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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1955
Page
1
Lawtonians and Southwest Oklahomans prepare for Thanksgiving with 9 30 a m church services. public offices and schools close. many firms follow Chamber schedule. Joint services at New Post chapel feature Chaplain Estes. law enforcement urges caution. mail and banking services note changes.
Chicago dispatch notes Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee poised to challenge Adlai Stevenson for the 1956 Democratic nomination. Kefauver reports over 200000 dollars in pledges, with Harriman waiting and Stevenson favored by national and state party leaders. Stevenson leads, while Sen. McNamara cautions nine months is long, Harriman keeps options open and supports a liberal label for the party.
The Daily Mirror attacks film stars Diana Dors and Jackie Lane for plunging necklines at royal functions. It claims their attire disrespects the queen and Duke of Edinburgh, calling royal premieres occasions to dress rather than undress.
Oklahoma City scene as Gov Gary backs Hardy and Bourland in firing John Sparkman as executive secretary of the War Veterans Commission. Wilbur P. Henline is installed as acting director after Sparkman is deemed a trespasser. Sparkman disputes legality and vows to continue duties. The governor notes the feud and says AG Williamson will handle potential legal action.
Fort Sill sergeant Justin J. Adams was killed in a two car crash six miles south of Hamilton Texas on a weekend with three Lawton men dead from violent traffic incidents. Also killed were Roy W Gray 41 Medicine Park and Eugene W Davis 28 of Lawton while Mrs Merle Vernon of Wichita Falls and six others were injured in the Adams collision. The Wichita Falls bound car carried eight persons and six were seriously hurt. Adams lived at 1115 Oak Lawton with his wife and two children and was en route to Brooke Army Medical Center San Antonio after a weekend visit.
Marie Dionne, 21, reported seriously ill with pernicious anemia at Notre Dame l Esperance Hospital in Montreal. Her parents left Callander, Ontario, for Montreal as Cecile and Yvonne, two of the other surviving quintuplets, train as nurses at the same hospital.
United Press reports eight people died on Oklahoma highways over the weekend including a Tulsa six year old and a McAlester pedestrian. The toll boosts 1955 deaths to 514 by the eve of the safe driving day campaign kickoff. The Tulsa victim was Terry Christine Charlton, daughter of Vernon and Charlton. She died Sunday after being struck by a car.
Thirty-one names and places appear across Oklahoma and Nebraska as three highway crashes Sunday snuffed out 21 lives. A Dixon Nebraska church party car and a second vehicle of four musicians perished in a head on crash, ten dead. Tulsa and surrounding counties reported multiple fatalities from crashes and late injuries.
A warm spell continues across the area with dry skies and above average temperatures. Monday’s readings hover in the 70s, after a high of 73 on Sunday, with tonight’s low around 42 and a slight cooling trend and small shower chance by Tuesday.
At least ten people died and more than 106 were injured when a Wales to London excursion train derailed near Milton England. A search team of over 500 workers cleared wreckage through the night and recovered nine women and one man.
AP dispatch from TEXAS TOWER 110 miles off Cape Cod reports 82 mph hurricane winds and 61 foot waves battering the Georges Banks radar site. 50 workers and 37 visitors ride out the storm on the tower as fenders tear loose and the crew braces for transfer to a rescue boat.
A 17-year-old Altus polio victim Richard Cox was listed in fair condition at Memorial hospital after falling ill November 16 and being admitted October 16. He is the son of James and Mrs Cox and worked in the plumbing department at the Altus air base. Three other young patients and several others are under care at Memorial with polio.
Search parties confirmed all 14 aboard a C54 air transport crash on Mount Charles ton near Las Vegas Nevada are dead. Co-pilot Eugene Winham age 24 of Lawton Oklahoma was an honor graduate from Lawton High School and Oklahoma A&M. Bodies will be taken to Nellis AFB for casualty identification.
Vatican confirms Pope Pius XII saw a vision of Jesus during a serious December illness. Official statement cites the pope as certain the encounter was real and not a dream, marking a claimed first in 2000 years of church history.
The sixth annual three day state Junior High School Student Council association convention will be held in Lawton next year with A Richardson Central Junior High principal announcing. Lawton was named as the 1956 parley site at this year's Tulsa conference. About 225 students from 21 state schools attended the Tulsa gathering and similar attendance is expected in Lawton. Delegates will stay overnight in city homes as Youth Services serves as theme. Duncan and Chickasha junior high schools will assist next year. A Lawton student to be named secretary treasurer this spring will also assume the post.
Fort Sill plans a four day visit for 25 Father Flanagan's Boys Town youths aged 9 to 12 from Nebraska. They arrive Tuesday for the fifth annual Shrine Midget Bowl on Thanksgiving morning. Activities include a Thanksgiving Day dinner and a 10 am Thursday game at Roosevelt Stadium pitting the Boys Town squad against the Lawton Midget League All-Stars, sponsored by Lawton-Fort Sill Shriners led by Lonnie Latham. The visit features tours of Army Aviation at Postfield and the 534th unit.
Fort Hood remains with III Corps headquarters and the Fourth Army Armored division staying at Hood. Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker said he could not promise a new division would be stationed at Fort Hood, but projected no slowdown in Hood construction after inspecting the base.
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