Youth Shot by Accident in Ton Home
Jerold Elliott an 18 year old from Ton was accidentally shot in the head at his home last Thursday night. He was reportedly in good condition this morning at Southwestern hospital after a .22 pistol discharged when he placed his elbow on a kitchen table. The weapon was new to him and he believed it unloaded. A bullet entered the right ear andlodged in the head. it had not been removed. Elliott’s wife Marie called nearby relatives to help and they took him to the hospital where he remained.
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Jerold Elliott
Lawton
Elliott
Fort Sill Seeks Five Civilian Workers
Five civilian vacancies exist at the Artillery and Guided Missile Center. Positions include organization and methods examiner civil engineer electrical engineering draftsman electrician and kitchen equipment repairer. For information contact the executive secretary Civil Service Board Fort Sill.
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Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Civil Service Board
Fort Sill
City Man Forfeits Bonds After Raid In Lawton
A Lawton man forfeited $60 in bonds after a raid at 1201 Washington on Saturday night for illegal liquor possession running a joint and nuisance. Judge Oaks ordered the forfeiture when Henry Watson failed to appear in municipal court. Multiple other bonds and fines were imposed for disturbance, immoral room, assault and battery, vagrancy, public drunkenness and destruction of city property.
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Washington
J. Merle Oaks
Henry Watson
Wallace Tongkeamah
Carnegie
Irvin Steve Kionut
Harry Ingram Jr
Jefferson
Mary Pekah
Rt. 3
Oneita Carolton
Taft
Cole to Run Again for Re election in New York
W Sterling Cole Republican of New York announced Monday his candidacy for reelection. A long time member since 1935 he serves on the House armed services committee and the joint congressional atomic energy committee.
Two More Join Reserve Status
Two Lawton youths enlist in the U S Army Reserve under the Oklahoma Battalion for Training. Don R. Yancey and Richard L. Hynson, seniors at Lawton High School, will train at Camp Chaffee Arkansas, with six months active duty and eight years in reserve.
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Lawton
U. S. Army Reserve
Oklahoma
Don R. Yancey
Orvil Yancey
N. 17Th
Richard L. Hynson
Ernest D. Hynson
Dearborn
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Yancy
359Th FA Battalion
USAR
Lawton High School
Central Baptist Church
Hynson
LHS
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Cameron College
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Maj
Rawlins M. Morris
Army Unit Advisor
Fort Sill
Maj. Morris
Yancey
Army Advisor
Troopers Rescue Expectant Mother in Blizzard Pass
In New Bedford Massachusetts two state troopers Hibbert and Gillis rescued 25 year old Mrs Donald Platt of Dartmouth who is nine months pregnant. They left their car a mile away due to impassable roads and used an improvised sled from a cellar door to move her to a car, then endured a two and a half hour ride to St Luke's Hospital amid a raging blizzard.
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New Bedford
Mass
St. Luke’s Hospital
Donald Platt
Dartmouth
Thomas Hibbert
Edward Gillis
Cameron Holstein Completes 365 Day Production Test
The Holstein-Friesian Association of America reports Comstace Admiral Beauty Geneshowed by Cameron College of Lawton produced 16,350 pounds of milk and 629 pounds of butterfat over 365 days with milking three times daily and an average of 21 quarts per day starting at age four years five months.
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Cameron College of Lawton
Comstace Admiral
Margaret Truman to Wed E Clifton Daniel in Independence
Margaret Truman sets April 21 for her wedding to newspaperman E Clifton Daniel at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence Missouri the same church where her parents wed. The couple will marry in a simple ceremony at 4 PM with a small reception at the Truman home. Daniel, 43, is an assistant to the foreign news editor at the New York Times. The couple plan a New York honeymoon and then apartment hunting. Margaret will wear a beige lace and tulle gown by Nicole Fontana with a matching beige hat and veil by John Frederics. They will reside temporarily in Margaret’s four room hotel Carlile suite. She notes their future home will feature simple Regency and early American furniture and jokes she can cook a decent meal.
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Margaret Truman
E. Clifton Daniel
Missouri
Truman
Trinity Episcopal Church of Independence
Miss Truman
Daniel
The
New York Times
Nicole Fontana
John Frederics
Independence
John E. Horton
Los Angeles
Coleman Branton
Kansas City
Horton
John Snyder
the Treasury
Zebulon
N.C
Margaret
Hotel
Carlyle
Funeral Rites for W H Reynolds Jr in Waurika
William Henry Reynolds Jr a former resident of Waurika died at his Oklahoma City home after a heart attack. Funeral services are set for 2 30 p m at First Baptist Church with burial in Waurika Cemetery. He leaves Lorraine Mummert his wife two daughters Janet Lynn and Diana Leigh his parents one brother and four sisters.
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Waurika
First Baptist Church of
William Henry Reynolds Jr
Oklahoma City
Chicago cookbooks mailed by restaurant chief
Marion Isbell, president of the National Restaurant Association, said Monday he wants Grace Kelly and Margaret Truman to keep their men after marriage. He is mailing each a stack of cookbooks.
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Chicago
Marion Isbell
National Restaurant Association
Grace Kelly
Margaret Truman
Opposition Leaders Rounded Up in Havana Raids
In Havana, military intelligence agents conducted overnight raids and rounded up more than a score of political opposition leaders. They were charged with conspiracy against the government, according to sources.
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Havana
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