Lawton Retail Sales Jump 76 Percent In Six Years
Lawton's 1954 retail sales reached 63.7 million dollars, up 27.5 million and 76.1 percent from 1948, the Census of Business reports. Comanche county rose 71.6 percent to 68.4 million, statewide Oklahoma sales totalled 2.117 billion, with food stores and automotive groups leading. Copies of the census are available for ten cents.
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Lawton
Washington
Comanche County
Oklahoma
Automotive Group
General Merchandise
Oklahoma Cities
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Enid
Ponca City
Muskogee
Ardmore
Bureau of the Census
D.C
Department of Commerce
Senators Clash Over Dulles War Remarks
Senator George D-Gay urged a distant stance from war as he commented on Dulles brink of war quotes. The dispute drew reactions from Democratic leaders including Rayburn and Mansfield and Republican leaders like Nixon, Thye, and Smith as Pravda echoed the tension.
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Lawton
George
Dulles
Washington
George D-Gay
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rayburn
Texas
Life Magazine
Nixon
Communist Party
Pravda
Moscow Radio
Senate
Sen
Mansfield
D-Mont
Asia
Eisenhower
United States
Thye
R-Minn
H. Alexander Smith
Council To Work on Minor Items For Tuesday
City council agenda includes bids for a new tractor from parks committee, a drainage improvement request east of the youth center, and a bid opening for a new police car. Also on tap are a traffic accident claim report, an alley opening petition, and a zoning commission recommendation on selling Hammond organs at a homeowner’s residence.
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Parks Committee
F. B
Fuzz) Barnes
Bell
Cy Bell
Cameron College Addition
Planning and Zoning Commission
Jack Hawkins
Ash
Bethel Church Receives $300 Heating Fund Gift
Mrs. R. A. Ball, longtime Bethel Methodist member, donates 300 dollars to install a new heating system in the church sanctuary.
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Bethel
R. A. Ball
Bethel Methodist Church
Runaway Car Smashes Gas Pumps Sparks Station Fire
Eugene Joe Plozel, 23, of Fort Sill, backed from Phillips 66 Ser vice Station 602 D when accelerator stuck, rammed pumps, ignited fire. Damages about $400 to station. auto damaged. Plozel charged with operating a motor vehicle with defective brakes, released on $12 bond. Firemen from Central extinguished blaze.
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Eugene Joe Plazel
Fort Sill
Phillips 66
Eugene Joe Plozel
Plozel
Lewil R. Bickett
Liberty
Plazel
Walter Asbery
Junior Hawkins
Central Station
Detectives Trace Burglary Loot Through Local Pawn Shops
Lawton detectives reviewed pawn shop reports from the last four months of 1955 to locate items stolen in a fall series of burglaries. Fort Sill soldier Donald Edward Hammond admitted at least 15 break-ins, mostly between 7 and 10 p.m., to fund pawned goods.
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Lawton
Fort Sillman
Donald Edward Hammond
Manville Redman
Hammond
Woodrow Giles
Robert Foster
Euclid
Sillman
Redman
Otis Waldron
Waldron
Army
Louisiana
Eight Arrested By City Police Holds Eight Suspects
Police records show eight people arrested Monday evening and night. Jimmy R. Vickers, 17, of 1816 Bell, charged with speeding. Roy Lee Zimmerman, 32, of 1414 Kingsbury, charged with running a red light. Eugene Joe Plazel, 23, Fort Sill, charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes. Oneal H. Pearson, 28, of 126 B, charged with vagrancy. Curtis Smith, 34, El Paso, Texas, charged with carrying a gun. Smith released to military authorities. Plazel and Zimmerman released on $11 bonds.
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Jimmy R. Vickers
Bell
Roy Lee Zimmerman
Kingsbury
Eugene Joe Plazel
Fort Sill
Oneal H. Pearson
Curtis Smith
el Paso
Tex
Smith
Plazel
Zimmerman
Hospitality Club Adopts New Year Program
The Hospitality club adopted a program for the new year after a meeting at Mrs Day Sullivan's home 10 Columbia presiding. A luncheon followed the business session. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs W R Patterson with members including Mesdames Willie Benford Marie Fletcher Carrie Hylton Viola Jefferson Jerlene McCowan John Patterson Alice Steadman and Viola Weathersby.
Leggers Forfeit $120 In Bonds In Lawton Court
Two Lawton bootleggers forfeited a total of 120 in bonds after failing to appear for municipal court hearings on liquor raid charges. R. E. Atkins and Henry Watson each posted 60 and faced counts of illegal liquor possession running a joint and maintaining a nuisance. Other cases included forfeit bonds by Sue Shaw Joy Allsuf and Robbie Young for disturbances and theft, plus a dismissed assault case. Fort Sill entries show Pvt James Brown case dismissed for failure to locate.
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Lawton
J. Merle Oaks
R. E. (Snake) Atkins
Henry Watson
Washington
Sue Teague Shaw
Joy Allsuf
Robbie E. Young
Texas
Pete Zuthiga
S. 11Th
Pvt
James Brown
Fort Sill
Mildred Brown
Ernest H. Erler
Parents Get Report Cards Report cards issued in public schools
John Shoemaker, superintendent, announced that report cards were issued today in all city public schools. The second semester of the 1955 56 term officially began Monday. Third six weeks honor rolls for Lawton High Central Junior High and Douglass Schools will be released Saturday.
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All City
John Shoemaker
Lawton High
Central Junior High
Douglass
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Jack Cleland
Constitution Washington Bureau
McCord
C Avenue
American Travelers Insurance Company
A. W. McCracken
Wolverte
An Electric Co
Dinette
Sprague’s
Hospitality Club
Eugene L. Bowman
Roger Wilkerson
Serv
Mgr
TV Reader's Digest
New Studebaker
Studebaker
The
Studebaker Hawks
Golden Hawk
Sky Hawk
Power Hawk
Flight Hawk
Studebaker Frsile
Maytag Auto
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