Oklahoma City Pastor to Speak at Lawton Rally
Dr. Willis B. Howard of First Baptist Oklahoma City will be principal speaker at a 7 p.m. men’s rally in Lawton at Fifth and B, as part of an all day evangelistic conference for Comanche Cotten Baptist Association. About seven hundred men expected. Judge W. R. Wallace to precede. The conference aims to plan revivals across 25 churches from Jan 19 to Feb 1 with Christ as the answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis B. Howard
First Baptist Church
Oklahoma City
Comanche-Cotten Baptist
Thureday
Dr. Howard
W. R. Wallace
Oklahoma
Christ
Central Baptist Church
Hugh Bumpaz
Capitol Hill Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church
Denton Art Wright
Bill Emanuel
Luther Baptist Church
T. P. Haskins
Brotherhood and Evangelism
Harold K Graves
Bartleaville
Baptist General Convention
Vivian Cochren
Oklaoma City
Woman's Missionary Union
Revival Meeting Opens Church at Lawton Werley Church
Rev Perry McArthur begins a series of sermons titled Interviews With Christ at Lawton's Werley Methodist Church. Services run nightly at 7230 through Sunday to inaugurate the new church on Lith and McKinder. Church attendance reported as 70 students in Sunday school and 130 in the morning service. Public invited to revival with special music and nightly sessions led by veteran minister Rev Roberto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry McArthur
Christ
Lawton
New Werley
Fort Sill Field House Addition Planned
Fort Sill plans two hand hall courts and two exercise rooms in a new field house. The facility, about 50 by 100 feet, is described as a major need while current recreation uses Dan T. Moore hall and other inadequately equipped buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sill
Dan T. Moore
Motorist Fined For Reckless Driving
Ward Franklin Watson aged 28 received a fine of $20 and costs from Justice of the Peace John Manning for reckless driving. Watson was arrested at Second and Best Tuesday night by Highway Patrolman Glenn H. Parr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward Franklin Watson
Walters
John Manning
Glenn H. Parr
MARKETS AND LIVESTOCK REPORTS FROM CHICAGO OKLAHOMA CITY AND NEW YORK
Markets include Chicago butter and carrots with unsettled quotes. Oklahoma City livestock shows cattle steady to slow with highs around 28.50, hogs up to 22.50, sheep and lambs near 26. New York cotton futures close very steady with March around 35.38 to 35.40 and spot at 36.25. stock list features Am Airlines to Woolworth with mixed gains and losses across major corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
New York
Stoche Am Airlines
Armair and Co
AT and SF
Avco
Col G
Curtiss Wright
Doug Air
Dupont den
Eagle Pich
Eastman Kodak
Long Bell Lhr
Martin
McKess and
Mont Ward
Nash Kelvinator
Ms - NY Cent
Southern Pac
Studebaker Corp
Swift and Co
Texas Co Sf
Tex Gulf
US Steel
UN Tele
Wilson and Co
Woolworth FW
City approves paving costs and petitions for D and E avenues
City council authorized $142 281 for D avenue paving and accepted a petition to repave E avenue from Second to Seventh. A protest hearing raised a few objections, mainly over gutter work and assessments. The special paving committee recommended overruling most complaints and adopted the assessment ordinance after reviewing an evaluator’s report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E Avenue
Second
Seventh
Connect
Costa
D Avenue
H. Buckingham
Buckingham
Wyatt Hendrick
Local Personal Notices From Angus Hospital Entries
Jesse A. Smith of 906 E admitted for medical treatment. Mrs. W. FH. Crlyort and Cameron College and son born Jan 5 returned home from Angus hospital. Batty Faye Gordon daughter of Mr and Mrs Jess Gordon route 1 Lawton dismissed from Angua hospital. Mrs. J. W. McFarland 1414 Kingsbury and son born Dec 31 returned home from Angua hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse A. Smith
Angus Hospital
Batty Faye Gordon
Jess Gordon
Route 1
Lawton
Angua Hospital
J. W. McFarland
Kingsbury
Tueaday
Kiwanians Prepare For Annual Installation Banquet
The Lawton Kiwanis club plans its 1948 installation banquet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the First Christian church basement. Milo Tague to be installed as Kiwania president, succeeding Dr. Lewis Fouts. Dr. Donald Angus to serve as master of ceremonies with entertainment by the Oklahoma College for Women, Chickasha, and Rev. Ivan J. Young directing ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Kiwanis Club
Kiwaniana
First Christian Church
Milo Tague
Kiwania
Lewis Fouts
Donald Angus
Oklahoma College For Women
Chickasha
Ivan J. Young
Lawton Pioneer Roy Evans Ill at Wichita Falls Hospital
Roy Evans a widely known Lawton pioneer is critically ill in Wichita Falls Texas hospital after major surgery more than two weeks ago. He was placed under an oxygen tent and administered plasma. His daughter Mary Louise Kivana who was called here by him returned to Pittsburgh Kansas where she is a student nurse at Mount Carmel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Evans
Bell
Lawton
Wichita Falls
Clint Hospital
Tex
Evans
Mijas Mary Louise Kivana
Hig
Pitteburg
Kana
Mount Carmel
Milk Standards Measure Proposal Faces Council Action
City council discusses proposed amendments to prohibit hand-capping milk containers and enforce sanitary capping with input from sanitarian Hardy Watson. Chamber of Commerce urges purchase of 320 acres of government land north of Lawton. Zoning and building permit decisions include denying Caudill auto repair permit and referring an upholstery shop plan to the zoning board. Moving permit approved for Jim Gaskin’s 9 by 10 foot frame storage shed on his lot. Updated pipe installation planned between A and B streets to improve service along 48th and 14th avenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardy Watson
Sanitarian
Chamber
Lawton
Jim Landrum
Columbia
Zoning Board
Jim Gaskina
LHS Dramatic Students To Present Program Thursday
Law ton high school dramatics students will stage a 1 minute comedy Am I Tate Thursday afternoon as the first weekly high school radio program of 1948. Opal Ford reports Nancy McCrory serves as announcer for KSWO from 3 to 3 15 p m with Emma Lou Whiting Joyce Dezelle Arlene Craig Joyce Hankins Jane Lee and Lois Keeler in the cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
Lawton High School Dramatics
Mre
Opal Ford
Nancy McCrory
KSWO
Emma Lou Whiting
Joyce Dezelle
Arlene Craig
Joyce Hankins
Jane Lee
Lois Keeler
Births at Southwestern Hospital Name and details
A son was born at Southwestern Hospital to Mr and Mrs Day Hawthorne of 1407 Kingbury. The infant arrived Tuesday weighing 9 pounds 4 ounces.
Postal Receipts Tracking Fort Sill Growth Through 1947
Postal receipts for Fort Sill and Lawton post offices show strong wartime growth, peaking in 1944 at 354,626.12 dollars and declining thereafter. 1946 and 1947 quarterly figures reveal varied activity as overseas mail and post service usage changed after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Fort 12
Fort Sijl
Permits Continue For Local Construction Projects
Permits listed for multiple projects include a $10,000 brick veneer home at 1716 Arlington with C. M. Johnson as building superintendent and completion in 20 days. Elmer G. Schutte receives a permit for a $?000 frame structure at 1004 Euclid under contractor Walter D. B. Ford Jr. Also permitted are remodeling jobs at 518 B to house a Bendix laundry. 312 E for Mrs. Lee Smith. a garage top addition. moving a house from 903 S E to Second and B by Tim Gaskin, contractor Fred Rapunoza. and a $300 brick building remodel at 410 S Fifth by Ned Shepler with Lloyd Emenses in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Gay
West Mountain View
C. M. Johnson
Elmer G. Schutte
Euclid
Walter DB. Ford, Jr
Herbert Thomas
Harold Wilson
Bendix
Lee Smith
A. A. Warehlme J
Tim Gaskin
Fred Rapunoza
Ned Shepler
S. Fifth
Lloyd Emenses
Rangers Board Sees New Directors In 1944 Planning
Morrison was selected to fit the unexpired year of Gene Harvey as director. Other directors include Mr Banks Dean Phillips and BC Dickens. President Mr Fuqua and Walter Cahorn serve as officers after last year’s eject. Fuqua joins the board as vice-president. Dickens named to handle Ranger advertising and 1944 rodeo programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
Gene Harvey
Banks
Dean Phillips
Dickens
Fuc Qin
Walter Cahorn
Secontary
Fuqua
Jin
X Ranger
Todeo
Two Post Bonds In City Court Parking Stop Sign Cases
Otis A. Kirkpatrick posted a 1 bond on a city court charge of center parking. Ronald E. Cook of 1724 Cherry posted a 33 bond for disregarding a stop sign, police reported today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis A. Kirkpatrick
Ronald E. Cook
Cherry
Truman Urges Worldwide Moral Stimulus and Inflation Fight
President Truman outlines domestic and international aims in a broad speech. He presses Congress to fund a European recovery program, keep inflation in check, and push five core goals including universal human rights, expanded health and unemployment protections, a national health plan, and large scale housing and education initiatives. He urges swift action to grant needed weapons in the inflation battle and supports statehood for Alaska and Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations ‘Committee
Truman
Congrexa
Mr. Truman
Congress
Gorla
Alaska
Hawaii
President outlines five goals for nation in speech
The president exhorted extending rent control to ease housing strain and strengthen national wealth against misuse. He urged applying Tennessee Valley flood control experience to other river valleys, expanding mineral resources and critical ammenities, boosting reclamation to millions more acres, raising the minimum wage to 75 cents, modernizing farm price supports, and expanding crop insurance. He reaffirmed veto of Taft-Hartley while maintaining constitutional duty to administer it, and stressed collective bargaining for industrial peace as essential. He closed with a world peace aim rooted in justice and equality, noting the UN faces difficulties yet remains vital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessce Valley
Lo Kilye
Irving
President Seeks Strength for Global Peace
The president stated confidence in ultimate success and said the United States can be an effective force for world peace only if it is strong, until a day of decreased armaments arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
U.S. Urges Ars From Page One
The report notes unpredictable weather and uncertain trade patterns with eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. It predicts that public support for a new program could yield miraculous results if Americans back its success. The food portion of the plan, about one quarter of the large supply total, appears the most gloomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burone
Destruction Charge Against Two Cameron College Men
Earl D. Scott aged 21 and Roy E. Johnson aged 23, Cameron College students, pleaded innocent before Judge John F P Fullerton in city court on Tuesday to charges of destroying personal property. Their cases were set for hearing today. Police allege the pair broke a window at the Big Top Bar, 217 C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl .D. Scott
Roy E Johnson
Cameron College
John FP. Fullerton
Big ‘Top Bar
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fort Sill Field
Burba’s
Chicago
Jan. T
George Hutchins
Julius Johnston
Dink Coombs
Harold Shore
Ben’ Hutching
Third Street
Hutchins
CW. Simpson
D. Avenue Costa
Fock Island Rallway
Board of
Frank Kitchens
Kitchens
My. Johnston
Charles Gallaher
Ferris
Standard Paving Company
Earl Christmas
Lawton Pioneer
Wichita Falls Hospital
Council
LHS
Rangers
Lydia
Pinkham
Pinkhnam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tony Pralar
LYNLA
Burrows Insulation & Weatherstrip, Inc
Lawton Tent & Awning CO
Jabour’s
Free Nations
United Nations
St Joseph
St.Jos
SU Joseph Aspirin
U.S
Stockton
Canser
U. S
Rae
Dumpty
Pie
Tae Ee
Jones Drug
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!