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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1955
Page
8
New carpets unveil contemporary designs and rich colors driven by advances in fibers and textures. Homemakers push manufacturers toward bolder palettes in medium price lines, as textured weaves blend cut and uncut piles with blue beige and beige tones to suggest room color schemes and wall treatments.
Fort Sill activities include a teen age square dance at 7 p.m. in Building 1105 with Paul Tate as caller. The Women’s auxiliary to VFW post 5263 holds an 8 p.m. installation of officers at the VFW hut. Busy Bee club hosts a noon luncheon at Harmon Park with several co hosts and a pot of table service to bring. First Christian teachers conference at 7 30 p.m. in church parlor. Home Demonstration council meets at 10 a.m. in the Civic room of the Security Bank building. Junior Miss club convenes at 7 30 p.m. at Betty Mowery’s residence. Friendship and Beaver Valley Home Demonstration clubs meet at specified times with hostesses named. Reddy Kilowatt square dance at 8 p.m. hosted by Orville Andrews and Gene Wickham with Johnny Robinson as caller.
Inland Steel Co in Chicago offered 23 750 employees who have at least two years with the company options to buy 500 000 shares of Inland stock. The plan allows purchases up to 30 percent of each worker’s 1954 earnings, at a price of 69 75 a share.
Dallas admits involvement in the April 21 Chattanooga bank burglary in Oklahoma. Don ald Eugene Staggs, 20, of Dallas, has asked to be tried in Texas and appeared before U. S. District Judge William Atwell. He is released on $1000 bond alongside co-defendant Fayette B. Bius, who remains at large.
Insurance executives told Washington officials that most hazards of industrial atomic energy can be insured under current practices. They questioned if the government should insure atomic dangers beyond normal coverage. Ten executives from fire and casualty firms reviewed insurance problems for the budding private atomic energy industry at the Atomic Energy Commission’s request.
Oklahoma state Highway Commission opened bids totaling 8 171 487 dollars for 36 highway projects with 243 977 dollars over estimates on 29 of 41. Five projects failed to attract bids. Estimated cost 7 927 509 dollars. Notable bids include Merritt McKnight Construction Co for 171 855 dollars on SH 76 section in Stephens County and Poston Construction Co for 28 319 dollars on Humphrey area in Jackson County.
Fort Sill leadership school graduation honors Caudle Stanford Caudle of A Battery 553rd FA Battalion as top honor graduate among 105 enlisted men in class No 19. Brig Gen Horton awarded diplomas after remarks by Col Williams. Other distinguished grads include Callihan Demdovich Wilson Tase Clingin Gibson and Young Kraut Cowles with Lyle commanding.
In Vincent Alabama Central of Georgia crews cleared a main rail artery after a 29 car derailment where cars filled with butane gas exploded into flames. No injuries were reported and officials estimated damage at two hundred thousand dollars.
Stratford's American Shakespeare Festival opened with pomp and a glamorous gala. Moscow Pravda correspondent Eugene Litoshko toured the crowd, praising Julius Caesar yet cautioning against festival excess. He stressed Geneva talks as the key priority amid the Stratford debut atmosphere.
Four people died instantly and another was critically injured in a head on collision on a hill crest eight miles south of Camden South Carolina. The deceased were Albertis Williams about 20 of Kershaw county William Lee Farmer 21 of Camden Lynus L King of Lincoln Park Michigan and his wife Bernice.
The Shah of Iran has accepted a Russian invitation to visit the Soviet Union. No date has been set.
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