Living costs hit new high as food and clothing rise
The Labor Department reports February living costs at 106.1 percent of the 1957 59 average, matching the record first set last September. Prices for fresh fruits and vegetables jumped, while meat and rents influenced February trends. forecasts suggest March may hold steady.
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Washington
Labor Department
Chase
Florida
Texas
California
Case
Philadelphia
Scranton
New York
Cleveland
Seattle
U S Plea Aims at Blocking Soviet Pipe Shipments
Undersecretary of State George W. Ball travels to London to press Britain to withhold large diameter steel pipes for a Soviet oil pipeline plan. NATO members face pressure to curb exports while Italy West Germany and Sweden respond differently.
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Washington
George W. Ball
London
Soviet Union
Ball
David Ormsby Gore
Khrushchev
United States
Moscow
Iron Curtain
Western
Europe
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Sweden
Japan
Chelyabinsk Steel
Coordinating Committee On
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
State Department
NATO
Bonn
Ruhr
Seden
U.S
Tokyo
Hospitals Plan Actions From Page One
The document urges approving the laundry manager’s tender, finishing a second operating room, assigning custodians for donated patient clothing, lifting Dr. Carl Bowie’s suspension, and promptly notifying law enforcement when a patient is missing. It calls for stricter discipline for unexplained absences and a reappraisal of the open ward policy by psychiatric staff, plus improved legislative correspondence from the mental health department director.
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Vis
Carl Bowie
Mental Health Department
Tomlinson Junior High honors basketball lettermen
Basketball lettermen from Tomlinson Junior High were honored at today’s assembly. Coach Jim Southard presented awards to Robert Wooten, Jess Ball, Rick Pickens, Jim Price, Danny Sparlin, Bob Easley, Bobby Carter, Rick Bald ridge, William Glass, Millard Jones, Mike Montgomery, Stan Prock, and Buddy Schow, with Gary Pitts as trainer. Golf and tennis teams were introduced by their coaches. Jan Lisk led the devotion, Gwen Jones sang, and the band performed under Harold McDole with a coronet trio.
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Tomlinson Junior High School
Jim Southard
Robert Wooten
Jess Ball
Rick Pickens
Jim Price
Danny Sparlin
Bob Easley
Bobby Carter
Rick Baldridge
William Glass
Millard Jones
Mike Montgomery
Stan Prock
Buddy Schow
Gary Pitts
Guy Henseley
Leo Nease
Jan Lisk
Gwen Jones
Ella Mackey
Harold McDole
Frank Eisken
Betty Puckett
George Hotchko
David Haynes
Ada Man Jailed For Milk Firm Safecracking Case
A 21 year old Adaman was arrested early today on burglary and safecracking charges tied to Johnsons Milk and Ice Cream Co. The man is among four suspects being sought. the burglary yielded about 475 dollars. Police say the group may have been in Lawton when the crime occurred Monday night. Additional minor thefts and vandalism cases were under review.
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Adaman
Johnson's Milk and Ice Cream Co
Ada
Lawton
Jimmy Pinchback
S. Fifth
Floyd Teague
Louis L. Berry
Liberty
Rodney Compton
Rex R. Hutchens
Euclid
Chevrolet
Felicita Ortiz
Clyde Langley
Washington
Mike Howell
Lynn Circle
Theresia Micklon
Division Managers For Y s Fund Drive Ready For Work
YMCA building fund campaign division managers announced by Wes Miller will lead 450 workers in the public phase starting April 25. Miller lists 3 section chairmen and 15 division chairmen who will recruit captains and workers for the drive to raise 400000 for a local YMCA facility, with first team captain meeting on April 4 in the USC building.
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Ymca Building Fund
Wes Miller
Teams
Miller
Henry Jones
Bill Sieg
Don E. Whitaker
Jim Warkentin
Lewis Flagler
William Crawford
Sam Ard
al Terrill
Douglas Bailey
John Erwin
Troy Ketchum
John R. Breathwit
USC
Widow of Sen Gore to celebrate 85th birthday
Mrs. Thomas P. Gore widow of Oklahoma's famed blind senator will observe her 85th birthday Thursday. Gore and her husband were Lawton pioneers. he served as U.S. senator from 1907 to 1920 and again in the 1930s.
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Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
United States
The
Central Baptist Church
Gore
John M. Young
Bali Volcano Death Toll Reaches 1600 in Bali Outburst
In Jakarta the Indonesian Red Cross chief reported the official death toll from Sunday's Bali eruption stands at 1,600. The figure reflects ongoing recovery efforts as authorities assess the disaster's impact.
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Denpasar. Bali
UPI
Red Cross
Jakarta
Bali
Cuban TV star Tito Hernandez on new record venture
Stor quotes Fidel as noting a million dollars from two calls. Tito Hernandez, a mild Cuban TV figure, reflects on the record produced by Guillermo Alvarez Guedes’ company aimed at Latin America. A Venezuelan distributor warns of Communist danger but expects strong sales potential.
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Stor
Fidel
Tito Hernandez
Havana
Guillermo Alvarez Guedes
Latin America
Guedes
Lawton Band Performs Tulsa Symphonic Poem at School
Lawton high school band directed by Ken Hatch presents a four section Tulsa symphonic poem at Lawton High School at 10 10 a m and 11 a m Thursday The concert ends with Don Gillis Symphonic Portrait in Oil featuring oil well imagery and a street square dance Other numbers include Trumpets Ole Tango Americano Parade of the Cliches Pizzicato Polka March Grandioso Tam bo and more
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Tulsa
Lawton High School
Ken Hatch
Don Gillis
Cofield
Mancini
Gearhart
Strauss
Seitz
Cavez
Courthouse storage cited as hindrance to surplus foods program
A state review finds surplus foods stored and distributed from the courthouse with no orderly handling and poor accounting. The area field supervisor urges immediate secure storage to meet minimum program requirements, noting commodities remain at the courthouse and conditions have not improved since last October. The department refuses to supply districts in Comanche County unless all districts qualify under the commodity agreement.
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Rader
Board of County Commissioners
Comanche County
Catholics Hear Presbyterian Pastor on Catholic Image
Rev. Robert Brannon Jr of Westminster Presbyterian speaks on a Presbyterian view of the Catholic image at St. Barbara's Parish Hall Thursday evening. The talk, invited by Rev. Paul Mollan, aims to foster church unity.
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Robert Brannon Jr
Westminster Presbyterian Church
St. Barbara's Catholic Church
Brannon
Paul Mollan
St. Barbara’s Church
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Russia
By Endre Marton
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Gilbert Gibson
Ralph Newcombe
Ed Storie
William Easley
W. E. Bill Wells
Sen. Gore
Miami
Fla
Young
Spears Hospital
Spears Chiropractic Hospital
Dexter
Denver
Colorado
Lawton Band
Desan
Presbyterian Church
Charlie
Doan
E Avenue
Rey
Riverside
Vance
WARD
Blackwall
Ivers
Wards Oil
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