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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1957
Page
2
The Sauk area holds a five night youth revival at a local Methodist church with 155 attendees. Revivals feature evening services led by ministers and special music, inviting all area youth to attend at Wesles Foondition University venue in Oklahoma.
A six year old Vancouver boy was mauled by a pack of dogs while playing in a park with two brothers. He received bites to the face and leg but was saved when a bystander beat off the dogs. he was taken to hospital in serious but improving condition with no rabies exposure detected.
Congress opened with 228 Democrats in the House and 200 Republicans in the opposition, while Senate leadership remained with Sam Rayburn. Civil rights filibuster reform looms as Democrats and Republicans weigh rules to end debate. Eisenhower seeks bipartisan support for foreign and domestic agendas amid budget questions and surprise deficits.
Hospital notes show numerous births and admissions including newborns and patients admitted for surgery or medical care. Notable entries include births to Mr. and Mrs. Willis McCray and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mathis, with weights and timestamps. multiple named patients admitted for surgery, medical care, and other conditions across various addresses and hospitals. a note of a canceled inauguration train due to low interest in the Eisenhower event.
Detroit report cites steep declines across major automakers in 1956 final figures from GM Ford Chrysler Chevrolet and others. Production fell from 1955 levels with GM and Ford hardest hit by double digit drops and Plymouth Studebaker Packard eras amid factory suspensions and model line cutbacks.
Pine Lawn Missouri plans a new city hall due to a funds shortage. The article notes a two year arc with City Clerk Gilbert Auty facing embezzlement charges, a bank dispute over 334,812, and a court ruling directing funds to the city. Mayor Raymond L. Hersthaniel announces Pine Lawn as a St. Louis suburb.
Governor Fred Hall is expected to join the Kansas Supreme Court as Chief Justice William Smith plans to resign by January 14. Lt. Gov. John McCuish may succeed Hall and be appointed to the court, while George Docking wins the governorship following Hall’s primary defeat.
Montreal Quebec The Canadian Pacific Railway operations were tied up by a strike of 7800 firemen. Prime Minister Louis St Laurent stayed in Quebec City as cabinet aides urged the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen to call off the walkout. Rate dispute listed as top cabinet agenda for its first 1997 meeting.
City appoints John Higdon as patrolman at Lake Lawtonka replacing Frampton who resigned to care for his wife’s heart condition. Higdon, a Walters Times graduate and Marine Corps veteran, plans to live at the lake with wife Cle Coker and take up fishing and hunting as a postman’s holiday on off hours.
London dispatch reports Victor Riesel saying American docks are governed by pirates, with only the FBI stopping a slide into underworld influence. He adds Britain’s docks are cleaner, praised as run by an intelligent trade union movement.
Maj Ralph J Pope recently assumed command of the 761st Field Artillery Battalion replacing Lt Col G De Armand who goes to a military mission in Teheran. His career includes the Specialist Training Regiment Port Dix tenure and multiple service schools in France Texas and Pittsburgh. He is a Pittsburgh Dusquene graduate with a masters in psychometrics and is married with a son living in Lowell Massachusetts.
President Eisenhower said Britain, France and Israel followed UN demands to end Suez fighting and urged Russia to do likewise. He cited Bulganin’s Nov. 17 letter as signaling a strategic shift in Western Europe and affirmed NATO’s ability to fulfill collective defense duties. The White House released his reply to Bulgan.
Citizenship and civics students at Central Junior High attended the morning opening of Congress in the school auditorium. Ninth graders and civics pupils from eighth grade also watched the televised event under Principal A Richardson supervision.
A Micronesian Islands missionary will headline the Congregational church Sunday forum at 5 a.m. at Seventh and C. He will also speak at the 11 a.m. service. Harold Hanlin, a former Navy chaplain, began mission work during his service. Rev. James C. Smith is pastor.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, former Allied commander in Europe, is found permanently unfit for duty by reason of 40 percent physical disability at retirement. Army orders reveal the disability and state 40 percent of his retirement pay of 11,487 a year will be tax free. Gruenther, 57, became president of the American Red Cross on Wednesday, a post paying 20,000 annually.
Three Texas groups from Wichita Falls join the Hungarian Extravaganza benefit at 8 p.m. January 18 in McMahon Memorial auditorium. The event, directed by Miss Mary Lavinia Young and Leslie Powell, supports Hungarian relief work. Acts include Wichita Falls Civic Players, Pals Dance Group, and a string quartet from the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra with baritone Ron Anderson. Proceeds advance tickets available at city law firms and Fort Sill. prices 2.00 general, 3.00 reserved.
City council awarded a $102 044 contract to John Jennings and Son for two new fire substations at 24th and Cache Road and 18th and Lee. The move accompanies a $250 000 fire department bond issue funding two pumpers and a 100 foot aerial ladder truck. The council also reviewed bus service extensions and bids for six manholes while advancing drainage, sanitation, and radio equipment projects.
Mrs Elva Falk 64 died Thursday morning in Vernon California after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be announced by a Duncan funeral home. She lived in Lawton with son Hal Falk and had other children in Colorado and California. Survived by five sisters, three brothers and 12 grandchildren. Burial planned in Duncan cemetery.
Two Contral junior high Sciistt students will be named Smile of the Year champions after Friday finals. Dentists and Dr Rodney L Worthen chair the event with over 100 finalists checked Thursday and a second review planned before the Oklahoma City Biltmore Hotel on February 5.
Williams serves as treasurer of the board and chairs the budget and finance committee. Folders with information about the Easter Pageant of 1957 will be mailed nationwide within a week. Contact Batten at EL 5-2037 to request a copy.
A gasoline leak from a punctured fuel tank ignited in the Washroom of the Jack Welle Texaco station at 1919 Cache Road around 3 37 p.m. Wednesday. A 1958 Oldsmobile 98 owned by Miriam Sample of 1802 Pollard was damaged when the car slipped from a jack and the fumes were ignited. Damages totaled about 4500 with 3500 to the car and 1000 to the station and hose lines and windows.
Former mayor credits the Chamber of Commerce with driving Lawton’s growth over 15 to 20 years. He cited water projects Metropolitan Park municipal airport industrial expansions and street programs as key achievements. He stressed ongoing Chamber leadership amid city cooperation and progress.
Knights to meet Lawton Commandery No 18 in a stated conclave at 7 30 p m today in the Masonic Temple Recorder W L Casey said the line shows.
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