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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1956
Page
17
This fifth Easter Week installment portrays Pontius Pilate in the courtyard scene with Jesus. Pilate vacillates between Rome's order and local turmoil, seeks a political solution, and ultimately sentences Jesus while fearing Caesar’s wrath.
Sydney readers learn of De Havilland Comet II with four Rolls Royce engines poised to redefine air travel. The article describes silent cabin comfort nine seconds to climb, speeds over 400 miles per hour, eight miles per minute air speed indicator, and a 1959 rollout for regular trans continental service beginning March.
A 3 year old boy in Bethany, Terry M. Weeks, apparently hanged himself with a rope in his backyard. He wrapped the rope around his throat, tied to a clothes line, and jumped from a porch, dying en route to Bethany Medical Center.
In Honolulu the AFL Teamsters Union, the nation’s largest, concluded a six day Executive Committee gathering in two sunny sessions. President Dave Beck retained full power to clean up corruption, target New York and Minneapolis, organize 250000 new members, and resolve a dispute with AFL CIO over a proposed loan to the International Longshoremen’s Association.
Garfield County commissioners named Walt Er Olivo as assistant county agent to take over June 1. Olivo currently serves as a vocational agriculture instructor at Greenfield in Blaine County.
The Vanguard project at Patrick Air Force Base faces doubt from experts like Dr. I M Leavitt about a flawless first launch. He warns a thousand things could fail in each stage and a rapid atmosphere may burn the satellite. If unsuccessful, American prestige could suffer. No decision yet on public announcement of the firing.
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