’ Club
Royal Neighbors of America Lodge
Lawton Recreation Center
14Th and
Bell
Centenary Methodist Wesleyan Service Guild
Fellowship Hall of Church
Earl Hamburger
Historical Exhibit Shown At DAR Guest Day Tea
More than 100 attendees at Lawton chapter DAR Colonial Guest Day tea viewed an exhibit spanning 1600 to today in the McMahon Foundation building. Objects covered American and Lawton history including religion education law crafts clothing and patriotism with items like a 1778 chain and a D-Day parachute fragment. The display traced photography from daguerreotypes to modern gear and featured early costumes and a 1913 city directory. Mrs. John Tyree chaired the event with Miss Lily Stafford handling the exhibit and flower arrangements led by Mrs. Wayne Rowe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Daughters of the American Revolution
McMahon Foundation
Assembly Room
Hudson River
France
George II
Vermont
McGuffey
John Tyree
Lily Stafford
Wayne Rowe
Mrs Richardson Leads Presbyterian Circle Meeting
Mrs E L Richardson chaired First Presbyterian Circle II as they met at 8 p.m. Monday with host Mrs C A Hamra. Miss Alice Maloney, a missionary, will speak February 23 at the church. Members listed include Mesdames Bakley, Gilbert, Amis, Parks, Porter, Emmanuel, Cooter, Joiner, Aurell, Potter and Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Richardson
First Presbyterian Circle II
C. A. Hamra
Margaret Fox
Jake Lyons
Malcolm Oswalt
Clayton Walder
Alice Maloney
Capt Weathereye Wears Petticoats at St Clair
Miss Dorrce E Loveland of St Clair Michigan is dubbed Captain Weathereye. She operates seven short wave radios to monitor ship to shore conversations and logs ship positions sailing conditions. A weather chart uses a barometer wind and temperature gauges. Freighters pass within 300 feet on the St Clair River as she lives alone. Her interest began about ten years ago after reading Dana Bowens Love of the Lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Clair
Mich
Weathereye
Great Lakes
Dorrce E. Loveland
Coast Guard
St. Clair River
Miss Loveland
Dana Bowen
Stamp Club Holds Round-Table Discussion Fort Sill
The Lawton Fort Sill Stamp club met in Snowhall Fort Sill with nine members. Lt Hans J Krug now at Fort Sill was made an honorary member. March program will feature Lt Krug on German stamp collecting. Contacts are president J H Crosby 139 and secretary Capt Franz E Barnhardt 8537 for joiners. Visitors welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton-Fort Sill
Stamp Club
Snowhall
Fort Sill
Hans J. Krug
Germany
Lt. Krug
J. H. Crosby
Franz E. Barnhardt
Dunbar PTA Hears Speaker and Founders Day Observance
About 100 members and guests attended the Dunbar PTA meeting at the school to honor the founders. Principal Lemuel Harkey presided as Mrs. George Allen spoke on the PTA movement after receiving her masters from Colorado State College. A skit titled Alice in Founders' Land followed, staged by students and listed ladies. The program included a Founders Day pageant, a Dunbar Glee Club performance, solos by Mrs. Barfield and Harkey, and a benediction by Rev. H. P. Parris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunbar Parent-Teacher Association
Lemuel Harkey
George Allen
Colorado State Colleged
Greeley
Colo
PTA
Alice
Herman Jackson
Jimmie Marshall
Laura Gee
Edward Gaines
Young
Leap Year Dying Out As Gals Do The Asking In Any Old Year
Elizabeth Toomey reports that leap year rituals fade as women increasingly pursue men. Experts note changes in dating dynamics with women asserting themselves year round, not just in leap years. Psychiatrists see a shift in mate selection patterns and men's responsiveness to women's advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Rose
Novice Hot Check Artists Captured in Durant
Durant Oklahoma police captured two 21 year old men from Mia mi and two Tulsa women aged 19 and 20 after a chase when the quartet began a crime spree by opening a checking account with ten dollars and passing bogus checks totaling over sixty dollars at a grocery store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durant
Okla
Miami, Okla
Tulsa
John Farrell
Quick mending tips for old towels extend life and reuse
Simple care ideas suggest quick mending of rips to lengthen towel life. Old towels gain new use as ironing board pads or wrapping for sweaters and other items after washing.
Guild Women Hear Address at Fort Sill Meeting
Col William L Goddard spoke on responsibility accountability care and duty to the Fort Sill Protestant Women's guild at 10 am Monday. The group plans pajama tops for welfare and aid to the City Mission with March 1 as a tentative project date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Goddard
Fort Sill
Protestant Women’s Guild
James Everard Carter
Snowhall
Col. Goddard
James F. Brittingham
Mesdames
A. J. Read
Jack H. Crawford
Oklahoma traffic toll lags 5 behind last year
The 1956 state traffic death toll stood 75, five fewer than at the same date in 1955. Capitola Williams Pitts Minor, 69, of New York, died yesterday in a Weatherford hospital from injuries from a two car crash near Hydro. She was a passenger in a car driven by George Bernard Bryan, 42, of St. Louis. The other driver, Andrew Halstead, 62, of Rochester, Minn., had no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Capitola Williams Pitts Minor
New York
Weatherford
Hydro
George Bernard Bryan
St. Louis
Andrew Halstead
Rochester
Minn
Lima Bean Casserole With Ham and Cheese Sauce
Prepare dried lima beans until tender then mix with diced cooked ham. Coat with a seasoned cheese sauce and bake in a moderate oven until the top browns. Serve as a hearty, comforting dish.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clyde Shelton
Atlanta
PEO Sisterhood
France Wright
J. A. Bumpers
N. Fifth
John G. Erwin
E. W. Shull
Grover Ralston
Cedar Grove
Square D
American Legion Hut
Ernie Hunter
Messrs. and
Clifton
Ernest Hynson
BPO
Elks Lodge
Order of Eastern Star
Mount Scott Masonic Temple
Robert Henry
Kathrine Harper
Cameron College
M. L. Wardell
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Woman’s Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Beverly Clemmer
Baltimore
Adjutant General
Artillery & Guided Missile Center
Glenn Breeland
Spaulding
First Presbyterian Women
National Board of Missions of
Presbyterian Church, USA
Presbyterian Church Among
Denton Home
Progressive Home
Ted Krisher
First Presbyterian Women’s Organization
Circle IV
Tom Wolf
Snow Road
the Artillery Village
L. W. Russell
Howard Kemper
Annie Bullock
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Cameron Hall
Lawton Garden Council
Usc-Ymca
Reddy Kilowatt Square
Home Service Department of Public Service Company
Johnny Robinson
Messrs
and Mesdames Orville Andrews
Hayden Berryhill
Quest Club
J. G. Knox
T. R. Keegan
F. W. Hammond
S. Second
Pioneer Club
Mount Scott
Mrs. Richardson
W. W. Godlove
M. E. Olmstead
Sally Greenwalt
Betty Tyree
DAR
Rush Springs
McMahon
Roy Stafford
Medicine Bluff Society
Dixie Massad
Louise Rowe
Lyntha Nicklas
Billy Gene Heinz
Marcia Larson
Joan Godlove
Harry B. Routh
Hazel Starr
R. E. Vickery
R. W. Eastman
Clinton W. Glandon
T. B. Wildman
Martha B. Warner
R. R. Connor
Victor Brown
Pearl Pendergraft
F. E. Lawrence
Janette R. Larson
R. J. Hitch
Ethel S. Hopps
Pete Becker
David Sprague
Damon Boiles
Rufus Carothers
A. B. Gosselin
A. R
Capt. Weathereye Wears Petticoats
Business College
S. Sheridan
23Rd & F
Bendix Promatic
Halsey
Cache Road
Fairmont
Mary Manning
Fairment Consumer Service
Orade Be
Dunbar Pta
Elizabeth Toomey
Society For the Preservation of Leap Year
Modern Landscape Co
Sheridan Rd
Lawton’s Garden Center
America
Favorite
Lintless
Fairmont’s
U.S.P
ST. Patricks
Card Ed
Dorothy Worthen
Ries
Fordomatic
Ford
Third & B Avenue
Great TV
Ford Theatre
Kfdx-Tv
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