Last Minute Campaign Push for Comanche Levy
Proponents of a five mill fair building levy stage a final drive to win voter approval in the Comanche County general election. If passed, about 140000 dollars would fund most planned fairgrounds improvements for the 1955 56 tax year, with early 1956 availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County Fairgrounds
County Fair Board
Farm Bureau
Home Demonstration Agent
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Soil Conservation Service
Farmers Home Administration
Comanche County Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Leonard C. Wiley
Comanche County
Jean Matthews
County Soil Conservation Service
Bill Sieg
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
Matthews
Sieg
Wesley Reagan
Comanche
Siena
Reece
County Faces Sewer District Change Over Pecan Grove
County commissioners discuss formation of a sewer improvement district to manage the Pecan Grove area. City officials cite high costs to extend sewer lines and questioned state law. The proposal may come up again this week with final action uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morford
Pecan Grove Uest
Wynn
Woesner
Charles Gallaher
Pecan Grove
Wesner
Gallaher
State Senate
Bill Kleeman
Pity Max Hamm Missed Bus Calls Squad to Retrieve Him
A local second grader Max Hamm son of Mr and Mrs Volney Hamm 18 N 26th missed his bus home from St Marys school. The mother received a strange call from the operator asking for a five cent deposit then Max tearfully said he could not pay and asked his mother to fetch him. The operator allowed the call without a nickel revealing a public concern about the process and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max
Volney Hamm
St. Mary’s School
Maturity and lifespan differences in tarantulas
Female tarantulas reach maturity at age 10 and can live about 20 years. Males mature around age 9 and typically die after a single mating season.
Hospital Births And Admits In Southwestern Region
Births list a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Robison at 5:45 a.m. on Oct 30 weighing 7 pounds 1 ounce. A long roster details admissions and dismissals at area hospitals including S O Crutcher, Claude Roberts, Elmer Schutter, Mildred Reed, Judy Halbison, and many others with medical and surgical cases and Oct 27 28 dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Robison
Cache Rd
S. O. Crutcher
Arlington
W. C. Overton
Anadarko
Claude Edward Roberts
Apache
Elmer G. Schutter
Euclid
Judy Halbison
Francis Halbison
Mildred Reed
Chattanooga
Sue McCurley
Gore
Sam Cruigher
Columbia
S. F. Halleman
Cyril
C. L. Kendrick
George Dodson
Joe Harrison
Eas Harris
Smith
G. D. Gravelee
Peller
Spaulding
P Pana Winett
Snyder
Carl D. Adams
S. 21St
Lloyd Edwards
Ozman
Debra Lynn Carter
Eugene Carter
Billy J. Cates
Duncan
John H. Fairbetter
Maxwell E. Hamm
W. E. Hamm
N. 26Th
Eyvie Keeler
Park
Orrin Rickman
Lincoln
Joyce Veronica Shepler
Arthur Shepler
Ferris
Willie Shelton
Walters
Jake J. Morrison
Robert L. Gregg
Mangum
Robert S. Landers
Oklahoma markets show varied prices for wheat eggs and poultry
Oklahoma market reports list No 1 hard wheat at 2.16 2.23 at morning quotes with regional notes. Broilers No 1 farm at 22 delivered Tulsa 24 Oklahoma City 25 Ardmore 26. Eggs steady to weak with several towns quoted and pecans and butterfat prices noted. Oklahoma City livestock reports show cattle calves hogs and sheep with mixed prices and limited demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Hasiellons
Ent
Creese
Bison
Alva
Hennessey
Kingfisher
Blackwell
Enid
Fairview
Medford
Vici
Clinton
el Reno
Yukon
Oklahoma City
Hobart
Lawton
Frederick
Guyman
Hooker
Broilers
F.o.b. Farm
Muskogee
Vinita
Tulsa
Ardmore
Hens
Chickasha
McAlester
Chandler
Watonga
Laverne
Elk City
Durant
Pauls Valley
Shawnee
Oklahoma City Livestock
USDA
Naturalization Ceremonies Planned This Week
Citizenship papers are being completed for an undisclosed number of aliens who will become U S citizens in ceremonies Friday in the district courtroom. Glynn A Torrence of Dallas, representative of the U S Immigration service, will be here to complete papers and give tests. The exact number of new citizens will be announced later by court clerk Miss Ollie Fite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Glynn A. Torrence
Dallas
U.S. Immigration Service
Olllie Fite
Five Cache Boys Charged After County Halloween Celebration
Five Cache youths face charges for disturbing the peace after a county Halloween weekend incident. Haydon Bridges Benton Baker Robert Smith and two unidentified boys were cited by County Attorney Manville after a late night disturbance at Cache. Constable Ray Powell reported they pushed a county bus onto the sidewalk and let air out of tires. Police noted minor pranks elsewhere with window writing and trick or treating, while one unidentified boy reportedly broke into a vacant house and wailed loudly before escaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cache
Haydon Bridges
Benton Baker
Robert Smith
Manville
Ray Powell
Lawton
Two Lawton Teens Made Wards Of Court For Train Track Prank
Two 15 year old Lawton youths admitted placing a 15 foot elm log on a railroad trestle near the Wolf Creek Bridge to stop a passenger train. Judge S R Harper ordered them wards of the county, with one recommended for psychiatric treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
County Court
S. R. Harper
Wolf Creek Bridge
Cameron College
Frisco Railroad
C. D. Hayes
Frank Rice
Harper
Rice
Hayes
Okahomahoma City
Everett Ray*Hale
City School Leaders Given State Posts
Two Lawton administrators receive state posts for 1954 55. Hugh Bish of Lawton High becomes immediate past president on the Secondary School Principals Executive Board after leading the state meeting in Oklahoma City. Lee Smith of Howell Elementary is re elected to the Elementary Principals Executive Board. Eva Seigler of Howell serves on the state nominating committee and attends the Kappa Kappa Iota meeting as delegate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Hugh Bish
Oklahoma
Association For Childhood Education
Kappa Kappa Iota
Bids Sought on 100 Surplus Fort Sill Items
Fort Sill invites bids on 100 surplus items with 9 a.m. November 18 opening. Items range from grease guns to trucks and include a sedan pickup carryall motorcycle paint guns typewriters computers dishwashers toasters a steam table coffee urns forklifts and a warehouse tractor. Inspect items before the sale. a full list and terms are available from the Property Dis office building 3311 Fort Sill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sill
Indu
Dis
County Election Theater Screenings Set for November
The county lists voting access at Austin drive in Palace and Ritz theaters in Lawton and Fletcher theater from Nov 2 to Nov 15 excluding Saturdays and Sundays. Contests include Sheriff Hale vs Martin, State Rep No 3 Hale vs Colwell, and East district commissioner Kleeman vs Myers. Thirty four candidates seek district state and local offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Drive-In
Palace
Ritz
Lawton
Fletcher Theater
Everett Ray Hale
Claud Martin
Githen Rhoads
J. B. Colwell
W. H. Kleeman
R. F
Ike) Myers
Howell P-TA Sets Bike Scotch Lite Safety Campaign
For the second year the Howell school P-TA conducts a scotch lite bicycle safety program. Luminous tape will be affixed to bicycles of Howell pupils on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Lee Smith is the principal. Mrs. Jim Tucker chairs the project. P-TA president is Mrs. Tom Lansden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howell School
P-Ta
Howell
Lee Smith
Jim Tucker
P-Ta Sas
Tom Lansden
Funeral rites for Mrs Mary Wisper ee 90 pioneer of Indiahoma
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Wisper ee 90 a lifelong Indiahoma resident were held Sunday night at her home and Oak church. Rev D Gane of the Indiahoma Mission school and Rev Amos Kohm of Cache Nazarene church officiated. Burial followed at Post Oak cemetery under Becker Funeral home. She was born and raised in Comanche county. Her husband, a deacon at Post Oak Mission church, died in 1935. Survivors include two sons Fe Saulth Albuquerque New Mexico, 11 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary “‘Wisper
Indiahoma
Ae Oak Church
D.y Gane
Indiahoma Mission School
Amos Komah
Nazarene
Cache
Post Oak Cemetery
Becker Funeral Home
Koweno
Comanche County
Post Oak Mission Church
Fe- Saith
Albuquerque
N. M
Mail parcels for overseas delivery face strict timing
The article warns that air parcel post depends on military needs and guarantees only to embarkation ports. For Christmas delivery by air, mailing must close by November 25. It advises sturdy boxes, four-cord tying, taped joints, cushioning, and heavy wrapping to withstand long overseas transit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Parcel Post
Radio campaign and party contrasts in 1956 election drive
CBS Chicago report notes Democrats mobilizing a walkathon to urge voting while Republicans push a 10 friend telephone drive. Brownell cites anti communist aims, Nixon attacks Truman era policy, and Hall versus Mitchell clash in a final televised debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CBS
Chicago
Stephen A. Mitchell
Eisenhower
Brownell
Congress
Brownel
Nixon
Spokane
Wash
America
Seattle
Leonard Hall
Hall
GOP
Mitchell
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Fair Building
Sill Station
Fort Sill “Blvd
Williams Ave
Yvon Keaton
Fort Smith
Ark
L. J. Reese
Joseph B. Reese
Booker T. Pierson
Charles Wilson
Henry Bartels
Melvin Kelley
Pierson
Wilson
Wey Aioe
Highway Patrol
Fort
U.S. 277
Norman Carroll
Bud Williamson
Rauth
Station Hospital
Wesuroes
Yeahquo
Bell Dyer
Lee York
Marlow
Domehbo
Stecker
Oe Cole
Jozhe
Stevenson
Keninedt Insurors
Realtors
C. M. Pike
Koehler
McCord
of Post Office
Ralph Hennessee
Aoauhoun
Bill McCowan
Maurice
Bill) McCowan
David Morton
Sim
C Avenue
Courthouse
Benny
Cb8s
Get America
Scotch Lite
Mary Koweno
H. P. Wettengel
Fletcher
Henry Philip Wettengel
Fletcher Methodist Church
Wettengel
Vernon V. Voss
R. M. Templeton
Waukomis Cemetery
Voss
Dalton Funeral Home
Kenneth Harrel
L. D. Whitlock
Marion M. Hill
Carroll Ridgeway
Jerome Dilling
David Kinkade
J. H. Black
Jess Burch
O. A. Kinkade
Eq Snell
Bud Griffin
Arthur Peace
Hugh Thompson
Art Wilson
C. H. Rodgers
Ralph Deeds
A. F. Whitlock
Ed Newcombe
Guys & Dolls Toy Shop
Tith and
M&d
JO G. Andrews
D Ave
Cena
D Avenue
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