Stabbing and Burglaries Plague Local Police
Police reported a busy weekend with a stabbing at a Bon-Ton tavern and four burglaries. Johnie Spivey was stabbed by four suspects after being ordered out, and Spivey underwent emergency surgery at Southwestern hospital. Other incidents included tires slashed on a Washington Street car, a home invasion with theft of bedding clothes and a clock, the loss of six items from a D Street residence, and a car break in at 20th and Cadhe with jackets and Army apparel stolen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mateo
Johnie
Odell Spivey
Taft, Slith Street
Laur
Southwestern Hospital
Bon-Ton
Spivey
Farren Lee Bass
Washington
Ethel Moore
Georgia
June Parke
20Th and Cadhe
Guaranteed Wage Drive Tops Labor News Of 1955
The Associated Press details labor history and welfare gains driven by unions since the 1930s, noting the Wagner Act, Social Security, and growing pension provisions. It highlights John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers funding sick and old miners, with postwar pushes for pensions and a guaranteed wage during layoffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press News
Washington
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Lewis
CIO
Cameron Adds ROTC Leaders and New Faculty
Lt. Col. Sam J. Bradley returns from Korea to lead Cameron's ROTC program replacing Col. William Church who stays on campus to assist. New faculty include Rev. Clayton S. Walder and Rev. Frank Lewis teaching Bible classes. administration brings Vernon Howell, Paine, Lowe, Elkins, Dalton, French, and Arda Frans. Alvin R. Hand named dean of students. previous Wal ters system ties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page One
Kathleen Hale
Melvin Kenney
James H. B. deGruchy
Jane Lowe
John Harmon
Dorothy Tobias
Blanche Beavers
Bennie William Stehr
Harvey Pate
Clyde Barbee
Millard Carter
Helen Carney
Malcom Oswalt
N. L. Tinsley
Allene Grigg
Allie D. Swackhammer
Sam J. Bradley
Korea
Col
William Church
Cameron
Col. Church
Robert Starr
L. G. Collier
Kenneth Dent
Clayton S. Walder
First Presbyterian Church
Frank Lewis
Central Baptist Church
Walters
Holiday Toll Raises Deaths as Heatwave Grips California
Heat wave bakes Los Angeles for sixth day, blamed for 37 deaths as beaches clog with traffic. In Texas, Gladys’s winds push Labor Day crowds from Padre Island, where two sisters drown and 100 fishermen are marooned, National Guard deploying amphibious vehicles to rescue them.
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California
Los Angeles
Texas
Padre Island
Girls Outnumber Boys In Births In Comanche County
Comanche county registrar Mrs. Mollie Randolph reported last month there were 255 births in August with 131 girls and 124 boys born. July totals show 126 girls and 132 boys. Forty six deaths were recorded for August, matching August 1953, and also forty six for this year to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Mollie Randolph
A Bus Driver's Lifelong Route and Reunion Tales
Carl Froneberger, veteran driver and Dee’s cousin, recalls never taking a vacation longer than six days for 20 years and resisting a first bus ride until he found the work grew on him. He cherishes encounters with regulars and friends at the terminal, including an Army recruit he once ferried to Fort Sill. Now a dispatcher on swing shift, he still spends days at the terminal watching buses and chatting with fellow drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ton
Carl Froneberger
Dee
Carl
Froneberger
Fort Sill
Lawtonian
Area wrecks near Fort Cobb and other weekend crashes
Multiple injuries reported in several Oklahoma incidents. Norman Winn and his wife, thrown from their car near Fort Cobb, face serious injuries with surgery ahead. Motorcycle riders Jackie Berry and Bobby Cobb injured near Cement. Max Wayne Stewart and Olzie Crowley burned in Altus and Tipton crashes. Jack Henry Barnett injured near Duncan. Chico Cortez drove a car off SH 7 16 miles east of Lawton, escaping unharmed but causing farmyard damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Winn
Clinton Hospital
Carnegie Hospital
Jackie Dean Berry
Ninnekah
Bobby Cobb
Cement
U. S. 277
Berry
Cobb
Chickasha
Max Wayne Stewart
Olzie Crowley
Memorial Hospital
Altus
Tipton
Highway Patrol
Duncan
Jack Henry Barnett
U.S. 81
Lawton
S.H
Chico Ennis Cortez
Rt. 2
Cortez
Charles Ball
Masked Gunmen Rob Gas Station in Oklahoma City
Audie Ray Rodgers, the attendant at Airline Service Station on Newcastle Road near southwest 29th Street, reported two armed men wearing stocking masks robbed the station at 4 40 a m of 150 dollars. They demanded cash, locked him in a restroom, then fled on foot after he kicked the door to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Audie Ray Rodgers
Rodgers
Newcastle Road
29Th Street
Burglars Steal $45 From A J Beer Tavern Elgin
Thieves broke a glass pane to enter the A J Beer Tavern in Elgin early Sunday morning and stole more than $45. The loot included $5 in half dollars, $5 in quarters, $5 in dimes, two or three rolls of nickels and $35 in currency as reported by the sheriff's office on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Beer
Elgin
Sheriff's Office
Berserk Canadian Jumps To Death From Train
An elderly Canadian man on a Great Northern train bound for Chicago went berserk and jumped from the moving passenger train through the suburb of St. Louis Park. Hennepin county authorities identified him as John W. Moorhouse, about 70, of New Westminster, B. C. He was en route from Canada to Chicago when he leapt from the car as the train moved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
St. Louis Park
Hennepin County
John W. Moorhouse
New Westminster, B. C
Moorhouse
Great Northern
Chicago
Drunk man throws keys into stream to avoid driving
In Bangor Maine a patrolman eyes a man wobbling toward a car. The man admits he is drunk and, in a quick gesture, hurls the ignition keys into a nearby stream saying he is too intoxicated to drive. Patrolman Neal A Ryder witnesses the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
Maine
Neal A. Ryder
Funeral Rites for Mrs Rosaline A Ward in Walters
Mrs Rosaline A Ward 90 died at 5 24 p m Sunday in a Lawton rest home after a long illness. Born April 10 1865 she married William S Ward who died December 6 1938. She was a member of First Presbyterian Walters. Lived in Southwest Oklahoma since 1907 moved to Medicine Park 1945. Survived by three daughters Angel Buffaloe Medicine Park Verda Stokley Fort Worth Tex Leney Park Borger Tex. three brothers C E Miller I A Miller. 10 grandchildren 28 great grandchildren. Services 2 p m Tuesday at First Presbyterian Walters with burial Walters Cemetery. Pearson Funeral Home Walters in charge.
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Medicine Park
Rosaline A. Ward
Lawton
William S. Ward
Ward
First Presbyterian Church
Walters
Oklahoma
Angel Buffaloe
Verda Stokley
Ft. Worth
Tex
Leney Park
Borger
C. E. He
I. A. Miller
Pearson Funeral Home
Mrs Martha Sanders 71 Found Dead at Home
Mrs Martha Susie Sanders 71 of 1408 Kingsbury was found dead by her son Arville at 7 am. She apparently died of a heart attack last night after prior heart trouble. Born September 21 1883 in Missouri she lived near Chelsea Oklahoma then southwest of Lawton since 1922 with husband J W Sanders married September 30 1901 at Vanita. Surviving: three sons Arville Obbie Emmett. two daughters Roy Burt and Don Hawthorne. siblings and grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending Becker Funeral Home. Burial in Highland Cemetery beside her husband.
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Martha Susie Sanders
Kingsbury
Arville Sanders
Missouri
Oklahoma
Chelsea
Lawton
J. W. Sanders
Vanita
Emmett Sanders
Wickenburg
Ariz
Roy Burt
Don Hawthorne
Cache
W. C. Wood
Cheyenne
Wyo
Bert Senn
Yates Center
Kan
Sidney Blithorpe
Los Angeles
Calif
Charles Glasby
Scotts Bluff
Neb
Bert Melton
Earl Melton
Deputies Nab Booze in Lawton Raids
A sheriff's raid Saturday evening in Lawton netted alcohol from two sites. Oral Ridgeway reports 35 half pints of whiskey and gin seized from R. E. Atkins who posted a $500 sheriff's bond and was released. Additional confiscations included 16 half pints whiskey, 9 half pints gin, 11 four-fifths pints of wine, and one four-fifths pint of whiskey from Doris James at Railroad and Dearborn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oral Ridgeway
R. E. Atkins
C. Atkins
Doris James
Railroad and
Dearborn
Berserk Killer Says He Didn't Want To Kill Anyone
Ronnie Loughlin, 16, of Sioux Falls, admits firing four shots in a commentary that he started after an argument with two friends over a gun. One woman, Miss Johanna Esperwedt, 22, was killed during the spree from Allison, Iowa to Emmetsburg, Iowa. Loughlin faces charges of murder and kidnapping Mrs Myrtle Raabe, 45, who drove him in her car. He surrendered in Clarksville after a manhunt. He described the incident as a scare tactic that escalated. He had planned a mental health appointment and had just signed a self-incriminating statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison
Iowa
Ronnie Loughlin
Sioux Falls
S.D
South Dakota
Johanna Espetwedt
Loughlin
Myrtle Raabe
Emmetsburg
Pete Boomgarden
Clarksville
Boomgarden
Jerry Hagen
James Walter
Hagen
Ronnie
M. E. Harris
Wolter
Miss Esperwedt
Raabe
Roy C. Knowles
Minnehaha County
Driver Burnett Involved In Two Crashes In Minutes
John D. Burnett 601 Washington faced two accidents on 23rd Street within 15 minutes. He first hit a traffic light turning from 23rd onto Ferris at 1 40 p.m. He left, then returned and damaged patrolman Bartels car at 1 55 p.m. Burnett was booked on two counts of reckless driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Burnett
Washington
23Rd Street
Burnett
Ferris
Henry Bartels
23Rd
Rans Station
Bartels
Plants Create Sugars From Light Through Photosynthesis
Plants convert light energy into chemical energy by photosynthesis, producing sugars that form the base of nearly all food chains and fuel other life processes. This process relies on chlorophyll and stomata to capture light and exchange gases, sustaining ecosystems.
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America
Philadelphia
New York
Liz
Elizabeth Taylor
Warner Bros. Studio
Giant
Aggies
Fort Cobb
T.M. Reg
U.S
NEA Service, Ihe
C. M. Pike
Koehler
Southwestern Radio & Sound
4Th & E
BEL A Megad Music Co
Minu Ie Painting
Harry
Southwest
WIEST
S 33 Auto Service
Mrs
Rosaline Ward
Martha Sanders
Lawton Iron and Metal Co
E. Lee
A. B. Drug Co
M & D Finance CO
E Ave
LA Sill
Cache Rd
Sheridan
Cache Road
Sooner Estates
E. Morris
Res
KEY Termite & Pest Control CO
A. L. Pollard Sporting Goods
D Ave. Pho
Daverue
Indiahoma
Chattanooga Highway
Balance Creek
The
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Connie Hill
First State Bank of Indiahoma
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