Lawton Street Improvements Ordinance Vests Assessments
The Lawton Oklahoma City Council approves an ordinance to assess costs for paving and improvements on multiple streets in Lawton including A Avenue Sheridan Road 22nd Street Simpson Street and more in Industrial Addition. The report lists numerous tract by tract assessments totaling thousands of dollars with timing and payment terms through September 1, 1954. the ordinance provides for ten installments with interest and a public hearing record from October 29, 1957.
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annFey Constitution
Onnisance
22Nd Street
Sheridan Road
2Nd Street
Railroad Street
Simpson
Williams
16Th Street
19Th
Lawton
Oklahoma
Comanche County
Council OF
Treat OF
Reroh
Unn
Gly
Milne
Cupra
FY Avenue
CRU & Prr
Henes
Besinning
Ollahoma
Lac
Meridiah
Wence
Foel
N.E
Lewton
Td" Avenue
Sald
Board of Approlecss
College View
A & Colter
College
Herata
Femer
D Block
Tlee
Miltary
Lawton i
Miltary Aid
Replat
Militar Adi
Reptat
Vale of
Gaven
Crsl
Tovenalte
Indian Meridian
State of Oklahoma
Temple
Hock Island
Metes and Bonds
Cri-É& Prr
Berinung
M.W
Seelion
Seeil
Pentee Une
CRI Prr
N.W. Penetor
CRI & Prr
KY Avenue
SW. Anna
Section 22
Tzn
Ruw
Desinning
BMW
Simpson Street
CRI & Frr
Same
Des Gr
University of Oklahoma faces faculty salary crisis
OU President Dr. George L. Cross says the top problem is inadequate faculty salaries. He spoke to Norman civic clubs, noting 11,607 current students with 15,000 projected by 1960 if funding and staff grow. He cites Texas salaries $2,400 higher and outlines a $16 million construction need plus an $18.53 million budget, including new buildings and a high speed computing lab planned with Los Alamos data.
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Norman
University of Oklahoma
George L. Cross
Cross
University of Texas
College of Education
Regents For Higher Educa
Tion
Los Alamos Laboratory
New Mexico
Supreme Court grips case of seven fined trespassers in Durham
The case of seven Negroes, each fined $25 and court costs for trespassing at a racially segregated ice cream parlor in Durham, has reached the North Carolina Supreme Court. One defendant was a Methodist minister, arrested June 22 after they refused to leave a whites-only Royal Ice Cream Co. area.
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High Court
Raleigh
N.C
Durham
State Supreme Court
Royal Ice Cream Co
Price To Head Typographical Union Here
M D Price has been named president of the Lawton Typographical Union succeeding Homer Ray. Officers for the year include Lee Wilson vice president and Cliff Gamling secretary treasurer. The union plans a December 1 banquet in Lawton with two charter members, Mrs. Margaret Day and James Timmons, noted. Timmons to receive a 10 year diamond union button. he retired from Lawton Constitution in 1949.
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M.D. Price
Linotype
Lawton Typographical Union
Homer Ray
Lee Wilson
Cliff Gamling
Columbia
Tommy Underwood
Oscar Chandler
Tyeographical
Lawton
Margaret Day
Bell
James Timmons
Gore
Timmons
Lawton Constitution
General Booth to Tour Army Artillery Center Thursday
Lt General Donald P Booth deputy chief of staff for personnel Department of the Army will visit the U S Army Artillery and Missile Center Thursday. His party includes Col J T English Col J E B Goodwin Col W H Hale Col J J Irvin Lt Col B R Hill Lt Col W De Ward CWO R A Anderson and J A Lambie GS 15 civilian personnel. They will tour Snow Hall Corporal laboratories library the 246th FA Missile battalion and the 617th FA Observation battalion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald P. Booth
Department of the Army
U. S. Army Artillery and Missile Center
J. T. English
J. EB. Goodwin
W. H. Hale
J. J. Irvin
BR. D. Hill
W. de Ward
Radium Man Ruled Safe After Misidentified Vial
German immigrant Ginder Kuhn faced authorities in Toronto after a vial thought to contain radium proved harmless. Dr. Owen Miller of Scarborough General Hospital confirmed the liquid held radioactive particles, not live radium. Kuhn admitted stealing the material from a Lübeck watch factory and using it to make luminous articles. Civil defense teams and police detained him as a precaution and burned his clothing.
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Toronto
Ginder Kuhn
Owen Miller
Scarborough General Hospital
Miller
Kui
Luebeck
Germany
Kuhn
Drop Noted In Crude Rate
U S crude production and condensate declined by 0.56 million barrels to 6.72 million for the week ended Nov 2 per Oil and Gas Journal. Kansas and Wyoming led losses, while Montana and Kentucky posted gains. Declines occurred in Oklahoma Illinois Arkansas and Nebraska with Colorado and Nebraska showing minor advances.
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Tulsap
Gas Journal
Kansas
Wyoming
Illinois
Montana
Kenttucky
Arkansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Rare Lincoln Photo Found By State Man
Stillwater photoengraver Robert E. Cunningham owns the glass negative and a newly published University of Oklahoma book includes a Civil War era Lincoln photo. Ralph Newman notes the portrait as a remarkable, entirely new Lincoln image, estimated from about 1564 and likely by I H Bonsall.
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Stillwater
Okla
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Cunningham
University of Oklahoma At
Chicago
Lincoln
Newman
Cunningham
I. H. Bonsall
Prettyman
George B. Cornists
Rural Populations Rise as Farm Numbers Decline
Washington reports the Agriculture Department estimates a farm population of about 20,396,000, roughly two million fewer than last year, while rural residents total 60,677,000 up from 57,985,000. Rural shoppers include small towns and those outside farms, many buying tractors, pesticides, fertilizers, seeds, and nursery stock.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Farm Leaders to Review 1958 Agriculture Conservation Program
County leaders will review the 1958 agriculture conservation program at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Lawton, at the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation committee offices. Bill Sieg, office manager, said 26 community committeemen are expected, along with representatives from other farm organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Bill Sieg
Widow McGrail wins $574,658 on two cent European pools bet
London reports a widow Mrs N McGrail of Reddish won a tax free 574,658 pounds for correctly predicting seven of eight draws in last Saturday's English and Scottish soccer pools. She and her two daughters were to collect the check in London after ensuring her home was tidy. The win is the largest in European pools history, surpassing prior Britain and Italy jackpots.
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London
Aota
Littlewood
N, McGrail
Reddish
Britain
Turin
New Home Quota Seen At Million Homes
Albert M. Cole told Mortgage Bakers Association members in Dallas that over four million homes should be built next year. He criticized the Housing Act of 1937 and its price controls on FHA and VA mortgage loans. About 3,000 officials from multiple regions attended the four day meeting at the Stover Hilton Hotel. The program included a mortgage company panel and Northwestern University graduation for the school of mortgage banking with certificates awarded by association president John F. Austin Jr.
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Dallas
Albert M. Cole
Mortgage Bakers Association
Cole
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
Canada
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Latin America
U.S
Stover Hilton Hotel
School of Mortgage Banking
Northwestern University
Association
John F. Austin Jr
Houston
Road Committee Meeting Date Changed
County road committee chairman Ira Neal of Chattanooga said the November meeting moves from Thursday to Friday at 7 30 p m in the county courtroom to avoid conflict with the Jefferson Jackson day banquet in Oklahoma City.
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Caairman
Ira Neal
Chattanooga
Neal
Oklahoma City
Missile Engineer Reports Strange glowing flying object sighting
James Stokes a 45 year old missile developments engineer from Holloman Air Force Base reports witnessing a large bright oval object over the western Texas area during the weekend. He described a brilliant glowing egg shaped body moving near White Sands Proving Grounds and along US 54 with engine trouble and no sound before vanishing toward White Sands. Clark of KALG Alamogordo relayed the account though Holloman officials could not be reached for comment.
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Lubbock
Tex
James Stokes
Air Force
Holloman
Ai Force
Alamogordo
N.M
Ele
Terry, Clark
Kalg
White Sands’ Proving Grounds
West Texas
White Sands Proving Ground
Texas
Chicago
Virginia
Clark
Stokes
Tadio
White Sands
Athe Ain
Defense Due In Atoka Trial
Defense attorneys for George Louis Murphy open their case in District Court in Atoka. Murphy, a 17 year old Winter Haven, Florida youth, is charged with slaying 17 year old Harold McInch, of Tushka, shot at Atoka city lake during a September outing. The defense plans to prove the shooting was accidental. Five teenagers testified yesterday as the prosecution rested. Murphy was discharged from Perrin AFB, Texas, hours before the shooting and later arrested in Monroe, Louisiana. A Perrin airman, Harry Klaus, 48, testified he saw Murphy fire a gun and that Klaus heard Murphy and Melameh exchange words about Murphy being from Texas.
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Atoka
George Louis Murphy
Winter Haven
Fla
Murphy
Harold McIninch
Tushka
Atoka City Lake
Perrin Afb
Tex
Monroe
Perrin
Harry Klaus
Klaus
Melameh
Texas
Settlement Reached in 1934 Rodeo Fatality Case
Mrs. Woodrow Vaughn of Muskogee Oklahoma received a $1000 settlement from the El Dorado Saddle Club over her husband s rodeo death in 1934. She had sued for $15000 alleging a clown s lariat around the neck and a running horse caused the fatal injury. Court records disclosed the settlement.
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Wichita
Woodrow Vaughn
Muskogee
Okla
el Dorado Saddle Club
Vaughn
Club
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