President urges housing reform and new public housing plan
President Eisenhower backs reorganizing housing agencies to cut inefficiency and endorses much of Albert Cole’s committee recommendations. He urges slum prevention, neighborhood salvage, and a four year plan to build 140000 new public housing units while testing low cost FHA financing with no down payments for eligible families.
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Contro
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Albert M. Cole
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
HHFA
Cole
Eisenhower
Congress
A Eisenhower
Markets Chicago and Oklahoma City farm prices report
Chicago butter held steady with receipts of 1 436 312. Oklahoma City livestock and poultry prices show cattle calves hogs and sheep trading with varied gains and steady or weaker demand. state poultry eggs butterfat and pecan values listed across major Oklahoma points.
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Chicago
Oklahoma City Livestock
Oklahoma City
USDA
State Department of Agriculture Today
Poteau
Shawnee
Vinita
Muskogee
Tulsa
Ardmore
Lawton
Alva
Chickasha
Pauls Valley
Elk
Durant
Thandler
Cordell
Enid
Blackwell
McAlester
Hobart
Laverne
Fairview
Candled Cordell
el Reno
Elk City
Chandler
Kingfisher
Hennessey
Eisat
Pecans
Wynnewood
Kerr's remarks at Lawton forum reveal tax and representation views
Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr spoke at a Lawton Chamber forum detailing debates on taxation, noting Americans question welfare versus past taxation. He defended Oklahoma's strong representation in the Senate, recalled the March 4 inauguration era, criticized rhetoric for brevity, and joked about Rotary membership and drought aid in Texas.
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Oklahoma
Robert S. Kerr
Lawton Chamber of Commerce Forum
Patrick Henry
White House
Andy Jackson
Hermitage
House
Tke
Jong
Pontotac
United States Senate
Turnpike Vote Precinct Results To Be Tabulated
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority seeks up to 1500 per mile for engineering before bond sale. Results will be tabulated by The Constitution Press after polls close and precinct officials urged to call counts. Comanche County viewed as a stronghold with the eastern and western sections key to approval amid plans for Tulsa to Joplin and OKC to Wichita routes.
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Page One
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Constitution
Comanche County
Oklahoma City
Wichita Falls
Tulsa
Jopin
Wichita, Kan
Turner
House
Senate
Free Roads Association
Turnpike Election Earns Big City Speeches Across Oklahoma
In Oklahoma two bills seek to reshape the Turnpike Authority and toll road layout. Gov. Murray will speak at Ardmore rally as campaigns hinge on turnout. Poll hours vary by location with June 1953 election stakes and claims from both sides about economic impact and revenue losses from the Turner Turnpike.
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Grees
Oklahoma City
Ardmore
Johnston Murray
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Tulsa
Turner Turnpike
Phil McMullen
Blackwell
Citizens Turnpike Association
Max Cook
Clinton
Oklahoma
Toto
Cook
U.S. 66
Voting Places List for Ward 5 and Rural Precincts
The document lists voting locations for Ward 5 units including Roosevelt school Lawton View Mission and local churches, plus rural precincts such as Brown hall Cedar Grove school Chandler Happy Hollow and many others like Geronimo school New Hope school Pleasant Valley school Woodlawn and Mineral Wells schools. Also noted are locations in Quanah Fletcher Cache City Hall Nickels store and Shriver store among others.
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Page Vue
Roosevelt
Lawton View Mission
Wisconsin
Baptist Church
16Th
Garfield
Brown
Hall
Sterling
Cedar Grove
If Chandler
Happy Hollow
Crosby No
Geronimo
Crosby
New Hope
Devo
Blue Beaver
Hulen
Pleasant Valley
Indiahoma
Lake No
Stony Point
Medicine Park
Lawrence—Bishop
Lawton
Mineral’ Wells
Scott
Lincoln
Woodlawn School
Dink's Service
Station
Mangan Faxon Baptist
Mangan
Chattanooga
McMasters—Meers
Painter
Post Oak
Quanah—Long Ranch
Richards
Herbert
Fletcher
Elgin
Wichita
Ashton
Zella—Shriver
Cache Town
Cache
Fletcher Town
Nickels
Funeral Rites for Mrs Mildred Cisco Davis in Apache
Special funeral services are set for Mrs Mildred Cisco Davis who died Sunday at her home west of Apache. The service will be Tuesday at 2 p m at the Cache Creek Reformed Presbyterian Church with Rev D C Ward officiating. Born August 1923 near Apache, she married Pfe Custer Davis in 1944 at Apache. Survivors include three sons Mason Custer Jr Howard Gill two brothers Buck Cisco Roy Cisco Apache mother Molly Cisco Apache two sisters Very White Bessie Cisco Apache and grandfather Big Ben Chalestain Apache. Her husband, stationed at Fort Sam Houston Texas, was en route to Apache today per relatives. Burial will be in the Cache Creek mission with Crews Funeral home Apache in charge.
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Apache
Mildred Cisco Davis
Cache Creek Reformed Presbyterian Church
D. C. Ward
Davis
Pfe
Custer Davis
Mason, Custer Jr
Howard Gill
Buck Cisco
Roy’ Cisco
Molly Cisco
Polio fund drive events highlighted for Dimes week
DIMES Continued From Page One describes multiple polio fund drives including a 7:30 p.m. Friday benefit games party by the American Legion auxiliary in Lawton, a Saturday 8 p.m. to midnight dance at the Legion hall, a polio benefit square dance at Fort Sill Indian School gymnasium, and a pancake breakfast fundraiser at two Kater Inn locations. Proceeds benefit the March of Dimes with local volunteers urged to turn in donations. The piece notes a national push behind a 26.5 million dollar polio prevention program and a 75 million dollar vaccine test budget, aiming to curb future needs.
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American Legion Auxiliary of
Lawton
Legion Hall
Lowery-Whitehead Legion Post
Fort Sill Indian School
Southwest District
Square Dance Association
Maryland
Joe Ford
Columbia
Russell-Ford Insurance Agency
Poli
Bowman
National Foundation For
National Foundation
Ada Johnson and Family Return from Texas Visit
Personal note reports Mrs. Ada Johnson and her father Jake Woods returning to 509 N Sixth after a two week trip to Houston visiting relatives. They were joined by Mrs. Johnson's son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Gene Patton and family Angleton Texas and grandchildren Mike and Jane Patton who accompanied them back to Lawton for a visit.
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Ada Johnson
Jake Woods
Houston
Johnson
Gene Patton
Angleton
Tex
Mike
Jane Patton
Lawton
Ex-con admits theft of clothing from Walters and Lawton farms
A 43 year old ex convict arrested for drunken driving in a stolen 1950 Ford near Lawton admitted stealing about 500 dollars worth of clothing from Coy Thomas’s Walters residence on January 7. The suspect’s car held the stolen goods and a shirt dress and a tie were identified as Thomas’s. A Duncan residence yielded about half the loot, and a Duncan jail inmate confessed to being the suspect’s accomplice as well as a separate burglary at the H E Wolf house southeast of Lawton.
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New Orleans
Walters
Lawton
Highway Patrol
C. W. Adams
Clyde Awtrey
Adams
Cotton County
Boyd Vantine
Coy Thomas
Thomas
Vantine
M. T. McCracken
Walters House
Duncan
McCracken
H. E. Wolf
Everett Hale
Hale
Dean to receive Atomic Cannon honors at Fort Sill
Army General Dean, famed for the 280mm Atomic Cannon, will be awarded the Bronze Star and the Order of Saint Barbara. A press conference scheduled for Tuesday has been canceled at his request. He will address officers at Fort Sill at 4 30 p.m. today and 4 30 p.m. Tuesday before departing for Fort Bliss, Texas.
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Dean
Page One
Order of Saint Barbara
Fort Sill
Richard A. Rowlands
Pusan
Arthur Clarke
Euclid
Fort Bliss
Tex
United States
Bricker Amendment Compromise Seen by Senate Leaders
Senate Republican leaders told President Eisenhower they remain hopeful a compromise on the Bricker amendment to limit treaty making powers can be reached. The note of optimism came at their weekly conference with the President after weekend compromise efforts failed.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Bricker
Mitchell Testifies On Taft Hartley Changes
Senate Labor Committee hearings opened with Secretary of Labor Mitchell as the first witness on President Eisenhower's 14 proposed revisions of the Taft Hartley Act. Democrats and Republicans prepared pointed questions on Eisenhower's call for a government secret poll of employees when a labor dispute reaches strike stage.
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Wes Watche
Senate Labor Committee
Mitchell
Eisenhower
Sen Ives
New York
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Senate of the
Rotary Club
Rotary Brothers
Texas
Wsuloes Realtors
Schick
Lewis Jewelry & Loan
See
Roy L. Lewis
Bob Luther
Sheridan Road
Kingsbury
Everest & Jennings
W.F
Bil
Glasgow
Edwards & Edwards
Mrs
Mildred Davis
Tenna
Jeweetry J
Eugene L Bowman
Johns- Manville
Zwaan
Pittsburgh
Farmers Lumber Company
Statul
Ron Stephens
George Glasby
New Mercury
Buster Wyatt
Oklihome City
Radio & Television Service Co
E Avenue
Bendix
Southwestern Radio & Sound
4Th &E Pho
Hewett’s
D Ave
Orville D. Ao
S. 4Th
JO G. Andrews
Wolverton Harware
E Ave
M & D Finance CO
Littlefield Art Service
A. L. Pollard Sporting Goods
Lewis
Millwork and Specialty Co
Brigham Young Agency
Koehler
Brigham Young Park Stovall Ae
Hardy Suggs Music Company
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