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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1955
Page
1
City Engineer Doug Smith explains a chart showing how Lake Lawtonka holds water. By reading the gauge at 1328.60 feet and matching to the chart, 32 000 acre feet are indicated, equaling 10 427 200 000 gallons. readers can compute gallons from acre feet using the chart.
Camp Friedland report details the arrival of freed German prisoners from the Soviet Union. It cites Pvt. Sidney Ray Sparks of Tennille Ga, who escaped in 1951, and lists four men believed held as spies or released from Soviet camps. It notes Vladimir Golowski Jr and others, with ties to Moscow, Vorkuta, and Shanghai, amid ongoing prisoner exchange claims.
First Boston Corp leads a bond syndicate pledging to finance three toll roads in Oklahoma. Plans to begin Oklahoma City to Kansas surveys and connect with the existing turnpike. Gov. Raymond Gary in New York said the news is awaited. Turnpike Authority to hire engineers for updated traffic studies, with figures due in two to three months.
New York Governor Raymond Gary of Oklahoma plans a mid day meeting with turnpike bankers and a late afternoon talk with New York Governor Averell Harriman, a potential Democratic presidential candidate. Gary also meets Harry Truman at the Waldorf Astoria and previews the film Oklahoma. He says he would prefer a Midwesterner as running mate if Harriman is nominated and notes farm program issues as key in the campaign.
Lawton city officials meet to authorize an immediate feasibility survey of the Elgin reservoir site. Mayor Ellsworth says a $5,000 to $10,000 appropriation and contract with Wyatt Hendrick to conduct the survey are on the agenda. A 33,000 acre foot reservoir could cost $3.5 to $4 million. the Elgin site might yield 90,000 acre feet in the future, with higher costs. Results will guide next steps including sedimentation, water quality, and potential federal aid considerations.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 79, is ill with bronchial pneumonia and confined to bed at his Bonn residence. Official bulletin says the pneumonia is receding and fever has fallen, with a week of bed rest expected. He recently traveled to Luxembourg for talks with Edgar Faure and presided over a cabinet meeting before falling ill.
President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles prepared an interim reply to Bulganin's disarmament proposals during a 25 minute briefing in the White House hospital room. The letter, signed by the President, will be released once received in Moscow and outlines an acknowledgement plus approach rather than a full detailed answer.
Thirteen Southwest Oklahoma delegates in the 1955 Industrial Tour will be honored at a 12 30 p m luncheon in the Geronimo room of the Hotel Lawtonian. One hundred and two reservations have been made for the Oklahoma Eastern Industrial Tour departing Lawton Saturday afternoon to explore new industries and jobs in the state. This marks the largest participation since the tour began in 1947, with stops planned in Oklahoma City Tulsa and Vinita. Lawton representatives include J C Kennedy Milton Keating and Exall English. Keating has completed four tours and Eng- See TOUR, Page 2.
CHICAGO Linda Blackman of Hugo Oklahoma failed to represent Texas in the American dairy princess contest after International Dairy Show officials ruled she could not hold both Texas and Oklahoma titles. Despite telegrams from Governor Allan Shivers and the Texas Dairy Institute, she was barred from competing as Texas and from milking a cow on the Merchandise Mart’s 19th floor. Linda, a freshman at Oklahoma A&M, won Oklahoma dairy princess last June, with Texas officials planning her bid after Paris Chamber suggestion. The winner of the American dairy princess will be announced late Tuesday afternoon.
Sheriff deputies secured a warrant for Bobby Gean Smith 24 Rt 2 Cement charged with second degree manslaughter in a fatal crash at 12 04 am last Saturday. Arraignment awaits his hospital release as Judge Ralph Cline handles the case. Walker 60 Apache man who formerly lived at Anadarko died after the collision at Porter Hill near U S 62 and 277. Smith's injuries were described as good today.
In New Castle Indiana Perfect Circle Corp reopened its piston ring foundry with about 70 workers entering as guards and troops patrolled streets. Guardsmen moved from Hagerstown and Richmond to establish billets near a factory while martial law fixed a triangular patrol zone around the city and nearby Alcoa plant.
A mild cold front moves toward Oklahoma bringing cooler temperatures and scattered showers in Lawton late tonight and Wednesday. Partly cloudy and windy today with highs in the 80s, low tonight around 60, mid 70s Wednesday. Five day outlook shows 6 to 8 degrees above normal in the south. western area expected little precipitation.
Lawton district patrol leaders order a sharp crackdown on traffic violators to reduce injuries and deaths. Lt. F A Mussen says radar will monitor speeders round the clock, with enforcement tight on speed limits and stop sign and restricted zone violations across seven counties.
Five robbers held staff at gunpoint for nearly 12 hours inside Tappen's Seafood Restaurant in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. They forced the cook to prepare meals and waited for manager Peter Chahales 34 to arrive at noon to open the safe stealing about $6000. The siege ended when the manager finally opened the safe and the robbers released the workers.
United Press drama editor Jack Gaver reviews the film version of Oklahoma! at the Rivoli, praising the Todd-AO widescreen process. He notes Todd-AO is superior to most systems except Cinerama, with a near immersive screen and no image distortion, while contrasting it with Cinerama’s greater width.
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