Cityan Injured In 2 Car Crash
A Lawton woman, Rita Gray Wilson, about 24, of 1514 Bell, was seriously injured around 12:40 p.m. in a two car collision at Ninth and Gore. Wilson was taken to Southwestern hospital with shock and internal injuries after her Ford struck a utility pole. Alva Ludrick, 808 Euclid, driving a northbound 1951 Dodge, was uninjured. damage totaled about $1,000 to the Ford. Officer Kenneth Stradley led the investigation.
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Rita Gray Wilson
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Southwestern Hospital
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Euclid
Wilson Auto
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Sooner Motor Company
Kenneth Stradley
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Ludrick
Butter Market Update from Chicago
Chicago butter market steady with receipts totaling 1,469,593. Wholesale buying prices hold steady with 93 score AA at 56.73, 92 A at 56.75, 90 B at 54.50, 89 C at 25. CARS show 3.B at 55 and 89 C at 33.35.
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Chicago
Trains Destroyed in Fatal Wrecks Near Clovis NM
Eight Clovis residents die as two trains collide and burn beside a switch. Eastbound engineer E W Bell, E G Abernathy, head brakeman W F Adair die. Westbound engineer J O Canipe and brakeman J W Fryar also killed. Three injured, fire crews from Clovis Vaughn Fort Sumner battle inferno for hours.
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E. G. Abernathy
W. F. Adair
J. O. Canipe
J. W. Fryar
W. B. Hester
C. C. McDaniel
D. Moreland
Clovis
N.M
Vaughn
Fort Sumner
Trains collide in New Mexico derail 25 cars in wreck
In New Mexico 36 miles east a high speed eastbound freight struck a west bound 132 car train. Fire crews fought flames for hours before gaining control. Officials said it would take at least a day to clear wreckage, though service continued. Twenty five freight cars derailed, piled into a space about a block long per Fort Sumner Fire Chief Al Turner.
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N.M
Santa Fe Railroad
Fort Sumner
al Turner
Dixon Yates Money Bill Nears Vote
The Senate considers the Dixon Yates power line funding bill today. The controversy has cooled since last year when the contract fees symbolized the public versus private power clash and sparked a two week Senate debate.
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Washington
Senate
Five Day Heat Wave Forecast Across State
A hot spell is forecast for the next five days with temperatures Wednesday through Sunday averaging well above normal. Normal highs reach mid 90s and lows about 68 to 70, with Lawton area seeing highs near 98 and tonight’s low around 75. Today’s highs are near 95 as the 11 am reading showed 82 and Monday topped 95.
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Lawton
Chronically ill in U S mostly under age forty five
A study shows more than half of chronically ill Americans are younger than 45. Researchers highlight early onset of long term conditions and implications for health systems and policy.
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The
United States
Identification Tags Readied for Lawton Campaign
Operation Identification will run in Lawton Wednesday and Thursday with a trailer at the Comanche county courthouse to make adult and child ID tags for 30 cents. Veterans of Foreign Wars leader Herbert Young said proceeds benefit the VFW and auxiliary community service fund. Tulsa civil defense director QO. J. Toland will supervise, and films of Blackwell and Udall tornado ruins plus Nevada bomb tests will be shown.
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Herbert Young
Veteran of Foreign Wars
Comanche County
QO. J. Toland
Civil Defense
Tulsa
Young
VFW and
Auxiliary
Fund For
Blackwell
Udall, Kan
Nevada
Capital Ceremony Attended By Rust Mayor Ellsworth
Raymond Rust and Mayor C R Ellsworth attended a capital ceremony in Oklahoma City on Monday for swearing in 78 Army recruits signed through Operation Independence. The VFW endorsed the drive as a youth information campaign. Rust later met E H Babe Meeks to plan a state itinerary reviving and organizing VFW units this month.
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Raymond Rust
State Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
C. R. Ellsworth
Oklahoma City
VFW Department
VFW
Meeks
Cityan's Insurance Complaint Brings Hearing By Board
The State Insurance Board will hold a public hearing on July 10 regarding Allen J. Bilbrey Lawton complaint that T. J. Bettes Co. charged a $15 service fee to switch fire insurance. Bilbrey charges the fee was to prevent mortgagors from changing insurers and created an unauthorized premium on the original policy. State Insurance Commissioner Joe Hunt noted inquiries from the Justice Department about possible restraint of trade.
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Lawton
Allen J. Bilbrey
Elm
T. J. Bettes Co
Joe Hunt
Federal Justice Department
He Got Himself Fired For The Pay
A man named Norman White, 29, is fired from a job within hours after being hired. The same pattern repeats as he collects a week’s pay each time. In a city court he was revealed as the caller and imprisoned for eight months for obtaining money by false pretenses.
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London
White
Norman White
Norman
Trooper Hearing Set Wednesday in Oklahoma City
Hearing for Bud Williamson suspended highway patrol trooper will begin tomorrow morning in Oklahoma City. The process has been postponed five times amid investigation of a county road automobile accident involving a Faxon farmer and a Lawton bootlegger. Williamson faces charges of making an improper accident report as about 30 Lawton Faxon area residents were subpoenaed.
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Bud Williamson
Oklahoma City
Williamson
Faxon
Lawton
Turks Round Up Bulgarian Spy Ring
Istanbul police say a Bulgarian vice consul Georgi Barkanoff Tcholakoff and Bulgarian Turkish origin Ali Demiroff were arrested after a midnight bridge meeting. A third man is in custody as more arrests are feared. Police seized documents proving a Communist spy ring in Turkey.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Alaeddin Erish
Georgi Barkanoff Tcholakoff
Ali Demiroff
Demiroff
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