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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1954
Page
2
Hal Boyle humorously recounts married life with a wife who saves everything from newspapers and paper bags to string and stockings. He jokes about moving to bigger apartments every seven years to store her collections and his own habit of hiding items to manage clutter.
ST. JOHN'S The Newfoundland Press Club ousted provincial Premier Joseph Smallwood as honorary club president after he ordered officials to withhold press statements on public matters unless cleared by cabinet ministers. Smallwood did not attend a meeting called to discuss the order and was removed from the club post.
Lawrence Tibbett, 57, former Metropolitan Opera Company baritone, paid a $263 fine after pleading guilty to drunk driving. He was arrested last Tuesday night following a minor accident in Van Nuys California.
Photographers note dining car stewards must know time zones and local election rules to handle service correctly. They avoid serving drinks in dry counties during a local or special election, allowing a final sip but not a second.
The article notes alcohol limits and service rules on trains, mentioning West Virginia prohibitions on drinks above five percent in transit, Indiana restrictions in eating rooms, and the ban on carrying your own jug in Pullman cars. It explains that orders include a miniature and must be poured by the waiter who keeps the empty, with charges applied.
In Waxahachie Texas two Texans J Cummins and Janette Chabraya both of Italy were killed when two cars collided four miles south of Waxahachie. Mrs Cummins injured and two Fort Hood soldiers T W Highfield and A L Jones seriously hurt. Drunken driving cited by highway patrolmen as a factor against Jones.
The second trial of Darliene Black, 26, for the murder of her husband Robert H. Black at their ranch home near Blanchard was moved by Judge Tom Pace to Pauls Valley for a change of venue. Her first trial ended in a hung jury. affidavits cited bias from McClain County citizens, including three original jurors. She had been committed to Central State Hospital after a sanity hearing but was later released and remained free on $15,000 bond.
Attorney General John Ben Shepperd asked the US Supreme Court for a rehearing of the Phillips natural gas case alleging the Federal Power Commission order freezing field level prices as of June 7 overrides Texas conservation powers. The FPC order, retroactive to the Supreme Court decision, ranks the agency as having power to regulate rates of natural gas producers selling to interstate pipelines.
iMovie star John Wayne was rushed from Kona to Hilo Hospital with an acute ear infection. Dr. Thomas W. Canon flew from Honolulu and recommended hospitalization, noting the infection likely stemmed from skin diving. Wayne is filming The Sea Chase in Kona.
Rock Island Railroad asked the corporation commission to permit closing four stations at Terral Waukomis Bison and Jefferson due to insufficient revenue to cover maintenance costs It proposed keeping Bison Jefferson and Waukomis stations open each year from June 1 to July 31 to handle wheat shipments.
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