Lawton Constitution Staff and Publication Notes
The Lawton Constitution lists editor and publisher Ned Shepler Bill Bentley business manager Jed Ralston managing editor and circulation staff through Friday weekly Offices in Lawton Oklahoma and contact details. It notes membership in the Oklahoma Press Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association along with Audit Bureau of Circulations membership.
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Bill F. Bentley
Jed Ralston
Seth
C Ave
Lawton
Oxla
Oklahoma Press Association
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Subscription Rates for Lawton Newspapers
Subscriptions priced to the Lawton area with monthly carrier rates for Morning Press Evening Constitution and Sunday Constitution. Yearly by mail outside Southwest Oklahoma, 2 percent sales tax applies. The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news and dispatches. advertising requires advance payment or written authorization.
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Constitution
Lawton
Oklahoma
Morning Press
Constitution Press
Sennenae
Associated Press
Lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image
A biblical verse citation contrasts idol making with worship. Deut 4 16 warns against forming images in gold or marble. Martial notes that gods arise not from sculpted idols but from those who bow before them.
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Martial
Roosevelt Jr The Path To Political Respectability
The article examines Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr moving from a failed bid for New York governor to securing the state attorney general nomination under Harriman. It argues this shift positions him with party bosses, boosted by the Roosevelt name, and improves his long term prospects, while noting NYC leaders aim to control his ascent for future gains.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Congress
Roosevelt
The
New Yorker Magazine
White House
Fdr, Jr
New York
Averell Harriman
Harriman
Upstate
New York City
Volume crackdown on noisy youths urged by editorial
The piece argues for curbing youth noise and disruptive conduct while acknowledging their right to socialize. It identifies the worst offenders and calls for measures to reduce the swelling volume of youthful sound.
Senate censure for McCarthy mirrors grand jury verdicts
A Washington column analyzes how a Senate censure on McCarthy mirrors a grand jury action with final action likely by the full Senate as a political process. It recalls past censures, noting outcomes for McLaurin Tillman Newberry and Bingham, and considers possible sentences, apologies, or removal of McCarthy from chairmanship in 1958.
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Washington
NEA
Senate Committee
McCarthy
Senate
McLaurin
Tillman
South Carolina
Sen
Hiram W. Bingham
Connecticut
Truman Newberry
Michigan
Newberry
Flanders
Wisconsin
Government Operations Committee
Teenagers Raise Noise on Streets and Buses
The piece notes teens and juvenile programs driving loud behavior in cities and suburbs. Street encounters, bicycle packs, and groups moving with little regard for others fill public spaces. Passengers on transit suffer as high school songs drown out conversation, a call to lower volumes before the nation is a captive audience.
Piles cause and treatment insights from Dr Jordan
The doctor explains hemorrhoids arise from dilated intestinal veins and worsen with prolonged straining from constipation childbirth coughing or long hours of sitting. When persistent and bleeding surgery is often best. alternatives like injections exist but not always possible. Notably hemorrhoids do not increase cancer risk.
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Edwin P. Jordan
NEA
Airmen Train in Air-Sea Rescue at Fort Sill
Seventy airmen from Altus Air Force Base under Lt Col John Cannon Jr received air sea rescue training at Fort Sill due to a pool closure at Altus. Maj Ralph Wallace demonstrated equipment use with Lt Pennington assisting, all members of the 96th Refueling Squadron. Future instruction will cover arctic and desert rescues.
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Altus Air Force Base
Fort Ve
John H. Cannon Jr
Ralph Wallace
Pennington
96Th Refueling Squadron
Trieste Pact Signing Planned in London Tomorrow
Rome says a nine year dispute over Trieste will end with a formal agreement signed in London at 1 p.m. local time. Yugoslav Vice Premier Kardelj confirmed the accord in Oslo. The settlement follows Allied moves to hand Zone A to Italy and troops mobilization on the border.
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Rome
Italy
Yugoslavia
Trieste
London
Edvard Kardelj
Oslo
Marion Scelba
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Britain
France
Zone A
Tito
Motive Sought In Frat War at Missouri Beta Theta Pi
University of Missouri officials sought to identify what and who led a bottle and potato barrage on the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in Columbia. Police described a riot with about 400 students involved, causing broken windows a damaged police car windshield and minor injuries to two Beta members.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Beta Theta Pi
University
Jaycees Plan Booster Bumper Tags For City Sale
Jaycee president Dr. M. E. Waid announced a statewide bumper tag drive arriving soon in Lawton. More than 100 tags for Lawton and Oklahoma will be sold by local Jaycee members for 1 dollar. Proceeds fund additional Jaycee projects as signs arrive this week.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Jaycees
M. E
Cuffie’ Waid
Jaycee
Butter Markets In Chicago Hold Steady Prices
Chicago butter market shows steady receipts of 721299 with wholesale prices listed as 93 score AA at 60.25, 92 A at 59.75, 90 B at 58, 89 C at 50.10, plus car 90 AB at 58.5 and 89 C at 56.25, reflecting unchanged trading.
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Chicago
County farmers seek federal aid for feed purchases
Nearly 300 county farmers and ranchers filed applications for federal aid to buy feed and grain for foundation livestock herds. Of 297 received, 285 approved by the county FHA committee. six rejected, six awaiting action. Approved requests totaled 3,127,400 pounds of grain and 130 tons of hay. overall 3,413,360 pounds of grain and 207% tons of hay were sought. The program covers $1 per hundred pounds of grain or half the hay hauling costs.
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Leonard Wiley
County Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Wiley
Demonstration Agent Seeks Return of Fair Exhibits
Home Demonstration club women and 4-H members whose Oklahoma State Fair displays were shown in Oklahoma City are asked to collect their exhibits. Mrs. Clara J. Kelly, county home demonstration agent, says all exhibits remain in her office at the Comanche county courthouse.
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Home Demonstration Club
4-H
Oklahoma City
Clara J. Kelly
Comanche County
Lawton Woman's Long Trip to Germany Hindered by Delays
City resident Mrs. Harry Wahl aimed to join Lt. Wahl in Germany, facing a string of abortive connections and weather issues. From Lawton to Fort Worth, then to New York, a Holland America liner Maasden departed as a collision stalled its voyage, while the traveler, Jane Wahl, watched a movie titled Calamity Jane amid uncertainty.
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Lawton
Germany
Europe
Harry Wahl
U.S
Wahi
Lloyd Aurell
Dearborn
New York
Fort Worth
New York City
Wahl
Texas City
Red River
Oklahoma City
Maasden
Jane
Eisenhower Hails Nine-Power German Rearmament Pact
President Eisenhower lauds the nine power agreement for German reararmament as a major diplomatic achievement and a promise of a stronger western Europe. He spoke with Secretary Dulles by phone and with Defense Secretary Wilson at the Denver White House, noting a stepped up campaign against subversives and security risks.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Germany
West
Europe
John Foster Dulles
Denver White House
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Cherry Hills Country Club
Dulles
Washington
London
William F. Knowland
Senate
Joe McCarthy
Communist Party
Eight Charged After Sunday Gambling Raid
City police raided 211 N. First at 1 a.m. Sunday and charged eight men with gambling and three people with vagrancy by loitering. Cash totaling 24.48 was seized. Charged with gambling were John L. Bunting Roy Anderson Daniel Carr Henry Brown Harold E. O’Loughlin Ira Q. Beasley and Leroy Copeland. Charged with vagrancy were Ethel Vaughns Severn Williams and Willie Bates. All to appear in police court at 5 p.m. today.
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Ralph Hennessee
John L. Bunting
Lawton
Roy Anderson
Dearborn
Daniel Carr
Columbia
Henry Brown
Honest John Gets Workout at Fort Sill Test
One of Fort Sill's newest batteries fired the Honest John rocket at 7:45 a.m. marking the Sun Field Artillery (Rocket) battery's first large profile test. The launch from Dodge Hill crossed to Jones Ridge, with 277 south of Medicine Park closed during the firing under Capt. Richard O'Shea.
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Fort Sill
Sun Field Artillery
U.S. 277
Medicine Park
Dodge Hill
Jones Ridge
Richard O'Shea
Graham's Revival Film Shown at Trinity Baptist Church
England will host a screening of Graham's Revival Film at Trinity Baptist Church on Gore Street at 8 p.m. Wednesday. W A Knight, field acaster of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, will present the film at the church.
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England
Trinity Baptist Church
20Th and Gore
W. A. Knight
The
Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn
Supreme Court Opens New Term On School Segregation
The Supreme Court begins a new term with expected rulings on five major school segregation cases. The court set hearings for the week of December 6 to consider arguments and reports guiding immediate integration. Some parties foresee final orders by late 1955, while Topeka Board of Education argues no further court order is needed.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Topeka
Kan
Board of Education
High Court
Foreign policy may decide the congressional race sleeper
National analysis shows foreign policy as a sleeper issue shaping the 1954 congressional campaign along the Pacific coast. Voters express unease about Korea Indo China Europe and Formosa while politicians debate which voice guides policy. The piece notes Knowland's bipartisan rhetoric and the toying with who owns the policy Eisenhower Dulles Nixon or Stevenson.
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Thomas L. Stokes
San Francisco
Congress
Pacific Coast
Far East
Europe
Washington
Oregon
General Eisenhower
Korea
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Nixon
Knowland
Dulles
Dressing Up Across 1A and Related Clues
Puzzle style clues mix definitions and wordplay about clothing and names. Entries include references to Al, Athens, Greek philosophers, and mythic figures. Each numbered clue hints at a dressed up or named form, with several cross references among jacket type, apparel, and character names.
Lawton High expands speech department with new class
Lawton High School expands its speech department adding a new production class with 29 students enrolled this year. Noriman Monroe Cowden becomes the new speech instructor and debate coach, a Southwestern College Weatherford graduate with a BA in speech and business education. Monroe will manage all debate work and previously held student leadership roles including Senate club president and student council vice president at Southwestern. The first debate tournament is scheduled for November 19 in Muskogee.
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Lawton High School
Noriman Monroe
Cowden
Southwestern College
Weatherford
Southwestern
Monroe
Senate Club
Muskogee
City School Board Sets Regular Meet
City School Board meets at 8 p.m. to discuss regular business and purchases. Curtains for stages at Lawton's two new elementary schools Jefferson and Garfield will be bought, Glen Dutcher, president, said. Also on the agenda are two small curtains for stages in the high school speech department.
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Lawton
Jefferson
Garfield
Board of Education
Glen Dutcher
Forensic League Officers Named at Lawton High
Presiding as head of the National Forensic League chapter this year is Sam Hamra. Other NFL officers include Pat Newhouse secretary Joan Wood and Marilyn Mor Marilyn Salyer as assistants with Norman Monroe speech instructor directing.
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Lawton High School
National Forensic League
Sam Hamra
Norman Monroe
Hamra
Wolver
NFL
Pat Newhouse
Joan Wooda
Marilyn Morand
Marilyn Salyer
Slaveheniel
Paul Massad Elected Leader of Lawton High Thespians
Paul Massad has been elected to lead the Lawton High School Thespian chapter as president this year. Mrs. Opal Ford, speech department chair, announced the officers: Richard Glenn as vice president and Liz Ryan as secretary.
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Paul Massad
Lawton High School Thespian
Opal Ford
Speech Deae
Stee
Richard Glenn
Liz Ryan
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