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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1955
Page
11
Seventeen city midget football teams converge at Roosevelt Stadium for a 6:30 p.m. single elimination Jamboree. Each game lasts six minutes, with a trophy awarded to the undefeated team emerging from the grueling event. East and West leagues participate after weather delays.
United Press lists 17 major colleges with perfect records among 70 total unbeaten squads. Notables include TCU Navy Notre Dame and Ohio State style teams with four wins each. St Olaf leads stats with four victories and 177-25 scoring. Details show varied scores by group and opponent.
In Los Angeles, USC coach Jess Hill questioned the legality of Washington's 80 yard scoring play against USC last Saturday. He told writers he cannot confirm if the knee touch or the forward pass rules were properly applied and will focus on Wisconsin this week.
The Chicago Cubs acquired first baseman outfielder Frank Kellert from the Brooklyn Dodgers and two Des Moines farm system players. Kellert, 31, hit .295 in 39 games for the world champion Dodgers last season. The others are pitcher Gene Fodge, a 2-year veteran with a 16-10 record and 2.28 ERA over 225 innings, and infielder Bob McKee who batted .278 with 77 RBIs and 14 homers at Des Moines.
The item lists games scheduled for Tuesday across leagues and notes Monday results. It serves as a compact sports brief identifying teams, venues, and scores where available, with emphasis on notable matchups and outcomes from the prior day.
Willie Pep, Hartford featherweight, nears his 200th pro victory after a 10 round unanimous decision over Charlie Titone of Brooklyn at Maple Arena. Pep weighed 129 1 2 pounds Titone 128 1 2. Pep opened a cut and bloodied Titone’s nose in rounds four and five. Pep's career record stood at seven losses and one draw.
In Mexico City Art Larsen and Enrique Morea reached the men's doubles round while Herbie Flam of Beverly Hills moved up in singles at the Pan-American Tournament. Across sports, Brooklyn Dodgers sold Frank Kellert to Chicago, and Belmont Park, Suffolk Downs, Hawthorne, Bay Meadows, and Garden State Park hosted feature races with winners Nances Lad, Happy Memories, Foxy Ned, Solid Gem, Tahiti.
New York reports Lulu Perez, a Brooklyn boxer, shifts to lightweight aims after a tough 19th round win over Bobby Courchesne of Holyoke Massachusetts at St. Nicholas Arena. Perez displayed power in a seventh round rally and again in the 19th, while Courchesne fought back with desperate rights.
Kansas City Athletics announce the purchase of Jack Crimian from Toronto. The 28 year old, named the International League MVP last season, posted a 19-6 record. Athletics pay cash plus pitcher Mario Fricano and another player to be named.
In New York Lulu Perez of Brooklyn won a decision over Bobby Courchesne of Holyoke. In Brockton Willie Pep beat Charlie Titone by decision. In Providence Lou Campanelli stopped Mike Gillo in the tenth round.
The Hollywood Stars announced they have acquired southpaw pitchers Fred Green and Roger Sawyer from the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for infielder outfielder George Freese.
City police headquarters and Municipal court quarters received a fresh two tone paint upgrade with light brown and white in the radio room reception area and the small courtroom downstairs. Prisoners and officers helped apply the paint after the city supplied the materials. The records room was not repainted.
Vienna reports the Austrian Cabinet approved an agreement with the United States for exchanging information on peaceful atomic energy uses. The accord covers reactors research development and medical therapy. The United States has similar pacts with 23 other nations.
Rev. J J Stowe Jr pastor of the First Methodist church will speak at the eighth annual 4 H Achievement Day lunch eon on Thursday Oct 13 at noon in the Fort Sill Indian School gymnasium. Over 600 are expected as 4 H members are honored with prizes scholarships and recognition.
A roundtable for Cub Scout leaders in the Hunting Horse district is at 7:30 p.m. in Fort Sill building 52. Host Pack 83. T. W. Daniels of Pack 44 to unveil a new Bobcat ceremony. Buford Morgan to introduce a new pack closing ceremony. quarterlies and other projects by Mrs. Buford Morgan Elsie Hamm and Frank Crawford. Johnny Holcomb notes winter program materials for attendees.
Margaret Truman arrived back in New York from a European tour and denied renewed rumors of an engagement. She called the gossip untrue, saying she had no plans to announce a betrothal. President Truman skipped his morning walk to greet his daughter as the United States docked at six o'clock a.m. eastern time.
The second Chamber of Commerce forum at Hotel Lawtonian has a 5 p.m. Thursday deadline for reservations. Sen. Mike Monroney will give the principal luncheon address, and all Chamber members and their wives are invited. Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams and his staff will be special guests.
Mike Mahsetky a 32 year old Apache man was jailed again after sheriff deputy Arvil Roberson arrested him on a bench warrant issued by Peace Justice Woodrow Giles. He faces charges of failure to provide for his family after failing to appear for arraignment before Justice Giles Monday.
Richard F. Conklin of Bell California was jailed today on a 2000 dollar bond after pleading innocent to embezzlement. A preliminary hearing was set for October 14 at 2 p.m. The case involves an International panel truck valued at 400 dollars alleged to be taken for personal use. Gene R. Bain, Conklin’s employer, accuses him of unlawful execution of his employment.
County agriculture officials announce the Oklahoma Formula Feed conference set for October 27 and 28 on the Oklahoma A&M campus in Stillwater. The event welcomes feed manufacturers and farmers and will feature speakers from Texas A&M Iowa State and Dawes laboratories among others addressing poultry dairy and livestock feeding and management.
National Farm Loan association of Anadarko schedules its annual meeting at 10 a.m. October 25 in the Hotel Lawtonian. Members from Caddo and Comanche counties invited. A director will replace K. V. Rhodes as term expires. Wesley Spencer says reports and committees will meet. Registration opens at 10, followed by a business session and noon luncheon. TV actors Wiley and Gene will entertain.
Congressman Victor Wickersham told Lawton residents at the Hotel Lawtonian that additional units would be stationed at the Artillery and Guided Missile Center by year’s start. He urged Lawton to pursue water rights for municipal supply, forecast rapid growth into the hundred thousand population range, and noted his role on the House Armed Services Committee before departing for Oklahoma City and Washington.
The Agriculture Department on Monday set the 1956 sugar cane acreage allotment at 267000 acres. Louisiana and Florida are the only producing states. 1956 acreage falls short of 1955’s 282000 acres and well below the 1949-53 average of 340200. The department did not specify the Louisiana versus Florida allocation.
President Eisenhower named Harold S. Vance, chairman of the executive committee of the Studebaker-Packard Corp, to the Atomic Energy Commission for a term to June 30, 1960. He fills a vacancy created by Joseph Campbell’s elevation to Comptroller General. A prior nomination of Allen Whitfield was withdrawn amid Senate opposition.
The Moulin Rouge, a three million dollar interracial hotel and casino in Las Vegas, has been padlocked due to mounting financial troubles. It marks the third Las Vegas hotel in recent months to face financial difficulties.
City detectives reported no burglaries in Lawton last night or today aside from a single theft of a hub cap from a 1950 Ford. Skirmishes included nine arrests Monday night for public drunkenness and other charges. Fending off the weekend surge, officers recovered fender skirts from a 1955 Ford at the high school and returned them to owner F. A. McFarland.
Santiago Curvier Martinez, 25, Fort Sill, began a 10 day jail term after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated before City Judge Ralph Cline. The judge assessed a $100 fine and costs.
A five alarm fire in the Brooklyn Coney Island area raged for over an hour Monday night, aided by about 200 firefighters. The blaze, with periodic explosions, swept a five story abandoned brewery and threatened a wax works and nearby lumber yard with no reported injuries.
Former movie producer Richard M. Blumenthal, 49, had narcotics charges dropped after barbiturates found in his sock were prescribed by his physician. Blumenthal, linked to a real estate firm, was arrested after a Friday traffic accident that left him with a broken arm.
Two delegates to Washington D C will give reports at a Comanche Tribal meeting at 1 p m Saturday at Fort Sill Indian School. Tribal councilmen announced Henry Lookingglass Oklahoma City and Robert Coffey Lawton will report.
Members of the Douglass Youth Center association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Douglass high school auditorium. Quay Barfield, president, says reports from committees and further campaign plans for the proposed Negro youth center will be discussed.
A search for Aubrey Crisp, 42, who disappeared while swimming on Monday, resumed Tuesday on the Arkansas River south of Tulsa. A friend from Bixby said Crisp planned to swim to an island but was swept downstream. he was seen near a bridge at Jenks as firemen warned the current could carry the body far.
Mrs. Alden Ames, 16, an expectant mother, died of polio yesterday in East Meadow after Friday illness. Doctors at Meadowbrook Hospital could not save her life or the unborn child.
Ralph Bartlett a service station operator in Weaverville North Carolina wears a black armband and blue coveralls as he mourns the New York Yankees loss in the World Series.
Taipei Formosa the Taipei Telephone Co appealed to the public to avoid nonessential calls, especially during business hours. It cited an average of 24 calls per phone per day, the highest in the world, as the reason for urging restraint.
Gerald Wayne Gadd, 19, arrested after a Saturday pistol fight near Atlanta and admits rapes and robberies in Oklahoma City, plus a $46,900 securities theft in Sherman Oaks. He faces attempted robbery charges here before possible return to states seeking him. grand jury to meet Oct. 17. Police say he has a long criminal record and fired at officers during the chase.
DETROIT Russell Wireman, 26, a double amputee, freed by police after questioning in his father Christopher Wireman 67 death. Autopsy shows heart attack as cause. Detectives quote Wireman denying violence after arguing with his father. He uses a small wheeled platform after losing both legs in a childhood rail accident.
AEC announced a series of tests scheduled near Nov 1 in the Nevada desert to study whether atomic weapons can self ignite under fire or nearby bomb or artillery explosions. If weapons prove safe, no nuclear detonations are expected, only conventional device blasts.
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