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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1954
Page
12
Pigeonholed postal pay increases for half a million workers jeopardize a broader $2 billion in federal raises and a $245 million postal rate hike. House Rules delays, amid Eisenhower signing concerns over job classification overhaul, push lawmakers toward July adjournment.
A retrospective list marks ten, twenty and thirty years of local events. Wounded service member T Sgt Weldon F Jones of Lawton is noted for a France invasion injury. Sherman Frakes earns pilot wings. E W Marland secures a gubernatorial nomination. John Edward Munson dies in a farm house blaze. Lawton city form of government proposal defeated. Capers include Dillinger reward offer and Scoutmaster Paul Calaway. Local sheriff election results and other regional notes.
An Army notice lists officers and assignments including Lt Col Linus Ward from Governors Island to Washington DC and Capt Jack Williams from Rutherford NJ to Ft Bliss, with numerous other personnel moves at Ft Sill Ft Campbell Kilmer and related aviation detachments. The document notes reform and reassignment of aviation officers and promotions or retirements across multiple commands.
Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall forecasts a larger GOP majority in Congress after the next election. He cites perceived integrity in Washington and a revived national backbone, praising Eisenhower era accomplishments like highways hospitals social security foreign aid the St Lawrence Seaway and civil rights progress while criticizing past scandals and debt. He urged continued effort in 1952 to secure the victory.
In Battle Creek Michigan during the weekend Sunshine Gardens showcased a new nudist fad. The fashion show highlighted a hiking outfit composed of a mosquito net and a spray gun as the latest in nudist wear.
In Mount Holly New Jersey a father playing cowboys and Indians with twin sons fired empty blank cartridges from a breech loading Civil War gun. A wad struck two year old William C Anderson Jr in the throat sending him to Burlington County Hospital in critical condition. Police say William Anderson Sr Marlton was firing blanks as the boys acted out a Indian siege.
The Watonga Retail Merchants Association unanimously endorses the city’s community service group formed to address delinquency problems in Watonga Oklahoma. The endorsement marks strong local business support for the effort.
A Tokyo report details a Kyushu island monument honoring the kappa a river boy mythic creature. The tale describes the kappa with a tortoise body frog limbs and a monkey head whose dish shaped head contains a liquid for strength and who can supposedly turn swimmers inside out.
County registrar Mollie Randolph reports 299 births in June with 150 boys and 149 girls and 43 deaths. For May 234 births and 52 deaths were recorded.
Hal Boyle surveys quotes on liberty from Emerson to Jefferson, Franklin and Wilson. The piece notes the enduring value and risk of freedom, quoting thinkers from Napoleon to Hazlitt, and ends with June 4 reflections on Independence Day and a nod to Jefferson and Adams.
The U S Information Agency launches a cultural affairs section to counter claims that the United States is semibarbarians. USIA chief Theodore C Streibert names Dr Jacob Canter in Havana as cultural affairs adviser to highlight American cultural achievements.
Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater announced scholastic awards for four engineering seniors. Arch M. Cesar Jr. of Eufaula A L Rose of Carlsbad New Mexico and Kerry S Havner of Tulsa received $100 scholarships. Jerald D Parker of Ponca City earned the $500 Hughes Tool Co. award.
In San Antonio Texas Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson urged Americans to resist moral decline and centralized power. His son Chaplain Reed A. Benson of Laneed received his discharge, and Benson told a religious gathering that American success must be understood in spiritual terms.
Enid General hospital received 5000 dollars from the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma to improve the hospital and its nurses' school. The hospital has been under convention control for the past eight and one half months and has spent 19000 dollars on improvements in that period.
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