Nigh ABE Subscription Rates Published for Lawton Area
The Morning Press and Sunday Constitution Press list monthly rates for Lawton area subscriptions with 2 percent sales tax on all mail orders. Also notes annual rates for Morning Press and Sunday Constitution Press and Evening Constitution and Sunday Constitution Press outside Southwest Oklahoma, plus policy on corrections and advertising payment.
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Constitution Press
Lawton
Constitution
Constitution-Press
Oklahoma
Destiny Dice Fall: Wars Rise in Biblical Prophecy
A historical quotation cites Isaiah 19 2 about internal conflict and city to city strife. It mentions divine decision by the God of battles and an iron dice of destiny cast from a higher hand, attributed to Bismark. The text blends prophetic warfare with apocalyptic language.
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Bismark
Traffic avalanche overwhelms highways as car numbers soar
A Wall Street Journal roundup warns that highway congestion will worsen as vehicles rise from 60 million to potentially 100 million. Existing roads and planned expressways cannot cope, with bottlenecks and missteps prompting drastic ideas like helicopter towing of wrecked cars. President Eisenhower’s highway plan is viewed as insufficient to meet the crisis.
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The
Wall Street Journal
Hollywood
Los Angeles
New Jersey Turnpike
Eisenhower
Travel Broadens Two New York Leaders This Spring and Summer
Mayor Robert Wagner and Governor Averell Harriman plan European trips this spring and summer. Wagner will study municipal governance and problem solving abroad, while Harriman will inspect a technical assistance program. The journeys include Ireland Iraq and Israel, countries with political resonance at home.
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Robert Wagner
New York City
Averell Harriman
New York State
Wagner
Harriman
Ireland
Iraq
Israel
Origins of mail order merchandising and notable trivia
Montgomery Ward started mail order merchandising in 1872. Heat lightning is real lightning. Rhode Island is the most densely populated state with 748.5 people per square mile. Grover Cleveland was the only U.S. president married in the White House in 1886. Jacob Perkins inspired US stamps and currency as the father of steel engraving. Pakistan remains a self-governing member of the Commonwealth since 1947 and will be a republic after its constitution is adopted. Water spiders spin under water, collecting air bubbles to inflate their nests. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense helped spark American independence.
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Union
Rhode Island
White House
Grover Cleveland
Pakistan
British Commonwealth of Nations
Funeral Rites Set for Charles H. Stricklin in Lawton
Charles H. Stricklin 54 of 913 Monroe died of a heart attack Tuesday evening after his car crashed into a fruit stand at North 23rd and Cache Road. Services at Immanuel Baptist Church Thursday at 2 30 p m with Rev. Garland Anderson officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survived by wife, mother, two brothers, two sons, two daughters and seven grandchildren. Burial arrangements by Pearson Funeral Home Walters.
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Charles H. Stricklin
Monroe
Immanuel Baptist Church
Stricklin
North 23Rd Street
23Rd and
Cache Road
Lawton Funeral Home
Justice of Peace
Woodrow Giles
Garland Anderson
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Pearson Funeral Home
Walters
Alabama
Mentory Stricklin
Waurika
Loyd Stricklin
Lonnie Stricklin
Jordon
Mont
Bill Stricklin
Duncan
C. J. Stricklin
Melvin Patterson
Henrietta
Tex
Jean Kindred
Burial for Harry L. Chappell in Chattanooga
Burial was in Chattanooga cemetery after last rites Sunday afternoon for Harry L. Chappell 68 who died Saturday following a heart attack. Ministers Bill Cawthon and Rev Q O L Jones presided. Bearers were Bill Juddelston Woodrow Patton A A Schumpert Homer Sellers Ben Strecker and Hugh Wilson. Survivors include son Orville Chappell daughter Mrs Lollie Fisher and two grandchildren Loy Ray Chappell and Diana Fisher, all of Chattanooga.
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Chattanooga
Harry L. Chappell
Bill Cawthon
Bill #iuddelston
Woodrow Patton
A. A. Schumpert
Homer Sellers
Ben Strecker
Hugh Wilson
Orville Chappell
Lollie Fisher
Loy Ray Chappell
Diana Fisher
Justice Cinderella Mud Petrol eum Auto Bim Bud Looneyville and Cuzzie
The National Geographic Society places Justice Cinderella Mud Petrol eum Auto Bim Bud Looneyville and Cuzzie as locations within West Virginia in a regional naming note.
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Justice
Cinderella
Mud
Petroleum
Auto
Bud
West Virginia
National Geographic Society
City Police Report Totals Fines, Thefts, Accidents
Police Chief Ralph Hennessee disclosed a June report showing $3,103 in fines collected, 306 arrests, 45 releases, and 83 additional fines. Property theft reached $8,038 with $6,852 recovered. Accidents totaled 106, including 10 with injuries. City Inspector A L Mankin listed June permit income of $550.80 and construction costs across residences remodels movings and utilities.
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Ralph Hennessee
Hennessee
A. L
Charley) Mankin
Identification Tags On Sale In Lawton Oklahoma
Operation Identification began in Lawton this afternoon with O J Toland from Oklahoma City overseeing a trailer at the Comanche County Courthouse square. Tags cost 35 cents for chain and 50 cents for bracelet with proceeds aiding VFW post 1193 and auxiliary community service fund. Proceeds go to veterans groups. Toland and family are present. films of tornado ruins and atomic bomb tests will be shown.
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Lawton
O. J. Toland
Oklahoma City
Comanche County
Toland
VFW and Auxiliary’s Fund For Community Service
Herbert Young
VFW
Blackwell and
Udall
Kan
Nevada
Gerald
Woman Sees Negro Standing At Bed Suspect Arrested
Police hold a Negro man for investigation after a prowler entered 308 Euclid residence about 1:15 a.m. last night while Mrs. Zayne Taylor and her daughter slept. She identified the man, who fled. a later booking occurred, with no charges filed yet. Officers Kelley and Hawkins investigated amid ongoing prowler complaints in the area.
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Euclid
Zayne Taylor
Shoemaker Desegregation Talk At Kiwanis Lunch
Lawton schools superintendent John Shoemaker spoke at Northwest Kiwanis about desegregation and adhering to Supreme Court directives. He pledged to implement integration with minimal disturbance while citing public duty. Mrs. Herd and twins sang. Lt. Col. Stein attended. program chair Paul Atchley introduced the speaker.
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Lawton
John Shoemaker
Northwest Kiwanis Club
Kater Inn No
Supreme Court
Paul Atchley
John F. Stein
AFA Bn
Fort Sill
Kiwanis Club
F. E. Headrick
John Patterson
W. H. Shelton
Newton Irwin
Ted Savage
Wes Miller
Buford Morgan
Bill Abbott
Vernon Greer
Manville Redman
Ted Zook
Walter Smith
Bob Gilbert
Americans buy more than two appliances per person
In the past five years Americans have purchased over two electrical appliances for every man woman and child, signaling rising consumer demand and broad access to household electronics across the population.
Hoover's Last Will: Hoover Commission Ends Its Mission
Former President Herbert Hoover at 81 declares his second commission’s final report on water resources. he anticipates budget savings and tax cuts through a return to smaller government. Democrats and White House avoid committing to enactment, while Hoover remains available for further public service.
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Doris Fleeson
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Commission
Hoover Commission
Hoover
Dems
White House
Congress
Eisenhower speaks on Wenzell Dixon-Yates ties and policy
President says Wenzell’s First Boston financing role in the Dixon Yates project did not shape policy. He dodges a second term question while outlining views on transit strikes desegregation funding minimum wage Congress and simulated martial law during Operation Alert. He notes the need for continuous negotiations to end the Capitol Transit strike and repeats that a dollar minimum wage is not yet necessary.
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Dixon- Yates
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New York
Budget Bureau
White House
Dixon-Yates
First Boston Corp
Eisenhower
Sen. Flanders
R-Vi
Capital Transit Co
Washington
Supreme Court
Senate
Congress
Greer Addition Site Eyed For New Junior High School
Lawton Board of Education set bids and inspection date for a new junior high school site in the Greer Addition. D. Henry Jones named engineer to study a 15 to 20 acre site while bids on lockers pianos acoustical tile and other school items were awarded. Final inspection for the John Adams school in Greer Addition slated for July 14 at 5 pm.
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Lawton Board of Education
Gaylord Noftsger
John Adams
Greer Addition
Board of Education
Noftsger
D. Henry Jones
Greer
John Shoemaker
Lawton Spring and Welding Service
Hamilton
Baldwin
Hardy Suggs Music Co
Lawton
Fowler Paint Co
Fowler
English Furniture Co
Annual Home Demonstration Club Camp Opens Thursday
The ninth annual Comanche County Home Demonstration Club council camp starts Thursday at Cra terville Park with about 40 farm women and roughly 100 BPW members invited for a three day event. Safety lessons, crafts and a ceramics demonstration are planned along with a hospitality picnic and a talent program.
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Comanche County
County Home Demonstration Club Council
Craterville Park
Clara Kelley
Boy Scout House
Business and Professional Women’s Club
HDC
Jimmy Martin
Tommy Perkins
Fire Department
Highway Patrol
Local civic leaders to ride Frisco Meteor trip
Twenty Lawton leaders announced by J C Kennedy will travel on the Frisco Meteor when it departs Lawton July 18 for St. Louis. They will leave Lawton at 2 45 p m and return to Lawton by Wednesday morning, with Kennedy urging others to contact him or the Chamber of Commerce to join the trip.
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Frisco
Lawton
J. C. Kennedy
St. Louis
Kennedy
Chamber of Commerce
Second Fireworks Stand Blows Up Near Lee Street
A fireworks stand near No 2 Lee caught fire and exploded about 10 20 p.m. Tuesday. Firemen said it was the second blast this year. Owner J L Steel lost about 300 in cash and 300 in fireworks. No injuries. Another stand near the safe barn south of Second and Lee blew up Saturday afternoon with total losses about 250.
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J. L. Steel
Inciine
Second Street
Fogging at Holley Furniture Triggers Blazing false alarms
Lawton Central station firefighters spent the July 4 holiday answering about a dozen calls to Holley Furniture at 413 S Fourth as the building was fogged for insect control. Firemen knew the cause but hurried up and down the pole again and again as callers reported fires. The desk staff briefed callers to avoid alarms, with firefighters joking about the climb back up.
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Lawton
Central Station
Holley Furniture
Holley
Power mower stolen from home over holidays
Police records show a green and yellow Excello power mower stolen from C. R. Stone at 310 East C during the holidays. The home theft occurred on either July 3 or July 4, according to the report.
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C. R. Stone
E. C
Lawton Bay Youth Could Lose Suspended Term
Lawton County Attorney Manville Redman said he will file to revoke a 16 year old Lawton youth Marvin Griffin’s two year suspended sentence after Griffin admitted stealing fishing gear and a battery radio. Griffin confessed to taking rods reels a fly rod a Boy Scout ax and other items at Lake north of Lawton and a garage on 550 Carver. An accomplice aged 15 faces Juvenile Court. Police recovered all but one of the rods and reels.
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Manville Redman
Lawton
Marvin Griffin
Grifin
David Wesley
Bell
Reman
Griffin
Carver
S. R. Harper
County Drops Pistol Charge Against Forest Woods
County Attorney Manville Redman dismissed charges of pointing a pistol against Forest A Woods of 2633 H at the request of the landlady Lola Puricelli 1708 Lee Blvd. The incident occurred near Ladell’s Service Station about 2 p m June 30. Woods faces a July 11 City court appearance on illegal possession of liquor.
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Forest A. Woods
Manville Redman
Redman
Woods
Lola Puricelli
Lee Blvd
Puricelli
Ladell
Rail freight share falls from 1926 to 1953
U S railroads carried 75 percent of intercity freight in 1926 but only 52 percent in 1953, reflecting a shift in transportation modes over the period.
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U.S
Target Towing Plane Crash Claims Two Officers
EL PASO authorities investigated Tuesday’s crash of a B-26 target towing plane from Biggs Air Force Base that killed Capt. Elliot S. Neuman 29 of New York and 1st Lt. William Horan Jr. of Providence Rhode Island. The aircraft went down about 15 miles southeast of El Paso International Airport after takeoff and burned.
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Air Force
Biggs Air Force Base
el Paso International Airport
Elliot S. Neuman
New York
William Horan Jr
Providence
R. I
Good Grub Across Puzzle Clues Summary
Puzzle word list with Across and Down clues including baked Virginia on the spear speck musical instrument heraldic band knight title freedoms villages relaxes sloths called spoken pepper and bacon combos. Geraint's wife in Arthurian legend speck crowns calm seniors wiped out compass point series oscillate small weight of India droll mark ahead disturbance arrow partner wend within southern general prefix that which makes old worm corned beef operatic solo bread spread cabbages funeral notice Canadian mountain born.
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Geraint
Compass Point
India
Arrow
Puzzle Answer Key Slice 8 9 10 11 17 19 25 26 27 28 29 31 33 38 40 23 24 41 42 43 44 46 47 48 50
Across and down clues yield a mixed crossword style answer set. items include goddess, toward, soldiers, school book, metric, illness, German city, pleasing, individuals, hay drying action, sprain remedy, scraping symbol, characterizing, name measure, ascends, females abbreviated, Spanish gentleman, threw, curved molding, grinding machine, repetition, toes, ewes, and beverage. fill with standard crossword solutions matching clue hints.
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Germany
Rotarians Organize New President Sets Directives
Rotarians held an organizational session after a noon luncheon Tuesday at the Hotel Lawtonian. Jack Carter, the new Rotary president, presided and assigned committees and issued directives during the meeting.
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Lawtonian
Jack Carter
Rotary
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