Plans Completed For Annual Amateur Artists Exhibition
Plans are under way for Lawton Amateur Artists association annual fall exhibit in the Civic room of the Security Bank & Trust Co. building on November 13. Entries are being accepted with Mrs. Ross Miller as chairman. Residents and former residents of Oklahoma may enter up to three paintings. Cash prizes go to the top three old landmark or area scene works. An entry fee is one dollar and the show runs through November 19 daily 1 to 5 pm with some out of town pieces exhibited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Amateur Artists Association
Security Bank & Trust Co
Ross Miller
Lawton
Oklahoma
Jeanette Larson
Kathleen Peace
Louisa Wilson
Hospital News Items Dockets Admitting and Dismissing Patients
Southwestern and Kiowa areas report admissions and discharges with births noted. Includes names and addresses of patients under medical, surgical, and obstetric care, plus newborns with weights and times. Memorial births list multiple families with newborns and dates.
Woman To Get Child Support In Divorce Case
A local woman, Mrs Mary Wells, will receive 25 per month in child support from her husband George Wells during their divorce proceedings. Judge Robert S Landers granted custody of their child to Mrs Wells. The case involves an adultery charge against Mrs Wells and an additional man, Freddy Beavers, named in the original charge. Mrs Wells filed for divorce alleging mental cruelty after the adultery allegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Landers
Mary Wells
George Wells
Freddy Beavers
Manville Redman
Woodrow Giles
City Masons to Attend Guthrie Rites Thanksgiving Reunion
Lawton Masonic 21st degree team travels to Guthrie November 14 to 16 for the Scottish Rite Masons of Oklahoma event honoring the late Ralph L. Dunkle. Local members Edward Graham Fred L. Trent and Jimmy Knox among those receiving degrees. Capshaw directs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Masonic
Guthrie
Scottish Rite Masons of
Oklahoma
Ralph L. Dunkle
Tulsa
Leonard Layton
Rolley Eades
Louis Vanderpool
J. E. Irwin
R. A. Davis
Joseph LaBell
Clovis L. Irwin
La-Von Cook
Henry Fink
C. J. Moreau
Gene Trouppy
Capshaw
Masonic Hall
Masonic Home
Chest X Ray Plan Mapped for Comanche County Unit
Jack McBee is coordinating with Dr. Frank Austin to run a county tuberculosis unit. Free X rays will be available to all residents over 15 from Nov 20 to Jan 1 1956, with Wanda Pollock directing the operation and surveys across towns and schools. The X rays will be reviewed by the state health department to detect tuberculosis and spot other health issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack McBee
Frank Austin
Comanche County Tuberculosis Association
McBee
State Department of Health
Wanda Pollock
Comanche County
Police Seek Owner Of Dog After Boy Bitten In Yard
Police search for the owner of a cocker spaniel that bit three year old Larry Bertram as he played in the backyard at 2415 Williams. The dog was placed in a police car with Mrs Dwayne Bertram and taken to the city pound for observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Bertram
Bertram
Williams
Dwayne Bertram
Mexican Released From County Jail On Reduced Count
Joe Jiminez a 26 year old Lawton Mexican was freed from county jail after an assault with a deadly weapon charge was reduced to aggravated assault a misdemeanor He had already served 58 days and was given 30 days to serve after arraignment before Peace Justice Woodrow Giles The incident involved a knife at the Bon Ton Tavern on September 3 and the accuser was Johnny Odell Spivey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Jiminez
Lawton
Woodrow Giles
Jiminez
Johnny Odell Spivey
Bon Ton Tavern
S. 11Th
Optimists Honor Speech Students at Meeting
Six Lawton high school speech students spoke at the Optimist club meeting as a preview to American Education week. They formed a symposium under instructor K. A. McClure and discussed Lawton High School curriculum. Speakers included Jerry Brammer Don Kouri Joan Godlove Jim Maddox Marilyn Salyer and Joe Crosby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton High School
K. A. McClure
LHS
Jerry Brammer
Don Kouri
Joan Godlove
Jim Maddox
Marilyn Salyer
Joe Crosby
Area Men In Service Carl Franklin Redding Enlists
Carl Franklin Redding son of Mrs Gertrude Redding 2403 Cornell recently enlisted in the Navy and is in recruit training at the Naval Training Station San Diego California He attended grade school in Lawton Oklahoma moved to Phoenix Arizona and lived there until returning here about two months before enlisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawtonian
Layton
Fuzz Barnes
Knights of the Court of Honor
Carl Franklin Redding
Gertrude Redding
Cornell
Navy
Naval Training Station
San Diego
Calif
Redding
Lawton
Phoenix
Ariz
200 Attend 4-H Clothing School
Two hundred 4-H members coaches and leaders attended the clothing school in the Civic Room of the Security Bank building. Mrs Clara J Kel ley home demonstration agent said Miss Janelle Allison assistant clothing specialist Oklahoma A&M conducted the school. She stressed material and pattern selection and clothing construction processes. Schools represented included Elgin Cache Géronimo Faxon Chattanooga Scott Post Oak Mission and Fort Sill Indian School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
4-H
Security Bank
Clara J. Kelley
Janelle Allison
Oklahoma A&m College
Allison
Elgin
Cache
Géronimo
Faxon
Chattanooga
Scott
Post Oak Mission
Fort Sill Indian School
Police Arrest Five During Evening
City police late Thursday and early Friday morning arrested five persons on various charges. Among those jailed were Coy Hubert Herrin, 20, for running a stop sign, Sgt. Jessie Mannuel, 26, Fort Sill, for reckless driving and driving without a license, and Milo Duene Matthews, 16, for reckless driving. Municipal court bonds were forfeited for seven motorists including Odessa Douglass, 22, for licenses violations and speeding, and Leoncio Naval, 48, Fort Sill, for leaving the scene of an accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Herrin
Park
Jessie Mannuel
Fort Sill
Milo Duene Matthews
Andrews
J. Merle Oaks
Odessa Douglass
Sgt
George Knight
Melvin Foley
Pfc
Arthur C. Larson
Fort Sil
Eddy Lynn Jones
Ash
J. D. Copeland
Leoncio Naval
Old Cameron Pep Club Reorganized
The newly reorganized Hellhounds pep group will energize Cameron College events including the Ggies game with New Mexico Military Institute. Johnny De Yong leads as president with chairmen and a long list of members and sponsors, including Bob Martin as Hell leader and Alvin Hand as faculty sponsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aggie
New Mexico Miliary Institute
Hellhounds
Cameron College
Aggies
Arlington State
Johnny de Yong
Tipton
Don Kolker
Walters
Joe Ted Gilliland
South Carolina ratifies Constitution in 1788 admission
South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and is admitted to the Union on May 23, 1788, marking its formal entry into the new federal framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
United States
Bonn slows bid for Soviet envoy exchanges in 1956
NO ENVOY EXCHANGE BONN Germany says there is little chance Bonn and Moscow will exchange ambassadors before 1956. Senior officials note West Germany has quietly halted moves toward formal diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Soviet Union
Moscow
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southwestern
Will Ellis
S. Lincoln
Gery
Roy Dungan
Duncan
Jeanette Werling
N. 24Th
N. A. Nottingham
Nelda Anderson
Lincoln
James Maness
Roosvelt
Charles Polk
Flemging
Karen Kay Jackson
Leon Jackson
S. 23Rd Place
J. R. Carson
Euclid
Medical
Ranson Thompson
James Mitchell
G. C. Jones
Frederick
Arthur Rowledge
Geary, Sur
Walter Quayvah
Freddy Beaver
Tennessee
Sadie Arkeketa
Oklahoma City
Howard Riggs
Clinton
John Old Crow
Anadarko
Katushemaquah
Libby Boynton
Jane Baptiste
Marlow
Leland Shantz
Roy W. Dor‘ety
Walter H. Murphy
Edward Over-street
Lee
Catherine Ann Catlin
Raymond Catlin
Taft
Richard Lynn Catlin
Leslie Ann Keith
Arthur G. Keith
Bell
Roy M. Gray
Janice Marie House
John M. House
Elsie McKenzie
Ferris
John J. Lancaster
Sterling
Sur
Euell B. Rose
Altus
Gene Werner
John DeVine
Geronimo
Cecil Boyner
Fontozo Carramza
Adimeion Carramza
Central
Tex
John Setzer
Apache
Ben Peffer
Calvin Holley
Oak
E. D. Ethell
Indiahoma
Millard Gray
Jennetta Ripiey
Don Fischer Jr
Chatta- Nooga
City Masons
Sparkling Giamonds
Appel
4-H Clothing
Old Cameron
Southwestern State College
Weatherford
Hand
University of Oklahoma
Walters Junior High School
Jerry Miles
Pulaski
Tenn
Sakie Shaw
Edwin Rice
Fred Rodrigues
Caracas
Venezuela
Jerry Hoopert
Joe Waldrop
Elk City
Banjo Lowery
Dan Fullerton
Gene Thompson
Don Gieger
Kent Hulse
Headrick
Charles Strange
Glen Sullivan
Lloyd Wax
Sentinel
Pittsburgh Paints
Farmers Lumber Company
Move
Frgaice CO
KEY Termite & Pest Control CO
John Schneider
911 Lee
Lawton, Okla
A. L. Pollard Sporting Goods
D Ave
Pho
Babbitt-Peller Pae
Jander Jew
Jewelers
D Avenue
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