Bond Plan For Tomlinson Junior High School
Lawton educators and civic leaders map a $1.65 million bond election for March 27 to build a new Tomlinson Junior High School on 17.91 acres at 31st and Ferris. Site purchase talks and election plans were revealed after a special board meeting, with the vote to coincide with the regular Board of Education election.
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Bill Crawford
Lawton
Tomlinson Addition
Board of Education
Tomlinson Junior High School
31St and
Ferris
Central
W. E. Tomlinson
Lester L. Tomlinson
Minnette Erwin
Appraisal Sought For School Block
Lawton boards move to appraise the Buckingham block owned by the Board of Education for sale. A survey will be presented April 2 as the land sale plans hinge on bond votes and a Presbyterian church inquiry into site use.
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Lawton Board of Realtors
Buckingham Block
Board of Education
Board of Realtors
Education Board
Sam Joyner Jr
Joyner
First Presbyterian Church
Corporal Missile Debuts at Fort Sill Mat 102 Show
The public will see the Corporal guided missile at Fort Sill during Mat 102 on Saturday at 10 am at firing point 137. The weapon will be paraded and erected behind the stands, part of the Army’s three major weapons along with the 280 mm Atomic Cannon and Honest John Rocket. The 946th Field Artillery Missile Battalion will provide the system, Maj. Carl D. Patterson Jr. in command. Traffic will be directed by military police and tickets are available at the Chamber of Commerce.
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Fort Sill
U.S. Army
946Th Field Artillery Missile Battalion
Carl D. Patterson Jr
South Boundary Road
Chamber of Commerce
Cameron To Get Tourney Trophies
Representatives from Amarillo Texas junior college will award two trophies to Cameron College basketball. Fran Siebuhr will receive the outstanding player trophy while Coach Harvey Pate will accept the regional tournament championship trophy. Amarillo will represent the region at Hutchinson Kansas next week in the national junior college tournament.
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Amarillo
Tex
Cameron College
Cameron
Aggies
Fran Siebuhr
Harvey Pate
Hutchinson
Kan
Area Singers Match Voices In Aggie Meet
Cameron college hosts its third annual district vocal music contest with about 600 students from towns including Lawton Duncan Apache Marlow Walters Chattanooga Grandfield Hastings Frederick Velma Alma Wea ver Snyder Temple Fletcher Waurika Ringling Tipton Douglass schools also competing Mixed chorus and glee clubs perform in Aggie auditorium while solos occur in junior college classrooms Piano and organ contests run at local churches The event aims to send superior-rated contestants to the April 18-20 state contest at Oklahoma A&M College Stillwater Notables include Miss Mary McCormic and Frank McKinley from North Texas State Teachers College along with other university figures and area music leaders.
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Mary McCormic
Metropolitan Opera
North Texas State Teachers College
Denton
Tex
Rhea Nell Fudge
Walters
Chlorica Stephens
Lawton High School
Cameron College
Lawton
Oklahoma A&m College
Stillwater
Melvin Keeney
Cameron
Duncan
Apache
Marlow
Chattanooga
Grandfield
Hastings
Frederick
Velma Alma
Weaver
Snyder
Temple
Fletcher
Waurika
Ringling
Tipton
Douglass School
Aggie
Centenary Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Frank McKinley
William Rowland
Midwestern University
Wichita Falls
Henry Hobart
Phillips University
Enid
Inspiration Point
Arkansas
Dorothy Tulles
Virginia Anderson
Oklahoma College For Women
Chickasha
James Carter
Grace Stritzing
New Look Taken At Mid East Policy
Washington officials report a new look at U S policy in the Middle East amid rising tensions. The arms for Israel question is among issues under reconsideration as Eisenhower, amid heart attack convalescence, works overtime on the problem.
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Washington
U.S
Administration
Eisenhower
Probem
Solons Urge Apportioning Amendment
Oklahoma City legislators Sen. George Miskovsky and Rep. Robert Cunningham proposed a constitutional amendment to force reapportionment of the Legislature. They will circulate petitions, backers include Oklahoma County Republicans, and a bi partisan drafting committee would create a self executing measure to reapportion every 10 years. They plan mass meetings in counties that would gain and aim for quick ballot action.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
George Miskovsky
Robert O. Cunningham
State Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Miskovsky
Chambers of Commerce
Cunningham
Warren Morris
Oklahoma County Election Board
GOP
Tulsa County
Damp Oklahoma Weather With Drizzle and Snow
Drizzle and damp conditions spread across Lawton as temperatures hovered near 40 degrees. Storm systems brought moisture to the Panhandle and northwestern areas with reports of snow, freezing drizzle, and sleet. Boise City dipped to 12 degrees with northeast winds 20 to 30 mph. Lawton forecast warns of occasional rain then partly cloudy Friday. last night’s low was 34, tonight about 30. Precipitation measured .08 inches by 11 a.m. in Lawton. Weather details continue in the state report.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Northwestern
Associated Press
Boise City
Chimp Plays King Kong In Big City
A Detroit anti social chimpanzee named Mike spent 10 frantic hours roaming New York rooftops. He escaped from a nightclub entertainer's apartment, evaded an ASPCA call out, visited several windows, swung on antennas, and ended in a ladies restroom before capture.
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Chimp
King Kong
Big City
New York
Detroit
Mike
Empire State Building
Frank Quinn
Quinn
The
American Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Plane carrying five aboard missed, overdue from Fort Sill
A silver L-20 Beaver with five personnel aboard from Fort Sill to Clovis AFB was over 24 hours overdue. Last contact was near Childress Texas as weather hampered search efforts involving Clovis AFB, Amarillo and Lubbock Civil Air Patrol units, with weather delays limiting aircraft deployment.
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Fort Sill
Clovis Air Force Base
N. M
Clovis
Childress
Tex
Air Force
Clovis Afb
Amarillo
Lubbock
Ellington
Houston
Autopsy Hints at Mystery in Coed Murder Case
A preliminary autopsy on Northwestern State College coed Mildred Ann Reynolds casts doubt on a homicide theory. Pathologist Dr. A Max Shideler found a fractured skull and high carbon monoxide in the blood but notes heat could have caused the fracture. Authorities seek decisive clues in the Woods County case near Avard.
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Alva
Okla
Northwestern State College
Woods County
Avard
R. D. Reynolds
Avard High School
Shideler
City To Launch ODC Fund Drive
Lawton will host a kickoff banquet for the Oklahoma Development Council membership drive to spur industrial growth in the state. Gov. Raymond Gary and other dignitaries are expected. Exall English outlined plans at a Greater Lawton Inc meeting. The council aims to recruit 300 members.
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Lawton
Oklahoma Development Council
Oklahoma
Hotel Lawtonian
Raymond Gary
Exall English
Chamber of Commerce
Greater Lawton Inc
Senate Approves Dual Parity Plan
The Senate narrowly approved a dual parity system for crop price supports by 45 to 44, preserving a provision in the omnibus soil bank farm bill to use the higher of old or new parity formulas. Senator Aiken urged striking the section as a fatal blow to a good farm bill, while Senator Anderson urged realism to avoid a presidential veto.
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Washington
Senate
Omnibus Soil Bank
Aiken
R-Vi
Sen. Anderson
D-Nm
Secretary of Agriculture
White House
Malenkov Arrives For British Visit
Former Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov arrived in London for a tour of Britain s electric and atomic power installations. It was his first trip to a free country outside the Iron Curtain with Scotland Yard enforcing tight security at London airport after his flight from East Berlin.
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London
Georgi Malenkov
Britain
Iron Curtain
Scotland Yard
East Berlin
Fiery Love Affair Based on Arson Charge in Maryland
In Savage Maryland three youths faced arson charges after a fire at a Laurel horse training barn. Detective Sgt. Wilton May said the blaze destroyed the indoor track, 100 stalls, and several horses, with losses around 250000 dollars. William Murray, 16, was charged and held for grand jury action after juvenile jurisdiction was waived.
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Savage
Wilton May
Laurel
William Murray
Howard County
James MacGill
British Arrest Cyprus Abbot During Cyprus Strike
British authorities in Nicosia arrest Abbot Chryssostomos of Kykkos Monastery as Cyprus endures a fourth day of general strike against Archbishop Makarios ouster. Violent incidents spread, with police wounded and a sergeant killed, while Eden’s government vows to restore order and maintain control of the island.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Makarios
Chryssostomos
Kykkos
Greece
Eden
union-with-Greece
Lanarca
Pakhna
Fort Sill to Welcome Brucker with 19-Gun Salute
Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker arrives at Fort Sill by plane from Camp Chaffee around 12 30 p m. A 19 gun salute marks the visit while an honor guard greets him. The delegation will tour the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge as the Army seeks expansion of firing ranges and assesses land purchases near the reserve.
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Fort Sill
Army
Wilber M. Brucker
Department of Army
Camp Chaffee
Reserve Forces
Post Field
Brucker
Thomas E. deSharo
Wichita Mountains
Department of Interior
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Solons
Weather Bureau
Ciety
ASPCA
Ellis Leibson
Leibson
Mrs. Leibson
Post
Weatherford
Orval Bowman
LHS
Bonnie Rayner
Commerce
Oklahoma Education Association
Rayner
Bowman
Southwestern State College
ODC
Malenkov
House of Commons
Mediterranean
Middle East
Island
Commons
Chester R. Davis
Vic Knox
Williston B. Palmer
John H. Collier
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