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Newspaper

Lawton Constitution

Location

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Sep 05, 1955

Page

14

Two Bedroom Homes and Rentals Listed for Sale

A collection of two and three bedroom homes and frames for sale with diverse features. Listings include North 31st, Liberty, Lawton, Logan, D Avenue, Denver, and other addresses near local schools such as John Adams Whittier Taft Jefferson Roosevelt Swinney, with equity figures and monthly payments ranging from about 59.85 to 78 dollars. Cedar lined closets, central heat, attics, and venetian blinds noted. Col. H. J. Crigger Rental Dept.

North 31St John Adams School Logan Youngstown Jefferson School Garfield School D Avenue Roosevelt School Denver Swinney School

Multi-item Classifieds Include TV and Appliances For Sale

Classified listing offering a Zenith 21 inch table TV with antenna, an Arctic Circle evaporative air conditioner, a 10 hp Corsair outboard motor at 1214 Kingsbury, laundry equipment for sale at Cameron Seuhday for 966, a 1952 Speedliner boat with trailer and 1954 Mercury Mark 20 motor, a 2005 Taylor item at phone 6145-W, a 21 inch combo TV radio and record player with limed oak four piece walnut bedroom suite at 1633 Lucas, a Singer sewing machine, a Underwood typewriter, and a Maytag washing machine at 308 Arlington.

Arctic Circle Lucas Schwinn Singer R Kalamazoo Underwood Bell Universal Sewing Machine P. O Lawton W. P. Thorp West of Indiahoma South

For Sale Mattoon Area Phone Listings and Acreage

For sale items include Mattoon Allen Morford Phones 108 and 2038 on Kingsbury. 3 bedrun house with carpets in living run dining run and hall. Two floor furnaces and many extras. Large lot priced at Bilbrey’s Agey. Ph 8150 3700 or 1 ACRE on Cache Rd for sale. Ph 3676.

Kingsbury Bilbrey’s Agey Cache Rd

8000 Lawton Students Start Classwork Tuesday

More than 8000 Lawton students begin the 1955-56 term Tuesday with registration at the Andrew Jackson building. Classes start Wednesday with principal Johnny Littlefield noting unfinished construction. 455 students enrolled so far across elementary, junior high, and high schools. Bus routes and cafeterias operate as normal. Fort Sill transports students to area schools.

Andrew Jackson Lindy Johnny Littlefield Jackson Lincoln School Fort Sill Lawton - Fort Sill

Property listings from Ted Krisher Farm and Ranch Realty

A compact real estate bulletin lists 160 acres and 80 acres of unimproved land near Lawton with notes on location 2 miles west Hawkins Drive and 3% west of Lawton, plus 10 acres modern tract. Also features a well improved 80 acre parcel near Lawton, a country home near a rural school, and a Sterling mineral claim. Trade option offered for city property. Contact Ted Krisher Farm and Ranch Realty Co at 712 Lee Blvd, phone 5374.

Cache Road Dorsey & Cache Road R. B. Trentman CO Fort Worth Lawton

Rural land listings surface around Sterling area

A jumble of farm land ads describes 400 acres with water and trade options, 800 acres with highway frontage, 6 am house on 160 acres near Sterling on a school bus line, and 3 miles east of Sterling on Highway 17. Also offered are grazing land leases, sealed bids on 1200 and 125 acre parcels, and contact details for American Realty with phone 8778.

American n_ Realty Hashiway Way American Realty Sterling O. D. Kirkpatrick E. Sterling Ng Land Sai Oklahoma Anadarko

Labor Day birth and name origin tale in Grundy Center

Johnson closed his barber shop on Labor Day to celebrate his birthday and the anniversary tied to his name. The elder Johnson, Alfred Johnson, was fined $2 in 1894 by a Omaha cigar makers union for missing a Labor Day parade, while he awaited Labor Day's birth.

Grundy Center Iowa Johnson Labor Day Alfred Johnson Omaha Neb Alfred

Pacific Coast Chinese bowling tour kicks off in Oakland

Milani Ziokovich Co. of Oakland wins the 10th annual Pacific Coast all Chinese bowling tournament held Monday. In Newark New Jersey, the Empire burlesque house reports a box office smash, while Elizabeth Williams, 34, crashed her car into the theater front during a Sunday matinee.

San Francisco Milani Ziokovich Co Oakland Newark N. J The Empire Burlesque House Elizabeth Williams

Sportscaster Warns Police Over Buick Blockade

In Knoxville police sought the owner of a 1955 Buick parked illegally outside the arena. Sportscaster Art Metzler interrupted his wrestling broadcast and read the car’s model make and license number before realizing it was his own vehicle.

Knoxville, Tenn Art Metzler

Florida Winter Racing Season Sets State Revenue Peak

The 1954 55 winter racing season in Florida produced a record state revenue of 13171843 dollars. The largest contribution came from a single source totaling 6038761 dollars.

Florida

Hospital News Items Admitted and Births Reported

A hospital row lists numerous admissions and dismissals with births noted. Included are births for August 29 30 and September 5 1 from families in Carnegie Pueblo Medicine Park and Fletcher among others, with many patients positioned by name address and service.

Ralph Mammedaty View Anthony Parker Cache Conroy Quoyah Elgin Mary. Yeahque Carnegie Mona Goingkeen Ila Hamilton McKinley

Elderly janitor sues government over 172 year old debt

In Otaru Japan Yoshiyuki Nishikawa a 60 year old janitor filed a $300000 lawsuit against the government claiming his ancestors lent 1000 ryo to Tokugawa Shogunate officials 172 years ago. He says the debt with interest now totals $304265.

Otaru Japan Yoshiyuki Nishikawa

Harvard Libraries Hold Nearly Six Million Volumes

Harvard University libraries contain about six million books, the largest university stock in the United States. The figure underscores Harvard's expansive research resources and long standing role in academic scholarship.

Harvard University United States

Troops Guard Wolf-Whistle Slaying Suspects

In Greenwood Mississippi two accused killers Roy Bryant and J W Milam remained under guard as threats of lynching emerged after Emmett Till, 14, disappeared. District Attorney Gerald Chatham convened authorities to review murder charges while Tallahatchie county officials questioned Till's death and NAACP involvement.

Greenwood, Miss George Smith LeFlore Mississippi National Guard Gerald Chatham Roy Bryant J. W. Milam Emmett Till Bryant Till Tallahatchie County Sumner H. C. Strider Milam

Polio Victims Satisfactory Condition At Memorial

George Lyndell Capps Loveland 12 was released from Memorial hospital polio isolation ward though still hospitalized. Eddie Ray Reece 13 of Walters also left isolation for a satisfactory condition. Debra Smith 2 near Manitou was the year’s first polio fatality diagnosed bulbar polio at a Frederick county farm home.

George Lyndell Capps Memorial Hospital Loveland Memorial Eddie Ray Reece Edward Reece Walters Capps O. L. Capps Memorial Wedensday Loveland School Debra Smith R B. Smith Manitou Frederick Tillman County Laing Frederick Health Center

Freak Accident Kills Rail Foreman

Henryetta Oklahoma two railway workers were injured when their electric motor car struck an object on the track three miles north. Wess McClendon, 66, died, while Charles Adams, 62, suffered head injuries with slim hopes for recovery. E J McClendon, son of the deceased, had minor injuries. Railroad officials said a brake rod from a freight train caused the wreck during an on site investigation.

Henryetta Okla Wess McClendon Frisco Here Charles Adams E. J. McClendon

Area Man Ends Army Jump School Debut

Earl Eugene DeMarcus son of Mr and Mrs J M DeMarcus Star Rt completed jump school at Ft Campbell Ky and serves with the 127th Airborne Engineer Battalion with an assignment to the Light Aviation Section He entered service January 1955 trained at Ft Ord then Ft Campbell after three weeks of jump school he earned the Parachutist Badge He will join the 11th Airborne Division bound for Germany early next year.

Earl Demarcus ARMY Earl Eugene DeMarcus J. M. DeMarcus Star Rt Ft. Campbell 127Th Airborne Engineer Battalion Pvt. DeMarcus Ft. Ord Calif

Guardsmen Complete Fort Sill Officer Candidate Class

Seventy nine national guardsmen from various states completed the 11 week First Special National Guard Officer Candidate class at Fort Sill. Ceremonies Saturday featured Maj. Gen. Hal L. Muldrow, commanding general of the 45th Division, as principal speaker. commissioning will be handled by the states.

National

San Francisco Woman 75 Sexually Assaulted and Slain

Miss Elizabeth Manning, 75, was sexually assaulted and murdered in her four room apartment in San Francisco. Coroner Henry W. Turkel said today her body was found yesterday and had been dead about 18 hours.

San Francisco Elizabeth Manning Henry W. Turkel

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