Area Students On Honor Roll From Lawton and Area
Thirty three Lawton area students are named to the University of Oklahoma honor roll for the fall semester by OU president Dr George L Cross. Recipients include Anna Claire Swanson and Richard Gaworski among others, with selections based on a minimum 12 semester hours and AB average.
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Lawton End Area
University of Oklahoma
George L. Cross
Anna Claire Swanson
College of Education
Christina Swanson
Gore
Everett Lanmann
Geronimo
College of Arts and Sciences
Richard Gaworski
Cache
College of Business Administration
Lawton
Elizabeth Ryan
University College
Timothy Graze
Lawrence Banks
Jerry Salyer
Don Hickman
Delores Witzel
Caroline Wiest
M. Charles Gilbert
Nancy Ferguson
Mary Angus
Donald Bryant
Don Kolker
Bruce Cornish
Sidney Milun
Patricia Olson
Guy McMurray
Dayton
Burchus Barrington
Jerry Poston
Jerry Miles
Jay Davis
College of Engineering
Sara Sue Riddle
Sondra Leva
Jo Lynn Ansley
Barbara Waid
Erdie Lansford
Robert Morford
David Attaway
Jess Thomas
Sterling
Graduate College
Jerry Watson
Elgin
Former City Man Dies In Capital
Edwin H. Wackenberg a former Walters and Lawton resident died March 7 in Oklahoma City. Services were held March 9 in Chickasha with burial at Fairlawn Cemetery. He was an engineer at Walters and Lawton and later worked for the government on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge CCC project.
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Edwin H. Wackenberg
Walters
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Chickasha
Fairlawn
Blackenberg
CCC
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Singer Entertains Students During Assembly Program
Edo Lubich of the National School Assemblies Company Los Angeles a Yugoslav native entertained students at Central Junior High in the school’s lyceum program. He played guitar and sang numbers native to many countries he has visited.
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Edo Lubich
National School Assemblies Company
Los Angeles
Calif
Yugoslavia
Central Junior High School
Lubich
Phipps Veteran Lawton Fire and Police Captain Dies
TOM PHIPPS of Lawton served in the Army during World War I and later rose to captain in the city fire department before joining the police in 1931. He helped establish the citys uniform traffic code and led school safety efforts. After retiring in 1955 he became local civil defense leader. He was survived by his widow Gayle, a daughter Mrs Wayne Emmaend, two sisters, and a half brother.
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Heas
Police Department
Ryan
Indian Territory
Phipps
Lawton
James W
Lucy Ann Phipps
Army
Co. H
19Th Infantry
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Tex
Fire Department
Iying
Wal
C. R. Ellsworth
Congregational Church
Toof , Lodge, American, Lesson
Order of Police
Taft school fair showcases student art and history displays
Marble paper art, oil on water experiments, and state shaped history posters highlight Taft school exhibits. Lawton History and Oklahoma History posters, insect and heart posters, flags, and holiday depictions are on display. Taft PTA welcomes SW teachers with a leaf tree, while Childrens’ handiwork, caricatures, scrap art, and button pictures fill the halls.
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Taft School
Lawton
Oklahoma History
Oklahoma
Auditoriual
Taft Elementary
Lawton High School
Parent-Teachers Association
Taft Pta
Thelma Taila
Ruth Robinson
Hazel Sexton
Howell
Aileen Buntyn
Bonnie Paine
Adams
Byrd’s Antarctic Vision and Military Flight Pioneer
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, famed polar explorer and naval aviation pioneer, shaped U S claims to Antarctica and the concept of polar storage for crops. He detailed frost injuries from repeated polar exposure and recalled near death moments during early explorations. His career included World Wars service and the first nonstop transcontinental flight by mule engine aircraft.
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Antarctica
Byrd
Naval Academy
Atlantic
South Pole
Antartica
Little America
England
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Byrd obituary notes polar feats and Antarctic role
Admiral Richard E. Byrd dies after a life spanning polar exploration and wartime aviation. The article recalls his 1926 North Pole, 1929 South Pole, later Antarctic leadership, and service as head of the U.S. permanent Antarctic unit. It mentions his Winchester Virginia origins, marriage in 1913, four children, and his brother Senator Harry F. Byrd. It also briefly cites Ulysses S. Grant and a separate note about Grant seeking a third-term in 1880.
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Nto
United States
Humber River
Byrd
North Pole
South Pole
Antarctic
Winchester
Marie D. Ames
Richard Jr
Boston
William A. Clarke Jr
Swarthmore
Robert G. Breyer
Los Angeles
Lawrence J. Stabler Jr
Philadelphia
Sen
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Teachers Schedule OEA Parley at Southwest Oklahoma
Central junior high instructors discussed points of interest for the Southwest Oklahoma Education Association convention set for Thursday and Friday during an Eighth grade faculty meeting. Principal A Richardson presided as events of most importance were chosen and teachers urged to spread the functions.
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Southwest Oklahoma Education Association
Central
A. Richardson
USO-YMCA Supervisor Plans Lawton Visit
Miss Dorothy M. Boardman USO-YMCA supervisor for the western region will visit the Lawton USO-WCA No 4 on E Arlington Wednesday and Thursday. She serves clubs in Texas California Colorado Arizona Washington and Kansas and will confer with local representative Mrs Josephine Johnson on various phases of the USO program.
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Dorothy M. Boardman
Arlington
Boardman
Texas
California
Colorado
Arizona
Washington
Kan
Josephine Johnson
Food commodities distribution schedule announced
Emil Wo county commissioner said welfare food commodities will be issued Friday Saturday Monday and Tuesday. Qualified individuals must bring a container and ID card, and not issue commodities to another person without a written note. This month’s commodities include beans flour corn meal milk cheese and rice.
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Department of Welfare
Emil Wo
Fateful Prophecy Comes Alive in 1957 Suez Warning
A Los Angeles figure calling himself The Voice of Two Worlds offers free a 64 page booklet claiming 1951 prophecy warned of a Suez era crisis. He cites Tibet taught powers and urges readers to request Beware of These days from the Institute of Mentalphysics, Los Angeles, with no obligation.
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Los Angeles
Voice of Two Worlds
Suez Canal
Tibet
Land of
Institute of Mentalphysics
South Hobart Blvd
Dept
Calif
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