Elgin Stock Show Winners Selected
Elgin's first annual district Free Fair and stock show ended Tuesday night. Over 140 animals were entered and entrants won over $600 in cash prizes. Held in the Old Gin buildings loaned by George Ezell, the two day fair drew 300 spectators as plans call for expansion including more exhibits and an adult division. Marvin Bicket, vocational agriculture instructor for Lawton High.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ELGIN
George Ezell
Marvin Bicket
Lawton High
Hackney Leader Deeply Involved In Local Education Groups
Hackney a H. S. graduate and SMU alumnus serves as Marshall schools superintendent. He sits on the East Texas Area Council Boy Scouts board and Harrison County Red Cross board, participates in the Central East Texas Fair and Community Concert in Harrison County, and helps the crippled children school. He is an Episcopal lay reader and holds multiple education and civic memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Methodist University
Marshall Schools
East Texas Area Council of Boy Scouts of America
Harrison County
Texas Association of School Administrators
Texas State Teachers Association
The
Parent-Teacher Association
Rotary Club
Arab–Jordan tensions and Egyptian led Arab bloc seek unified command
The report notes Arab leaders including King Hussein of Jordan applauding the dismissal of British General Glubb from the Arab Legion, while King Faisal of Iraq and allied states push for a unified 20 000 man force under regional command. Jordan rebuffs Britain's recall of officers and affirms maintaining service terms. In Israel, Ben-Gurion faces a no confidence vote as Herut party opposes preventive war, and the piece moves to agricultural fair coverage in Elgin and Lawton with prize winners in fat stock and dairy shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iraq
Faisal
Jordan
Hussein
John Bagot Glubb
Jordanian Arab Legion
Britain
Glubb
Amman
Hussein Khalidy
Arab Legion
Khalidy
Israel
Heruth Party
David Ben-Gurion
Herath
Polio Clinic Schedule Across Comanche County
Oklahoma State Health Department funds polio efforts and provides an autoclave. A detailed March to April clinic schedule lists locations, times, and eligibility by school groups and expectant mothers across Comanche and Jackson counties with multiple sites daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma State Health Department
Comanche County
Will Rogers
Roosevelt
Swinney
Jackson
Fatal Car Crash Claims Several In Area
The crash sent airmen and youths to hospitals with multiple injuries. Billy Lloyd Watkins, 16, died at Carnegie hospital after a collision on S H 9 near Carnegie. Estel Lee Meeks, 22, and Freddie Eugene Meeks, 18, were involved, with Freddie in critical condition. Samuel P. Lee Jr., 48, died later in Mangum hospital from a Monday night collision west of Granite on S H 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safe Hospital
Fort Sill Hospital
Becker Funeral Home
Flanagan
Norman Carroll
U. S. 62
Lawton
Fort Cobb
Billy Lloyd Watkins
S.H. 9
Carnegie
Estel Lee Meeks
Albert
Washita River Bridge
Carnegie Hospital
Freddie’ Eugene Meeks
Highway Patrol
Samuel P. Lee Jr
Mangum
Granite
Deputies Probe Fletcher Burglary and Geronimo Theft
Comanche county deputies continued the investigation into a burglary at Fletcher and a theft near Geronimo. Melvin Cox reported two batteries and about 10 gallons of gasoline stolen from his property, while burglars entered H S Garage in Fletcher Monday night, taking about $90 from a cash register and a cigar box after forcing an overhead door panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Everett Ray Hale
Rotary Judging Team Appointed For 1956 Junior Show
Three Rotarians were appointed as the judging team for the 1956 Junior Fat Stock and Dairy show at the Rotary luncheon. Members include Bob Morford Dan Woesner and Earl Ethell with Watson presenting Vernon Howell Cameron College president and Chamber of Commerce director who outlined rules prizes and show aims as it opened. Visiting Rotarians from Michigan Oklahoma and Duncan attended along with Dr A V Caldwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Club
Bob Morford
Dan Woesner
Damon Watson
Col
E. C. Williams
Earl Ethell. Watson
Vernon Howell
Cameron College
Chamber of Commerce
George Schlacht
Romulus
Mich
Harry W. Pitzer
Chickasaw
R. K. Arnold
Carl Bolton
R. K. Arnold Jr
Marvin Brummett
Duncan
A. V. Caldwell
Stock Show Concession Team Directed by Local Clubs
Winners from stock feed firms at the fair stock show will be supported by county home demonstration clubs. The concession stand at the fair grounds operates under Mrs. W. L. Spradlin of the Roseland club. Kitchen duty across the three day show will be performed by women from Pleasant Valley Progressive Ready to Help Roseland and Scott clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairgrounds
W. L. Spradlin
Roseland Club
Pleasant Valley
Progressive
Roseland
Scott
Cityan Named State's Top Distributive Education Pupil
Leigh Ewing a Lawton high school senior was named Oklahoma's outstanding DE student at the state convention held at the University of Oklahoma. He received a $100 bond a Sears Roebuck Foundation award a plaque and a trophy. Other Lawton High DE students won multiple superior and excellent awards for essays manuals layouts and notebooks. The LHS chapter also earned a superior ranking for its vocational scrap book. The national convention is scheduled for April 25-29 in St Louis Mo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. B. Lord
Lawton Sears Roebuck & Co
Leigh Ewing
LHS
Oklahoma
Ewing
Sears Foundation
Lawton
Elmer Ewing
Sears Roebuck & Co. Foundation
University of Oklahoma
Sears
C. K. Rieff
Betty Cole
Jeanette Howard
Glen Strawn
Frieda Earls
Walton Sorrow
Virgil Hughes
Barbara Wilson
Bob Ledford
Dan Jennings
Sorrow
Joan Cherry
Jimmy Nix
Laqueta Fordacey
Larry Gee
Glénda Dean
Milton C. Worley
St. Louis
Measure to Permit Purchase of Wherry Housing
Washington reports Rep. Carl Vinson moving a bill allowing the Armed Services to buy privately owned Wherry housing on military reservations including Fort Sill Artillery Village. About 80,000 Wherry units exist nationwide, costing billions over 60 years, with potential rent savings and more public quarters if purchased outright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armed Services
Fort Sill
Artillery Village
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Washington
Victor Wickersham
Said Vinson
House
Armed Services Committee
Vinson
Wickersham
Hub Hill and Associates
Dallas
Army
Capehart
Army, Navy
Air Force Journal
Armed Services Committees
Senate
Tornadoes flood regions as storms sweep Midwest
Tornadoes toppled structures and blacked out Marion as doctors treated injuries by flashlight at General hospital. A junior high choir practice of 40 parents was disrupted by a twister that toppled a chimney. Perryville Missouri and Buckley and Dunnington suffered damage with four injured. Storms spread from Ohio Valley to Detroit area with hail and blocked roads. Temperatures plunged to 10 below zero at Jamestown North Dakota while dust storms hit Palm Springs California. Plate glass shattered in Palm Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
General Hospital
Jamestown
N.D
Midwest
Carrier Boy Loses Money
A Constitution Press carrier boy lost a billfold containing $38 and a check. Herbert Young reported placing it on a department store counter and suspects theft. Other reports include two tires stolen from a Guthrie car, fender skirts stolen from a 1951 Ford, and multiple bicycles taken from homes or downtown. A 1951 Buick trunk tire and wheel were removed from Madden Motor Co. lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constitution Press
Herbert Young
Thomas Seal
Guthrie
James Celson
Sentinel
Lawton
Beatrice L. Setzer
R. C. Kerehner
Cherry
H. H. Goldsby
Madden Motor .Co
Kenneth Jearl Edwards
Dearborn
Ford
Hospital Births and Admissions in Southwestern News
Hospital list notes births from St. and Mrs. Robert Clark with a daughter born March 7 at 5 29 a m weighing 6 pounds 1542 ounces. Includes admissions and dismissals for numerous patients across Oklahoma towns with names and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Clark
Hoover
Ronnie Pinchback
Jack Pinchback
Aaron Martin
William Marton
Summit
Harold LaGrone
Lincoln
Schubert Lewis
Nora Humble
Washington
Tobe Jones
Arlington
Medical
Linnie Talmadge
Frances Koder
Oliver Lee
Beverly Beauchamp
C. B. Chandler
Jefferson
Raymond Carpenter
James Leon Lancaster
Duncan
Wallace Basye
Anadarko
Bobby Jean Meeks
Carnegie
Olga Austin
el Reno
Oressa Grant
Ponca City
Robbery Suspects Identified After Sunday Morning Burglary
Don Wolfe Taft Grocery operator reported a $681 theft by two men who wore women's hose over their faces. Hill told a detective one robber entered the A and A Rooms with a pistol while the other waited in the alley. Hill resisted and the would be robber fled after being struck. Hill later identified the suspects from a 10 man lineup at police headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
A&a
Waldron
Don Wolfe
Taft
Eisenhower Signals Health Disclosure Policy At News Conference
President Eisenhower addressed health as a campaign issue, noting the public deserves to know his health state and stressing honesty. He cited past presidents dying in office, discussed the Upper Colorado River basin bill, world peace prospects, and plans for a restrained campaign, with comments on Bulganin, Jordan, and Middle East arms issues.
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Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
William McKinley
Red Cross
House
Colorado River
United States
Bulganin
Moscow
White House
Russia
Bricker
Congress
Senate
Len Bricker
Ohio
Middle East
John Glubb
Jordan
Arab Legion
Britain
Israel
Saudi Arabia
U. N
Joint Chiefs
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ramey Field
Puerto Rico
Defense Wilson
Wilson
Western Europe
Soviet Bloc
Free Nations
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Robbery Suspect Intimidates Victim With Pliers
A robber assaulted a man in his home demanding the location of money. He pressed pliers to the victim’s fingers and fingernails, threatening to injure him further. The victim claimed no money was present and offered to reveal if any existed.
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Elgin Stock Show
V. H. Hackney
Hackney
Fletcher
Sterling
Warner Lawson
FFA
Charles Spencer
Willard Wolf
Elgin Ffa
Daymon Bay
David Ridley
Barrow
Ronald Spencer
Thurman Toombs
Nelson Plumbree
Richard Weber
Mary Ellen Ryan
Jim Glover
Mary Ryan
Raymond Capps
Fletcher Ffa
Hereford
C. C. Hardzog
Freddie Ferrell
Sonny Jarvis
Butch Hardzog
Ronnie Brock
Ist
Donnie Hayes
Noretta Wolf
Cache
James Langham
Southdown Fat Lambs
Johnny Jones
Ewe Lambs
Don Miller
Sterling Ffa
Leroy Green
Shropshire
Bob Sanders
Dorsett
Jack Mitchel
Hampshire Fat Lambs
Poland
China
Joe Coleman
Cecil Mantooth
Ernest Hare
Asa Smith
Don Frazier
Charles Wright
Duvoc Barrow
Reece Donall
Jarrald Lewis
Jarrald Lewis, Ster= FFA; Tommy Achtison
Johnny Walker
Ee Wernl
John Hardzog
Chester White
Larry Coleman
Mickey Howard
Eddie Brantley
Don Harrell
Lamar Walker
David Lawson
Don Taylor
Diana Freeman
Orville Fesler
Hampshire Fat
Billy Golden
John Hardrog
Hampshire
Bennie Taylor
Fletcher FA
Berkshire
Billy Fesler
Raymond Kilker
Charles Maguire
Donald Patton
Jerry Singleton
Donald Rankin
Robert Kolker
Curtis Plumbtree
Donald Ranking
Guernsey
Jimmy Jones
Don Boggs
Jackie Williams
Jersey
Sterling Catholic
Chattanooga
Post Oak
Indiahoma
Dunbar
Faxon
Hillside
Douglass
Fairview
Beaver Bend
Geronimo
Bishop
Medicine Park
St. Mary’s
Seventh Day Adventist
Flower Mound
Stoney Point
John Adams
Emerson
Central Junior High School
Cleveland
Howell
Aft
Garfield
Whittier
Tillman County
IXL
Laing
Manitou
Victory
Hollister
Frederick
Grandfield
Fort Auger
Sage
Loveland
Davidson
Lowell
Boyd
Central
Tipton
Jackson County
Oluster
Eldorado
Duke
Blair
Martha
Warren
Altus Junior High
Headrick
Humphrey
Southside
Eugene Field
R. E. Lee
Rotary
Cityan
Perryville
Buckley and
Dunnington
Ohio Valley
Detroit
Palm Springs
Carrier Boy
David Orville Kinkade
Taylor
Alan D. Hough
David Hough
Birch
Allen C. James
Charles Masten
Baldwin
Joseph Robert Smith
Snyder
Raymond H. Perdue
T. M. Stroud
Clarence Warner
Apache
Jack Kirby
Robert Forsyth
Columbia
Cora Blankenship
SE Seventh
Guy Cornwell
George W. Birchett
Altus
Donald D. Lawrence
Donald Lawrence
Hershel Leon Putney
Ike
San Francisco
Jack Griffin
Mercury
Buster Wyatt
W. Okla
Sharmin
Cenerasthits
Frigidaire Appliances
Wolverton
Sheridan Road
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