Social Calendar Highlights Local Club Meetings
A packed social calendar lists First Presbyterian Couples, PEO Sisterhood, Beta Sigma Phi Xi Tau, Medicine Park Home Demonstration, American Legion events, and multiple church circles across Lawton. Notable notices include Seventh and E venues, youth groups, and a March of Dimes benefit with teen party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Presbyterian Couples Club
Church Recreation Hall
Fred Larrance Jr
Bob Wheeler
Joe Hampton
PEO
R. B. Morford Sr
Gore
George Page
C. A. Wolverton
Xi Tau
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Gene Welch
Gene Welch, 807 N
Medicine Park Home
Old Settlers Club
American Legion Hall
First Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service
T. C. Mason
Euclid
Roy Cremer
Washington
D. L. Wigington
Dearborn
John T. Bruss
Albert F. Turner
Lincoln
Bateman- Zarling
American Legion
Fort Sill
March of Dimes
First Christian Women’s Fellowship
Johnston Would Pick Marilyn and Jane as Aide Crew
Washington January 21 UPI motion picture czar Eric Johnston was nominated for president and named Marilyn Monroe as commissioner of internal revenue with Jane Russell as aide. The Alfalfa Club dinner drew Richard Nixon and eight other notables while Eisenhower missed the mock nomination festivities amid jibes at his secretary of state and Johnston’s joking claim of a simple Hollywood start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eric Johnston
Internal Revenue
Marilyn Monroe
Jane Russell
Alfalfa Club
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Johnston
Culver City
Calif
Play Tryouts Start Monday at Lawton High
Lawton High announces tryouts for Our Hearts Were Young And Gay starting Monday and Tuesday with girls on Monday and boys on Tuesday. The three act comedy is LHS first major production in the new auditorium with March 12 13 dates. Tickets 75 cents adults 50 cents students. Auditorium capacity about 1500 with reserved seating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton High School
Opal Ford
LHS
McMahon
Mrs. Mary Harmon Hosts Snyder Sunday School Class
Mrs. Luther Maxwell led the business period and Mrs. Perry Reed gave the devotional at Snyder Baptist church TEL Sunday School class. Mrs. Mary Harmon served as hostess with Mesdames Eula Benson Mattie Cook O I Cook Edna Faulkner Paul Hadley Sally Ladd and Mae Smith among the attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Luther Maxwell
Perry Reed
TEL
Snyder Baptist Church
Mary Harmon
Mesdames Eula Benson
Mattie Cook
O. I. Cook
Edna Faulkner
Paul Hadley
Sally Ladd
Mae Smith
Vitamin-Health Skit Presented at Washington Elementary
Third and fourth grade students at Washington Elementary School presented a vitamin health skit Mr Sim Tumm Gives The Alarm. The class sang an original Vegetable Song with music by Nancy Forsyth. Lin da Lewis and Mary Margaret Newcombe played piano solos. Bob Wood read a poem Ben Franklin. Fourth graders performed Meet Benjamin Franklin and the class sang Wise Ben Franklin. Cast included Linda Abbott Vonna Bradley Ila Fay Good Karen Lund Kinda Martinez Kathy Ross Gloria Trest James Dezelle Fred Hammond Johnny Johnson Richard Tatum Anthony Damigos Nancy Alexander Judy Burk Shirley Jones Joy Emerson Robert Bradley George Flynt Russell Greer Michael Culley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Forsyth
Linda Lewis
Mary Margaret Newcombe
Bob Wood
Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Wise Ben Franklin
Linda Abbott
Vonna Bradley
Ila Fay Good
Karen Lund
Kinda Martinez
Kathy Ross
Gloria Trest
James Dezelle
Fred Hammond
Johnny Johnson
Richard Tatum
Anthony Damigos
Nancy Alexander
Judy Burk
Shirley Jones
Joy Emerson
Robert Bradley
George Flynt
Russell Greer
Michael Culley
Hospital News Items Admitted and Discharged Patients
Hospitals list admissions discharges births and surgeries with names and addresses. Notable entries include Mrs Sadie Jackson and Patricia Guice with ages from infants to adults, plus births for Doyle Collins and Beverly Conn. Southwest region notes show Norma Lewis Doyle Collins and multiple medical and surgical cases across towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doyle Collins
Norma Jean Lewis
Georgia
Curtis Merritt
Joe Mantooth, Jr
Lincoln
Doyle Brantley
Sterling
Beverly Conn
Carl Conn
Bessie Woodward
Robert Davis
Bob Williamson
Maple
Neal Walker
David Green
Science Art Fair Dates Changed In Lawton
The annual Lawton science and art fair dates are moved to April 28-29. Elementary coordinator Miss Thelma Talla said the festival was shifted from April 14-15 due to conflicts with education meetings. This year the event will be at Will Rogers Elementary School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton School
Thelma Talla
Will Rogers
Plans Made for Lawton World Day of Prayer Service
Plans are in place for Lawton to observe World Day of Prayer on February 17. General chairman Mrs. Anne Wear Smith calls a planning session at 10 a.m. February 6 at St. Andrew's Episcopal church. Churches will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for personal meditation with a 1:30 p.m. unit service at the Episcopal church. Delegates from Centenary and First Methodist, St. Andrew's Episcopal, First Christian, Liberty Heights Christian, and First Presbyterian attended last week. The observance unites Christians in prayer and supports interdenominational missions projects, tracing origins to 1887.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Garden Club
E. K. Caldwell
Gore
Centenary Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service
F. E. Lawrence
John Wimberly
Lake
E. H. McKinney
Bell
R. M. Morris
Pearl
First Presbyterian Women’s Organization
S. R. Royce
Guy Roberts
Fannie E. Boggs
Ili
Glenn Roe
Maple
H. L. Porter
C. T. Freese
Ladies Association of Lawton Golf & Country Club
Art Group
Lawton
American Association of University Women
Stephen’s Arts & Crafts
Sheridan Road
Reddy Johnson
H. L. Naegeli
Ash
Tom Wolfe
Denton Home Demonstration Club
Roy McGee
Progressive Home Demonstration Club
Fred Cook
Anne Wear Smith
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
Centenary Methodist
First Methodist
St. Andrew’s Episcopal
First Christian
Liberty Heights Christian
First Presbyterian
Temple School Plans Reached
Temple Oklahoma City architectural firm Wahlberg Palmer and Wahlberg has been hired to draw plans for a proposed 10 classroom Lavern Elementary. Westfall the superintendent said preliminary drawings will be submitted within a week with several designs showing a clinic storage and office space. If approved federal aid may be sought though factors beyond the district's control could affect eligibility. Cost estimates are expected with the drawings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple (Special
Wahlberg, Palmer and Wahlberg
Oklahoma City
Temple School Board
Lavern
Westfall
Department of Health, Welfare and Education
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Signal Corps
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Judson Caruthers
Mike Wyant
Joyce Cable
Jimmy Stanton
W. C. Burris
U. S. Army
Roosevelt Parent-Teacher Association
Cedar Grove Home Demonstra
Tion Club
Union Valley Home Demonstration Club
Security Bank & Trust Company
Janelle Allison
Oklahoma A&m College
Stillwater
Marilyn
Jane
U.S
Harry J. Roberts
The
Monroe Calculating Machine Co
Dalton Business College
Sim Tumm
Emma Gould
Washington Elementary School
Sadie Jackson
Taylor
Patricia Ann Guice
Willie H. Guice
Columbia
Stephen Swanner
Williams
Marjorie Ross
Clifford Ross
Douglas
Danny Ray Barnes
Sanford Barnes
Garfield
Lena McGee
Porter McGee
Roosevelt
Vicki Lou Melton
Bill Melton
W. R. Northcutt
Guy Thomas Clapton
W. M. Smith
Temple
Sammy T. Marcom
Horace M. Moser
Frederick
Roger Lee McCaslin
Harold
Marvin Schlegel
Plaza Trailer Courts
Ollie May Fry
Frank J. White
Jerome Morris
Elgin
Joseph Standley
Richard L. Ray
Cache
Newt Sanders
R. B. Gibbs
S. 26Th
Elsie Glasgow
P. M. Wynn
Truman Pearson
Rush Springs
Elizabeth Young
S. 13Th
Southwestern
Brice Green
Longview
Dennis Green
Fred Shepler
Atlanta
James Paddlety
Anadarko
Gerald Twohatchet
Rose Amos
Wynnewood
Medical
Naomi Paddlety
Aon
Modern Landscape Company
Sheridan Rd
Lawton’s Garden Center
Jim
Love
Stauffer
Vogue
D. J. Minahan
41St Field Artillery
Sfc
SteWard Pearson
James B. Slusher
534Th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Slusher
Sgt. Pearson
534Th
United States
Seventeen
Cbs-Tv
Vicky Vaughn
Reeves
J. P. Stevens
Ao Sonic Sovenscen
R. L. Meadors
Nes
Martin’s Restaurant
Cache Road
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