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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1954
Page
12
Chicago butter market shows wholesale buying prices unchanged to higher with prices around 3 dollars for 59.5 pounds and 90 pounds buyers seeking 57.75 for delivery. firm activity noted in wholesale channels with cars priced at 90 B.
Comanche County Farm Bureau plans the fourth annual meeting. At 7 30 tonight at 125 EL Henry Avenue, officers will preside as a resolutions committee forms the new draft. Members include Ted Krisher Willard Bentley Charney and Claude Martin from Chattanooga.
Scouters from Hunting Horse district attend a 7:28 p.m. meeting at Security Bank and Trust to organize the district. Col Ret E C Williams presides with district Scout executive Lewis Tex Gov assisting. Aims include staffing the district committee and detailing the eight main Scouting functions for Comanche and Cotton counties.
Tickets for the U S Navy band concert Thursday October 14 are on sale at Townes Men Leister and Hardy Sages Music stores. James Matthews and George Walters urge purchase, with mail orders to Matthews or Walters. The Navy band, directed by Cmdr Charles Brendier, was made official by an act of Congress in 1925 and promotes public appeal.
Reaction continues as lawmakers say they will withhold comment until they read the full 36 day Army McCarthy hearings report. Senators Potter Mundt stress they will not prejudge or comment before reviewing the entire document.
Lawton police chief Ralph Tennessee announced the resignation of city officer Bob Jones to enter business. The move ends Jones’s tenure with the department and leaves a vacancy in the force.
Funeral rites for Harry A Williams known as fig et Colored and listed with Ritter Funeral home have been tentatively set for morning. Williams a veteran Lawtonian theater owner died after a heart attack about two weeks earlier in Colorado Springs. Other notices mention John Bell Heffey 62 who died at home and services set for 2 pm Tuesday at First Baptist Church with Frank Kellogg Sil officiating and list survivors including his wife Katie two sons Melvin and Homer, two daughters Mrs George Garrett Iran and Bobby Alice, and two brothers Jim and others.
In Odessa Texas, a notice lists five siblings including Mrs Suthermand and Jake, identified among several parties. The readable portion highlights family names in a local legal/public notice fragment.
The TopTen Barbershop chapter of the Society of the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America Inc will elect officers for the season at an 8 pm meeting Tuesday in the courthouse lounge. President Brandon announced the session aims to involve all members and Fort Sill personnel, with Fort Sill officers Landon Fred Russell and Capt Churchill invited to attend. A Barber Shop Jamboree is set for Sunday at Lake Murray Lodge near Ardmore, expected to draw over 200 singers.
The typhoon battered the Japanese coastline and Tsugaru strait, injuring and trapping civilians. Authorities identified two missing civilians as Thomas West of Max Factor Co. and Dean Leeper, a YMCA secretary, while 126 of 129 crewmen were recovered from the third typhoon to strike within two weeks.
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