Lawton Constitution Staff and Publication Details
The Lawton Constitution lists Ned Shepler as Editor and Publisher Bill Bentley as Business Manager Ted Ralston as Managing Editor W R Rice and Joe House as Advertising Managers H O Ahlschlager and Hargraves as Mechanical Superintendent Circulation Manager is W D Hargraves City Circulation Manager. phone numbers cover all departments Published evenings Monday through Friday at Third and A Avenue Lawton Oklahoma Entered at Lawton post office as second class mail under 1879 act Members Oklahoma Press Association Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Ned Shepler
Bill F. Bentley
Ted Ralston
W. R. Rice
Joe House
W. D. Hargraves
H. O. Ahlschlager
Third and A Avenue
Lawton
Okla
Oklahoma Press Association
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Threefold Christian Creed Guides Lifelong Practice
The quote by Christian Scriver states that Christianity rests on belief, love, and obedience to Jesus. It notes these are lifelong lessons, underscoring ongoing growth in faith, devotion, and moral conduct.
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Jesus
What Is Incapacitated and the Presidency Crisis
The piece discusses Eisenhower's illness and the constitutional gap in handling presidential incapacity. It argues final executive power rests with the President, urges clearer rules for when a leader cannot act, and notes doctors, vice presidents, or cabinets as possible stopgaps. It stresses the need for a constitutional fix to define fitness and transfer of duties.
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Eisenhower
U.S
United States
Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk Wins Victory
In Indochina CambodiaNorodom Sihanouk secures a smashing election victory amid Communist pressure in Asia. The former king had abdicated to test his policies at the polls and now appears to boost democratic signs and Western friendliness while defending against charges of being a Western puppet.
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Cambodia
Indochina
America
Asia
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom
Q and A style facts from a 20th century quiz feature
A Q and A quiz excerpt covers word origins for fired, Managua’s volcano fed water supply, a 84th Congress motto on money, Ecuador marking the equator, and California’s Mount Whitney near Death Valley within 80 miles. It notes Mount Whitney at 14,496 feet and Death Valley at 276 feet below sea level.
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Mount Whitney
Death Valley
United States
California
Rainfall floods Waurika area and beyond
Heavy rains drenched southwest Oklahoma, driving river levels high. Waurika area totals rose to 32.50 inches for the year as Lake Lawtonka rose about nine feet, and highways remained passable. Farmers face flooded fields, damaged sorghum and alfalfa, and a slipping cotton market amid ongoing wet weather.
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Lawtonka
Duke
Lake Lawtonka
Cache Creek
Highway Patrol
Waurika
Grandfield
Wheat Country
Tillman County
Lewis Haydock
Lawton
Otto Kluck
Lawton Co-Op
Kluck
Judge Drops Vagrancy Cases After Complaints Mixed Up
In a Lawton municipal court session Judge J Merle Oaks dismissed three vagrancy by loitering charges for lack of signed complaints and evidence after defense attorney Charles Ozman argued officers failed to file proper charges. Night Chief Pete Fuller admitted signing one complaint, while Bartels and Asbery denied arrest or filing. The cases underscored improper arrest records and signings, with appeals filed and a $100 bond set for one defendant.
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J. Merle Oaks
Lawton
Charles Ozman
Pete Fuller
Ozman
Oaks
Henry Bartels
Walter Asbery
Fuller
Ralph Hennessee
Bartels
Asbery
Hospital Birth and Admittance Roundup in Oklahoma City Area
Multiple births and hospital admissions listed for October births and recent admissions across Oklahoma City area hospitals. Notable entries include Patrick Gandolfi's son born Oct 4 at 3 27 am weighing 8 4, and several new arrivals with addresses in Burrus, Apache, Walters, Cache, Elgin, and Indiahoma. Several patients admitted for medical care and surgeries are named alongside names of families and residences.
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Patrick Gandolfi
Max Dalton
Robert Martin
Chattanooga
J. L. Tunnell
Walters
Lydia Lynch
Denver
Francis Davis
Patterson
Elroe Waysepappy
Apache
Thelma Tabbytosavnt
Reed Titchny Sr
Joan Mowatt
Cache
Freddie Beaver
New York
Martin Weryackwe Jr
Roger Jessie
Frederick
Melva Rae Takawana
Elgin
Vern Ford Jr
Bob Howard
Jefferson
Durward W. Sanders
J. W. Finnell
Comanche
Roy Reece
Ozman
Ellis C. Singleton
Indiahoma
Ewing McDonald
Leon R. McDonald
Mangum
Richard W. Churchwell
Altus
A. L. Shipman
N. 12Th
Lawton Woman Faces Grand Larceny Trial Over $75
Eula Pearl Miller, a 34 year old Lawton resident, admitted she once ran a house but denied taking a $75 money sack from a service station. Witnesses linked her to a late night ride with a man, returning to 1619 Washington, where the sack disappeared. Miller must stand trial in higher court on grand larceny charges.
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Eula Pearl Miller
Lawton
Giles
Warren Crane
Washington Street
Peace
Woodrow Giles
Fort Worth
Iliam
Bennett W. Fontain
S. 26Th
Eisenhower Home Visitor Total Tops Quarter Million
ABILENE Kan UP More than a quarter of a million visitors have registered at the boyhood home of President Eisenhower in the eight years since it opened. Visitors arrived from every state and 102 foreign countries, officials report.
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Eisenhower
Abilene
Kan
White Frame House
Oklahoma City Health Unit Expansion Contract Set
Lawton and Oklahoma City officials prepare to award L. M. Jones Construction Co. a 27,136 dollar contract for a 30 by 38 foot south extension and east-end lab renovations to the city-county health unit. The project, funded with a 30,000 dollar budget, follows years of planning dating from December 1954.
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L. M. Jones Construction Co
Oklahoma City
East B
Charles H. Miller
Federal Public Health Service
Paul Harris
Jones Company
Lawton
Miller
Comanche County
Oklahoma
Enrollment Surges as Lawton Schools Reach 9500
Lawton Public Schools report a record 9,500 students enrolled, up from 9,304 after the first week. Superintendent John Shoemaker praised the term as the best start yet with no major problems. The board approved bond payments, auditing contracts, and funding for Adams and Cleveland elementary schools.
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Lawton Public School
John Shoemaker
Board of Education
Henry Weddle
Prigmore and Baker
Oklahoma City
Sys
Better Education Facilities Needed Tells Cityans
Senator Mike Monroney addressed over 250 Lawtonians at Swinney school PTA urging better educational facilities to meet growth. He stressed education’s role in peace and preventing a third World War. John Shoemaker noted federal funds aided four city schools Howell Cleveland Adams.
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Mike
America
Mike Monroney
Shoemaker
Post Children’s School
Howell
Cleveland
Adams
Sen
Monroney
Bob Kerr
Wayne Gilley
PTA
Christina Swanson
Swinney
Two Post Units to Polk for Maneuvers
The 1st Ordnance Company and the 30th Finance Disbursing Section depart Fort Sill by truck convoy Tuesday Oct 11 for Camp Polk Louisiana to take part in Operation Sage Brush. They bivouac near Sherman Texas and Texarkana Texas before arriving Oct 13 and plan to return to Fort Sill around Dec 16 under Capt. William C. Duncan.
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1St Ordnance Company
Fort Sill
Camp Polk
Sherman
Tex
Texarkana
Fort Sillon
William C. Duncan
Union To Present Plaque To Cityan In Rites Tonight
A Lawton veteran, John Looney of 709 Columbia, will receive a 50 year gold membership plaque from the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union in a ceremony at the American Legion Hall. Looney, branch manager for the State Employment Service local office, has lived in Lawton since 1909 after joining the union in 1903 in New York.
Wilson Cafeteria Opens with 300 Students Eating
Woodrow Wilson elementary school opened its cafeteria Monday with more than 300 students dining, said superintendent John Shoemaker. The new facility boosts the district’s total cafeterias to 18, leaving Emerson and Washington without cafeterias.
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Woodrow Wilson
John Shoemaker
Emerson
Washington
Word Maze of Light and Sound Clues Puzzle
A compact word puzzle listing numerous clues across and down, mixing with and without proper nouns. The grid-like clues touch on actors, Greek myths, astronomy, and everyday objects, inviting cross referencing.
Crossword Puzzle Clues Solved Set
List of clues with numbered entries including cry of bacchanals base arrow poisor elevator inventor protuberance measure of cloth in ones gift blood money Paper i assistant upon Hindu queen British statesman presage handle frost ed absure dibble compass point.
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Nicaragua
Ecuador
Don Morrison
Jefferson County
Helen Crane
Charles Cooper
Temple Tribune
U.S. 270
Temple
Cooper
George Levite
Gery
Clarence Hallman
Loco
Marjorie Wilson
Medicine Park
Jill Babbitt
Howard Babbitt
Bunyan Road
Donald Butler
J. L. Sanders
Mildred Kennedy
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Fred Hammond
Euclid
Anna Geis
Jack May
Ralph Taylor
Cadhe
Earl Reed
Loyd Stevens
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Joanne Copeland
San Mateo
Calif
Napa
Joanne
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Health Department
Ground Self Defense Force of
Japan
Edward T. Williams
Artillery
Yoshifusa Amano
Makoto Matsutani
Kan Ohmori
Williams
Kumao Imoto
Tomio Kano
David Ramage
Will Rogers
Charles Bolin
L. Y. Leonhardt
Whittier
George Devine
Jesse Shelton
Dunbar
Devine
Polk
Union
Wilson
Robertson
Guido
Pamela Fitzmaurice
Ian
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