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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1954
Page
8
New York reports a summer of decision in men’s apparel with debates on walking shorts versus long hose or ankle socks and the rise of synthetic fabrics for hot weather. Casual dress trends, consumer shopping, and resort travel demand signal a brisk season for merchants and the auto and gasoline trades.
Oklahoma City patrols plan a week of policy meetings led by Commissioner Lawrence F. Bellatti. Conferences set for Pawnee Tulsa McAlester Durant Lawton Clinton and Oklahoma City with Assistant Chief William K. Blood. Troopers report radar checks on U S 66 near El Reno catching speeders and a noticeable drop in violators on U S 77 between Norman and Oklahoma City.
Public health nurse Louise Agnew of the County City Health department attended a two day workshop on special training methods for deaf and age children at the University of Oklahoma. The conference, begun in 1951, is jointly sponsored by the university and the state departments of education and health. Agnew serves as school nurse in several local schools and part of the county's schools.
Stillwater Oklahoma A&M College will host a restaurant management short course September 20 to 22. Sponsored by the college and the national and state restaurant associations the program centers on profit potential through customer satisfaction.
Audie Murphy stars in To Hell and Back for Universal International and discusses film choices. He notes cooperation near Yakima Washington for on location work to mirror Sicily Italy and France settings from World War II battles.
Pvt. Edward W. Monzingo, son of Mrs Ed J Monzingo 406 Dearborn, has been assigned to the Antiaircraft Artillery Replacement Training Center at Fort Bliss Texas. He begins his second eight week cycle of basic training including firing light and medium antiaircraft artillery at low and high altitude aerial targets.
The Civil Aeronautics Board schedules oral arguments on Examiner Fredericks recommendation that Central Airlines be authorized for routes linking Tulsa Little Rock Fayetteville Fort Smith Hot Springs Muskogee to Kansas City and Fort Worth to Kansas City via Dallas Paris Fort Smith Fayetteville Joplin. Braniff urged to suspend Muskogee service. Trans-Texas Airways denied. Rep Lucas and Rep Edmondson plan to attend.
In Maine on primary day Sen. Margaret Chase Smith faces challenger Robert L. Jones in a high profile Republican contest. Jones accuses Smith of being undermined by McCarthy while Smith hints at a deliberate planting. Polls close at 7 p.m. EST as voters weigh the two candidates and statewide races.
Leslie Powell, Lawton and New York artist, donates a large oil titled Spring Bouquet to the McMahon Foundation at Mrs. E P McMahon's request. The work will hang in the foundations 716 C building small music room. Powell plans a June departure for New York studies after a month with his father C S Powell. He will enroll in a two month summer term at Columbia Teachers College to pursue a masters degree. Powell holds a B F A from Columbia and has studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts the University of Oklahoma and San Miguel de Allende. He has toured Europe and shows in New York currently with Growth on display at John Myers Gallery and a one man tour by the Artists Guild. A 1954 55 plan includes another New York show and potential landscaping course in Lawton next spring. He helped arrange this weeks exhibition at Security Bank and Trust with the Amateur Artists Association of America and served as judge for a local construction painting competition.
Congress plans a joint tribute to died senators and delegates Joseph R. Farrington of Hawaii and Lester C. Hunt of Wyoming. Farrington died of a heart attack in his office Saturday night after years of pushing Hawaiian statehood. Hunt shot himself at his Senate desk and died four hours later in an emergency hospital.
Col. Our E Sacerdote, a Turin native and Hyde Park High School graduate, is among 197 Army War College graduates. He departs to join the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Italy after completing training at Barracks Pa and Fort Monroe. He served in China Burma India campaigns and returned to teach at Fort Sill and Army War College. He is married to Lillian Yvonne Olson of Lawton.
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