Merrill Lynch Stockmobile Visits Lawton Thursday
A small model brokerage office on wheels sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane will stop at the Hotel Lawtonian parking lot on Thursday from 10 50 a.m. to 8 30 p.m. The three section unit includes a six minute film in a miniature board room, a stock price board, and two private offices for consultations. No transactions will occur. the event aims to educate the public about investing in common stocks.
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Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane
Lawtonian
Lawtonians
Executive Sees Labor Shortage As Auto Age Problem
Washington report quotes Sylvania Electric chairman Don G. Mitchell predicting a looming labor shortage as automation grows. He argues increased mechanization is needed to meet rising production, countering fears of mass unemployment, and cites projections of 1957 work force needs and a possible 32 hour week by 1956.
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Washington
Don G. Mitchell
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc
Senate House Committee
Mitchell
CIO
Walter Reuther
Magazine salesmen mislead band director defense
George Walters, Lawton high school band director, was approached by two magazine salesmen claiming proceeds would benefit the local band. Walters stated no school authorization for such a campaign and reported the incident to police after the men fled. The school plans begin February and distanced itself from the sales effort.
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George Walters
Lawton High School
Walters
Capital Symphony Seeks Four Soloists in State Contest
A state wide competition to select four soloists to sing with the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra is organized by conductor Guy Fraser Harrison and Mrs Frederic Libke president of the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs. Lawton musicians may apply for soprano tenor contralto and bass roles with final auditions in Oklahoma City in March.
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Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra
Guy Fraser Harrison
Frederic Libke
Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Libke
11Th
Municipal Auditorium
Nine hundred 10000-dollar bills in circulation
Report notes the number of ten thousand dollar bills in circulation stands at nine hundred now, a sharp decline from six thousand in 1940 indicating reduced circulation of large denomination currency.
Pate Named New Marine Chief
WASHINGTON P Lt Gen Randolph McCall Pate 57 of South Carolina will become the Marines 21st commandant on January 1 succeeding Gen Lemuel C Shepherd who is retiring He is a deputy under Shepherd and was announced by Secretary of Defense Wilson after a Denver call with President Eisenhower Pate a Virginia Military Institute graduate entered service in 1921 He gained fame for planning Pacific amphibious operations at Guadalcanal Peleliu Iwo Jima and Okinawa and led the First Marine Division in late Korean War fighting.
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Washingon
Randolph McCall Pate
Marine Corps
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Shepherd
Pate
Wilson
Eisenhower
Denver
Port Royal
S. C
Virginia Military Institute
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Peleliu
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
1St Marine Division
Man dyes lawn to stay green in summer heat
Evanston residents watched Mark Maxwell, an ad man and amateur chemist, turn brown lawn patches green with a dye he developed after crabgrass poison browned his grass. He says the dye is plant safe, applied with a sprayer, and may go to commercial production.
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Evanston
Mark Maxwell
Maxwell
Enid Man Dies as State Traffic Toll Rises
The death of 63 year old Alfred Almon Sloan from injuries after a collision on September 30 on State Highway 58 northwest of Fairview raises the state's highway fatality toll to 449, up from 443 a year ago.
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Enid
Associated Press
Alfred Almon Sloan
Fairview
Eight of ten U S vacationists travel by car in 1955
A 1955 survey shows eight of ten U S vacationers chose automobile travel while rail and bus options declined. The data reflects midcentury mobility trends and preferences for personal transport over public conveyances.
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U. S
Parole Hearing Set for Two Oklahoma Killers
Oklahoma City state pardon and parole office announced Kenneth C. Chew, 42, serving life for the 1934 killing of Chester Nunn near Sallisaw, will be considered for parole this month. Nunn, a Wagoner County farmer and 1934 agriculture board candidate, was slain after giving Chew a ride. Davis aided in the crime and was later imprisoned. The board will also review 14 other clemency requests in McAlester, including Harbie Franklin Fairis, 22, facing electrocution for the slaying of an Oklahoma City detective during a grocery robbery.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Kenneth C. Chew
Chester Nunn
Wagoner County
State Board of Agriculture
Nunn
Chew
Bill Davis
Sallisaw
Davis
Bristow
McAlester
Harbie Franklin Fairis
Swedish Gal Says Yanks Nude Bathers
Rome film star Anita Ekberg defends Sweden against nude bathing stereotypes. She says nude bathing occurs in the United States more than in Sweden, noting Americans freely use nudist colonies while Swedes bathe privately. She stresses moral similarities and honesty between nations.
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Rome
Robert Mitchum
Sweden
Hollywood
United States
Anita Ekberg
Mitchum
Europe
AP Hollywood
Bob Thomas
Homecoming Set At St. Mary's Saints Meet El Reno Six-Man
St Marys plans homecoming on October 25 at Roosevelt Stadium where the Saints football team hosts El Reno six man. Homecoming queen candidates will be chosen this week at the school.
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St. Mary’s School
Saints
el Reno
Roosevelt Stadium
U S School Bus Fleet Moves Millions of Pupils Daily
The United States operates about 130000 school buses transporting roughly 8 million pupils over about 1000000 miles of school bus routes each day.
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United States
Battle for minds in Argentina tests Peron era future
Hal Boyle reports from Buenos Aires on a high stakes struggle as Argentina’s provisional government seeks to win over working men still loyal to exiled Juan Peron. Editorials in La Epoca stress union democracy and the danger of inflation, while the CGT’s six million claim is questioned amid a hard money campaign.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Peron
Peron
Ife
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Eduardo Lonardi
Peronistas
la Epoca
Reno Ex-con seeks priest before signing confession
Hollywood police say 27 year old ex convict Ralph Reno will meet a priest prior to signing a confession in which he admits strangling his 34 year old stepmother Stella Reno and stabbing his 57 year old father Andrew Reno. He claims his father helped move the body to a car trunk in Nevada. the father denies the account. Reno, a former welterweight fighter, says years of arguments led to the killing and later injuries while recovering in hospital.
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Hollywood
Ralph Reno
Reno
Nev
Stella Reno
Andrew Reno
Nevada
General Hospital
Chickasha Baby Drowns While Mother Hangs Out Wash
In Chickasha Oklahoma a 22 month old boy Emmett Cecil Langford drowned in a farm pond when his mother missed him for a moment while hanging out the family wash. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Bob Langford and lived 17 miles east of Chickasha.
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Chickasha
Okla
Emmett Cecil Langford
Bob Langford
Confidential magazine approved for January mailings
The Post Office Department after reviewing advance copies decided to permit the January issue of Confidential, the expose magazine published at Mount Morris Illinois, to be mailed.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Confidential
Mount Morris, Ill
Your real estate needs
Real estate broker advertises services for property needs using the Dinkins Agency name. Claims trust in judgment and future confidence with a single phone contact at 3212 510 D Avenue. No dates or places beyond the street address.
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Dinkins Agency
D Avenue
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