Lawton School Board Approves $3 Million Budget
The Lawton school board unanimously approved a record 1937 38 budget of 3,136,440 dollars. It adds 622,988 to prior levels to cover teacher salaries, construction costs at Tomlinson Junior High, utilities, and new buildings. The plan outlines major items including maintenance, transportation, capital outlay, and real property costs, with 192,000 earmarked for new buildings and 500 set for warrants interest. An additional action awarded a boiler installation contract for Fort Sill Post Children’s School to Everett Thompson Plumbing and Appliance Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Cook
Lawton
Whi Yean
Icre
Justin Hunts
Latel Hodasy
Tomlinson Junior High
Bonitz
Inc
Maintion
Everett Thompson Plumbing and Appliance Co
Fort Sil
Eisenhower calls for state share in drought relief costs
President Eisenhower proposed that states pay at least 25 percent of drought relief costs, with federal aid expanded and kept local. He urged Congress to authorize funds, noting the need for local control and greater state participation, as emergency programs continue with modifications. The plan covers grazing and feeding aid, emergency credit, and a deferred livestock program pending survey results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Enhower
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Loral
Great Plains
Plains
Cloudy Skies To Hit Area After Heavy Oklahoma Rain
Heavy rain drenched most of Oklahoma on Monday with Wilburton recording 1.73 inches the Boise City area seeing about 10 inches of snow and drifts up to three feet on U S 64. Rain ends tonight as the state clears to partly cloudy skies through Wednesday with limited temperature change in Lawton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Lewton
Wilburton
Buffalo
Woodward
Shattuck
Boise City
U.S
Lawton
Polio Victim Beats Death With Lifesaving Lung Rescue
In Mpeaphis Tennessee 2 year old polio patient Robert Thorne faced a 15 minute limit without his iron lung. A six hour emergency effort ensued as firemen, police, ambulance crews, and a moving van were used to transport and restore the breathing apparatus. After multiple lung transfers and repairs, Thorne settled in a functioning iron lung at 8 pm and described it as a real workout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mpeaphis, Tenn
Robert Thorne
Thorne
Oreligs
Lung
Lawton Boards approves five portable classrooms plan
Lawton Board of Education voted unanimously to construct five 28 by 32 foot portable classrooms to ease elementary overcrowding in the Northwest district. The sheet steel buildings will be placed at Taft Jefferson and Jackson schools at an estimated cost of 30000 dollars, with one moved from Roosevelt school. Roosevelt already opened two portables in 1956. foundation will stay to allow future expansion.
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Lawton
Lawton Board of Education
Taft, Jefferson
Jackson
Roosevelt
Northwest
Schvor
Ment
Ster Frymie
DAR Launches 48th Oklahoma State DAR Conference at Hotel Lawtonian
Oklahoma DAR state regent Mrs Earl Toster presided at the 9 30 a m board meeting launching the 48th annual state conference at Hotel Lawtonian Delegates arrived for registration in the Comanche room with a later Artsillery room session Distinguished guests include Mrs Frederick A Groves president general and state regents from Texas and Arkansas Luncheon at noon in Geronimo room with a 2 pm memorial service at St Andrews Episcopal Church a 3 30 pm conference tea McMahon Foundation building and 6 pm Past State Officers club dinner Official opening at 7 45 pm in the McMahon Foundation assembly Mayor C R Ellsworth to speak with greetings by the president general and visiting regents Fred R Harris to deliver Freedom Begins at Home address
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucile Potter
Earl Toster
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
The
DAR
Lawtonian
Oklahoma
Comanche
Artillery Room
Frederick A. Groves
Washington, D.C
National Society
Felix Irvin
Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas Society
Harold C. York
Arkansas Society
Geronimo
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
McMahon Foundation
C. R. Ellsworth
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahorma
Foster
Fred R. Harris
Lawton
Harold W. Hallett
Lawton Dar
Top Teamster Offers Solons Union Records
Washington 12 A top Teamsters official offered to turn over the union headquarters records to Senate investigators. John F English, international secretary treasurer, spoke with Robert Kennedy as Kennedy sought financial and other records, with English promising to furnish subpoenaed items. Beck, in Europe, was denied credentials to attend a world labor meeting in Hansburg, Germany. Kennedy said Beck had not yet responded to a request for personal financial records dating from 1950.
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Washington 12
Teamsters
Dave Beck
Senate
John F. English
Robert Kennedy
Herbert Thatcher
Kennedy
Oregon Alliance of
Beck
Europe
Hansburg
Germany
Mitchell
Failirg
Asts
Greek Officers Tour Fort Sill On Two Day Visit
Lt. Gen Theodosios Papathanasiadis commanding general of c Corps Greece and seven senior officers arrive at Lawton Municipal airport for a two day Fort Sill tour They will tour the U S Army Artillery and Guided Missile Center and dine with Exall English at his Fort Sill Boulevard home The visiting party includes Maj Gen Theodoros Broumidis Col Dimitrious Moustakovoulos Col Christos Karayiannis Col Konstantinos Tsolakas Col Vasilios Marantes and Lt Col George Kotsonis
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodosios Papathanasiadis
Greece
Lawton Municipal Airport
Fort Sill
U.S Army Artillery
Guid Jed Missile Center
Theodoros Broumidis
Dimitrious Moustakovoulos
Christos Karayiannis
Konstantinos Tsolakas
Vasilios Marantes
George Kotsonis
Caudle Connelly Given Two Year Terms in Case tied to Truman Era
Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, longtime Truman administration figures, were sentenced to two years in prison and fined 2500 each for conspiring to defraud the government. Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye denied a new-trial motion citing the late Judge Rubecy M. Hulen. The coroner could not determine if Hulen’s death was suicide or accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Louis
Matthew J. Connelly
T. Lamar Caudle
US. Dist
Gunnar H. Nordbye
Rubecy M. Hulen
Helen
Connelly
White House
Truman
Candle
Justice Department
Turan
College Sex Morals High Study Shows
CHICAGO A survey of American college students indicates systematic cheating on examinations is common at many large colleges. The study for the 12th National Conference on Higher Education cites high levels of cheating while personal conduct on sexual morality remains conventional. It notes variations by institution, with Cornell and Chicago cited as examples, and asserts higher education tends to produce conformity to college norms rather than universal honesty.
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Chicago
Philip B. Jacob
University of Pennsylvania
Jacob
University of Chicago
Cornell University
Ithaca
Three Promotion Events Planned by Lawton Chamber
Lawton chamber of commerce retail committee schedules three merchandise promotional days for 1957. The dates are May 16-17, August 15-16, and November 14-15, announced by committee chairman Jack Raulston. The seven‑member committee plans the events and a weekly family night on Thursday evenings.
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Lawton Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Jack Raulston
Dave Zorbis
Dean Paramore
Loyd Lowry
Jack McBee
Ben Stein
Jay
RAF Airplane Rams Houses in Crash Killing 17
A Royal Air Force Beverly transport crashed near its base at Drayton England killing 17 occupants including 15 airmen. Three crew thrown clear sustained injuries. The tail hit a farmhouse trapping a woman who was rescued.
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Drayton
England
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Abingdon
Matta
London
John Dawson
Dawson
Ilj
Colonel Accused of Security Lapse in Court Martial
Col. John Nickerson Jr a 1938 West Point graduate and missile expert at Redstone Arsenal Huntsville Alabama is ordered to stand trial by court martial on charges he released secret memorandums to unauthorized persons Five copies were found with unapproved readers though investigators say none left the United States Trial is slated to begin within six weeks Lt General Thomas F Hickey announced the case noting the memorandums criticized Secretary Wilson and the joint services guided missile policy
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Atlanta
Hedstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
John Nickerson,Jr
West Point
Redstone Arsenal
Thomas F. Hickey
3Rd Army
Nickerson
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Navy
Air Force
Thousands Of Opponents Rally In Jerusalem to Demand Ben-Gurion Resign
Several thousand rightist demonstrators gathered in Jerusalem to protest Israeli troop withdrawals from the Gaza Strip and Aqaba Gulf coast and to demand Premier David Ben-Gurion's resignation. Police and frontier units were deployed, with barricades and first aid stations set up as banners declared "Tomorrow Jerusalem."
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Jerusalem
Ben-Gurion
Tommorow
Gaza Strip
Aqaba Gulf
Sformed
David Ben-Gurion
Egypt
Iih
Pariament
Frontier
Hert Pady
Zion Square
Parliament Building
Bert Gurion
L ‘Avish
Sinai
Gaza
Washington
Sde Boker
Negeb Desert
Ben-Curie
U. N
Sinai Peninsula
Sharm el Sheikh
Agata Gulf
Rafa
Khan Yunis
Chief Eyes Arizona Trip
President Eisenhower weighs a warm dry climate trip to ease a lingering cough from a cold tied to his second inaugural parade. White House press secretary Hagerty said no final decision has been made and a trip would not start before the weekend, with Tucson mentioned as a possibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Tucson Ariz
Teeson
Hagerty
Clan Clears Out After Mugging Swindle
Eight members of a nationwide clan of professional swindlers hit Lawton Monday evening leaving for parts unknown after three women were arrested and later released by city detectives. Detectives sought remaining five as a Ponca City stop was planned, with the gang leaving town within hours after the arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Atteberry
S. 23Rd
Otis Waldron
Cleo Stout
Johnny West
Waldron
Ponca City
Traiter Court
Lawton
Huneo
Swindle
Fage 2
Col
Dulles Seeks Quick End to Suez Blockade
Secretary of State Dulles said Egypt has slowed opening of the Suez Canal until all Israeli troops leave the Gaza and Aqaba Gulf areas. He forecast the canal could reopen within about 10 days and urged shipping to Aqaba with U S guidance to decide timing. He indicated aid to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Israel may resume soon on a country by country basis, tied to Egypt’s response to withdrawal and canal opening. Dulles planned to attend SEATO talks in Canberra and noted unity with West German Foreign Minister Bretano.
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Washington
Dulles
Egypt
Suez Canal
Israel
Aqaba
Ash
United States
Gulf E Aqaba
Gaza
Aqaba Gulf
Strait of Tiran
Gulf of Aqaba
Jordan
Syria
Seuz Canal
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Canberra
Australia
SEATO
Indonesia
Sukarno
Heinrich von Bretano
Och Paget
Col
Krick Convinces Some Doubters in Oklahoma City Rain Surge
Cloud seeder Irving Krick of Denver, under a contract to boost rainfall feeding Oklahoma City, likely swayed skeptics as heavy rains drenched the North Canadian River watershed supplying Lake Anton and Oklahoma City. Snow reached up to 0 inches in spots of the Panhandle while most of the state saw rain or trace amounts, with over 31 silver iodide generators in western Oklahoma and surrounding states. A meteorologist from Eric’s Coffee directed conditions, and within a day of activating generators in Elk City and Gatewood, more than an inch of rain fell, with many generators spread from Maysville to Borger and beyond.
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Oklahoma City
Irving Krick
Denver
North Canadian River
Anton Lake
Highway Department
Panhandle
Felt
Oklo
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Erics’soffee
Elk City
Gatebo
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State Dar
Oklahoma Society, Daughters of American Revolution
Earl Foster
Caudle
RAF
Arizona
Suez
Krick
Maysville
Rush Springs
Temple
Cache
Snyder
Anadarko
Alfalfa
Hobart
Mangum
Cheyenne
Custer City
Leedey
Guymon
Alva
Ringwood
Hennessey
Guthrie
Prague
Macomb
Walonga
Fargo
Wheeler
Canadian
Lefors
Borger
Stratford
Booker
Hugeton
Coldwater
Kam
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