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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1963
Page
7
Graveside rites were held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Fairview cemetery for Mrs. Joe A. Wells a former Apache resident who died in Nowata on July 15 Rev B F Jones pastor of the First Methodist church officiated Wells family ran a hardware business in Apache for many years
Norman R Monroe 37 of 1908 Arlington died at 825 am Monday after a long illness. Services set for 3 pm Thursday at Ritter Dalton chapel with Dr Tom Clark and Rev Weldon Rightmer officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Gardens. He married Alta Mae Rayner February 10 1951 in Clinton. He taught at Lawton High School, Beta Tau Beta member, WW II and Korea veteran. Survived by wife and son Felix. parents John and ??? Monroe. three sisters and five brothers. James Richard Copeland 52 and Denver W Copeland 49 die in rapid succession from accidents and illness. Denver killed in a car-truck crash five miles south of Chickasha. James dies later at VA Hospital in Oklahoma City after extended illness. Burial for Denver in Marlow cemetery. James in Highland cemetery Lawton. Funeral home handling arrangements.
London reports Britain will grant home rule to British Honduras with a new constitution taking effect January 1, 1964. A 12 day conference led by Duncan Sandys set terms for internal affairs while London retains defense and external matters. Elections for a two chamber legislature are to be held by year end.
President Kennedy asks Congress to block new railroad work rules until the ICC studies and approves them. If enacted, 10,000 diesel firemen jobs could be cut, with broader layoffs and a potential 600,000 rail workers idle and risk to the economy. Dirksen and Mansfield back swift action as unions threaten a strike after Monday deadline.
In Durant Bryan County Atty R H Mills dismissed Monday two teenage girls alleged to have broken into Mrs Mary Sherman Colbert home and taken a bath. The charges dropped at the request of Mrs Sherman and Baptist pastor Rev Eugene Mormon of Plat ter. The girls from Greeley Colo said they were en route to McAlester to visit relatives. Officers said they bathed in the house while Mrs Sherman was away.
A Dutch treat luncheon at Hotel Lawton Fort Sill announces the Lawton Fort Sill United Fund's Loaned Executive program. Marlin H. Keathley chairs the effort, endorsed by the 100 Plus club, recruiting and training executives loaned by local firms to promote and solicit for the United Fund campaign.
The 3rd Missile Battalion 32nd Artillery launched an Honest John at Fort Sill west range marking the first firing under new commander Lt. Col. Eff W. Birdsong Jr. who says the operation was highly successful. Maj. James T. Heathcock becomes the new executive officer replacing Capt. Paul Madden as S3.
Municipal Judge J Merle Oaks disbursed traffic and public drunkenness cases. Defendants include Kenneth Brumbalow fined 15 for reckless driving and Charles Klink fined 8 for failure to yield. Additional rulings list William Watts Dorris Taylor Oliva Seals Lowell Smith Vernon Sizemore and three public drunkenness fines.
In Los Angeles a 52 week old baby received a work permit though not yet finished with paperwork. The infant must still obtain a Social Security number. The child is Matthew David Smith set to play the son of Abby Dalton on The Joey Bishop Show. California law requires minors to have work permits from local school districts before work.
Spencer Tracy, 62, improved and felt fine at St. Vincent's Hospital after a pulmonary edema episode. He collapsed outside Katharine Hepburn's Malibu Beach home while they planned a picnic and was rushed by private ambulance.
Two more engine companies and a Redondo Beach unit joined Palos Verdes Estates firefighters to suppress a 10 acre fire behind the Palos Verdes fire station. The blaze prompted quick mutual aid as crews worked to control the flames and prevent spread.
The East German Supreme Court sentenced Dr Hans Maria Globke Adenauers top aide to life in prison in absentia for complicity in Nazi exterminations. The trial, held without Globke, is viewed as Communist propaganda aimed at discrediting West Germany.
In a rare display of intergroup aggression, two ant colonies from the same species clash over territory. The confrontation involves coordinated marches, battles over food sources, and shifting dominance shaped by colony size and fortification.
Alpha Theta presents Harem Searem at 8 p.m. on July 26. Performances at 4th and Columbia promise lively stage intrigue.
President Kennedy asks Congress to replace country by country ceilings with a skills and relatives based system. He says quotas are unjust and biased toward Northern Europe while limiting Southern and Eastern Europe and others.
West German Supreme Court convicted and sentenced Heinz Felfe to 14 years, Hans Clemens to 10 years, and Erwin Tiebel to three years for passing FIA secrets to Communist agents. The trio admitted a decade of espionage while FIA operated as a CIA branch.
AP report says Jack Lepley 38 bound over to district court on a murder charge after a preliminary hearing in Tulsa for the July 13 shotgun killing of his wife Della Frances 29.
In Five Oak Green England a man entered a post office Monday swinging an axe and demanded money. Elizabeth Ashby 65 refused and grabbed the telephone causing the assailant to flee.
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