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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1957
Page
5
Mrs. Jones, a part time Holiness minister, lacks funds for transport to the United States and borrows aid. She received 145 dollars from the public and promises to repay Champion as much as possible.
In Tallahassee six college students, three white and three Black, were arrested for violating the new bus seating ordinance aimed at keeping order amid integration efforts. Police Capt. Wayne Todd said all six would face charges. The incident marks the first direct test of the ordinance since integration began amid boycotts of the segregated transit line.
Lawton high senior Peesy Wickman will join the all state high school orchestra festival on February 28 at the University of Oklahoma. Also chosen were Becky Wade and Phil Sampson from Duncan high school. Cameron College judges included Melvin Keeney and Kathleen Haley.
Washington January 18 Secretary of the Interior Fred A Seaton said the value of mineral production in the United States reached a new high of 3173 billion in 1936, up more than 5 billion from 1933 and 32 billion over 1935. Petroleum led gains at 73 billion, with others to be published.
The Chamber of Commerce board of directors will meet at 3 30 p m Wednesday to approve committee appointments for the year. An organizational meeting of the military affairs committee is planned at 4 p m Thursday, announced Ross H Porter president.
Market report from Oklahoma City dated Jan 1 shows weekly cattle, hogs, and sheep trading with gains and firmness in several categories. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to higher, stockers and feeders active, hogs and lambs mixed with higher bullocks and feeder lambs noted in specific weight ranges and price bands.
Apache reports a gasoline price advance of about 2 cents per gallon at local stations following the statewide increase.
John Alfred Reeves of 21345 S Third was charged in Comanche county court Saturday morning with transporting liquor after two highway patrol troopers stopped him Friday night for a faulty registration plate light. Reeves pleaded innocent before Judge John P Fullerton with bond set at 500 dollars and 250 cash property. Troopers W W Flanagan and Morman Carroll said Reeves pulled into a private driveway south of town, where 48 half pints of whisky and 24 half pints of vodka were seized from the trunk.
Oklahoma City on January 19 1963 Osman M H Champion of Oklahoma City promised Mrs Carley Jones that he would provide a job for her son Samuel David Hawkins who, with his bride Tanya, had returned from Communist China. Hawkins is among 21 American soldiers who chose to stay with the Reds at the end of the Korean war. A wealthy oilman said Hawkins has Chinese permission to leave, but the State Department warned his mother he would not be allowed to cross into Hong Kong unless stripped of safety assurances.
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