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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1954
Page
3
Hospital notices list admissions and discharges for numerous patients across Lawton Marlow and nearby areas. Names, addresses, and brief medical notes appear in a dense roll call with birth dates and surgery or medical statuses.
Queen Elizabeth II opens New Zealand Parliament in Wellington with 10 000 spectators outside and hundreds inside. She wears the diamond tiara and Order of the Garter items as a seven minute throne speech pledges openness and international peace. Nearby crowds, military flypast, and a note on New Zealand’s one chamber system since 1950 accompany the event.
A new safe tablet claims to end bed wetting by stopping electrical device alarms and sheets. Marketed as medically proven to be 754 effective, the DRY TABS product from A.B. Drug Company at 401 D Street promises a full supply and urges customers to use only this brand.
The Federation of Western Plains Indians schedules a second meeting in Carnegie on Saturday to decide on permanence. Temporary chairman Ernest Hunt says the group seeks to protect tribal interests and regain pre-area office conditions amid Comanche and Kiowa tensions. Officers named include Maye Rowell Johnson and Maye Johnson, with Downing of the Anadarko area office cautioning the rift is not final.
A dubious ad-style fragment promotes a powdery product to prevent slipping or irritation of dentures. It claims the paste provides comfort and security by keeping teeth in place, urging readers not to fear embarrassment. The snippet ends with a sales prompt to obtain the paste, allegedly at drug counters.
Sheriff Everett Hale will join county chinchilla breeders Friday and Saturday in Oklahoma City for the National Chinchilla Breeders association educational meeting and field day. Charles Dorigan will lead the 7:30 p.m. session at the Biltmore Hotel with a Saturday field day, entry fee 2.50 per animal and a banquet Saturday night.
Members of the Lawton Fort Sill Community Chest board will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 30 p m in the organization office 430 C Beginning with a campaign report the session will cover other important business matters.
An advertisement touts Brimms Plasti-Liner as a single application filler that hardens to relin e and stabilize plates without powder or paste. It supposedly preserves old rubber parts for six months to a year, is tasteless odorless and harmless, removable as directed, with a money back unsatisfied guarantee.
From the Constitution Files a 30 year recap notes Lawton underworld figure wounded in a gunfight with two Cache County farmers. It also mentions Elmer Thomas proposing 70000 for Fort Sill road surfacing between new post and Apache gate, and Aaron Harvey with Jack Pope executed in McAlester for Pope’s wife and infant daughter slayings. Gov. Trapp to call a special election for Comanche County statehouse seat.
Mrs. D. M. Lucas 92, longtime Altus and Martha area resident, died in Altus at 8 30 am after a long illness. Survived by three sons Frank and Albert Lucas of Lawton and T C Lucas of San Angelo Texas, daughters Mrs Laranzy Wigington Altus Mrs Charles Hullum Madill and Alma McAnally California, plus several grandchildren. Husband died in 1938. Funeral arrangements pending arrival of relatives with services expected in Altus midweek.
Igor Gorin will give a concert at the Altus city auditorium on January 14. The event is sponsored by the Southwest Community Concert Association. The performance will feature a curated program by the renowned tenor.
A notice promotes a free 64 page book from the Institute of Mental Physics in Los Angeles by a figure called The Voice of Two Worlds. It claims four world prophecies could now unfold and urges readers to prepare for a forthcoming crisis. No money required. readers supply name and address for delivery with no obligation.
In Stillwater Oklahoma a $100 fine was paid by a robbery victim tied to a dice game last week. Hullet Dickson known as Hinky Dink and 18 companions faced court after masked bandits kicked in a back door at a resident owned by E G Perry Porth of Cushing. The victims were forced to strip and bound with wire as pistols and a submachine gun were shown.
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