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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1957
Page
4
A compact quotation note collects two biblical and devotional lines. Hosea 13.2 echoes self-destruction and need for divine aid, while Francois Fenelon reflects on solace found in faith and the companionship of the faithful dead and the All-Powerful.
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer secured a 43 seat lower house majority and over half the vote, strengthening his pro Western program. Analysts say the result boosts European defense aims, European market plans, and a united Western Europe, while tightening Moscow's leverage as East Germany lags behind.
A lighthearted clash of forecasts from New Bedford Standard-Times and Grand Rapids forecasters. The Standard-Times predicts sunny dispositions and warm hearts in the morning with tears of joy and thunderous laughter, patchy clouds in the afternoon, and calm evening memories of the year’s best day.
Scattered lines include quotes attributed to Raymond Massey and Captain Yidhe Rickenbacker, a stabbing case confession by Clyde Walker II in Chicago, Lloyds of London money reference, and unrelated personal notes about John J Power and his wife Mary. The text is garbled with incomplete phrases and at least one crime mention.
A set of trivia prompts covers fossil discovery in Indiana, Peary’s North Pole attempts, the League of Nations 1920 to 1946, the 8th Army unit nicknamed Angels from Bell, Malenkov exiled near Kazakhstan following Trotsky, and the eagle lifespan of about 100 years.
Joseph Alsop reports in Warsaw on Fryderyk a young Polish Communist whose family ties and wartime service frame his view of independence from Moscow. He recounts Poland’s struggle, Warsaw uprising memories, and the 1956 shifts after Stalinism, ending with praise for October days.
A five day fire training course opened today at Central Fire Station for 20 current and future officers of the department. Instructors include George Orgain of Oklahoma State University and Captain Claude Hennessee. Classes run 9 am to noon and 1 pm to 4 pm daily this week. Two of four training units will be covered this week with a separate session for the remaining units starting December 9 under Orgain.
A reader asks about survivor benefits and late start at 62. The adviser notes a surviving spouse may receive about sixty dollars monthly if there are no own credits, and explains credit quarters needed for eligibility and how to obtain a wage statement to verify quarters.
A widow seeks status of Social Security benefits while employed in a benefitted form and with rental income. Beginning with the month the child turns 18, checks for the child end. at 62 the widow may qualify for widow benefits if still unmarried, with earnings restrictions. Company pension and rental income do not affect payments.
Hollywood stars react to Diana Barrymore’s tell all memoir as Art Napoleon plans the film. Casting talks involve Dorothy Malone Carrol Baker Anne Baxter and Ann Blyth with TV Playhouse and stage stars like Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Res Santos Brazai. Elvis Shirley Temple Bob Hope and Keely Smith linked to projects amid Confidential ad chatter. Radio Moscow heard during Munich shoots in The Vikings and Thunder Road prep.
The film will run at least three hours with Lloyd Nolan criticizing Lana Turner’s acting. Turner’s aging makeup for an 11 year old daughter role required daily visits to the makeup department. Also mentioned are London based Stay My Love and The Anonymous Lover play, CBS Myrna Loy for Eve Arden falling through, and a TV trend shift toward films over live shows with a CBS and Myrna Loy note.
Former Admiral Seemu Toyota once commanded the Imperial Navy combined fleet and served as navy General Staff chief when Japan surrendered in World War I. He died of pneumonia yesterday aged 72 after being acquitted of war crimes by a U.S. tribunal in 1919.
Mary Haworth's Mail begins Tuesday in The Lawton Constitution. The column offers frank, sympathetic guidance on personal relations and family dynamics, drawing on psychiatric, clerical, and legal authority to help readers straighten out kinks in relationships.
Four thefts and a case of malicious mischief were under investigation by city police. Victims include Tony Coursey who reported tire and wheel theft from his 1953 Ford, damaging the bumper and Brille work after the car was left at Lawton Publishing Co. Thefts also involved clothing from Mrs. Konentzer, cigars and clothes from Turkevich, and a bicycle from the Vaska theater lot. Herron reported vandalism to a 1951 Ford at Roosevelt stadium during the Ardmore-Lawie game.
A flu outbreak at Texas A&M College sickened about 1,500 students, though the football squad remained inoculated. It is unclear if any cases are Asian flu. Ill students are treated in the student hospital and dormitories. Texas A&M enrolls about 7,000 men. The state health department reports an additional 67 745 vaccine doses, bringing Texas total to 190 806.
State County Attorney Warren Crane announced two cases against three individuals removed from next month’s trial docket. A 56-year-old Hinton man N. L. Carr and 38-year-old Lawton woman Vernell Goodman faced a dismissed adultery charge. Warren DeGroat, 35, Cache, had a second degree burglary case dropped after pleading guilty to a separate four year suspended sentence. Paheheka, 29, Cache, still faces trial for burglary at Coy Casey's grocery store on a date in the October term.
A. D. Beaty 38, a Negro employee of the city garbage department, was released from Memorial hospital's polio isolation ward Sunday. He remains under hot pack treatments as attendants note.
A compact grid challenge presents clues spanning geography language and culture. From Swiss cantons to Shakespearean figures, the puzzle lists across and down hints including actors like Terry, cities, minerals, and daily life terms, inviting solvers to fill the grid.
In Marrakesh Morocco a historic site where sultans once displayed traitors heads has been repurposed as a modern parking area. The change marks a striking shift from ritual display to everyday urban use.
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