Four in Senate race as Harris joins candidates
Fred Harris a Lawton attorney announced his candidacy joining three others for the state senate seat. Rhoads Gilbert and McCain already indicated runs. Harris, Cotton county native, vows a vigorous campaign and has Walters Herald endorsement. Filing opens April 23 and runs to April 27 with primaries July 3 and runoff July 24. McKenzie also seeks state representative post.
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Senate
Fred Harris
Lawton
Githen Rhoads
R. L
Bob) Gilbert
Joe McCain
Harris
Cotton County
Walters Herald
Comanche County
Rhoads
Gilbert
McCain
W. H. McKenzie
Mary Pokorny
Earl Simmons
McKenzie
Copperettes Honor Husbands With Easter Party Event
Lawton Copperettes hosted an Easter party for Lawton police spouses in the Security Bank Civic Room. A sandwich supper and games followed a table decor with dummy Easter bunnies and eggs. Hostesses included Mrs. Francis Gale and others. guests listed with numerous couples and single attendees. Next meeting to be hosted by Mrs. Glyn Coley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Copperettes
Lawton Police Force
Security Bank
Francis Gale
Wilma Stout
Evalyna Simmons
Janell Hawkins
Marjorie Davis
Tom Phipps
Eugene Gale
Melvin Kelley
R. A. Davis
Walter Asbery
James Warren
Kenneth Stradley
Lee Clark
C. M. Hawkins
Ron Wheatley
Clifford Mills
W. D. White
Alford Hennessee
Kenneth Priest
Bryan Logan
Cleo Stout
Bill Davis
Melvin Simmons
Fred Mitchell
Grady Crabtree
Herman Lee
Pete Fuller
Otis Waldron
Johnny West
Frank Garrett
Elizabeth Rhoads
Ann Woods
Lela J. Wilson
Sherry Asbery
Sandy Metzner
Mike Metzner
Charyl Priest
Carol Taylor
Glyn Coley
Easter Pageant Service Invites Worship in Park Site
The Pageant pamphlet outlines time and place details for Easter worship. Batten credits Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Perman Henderson and Chamber staff for inquiries as Oklahoma Texas and Kansas send largest delegations. The Easter Service invites all to worship with reverence and offers a free will contribution to defray expenses. Directions guide visitors from Medicine Park and Cache to the Refuge and Pageant site.
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Batten
Smith
Perman Herderson
Chamber
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Holy City
Medicine Park
S.H. 49
Wildlife Refuge
Convention presidents tour Oklahoma center after banquet
Vera Holding honorary member of Tau chapter presented Prairie Brands at the noon scholarship lunch. Reports included Notes From A Biography by Jewel Wurtzbaugh and Three Minutes In Europe by Lola Best Covey. Helen Olander managed chapter treasurers for scholarship contributions as about 75 DKG delegates toured Lawton sights and the Artillery and Guided Missile Center.
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Vera Holding
Tau
Frederick
Tipton
Prairie Brands
Jewel Wurtzbaugh
University of Oklahoma
Europe
Lola Best Covey
Helen Olander
Lawton
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Henry Howell Chai
Commerce
Jet aircraft rocket demonstration at Fort Sill event
Jet aircraft from the 386th Fighter Bomber Squadron at Clovis AFB New Mexico staged a morning rocket demonstration at Fort Sill. The F 86 jets dropped napalm, strafed, and fired rockets in the show, with no explanation given for why a shell fell on a farm failed to explode.
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Fort Sill
386Th
Clovis, Afb
N.M
Lawton School History A Chronicle Of Growth And Expansion
The history details Lawton schools from 1901 02 opening with one room schools through major building programs 1906 Emerson 1908 Lincoln 1910 junior high 1936 Roosevelt 1950 new auditoriums and three new elementary schools Andrew Jackson Grover Cleveland John Adams 1954 Lawton High 2.2 million stadium Roosevelt stadium cost 100000 and notes accreditation and leadership under Howell Shoemaker and current board.
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Charles S. Powell
Emerson Block
Gore
Lawton
James Timmons
William Jennings Bryan
Emerson School
Lincoln
Washington and
McKinley
Lor Sales
Post Children’s
Lincoln School
Roosevelt
Wilson
Emerson
Washington
Whittier
Will Rogers
Woodrow Wilson
Taft
Andrew Jackson
Grover Cleveland
John Adams
Douglass
Dunbar
Lawton High School
Howell
Shoemaker
Board of Education
North Central Accrediting Association
Atomic Division to Carry Secret Ammunition and Honest John Launchers
The unit will wield 105mm recoilless rifles and 90mm self-propelled guns. It will be first to field a battery of Honest John atomic missile launchers and include an aviation company with many observation aircraft and helicopters. All gear must be air portable and para drop capable. Soldiers to endure heavy walking, and the division will use 762 mechanical mules, able to haul 1,000 pounds over steep grades.
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Sherburne
Phonograph Needle Covers Half Mile Of Record
A phonograph needle travels half a mile while playing one side of a 12 inch record. The distance reflects groove length as the needle traces spirals from outer edge to inner.
Two More Burglary Reports Added To Police List
Two additional burglaries were logged at police headquarters, expanding an ongoing two week series. Victims include Glenn Dutcher who reported a 21 inch television and 10 feet of antenna wiring stolen from a Medicine Park cabin, and Charles Reese who said a $40 sport jacket a $100 suit $5 cash and one shoe were taken after a theft woke him at 12 50 a m Saturday. Others reported include John D Wilkinson whose bicycle was stolen from his back yard Friday night and Charlie Horton and Col James McDowell who noted hub cap thefts from cars near Lawton high school and Riato cafe respectively. A freezing unit from a refrigerator at 1701 S 27th was taken Friday night. Altus police sought a $400 tenor saxophone reported stolen there this week.
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Glenn Dutcher
Medicine Park
Charles Reese
Reese
John D. Wilkinson
Euclid
Charlie Horton
Columbia
Col
James McDowell
Fort Sill
Horton
Lawton High School
McDowell Auto
Riato
Lewis Baker
Jefferson
S. 27Th
Altus
Fort Sill Forms Local Helicopter Society Unit
A Fort Sill chapter of the American Helicopter Society was formed this week with Capt. Frank B. Brooks Jr. as chairman protest. The group will share information on rotorcraft via lectures and periodicals and will host Igor Sikorsky as guest speaker at the April meeting. Contact Capt. Brooks at Fort Sill 29218 for interested individuals.
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Fort Sill
National American Helicopter Society
Frank B. Brooks Jr
Brooks
Igor Sikorsky
Sikorsky Aircraft Division
Bridgeport
Sun’s Acceleration Vast, Energy Tiny Yet Explosive
Dr. Menzel notes sun’s acceleration exceeds 1,000 times Earth gravity and energy equal to 1000 million H bombs. He says most expelled gas is hydrogen and the causes of sun flares and prominences remain not fully understood.
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Dr. Menzel
Murder Case or Accident Sparked by Car Fire
Police examined a fatal Avard High School coach’s wife death as a possible murder after an auto crash and intense blaze. Investigators questioned area residents, reviewed autopsy results, and weighed arson theories against the accident narrative, with Gates proposing a sequence ending in a gasoline fire.
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Gates
Economic expert outlines Community Success Formula
Dr. Randall Klemme of the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and Industry presented a Growth and unity driven plan to Chamber of Commerce members. He stressed attracting new manufacturing plants, warned against buying industries, and praised public utilities and the Oklahoma Development Council for aiding Oklahoma's economic expansion.
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Chamber of Commerce
Randall Klemme
Oklahoma Department of Commerce and Industry
Oklahoma
Klemme
Public Utilities
Oklahoma Development Council
The
Oklahoma de
Velopment Council
CDC
Department of Commerce
ODC
Lawtonian
Raymond Gary
Exall English
Lawton
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Pageant
Atomic Division
Sill
Northwestern State
Reynolds
Alva
Coed
Alfred Shideler
Taylor Rogers
Crime Bureau
R. D. Reynolds
Avard High Schoo
Woods County
Hugh Potts
Ed Doctor
Highway Patrol
G. M. Brown
C Avenue
Bill Smith
Agency
Bill Clanton
Mckee
Duff Hardware CO
3Rd and
D Avenue
Aia Ae
Lawton Mattress Company
C. P. Pennington
E Avenue
America
Axqit
Diawon
Inter
National
F.D.I.C
Lawton, Oklahoma
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