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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1955
Page
5
Mrs. Tom Kleppe of Bismarck comments on a Senate subcommittee study by the Bismarck Lions club. She says the Lions are a very live organization and that it is a wonderful opportunity to help, but she believes wives should not be included.
Elmer Trigger Burke arrives in New York under heavy guard and refuses to speak to reporters saying I Ain't tell you guys nuttin. California Attorney General Edmund G Brown after conferring with Adlai Stevenson says Stevenson talks like a candidate and expects he will run for the presidency.
Miss Hanako Shigemitsu, daughter of Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, shares reactions to visiting the United States. She describes the experience as wonderful yet filled with temptations and expresses a desire to see many things and to buy items during her stay.
Actress Cleo Moore declares Hollywood overemphasizes busts and cheesecake. She says sex appeal comes from the eyes and cites stars like Jane Russell Marilyn Monroe Gary Cooper Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster. Moore notes censor trouble over closeups of her eyes in Hold Back Tomorrow and argues eyes convey attraction more than figures.
Weather observers will sail on merchant vessels between Baltimore and San Juan to monitor hurricanes. They will take radio upper air observations every 12 hours and check surface weather every six hours.
UNITED NATIONS New York Britain sought to calm Russian fears that disarmament inspections would become a spy network. The UN Disarmament subcommittee paused after a week of talks and will resume on Tuesday. British sources said any control organ would be strictly for verification, not espionage, with staged confidence building and no early access to atomic installations. Russia remained silent on Eisenhower’s plan for exchanges of blueprints and aerial inspections.
The American Meat Institute will exhibit a comprehensive display of American food products at the Cologne Germany food fair on October 19. It will be the first officially sponsored American exhibit at a foreign food fair. Cologne's fair is the largest of its kind in Europe.
Harry Truman is stationed with the 69th Infantry Division artillery at Fort Dix New Jersey, the Army revealed Friday. Corporal Truman of Northfield Vermont is a Republican, distinct from the more famous wartime president.
Calais Maine up Sam McKnight 80 received $50 in the mail with a note claiming repayment for pay lost at the cotton mill 45 years ago. The sender signed as an old backboy.
Prineville Crook County records show 222 births in 1949 and 222 first graders registered for the new school year. County clerk's office notes population not growing, but holding steady as births and enrollments balance.
An employee at Montreal General Hospital climbed a 225 foot aircraft beacon tower on the roof to remove a skull and crossbones flag placed by a prankster believed to be a medical student, according to a hospital official.
PHAMBURG Germany reports West Germany s economics minister Professor Ludwig Erhard outsmoked Sir Winston Churchill, smoking 12 cigars daily for 37 years totaling 162000 cigars, surpassing Churchill s 7 daily for 60 years totaling 153000 cigars.
In Mesa Arizona an executed murderer Lester Bartholomew delivered a funeral message by tape from death row. About 450 people at First Baptist Church heard him ask friends to get right with God and to adopt him as Savior. He said faith would lead to Heaven and urged listeners to join him. Bartholomew was put to death in the gas chamber Wednesday for the May 28 Phoenix shooting of his wife and two children.
In Dallas an 83-year-old woman told police that an unknown person entered her home and stole her two cats and the false teeth left drying in a cup. The incident highlights rising concerns about security and elder vulnerability in urban neighborhoods.
Harrisburg report notes Elsie Mumma a 70 acre Hum mers t on dairy farm seeks jury trial after being sued for 403.20 penalties for over planting six acres of wheat in 1954. She claims the grain was for feed and asserts ancestral land rights and a defense against government action.
Joseph Knox aged 16 was sentenced in Criminal Court to two years in school after pleading guilty to a store burglary. A suspended prison term would take effect if he fails to continue his education during two years of probation. Stolen items included pineapple juice cans and several books.
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