Federal liquor and gambling stamp holders listed in southwest Oklahoma
A Census of 392 federal retail liquor stamp holders includes eleven Lawtonians and 13 area residents. Enid has four gaming-licensed establishments and 33 residents with gambling stamps. The report notes many bootleggers remain unrecorded and explains stamp values and legal purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid
Oklahoma City
Lawton
NCO Club
Altus Air Force Base
NCO Open Mess
Fort Sill
Fort Sill Officers Mess
Harold Basham
Chickasha
T. A. Brunt
Bo Chaney
Duncan
O. A. Flinn
Mt. View
C. C. Hale
J. E. Jones
Lafayette McGrew
W. E. Miller
Cordell
Thomas E. Monday
Granite
Emory Smith
Carnegie
Earl Tudor
Hobart
American Bar
Thomas Fred Ward
Duncan Amusement Club
Gene
Ireland
H. L. Guest
Granville Kennedy
Altus
Alvis Lee Morgan
Tom G. Southerland
George E. Teague
Okardhe
G. E. Thompson
Altus Golf and Country Club
Elks Club
Retired Service Personnel Club
VFW
Senior Testing Starts Tuesday At Lawton High and Douglass
Lawton high school and Douglass students will take job skills and aptitude tests this week by a five member Oklahoma Employment Security Commission team. Forty five Fort Sill Indian School seniors completed the General Aptitude Test Battery today. LHS tests run Tuesday through Thursday with 350 students expected. Douglass seniors test Friday. Test results reach the local Oklahoma State Employment Service office to help place graduates in suitable jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton High School
Douglass
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
Fort Sill Indian School
LHS
Oklahoma State Employment Service
Funeral Rites for Rodney Clyde Brown Held Today
Funeral services for Rodney Clyde Brown one day old son of Mr and Mrs Roy Brown Medicine Park begin at 2 pm in Becker Memorial chapel burial is in Highland cemetery The infant was born Saturday and died Sunday morning Survivors include parents two sisters Carolyn Jo 9 Connie Sue 19 months paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs B B Brown Plattsburg Texas and maternal grandmother Mrs Sally Williams Medicine Park
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Rodney Clyde Brown
Roy Brown
Medicine Park
Becker Memorial Chapel
Highland Cemetery
Carolyn Jo
Connie Sue
B. B. Brown
Plattsburg, Tex
Sally Williams
Mrs S E Weathers Rites Held In Elgin Church
Services for Mrs. S. E. Weathers aged 65 of Elgin were set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Elgin Baptist Church with Rev. Don Bergeron officiating. Burial followed in Apache, Oklahoma. She died Saturday night in a Lawton rest home after a long illness. She had lived in Elgin since 1939. Becker Funeral Home handled arrangements.
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S. E. Weathers
Elgin
Elgin Baptist Church
Don Bergeron
Apache, Okla
Lawton Cancels Season of Square Dances in City Park
Mrs. Ernest Hunter announced that no more square dances will be held this season in Lawton city park. The dances were sponsored through the summer by various local square dance clubs.
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Lawton City Park
Ernest Hunter
Homecoming Plans To Be Completed
Lawton high school maps homecoming events at a Thursday committee meeting in Principal Hugh Bish’s office. The November 11 game against Enid at Roosevelt stadium will crown a homecoming queen with a downtown parade, an assembly, a homecoming dance at the Youth Center, and a full slate of activities led by student leaders and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton High School
Hugh Bish
LHS
Wolverines
Enid
Roosevelt Stadium
Jerry Brammer
Yvonne Anderson
Wolverette
Gwen Patterson
David Attaway
Perry Carter
Bertha Mae Scherler
Bonnie Rayner
George Walters
Bish
Brammer
City Instructor Attends Meeting in Stillwater
Milton C Worley from Lawton high school distributive education attended a Friday and Saturday meeting in Stillwater at the state office for Vocational Trade and Industrial Education. Bob Earley state supervisor of the Bureau of Apprenticeship U S Department of Labor Tulsa assisted by James Mitchell Oklahoma City also an official discussed statewide apprenticeship training with representatives from eight major cities in Oklahoma.
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Milton C. Worley
Lawton
Stillwater
State Office For
Bob Earley
Bureau of Apprenticeship
U. S. Department of Labor
Tulsa
James Mitchell
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Four Lawton soldiers return home with praise from Fort Sill leader
Ten years ago The Constitution's Yesteryear notes four Lawton soldiers from the 91st division returning home as Col. Gallaher commends Lawton USO wartime work. A Wichita Wildlife Refuge fire is under control. Witnesses testified against a trio accused of holding up an Elgin bank and killing a peace officer. PWA recommends a 45 percent grant for a Lawton street resurfacing. Mrs. Mary Taylor becomes 6th district American Legion Auxiliary president. County athletic and intellectual meet planned in Lawton School dismissed early for circus attendance. New rig at Hanbury Field.
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Lawton
91St
William Dixon
Clifton Clark
Paul Dean
Bob White
Charles W. Gallaher
Fort Sill
Lawton Uso
Wichita Wildlife Refuge
Elgin
PWA
Lawton Street
Mary Taylor
American Legion Auxiliary
Hanbury Field
Cameron to Hold Tryouts for Play Gas Light
Cameron College announces tryouts for its three act play Gas Light to be staged next month. auditions run today through Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Aggie auditorium with spokesperson Benne Daniel noting all students may audition regardless of Players membership.
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Cameron College
Aggie
Benne Daniel
Cameron
Transport Policy Revision Planned
Secretary of Commerce Weeks outlined a plan to revise national transport policies to boost national security and provide cheaper transportation. He led off the House subcommittee hearing, defending the plan against claims it favors one mode of transport over another and proposing ICC limits to ensure fair rates and reduce regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
House
Rep
Harris
D-Ark
Defense
Wilson
Arthur S. Flemming
White House
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
American Singers Win Praise In Don Pasquale in Italy
In Spoleto Italy four young American singers Irene Callaway William Harper Peter Binder and James Beni highlighted a three act Don Pasquale at the Lirico Theater. More than 1500 applauded for several minutes as critics called the performance a great success. The singers were sponsored by the American Commission for Cultural Relations with Italy.
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Spoleto
Italy
Don Pasquale
Gaetano Donizetti
Lirico Theater
Irene Callaway
Amity
Ark
William Harper
Oklahoma City
Peter Binder
James Beni
Philadelphia
The
American Commission For Cultural Relations
Famous Panhandle Character Dies
James Selman, 78, former member of the Oklahoma Highway Commission and noted Panhandle cattleman, died at his Woodward home. A member of the original eight man commission under Gov Roy Turner, Selman came to Oklahoma as a penniless cowhand and built a vast grazing land empire in northwest Oklahoma.
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Woodward
Okla
James Selman
The
Oklahoma Highway Commission
Oklahoma Panhandle
Selman
Highway Commission
Roy Turner
Oklahoma
VA Office Sees No Expansion After Regional Consolidation
Sulphur Oklahoma Sunday report says no immediate VA office expansion is planned following the Muskogee consolidation. Sparkman, executive secretary of the State War Veterans Commission, noted a study is planned and the commission voiced concern over hospital water supply while deeming other conditions very fine.
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Okla
Regional Veterans Administration Office
Muskogee
John Sparkeman
State War Veterans Commission
Sparkman
Science Shrinks Piles Without Surgery
Science reports a healing substance that shrinks piles and relieves pain without surgery. Doctors observe actual shrinking and sufferers say piles have ceased to be a problem. The product Bio-Dyne, used to heal tissue, is now available as Preparation H in suppository or ointment form. At your druggist guaranteed. U. S. Pat.
Ambulance Attendants Criticized After City Crash
Oklahoma City police protested actions by two ambulance attendants after a Saturday plane crash at Downtown Airpark killed Ray Akers, 45, and seriously injured Harold E. Carter, 23. Detectives said the injured man waited in the ambulance nearly 30 minutes as the driver sought the pilot's body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Bill Rackley
W. W. Harrison
Ray Akers
Harold E. Carter
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R. E. Atkins
Ted Atkins
Melvin M. Davis
Rose Ferrell
A. P. Gent
Ross Hinkle
Doris Jean James
A. O. Perry
Jack Shaw
As Tisdel
L. R. Waler
Argentina
Villa Campamento
Rio Santiago Naval Base
Juan Peron
Peron
Buenos Aires
Rodney Brown
Wolverton Electric Co
C Ave
Constitution
Scott’s Air Conditioning Inc
Southwestern Radio & Sound
4Th & E
Westinghouse Laundromat
Westinghouse
C Avenue
Panhandle
Eugene L. Bowman
T. V. Center
Motorola
Eee
Service
Gore
Gilbert’s Pharmacy
Sears
Sears! Co
Gore Lawton
Capital
Sinart Asse
Hardy Suggs Music Co
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