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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1953
Page
1
Lawton and Fort Sill offices posted a yearly record of 477426.11 in receipts, up 23852.86 from 1951, with December quarter leading growth at 144356.05. Money orders totaled 155313 issues worth 4 093655.78, distributed across four quarters with declines in some periods.
Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray urged a new tuition plan for state college students to cut higher education costs, floated abolishing some small colleges, and pressed immediate highway funding while opposing a $7 million highway request. He backed county consolidation discussions, and kept a stance on rural telephone regulation by district judges rather than the public utility commission. Murray noted college leaders’ alarm at limited funding and suggested some colleges could be closed if enrollment falls, while avoiding specifics on Tonkawa and Murray State.
Rene Mayer formed France's 18th postwar cabinet with broad support from De Gaulle's group and center parties. The 389-205 confirmation ended a 16 day government crisis after Pinay's resignation, signaling a rightward shift as the RPF joined approving the new government and may contest cabinet composition.
A moisture laden front failed to bring snow or freezing rain last night. Overnight low at Lawton was 28 with no extreme cold. Temperatures are forecast to rise into the 40s today and into the 50s tomorrow with a low near 35 tonight.
Comanche county youths 29 slated for induction January 15, filling the county's largest monthly draft quota since 1948. Forty three countrans will depart January 28 for pre induction exams. All inductees are 20 years old. no 19 year olds were selected, though some may face later induction.
The Comanche county events stage a mix of humorous and charitable aims with chain coffees, nominations, and a 1 cent vote system for the Ugly Man contest run by the Business & Professional Women’s club. Col. E. C. Williams retires from the field of contenders as plans begin January 12 and run through January 30.
SEATTLE: A two engine C-46 charter plane carrying 37 soldiers from Korea and Japan, en route to Fort Jackson South Carolina, vanished after last radio contact over Malad City Idaho at 4 58 a m CST. The crew of four included Captain Crawford. Passengers largely southbound rotation troops, with search begun in southern Idaho or Wyoming.
United Press reports a shift from a predicted cold wave to rain in western Oklahoma with rising statewide temperatures. The Panhandle saw 24 to 26 degrees Tuesday night, while Oklahoma City and Enid were 24 degrees, and forecasts call for partly cloudy skies Wednesday and Thursday with highs around 40 to 50 degrees and lows in the upper 20s.
A massive explosion at the Shell Recycling Plant near Sheridan Texas killed four men and injured three as flames and black smoke belched from the five million dollar facility. Sheriff J O Walker said the blaze was under control after two hours, with 25 men likely in the plant at the time. The dead were identified as J B Harvey E E Hillhouse Ralph Rabb and N W Beard all of Sheridan.
President Truman, in his annual State of the Union, cited extensive domestic gains since taking office. He highlighted rising living standards, employment growth, doubled Social Security benefits, higher minimum wages, civil rights progress, and a unified and reorganized government. He praised foreign policy moves including halting Korea aggression, NATO creation, Marshall Plan aid, Iran, and the Truman Doctrine.
President Truman warned Stalin in his farewell State of the Union that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb and could unleash ruin in a future World War III. He spoke of thermonuclear tests, urged international control of atomic energy, and warned that neither side can gain a lasting advantage in the new era of destruction.
President elect Eisenhower arranged talks today with ambassador designates to the United Nations and with Henry Cabot Lodge. He is to confer on Korea policy and other world issues with Churchill, likely at Baruch’s Manhattan home, before Churchill’s planned Washington trip to meet Truman.
Liz Taylor gave birth to her first child, a boy weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces, by Caesarean section in Santa Monica. The 20 year old actress and her son are reported doing fine. Her husband is English actor Michael Wilding, 39.
Sabrejet pilots scored a MIG-15 kill and damaged two more in a three-day MIG-Sabre series over Mig Alley. Capt. Charles C. Carr and 2nd Lt. Edmund G. Hepner are credited with kills and damages, as Misouri and HMS Birmingham shell west coast defenses and carrier planes raid northern targets in worsening weather.
Lawton Chamber of Commerce will hold a Friday noon forum to map the 1953 work program. Chamber Secretary Milton Keating invites all citizens to attend as a resume of work suggestions is read and further ideas are received.
Police in Reading Pennsylvania report the blood spattered body of 15 year old Dorothy Schlappig discovered stuffed in an ash barrel near her home Wednesday. She was unclothed except for a brassiere and believed strangled. Foster parents reported her missing after she left a relative’s home with a pot pie. Autopsy to determine cause. Signs of a brutal struggle noted in the alley.
March 11 13 was fixed for the annual Comanche County Junior Fat Stock show after a county agents meeting with vocational agriculture teachers and Lawton chamber leaders. Policy details were outlined. 4H and FFA members may enter up to three fat barrows lambs and two steers, with ownership timelines for sheep calves.
Clyde Prestidge, 46, ex convict, accused of a sex attack on a five year old Law ton girl New Year's day, asked for 24 hours before pleading to a second and subsequent offense charge of rape. Justice of the Peace Marvin Cameron granted the delay. Prestidge will be arraigned again Thursday. County Attorney Manville Redman filed the case and awaits microscope slide results from Oklahoma City. He was being mugged and fingerprinted by sheriffs officers.
Washington reports a large vaccination drive as the Army combats a mild influenza outbreak. About 3,500 cases have occurred at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, linked to the A Prime virus. Vaccination is underway for all troops in and ordered to Europe and the Far East, with no deaths so far and brief hospital stays.
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