Swinney School Winners Named in Halloween Contest
Jan Little led the top original costume winners at B C Swinney Elementary School with a Presley impersonation as Eddie Crosson the Elvis photographer also a winner. A host of students named winners for prettiest funniest and spookiest costumes, under the direction of principal Christina Swanson and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Little
Jayne Mansfield
Stephen Sanders
B.C. Swinney
Freddie Crosson
Elvis Presley
Nettie Hogan
Don Whitten
Pam Howenstine
Stan Poythress
Pia de Gregoria
Ginny Bundy
Ray Philopena
David Means
Bruce Reid
Kristen Harris
Susie Smith
Claudia Johnson
Deborah -Ann Ledig
Sharon Eagan
Cheryl Means
Bridget Stambridge
Susan Ross
Janis Shrader
Christine Maris
Betty Carter
Faddy Byrd
Beverly Hayes
Sarlann Sontfield
Susan Echols
Terry Cregg
Janet William
Philip Smith
Harold Hurst
Johnny Glenn
Scott Elkins
Tom Cummins
Mike Kohler
Fred Fitch
Sanda McKinnis
Pete Wilson
David Walker
Lawton United Fund nears goal with 63 percent raised
Lawton Fort Sill United Fund totals rose to 49 872 43 dollars, 63 percent of the 79 504 goal, as of today. Drive chairman Jack Carter urged more Chamber support to finish by November 8. Contributions to the fund office in the Koehler building may be mailed or turned in, with pledge cards available from Col. Charles Gallaher. A Fort Sill Post Community Activities Fund drive, at 50 percent of its 45 000 goal, is expected to contribute. last year Fort Sill gave 16 000 to United Fund. Both drives end November 8.
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Lawton-Fort “Sil
United Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Lawtonian
Jack Carter
Drive
Lawton
Carter
Chamber
United Fond
Koehler
Col
Het
Charles , Gallaher
Fund
United ‘Fund
Fort Sill
Army Engineers Set Bid Date for City Armory in Lawton
Army engineers in Tulsa announced a November 15 bid advertisement date for the Lawton Army reserve center and a tentative December 18 bid opening for armories in Lawton Ponca City and Lawton. The three armories will mirror each other with an estimated cost of 275000 dollars. the Lawton armory will sit in Elmer Thomas Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Engineers
Tulsa
Lawton
Ponca City
Elmer Thomas Park
Union States Rail Strike Intensifies at Santa Fe
In Chicago, more than 40,000 non-operating Santa Fe Railway workers voted 91 to strike to press for a union shop. About 42,000 workers across 15 unions are affected, including yardmasters and clerks. No strike date set as the National Mediation Board agrees to rehear the case today after failed mediation.
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Chicago 1M
Santa Fe Railway
George E. Leighty
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Vistrain
Santa Fe
National Mediation Board
Cityan To Show Cats In Capital City
Mrs. A. B. Hambrick will travel to Oklahoma City for an All Breed Cat Show. She plans to exhibit a Blue Point and two Seal Point Siamese cats on Saturday and Sunday at the State Fair grounds agriculture building. It is the first such show in several years drawing breeders from eight or more states.
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A. B. Hambrick
Okahoma City
Hambrick
Oklahoma City
Revival Services Planned at Lawton SDA Church
Revival services will be held at 7 p.m. from November 3 through 17 at the Lawton Seventh Day Adventist Church located at Sixth and Gore. Evangelist Elder C. W. Pine will preside, with Rone Scott organist and song director for the meetings.
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Lawton Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Sixth and Gore
C. W. Pine
Rone Scott
Wynn in Hospital With Flu for District Three
District three county commissioner Pete Wynn is reported in good condition at Memorial Hospital with influenza. He was admitted late Wednesday and remains confined to the facility.
City Man Injured In 2 Car Wreck
A 41 year old Lawton man Elbert Hollingshead of 1504 Ninth was treated at Southwestern hospital for neck and right arm injuries after a two car crash at Second and E. He was a passenger in a 1950 Chevrolet driven by Ray H. Rawls of 504 S 28th. The other vehicle a 1955 Ford was driven by Sgt. John Ford Fort Sill 34 who was charged with driving while intoxicated. The collision occurred about 6 26 p m Thursday as Rawls stopped to await a signal when struck from behind by the Ford. Hollingshead condition listed as good. Additional traffic cases included 15 speeding tickets in two courts with several locals and out of town residents cited and fined.
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Lawton
Second
E. B
Elbert Hollingshead
Ray H. Rawls
John McCaig
Clarence Hill
Rawls
Ford
John Ford
Fort Sill
Special Sessions Court
Hollingshead
Southwestern Hospital
K. C. Smith
Ardmore
Willie Cle
Herndon
Vernon
Tex
Mack Iva Nash
Frances C. Douglas
Ali
Garvin J. Wilson
Hugh Samuel Maples
1603
Sulan Lindley Wilkerson
Star- Rt
Elgin
Claude J. Simms
Loveland
Joseph A. Slama
Elk City
W. F. Bentley
Temple
Premier Ben-Gurion Seeks Exit After Parliament Attack
Premier David Ben-Gurion attempted to leave the hospital today but doctors ordered further rest to aid recovery from wounds suffered in the assassination attempt inside Parliament Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem, Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Central Paper Goes To Students
The first issue of the Central junior high school news is on sale in homerooms. No name has been chosen yet. students may submit suggestions to English teachers. Helpers include Kay Stiner, Kathy Curtis, Ann Clark, Ferne Hooper, Joan Van Sant, Pam Allender, Billie Ruth Bish, Margaret Winton, Lynda Freeman, Jane Donnell, Retta Coombs, Sandie Shoemaker, Brenda McDonald, LaCretia Milford, Lana Naugher, Betty Ann Davis, Sallie Williams. Faculty advisors are Mrs Clementine Wolfe, Mrs Dell Logan and Mrs Cleo Milford.
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Central Junior High School
Kay Stiner
Kathy Curtis
Ann Clark
Ferne
Hooper
Joan van Sant
Pam Allender
Billie Ruth Bish
Margaret Winton
Lynda Freeman
Jane Donnell
Retta Coombs
Sandie Shoemaker
Brenda McDonald
LaCretia Milford
Lana Naugher
Betty Ann Davis
Sallie Williams
Clementine Wolfe
Dell Logan
Cleo Milford
Five Die In Blast On Mexico City Highway Project
Five workers were killed and another injured when a stick of dynamite exploded prematurely at a construction site on the Mexico City Laredo highway. The accident occurred yesterday, shocking the crew and delaying the project as authorities investigate the blast.
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Mexico
Mexico City-Laredo
VANDALS Continue To Puncture Tires Across City
A wave of vandalism disrupted police and transportation as tire puncturing crippled many vehicles including a Mead's Bakery fleet and three cars at Sooner Lanes. Rocks shattered windows at Dalton Business College and several car windshields and doors were damaged across town, with numerous reports of punctured tires and broken glass from residents such as Cloyce Ray and Mrs. Vernon Goodrich.
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Mead’s Bakery
Packard
Cloyce Ray
Vernon Goodrich
Chevrolet
Cara
Dalton Business College
Sheridan Road
Ethel Fenwick
Kingsbury
Jess Pabdoco
Lee
Bobby J. Tortinson
Fort Sill
Paul Hughes
Claude Sexton
McKinley
Hubcap thefts and items stolen reported in varied locations
The report lists multiple thefts including hubcaps from several cars a 1952 Chevrolet a 1957 Dodge a 1956 Mercury and a 1956 Oldsmobile plus clothing from a clothesline 31 items and cash and papers stolen from a glove box a wristwatch and a billfold with $27 also a 1950 Buick sedan was taken from First and C Fort Sill and other addresses cited notes include Pvt Gene Patterson and Pvt Nathaniel Shaw among others
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Chevrolet
Keegan
McAlester
Dodge
Ai. Barnett
Rt. 2
Duncan
Mercury
Gere Smith
Walding
Oldsmobile
Jack Wilcoxen
Lincoln
Elen
Mercer
Euclid
Gene Patterson
Fort Sill
Robert Murphy
Nathaniel
Shaw
Arlington
R. C. Edward
Tirst
Officers Probe Two Break-Ins
City police report two overnight downtown office break-ins under investigation with no thefts. Burglars struck Rays Finance Co. at 4274 D and Lawton Retail Merchants Association in the Koehler Building at 402 C. Entry at RMA may have failed as one door lock was broken. At Rays Finance, burglars entered through a west door and ransacked desk drawers.
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Rays Finance Co
Lawton Retail Merchants Association
Koehler
RMA
Finance Company
Bandits kill 25 in Colombia village raid
Bandits killed 25 people including women and children in a village raid in the Frazadas area of Vallecauca province on Thursday, an official announcement said.
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Cali
Colombia
Frazadas
Vallecauca
Union Warned Layoffs Loom
Denver. Knight, president of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, urged members to prepare for a shorter work week as layoffs loom. He surveyed district directors on layoff prospects and member attitudes, noting likely job losses without automation and a softening business climate. He cited Ike administration tight money policy and cuts in aircraft production as driving unemployment.
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Denver
A! Knight
Oil, Chemical, and Atomic’ Workers International
Tr Knight
Knight
Date For Central Play is Announced
A short play titled Many Thanks will be shown at Central Junior High School on November 27 during the regular assembly. Directed by Mrs Beth el Andrews, the cast features speech students of Andrews.
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Central Junior High School
Bethel Andrews
Prisoner Bolts, Police Car Hits Parked Vehicle
A police Plymouth sedan collided with a pickup while a officer struggled with a prisoner. Damage to the police car is about 45 dollars. the 21988 Dodge pickup owned by Montgomery Ward Co. suffered no damage.
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Montgomery Ward Antic Co
Tame Trickster and New Canadian Oil Firm Formed
In Albuquerque a wary Mrs. Melba Holmes faced a 9 year old trick or treater, while in Tulsa Kewanee Oil Co. forms a Canadian subsidiary named Canadian Kewanee Ltd with offices in Calgary and Vancouver.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Melba Holmes
Jon
Tulsa
Kewanee Oil Co
Cal Bay
Alta
Kewanee Ltd
Convention Details Reveal Board and Officers
The report lists federation leadership including vice president Fred R. Jones of Kansas City Missouri and secretary Norman, with executive committee members Jessye Arnell Enid Me Whitney and Bark Smith alongside officers and venues. Names span Tulsa Oklahoma City Enid and other Oklahoma communities.
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Clude
Fred:r
Jones
Kansas City
Pre Ens
Norman
Clance F. Moore
Stillwater
Jessye Bea Arnell
Tulsi “Li. Danely
Enid
Me E.whitney
Oklahoma City
Bark W
Smith
Muskogee
Gee
Oklahoma
City
Tulsa
Enid- Guth
Bartlesville
Shawnee
Lanawrdmore
Arkansas NAACP leader cites state court limits on rights
In Little Rock, discussions center on an ordinance that Bennett says will curb NAACP activity. He argues that blacks have historically fled to federal courts, and the measure would expose NAACP membership, harming the organization as state authorities tighten legal avenues. Mrs. L C Bates is cited in New York as chapter president.
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Naacp Arkansas
New York and Rock
South
Bennett
NAACP
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