First Officers Student Battery Hosts Fundraising Dance
Fort Sill units push Relief and Welfare Drive toward $65,000 goal. The First Officers Student Battery, already at about 50 percent of its $6,000 target, plans a charity dance with net proceeds aiding the campaign. Lt Col Ira E Sunday leads efforts as officers from the post attend. admission is $1.50, women free, music by Al Trecia and his Orchestra, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Building 210.
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Ira E
al Trecia
First Officers
Rene Guerrero
Francis Hraha
Seymour I. Glick
Kenneth E. Williams
William D. Moore
First Officers Student Battery
Fort Sill
Legion and Auxiliary Install Officers in Ceremonies
New officer slates were installed by American Legion Post 29 and the ladies auxiliary at the Legion Hut on Thursday night. Harold Carey became commander replacing Dr. Jack Spencer, and Mrs. Floyd Langston was named auxiliary president succeeding Mrs. J. A. Corrales. Installers were J. D. Fowler of Fort Sill Post 93 and Mrs. Dollie Davis of Kingfisher. Executives include Dr. Spencer, Dr. Woesner, Vernon Cannon, Gene Funderburg, Zeb Williams, and Billy Paul Galyon on the Legion board, with Mrs. Corrales and others on the auxiliary board.
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American Legion Post 29
Ladies Auxiliary
Legion Hut
Harold Carey
The
Legion
Jack Spencer
Floyd Langston
J. A. Corrales
J. D. Fowler
Fort Sill
Dollie Davis
Kingfisher
Auxiliary
H. D. Hastings
Lawton
C. L. Hight
Elementary Band Program Set for Fifth and Sixth Graders
Elementary band program to launch next week for fifth and sixth graders. Shoemaker says Hardy Suggs coordinates with parents being asked for consent. Instrument fee is five dollars if furnished by Suggs. students with their own instrument may pay reduced fees. Lessons held twice weekly after school in junior high and high school band rooms under George Walters and Charles McHenry.
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John Shoemaker
Hardy Suggs
Suggs
George Walters
Charles McHenry
Shoemaker
McHenry
Board of Education
Walters
Miss America preliminaries enter final round in Atlantic City
The Miss America sweepstakes move toward the final preliminary round with four southern Hawaii and Oklahoma contenders leading the 45 entrants. Ann Campbell of Oklahoma City won the bathing suit, Miss Florida won the talent, and results from the evening gown contest remain secret as the field narrows to ten semi finalists and five finalists for the 1956 Miss America crown. Lee Ann Meriwether, Miss America 1955, will crown the successor who earns 50000 dollars in prizes and appearance fees.
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Miss Oklahoma
Ann Campbell
Sandra Wirth
Barbara Maria Vieira
Miss Alabama
Patricia Huddleston
James F. Tomlinson
Atlantic City
N.J
South
Oklahoma
Hawaii
Patricia Byrd Huddleston
Clanton
Miss Hawaii
Honolulu
Oklahoma City
Miami
Lee Ann Meriwether
San Francisco
Plea Delayed in Assault Case Involving Stabbing Victim
Joe Jiminez 26 held his plea this morning before Peace Justice Woodrow Giles on charges of assault with a deadly weapon tied to the stabbing of Johnnie Spivey operator of the Bon-Ton tavern on Silth. The plea was withheld 24 hours and he is to return at 10 a.m. Saturday. Spivey remains in Southwestern Hospital listed as improved with wounds to his body and arm.
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Joe Jiminez
Garfield
Woodrow Giles
Jiminez
Johnnie Odell
Spivey
Taft
Silth
Giles
Southwestern Hospital
Insurance Forum in Lawton to host 250 delegates
Approximately 250 delegates from Southwest Oklahoma are expected to attend the Oklahoma Insurance Forum on September 15 at the Hotel Lawtonian. Willis A. Hart of Central Surety Corp. chairs the conference with sessions on fire and allied lines time element inland marine and casualty. A 1:15 p.m. round-table and a 2:45 p.m. panel on package policies follow the morning program. Sixteen agents from Oklahoma City and Tulsa will join the panels.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma Insurance Forum
Lawtonian
Oklahoma Fire Underwriters Association
Willis A. Hart
Central Surety Corp
Two Holdup Slayers Are Electrocuted
OSSINING New York City holdup slayers Clarence Reed 32 and Edward Nichols 28 were executed in Sing Sing last night for the May 9 1954 shooting of Arville Davis 66 during a Harlem card game holdup. Davis killed when he answered a door knock. another man was wounded resisting.
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Ossining
N.Y
New York City
Sing Sing Prison
Clarence M. Reed
Edward J. Nichols
Arville A. Davis
Davis
Harlem
Heat toll in Los Angeles rises to 99 deaths
The heat wave in Los Angeles County, which began nine days ago, produced 99 deaths today. The weatherman forecast a high near 90 degrees after yesterday’s 96, signaling a temporary cooldown.
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Los Angeles
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