AMA Urges Fast First Aid in Poisonings
The AMA Committee on Toxicology releases public guidance stressing rapid steps to limit poison absorption. It advises one person to start treatment while another calls a physician, notes vomiting only for non corrosive poisons, and outlines procedures for corrosives, inhaled, skin, and eye contamination, with cautions against alcohol and certain burn treatments.
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Chicago
American” Medical Association
AMA
Committee On Toxicology
Dearborn Street
Nois
Armory Construction Planned for Lawton and Two Cities
Army engineers in Tulsa announced start of construction for a Lawton armory around January 1 with bids due November 15 for three similar armories in Lawton Ponca City and McAlester. Each 11 500 square foot unit includes a two day maintenance shop 2 500 square feet and asphalt concrete parking with concrete drives and sidewalks.
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Army Reserve
Lawton
Army Engineers
Tulsa
Ponca City
McAlester
Pancake Day Set Tuesday At USC Area Club Pancake Sale
Ambue's ABC club led by Gene Welch will serve pancakes from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Southwestern Bell building near USC Fourth and B to raise funds for park development. Tickets cost 11 for adults and 50 cents for children. Prepared quantities include 120 gallons of batter, 50 pounds each of sausage and bacon, 78 dozen eggs, 1,250 cups of coffee, and 100 gallons of milk. A 7 p.m. trial run is planned for members and families.
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Gene Welch
Southwestern Bell Telephone
USC
Fourth
Frank Countryman
Cili Scout Pushmobile Race Winners Crown Winners at Lawton High
About 350 people attended Lawton High School parking lot for the 10th annual Pushmobile race. Cubs from area packs built miniature cars pushed by one rider while a teammate steered toward victory. Winners in eight nine and 10 year old groups were from Packs 81 73 and 40 with several runners up from Packs 29 47 70 and 42. Officials noted safety staff and Army ambulance on site as plans set for 1958 event in November.
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Cili
Rage
Lawton High School
Tex McCloy
Hunting Ho
Frank Steuver
Pat Bryant
Glen Scott
Jerry Condy
Billy Joe Bruner
Stanley Ott
Ernest Bernard
Gene Willig
Howard Ross
Mike Fargo
Terry Ailen
John Walker
F. A. Hald
Whit Ozier
Nat Robertson
Chester McCord
C. H. Parsons
Roy Maynard
McCoy
AF Group Blasts Missile Policies
The Air Force Association urges full disclosure on missile programs citing public misinformation about long-range weapons. It notes the Thor missile’s flight distance and criticizes reliance on press releases to meet Soviet challenges. The board backs higher defense spending and credits Secretary McElroy for restoring research funds.
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Colorado
Springs
Colo.e
Air Force .Assn
Nessiles
América
Air Force
James Doolittle
Funeral Rites for William Carl Woodall Held in Chattanooga
Funeral services Saturday in the First Baptist Church in Chattanooga for William Carl Woodall 38 of Chattanooga who died Saturday night in Clinton Hospital after a long illness. Rev Everett Young will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park Lawton under Boydston Funeral Home. Born July 26 1919 in Somersett Kentucky he moved to Oklahoma in 1920 with his parents. He married Zetta Cornwell July 25 1947 of Lawton. Survived by his wife mother Nellie Woodall Chattanooga two brothers Charlie and Earl of Faxon and two sisters Jimmie Curtsinger Faxon and Albert Logue of Cache.
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Pam
William Carl Woodall
Chattanooga
First Baptist Church
Everett Young
Woodall
Clinton Hospital
Sunset Memorial Park
Lawton
Boydston Funeral Home
Comanche
Somersett
Ken
Oklahoma
Zetta Cornwell
Nellie Woodall
Charlie Woodall
Earl Woodall
Faxon
Jimmie*Curtsinger
Albert Logue
Cache
Two Lawton Men Forfeit Gambling Bonds At Tavern
Lawton police report two men, Billy Burke and Ronnie Gaskins, forfeited gambling bonds after failing to appear on gambling and resisting arrest charges linked to a Rock Castle tavern card game near U.S. 27. Burke forfeited a $20 bond and Gaskins two $20 bonds. Six more individuals faced assorted fines and bond forfeitures for driving and public order offenses in the same session.
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Lawton
South
Billy Burke
Ronnie Gaskins
Elm
Gaskins
Burke
James C. Blackburn
Kenneth Stradley
Rock Castle
U.S. 27
J. Merle Oaks
David E. Cutino
Fort Sill
Holden H. Dunford
George F. Griffin
Wichita Falls
Charles Hockersmith
Lee. T. Smith
Arlington
Robert D. Wallins
Florence C. Radio
Delbert Lamont Smith
Raymond Hulsey
Washington
Johnson Jesse Davis
Laird
Easter Lilly
Rt. 3
Mary Louise Pekah
Louise Jackson
No. 24
Pvt
Allen R -Kerr
Lee Nix
James H. Franklin
Eli S. Holcomb
Lee
Leukemia victim remains critical in Oklahoma City hospital
Eight year old leukemia patient Tef fery Lewis son of Mrs. Chester Durant Lawton was flown by highway patrol mercy plane to University hospital Oklahoma City. Authorities said he is conscious but condition unchanged since arrival.
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Oklahoma City
Teffery Lewis
University, Hospital
Chester Durant
Lawton
Highway Patrol
Capital Preparing For Visit From the President
Oklahoma City officials organized seating plans for President Eisenhower’s November 13 address at Municipal Auditorium, which seats 6,000 and will be broadcast nationally at 9:30 p.m. EST. The visit is tied to Oklahoma’s semi centennial celebration and labeled non political.
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Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce
Eisenhower
Oklahoma
Science will conquer all diseases, says pharma leader
Dr. Hubert A. Hardt, vice president of Apache Laboratories Nutley New Jersey, predicted Sunday that science will conquer all known diseases as great new drug discoveries are inevitable while accepting the presidency of the Fourth Pan American Congress of Pharmacy and Biochemistry.
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Science
Washington
Hobbert A. Hardt
Apache Laboratories
Nutley
Oklahoma City Fight Over Ballot Title Stirs Wet Dry Forces
In Oklahoma City the wet and dry factions clash over a December 3 election. State Sen. George Miskovsky, a wet candidate for governor, filed a new ballot title with the State Supreme Court just before the noon Saturday deadline, prompting Gov. Raymond Gary and others to express displeasure. Both sides had spent heavily on ads tied to the Dec. 3 date.
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Oklahoma City
George
Miskovsly
State Supreme Court
Raymond Gary
Miskovsky
Dry Forces
Protest Hints at Fast Supreme Court Action on Election
Gary had secured assurances from the beer and dry groups that no delays would push the election past December 3. Representatives from both factions said they would petition the Supreme Court to resolve Miskovaky’s protest promptly.
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Drys
Gary
Wold
Supreme Court
Miskovaky
Life Insurance Ad Offers $1000 Policy for Final Expenses
An advertisement targets readers aged 60 to 80 offering a $1000 life insurance policy from Old American Ins Co in Kansas City. It promises no obligation and no follow-up calls, asking only for name address and age to mail in.
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Kansas City
Old American Ins. Co
West 9Th
Dept
Missouri
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