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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1947
Page
7
Oklahoma Aviation News highlights Dopey La as Lawton’s hub of southwestern Oklahoma flying with a page one feature and air view of the municipal airport. The piece surveys Lawton’s new airport plans and notes Ralph Swaby operating the city airport, while a local verse by O Malley appears.
Hay to be harvested on the Fort Sill military reservation with an estimated 2000 tons valued at 26000. W B Cooke and E T Wilkerson, hog farm operators near Apache, hold cutting rights for the second year. First cutting expected in 20 to 30 days. crop about half to three quarters of last year. possible Johnson grass second cutting if rains come. Range fires threaten operations. drought lowers hay demand as ranchers weigh selling cattle versus wintering. Fort Sill hay selling around 24 a ton with about 40 bales per ton.
In Tokyo a court sentenced Capt Yoichi Saito former commandant of Moji POW camp on Kyushu to 265 years imprisonment for mistreating allied prisoners. Civilian guard Morio Inouye received 15 years and interpreter Kyofusa Sakaguchi two years.
Bartlesville Oklahoma reports Uncle Frank Phillips reopens Woolaroc Museum on a 3400 acre Osage Hills ranch after alterations. The facility shows a new lecture hall and pipe organ, displays include a 10 000 dollar horse saddle with diamonds, a privately owned dinosaur egg, concealed checks including 38575843 33, a Stradivarius violin, and exhibits on Phillips financial career. Phillips, honorary Osage Beagle Chief, points visitors to ancestral mural and a wildlife filled grounds with twelve lakes and many animals.
President Truman's conference on fire prevention votes unanimously to set up a five member committee to study safety measures for ships loaded with highly explosive ammonium nitrate. The group will assess preventing disasters like the nitrate ship explosions at Texas City and Brest, France, with members appointed by Federal Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming.
Zella ZOOM lodge members and their wives and families attended an open house evening featuring musical selections by the Jepson band from Sterling. Members Mrs. Charles Jepson Delmer Jepson Darwin Jepson Mia Bobbie Holdaman provided piano violin guitar and drums with two boys singing. Four visitors and 38 others attended.
Readable program lineup for Tuesday September 9 1947 and Wednesday September 10 1947 listing ABC NBC or local stations with varied times and show titles including News Dance and Musical programs. Notable entries include Tennessee Jed Terry and the Pirates Elmer Davis and Morning Clock programs with multiple daily segments and sign offs.
Messing school in Dist 4 opened Sept 1 with 30 students. Located eight miles east and one south on highway seven, it is taught by Mrs. Ella Mae Scott. A one room building cleanup was done by Messing Farm Women's club with Mesara Schram Storer and And assisting. Visitors at the opening included Mrs. Bishesh Gordon Wickwire Storer and Schram. A hot lunch program began Sept 5. Enrollment by grade lists many students including Charlene Gordon, David Wickwire, Eddie Schram, Nelda Bisbee, Lou Rue Wilson, Janette Howard, Beverly Gordon, Eldon Wilson, Jerry Don Clayton, Donnie Powell, Kathryn Bunch, Charles Wickwire, Bobby Russell, Milde Fowell, Leon Repp, Georgia Hospins, James Howard, Walter Powell, Ted Clapton, Glenda Moss, Sue Sullivan, Sam Turner, Wendlyn Howard, Christine Howard, Herman Bunch and Travis Hugh.
Edwin Linders, 36, confessed to killing Mrs. Roy H. McAndrew, 44, in what prosecutors call a planned act of revenge. First degree murder charges expected. death penalty likely. McAndrew, once married to a Manhattan atomic project engineer, was linked to a dispute over an inheritance. husband’s current status in Japan noted.
Dr C L Parsons a lour physician leaves Oklahoma City by plane for St Louis Missouri to attend sessions of the Third American Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology. The congress runs September 9 to 12 with addresses by leading specialists. He expects to return home over the weekend.
Oklahoma City September 9. William F. Peterson Jr an insurance man and W B Hurst a Walters automobile dealer were appointed to the Oklahoma public welfare commission by Gov Roy J Turner to fill vacancies. They replace L Hutson Crickasha and Tolin Pendleton Nowata whose terms had expired.
WALENA residents wage a campaign to save the ancient market house on the Mississippi River levee once used for slave auctions and hog barter. Architects hail it as a fine midwest example of class design, but brick walls crumble and disuse grows.
Oklahoma City on September 9 a 41 year old bartender was sentenced to four years for the knife killing of hotel clerk James Virgil Morris, 48, on a city street last November. A district court jury convicted him and fixed the punishment. formal sentencing was set for Friday by Judge A P Van Meter.
A historic bell set completing the Liberty Bell ensemble in Philadelphia joins eight replica bells from England. Two new bells funded by captured enemy material via U S Army Ordnance at Edgewood Arsenal were added on President Truman s orders to play bull and hymnal music.
Camp Fire guardians plan a 7 30 p m meeting in the recreation room of First Presbyterian Church to outline a test for new leaders and guardians. The gathering aims to organize leadership training and assess prospective guardians.
Dr John W Shackleford the state health commissioner reported one typhoid case and one suspected diphtheria patient as officials plan a series of typhoid immunization clinics for southern Pottawatomie County indicating active public health measures in response to the outbreak.
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