Lawton Urges Prudence In City Budget And Planning
The edition argues Lawton must balance a near 1.2 million yearly city spending by prioritizing necessities over new projects. It notes revenue gaps of about 400 thousand and calls for frugal management, long range planning, and a dollar for dollar approach while acknowledging growth pains and existing needs in police fire park street and water systems.
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Lawten
Lawton
Rome
Metropolitan Park
Fort Sill
Memorial hospital budget signals regional healthcare growth
Memorial hospital in Lawton Fort Sill area reports a record 413000 budget approval, highlighting four years of operation funded by taxpayers and its role as a medical hub for Southwest Oklahoma. Board members and Administrator Bill Love receive praise for expanding services and attracting specialists.
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Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital
Lawton-Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Memorial
Southwestern
Lawton
Bill Love
Go Now Pay Later Credit Travel Popular in U S
Question and answer item notes a trend of go now pay later credit travel gaining traction in the United States. It cites a historical reference asking about adoption of the national anthem and identifies former Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland as the sponsor in 1931.
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The
U.S
Congress
John Charles Linthicum
Maryland
Hospital births and admissions list from regional clinic
Births include Alvin Reufenacht, Shaw, Quick, McLaughlin, Dyer with exact times and weights. Admitted and dismissed patients span many towns and include Mrs Wheeler, Ramey, Speaks, Goode, Mincey, Wardell, Bleiker, and others. Births also noted for Capes and Ezell with times and weights. numerous medical and surgical discharges listed across multiple communities.
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Alvin Reufenacht
H. V. Shaw
E. Gore
Glenn Quick
Donald McLaughlin
S. 13Th
Jack Dyer
Latham
Lucille Wheeler
Medical
R. M. Ramey
Bell
Ed Speaks
Euclid
N. A. Goode
Logan Gensman
Connie Hill
Gore
Frank C. Rice
Kandis Mincey
Howard Mincey
Elm, Medical
W. P. Marshall
Faxon
Sur
City Burglary Thefts Probed
City police investigate two thefts and a burglary during the week end. Burglars stole from Pug and Homer's Tire Recapping Service at Sixth and E, taking about five dollars in small change. A home break attempt at 110642 S Sixth was reported after a torn screen. Tires and wheels were stolen from two cars on 23rd Street and Pollard during the weekend.
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Pug
Homer
Specht
Homer Specht
Ash
R. A. Davis
Bryan Byars
Frank Murphy
John Moore
Alfred Bacon
Arlie Henerson
Pollard
Former Camp Fire Official Here Given Regional Post
Frances Cheadle, former executive director of the Wichita Council of Camp Fire Girls, has been named regional field adviser for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. A native of Oklahoma, she holds a BA from Oklahoma College for Women, Chickasha.
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Lawton
4 Hers Open Annual Refuge Camp At Lake Quanah Parker
Fourteen? actually 155 Comanche county 4 H members begin a three day camp at Lake Quanah Parker in the Wildlife Refuge with recreation work and lessons. Experts will teach teen driving wildlife projects grooming and home lighting. Camp runs three days with enrollment at 10 tomorrow and daily programs including crafts and a big campfire event.
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Comanche County
4-H
Lake Quanah Parker
Wildlife
Wes Miller
Education Department
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Spencer Quetone
Fort Sill
Edna Hennessee
Lawton
Gene Wetzel
Cotton Co-Op
Walters
Tax Returns Due Sunday Reminder For Lawton Area
Lawton residents and Comanche County receive a reminder from IRS representative Joe Kosco that three types of quarterly returns are due by month end. The notice covers excise, withheld income tax and social security taxes and Form 720 requirements for various goods and services. Employers are urged to mail returns promptly to avoid a last minute rush and to file non taxable quarters to maintain records.
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Joe Kosco
Internal Revenue Service
Post Office
Lawton
Comanche County
Kosco
Internal Revenue Office
Oklahoma City Market Update Cattle Hogs Sheep July 25
Oklahoma City livestock trade mixed with cattle close to steady, hogs 25 cents lower, sheep mostly lower. Cattle: high choice heifers 22.00-25.00, steers 19.00-21.00, cows 11.00-12.90, bulls 12.00-19.00, stockers 16.00-20.00. Calves 1020 lb grass fat steers on feeder accounts 8.25. Hogs: No 1-3 17.50-18.00 early, late 17.75 and down, under 180 lb 16.00-17.50. Sheep: spring lambs 18.00-50, shorn ewes 3.00-4.00. Butter markets steady in Chicago with various price levels.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Eight Area Residents Charged With Traffic Violations
County Attorney Manville reports eight local residents faced charges for weekend driving offenses. Joseph Eslick.
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Manville Redman
Joseph Eslick
Davidson
Arvil Roberson
Willington Valdez
Rt. 1
Walters
Jimmy Ray Hutchinson
Snyder
Doris Ann Roach
Johnny Butler
S. 15Th
Ethel Mae Butler
Marvin Cameron
Lunch Hour Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A vintage crossword list with across and down clues for a Lunch Hour puzzle. Includes hints for foods colors and actions with missing letters, spanning simple declarations like notional terms and common nouns to complete a themed grid.
Puzzle Answer List Clue Set Varies By Puzzle Type
A compact guide listing answers for a past puzzle. It includes musical directions Highland Scot painful spots realm Gaelic hero telephone parts fruit rodent Russian mountains pen name of Charles Lamb upon drink heavily Gaelic before.
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Realm
Charles Lamb
Yesteryear and Earlier Local Notices Packaged
A snapshot from past decades notes Alden Lee Muhr, Lawton infantile paralysis fatality, and state board of equalization moves in Comanche County. Cameron College gains $75,000 for a gym. Earlier items include Woesner resigning park board chair, Lawrence named county engineer, highway underpass inquiry at Rock Island crossing, and 30 years back judicial and religious appointments plus oil discovery 13 miles east of Lawton.
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Fletcher
Alden Lee Muhr
State Board of Equalization
Comanche County
Cameron College
E. L. Woesner
Lawton City
E. L. Richardson
Lawton
16Th Judicial District
E. H. Robinson
Central Baptist Church
Paratrooper Capshaw among eight saved from disabled C46
Airman Second Class Bill D. Capshaw of Chattanooga and seven others parachuted to safety from a malfunctioning C46 cargo plane 65 miles from Chanute AFB. The aircraft headed toward Newman Illinois before crash landing on a farm. Capshaw, radio repairman and 1953 Chattanooga High graduate, was part of the 3499th Mobile Training Wing’s Flying Professors.
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Bill D. Capshaw
W. J. Capshaw
Chattanooga
Chanute Air Force Base
Capshaw
3499Th
Mobile Training Wing
Newman
Ill
Brookley
Afb
Ala
Terre Haute
Ind
Air Force
Chattanooga High School
Lowry Afb
Colo
Police Hunt Motorist Clad Only In A Shirt
City police report describes a crude incident in which a Lawton car hop approached a waiting car shortly after 12:56 a.m. Sunday. The driver was clad only in a shirt and the girl could provide only part of the license plate number.
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Lawton
Huge Ceremonial Review at Fort Sill
More than 2,500 troops from top artillery and missile units will pass in review at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Lucas field Fort Sill. Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams will serve as reviewing officer for the Post Ceremonial Review, with the 52nd Field Artillery group in charge and a massed Army band performing.
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Artillery and
Guided Missile Center
Lucasfield
Fort Sill
Edward T. Williams
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
52Nd Field Artillery Group
77Th Army Band
97Th Army Band
522Nd
Sixth Armored Field Artillery Battalion
45Th Transportation Battalion
Field Artillery
300 Get Surplus Foodstuffs Here
Representatives from nearly 300 needy families visited the courthouse to receive free July commodities. County commissioner E L Woesner oversaw the operation expected to finish by 4 p.m. Tuesday. Last Thursday and Friday free food was distributed in the western and eastern districts. July added 296 Indian families to the rolls, previously served by Indian welfare. The month’s offerings totaled 8 000 pounds of beans 5 700 pounds of rice 3 420 pounds of cheese 1 128 4½ pound packages of milk and 1 121 3 pound cans of shortening.
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E. L. Woésner
Allan Pace Buys Enid Radio Station
Allan Page former manager of KSWO radio station purchased KGWA Enid from George E. Failing with unnamed associates awaiting FCC approval. Purchase price undisclosed. Page has managed Oklahoma City Tulsa stations and led the Oklahoma Broadcasters Association in 1952. now manager at KANS Wichita Kansas.
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Allan Page
KSWO
KGWA
Enid
George E. Failing
Failing
Page
Federal Communications Commission
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Oklahoma Broadcasters Association
Kans
Wichita
Kan
City Man Injured In Fight Near Bell Street
Lawton police reported a Saturday night disturbance at 104 E Bell that left David Hooks with three forehead cuts after a wine bottle hit. Cherry Lee Brown 23 E Gore was booked on drink and disturb. she was found by railroad tracks and treated for a cut on her right hand before jail.
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Lawton
E.bell
David Hooks
E. Bell
Cherry Lee Brown
E. Gore
Hooks
Brown
Memorial Hospital
City Woman Home After Attending Father's Rites
Mrs. Louis Huffer of 501 Dearborn returned from Cottage Hill Collin county Texas after funeral services for her father John Wester 73 a retired rural letter carrier who died July 17 in a McKinney Texas hospital from complications after surgery earlier this month Funeral services and burial were held at Cottage Hill near Wester s home at Weston
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Louis Huffer
Dearborn
Cottage Hill
Collin County
Tex
John Wester
Wester
McKinney
Huffer
Weston
Weeds Targeted During Rapid Growth Season
Plants are most susceptible to weed killers during rapid growth and this is the time weeds should be sprayed if possible.
Funeral Rites Planned for Ellie Willeford 49
Funeral services for Ellie C. Willeford 49 of 2204 A will be held at 2 30 p m Tuesday at First Assembly of God with Rev James W Gladney and Rev J L McQueen officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens Becker Funeral home in charge. He died Saturday night after a heart attack at a downtown cab stand. He was a cab driver born in Duncan June 17 1906 and survived by his wife two daughters two sisters five brothers and three grandchildren.
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Ellie C
Whirlaway
Willeford
Lawton
Duncan
Martha, Okla
Lottie Beatrice Grubbs
First Assembly of God Church
9Th
Columbia
Althoria Jones
Gore
Barbara Jean McBay
Oklahoma City
Della Bumpus
Glennie Scruggs
Horace
Elmer
Radio Disaster Group Planned for Comanche County
Richard L. Hawkins of 1408 Bell is appointed emergency coordinator by the American Radio Relay League to form an organized Comanche County amateur radio group. The plan aims to provide emergency communications for dams and disasters, with Lawton-Fort Sill operators meeting August 12 at 7 30 p m in city council chambers.
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Richard L. Hawkins
Bell
American Radio Relay League
Comanche County
Hawkins
Amateur Radio Service
Civil Defense Unit
Lawton-Fort Sill
F. E. Handy
ARRL
Handy
Dam Declared Safe at Municipal Golf Course
City officials said the earthen dam at Municipal Golf Course is adequate to handle water with no seepage or wave wash. City engineer Douglas L. Smith and inspector A. L. Mankin reported to Mayor C. R. Ellsworth after an inspection that the dam is safe, though a gate valve on a 10 inch drain pipe is jammed and nonfunctional.
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Douglas L. Smith
A. L. Mankin
C. R. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Smith
Mankin
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