Blackwell Tornado Tops Oklahoma Year 1955 News
Oklahoma AP editors named the Blackwell tornado the state's biggest story of 1955, noting 20 deaths and extensive damage near Blackwell and Udall. Other top items included the Ben Galbraith murder, desegregation, drought end, and the Nannie Doss case amid a busy year of political and social upheaval.
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Blackwell
Oklahoma
Say
Oklahoma City
Associated Press
Oklahoma AP
Ben Galbraith
Nannie Doss
Highway Patrol
Lloyd Stanley
Hurbie Fairris
Udall
Kan
Woodward
Galbraith
McAlester
National
Baptists Welcome Bible Teacher Dr Orville Yeager at First Baptist
Dr. Orville Yeager, visiting Bible study teacher and Ouachita College history professor, opens a week at First Baptist Arkadelphia. He preaches tonight at 7:30 and leads a daily Sermon on the Mount Bible study at 7:15 through Friday with morning sessions Tuesday to Friday at 9:30. Yeager, Indiana native and Syracuse alumnus with a PhD from Oklahoma, has pastored in Oklahoma and taught at multiple colleges. He has been an ordained minister since 1932.
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Orville Yeager
First Baptist Church
Ouachita Baptist College
Arkadelphia
Ark
Yeager
Oklahoma
H. Tom Wiles
Indiana
Syracuse University
University of Oklahoma
Mississippi College
Wayland College
Plainview
Tex
Dr. Yeager
Ten Die On Comanche County Roads In 1955
Traffic deaths in Comanche County rose to ten in 1955, two more than 1954, part of a regional rise in the Lawton patrol district from 49 to 66. The report highlights Grady leading with 17 fatalities, Apache residents Gracie Baxter and Charles W. Bailey among the year’s dead, and notes several deadly crashes including a two-car collision on U S 62 near Lawton and a car train crash near Richard Spur.
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Comanche County
Vernon Best
Highway Patrol
Lawton
Grady
Stephens County
Cotton
Tillman Counties
U. S. 62
Gracie Baxter
Charles W. Bailey
S.H
Thomas A. Johnson
Wichita Falls
Judy Dickerson
Euclid
Richard Spur
U.S. 277
Foster Cecil Swindell
S. Fourth
Swindell
Alex McCubbir Walker
Porter Hill
Eddie H. Hill Jr
H. Lawton
Fletcher
Constitution Press Top Ten Stories of 1955
Constitution Press staff ranks the top Oklahoma stories of 1955 led by the Blackwell tornado and a high profile crime spree. Highlights include the Ben Galbraith murder case, the Korea War POW Nugent exoneration, school segregation ending, a Nannie Doss life sentence, toll road votes, and the John Cane silent convict case.
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Constitution-Press Staff
Blackwell
The
Highway Patrol
Ben Galbraith
Ambrose H. Nugent
Korea
Oklahoma
Dreuth
Nannie Doss
Gary
Bill Doenges
John Cane
State Penitentiary
Archbishop Garbett of York Dies After Illness
Cyril F. Garbett eighty year old Archbishop of York and second ranking Church of England prelate died early Saturday after a prolonged illness. He had been an Anglican churchman for 55 years and was noted for blunt comments on secular affairs. Services will be held here early next week.
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York
England
Cyril F. Garbett
Church of England
Garbett
New York
United Nations
Middle East
Israel
Holy Land
Burning of the Greens Prize Promises Cash for Top Trees
Fifteen dollars in cash prizes will be awarded at the citys fourth annual Burning of the Greens ceremony in Metropolitan Park. The event, chaired by Fuzz Barnes of the Lawton Recreation Council, starts at 7 p.m. Friday with greenery drop off from 3 p.m. near the McMahon Memorial auditorium. Prizes include 5 to the boy and 5 to the girl with the most trees and 5 for the tallest tree. Rev J J Stowe Jr will speak on the occasion. Civic clubs supply three workers each to handle the burn, and Business and Professional Women members will count trees. Park officials and fire department crews prep the grounds. over 500 attended last year with more than 1,500 trees burned.
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Metropolitan , Park
Fuzz Barnes
Lawton Recreation Council
McMahon Memorial Auditorium
J. J. Stowe Jr
Centenary Methodist Church
Fire Department
Earthquake death toll estimates since sixth century
An estimate places the number of people who have died in earthquakes since the 6th century between three and four million. The figure reflects long term seismic loss across regions and eras.
Funeral Rites for Grover McCormack Told in Tipton
Grover Cleveland McCormack 71, retired farmer, died after a two month illness. Born in Texas, he married Glen nie Mae Jefferies in 1908, lived in Oklahoma and Texas, then settled near Tipton. Survivors include wife, two daughters Leola and Opal, two sons Merl and Ora, six grandchildren, a sister and two half-brothers. Services set for 2:30 p.m. in Tipton Church of Christ, burial at Tipton Cemetery.
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Tipton
Grover Cleveland McCormack
Texas
Chickasha
Glennie Mae Jefferies
Oklahoma
Here
Church of Christ
Leola McCormack
San Francisco
Calif
Services for John Barnett Held in Lawton
Funeral services for John B. Barnett 62 of Walters were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Hulen Methodist Church with Rev. W. D. Milburn and Dr. H. Tom Wiles officiating. Burial followed at Letitia Cemetery under Becker Funeral Home. Bearers were Floy Arnold Ralph White L. E. Kelling R. J. Brad ley C. E. Robertson Tom Sheppard. Honorary bearers were Harold Love Roy Williams Jim Sheppard and E. C. Ainsworth. Barnett died Wednesday in a Lawton hospital from burns in a Tuesday gasoline fire accident.
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John B. Barnett
Walters
Hulen Methodist Church
W. D. Milburn
H. Tom Wiles
First Baptist Church
Lawton
Letitia Cemetery
Becker Funeral Home
Floy Arnold
Ralph White
L. E. Kelling
R. J. Bradley
C. E. Robertson
Tom Sheppard
Harold Love
Roy Williams
Jim Sheppard
E. C. Ainsworth
Barnett
Oklahoma City market report cattle hogs and sheep trends
Cattle compared with last week show uneven to weak steer and heifer prices, light steers and yearlings under 1100 lbs rising early but slipping late. Cows strong to 50 higher early, bulls little changed, calves strong. Hogs week totals show 180-230 lb barrows and gilts 50-75 higher, sows steady, tops around 12.25. Slaughter lambs up 30, natives 16.00-17.50, feeders 15.00-15.00.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Thieves Take 347 From TCU Gridders In Dallas
Sneak thieves stole 347 from the billfolds of Texas Christian football players at SMU's Ownby Stadium where they worked out. The dressing room held the wallets. no rings or watches were taken. Jay McCullough and John Mitchell were the two hardest hit, each losing 40.
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TCU
Dallas
Texas Christian
SMU
Ownby
Jay McCullough
John Mitchell
Area Men In Service Chart Kovacs Family Connection
Mr and Mrs Steve Kovacs at 2615 E received an early New Year Eve surprise when their son Jerry F Kovacs 19 phoned from Sas sebe o Japan about 8 15 pm Friday Japan time just before midnight New Year. A Lawton High School graduate Kovacs has been overseas since February 10 and joined the Navy in November 1954 He served in Tokyo before moving to Sassebo Japan.
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Steve Kovacs
Jerry F. Kovacs
Sassebo
Japan
Kovacs
Japan Naval Base
Lawton High School
Navy
Tokyo
Bald Eagles Nest in Low Spots When High Sites Scarce
The article notes that bald eagle nests usually sit high in trees but may be found in low vegetation or on the ground if suitable elevated sites are unavailable. It emphasizes nest placement adaptability and environmental factors influencing nesting choices.
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Saul Feldman
Raymond Gary
National Party
W. C. Doenges
Jim Arrington
Stillwater
Doenges
Democratic National Executive Committee
Samuel Doss
Doss
Bill Gill Jr
Teamsters Union
Gill
Bud Williamson
Williamson
Jim Lookabaugh
Lookabaugh
Lloyd George Stanley Jr
Lawence Thompson
Eral
Thompson
Pauls Valley
Thompsons
Lloyd George
Stanley
Harbie Franklin Fairris
Fairris
Bennie Cravatt
Fairis
Raymond Price
Price
Cravatt
Baptists
Jefferson County
Caddo
Jimmy Don Leggett
Sterling
Robert Charles Jenkins
Roy William Gray
Medicine Park
U. S. 277
Constitution, Press, Picks
U. S. Supreme Court
Democratic Party
Archbishop of
Crook
General Electric
Lee
Grover McCormack
Eugene
L. Bowman
M&d Finance Co
Oklahoma City Livestock
Insurors Realtors
Cefores
Knox-Jensen Motor
Scott’s Air Conditioning Inc
Goodyear
Olsen-Stelzer
Tregos
H-Bar-C
Lawton Boot & Western
Glenn Fuqua
Everett
Beltone
Beltone Hearing Service
Koehler
Floyd Campbell, Mgr
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