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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1963
Page
7
Births recorded for four newborns on Sept 2 with parents Putman Purvis Dunn Nepper and weights 6 lb 12 oz 6 lb 6 oz 8 lb 14 oz 5 lb 13 oz. Numerous admissions and discharges listed including medical and surgical cases with names and addresses.
Brig. Gen. Robert A. Ballard of Homestead Florida visited Ft. Stewart to receive a unit safety award plaque but hesitated as his bandaged hand, caught in a car accident, caused a moment of caution during the ceremony.
Police court records list multiple defendants with charges such as assault and battery, prostitution, speeding, and disorderly conduct. Bond forfeitures range from 10 to 20 dollars, and fines reach up to 15 dollars. Names include Buddy Titus, Joe Danie, Alvin Morgan, Samuel Wilson, Buster Lewis, John Eddings, Delores Soa, Mariene Mileto, and Tommy L. Lewis, with locations around McKinney Port Sill Garfield Elgin and Artington.
A general alarm fire swept the Belmar boardwalk area with strong ocean winds causing about $1 million in damage to a bathing pavilion and 100 feet of boardwalk as reported by UPI. The blaze erupted in Belmar New Jersey and drew firefighters from nearby towns to battle the flames.
20 year old Roy Gale Rogers surrendered to Kiowa County authorities after a rifle attack on Mr. and Mrs. Delley Jarnagin in their Mountain View home. Jarnagin was shot in the head and chest, his wife wounded in the wrist. she later had her left hand amputated. Son Alva Weeda, 17, confronted the intruder as he fled. Rogers led police to a rifle found near the Washita River two miles north.
Prominent East German intellectual Hans Mayer defects to West Germany while on a lecture tour in Hamburg He will not return to Leipzig University where he taught for 15 years Mayer a national prize winner in 1935 is a longtime liberal figure in Soviet bloc literary circles His defection shocks Eastern intellectuals.
Charlayne Hunter, the University of Georgia's first Black female student, reveals she secretly married Walter Stovall, a white student. They wed last spring while in college and are expecting a December child. Stovall, a reporter in summer, says his parents disapprove and refuse to discuss the marriage.
Mr and Mrs Glen Dunn of 404 Green Meadow Drive announce the birth of a daughter at Memorial Hospital Monday at 5 30 pm. The baby weighed 8 pounds 14 ounces at birth and joins Dunn in the Lawton Constitution Press mechanical department.
Two drowning victims were recovered in Oklahoma. Earl Myers aged 24 from Edna Kansas was found in a water-filled gravel pit north of Lenapah after his pickup was located near the pit. Myers was last seen in Nowata at 2 30 a m. A second victim 2 year old John Michalike of Oklahoma City drowned in Lake Murray near Ardmore while swimming with a group.
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