Weekend police roundup ends with 14 arrests
Weekend arrests by city police yield 14 offenders facing charges from driving while intoxicated to public profanity. Several suspects, including Fort Sill personnel, posted bonds or were turned over to military authorities. one assault charge was dropped after a $1 court cost payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bui
Pvt
Jesse Lloyd Emery
Fort Sill
Sfc
Delmar Charles Whiteman
S. 23Rd
Cpl
Arthur C. Foley Jr
Dana E. Mitchell
Pic
Jerome H. Shain
Daniel A. Deilvomo
Jessie L. Walton
Boby D. Henry
Bobby Jean Carpiche
Wewoka
Pfc
Milton H. Castor
Milton Hart
Fair Opens as Entries Pour Into Comanche County Free Fair
Thousands of entries arrive at the Comanche county Free Fair grounds for a three day Junior Free Fair. By 11 a.m. Ruth Stanard logged over 400 entries from 1 to 15 per person. 4-H FFA and home demonstration clubs fill the three main buildings with sheep hogs poultry rabbits produce and more. Lawton Jaycees sponsor a commercial tent. Judging begins at 1 p.m. with crops horticulture and later rabbits poultry and other classes to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Ruth Stanard
Lawton Jaycees
Lawton
Ione Struggles Offshore As North Carolina Braces for Floods
A 16 member crew on Ione fights high seas while Coast Guard Menota guards the lightship. Torrential rains flood roads, cutting lines as 100 mph winds lash southeastern North Carolina. Dunes washed away, power lines down, shelters filled, and counties warned of high tides and possible floods ahead. Governor Hodges returns to assess damage with civilian defense chief Goodman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
Mendota
North Carolina
Moorehead City
N. C
Weather Bureau
Norfolk
Virginia
Connie
Diane
Cape Hatteras
Wilmington
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Carolinas
Pennsylvania's Various State Agencies and Civil Defense Organization
George M. Leader
Luther H. Hodges
Chicago
Morehead City
Ione
Hodges
Thomas H. Goodman
Thomasville
Southeastern Regional
Four More Ransom Bills Found in Chicago
The FBI announced that four additional twenty dollar bills from the Bobby Greenlease ransom money were recovered in Chicago over the weekend by the Federal Reserve Bank, bringing the total found in the city to 34.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bobby Greenlease
Federal Reserve Bank
FBI
Geese Clocked At 60 MPH In Flight Record
Geese travel at 60 miles per hour when timed by airplane speedometer and set an altitude record around 29,000 feet.
Fort Sill Driver Held In Hit Run
Fort Sill sergeant William H. Buis, 29, was arrested after a hit and run on Lee Boulevard near 9 30 p m a 1953 Chevrolet two door identified by witnesses, struck a parked 1948 Plymouth owned by Mrs W J Lagsdon. Patrolman John McCaig arrested Buis at his home after witnesses directed him there. Buis had changed clothes and was washing blood as he was taken to the station. He said he waited at the scene 10 minutes but left when no one appeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Buis
Fort Sill
Lee Blvd
W. J. Lagsdon
Buis
John McCaig
Lee
McCaig
Comanche County Receives Tax Share from Oklahoma Tax Commission
A check for 37 256 60 dollars, Comanche county's share of the Oklahoma Tax Commission collections for September, was received by the county treasury. Major item was the one cent gasoline tax for roads at 11 103 21. Other revenues include four cent and half cent gasoline taxes, fuel use taxes, and various vehicle licenses. For 1955 56, total checks to Comanche county amount to 118 802 66.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Burglary Suspects Face Arraignment
Five persons charged with burglary in a break in at Harold Hunt’s Indiahoma grocery store were to be arraigned before Peace Justice Woodrow Giles. The defendants came from Amarillo and Hereford, Texas, with Ina Mae Hampo Gotebo Wiley Green Robert L. Childs Bobby Gordon and James Wright named. Two airmen from Sheppard AFB Wichita Falls pleaded guilty to reckless driving in Giles court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Hunt
Indiahoma
Woodrow Giles
Lawton
Amarillo
Hereford
Tex
Ina Mae Hampo
Gotebo
Wiley Green
North Carolina
Robert L. Childs
Bobby Gordon
Chicksha
James Wright
Indian Delegates Named By Tribes
An inter tribal conference of Comanches Kiowas and Apaches selected Robert Coffey 2005 Smith and Henry Lookingglass of Oklahoma City to represent the group in Washington DC next month. The two delegates will confer with attorneys at the nations capital concerning tribal claims and will meet with the commission of Indian affairs on Indian problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Coffey
Smith
Henry Lookingglass
Oklahoma City
Washington, D.C
Commission of Indian
Employment Office Seeks 13 Skilled Workers
State Employment Service calls for applicants to fill 13 occupations including carpenters plumbers auto trades and linemen. Positions require mechanical or electrical background with training provided. Apply at the office located 313 S Sixth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Employment Service
S. Sixth
Luncheon Starts Citys Fund Drive
The 1955 56 Lawton Fort Sill United Fund Red Cross campaign moved into high gear as three steering cabinet members met with building trade workers and construction union officials in the Geronimo Room at Hotel Lawtonian. The goal is 96314 with one days pay for each employed person in Lawton for employee solicitation. A Sept 29 meeting will plan advance gifts for 134 firms and individuals. Ray Babbitt chairs this division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton- Fort Sill
Geronimo
Lawtonian
Paul Harris
Charley Wade
George Page
Lawton
United Fund
Koehler
Ray Babbitt
Jeff Runyon
Newt Irwin
Dale Thompson
A. B. Hambrick
Jim Fewell
W. C. Shelton
Harvey House
Ike Love
Myrtle McDivitt
John Plaxco
W. Doug Yates
Wade
Harris
Page
Hilda hurricane lashes Tampico area and valley floods
The hurricane Hilda struck just north of Tampico causing torrential rain and rising waters. Brownsville forecaster Hagan warned of local flooding in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and inland toward Del Rio as remnants move north. Brownsville officials prepared roadblocks and sandbag defenses while rescue teams used boats to combat breached dikes in flood damaged Tamaulipas towns.
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Tampico
John Hagan
Brownsville
Hagan
Hilda
Mexico
Gladys
Port Isabel
Tex
Texas
Mexican
Panuco
Tamaulipas
Horacio Teran
Oklahoma City Prices and Livestock Report Sept 19
State Agriculture reports prices for wheat, broilers, eggs, butterfat, and Oklahoma City livestock. Wheat No 1 hard around 2.00 per bushel at several towns. broilers weaker. eggs steady to firm with regional quotations. butterfat mostly steady to firm. Cattle, calves, hogs and sheep trading with slow grain-fed cattle, mixed yearlings and stockers. hogs up to 25 cents higher. spring lambs 15.50 to 17.50, ewes 3.00 to 4.50, overall active outlets in Oklahoma City region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
State Department of Agriculture Today
Guyman
Hooker
Frederick
Vici
Blackwell Lawton
Medford
Clinton
el Reno
Enid
Hobart
Kingfisher
Yukon
Bison
Hennessey
Broilers
Tulsa
F.o.b
Muskogee
Vinita
Alva
Blackwell
Watonga
Elk City
Woodward
Laverne
Pauls Valley
Lawton
Crash injures several in multi-vehicle wrecks at city intersections
Sunday crashes left Mrs. Fitzwater injured after her 1948 Kaiser collided with Dr. Fox’s 1954 Chevrolet at Sixth and Avenue A. Fox’s car struck a house at 601 A, causing major damage while residents narrowly escaped harm. Elizabeth Cullen Dean and three others suffered minor injuries in separate late night collisions near 23rd Street and Sheridan Road. Police cited reckless driving for one motorist and noted five other noninjury accidents over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth
Eulis M. Young
Johnny West
Fitzwater
Dr. Fox
Avenue A
Jesse Sauerman
S. Sixth
Fred Gilley
Elizabeth Cullen Dean
Park
Southwestern Hospital
Nash
Walter McCray
Fort Sill
G Street
Sheridan and
Cache Road
Lanny Frances Ikard
Floyd
Dean Thomas
Mike
Thomas
Sheridan Road
Sfc
De'mar Charles Whiteman
S. 23Rd
Whiteman
Argentine revolt widens as Second Army joins rebellion
Loyalist and rebel forces clash amid rising threat to Buenos Aires. The Argentine Second Army units in Mendoza San Juan and San Luis provinces reportedly join the revolt adding about 20 000 officers and men and raising the danger of land and air assaults on the capital while naval bombardment from the sea continues. Government says mop up operations resume in Cordoba city as it claims control there and in nearby Puerto Belgrano and Bahia Blanca though indications suggest spread of the revolt. Also reported are Mercedes air base in San Luis and Tandil jet fighter base in Buenos Aires province joining the rebels.
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River Plate
Cordoba
Puerto Belgrano
Bahia Blanca
Second Army
Mendoza
San Juan
San Luis
Mercedes
Tandil
Buenos Aires
Death of Mrs. Yates in City, Texas
City Texas death notice for Mrs. Yates who lived in Fletcher most of life. Married Clarence Yates on August 14 1923 in Fletcher. Services at 3 pm at Christian Church with Rev. C A Crater. burial at Apache Oklahoma Cemetery. Survivors include husband two daughters two sons two sisters two brothers and two grandchildren. Bearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giles Spencer
Paul Avant
Elmo Hinson
Willis Hinson
Roy Kernodle
Carroll Ridgeway
Traffic crashes projected to kill 55,000 yearly by 1965
A forecast warns that U.S. traffic accidents could claim about 55,000 lives annually by 1965 if car volume rises by 50 percent. The projection reflects growing highway usage and safety concerns facing motorists and policy makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
City Kiwanis Honored for Work With Deaf School Feature
Lawton Kiwanis club received the Kiwanis national convention’s top civic honor for its efforts with the Jane Brooke school for the deaf on the Oklahoma College for Women campus. A photo feature highlights the group’s community service and leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Kiwanis Group
Lawton Kiwanians
Jane Brooke School For the Deaf
Oklahoma College For Women
Kiwanis International
Lawton Kiwanis Club
Missionary details coercion in Chinese detention
The missionary recalled being forced to sign statements and deny American involvement to secure release. He described harsh questioning and alleged accusations of sending information to his mission board. Ten civilians, including seven Americans, were under arrest or house confinement. China said 12 Americans with denied exit permits could leave, and 19 others would be processed quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Geneva
China
Primatene Opens Airways No Prescription Needed
An ad claims Primatene, a nonprescription asthma formula, stops attacks in minutes with relief lasting hours. It touts bronchial dilation, mucus loosening, and reduced tension, promising better sleep and freedom from spasms, priced 98 cents with a money back guarantee from Whitehall Pharmacal Company in 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, N. Y
Whitehall Pharmacal Company
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4-H
FFA
E. W. Watts
Watts
Peron
Nion
Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance CO
WOW Cost Auto Insurance
North 17Th
M & D Finance Co
E Ave
LA Sill
Cache Rd
Sheridan
Sooner Estates
E. Morris
Res
Dels Fett Music Co
KEY Termite & Pest Control Co
A. L. Pollard Sporting Goods
D Ave. Pho
D Avenue
Chiropractic
Gore Blvd
J. H. Hart
Ieee
4Th and
5Th Ave
West 9Th Street
N.W
38Th Street
Oklahoma
The
Highway Research Board
Georgia
Ortland
National Organization To
Cement Building
OKL
Association
Oma City 2
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