Longhorn Auction Offers Low Tops at Wichita Mountains Sale
A Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge auction drew bidders from several states and about 200 spectators. A. H. Hulett of Oklahoma City paid the top price of 230 dollars for a six white Longhorn steer, with most cattle selling around 31 dollars and calves as low as 20 dollars. Auctioneer Connie Hill oversaw the sale designed to keep the refuge herd near 350, with buyers including Cole Thompson of Victor Texas Lawton Meat Supply and Red Arnold of Lawton among the bidders.
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Cache
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
A. H. Hulett
Oklahoma City
Hulett
Pawhuska
Pai Cole Thompson
Victor
Tex
Fred Roberts
del Mar
Calif
Connie Hill
Lawton Meat Supply
Lawton
Red Arnold
C. E. Brown
Granite
Cap Yates
Rodeo
Batchelor case details conflict over witness testimony
In a fragmented report, Hickox describes a police officer preventing harm while leaving the scene. Defense counsel Joel Westbrook cites unconfirmed claims of witness testimony changes by William C. Skipper. Fields and Peterson are named as prominent reactionaries in a court martial context amid brainwashing deposition talks.
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Fields
Peterson
Hickox
Joel Westbrook
Batchelor
Hicko
Freedom of New York
Meter Collections Are Normal City Officials Determine
City officials found meter collections for the past week appeared low but were actually within normal variation. The dip was due to routine alternation in meter zones and reduced traffic division staff from illness.
Market summaries show steady prices across dairy and livestock
Chicago butter receipts 675,009 with wholesale prices unchanged including AA 93 score at 59.5, A 92 at 58.75, B 90 at 36.75, C 89 at 55. Oklahoma City reports state fed prices steady with no. 1 hard at around 2.14 to 2.18 per unit in towns from Guyman to Kingfisher. Broilers mixed. hogs 200 head steady to firm. trade largely nominal with some lots carried to Monday.
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Chicago
Oklahoma City
Eid
Guyman
Hooker
Clinton
Alva
Blackwell
el Reno
Enid
Fairview
Hobart
Medford
Vici
Yukon
Hennessey
Kingfisher
Bison
Frederick
Broilers
Muskogee
Vinita
Ardmore
Tulsa
Elk City
Clinton Ardmore
Pauls Valley
Chickasha
Ardalmore
Chickata
Ie Lawton
Oklahoma
di Pauls” Valley
Watonga
Kerr Tackles Ike Policies as Oklahoma Race Heats Up
Democratic candidate George Kerr assails the Eisenhower administration for favoring the privileged and big interests. He cites food relief failings and farm price declines while proposing a broad program to restore farm prices, expand federal housing and road programs, raise the minimum wage, and provide tax relief through the Kerr amendment. He contrasts Democrats’ 20 years of effort with 20 months of Republican policy, urging voter support in Oklahoma.
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Kerr
Eisenhower
Otter
Vee
Fred
U.S. Senate
Oklahoma
Domnie
Ezra
Benson
Kerry
Breuth
Ible
George Kerr
Area Man Injured As Auto Crashes
A 38 year old man, Dennis Leroy Smith of Chickasha, was listed in critical condition after his car ran out of control on U S 81 seven and a half miles south of Chickasha, rolled four times, and he was thrown from the vehicle. He remained unconscious at noon with a fracture suspected.
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Chickasha
Dennis Leroy Smith
U.S
Alton Bogle
Smith
Kiwanis Day Plans Fundraising and Activities
Lawton Kiwanians will distribute candy bars after the game and Lawton High School Key Club members will sell snow cones and pop to raise funds. Fountain, district chairman, leads a 20-person crew with Elmer Bauman and local club members on committees for parade balloon drop midget football and concessions. Sunday plans include parents and children attending school together.
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Lawton High School
Fountain
Elmer Bauman
Northwest Club
Lawton Club
Jack Russell
Nd Girls’ Work
Paul Goode
Lawtonians
Kiwanis
Doyle Williams
Jake Hester
Buford ‘Morgan
Joe Narmore
Walter Browers
Richard Hopper
Paul Williams
Oklahoma Cities Seize Retail Gains Across State
Oklahoma sales data show Lawton nearing Enid for third in state retail ranking while Garfield County’s city remains runner up to Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Comanche County posts standout gains with Cimarron at 41.88 percent and Beckham up 28.5 percent as statewide tax collections top a million for the second month and county totals near five million.
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Kay County
Oklahoma
Lawton
Eni
Garfield County
Tulsa
Stag
Comanche County
Cimarron
Beckham
Oedeo
Oklahoma City
Enid
Annadarko
Nic Gate Hollis
Altus
Waurika
Hobart
Comanche
Duncan
Marco Frederick
Lawton Traffic Plan Aims to Curb Accidents at OU TCU Game
City officials plan patrols and check points for the OU versus TCU game in Norman with regular and unmarked units plus radar cars. Raley warns fans to depart by 10 am to avoid delays and urges caution on the highways to prevent wrecks and penalties for rule breakers.
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Raley
Oklahoma
TCU
City of Lawton Wins First Round In Water Line Suit
The district court ruled the plaintiff Sel Investments Corporation not entitled to the pipe or its value and that the city lacked authority to contract. The decision halts one action while other lawsuits in state and federal court seek about 310 547 dollars with potential additions up to 200 000 dollars if developments advance.
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Ary
Lawton
Floyd Jackson
Lee Addition
Selected Investments Center
Jackson
Sel Investments Corporation
Mably
Develoers
I Difference
Phoes Ley
Ataline
Dottie Guthrie Riley
Supreme Court
Fletcher Riley
Pauline Riley
Iter, Riley
Fitl
Jim
Kansas
Big Pasture Kids To Have Their Day
Grandfield and Big Pasture area youth will be guests of the Kiwanis at a free movie day for National Kids Day. Children 14 and under may attend Tara Son of Cochise with doors opening at 2 p.m. and the film starting at 2:15 p.m.
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Grandfield
Big Pasture
Kings
Truck Rams Anadarko Funeral Procession Injuring Five
A pickup driven by Charlie O Toole rammed into a funeral procession on U S 62 west of Anadarko injuring five. One seriously hurt was Mrs Beatice Schoonover and others include Rosalee Schoonover 76 and Tracy Bryant 40 with a fractured bone and a hip dislocation. Police transported the injured to Anadarko hospital.
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Anadarto
U. Eae
Beatice Schoonover
McClellan Schoonover
Rosalee Schoonover
San Leland ‘Schoonover
Watford
Anadarko
Warning Signs Tearing Down Persist In City Vandalism
Police report a dozen traffic signs torn in the city with recent damage at First and Bell. Desk Sgt Jimmy Cant says vandals threaten public safety and urges residents to report incidents to aid officers in catching culprits.
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Jimmy
Tom Pipes
Atte Van‘dale
Otto
Delinquent Taxes Collected Amid Sheriff Warrants
About $1,000 in back personal property taxes have been collected since warrants were issued to Sheriff Everett Hale two weeks ago. Additional warrants will be mailed this week as Hale holds $15,000 in delinquent 1953 tax statements.
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Everett Hale
Hale
Lillian Waid
Funeral Rites for James E. Murphy Held in Los Angeles
Funeral services for James E. Murphy 68 former Lawton resident who died Thursday morning in Los Angeles will be held there in the oy Church at 10 a.m. He was born in Neillsville Wisconsin in 1886 and raised in Chattanooga where his sister Margaret Cummins postmaster. He lived in Lawton in 1919 20 and had been ill for about three years.
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James E. Murphy
Lawton
Los Angeles
Murphy
Margaret "Cummins
Chattanooga
Neilsville
Wisc
Visitor from Japan inspires Oklahoma visit and donations
A visiting Japanese woman wowed Oklahoma audiences as veterans funded a kindergarten addition to an orphanage. She adopted 160 children and shared tales of her life in Japan and Oklahoma. The visit included speeches to the Chamber of Commerce and clubs, plus tours of a new high school and other local sites.
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New York States
U.S
Japan
Sawada
Oklahoma
Alford
Chamber of Commerce
Public Service Co
Jackson
Maude Smith
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TSA
Richard Brock
Cameron
Quali
Mr Vain
Nate
Bob White
Brock Quail
Robert
Williams Addition
Elmon Haines
Irvin Mat‘toon
Evans Addition
Jones
Lawton Heights
Town and Country
Cache Rd
Drew Pearson
Kswo-Tv
Channel
Post Office
Enses Blunt Zorger
O'Toole
Anadarko Hospital
Filmiles
Southwestern Radio & Sound
Shar Pho
Vysieew Serviceg
M & D Finance CO
E Ave
VicCord
Chambers
Edmond
Okla
A. Max Chambers
Central State
Oklahoma Associant Health
Holsey
Berry
Ur-Jemel
California Pottery Service
Thomas E. Stanton
Mel’s
Brandon A Kephart Plumbing CO
Cenasien
A. L. Pollard
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