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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1955
Page
3
Denver report on the temporary White House where President's fatigue sparked medical concern. Mrs Eisenhower showed active interest, asking about examinations while remaining by the hall, as Fitzsimons Army Hospital doctors treated the President and monitored his condition.
In early hospital mornings Mrs. Eisenhower guides the president's recovery, dictating choices from hospital routine to location. If she orders a move, the family farm at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania becomes the recuperation site, with her decisions shaping the schedule and pace of his convalescence.
The President's wife, a heart patient since age 18, emerges as a central, resilient presence amid a crisis. Doctors offer few details but express astonishment she survived the President's heart attack without further complications.
Around the clock activity centers on the President in the four-room Fitzsimons suite. Doctors nurses and attendants avoid his room unless needed while officials note the atmosphere shifts on his call for light or a puzzle book. Rank and medics describe the patient as a very nice guy despite politics.
At Lowry Air Force Base officers club Adams, the Presidential assistant, dined alone while reporters watched. He refused to discuss the President’s condition, saying he would not talk, and spent time debating the merits of New England maple syrup.
Pronghorn antelope can reach speeds between 20 and 30 miles per hour with ease, illustrating remarkable endurance and acceleration in the wild.
Airman 3-C Robert Fox of Kennewick Washington was attacked while hitchhiking from a fur lodge route Sunday night near Russell Kansas. He was stabbed beaten and left for dead after being held in a car with California plates. Fox, reported in fair condition at Russell Hospital Tuesday, aided authorities in recounting the assault and the attempted license plate check amid a six state alert for the culprits.
Oklahoma highway patrol tentatively identified two of four victims as New York men from the plane wreck of an A-26 near Union City. Pilot Joseph Warren Whitney of Great Lakes Carbon Co. and George Skakel, chairman of the firm, were named. Remaining two victims were still unidentified as charred remains were recovered amid the fire.
A Columbia University mass communication center produced the western ballad That Ignorant Ignorant Cowboy to promote public health. The song, played on jukeboxes and on radio, has driven thousands to medical checkups for syphilis and other venereal diseases.
Denver UP report says President Eisenhower's four brothers and his son Major John S. Eisenhower receive daily updates from White House staff on the president's condition. Major Eisenhower, stationed at Fort Belvoir Virginia, recently flew to visit his father in hospital.
Samuel H. Kress a 92 year old 5 and 10 cent store magnate died September 22. His will filed in Surrogate's court directs 35000 shares of S H Kress and Co stock into trust with income to nieces and nephews. The remainder goes to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and to charity.
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