Funeral Rites for Elsie Gross and Others
Funeral services and burial for Mrs. Elsie B. Gross 78 were held in Chickasha with survivors including two daughters a son a sister three brothers and a granddaughter. Also noted were military rites for Sp4 Charles F Skinner killed in an automobile accident and obituaries for Grady Roy Boyd of Hastings with services in Waurika and multiple survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie B. Gross
Chickasha
J. R. Greenwood
Gore Blvd
Warren Bolton
J. B. Gross
Lula Manning
E. C. Vineyard
Oak
J. J. Vineyard
Abernathy
Tex
W. H. Vineyard
Oklahoma City
William A. Corrales
N. 23Rd
Charles F. Skinner
Bell
New Post Chapel
Donald C. Warren
Post Cemetery
Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home
31St Artillery
George Gresham
Spi
Edgar Horn
97Th Army Band
Willmot FE. Kaufman
Richard FE. Porter
Donald E. Melby
Clayton T. Brickley
Robert E. Neal
Bobby D. Mills
Waurika
Grady Roy Boyd
Hastings
Worley Funeral Home
Preston Sparks
Marlow
Texas
Arizona
California
Oklahoma
Sugden
Baptist Church
Arvil
Florida
Aubrey
New Jersey
C. W
Kenneth
Jimmy
Wichita Falls
Nell Franklin
Odessa
Bertha Barnes
Louise Rose
Indiana
Gladys Boyd
Hastfangs
Gertrude Roberts
Dixie protest march resumes through Deep South
A group of Freedom Marchers resumes a two leg walk through the Deep South to protest segregation. They face possible arrests in Alabama after jeers and insults along the route from Chattanooga toward Attalla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
Deep South
Baltimore
William Moore
Attalla
Ala
Alabama
Gadsden
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hooker
Georgia
U.S. 11
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
Gary Brock
South
Jim Hickson
Hickson
Kennedy
Wallace
Atto
Robert F. Kennedy
George Wallace
Brock
Dade County
Allison Blevins
Tennessee Line
Tennessee
Georgia Line
Chinese Mobilize To Fight Drought
Hong Kong dispatch reports the Chinese Communist authorities mobilizing two million men to combat a severe drought in Guangdong. Eight months without rain have damaged crops along the coastal province, prompting large scale relief and emergency measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
South China
Kwangtung
Red China
Hughes Held in Deliberate Default in Hughes Case
Federal Judge Charles M. Metzner ruled Howard Hughes is in deliberate and wilful default for missing pretrial examination. He may appoint a special master to fix damages in TWA suit for 135 million dollars and decide on divesting 78 percent of Hughes Tool Co stake. Hughes counterclaim of 366 million was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPT
Howard Hughes
Charles M. Metzner
Metzner
Trans World Airlines
Hughes
Hughes Tool Co
TWA
Pioneer Expressway and Interchange Projects Progress
The four lane Pioneer Expressway links Lawton to the Southwestern Turnpike and a new U.S. 277 281 interchange south of the airport. G. E. Smith and Sons build the roadbed at about 1.9 million dollars with bids on 21 bridge structures led by Peter Kiewit Sons Co at 734 thousand for nine structures. The project includes two underpasses and seven overpasses plus 12 more overpasses priced around 731 thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Smith and Sons
Peter Kiewitt Sons’ Co
Oklahoma City
Brewer and McMichael
Holdenville
Kiewit
Airport
Municipal Airport
Highway Department
Lawton
Singing Convention Planned in Sterling Assembly of God
The Comanche County Singing Convention meets Sunday at Sterling Assembly of God Church. President Jack Wellington says singing begins at 11 a.m. The Good Family singers FBI quartet Soonerland quartet Sharver quartet and others will participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Sterling Assembly of God
Jack Wellington
Good Family Singers
FBI Quartet
Soonerland Quartet
Sharver Quartet
Navy Trieste Deep Sea Tests Delayed by Boston Weather
Unfavorable sea conditions forced postponement of deep sea dive tests by the Navy bathyscaphe Trieste. Tests were to be near 60 miles east of Boston before moving to the last known Thresher site, but foul weather pushed the schedule to Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Navy
Bathyscaphe Trieste
Thresher
Trieste
Lawmakers debate separate house apportionment question
Rep. Martin Odom proposes one house by area and one by population with concessions to populous counties. Tate argues federal court would favor population and oppose the plan. Jim Taliaferro supports reintroducing the 1961 reapportionment proposal removing county caps and boosting Oklahoma and Tulsa counties with guaranteed representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Odom
Hitchita
Tate
Jim Taliaferro
Lawton
Oklahoma County
Tulsa County
Fourteen New Traffic Charges Filed by County Attorney
The county attorney's office filed fourteen traffic charges Wednesday against motorists arrested by the highway patrol. Reckless driving complaints named Donald L. Calhoun, 18, Chattanooga. Barbara Strumb, 29, Altus. Roger Allen Moore, 18, 902 S. Fifth. Delbert Large, 23, Indiahoma, who was also charged with driving without a license. Speeding complaints named Walter Ernest Crooks, 23, Sheppard AFB. Lorretta Jewell Hayes, 32, 1113 Andrews. Arthur Lee Kiper, 21, Fort Sill. Driving without a license charges named Jerry Joseph Coleman, 33, Clin ton. Earl Fletcher, 28, Colline. Carolyn C. Halbrooks, 24, 1207 S. 25th. Allen V. Phelps, 46, 1209 J. Other charges included following too closely against James J. Garrison, 25, Marlow Rt. 2, and failure to stop at a stop sign against Lynn Jay Riggs, 18, Oklahoma City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Patrol
Donald L. Calhoun
Rt. 1
Chattanooga
Barbara Strumb
Altus
Roger Allen Moore
S. Fifth
Delbert Large
Indiahoma
Walter Ernest Crooks
Sheppard Afb
Lorretta Jewell Hayes
Andrews
Arthur Lee Kiper
Fort Sill
Jerry Joseph Coleman
E. Columbia
Clinton Earl Fletcher
Colline
Carolyn C. Halbrooks
S. 25Th
Allen V. Phelps
James J. Garrison
Rt. 2
Marlow
Lynn Jay Riggs
Oklahoma City
Retired Civil Servants to Meet in Cheyenne County Court
Lawton chapter of the National Association of Retired Civil Service Employees will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Cheyenne County Courthouse District courtroom. A. J. Miet chen, president, said the group will discuss important business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
National Association of Retired Civil Service
Comanche County
A. J. Mietchen
Midnight prowler spotted on roof in Novato
At midnight Mark Wills heard activity on his roof. Two police officers captured the culprit a black cat.
Oklahoma Senate Kills Alcohol Board Reform Bill
The floor drama saw Senator Nichols denounce SB 215 as prejudice and demand withdrawal while Senator Payne joined in a failed bid to defeat it. The Senate approved the measure 31 to 10 to abolish the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board enforcement staff and move it to a new state crime bureau, with 2 not voting and 1 excused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nichols
Tom Payne
Okmulgee
Senate
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Lowell’s Mathematics Points to Hidden Planet Pluto
The pattern in Uranus’s path prompted astronomer Percival Lowell to theorize an unseen planet causing irregular motion. Through mathematical reasoning he argued there must be another world beyond Uranus, leading to Pluto’s proposed existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uranus
Pluto
Lowell
Ex-Chinese Red Heads For U.S.
Chao Fu, once a security officer at the Peking Embassy in Sweden, will leave Taipei for the United States after defecting. He arrived in Taipei January 20 and has been granted asylum to study political science diplomacy and law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipei
Formosa
Chao Fu
Peking
Sweden
United States
Chao
Portable gas plug enables appliance connection to lines
The American Gas Association reports a new certified device allows portable gas appliances to be plugged or unplugged from gas supply lines, expanding flexibility for New York users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
The
American Gas Association
Early Harvard French and Spanish Professor Named
Harvard's first professor of French and Spanish was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a position later taken by James Russell Lowell, as Britannica notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Harvard
James Russell Lowell
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Lawton Constitution
Elsie Gross
Charles Skinner
Dixie
Crusaders
By Jack Stillman
Congress of Racial Equality
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Robert Gore
Core
Mississippi
Bust
Joe's
Moore
Floyd Simpson
James A. Dombroski
New Orleans
Southern Conference Educational Fund Inc
Dombrowski
A! Lingo
Page
Midnight Prowler
Bermuda
Clement’s Garden Center
Cache Road
America
Seagram's
Allen
Baldwin
Berrong
Beecher
Bohannon
Breeden
Cobb
Colston
Cowden
Dacus
Fine
Garrison
Garvin
Grantham
Ham
Hamilton
Haworth
Lollar
McClendon
McColgin
McComas
McSpadden
Muldrow
Murphy
Ritzhaupt
Romany
Schoele
Stipe
Trent
Wilkerson
Williams
Wilson
Bartlett
Belvin
Graves
Harris
Payne
Pazoureck
Rogers
Stevenson
Tipps
Field
Kerr
Schoeb
U.S
Waggoner
Lawton Loan and Investment Lawton
OKLA
Geronimo
Geronimo Properties, Inc
Pepsi Cola
Conoco
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