Lawton Fire Department Tests New Recruits in House Blaze Demo
Three new Lawton firefighters learned hose handling in a live fire drill at a small three room frame house at 1516 F. Firemen Harold Tangent W D Barnes and Clarence Capps fought the blaze using 11 inch and 12 inch hoses then switched to 2 inch and finally used a fog master nozzle delivering up to 500 gallons a minute to control the fire. Veteran firefighters assisted to prevent hose mishaps. The exercise followed a classroom session and included relighting the structure for repeated practice.
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Lawton
Harold Tangent
W. D. Barnes
Clarence Capps
Bill Dixon
Murder Charged In Boys Poisoning
In New Orleans a 27 year old woman Mary Moss Falcon was booked with murder after two boys William Baughman Jr 7 and Lawrence 6 died from phosphorus poison used for pest control The coroner ruled accidental poisoning at first Neighbors recalled a quarrel in September when Falcon allegedly vowed to get even The boys lived in a crowded home with a seven dollar weekly church aid and begged for food as their dying words spoke of a ham sandwich
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New Orleans
William Baughman Jr
Lawrence
Orleans Parish
Roach Control Campaigns
Mary Moss Falcon
Violet
Falcon
Mary Jackson
William Hart
Breakup plan urged for General Motors and giants
A former GM executive urged Congress to sharply limit or break up General Motors and other giants. Theodore K. Quinn proposed a $100 million net worth cap, higher taxes, and forced divestiture, plus public filing of department profits and losses. He warned that size itself is dangerous to individual rights.
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Washington
Congress
General Motors
Theodore K. Quinn
New York
General Electric Corp
Senate
Quinn
Molestation Jury Quits In Deadlock
A Lawton district court jury in the child molestation case against Gene Reeves failed to reach a verdict, deadlocked at 6-6 after deliberating 75 minutes the previous evening and resuming at 9 a.m. The mistrial marks a second hung jury in Reeves’s trial, with Reeves described as a watch repair shop owner in the 900 block of and in Lawton.
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Lawton
Babs Hutton Takes German Tennis Star As Sixth Husband
Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton wed German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm in a secret Versailles town hall ceremony at 11 30 a m One witnessed by the baron’s brother and the chateau curator The couple’s wedding followed a two month Tangier stay with plans kept private amid her six marriages and von Cramm’s prior morals charge history
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Babs Hutton
Versailles
France
Woolworth
Barbara Hutton
Baron Gottfried von Cramm
Versailles Chateau
Andre Mignot
National Assembly
von Cramm
Miss Hutton
Porfirio Rubiosa
Tangier
Arabian Nights
J. van den Kemp
Barbara
Rubirosa
Cary Grant
Count Haugwitz von Reventlow
Lance
Alexis Mdivani
Igor Troubetzkoy
Cityans See Lawton School Work On Public Display
Lawton public school students stage classroom demonstrations in shop windows and a department store window display to show progress from grades 1 through 12. Today and tomorrow from 12 noon to 1 pm, visitors can view living mannequins and live lessons in business, homemaking, English, and junior high classes in windows along C avenue.
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Lawton
C Avenue
Gladys Fullerton
Howell
Birdie Bowman
Will Rogers
Aileen Buntyn
John Adams
Constitution Press
Craig Pierson
Venna Lee Cook
Juner
Mary Sue Silk
Maytag Co
Confession Clears Widow in Woodward Slaying Case
Oyster Bay police say a derelict prowler confessed he likely caused the noise that led Mrs. William Woodward Jr to fire at her husband. Paul Wirths Jr admitted climbing to the mansion roof about 2 am on October 30 and forcing a guest room door, becoming entangled in a curtain as he moved inside.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
William Woodward Jr
Paul W. Wirths Jr
Die As Plane Rams Into School
A Republic of Korea Air Force F-51 fighter crashed into a crowded school near Kyongju killing 16 children and the pilot Cadet Pak Chang So. Twelve more children were wounded as four classrooms were destroyed during morning classes.
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Seoul
Republic of Korea Air Force
Kyongju
ROK Air Force
Pak Chang So
Bond Issue Discussed for New Lawton Junior High
Lawton Board of Education met to discuss needs for a new junior high school and the possibility of spring bond votes. John Barry of Oklahoma City outlined bond types. Action halted by two absences, but site and funding were mentioned. Other items include gas-rate contract with Fort Sill, bids for library shelves, and $79,846.54 claims. Resignations and new elementary teachers approved, bids for cyclone fences to be sought.
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Lawton
Board of Education
John Barry
Oklahoma City
Fort Sill
Kuntz
Library
Taft School
John Shoemaker
June Scouten
Rosamond Lamb
Louise Rainville
First Snow Disappears as Cold Stays Over Oklahoma
Oklahoma's first snow of the season melted under fair skies but cold temperatures continued with more freezing readings forecast. Snow fell in the northwest and Panhandle yesterday, mostly light, with traces gone by morning except in Guymon where unofficial accumulations reached about three inches. Roads were slick during flurries but now clear, and low temperatures ranged from 17 to 32 across the state. Skies were fair and a warming trend was expected tomorrow as rainfall totals for last month showed wide variation across stations from trace to over 11 inches.
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Oklahoma
Northwest
Panhandle
Guymon
Gage
Ponca City
Hobart
Oklahoma City
Enid
McAlester
Altus
Ardmore
Ft. Sill
Werther Bureau
Weather Bureau Today
Cloud Chief
Kingfisher
Crescent
Eldorado
el Reno
Area Weather Forecast States Fair and Cold
Area forecast calls for fair skies and continued cold conditions this afternoon and tonight. A little warmer Wednesday with highs near 60. Today and tonight low around 26 to 31, with a daytime high near 50 to 53 and a 11 a.m. reading around 45. Monday’s high near 58.
Final Push Eyed for Fund Drive
Plans moved to end the 1955 56 Lawton Fort Sill United Fund Red Cross drive this week with final details next week. Campaign cabinet members will contact civic club presidents about outstanding cards. The drive stands at 71.4 percent of a $96 314 goal with $68 842 09 raised. Rotary leads theSee FUND Page 2.
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Lawton- Fort Sill
Rotary
Explosion Seen In United DC-6B Crash Near Longmont
CAB officials said a blast type explosion shattered a cargo hold of a United Air Lines DC-6B, crashing a week earlier and killing 44 people. Investigation chief James N. Peyton reported wreckage spread over three square miles near Longmont, Colorado, with definite explosion evidence.
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Denver
United Air Lines
Civil Aeronautics Board
James N. Peyton
Washington
Longmont
Colo
General Motors Parade of Progress to Visit Lawton
A downtown Lawton parade heralds the General Motors Parade of Progress with thirty gleaming vehicles and twelve Futurliners. Bands from Central junior high and Douglass high school will lead, routing from Second and Ferris to the Metropol itan park for a week of free shows from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday and 2 to 10 p.m. Friday through Monday. Approximately 150,000 have seen the tour in recent stays. the traveling show features a 40 minute Aerodome stage segment and demonstrations like synthetic rubber making.
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Lawton
General Motors
Central Junior High
Douglass High School
Second
Ferris
Second Street
Sixth
Metropolitan Park
McMahon Auditorium
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Six More Die On Highways In Oklahoma Toll
Oklahoma highway fatalities rose with six more deaths, bringing the annual toll to 494 versus 489 last year. Victims include Ernest H. Wilbourn 72 Texho ma Robert F. Conway 63 Borger Tex Mrs Jesus Sanchez 65 Tulsa Eldon Eugene Buckett 24 Grove Charles Stanley Carroll 18 Jay Madelyn Kline 18 Jay. Three deaths occurred in a two car crash two miles south of Grove on US 59 and two more in a heavy snowstorm in the Panhandle, with the sixth dying later in Tulsa hospital.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Ernest H. Wilbourn
Texho
Robert F. Conway
Borger
Tex
Jesus Sanchez
Tulsa
Eldon Eugene Buckett
Grove
Charles Stanley Carroll
Jay
Madelyn Kline
VU. S
Oklahoma Panhandle
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Big Business
Tom Sharrock
Babs’ Hutton
Gottfried von Cramm
Stillwater
Okla
Harold Davis
Ross
Senate Agricultural Committee
Oklahoma A&m
Davis
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Sen. Schoeppel
R-Kan
Hits State Department
State Department
Floyd Fuqua
Nardin
Oklahoma State Grange
Kenneth Jumper
Sherry White
Ronald Sheffield
Raymond Allen
Paulett Akers
Helen Russell
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