Lawton Population Tops 54 650 In Realtor Survey
Lawton's population is estimated at 54 650, reaching a new high, with 15 101 family units occupied and 505 vacancies, yielding a 3.09 percent vacancy rate. The occupancy rate stands at 96.91 percent, up from 95.7 in November 1953, and supports a growth of more than 2 500 since November 1955 and 4 000 since 1954 per George Page of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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Lawton
Lawton Board of Realtors
Frank Sneed
George Page
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Page
Sneed
Audit Bureau of Circulation
C. J. Constant
C. R. Ellsworth
Fort Sill
Senator Kilgore Dies After Stroke at 63
Sen Harley Kilgore of West Virginia dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 2 23 AM following a stroke after a period of illness from high blood pressure. He had just begun recovery and was expected to leave soon. Kilgore, 63, had served three Senate terms and chaired the Judiciary Committee, switching to a crisis point for Democratic Senate control.
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Washington
Harley Martin Kilgore
Harold C. Miller
Kilgore
Miller
Lois Kilgore
Robert
Albert T. Young Jr
Brown
Harrison County
W. Va
Senate
Rosa Holt
Boy Wonder
Thomas Sweeney
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Truman
White House
Eisenhower to hold 9:30 press conference Wednesday
President Eisenhower will hold his regular news conference at 9 30 A M CST tomorrow with White House Secretary Hagerty saying there is no plan for a second term announcement at that time and no live telecast is planned. Hagerty indicated no final decision on a radio TV appearance or prepared statement duration.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
New York Stock Exchange
Walker named head coach at Mississippi State College
Mississippi State College announces Wade Walker as head football coach succeeding Darrell Royal who resigns to take Washington post. Both men are former Oklahoma stars. Walker, previously Royal’s assistant, will have his four year contract recommended to the board at its March meeting, per President Ben Hilbun.
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State College
Miss
Mississippi State College Today
Wade Walker
Walker
Darrell Royal
University of Washington
Royal
University of Oklahoma
Ben Hilbun
Sill Platoons Leave Fort Sill for 90-Day Tests
A flash ranging platoon and survey platoon from B Battery 617th Field Artillery Battalion depart Fort Sill at 5 30 p m today for 90 days of temporary duty at Fort Huachuca Arizona Under Lt Theodore J Morgan the flash platoon and Lt Paul Pankratz commands the survey platoon will join a convoy to La Mesa Texas Fort Bliss Texas for the second night They will participate in an electronic counter measure test and report back by March 1
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617Th Field Artillery Battalion
Fort Sill
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
Theodore J. Morgan
Morgan
Paul Pankratz
la Mesa
Tex
Fort Bliss
Shorter Banking Hours Scheduled in Lawton
Lawton banks will adopt new hours from 10 am to 2 pm Monday through Friday and 10 am to noon Saturdays starting March 12, due to federal wage and hour rule changes effective March 1. Fort Sill National Bank unaffected. Affected banks include Security Bank and Trust Co, American National Bank, and City National Bank.
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Lawton
Fort Sill National Bank
Security Bank and Trust Co
American National Bank
City National Bank
Weather Sketch: Warmer Trend Through Wednesday
Area forecast calls for fair skies and rising temperatures with winds on Wednesday. Expect highs 65 to 70 today, 73 on Wednesday, and lows around 27 to 40 with today’s 11 am reading near 57 and yesterday’s high around 60.
Wrecks at Swampscott and Revere Kill Many in Snow
In two related rear end collisions near Swampscott Junction and in Revere Massachusetts at least 13 people died and more than 60 were injured as four Boston and Maine trains collided in heavy snow. Survivors from the first crash joined a second wreck about five miles away, with 12 injured there. Bodies were moved to a fire station for identification as priests administered rites.
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B&m
Swampscott
Mass
Boston
Revere
Marblehead
Boston and Maine Railroad
Portsmouth
Don Flynn
The
Lynn Daily
Dog Poisoner Threat To Children Alarms Lawton Parents
A Lawton mother warns of a dog poisoning spree in a four block area on I Ave. more than a dozen dogs have died from strychnine. Neighbors Mrs. Wayne Moore and Mrs. John Brooks report their dogs poisoned and fear for children as Hamburgers and yard scraps are used to deliver poison. See POISONER, Page 6.
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Lawton
I Ave
Wayne Moore
John Brooks
Brooks
Directive Ordering McKay To Turn Over Land Reached
Congress drafts a directive demanding Interior Secretary McKay transfer public lands to the Army and Navy. Rep. Vinson leads staff to add the measure to the Military Public Works Authorization bill amid Navy demand for about 3 million acres in Nevada and California. Uncertainty remains if the House will pass the directive, though it signals congressional sentiment on refuge land.
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McKay
Jack Cleland
Constitution Washington Bureau
Washington
Interior Sec
Douglas McKay
Army
Navy
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House
Armed Services Committee
Vinson
Nevada
California
Fort Sill
Victor Wickersham
Dokla
Congress
Insanity Opinions On Galbraith And Mrs Doss
Dr Ben T Galbraith and Grandma Nannie Doss are deemed insane and unlikely to be cured a top psychiatrist said at Eastern Oklahoma State Hospital Vinita He noted juries may have chosen the correct fate for two sensational 1955 murder convicts serving life at McAlester for family slayings Doss poisoned her husbands and Galbraith confessed to killing his wife and harming their children before a fire See INSANE Page 6
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Vinita
Okla
Ben T. Galbraith
Grandma
Nannie Doss
P. L. Hays
Eastern Oklahoma State Hospital
Winita
Oklahoma
Galbraith
Doss
Homa State Penitentiary
McAlester
Hays
Pioneer Pastor Thomison dies at 86 in Medicine Park
Rev. Howard Thomison 86 longtime Methodist pastor and former Lawton district supervisor died at his Medicine Park home after years of declining health. Services set for 10 a.m. Thursday at First Methodist with Rev. J. J. Stowe Jr. officiating. Burial in Braman beside wife and three children who preceded him. He served 50 years in ministry including posts at Braman Cushing Cleveland Blackwell Fairview Claremore Woodward Perry Guthrie and others before retiring in 1939.
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Howard Thomison
Pioneer Methodist
Lawton
Medicine Park
Thomison
First Methodist
J. J. Stowe Jr
Braman
Okla
Thompson
Cushing
Cleveland
Blackwell
Fairview
Claremore
Woodward
Perry
Guthrie
See
Ditch Digger Hits Pipeline Causing Fires
In West Los Angeles three workers were severely burned when a trench-digging machine struck a pipeline and gasoline leaked into sewers. Fires burned for hours, nine structures damaged, four schools closed, and six houses plus three businesses hit. Emergency declared in a 10 square mile area for over seven hours.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Four Duck Freight Killed By Express
In Lisbon Portugal four workmen on a railroad track were killed when they jumped from the track to avoid an approaching freight train. The noise of the freight drowned out a second express train coming from the opposite direction. All four men perished.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Manslaughter Charge Filed in Lawton Crash
A first degree manslaughter charge was filed this morning against Celsus Cirus Houser 52 of Lawton the driver of a car that overturned Saturday fatally injuring Agnes Atteberry 42 of 1807 S 10th The charge says he drove in a careless and wanton manner The accident occurred at the intersection of N Railroad and U S 277 At the scene Houser said he and Atteberry were en route to Medicine Park to fish when his 1949 Ford failed to make a curve and plunged down a steep embankment Atteberry suffered critical injuries and died later after transfers between hospitals The report noted a partly filled whisky bottle at the scene Houser denied drinking any of it Three more people were injured later Monday in separate incidents including Cora Blankenship 55 injured in a car pedestrian collision and Lee McGill 27 driving a 1950 Chrysler in the second crash
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Celsus Cirus
Shorty) Houser
Lawton
Agnes Atteberry
S. 10Th
Manville Redman
Woodrow Giles
Houser
N. Railroad
U. S
Miss Atteberry
Medicine Park
Southwestern Hospital
Memorial Hospital
Clinton
Cora Blankenship
Lee P. McGill
John McCaig
Grady Crabtree
McGill
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Greer Addition
Erwin Acres
Tomlinson
College Addition
Sunset Place
Tropes & Powers
Lawton Heights
Liberty Heights
Fields & Dunning
Lee Addition
Mt. View
College View
Lloyd & Butler
Waldman
Lawton View J
McClung
Airport
Beal & Woods
Council Heights
North Addition
Gore
Ike
Bulletin
Massachusetts
Swampscott Junction
N. H
Salera
Danvers
Salem
Dr. Galbraith
Nannie
Lily F. Stafford
Hugh Bish
Lawton High School
Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers
Tulsa
Stafford
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