Injury Riddled Wolverines Face Altus Bulldogs
Lawton Wolverines head to Altus Friday night facing a banged up squad led by coach Jo Johnston. Conway Garner remains out with an ankle injury while Geno Gower and Smokey Torbert recover from injuries. Franklin Spruiell returns to practice briefly, but Lawton’s right side and punting face notable weaknesses against the strong Altus Bulldogs line.
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Jo" Johnston
Lawton Wolverine
Johnston
Altus Bulldogs
Conway Garner
Pears
Garner
Lawton
Franklin Spruiell
Oklahoma A and M
Wolverine Moreskin
Io Boys
Franklin
Busman
Heliday
Beck
Spruicl
Aggies
Altus
Ereen
Bulldogs
Duncan Whippee
Douglass Lions Set for Key Clash with Sapulpa Bulldogs
Douglass high schools Lions meet Sapulpa Bulldogs Thursday night at Roosevelt Stadium in a major state class B Negro conference game. It is Douglass’s homecoming, with Miss Vern McGee crowned football queen at halftime. Odell Thompson leads Sapulpa while Douglass relies on Cherry and if available Lawrence Beaty to push a late rally.
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Douglass High School
Lions
Sapulpa Bulldogs
A. C. King
Sapulpa
AL Roosevelt Stadium
Douglass
Vern McGee
Frank Gaines
King
Sapulon
Sapilonia
Odell
Price Ceilings on Cars to Be Set by OPA This Week
Washington October 31 The first price ceilings on automobiles will likely be ready late this week but manufacturers may announce when they choose OPA will not name firms Ford Motor Company expected to be among first to receive ceilings Bowles said ceilings should be near top prices of three years ago Officials say public confusion could occur if ceilings are announced and later lowered Peppers rich in vitamins A and C in mature green stage but increase as they redden
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Washington
OPA
Ford Mater Company
OFA
Chester Bowles
Ag A
Farm income to fall up to nineteen percent in 1940 forecast
The agriculture department forecast a possible net income decline of up to 19 percent for farmers in 1940, based on reduced cash receipts from marketings. Real income would still drop over 10 percent, though prices may fall for fruits and vegetables. Wages stay high into 1946, with total cash receipts around 19 billion dollars, about 10 percent below 1945. Fullside Pie Supper at Hillside School Nov 2 features a Lawton junior high one-act play.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Hillside School
Lawton
Earl Inman
Lawton Junior High School
BM. E. Shell
Captain on Terminal Leave From England Base
Captain Thomas Jomea Arthis Thomas, Lawton aircraft maintenance officer, stationed in England for 18 months, is on terminal leave. He will be placed on inactive air reserve status January 1 after overseeing 30 planes and directing 185 personnel in the 4361 squadron, 479th Fighter Group. He recalls dawn preflight checks, long missions, and patching damaged planes, with brief returns to Belfast and Germany.
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Jomea Arthis Thomas
Lawton
England
John FP
Thomas Sc
Arlington
Air Reserve
Mort Bliss
Hi Paso
Tex
Thomas
Wallishaw
Inswich
Sufolk
Eighth Air Forge
4361
Lawtonian
Belfast
Ireland
Germany
Europe
Normandy
France
Ardennes
Rhineland
Cita Lion
Veteran Captain Thomas Returns From Overseas
A St Marys academy graduate and Cameron College and University of Oklahoma alumnus, Capt Thomas served as an aeronautical engineer and air force officer. After training at Chanute Field in 1942 and a 1944 Mojave Desert posting, he flew home on the Queen Mary with 7,500 veterans. He plans a reunion with his brother Hugh F. Thomas of Houston after his honorable discharge.
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Queen Mary
St Mary's Academy
Thomas
Cameron College
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Air Force
Chanute Field
Muroe Army Air Base
Mojroe Desert
James
Hugh F. Thomas
Houston
Tex
Army
Lawton Seabee Har old Short Ends 30 Month Pacific Tour
Lawton native Har old Short ends a 30 month Seabee service in the Pacific. He was first class carpenter’s mate, overseas since 1944, including Midway and Borneo campaigns, earning Pacific theater and Philippine liberation ribbons plus a battle star. He was discharged Oct 17 at Norman naval base. His wife visits his mother, Mrs. A. L. Short.
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Harold Short
Lawton
Pacific
Short
Norman Naval Base
A. L. Short
Fort Sill Boulevard
Honolulu
Sift Naval Construction
Midway
Port Hueneme
Los Angeles
Cal
Mr. Short
Borneo
P Jonine
Lawton High School
Cameron College
Sheet
A. and
M. College
T Water
Emaan
Oklahomar City Construction
Tinker
Powell family ties frame a serviceman’s voyage
Field project before joining the Sea Bees is noted as part of a family story. A brother in law, Maj. Arthur Powell, serves in New Guinea while Mrs. Powell, Esther Short before marriage, lives in Oklahoma City where she gained fame as her husband served overseas.
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The
Seabees
Maj
Arthur Powell
New Guinea
Powell
Esther Short
Oklahoma City
Lawton Veteran Jack Lawson Receives Discharge
Jack Lawson, a 95 year old Lawton resident and tank commander with the 66th Armored Regiment, Second Armored Division, received a 105 point discharge on October 27 at Camp Chaffee Arkansas after a 34 month overseas stretch. He arrived in New York October 11 aboard a liberty ship and now lives at 1508 South Sixth with his parents listed at 1512 South Sista. Lawson served in Casablanca Rabat and Oran, fought in Sicily and Normandy, Holland, Belgium and into Germany, was never wounded though suffered four broken fingers in a postwar tank accident between Berlin and Brunswick. He is entitled to the Purple Heart.
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66Th Armored Regiment
Second Armored
Jack Lawson
Lawton
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Ofter
New York
Lawson
Loretto
South Sixth
W. C. Lawson
South Sista
Jack
Fort Bragg
N.C
Casablanca
Rabat
Oran
England
Normandy
France
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Lawtonian
Berlin
Brunswick
Larelia
WWII veteran Jack Oosteen and campaign honors recount
The passage notes former Constitution carrier Navy Jack Oosteen attended local schools and worked at the Dixie store before enlisting in May 1942. He trained at Fort Knox and served in the Sicilian invasion era, earning the Bronze Arrowhead and Presidential Unit Citation along with the Belgian Fourragere.
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Oosteen
Constitution
Jack
Dixie Store
Fort Knox, By
Ammunition curb lifted allowing wider sales nationwide
Washington reports that starting today hunters and the public may buy all ammunition on dealer shelves as government restrictions on manufacture, delivery and sales are lifted. The War Production Board cites large military needs as the reason, easing tight wartime rationing that had curtailed sportsmen access. Production must ramp up, and supply will not instantly meet demand.
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Washington
War Production Board
WEB
Scale limits on civilian ammo for season draw debate
Revised restrictions implemented last August cap civilian hunters at 150 rounds of .22 caliber limefire cartridges and 40 centerfire rifle rounds or 100 shotgun shells, with slightly higher allowances for farmers ranchers professional hunters trappers and law enforcement officers drawing criticism.
Man Fined For Speeding At Fort Sill
Morgan G. Dewberry an employee of a local garage was fined ten dollars by U S Commissioner P G Fullerton on Tuesday for driving forty two miles per hour in a twenty mile zone at Fort Sill. The complaint was filed by military police.
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Morgan G. Dewberry
U. S
P. G. Fullerton
Fort Sill
Milk stain on tablecloth cleaned with cold water rinse
If milk stains appear on a tablecloth rinse immediately in clear water. Then wash promptly with hot water and soap to prevent setting the stain.
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