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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1954
Page
1
Storm winds of at least 80 mph battered Lawton Fort Sill with heavy rain and hail. Power and phone services disrupted as barns sheds and homes were damaged or destroyed. Five small Fort Sill planes suffered wing and tail damage with two likely unrecoverable.
Farmer Connie Hill Jr. crawled home through a gale near Lawton as winds ripped his land four miles west of the city causing about 800 in damage. Neighbors reported gusts near 100 mph as Mrs. Harrison King fought to reach a storm cellar after a steel watering tank was lifted and carried off.
Police report an F-86 Sabrejet crashed into woods near Clinton on Tuesday, killing two children believed to be playing there. Details of the incident were not immediately available.
U S Navy ordered nearly 1000 women and children into shelters at Guantanamo Bay Cuba and sent ships to sea as Hurricane Hazel approached. Rain fell as 115 mph winds were forecast, with Haiti reporting a fisherman dead and Santiago suffering a hurricane death.
Leonard Thomas, half brother to actress Diana Barrymore, is reported missing near Bald Knob in the Williams Mountains after leaving a hunting camp with Don Newberry and Bud Smith of Aspen. He planned to scout the peak with a Geiger counter for uranium and was without food or clothing in the cold mountain night.
Storm clouds moved out of Oklahoma as heavy rain lingered in the state. Chicago eased from its worst flood crisis since the century, with cleanup speeding but city businesses and plants disrupted. Indiana towns faced continued danger as the Little Calumet rose and National Guardsmen aided evacuees in Hammond.
Sheriff Everett Hale said he is investigating a reported rape of an 18 year old pregnant woman. The Fort Sill wife told him a man in a car dragged her from a salvage yard near Lawton drove to a rural road southeast of Lawton and assaulted her twice. She jumped from the car on S H 7 near the city limits and was taken to Fort Sill hospital.
Rain and clouds were in prospect across the mid continent including Chicago and parts of northern Indiana and Illinois. Light rain fell in a belt from northwestern Arkansas to southeastern Missouri and northeastern Illinois. Scattered showers touched the northern Great Plains while the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes saw cloudy skies. Overall, fair weather prevailed elsewhere as warm humid air moved from the lower Mississippi Valley to the eastern Great Lakes toward the Atlantic.
Convicts at the South Dakota State Penitentiary agreed to return to their cells and release one guard if Sioux Falls Mayor Fay Wheeldon would lead an impartial investigation. Wheeldon said he would accept after conferring with Warden Jameson. The riot began in the dining room just before 6 p.m. tear gas drove prisoners to the cell block, where they held sway overnight.
A county court jury found John Wilbur Meyer innocent in a Reckless Driving trial, the first case of the fall term. Four guilty pleas Monday reduced the possession docket to 20 cases. Sid Ludwig and Lonnie Ray faced charges with Ludwig fined 150 dollars and 30 days, plus 250 dollars and 30 days for additional counts. A P Boots Gent admitted two possession charges and received fines and 30 days jail.
War correspondent Fraser Hunt portrays a 1941 42 plan by Gen. Marshall and Gen. Eisenhower to draw up a temporary sacrifice of MacArthur and forces in the Philippines after Pearl Harbor. The book defends MacArthur’s actions and names Roosevelt Truman and others as targets of critique.
Paris dispatch reports Premier Mendes-France won a strong confidence vote in the National Assembly endorsing the London accords on German disarmament for Western defense. Unofficial tallies show about 365 votes with Socialist deputies largely backing the plan, giving the Premier a solid mandate amid high political stakes and upcoming Western Power talks.
President Eisenhower defended Secretary Charles E. Wilson against charges of indifference to human misfortune after his Detroit remark about the unemployed. The White House said Wilson was quoted out of context and noted ongoing administration efforts to expand peacetime prosperity amid economic dislocations. CIO President Walter Reuther urged Wilson retire or apologize, a demand acknowledged but not answered by the president at that time.
State crime bureau ties death of a Fort Worth executive to possible foul play after a charred body was found in a burned station wagon in the Arbuckle Mountains south of Davis. Investigators note low carbon monoxide, suggest immediate death from a sudden blaze, and pursue leads including a Texas mystery car, a flashlight, and a possible kidnapping.
Ambassador James J. Wadsworth in the U N General Assembly said the Soviet disarmament proposals open room for discussion though many obstacles remain. He cited the need for clarification and elaboration and noted Soviet policy shifts on some points.
Edward Lee Spivey a 15 year old Lawton area youth was charged with manslaughter after a two car collision at Fourth and I on October 2 killed Inez Roberts 59 wife of Constable Edd Roberts. A juvenile hearing found him competent to stand trial and he is held on a $3000 bond as ward of the court with Judge S R Harper presiding and County Attorney Manville Redman filing the charge.
A 72 year old nurse and a young soldier died when their car hit a soft shoulder after rain making the road slick and then struck a pickup. The dead are G. Clawson of Van Nuys and Billy R. Yates of Clintwood Virginia. Yates was hitchhiking to Fort Sill to report for duty tonight. Both died in hospital about two hours after the crash.
Gore Boulevard paving contract expected to dominate tonight's city council meeting. Agenda also includes minor items and offers on a bulldozer-scraper for the garbage department.
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