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Newspaper

Lawton Constitution

Location

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Jul 27, 1954

Page

5

Love Life Of Pigs Note Confuses Senate Letter

Washington gossip item notes a misaddressed envelope to Senate Majority Leader Knowland with a clipping about the love life of pigs. It also mentions Vice President Nixon admitting he does not own a clip-on bow tie and the Army microfilming 11,000 file drawers into 55 cabinets. The Pan American Union reports Crusoe Island losing vegetation to goats.

Washington Senate William F. Knowland Robert Knohland Senate Ouffice Washington, D.C Richard Nixon California Army Adjutant General's Office Pan American Union Daniel Defoe

Congress Visitors Nap in Gallery After Shooting

Letters from lawmakers to hometown papers note guests are admitted to the visitor galleries. After a shooting that wounded five congressmen on the House floor, a guest must see a senator or congressman. A guide woke a congressman's family nap, while others dozed behind their newspapers as debate on uranium continued.

Congress Antiso

Two New Successes Based In Cancer Fight

At the sixth International Cancer Congress in Sao Paulo Brazil doctors reported two notable advances. Dr Robert McWhirter described a conservative surgery plus daily three week X rays for breast cancer that saves many lives and avoids extensive chest wall surgery. Dr Jeanne Bateman presented bioTEPA a drug that extends life and maintains activity in several cancer types when injected into or near tumors, though not a cure.

Sao Paulo Brazil Robert McWhirter Royal Infirmary Edinburgh Scotland McWhirter Jeanne Bateman George Washington University Washington, D.C Bateman

Jets Bother Cows Fight U S Government Over Runway Noise

In Glendale Arizona a group of farmers sued the United States for 350000 claiming Luke Air Force Base jets near the runway reduce milk yield and butterfat, disrupt cattle feeding, slow fattening, and make farmhouses unsafe and noisy with workers fearing for their lives.

Glendale Ariz United States Luke Air Force Base

Identical outfits mark funeral for polio victim triplet

Detroit ten year olds Judith and Joyce Crocenzi will wear matching white nylon blouses and blue white striped skirts for Jeanne Crocenzi who died of polio last Saturday. The sisters say the identical dress will be worn at today’s funeral service.

Detroit Judith Joyce Crocenzi Jeanne

Sanity Test For Priest Stabber Set In San Francisco

A 37 year old woman Miss Josephine Avanzino stabbed Father I C Cronin during mass and was taken to the psychiatric ward after the attack. Police report her mother Natalie Avanzino says she has been mentally ill since age four though she is religious. Father Cronin said he had never seen the woman before and doctors noted the wound was about an inch deep and he is in very good condition.

San Francisco Josephine Avanzino San Francisco Hospital I. C. Cronin Father Cronin Sarang S Ae Natalie Av St. Mary's Hospital Avanzino

Yesteryear notes from The Constitution decade by decade

A compact retrospective lists ten, twenty, and thirty years of local notes. It recalls Travis E Stinnett returning to duty aboard a submarine after a visit with his mother Mrs George Stinnett S Sgt Isidro S Valdez Jt Lawton among Icelanding American pilots. Joe Hennessee finishing Marine boot camp. Freeman Richardson’s appendectomy. Chancellor Dollfuss’s assassination in Vienna. Juliet Johnstone elected 4 H secretary. Nelson Walton at Annapolis. Sara Sasser wedding to Julius Johnstone. Klan battles in a 1930s primary. ROTC camp shifts at Fort Sill. H H Fowler’s job change. and an Arkansas Guardsman injured at Fort Sill.

Travis E. Stinnett Elgin George Stinnett Isidro S. Valdez Lawton Iceland Joe Hennessee Freeman Richardson Englebart Dollfuss Austria Vienna Juliet Johnstone Nelson Walton M. C. Walton Fort Sill U.S. Naval Academy At Annapolis Sara Sasser Julius H. Johston CMTC H. H. Fowler Electrical Merchandising Co Arkansas National Guardsman

Boy Tames Bear With Nose Nudge At Zoo

Nine year old Leonard Radermacher proved his bear challenge at Indian Boundary Park Zoo by crawling under a rail and offering the 400 pound animal a peanut through the cage. The bear bit his hand but the boy says he escaped by poking the bear on the nose with his other hand and the bear released.

Chicago Leonard Radermacher

Going Going Gone

Currituck County prison inmates were unaccounted for after a Hertford Currituck county baseball game. The batter hit a long high fly as three Currituck fielders kept running.

Ahoskie N. C Currituck County Hertford Currituck Counties

Farmers Probe Wetback Roundup Across Rio Grande

Lower Grande Valley Farm Bureau directors on Monday urged a probe into a roundup of deported aliens from the Rio Grande to Mexico. A second resolution demanded Border Patrol return money collected from the aliens. Patrol had charged $10 for a 750 mile bus trip to El Paso, a practice the chief said was halted by Washington orders.

Rio Grande Mexico Lower

Maybe Next Time He'll Believe Signs

Oakland police officers intervened when Russell A. LaPlaca 26 smoked on a bus in defiance of a no smoking sign. Inspector William G. Martin and Inspector J C R McDonald confronted him, they showed badges, and Russell bailed out posting 25 dollars for smoking on a public coin at Southern Station.

Oakland Calif Russell A. LaPlaca Russell William G. Martin Martin J.C.R. McDonald Southern Station

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