City schools enrollment hits 9218 in record year
Lawton Public Schools report 9218 students for 1955 56, the largest in city history, up from 8988 last year. Central Junior High leads with 1896, and 53 classrooms are full. Projections foresee about 10307 in 1956 57 and 12299 by 1959 60 as plans for a new junior high move forward.
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Lawton
John Shoemaker
Andrew Jackson
Shoemaker
Central Junior High School
A. Richardson
Oklahoma
Board of Education
Tomlinson
Ship Sinks in Gulf Amid Corpus Christi Floods
Corpus Christi, Texas reports record rains and tides over five feet causing flooding across 20 to 30 square miles. A vessel identified as Saint Bay Louisiana signaled I am sinking near Brownsville. Coast Guard searched coast and sent a plane at dawn as floods affect Mexican cities and Red Cross helps flood victims.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Gulf of Mexico
Saint Bay Louisiana
Brownsville
Coast Guard
Gladys
Mexico
Mexico City
Mexican
Tampico
Red Cross
C. C. Hagan
Crossley
Officers Not Dissatisfied With Army Pay Says Survey
A 2700 officer survey reported by A G Bayroff and Emma Brown found fewer than half unhappy with pay while most value career security and service. Among those to stay 57 percent cite career security. retirement pay attracts 33 percent. service motive appeals to 38 percent staying and 15 percent resigning.
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San
Council To Air Zoning Plan In Public Meeting
The city council set September 6 at 3 30 p m for a public hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance to replace the present rules governing district boundaries and uses It would regulate trade and industry locations and enforcement provisions The ordinance is open for public inspection at city hall and the city clerk s office The council also approved purchases of a 300 10 gasoline pump and a 4000 gallon storage tank and authorized wholesale gasoline bids Four new patrolmen were hired for the police department See COUNCIL Page 2
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Kidson
Lawton
Forecast Still Fair With Little Temperature Change
Area forecast calls for continued fair weather with only small temperature shifts. Highs today and Thursday are expected in the mid 90s in Lawton and surrounding areas. Temperatures rose up to five degrees warmer Tuesday and overnight compared with the previous day despite a weak cool front. Weather officials say the front was too weak to slow the warming, and it should retreat north as warm air moves in.
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Lawton
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Martial law re-imposed after Istanbul and Izmir riots
News from Ankara reports martial law restored in Istanbul Izmir and Ankara after Greek Turkish clashes over Cyprus sparked widespread destruction. Parliament called for Sept 12 as the government rues a communist plot claim. Casualties and arrests surge amid damage to Greek Armenian and Jewish properties.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Radio
Ankara
Izmir
Adnan Menderes
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Greece
London
Smyrna
Bosporus
Whitewash Refusal Cost Job at Boley Jail Officials Charged
Oklahoma City reports allege inmates at the State Training School for Negro Boys at Boley endure brutal lashings, with as many as 70 strikes, under supervision of four named “worst whippers.” Buck Cook, charities and corrections chief, calls for action. investigation led by Owen Chuculate corroborates holed cell and lashings. Separate Washington item: Edward E. Hoppe, former IRS official, sues for back pay after claiming he was fired for refusing to whitewash a critical report on a top appointee.
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Oklahoma City
Boley
Buck Cook
Cook
Owen Chuculate
Chuculate
Grant Parker
Robert A. Doster
Jeff Irons
Owens
Charles Jones
Parker
Jones
Joe Johnson
Irons
Cagap
Jackson
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Tax
U.S. Court of Claims
Edward E. Hoppe
Dallas
Hoppe
Internal Revenue
T. Coleman Andrews
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Civil Service Commission
John P. Witsil
Andrews
O. Gordon Delk Jr
Revenue Service
Truman
John W. Snyder
Treasury
Hoover
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Fire Threatens Logging Town in California and Oregon
A massive forest fire roared toward Yreka California while wildfires scorched tens of thousands of acres across Oregon and California. About 1,800 firefighters plus 400 Presidio soldiers battled flames as smoke darkened skies and embers fell on the town.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Yreka
California
Oregon
Klamath National Forest
Klamath Forest
Russell Bowers
Presidio of
Bowers
Forest Service
New York Port Tied Up By Strike
Longshoremen walkout shuts port of New York halting operations. ILA president William V. Bradley says the dispute with the New York New Jersey Waterfront Commission could spread to the East Coast by Monday. Bradley notes 6,000 Philadelphia dockworkers and 4,000 Boston workers join sympathy protests.
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New York
International Longshoremen’s _ Assn
Independent
New York- New Jersey Waterfront Commission
ILA
William V. Bradley
Philadelphia
Boston
Bradley
State GOP To Turn Big Guns On Wickersham Seat
Washington Bureau reports Oklahoma GOP leader Doug las McKeever said the party will mount an intensive drive to unseat Rep. Victor Wickersham in Oklahoma's sixth congressional district. He spoke during a three day GOP campaign school in Washington under the RNC. McKeever urged backing a GOP senator candidate to challenge Sen. Mike Monroney, without naming contenders.
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Wickersham
Washington
Douglas McKeever
Oklahoma
GOP
Victor ‘Wickersham
McKeever
Republican National Committee
Keever
Enid
Mike Monroney
Negro Denies Murder Charge in Lawton Case
Leo Gaines, 52, pleaded innocent before District Judge Toby Morris on a murder count linked to the July 10 death of his girlfriend Daisey Mae Johnson. Defense counsel Durward Math seeks time to review the information. motions may be filed within a week. The couple had returned to Lawton about 5 am.
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Leo Gaines
Toby Morris
Gaines
Durward Mathis
Daisey Mae Johnson
Texas
Lawton
COURT
Former Cityans Die In Alabama Collision
A head on crash near Dothan Alabama claimed the life of Ursula Rpple Waldner 34 her mother in law Adina C Waldner 62 and Carl Waldner 7. The Waldner family from Lawton lived at 1907 Euclid and had recently moved after Army Aviation School relocated from Fort Sill to Camp Rucker. Surviving siblings include Todd 6 Scott 4 and Gary 4 months old. three other children survive.
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Dothan
Ala
Fort Sill
Ursula Rpple Waldner
Adina C. Waldner
Cleveland
Ohio
Carl Waldner
Waldner
Euclid
Lawton
Army Aviation School
Camp Rucker
Todd
Scott
Gary
Turncoats Win First Test In Legal Fight
In San Francisco, Judge Louis E. Goodman orders the Army to show cause by September 15 why William Cowart and Lewis Griggs should not be freed from the Sixth Army stockade until their trial. The ruling mirrors an earlier order in Otho G. Bell of Hillsboro, Mississippi.
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San Francisco
William Cowart
Lewis Griggs
Sixth Army
Louis E. Goodman
Otho G. Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
Red Holds Solon At Pistol Point
Rep. Joe Holt of California was detained near Moscow by a Red Army soldier who pressed a cocked pistol to his head for nearly an hour after Holt and an embassy colleague requested a photo of a church and school. A Red Army colonel later released them, with Holt noting no apology was offered.
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van Nuys
Calif
Joe Holt
Moscow
California
Holt
Cameron College Enrollments Top 580 This Term
Cameron college reports 580 enrolled after Tuesday registration with dean Gordon L. Paine noting the figure matches last October's total. Anticipated term enrollment ranges from 625 to 650 as more students register. Night classes begin September 15 at the Fort Sill education center.
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Cameron College
Gordon L. Paine
Cameron
Paine
Education Center
Troop I&e
Fort Sill
Aggie
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C. Gordon Delk JR
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