Delta Kappa Gamma Convention To Convene In Lawton
About 350 teachers will meet in Lawton March 23-25 for the Delta Kappa Gamma state convention with Mrs. Edna McGuire Boyd as principal speaker. Miss Helen Elliott chairs the event. convention theme is Purposeful, Progressive Action. Mrs. Boyd delivers keynote I Face The Future at the presidents' banquet March 24.
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Lawton
Delta Kappa Gamma
Edna McGuire Boyd
DKG Society
Helen Elliott
Cameron College
Lawton Xi Chapter
Lawtonian
Wilma Davis
DKG
Lawtonian Lobby
General Assembly
Davis
Allce Locke
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Fort Sill Indian School
Boyd
Claire Harrison
Guidance Tests Scheduled For Lawton High School
Lawton high school will participate in a statewide testing program beginning March 27 with the Iowa Tests of Educational Development. The eight hour tests run from 8 30 a.m. to 12 noon for third hour classes through March 29. About 400 of Oklahoma 745 schools test some 6500 students. Guidance directors Glen Dosser and Mrs Mary Sue Silk oversee the local program. The tests aim to identify students talents and improvements needed in Oklahoma schools. Top 20 percent will have names announced. Nine areas span social concepts science basics expression quantitative thinking interpretation social studies natural sciences literature vocabulary and information sources.
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Lawton High School
Iowa
Oklahoma
Glen Dosser
Mary Sue Silk
Pest Control Pact Signed
City and federal agencies reached a two year pest control agreement to fund a vector disease control program in Lawson starting in September. Raoul Waldrop of Laredo Texas will head the effort, which targets rodents flies and mosquitoes while the program shifts from Laredo to Lawton after initial work.
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Lawson
C. R. Ellsworth
Raoul Waldrop
Laredo
Tex
Lawton
Waldrop
Charles E. Gerhardt
State Public Health Center
Loyd Pummer
Leroy Rachaels
G. H. Hayes
Atlanta
Charles Miller
Hardy Watson
Earl Reid
Chamber Begins Two Team Drive For Memberships
Lawton chamber launches a two team contest led by Charles Snyder and Jerry Mustain to boost members, running to June 15 with steak prizes for winners and beans for losers. New members listed include Fay Hillis and Memorial Hospital, plus medical plans discussed with Blue Cross Blue Shield, pre payment care, and county scope.
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Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Charles Snyder
Jerry Mustain
O. B. Lord
Chamber
Fay Hillis
R. D. Morgan
Fife’s Gift Store
Memorial Hospital
Bill Love
P. G. Waggoner
Lindsey Whitten
Frank Austin
B. E. Stone
H. J. Crigger
Pacific Finance
Marie Detty
G. M. Brooks
J. T. Hicks
Automatic Alarm Co
Art Florist
Lewis
Karey Fuqua
Southwestern
Love
Blue Cross
Fuqua
Funeral Rites Held For Edward A Laughlin at Cyril Church
Services were held at 2 p m today at the Pentecostal Holiness church in Cyril for Edward A Laughlin 66 a retired refinery employee who died March 15 after a long illness. The rites were conducted by Rev Charles Abney with Rev J C Earl and Rev H P Jacobs assisting Burial followed in Fairview cemetery Apache under Dalton Funeral home Fletcher supervision Laughlin born October 14 1889 in Alcorn county Mississippi lived in Cyril since 1930 He married November 26 1911 and was a charter member of Cyril Pentecostal Holiness church Survivors include his wife two sons Lloyd Laughlin Cyril William L Laughlin Chickasha a daughter Mrs Sadie Dagshaw Long Beach California nine grandchildren three sisters Mrs Sam White Brady Texas Mrs Emma Daugherty Rule Texas Mrs Kitty Davis Van Horn Texas two brothers Henry Laughlin Lager ton Texas E C Laughlin Stamford Texas Bearers Raymon Ledford Dwaine Davis A G Barker H C Rivers C H Moss Clinton Mahan Honorary bearers H D Griffin W R Petillo W L Steiner D C McCloskey V R Hass Fred Ikard
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Cyril
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Edward A. Laughlin
Charles Abney
J. C. Earl
H. P. Jacobs
Fairview Cemetery
Apache
Dalton Funeral Home
Fletcher
Laughlin
Alcorn County
Miss
Cyril Pentecostal Holiness Church
Lloyd Laughlin
William L. Laughlin
Chickasha
Sadie Dagshaw
Long Beach
Calif
Sam White
Brady
Tex
Emma Daugherty
Rule
Kitty Davis
van Horn
Henry Laughlin
Lagerton
E. C. Laughlin
Stamford
Raymon Ledford
Dwaine Davis
A. G. Barker
Cache resident W R Roach dies after heart attack
W R Roach a 1901 Cache pioneer and 09 year old civil service worker died after a heart attack at his Cache home. He was found by his wife and son and died at Memorial hospital Lawton. Survived by widow, two sons, four brothers, three sisters, 11 grandchildren. Funeral at Cache Church of Christ Tuesday at 2 p.m. with Roy Chester officiating. Burial in Cache cemetery.
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Cache
W. R. Roach
Fort Sill
Memorial Hospital
Lawton
Cache Funeral Home
Roach
Ardmore
Mildred Killian
Riverside
Calif
Cache Church of Christ
Roy Chester
Lawton Church of Christ
Cache Cemetery
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Montgomery
Annie
Frigidaire
Scott's Air Conditioning, Inc
Frigidaire Sales and Service
Sunbeam
Sabel
Sumdeom
Edward Laughlin
D. C. McCloskey, V. R. Hass and
Fred Ikard
Violet Hunt
Charles Roach
Obed Roach
Peggy Gibson
Marie Huddleston
Tulsa
John Roach
D. C. Roach
Cecil Roach
Guy Roach
Indiahoma
Frank Roach
Umitilla
Fla
Myrtle Webb
Mabel Denny
D Ave
Eugene L. Bowman
S. 6Th
Ford Drug
C Avenue
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