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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1963
Page
10
Police and pro Communist terrorists clashed at a fashionable Caracas outdoor cafe Sunday. Dozens of customers took cover as bullets shattered a nearby supermarket window. Two terrorists were captured. others fled or were wounded.
The Supreme Court begins two days of arguments on five sit-in cases from Maryland South Carolina and Florida focusing on use of state trespass laws to back private discrimination. The court may decide broader questions of equal protection and private denial of service.
Vatican City sutures vote on liturgical reform chapter. Council fathers fail to reach two thirds for final approval, 1417 unqualified yes, 781 with reservations, 36 no. Resolution may be rewritten to permit vernacular use and other reforms in the Mass. Reverend Frederick McManus cautions against distress.
A night crash involving a car, a truck and a trailer killed five people from St Helena and Vallejo including Carl Stutchman and his daughter Mona Kiley. Two Kiley children and another man, Gordon Meyer, died in the wreck. Four others were injured with two more in critical condition at Marin General Hospital. The crash occurred when Stutchman attempted a pass and collided head on with William White’s lumber truck, sending debris and the semi trailer into other vehicles.
The first National Geographic issue in October 1888 circulated to 205 readers. Its October 1963 75th anniversary edition, totaling 188 pages with text and pictures, reached about 3.5 million readers.
The Supreme Court directed Minnesota courts to reexamine the case of Mrs. Owen Jenison of the Church of God who refused jury duty on religious grounds. She was jailed 30 days for contempt after declining to serve in a 1962 civil trial in Renville County. The Minnesota Supreme Court had upheld the contempt finding.
In 1960 East Germany a chess set depicted the king as a worker studying an economic plan and the queen as a woman scientist. Pawns bore hammers or sickles reflecting socialist symbolism.
Delegates from Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska Iowa and Missouri voted Sunday to back U S Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination. They adopted resolutions criticizing wheat sales to Russia and opposing tax cuts without reduced federal spending.
The Board of Civil Service Examiners announced an exam for battery repair men at Fort Sill. The position pays $2.29 per hour and tests close Tuesday October 15.
The fort at Louisbourg in Nova Scotia fell to British forces in 1760. The destruction was described as thorough as an earthquake, signaling a decisive end to French control of the fortress.
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