County Begins Road Graveling
County commissioner Pete Wynn said graveling work is underway on county roads in Faxon and Cache to improve safety for school buses. The western Comanche district will inspect bus routes for weak spots and add gravel where needed, including near new homes. Roads in Geronimo Chattanooga Lawton Indiahoma Cooperton Apache Elgin Fletcher and a Post Oak Mission area in Indiahoma are targeted for repairs.
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Faxon
Cache
Pete Wynn
Wynn
Comanche County
Wynn’s
Geronimo
Chattanooga
Lawton
Indiahoma
Cooperton
Kiowa County
Apache
Elgin
Fletcher
Post Oak Mission
Police Probe Thefts and Vandalism Target Local Cars
Local police investigated a string of minor thefts and vandalism reported Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Buddie Ingle and Joe Wolfe reported bicycles stolen. George Mitchell said four pairs of trousers a white shirt and 10 suits of underwear were taken from his car at a night club. A radio antenna was broken from a 1955 Mercury parked at a house. A rural home east of Lawton reported a missing child saddle found by a creek. A distributor cap was stolen from a 1948 Chevrolet. a bicycle from 421 F was recovered, owner John Fitzsimmons identified. A 1953 Pontiac four door stolen from Fort Sill was found by patrolmen in Lawton, owner R B Rice of Norman located the car.
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Buddie Ingle
Dan Joe Wolfe
George Mitchell
Beacon Falls
Conn
Preston A. Williams
C. J. Constant
Lawton
Sheriff's Department
Lydia Bunch
John Fitzsimmons
Fort Sill
R. B. Rice
Norman
Oklahoma City Market Prices and Livestock Report
Oklahoma City price bulletin lists butter, poultry, eggs, and butterfat prices from multiple counties, plus wholesale butter rates and 93 AA quality at 58.75. It covers no. 1 hard wheat prices, broilers, hens, eggs, and regional farm deliveries. Oklahoma City livestock totals show cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep with price ranges and load counts.
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Chicago
Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture Today
Guyman
Hooker
Vici
Blackwell
Hobart
Medford
Alva
Clinton
el Reno
Enid
Frederick
Kingfisher
Lawton
Yukon
Bison
Hennessey
Broilers
Tulsa
F.o.b
Muskogee
Vinita
Elk City
Laverne
Pauls Valley
Watonga
Woodward
USDA
U. S
Scout Roundtable Slated Saturday
The Hunting Horse district announces its regular monthly Scouters Roundtable at 8 p.m. Thursday at the First Christian Church with C. H. Parsons stating the district program will be set. Troop 41 leads the program while Troop 76 and Post 77 host. the Cubing monthly Roundtable is slated for September 13 with location to be announced.
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Hunting Horse District
First Christian Church
C. H. Parsons
Hunting Horse
Passons
Post 77
Czechs Produce Jets for Soviet Union Warn Korea Fear
A Prague newspaper says Czechoslovakia’s aircraft factories have built MiG type fighters and jet bombers for the Soviet Union since before the Korean War. Prace published photos and called the planes a product of Soviet designers and Czech workmanship. Our ultramodern factories produced the planes which struck fear in Korea.
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Vienna
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Prace
Korea
Ex-fireman Charged After False Alarm Visit
Otis A. McNelly, 31, a former Squad Company No. 4 firefighter, greeted arriving buddies at his Louisville home when no fire existed. He told Lloyd Grim he wanted to see if the battalion chief’s aide was on duty and was charged with filing a false alarm.
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Louisville
Otis A. McNelly
McNelly
Lloyd Grim
Lawton Police Collect 11153 In August Readout
Police Chief Ralph A. Hennessee reported Lawton police collections for August totaled 11153.56 from fines court costs bond forfeitures and meter money with 5179.56 from meters 578 from over parking fines 1498 from court fines and 3898 from bond forfeitures. Downtown Shopping Days caused about 500 in loss as meters were unused for two days. A total of 569 arrests were recorded during the month.
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Lawton
Ralph A. Hennessee
Tennessee
C. R. Ellsworth
Five arrested in Lawton burglary ring case charges filed
Lawton police and Comanche county officers say 11 recent city burglaries are cleared with five arrests. Henry Lee Jones and George Ashby of Lawton along with Walter Caldwell Elmer Davis and Harley Willey face second degree burglary charges. Davis and Willey also charged for two Fletcher area farm-home burglaries.
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Lawton
Comanche County
Henry Lee Jones
George Ashby
N. Railroad
Walter Caldwell
Elmer C. Davis
Cleveland
Okla
Harley Willey
Fletcher
Jones, Ashby and Caldwell
Council Heights
Southwestern Venetian Blind Company
House of Joy
First
Bell
Clyde’s Caravan Club
Big Corner Drive
Second
Ferris
Davis
Willey
Woodrow Giles
Dale Murray
Guy Cornwell
Arvill Roberson
Radio-equipped cars rise since 1941
The report notes that today two thirds of cars on the highway have radios, a marked increase from one third in 1941, reflecting rapid adoption of in-car entertainment and information devices over the decades.
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Ccandecuninseene
Central
Ohio Oil Nvm
Ae Penney, JC
Pa RR
Als Phill Pet
Ze Plough
Proct & G
RCA
Reyn
Sears Roeb
Sinclair O
Socony
Stoke van
US Steel
Westy el
New York
Admiral — Ee
Allied
Lee We
Aveo Mfg
Beech Airc
Beth Steel
Boeing Air
du Pont
Eagle P
Gen Motors
Goodyear
Woolworth
Scout
Soviet
Lubbock
Midland-Odessa
Albuquerque
Continental Air Lines
Canyon Sand
Boy's Oxford
Burgundy
Ashby
Jones
Bianco’s
Clyde’s
Tommy Tompkins
Marvin Cameron
Caldwell
Ralph Cline
St Joseph
Gong Lough
Mwyat
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