Social Calendar items for Fort Sill and Lawton area
Fort Sill teen age club runs a Wednesday square dance at 7 p.m. in Building 1105 Up ton Road. Lockett Sunday School at Calvary Baptist church 7 30 p.m. Mrs Alco Mt 2. Christian Union breakfast at 9 30 a.m. Mrs Robert L Brock 1002 D. Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary hosts covered dish luncheon canasta at noon Mrs Jess Stanley 613 Gore. Central Baptist Dorcas class meets 7 30 p.m. Mrs H D Hastings 1405 D. Junior Miss club meets 7 30 p.m. Brownie Sue Robertson 3317 Atlanta. County home demonstration club hosts women’s camp Craterville Park at 7 p.m. Lawton BPW club invited. Auxiliary to Lowery Whitehead post 29 7 30 p.m. business American Legion hall Seventh E Pioneer club 2 p.m. meeting Mrs A O Holliday hostess chair. Sweet Pea Garden club 9 30 a.m. Mrs Dewey Callahan 1109 Kingsbury corsage making and naming a suitable flower. ville Park.
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Central Baptist Church
H. D. Hastings
Brownie Sue Robertson
Atlanta
Craterville Park
Lawton Business & Professional
Lowery - Whitehead
American Legion Hall
Pioneer Club
A. O. Holliday
Sweet Pea Garden Club
Dewey Callahan
Kingsbury
County Home Demonstration Club
Co operation in the church topic in young matron group
Rev. W. S. Parish Jr. spoke on Co operation in the Church at the First Christian Young Matrons meeting held in the church parlor. Mrs. Githen K. Rhoads presided at 7 45 p m with Mrs. Willard Cochran giving the devotional. Refreshments followed the social hour hosted by Mesdames Warren Chrisman and Lee J Woods. Other members present included Mesdames Bill Abbott Charles Baker Ross Baker Robert Dennis E L Godwin Boyd Hoskins Tom E Holland Don Jones LeRoy Lewis Glenn Moore Kenneth Otis Jr Harold Peaster Thomas Porter Alfred Poythress Jack Russell B M Small Ralph Wertz and Louis Yarmuk.
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W. S. Parish Jr
First Christian Young Matrons Group
Githen K. Rhoads
Willard Cochran
Warren Chrisman
Lee J. Woods
Dances Planned by Kappa Gamma Sorority
Rhe Kappa Gamma members met at Rosalie Thomasen’s home to plan two dances. A Sept 1 semi formal or formal back to school dance will be at Hotel Lawtonian with Phil Lehman’s orchestra. A July 14 sock hop is also planned and a Whitaker State Orphans’ home visit was canceled.
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Rhe Kappa Gamma Sorority
Rosalie Thomasen
Lawtonian
Phil Lehman
Whitaker State Orphans
Pryor
Carmen Cox
Tass Drops U S Born Reporter From Washington Bureau
Tass in Washington dismisses its only American-born correspondent Jean Montrcomery without explanation. Georgi Bolshakov, Tass Washington bureau chief, requested June 30 removal from the congressional press gallery list in a formal letter.
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Washington
Tass
Georgi N. Bolshakov
Jean Montrcomery
Congressional
Bolshakov
Tokyo abacus expert beats modern electric calculator in 1946
In 1946 a Tokyo specialist demonstrated speed with an abacus surpassing an expert using a contemporary electric calculator. The feat highlighted traditional mental arithmetic prowess amid advancing computing machines.
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Tokyo
Electronic Brains Need More Human Operators
New York report discusses Sperry Rand UNIVAC and IBM 702, noting a critical shortage of programmers to guide powerful machines. Experts argue logical math language clashes with business language and highlight idioms and context as major hurdles for successful commercial computing. The piece cites GM stock moves and past splits to illustrate corporate finance context.
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New York
Sperry Rand Corp
Univac
International Business Machine Co
Manhattan
Herbert F. Mitchell Jr
Sperry Rand
IBM
Mitchell
Charleyhorse
Charley
Charles
Japanese Boy, 8 Commits Death by Own Action
In Kobe Japan an eight year old second grade pupil killed himself by staying on railway tracks after being scolded by a teacher for playing practical jokes. A classmate said the boy shouted I want to die. The incident followed a punishment given to him and about a dozen others.
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Kobe
Japan
Asahi
General Motors Plans Stock Split
New York GM directors announced a three for one stock split subject to stockholders approval at a special meeting on September 23. GM stock closed at 113.37 after a day rally of 3.75 with prices on the West Coast reaching 118.75 in San Francisco and 121 in Los Angeles.
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Wilmington
Del
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co
New York
General Motors Corp
New York Stock Exchange
West Coast
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Corporation
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Fort Sill
Upton Road
Dorothy Kirsten
John D. French
San Marino
Calif
French
Long Beach
Veterans Hospital
University of California At
Beverly Beauchamp
Sandra Wyatt
Sherry Alexander
Billie Suggs
Barbara Ramey
Sima Stein
Suzanne Silcott
Margie Johns
Shirley Faulkner
Loretta Hartline
Pat Horton
Cracy
Rex Lee
S. 4Th
Sunnybank
Wwe
Catalina
I, Price
Jack & Jill
B. P. Hann
General Motors
Colgate
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