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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1957
Page
15
For sale 7 room house with 3 bedrooms and 1 den, utility room, storm cellar, central heating and fully air conditioned. Frigidaire unit noted. Near Whittier sectors, good condition and attractively priced by owner.
Fragmented real estate and pet advertisements continue with numerous 1967 era rental and sale notes. Listings include 3 bedroom frames in Greer Addition near schools, air conditioning, fenced yards, and payments options. Also multiple animal ads for dogs cats and livestock with contact numbers.
Readable fragments show offerings from CLAPP PRODUCE CO and SOUTHWESTERN FURNITURE APPLIANCE. Items include poultry feed seeds seeds potato seed onions peat moss fertilizers garden supplies and used household appliances like TVs refrigerators washers stoves and freezers with price cues. Locations listed include 340 1202 Snow Road and 206 E Avenue with contact lines for Elsbeth/Elm and 1006 L.
A garbled help wanted page lists job openings in Port Lawton and Memphis Tennessee. It mentions positions for men and women part or full time with flexible schedules and interviews by appointment. It references a record shop and Charley’s Burger Drive as possible employers.
A dense array of old classified ads lists transportation, moving, hauling, carpentry, remodeling, appliance service, and home improvements. Entries include contact numbers and brief service notes for moving, repairs, furniture reupholstery, patios, porches, and general contracting, with providers in the Washington area and surrounding streets.
Classifieds show varied notices offering dating and companionship, home care, elderly nursing services, yard and garden work, hauling, moving, and a rural farm with outbuildings for sale. Contact details include local exchange phones and a box address in Fletcher.
Soviet So viet Fleet denounces the United States Marine boot program as savage and brutal. It cites alleged abuses at Parris Island including beatings in showers and forced marches, claiming such practices are common in the American armed forces and serve to subjugate recruits for corporate interests.
A delayed oath report increases Oklahoma highway fatality toll to 68 for 1957, down from 74 a year ago. The Highway Patrol reported 53-year-old Lessie Mittle McClure of Sulphur died in a one car crash on a Love County county road near Connerville. Her husband Claude McClure, 63, was hospitalized in serious condition at Ardmore.
Sen George Miskovsky announced a bill to curb dope whisky gambling and sex behind the McAlester prison walls. It would ban prisoners from possessing money while coupons become contraband and fines or misdemeanors would apply to those who handle funds or negotiable exchanges.
In San Francisco a 14 year old, John Young, kept a menagerie of reptiles and animals including rattlesnakes. He was bitten by an 18 inch black rattler sent from Florida. His mother applied a tourniquet and rushed him to a hospital where antivenom was unavailable. A suction device and later serum were used. From his hospital bed John canceled a second rattler order.
A muddled UP dispatch mix reports Roy Spile losing his wife after she testified he promised to find a job the next day. The item also notes Elly Bim the first robot with a police record in Miami and a university stunt. It rounds out with monkeys losing and regaining hair after atomic exposure in a radiation study.
Thirteen Lawton high school bandsmen named to the all state Symphonic band at the University of Oklahoma after Thursday auditions. The group includes Carol Montgomery Peggy Wickman Ethel Schmeher ng Gary Cooper Karen Nowlin Jeanette Cox Jerry Rolston Haines Laird Richard Malone James Long Jack Reynolds Eugene Hamm Barbara McCoy Also John O Leary Jim Bernhardt and Milton McCrary to the concert band. Holmberg hall at OU hosts Saturday concerts with George Walters leading.
James Edward Skinner 23, an Oklahoma convict with a life sentence for a 1954 murder, is charged with a cafeteria robbery in Dallas. He was recaptured at a DeSoto home after FBI and local officers surrounded the residence. District Attorney Henry Wade says grand jury action may follow and he could be held for trial or sent back to Oklahoma. Carl Smith 23 aided the capture and is being held.
In Ann Arbor Stockwell Hall at the University of Michigan the Dormitory Council voted 14 4 to ban good night kisses due to numerous complaints of excessive osculation and cuddling in the hall area.
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