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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1957
Page
3
Widespread rainfall totals reach near 4 inches with scattered runoff and river spillovers. Residents report rising lake levels, closed highways, flooded homes, and urgent damage assessments as officials monitor watershed impacts and crop damage estimates across the region.
A state traffic week turns deadly with five confirmed fatalities. Reports list victims including a Wichita man and others named Shoemaker and Dewrma. details remain fragmentary as authorities investigate.
Civil Defense warns of looting risk as Red River near Shreveport stays high and Sabine floods threaten towns near Honea, with authorities urging boats and sanitary supplies. Dennis and Brazos areas recede and residents brace for crest while a schoolgirl recalls flood impact.
Aly Wassil addressed the Lawton Knife and Fork club at its final spring meeting at the Hotel Lawtonian, urging rejection of criticism and presenting Eastern philosophy and yoga as paths to a better world. He cited living roots in the East and West, quoted Emerson, and discussed breathing, discipline, and self understanding. More than 200 members attended as new season head John Purdy was announced with Wings Over the World as the opening topic. Nine Pakistani officers at Fort SUL joined the audience, including Majors Atal By and Ali Mayhool, Captains Ali Abid Mussain and Irfan Qureshi.
Hopkins died Friday of cancer at age. Funeral services will be held Monday at National Presbyterian Church for John Jay Hopkins builder of the world’s first atomic submarine. He is mourned in Washington and by national defense circles.
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