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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1956
Page
4
Vivian Brown surveys 1955 home trends from Easy Living, noting a shift to convenient furniture and color driven decor. Highlights include fold up dinette tables, all in one washing dryers, electric ranges, compact day beds, built in vanity bathrooms, and dramatic outdoor lighting with weather resistant furniture and bold color palettes.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Boice with Preston and Pamela Kay traveled from 309 S. 27th after a Comanche visit celebrating their son’s sixth birthday and his great great grandmother Mrs. Jim Branch. Born on her birthday, he is her first great great grandchild among 16 attendees including Andrew Branch of Cleveland.
Jane Ann Ferguson, six pounds, is the first child of Rev. and Mrs. Milton Ferguson of Fort Worth born January 1 at Harris Memorial Methodist Hospital. Grandparents are Dr and Mrs H Tom Wiles of 1124 Elm. Mrs Wiles travels to Fort Worth soon with her husband joining later to return home.
Mrs Raymond A Fields hosted a New Year’s Day buffet at 501 Gore with pink and silver decorations including mammoth pink candles and grape clusters. Guests included Archie Cummings Oklahoma City Dr L W Ferguson Dr Fred T Fox Dr Lewis H Fouts and many others. Sterling special notes Mr and Mrs Ray Mantooth will move into the Walter Simms house.
Two Temple students and one from Randlett pre enrolled for the second semester at Oklahoma A&M Tech in Okmulgee. Wilson E. Mann Jr. and Tommy C. Adams, both Temple residents, study printing and drafting, while Jimmy Walker of Randlett is an auto mechanics student. Classes start January 9 at the technical training school. RCA Wives club members plan an 8 p.m. meeting today in the civic room of Security Bank & Trust Co.
Mrs. Jimmy Freeman and daughter Debra arrive in France where Sgt. Freeman, husband and father, serves near Paris in the Air Force as a materiel estimator. Also noted are visits from Mae Burleson, plans for Lawton lodge meeting, and local moves by Carl Woodall and Walter Simms families.
RCA Wives club gathers at 8 p.m. in the civic room of the Security Bank building. First Christian Young Matrons meet at 7:45 p.m. in the church parlor hosted by Mesdames Small and Hamburger. Shakespeare club tea features scenes from Merchant of Venice. Hook & Whirl Square Dance club meets at the American Legion hall with Art Ashline as caller. Other events include the Mary Swartz Rose club installation, Utility Home Demonstration meetings, Lawton Fort Sill Panhellenic luncheon, Girl Scout Leaders, Roosevelt PTA, AAUW Lawton branch, Carolyn Hunt birthday party, Willing Workers club, and more at various local locations. Fort Sill officers wives luncheon, stamp club, Triangle and Emerson PTA activities also listed.
Delta Gamma will host the Lawton Fort Sill Panhellenic luncheon at 12 30 p m Thursday at the Lawton Golf and Country Club Reservations may be made by contacting Miss Roma Lee Montgomery or other Fort Sill and Lawton representatives listed with phone numbers for the event
CHATTANOOGA Special Mrs Rodney Warner led games at a holiday party for Valiant Sunday School class members of the Presbyterian church. Attendees included guest Mrs Cecilia Teas Odessa Texas teacher Mrs G H Schumpert Mrs Karl Peters and Misses Rodette Varner Pattie Stuckey Cecil Stuckey and Kay Huddelston. Also Messrs and Mesdames Leston Patton Sam Dreith Rodney Varner Louis Stuckey Bill Huddelston Calvin Strecker and G H Schumpert.
Mr and Mrs Jake Zimmerman plan an open house at 1414 Kingsbury from 2 to 5 pm Sunday to celebrate 50 years of marriage. They wed January 7 1906 in Hydro with Rev Jacob Friesen officiating. They have eight children 15 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A 15 year old Kiowa county boy Wendell Jones of Mountain View was accidentally shot in the head with a .22 rifle while hunting alone near his home. He remained in critical condition at St. Anthony Hospital and was described as holding his own. His father J A Janes said the boy stumbled home after being shot and could not explain the accident.
Special report notes Bob Bohl and five alumnae Emma Harper Gracie Jackson Evelyn Sarah and Judy Capshaw attended a party for Chattanooga high school 1955 graduates hosted by Mrs Othel Patton.
Mrs. Arnold Sullivan has purchased the Vollie Ward farm located west of town. The transfer confirms a new ownership stake in the property now listed under Sullivan with no additional details provided on price or terms.
Three bedroom house with a wood-paneled den two tile baths central heat and refrigerated air includes two-car garage built-in electric kitchen and large lot located at 3314 Morford Hills contact J A Pannell Builder at phone 4691 for details or sale.
In Groton Connecticut two women scientists at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics contribute to the Nautilus Sea Wolf and other atomic submarines. Agnes Summers specializes in sound and vibration reduction while Miss Mary MacDonald handles piping stress calculations. Marilyn Alfieri develops programming tasks for calculators and Marjorie Liberman conducts metals and radioactive materials analysis.
Sixty-one Beaver Creek bottomland farmers from Jefferson and Cotton counties petitioned Oklahoma leaders and the U S Corps of Engineers to block a proposed 12500 acre flood level lake on Beaver Creek. They support upstream flood control but oppose a large reservoir reducing fertile land, warning many families could relocate. The petition targets Sens Kerr Monroney and Rep Wickersham, with AWR backing a dam larger than Lake Murray for municipal, industrial, irrigation, flood control, and recreational use.
Geronimo to sell about $5,000 in bonds for a new water system at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the school auditorium. Bond sales since October 1954 total $7,000, with the latest $5,000 election held December 13. The system will serve 40 homes, 150 residents, the school, and churches, with completion set for April 1. Town residents currently haul water from wells.
Mexico City workers began 1956 with a wage hike on Monday raising minimum daily pay. Non skilled workers now earn 88 cents while farmhands receive 76 cents per day.
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