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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1953
Page
13
A local contractor offers pond work including rebuilding cleanouts and scraping. Services cover restoration and removal tasks with emphasis on pond structure, liner health, and debris clearing for backyard water features. Contact for estimates and project planning.
Ada Oklahoma January 21 UP A cafe owner Glenn Pendegraft returned to 1953 prices after serving 7000 customers at a 1932 price menu. Fried chicken 35 cents T bone steak 65 cents a merchant’s lunch 25 cents with drink and dessert. Pendegraft said 14 hours of brisk service, doubt prices will drop, but employees may work better. Pendegraft praised Eisenhower and said he voted for him.
Oklahoma City's Maj. Robinson Risner added an eighth kill in the North Korea air war, flying an F-86 Sabre to destroy a MIG-15 near the Manchurian border. Maj. Vernon Garrison of Tulsa also downed a MIG-15. Risner, a famed jet ace and former Oklahoma National Guard pilot, earned the nickname after a Texas Mexico incident and earlier service.
Police reported Marilyn Meltzer, 26, confessed to throwing her 3 week old daughter Phyllis Ann from a third floor window. The infant died hours later. Husband Marvin Meltzer described his wife as nervous and melancholy since the birth. No charges filed pending psychiatric tests.
Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma Peace Officers Association denounces the state Senate investigation of the Carl DeWolf murder case as a three ring circus. DeWolf is to die Jan. 27 for the 1946 Tulsa policeman shooting. The association elected Fred Graves president and named officers and committee members.
A purebred Hereford bull, grand champion of the 47th National Western Stock Show, sold for $42,000 yesterday. The bull was owned by Roy Turner of Sulphur Oklahoma, a former Oklahoma governor.
Alarm over a flu epidemic in the American Zone of Germany led U S Army authorities to plan widespread inoculations for about 250000 troops. European HQ at Heidelberg did not yet have hospitalization figures but many soldiers and civilian employees were sick in Frankfurt. The Bavaria outbreak caused nine German deaths in Munich, overloaded hospitals and closed 27 classrooms. The flu reached Garmisch Partenkirchen, home to the world bobsled championships starting Saturday.
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