Angus Sale Plans Set for Wichita Mountains Event
Final plans for the second annual Wichita Mountains Angus sale are in place for April 13 at the Comanche county fairgrounds. Eighty five entries were received before the deadline from breeders across southwestern Oklahoma and northern Texas. The Wichita Mountains Angus association sponsors the sale which shifts this year to include a section for registered heifers and cows, replacing last year’s larger commercial division. Officers led by Wesley Silk of Lawton will finalize details, with Elton Hayes, Duncan, Lawrence Banks, Lawton, and Al Green, Sale manager, also listed.
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Comanche County Fairgrounds
Oklahoma
Texas
Southwest
Wichita Mountains Angus Association
Wesley Silk
Lawton
Elton Hayes
Duncan
Lawrence Banks
al Green
Band Clinic Plans Nearly Completed
Plans are nearly complete for the first band clinic of the Southern Oklahoma Band Directors association to be held Feb 2 at Cameron College. James Matthews, Lawton high band director and association president, urges all schools to attend a 9 o'clock meeting on campus.
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Southern Oklahoma Band Director’s Association
Cameron College
James Matthews
Lawton High
Oklahoma
Cameron
Archeologist Visits Snyder Seeks Indian Relics for Museum
C R Steen of Santa Fe a National Park Service archaeologist visited Snyder residents Jerry Soukup Ben Walker and Frank Rush Jr at Craterville Park to locate early Indian relics for the University of Oklahoma in Norman is requested to contact Dr. Robert E Bell anthropology department if they have items.
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Snyder
C. R. Steen
Santa Fe
N. M
National Park Service
Jerry Soukup
Ben Walker
Frank Rush Jr
Craterville Park
Robert E. Bell
Department of Anthropology
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Glad Tidings thrills City Drama Guild crowd
A crowd of about 800 drama fans roared with laughter at the Civic Drama Guild production of Edward Mabiley's Glad Tidings. Praised for clever lines and brisk pacing, the cast featured Phyllis Manning and Wendell Mayes in top roles, with a noted reunion for Mayes with old friends from 1942.
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City Drama Guild
Civic Drama Guild
Edward Mabiley
Jenny
the Fledermans
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee Jones
Phyllis Manning
Wendell Mayes
Conrad Osborne
Maude
Jean Hagerman
Judith Lee
Nancy Schnabel
Consort Of Farouk Charged In Jelke Society Probe
A New York show girl Diane Harris 21 held on 25000 bail as a material witness in the Minot Jelke vice ring case. Prosecutor Anthony Liebler says she prostituted and sent proceeds to Jelke while traveling Europe with a wealthy foreign husband and later with a Farouk era procurer. He alleges she joined a tour of the continent and received jewelry and an Italian sports car. Harris denies prostitution.
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Jelke Society
New York
Egypt
Europe
Minot Jelke
Diane Harris
Anthony Leibler
Oleo
Mickey
Jelke
Liebler
General Sessions
Louis Capazzoli
Miss Harris
Cafe Society
Cleo Heir
Pulley Boy
Twenty five WACs Arrive to Form Fort Sill Battery
Twenty five WACs were scheduled to arrive late Saturday at Fort Sill to join the WAC Battery 4051st ASU activated earlier in the week. The unit aims for 200 members at full strength, with Lt. Elizabeth Cullison serving as commanding officer.
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Fort Sill
WAC
Rites for Union Vet 106 Magee Held in Los Angeles
William Allen Magee 106, one of America’s last Union Army veterans, died Friday in Los Angeles. Burial rites will feature Battle Hymn of the Republic and Tent ing Tonight, tunes he loved from his days as a bugler with General Sherman’s march to the sea after running away from Ohio at age 13.
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Los Angeles
William Allen Magee
America
Ohio
Sherman
Policemen's Ball Planned by Lawton Fraternal Order
Lawton's newly organized Fraternal Order of Police with over 30 members will sponsor a Policeman's Ball on February 20 at the Central fire station auditorium. Proceeds fund new uniforms. an 8 piece local band is secured. Jerry Paul presides, with A D Graves as vice president and other officers named.
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Order of Police
Central Fire Station
Policemen’s Lodge
Jerry Paul
New Order
A. D. Graves
Cleo Stout
Walter Asbery
Norman Garrison
Pete Fuller
Lela J. Wilson
Pat McHenry
Tom Phipps
Trophy for first Memphis cotton bale in 1850s a brandy demijohn
In Memphis Tennessee during the 1850s the annual prize for sending the first bale of cotton to market was a demijohn of brandy, a trophy reflecting the era's customs and commerce.
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Memphis
Tenn
Former Resident Amazed At Huge City Expansion
A former Lawton resident visiting after 30 years expresses astonishment at Lawton's growth. Mrs. E W Bessett Sr of Corpus Christi tours with four sisters in law and several nieces and nephews. The Bessett family left Lawton in 1924 for Corpus Christi where two sons now live.
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F. H. Wyatt
Bessett
Corpus Christi
Arlington
Eber W. Jr
Navy
Washington, D. C
Jack D
Fifteen Freight Cars Derailed In Ark
Fifteen cars of a Missouri Pacific freight train derailed near Bald Knob Arkansas, tearing up over 600 feet of track and delaying main line traffic about three hours. No injuries were reported, and officials attributed the derailment to a dragging brake beam. Traffic was to resume around noon.
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Bald Knob
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Mo-Pac
St. Louis
Little Rock
Cameron Grad Classes Are Set For Second Semester
Cameron college announces the second semester graduate study center will open Tuesday evening offering audio visual education curriculum development and psychology courses under Oklahoma A and M college. The program can count toward a master’s degree in education and other fields with counselor approval. Up to four hours may be taken per semester totaling 16 local credits toward a master’s. Teachers principals superintendents and other individuals may seek further information and preliminary counseling Tuesday evening at the college from 5 30 to 9 30 p m.
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Cameron College
Oklahoma A. &.M. College
Stillwater
Gordon L. Paine
Dartmouth to stage 43rd annual winter carnival
Dartmouth College at Hanover New Hampshire will stage its 43rd annual winter carnival this year. It is the oldest such celebration in North America.
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Dartmouth College
Hanover
N.H
America
Life Sentence But No Ticket
New York patrolman Frank P. Baker Jr. found a car with a note saying the occupants were getting married. David Jackier and Gloria Olson, a 24 year old model, emerged. Baker joked about a life sentence and did not issue a ticket.
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New York
Frank P. Baker Jr
David Jackier
Gloria Olson
Baker
Ernie Pyle Fund To Aid UNM Journalism Teaching
Eight years after his death Ernie Pyle remains influential in journalism. Tonight the Scripps-Howard Ernie Pyle Fund awards $4,000 to the University of New Mexico to advance practical newspapering, drawn from royalties from his war writings.
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Albuquerque
Ernie Pyle
Scripps- Howard
University of New Mexico
Scripps - Howard
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