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The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 28

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Lawton, Oklahoma
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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION Wednesday September 17 1958 By LUCILE CRESWELL POTTER STE REING buy NEW and Gifts ARE ARRIVING decorations! here in the British arc Use Our Convenient New York City played host to 776 conventions in 1357 attended by nearly four million delegates COITIJ AMES SON SNYDER (Special) Weighing seven pounds and nine ounces a son bom Sept 10 to Mr and Mrs Lloyd Brownsworth in Altus Mem Under I held the church together with much plans have difficulty the church history notes un ac Wesleyan Guild Makes Donation A new pattern by exqui and as elegant ju the finest rose point bridal veil The lacy design jnd delicate open work treatment of Rose Point make it a rich object It is con ceived in a decidedly modern manner but reminiscent of the artistry and compo sition of priceless old rose point lace And the price is very moderate Silk Sha Har "Concems of a by James Hoffman was a lesson con ducted by Miss Leta Mae Smith at a 7:30 pm Tuesday meeting of Centenary Methodist Wesleyan Service guild members in the home of Mrs Earl Hamburger 1717 Smith at which the president Mrs Eugene Bowman presided Mrs Glenn Stinson gave a de votional with Mrs Wesley leading a study from "The dows They by Jannett ringtpn Members donated $14 to dress lengths to give at the annual in gathering sponsored by the So cial Service of the Lawton orum as a holi day" project During a social hour which followed refreshments were served One new member Mrs A Munson was welcomed while Mrs Rufus Walker wife of the church minister was a guest at the session for which Mrs A Rainville was co hostess Other members present were Misses Helen Elliott and Helen Hackett and Mesdames Louise Ag new Tony Coursey Emma Gould Henry Howell Riley Park and Gale A Sadler or their first fall meeting mem bers of Lawton branch American Association of University Women will assemble at 7 pm Thursday in the Hotel Lawtonian to hear a guest speaker Mrs Maurice Merrill Norman who is engaged ir the private practice of law and is known professionally as Orpha A Merrill Mrs Hines branch presi dent will preside at the dinner meeting for which Mrs Cros by is in charge of reservations Eligible5 women for membership in the AAUW are reminded to call Mrs Crosby after 4 pm for res ervations Now serving as executive secre tary and counsel of the Oklahoma Association of Municipal Attorneys with an office in the Law School nt the University of Oklahoma Mrs Merrill was admitted to the practice of law May 30 193 1 after a quarter of a century of intermit tent study of law She has collaborated with her husband research professor of law at OU in an article titled Uniformity in Adoption pub lished in the Iowa Law and also published several legal notes in the Oklahoma Law Review A member of the Norman City Planning commission since 1356 Mrs Merrill is a member and past president of Aitrusa an interna tional service club for women member of the AAUW and past president of the stateorganization and is affiliated with the League of Women Voters and the Mcar lin Methodist church Norman She also is a member of Kap pa Beta Pi international legal sor ority and various bar associations HOSTS TO SOCIAL SNYDER (Special) Homd movies also were shown when Mr and Airs Merle Smith and daugh ter from California and Messrs and Mesdames Ira Smith and Mon ty Brewer were guests at an ice cream social given by Mr and Airs Jack Wilson 28 Mrs MH Merrill Attorney Will Address Lawton AAUW Installation Set At Club Coffee or installation of new officers and a coffee Carolyn Hunt club members will meet at 9:30 am Thursday in the home of Mrs owfcr 1409 23rd Mrs Ramey outgoing pres ident will preside The next pastor Rev A Nance resigned in 1922 and the church was without a minister til 1923 when Rev Carpenter cepted the pastorate for half time duties He soon was serving full time and the church grew to 60 members during his stay At one baptismal service 80 con verts were baptized Dr Carpen ter is now with the Home Mission board at Atlanta Rev Edgar Jacks served as pas tor for half time for a while but was soon on a full time basis and it was during this time that the church purchased and remodeled a bouse to be used as a parsonage During the pastorate of Rev George Mattocks in 1939 the church voted to build a new church building and the work was started in July of that year In August Harry A Peck laid the first brick for the present building In 1947 Rev Sutterfield was called serving as pastor until 1953 when he accepted the call to the Cordell Baptist church In November of that year Rev Heiliger ort Worth Tex was called serving for one year and resigning to enter the evan gelistic field He was followed by Rev Jack Stuart who resigned in May 57 to accept a call from the Trinity Baptist church in Chick asha The present pastor Rev Gar rett was called in the fall of MRS MERRILL Norman attorney grouping by schools for a school pep team yell contest Swinney school group was chos en as loudest" with a group from Roosevelt school named as giving the most original yell Intermediate Scouts entered a timed nature hunt in which pa trols took separate hikes to see what variety of plants trees and animal life that their campsite sheltered After re assembling each patrol leader showed small samples of what her patrol had found1 After Intermediate and Brownie Scouts hiked back to the assembly ground older Girl Scouts served refreshments preceding retiring of the flag by the Girl Scouts who conducted the flag raising cere mony Giris represented groups from Neighborhood I with Mrs Weldon Vaughn chairman: Neighborhood II Airs Aloore chairman and Neighborhood HI Airs Bill Rector chairman: who were as sisted by Mrs Eldon co ordinator of Lawton Giri Scouts Girl Scouts Have Play Day At Campsite West Of City By CHARLES STAORD Al Newfeature NEW YORK (API Refhil sell ing in Britain has to be cricket you know 'Bit of dignity and alU that No huckstering like States Defuvtely not or one thing the a ri A prelude of music was present ed by Woody Hawkins church min ister of music preceding a 9:30 am Tuesday study session of irst Methodist Society of Christian Service members in the church sanctuary Mrs Lindsey Whitten president conducted a routine business per iod while three chapters from the study book "Isaiah were presented by Mrs A Wolver ton as the lesson One guest Mrs Ballard and 28 members attended the session which was followed by a coffee in the church foyer which was host ed by Circle IV members who also conducted a bake sale At a 7:30 pm Tuesday meeting of Circle members in the home of Mrs McMahan 1709 Lake Mrs Wayne Smith was named new chairman replacing Mrs Brooks who presided Mrs Smith also gave a devotion al with Mrs Cecil Easton conduct ing a lesson on Wil! to Be Eight members attended the session at which plans were made for an Oct 4 rummage sale Credit and Layaway Plans 7 irtrtl A' Wr'Lit 1 Courtesies ete Hansel amily SADDLE MOUNTAIN (Special) to their departure for a new assignment to Selma Ala Col and Mrs Homer Hansel and sons Paul Mike and Homer Jr who recently returned from a three year tour of duty in Germany wore feted at several courtesies Mr and Mrs Clarence Zimmer man parents of Airs Hansel Messrs and Mesdames Elby ritz and Eugene Zimmerman as well as several children were guests at a dinner given by Mr and Mrs Robert Russell in their Mountain View home An informal party also was giv en by Air and Mrs Eugene" Zim merman in their home in the Pe can community while as a final courtesy feting the guests Mrs Hansel's parents were hosts to an ice cream and cake social given on the lawn at their home In addition to immediate family members other guests included Messrs and Mesdames A A Ewalt Glen O' Russell Smith loyd Zimmerman and red Zimmerman HAS OOT LN CAST ELGIN (Special) After receiv ing an injury at Stony Point school Ixinnio Burnett son of Mr and Mrs Burnett now has hisi orial hospital has been named foot in a cast IRaymond Lynn Isaiah Speaks' Studied By WSCS A lesson from the book "Isaiah was led by the president Mrs Gene Slaughter who also conducted a business period at an 8 pm Tuesday meeting of High land Park Methodist So ciety of Christian Service During the meeting in the home of Mrs Melvin Southerland 507 plans were made for an Oct 7 session with Mrs John Brown af ter which refreshments were serv ed Also attending were Mesdames Gilham Ray Owen anc Snodgrass Indiahoma Cache Churches Get Pastor INDIAHOMA (Special) Rev John Reskovac Lawton has been appointed pastor of the Indiahoma Cache Methodist churches replac ing Rev Crawford who re signed to move to Ada to become associate pastor of a church and also attend school Rev Reskovac preached at both worship services of the local church last Sunday and he and his wife will move into the parsonage in Cache about Oct 1 Serving as a kick off for fall and winter activities a play day fea turing the theme "un in the Out of which was held at the Girl Scout i troop campsite seven miles west of city was attended by approximately 250 Girl Scouts and Brownies ahd some 40 adults Miss Myra Crawford district di rector of District IV who planned the activities directed the day's events which got under way at 9 am Consisting of Kathy Rector Ar lene Grob Lavinia Whitworth and Shellye Lewis a color guard es corted the flag bearer Betsy Bur rows to the assembly grounds with girls from Cache and 18 Law ton grade schools gathered for the flag raising and opening cere monies The flag pole and American flag were recent gifts to the Lawton Girl Scouts from the ort Sill Girl Scouts Activities for the play day in cluded group singing led by Miss Crawford games for Brownie Scouts led by mothers and lead ers: and 5 Intermediate Scouts imported German Christmas Mr Mrs Hayslip Name Daughter SNYDER (Special) Teresa Jay is the name Air and Mrs Wel don Hayslip Wichita alls Tex have chosen for their nine pound two ounce daughter born Sept 14 at Altus Memorial hospital Grandparents are Mrs Dorothy Walker and Mr and Mrs Dick Hayslip all of Mountain Park OCW Schedules Saturday Classes Lawton area residents arc Invit ed to enroll in Saturday classes being offered by Oklahoma Col lege for Women Chickasha with enrollment set for 9 am this Sat urday in the Administration build ing auditorium Courses will be offered in social sciences education fine arts sci ence other fields for which there is sufficient demand Six hours credit may be earned each scmeslcr Graduate work al so is offered and can be transfer red to other Oklahoma colleges our graduate credit may be made each semester plus two hours under graduate Dr Kenneth Y'oung dean announces Men as well as women may enroll in the Saturday program However men must have a de gree before they can "be accepted as students While the prin cipally has been organized for the benefit of teachers who need cred it toward a degree a certificate or for other reasons the schedule will not be limited to those in the field of education Dr Young states Just Like American Cousin British ife Loves A Sale The British said Airs Adams go more for quality "We like to say had thjs watch or this fountain pen for 20 years good piece of merchandise you arc more gadget conscious more inclined to try something new" The thing that impressed Mrs Adams most about over the coun ter salesmanship in the Colonics was the way a sale was ended "When an English shop assistant ends a sale he says you good But here a sales girl might say you very much Do come in again won't you? It gives you or at least it gave me a feeling that she takes a personal interest in you whether she does or In teaching salcsmanfliip Mrs Adams said main concern anywhere here or in is to get the shop assistant to for get price If the customer is price conscious he will ask the price soon enough The emphasis should be on" trying to give the customer what he is looking A truly remarkable woman Airs Adams was the first of her sex ever elected to the Wimbledon Borough Council She also has served on five school boards of governors She is the wife of an advertising man and a mother of a 21 yearold architectural student Come in and see our exclusive lines of Auxiliary Slates Thursday Meet Regular meeting of Woman's auxiliary 'to Ixiwcry Whitehead American legion post No 29 has been slated for 7:30 pm Thurs day at the American Legion hall Seventh and Airs Jess Odom president who will conduct the business session asks all members to attend as the group will vote on changing meet ing nights to the second and fourth Tuesdays from the first and third Thursdays Sill VW Group Attends Meeting Two members of the Woman' auxiliary to Geft Leslie McNair Veterans of oreign Wars post No 5263 ort Sill and four post mem bers have returned from where they attended" a Sixth dist rict meeting held in the Business Professional Women's building They were Mrs Gilbert Law rence president5 and Mrs Bernard Walusz with the latter serving as color bearer No 1 pro tern also Sgt Donald Cross Sixth District commander Sgt Robert district and post quarter master: Sgt Gilbert Lawrence and Sgt Bill Reimer a New HA Members Present Program SNYDER Titled "The Big a special program was given by new members of Sny der chapter uture Homemakers of America at Snyder high schol Roselle Ccvcngcr Donna ar ris Lyncttb George Beverly Nie bruegge Lillie Patten Lorraine Reed Margaret Spurlock and Lin da Woodall conducted the emblemservice Program also included a devo tional by Sharon Hash followed by a vocal duet "Days of sung by Brenda Alask and Linda Rob inson accompanied by Arlene Bur ba pianist Cement Baptists Schedule 50th Anniversary or Sunday CEMENT (Special) wav for sofetime been completed for the 50th an niversary celebration and home coming of Cement Baptist church slated for Sunday To begin with an 11 aan sermon by Rev Lackey executive secretary of the General Baptist convention the events will be attended by many former pas tors and members After a noon luncheon to be served by the church afternoon session begins at 1:30 with a song service to be led by Bob Perk with Mrs Marlum as pianist After the local pastor Rev Whit ley Garrett reads a scripture and voices a prayer three former pas tors will speak for 15 minutes each They are Rev Alfred Car penter Atlanta Ga Rev Sutterfield Weatherford and Rev Jack Stuart Chickasha With the cornerstone to be laid during the afternoon Mrs 0 Robertson will read the church history Rev Harmon Norge with a small group of Cement Baptists built the first church building a frame structure in 1908 near Spin dle Top hill Serving as pastor for two years Rev Harmon was followed by sev eral young men of whom there is no record During World War I the George Gortons the Charles Colberts the Grundys and others such as the Cleveland County American Bar associations Muni cipal Law committee of Oklahoma Bar association and the Municipal section and amily Law section of the American Bar association Mrs Merrill and her husband have one daughter and three grand children who reside at Okmulgee where their son in law is an attor ney Two Meeting? Two events have been held this week by Rho Kappa Gamma soror ity members the first a regular weekly session in the home of Sue Cochran 608 Dearborn the second being a rush party in the Artillery room at the Hotel Lawtonian Seven pledges and 20 members attended the 7:30 pm session at which the president Sherry Alex ander presided Program included vocal numbers by Karen Chance Beverly Gask ins Linda Munson Wanda Pahdo co and Jackie Spradlin accompa nied by Claudia Looney pianist at the 7:30 pm Tuesday rush party Refreshments were served to 13 guests seven pledges and 16 mem bers price conscious thar she said sternly "This is reflected in your store windows You find so many different prices for the same mer chandise I would be so confused trying to shop here "Oh we have competition in England but we compete in serv ice rather" than orico And I think Inclined to insist that price is not you will come around to our way the most important consideration of thinking or another they prefer the Old you keep cutting prices you Reliable to the Modern Innova must lower the quality of the mcr bvn chandisc And pretty soon you will And lastly the British retailer cnd UP with a Junk heap keeps the customer's well being ini mind "Wo like to encourage our peo ple to buy only what they can af said a neatly groomed visi tor to the American field of retail battle Part of the encourage ment to thriftincss is a whopping per cent interest on installment I buying: But added Mrs? Patricia Adams of Wimbledon there is at least one basic similarity between female shoppers on both shores of the At lantic The British housewife is the same predatory huntress as her 'American counsin Her nostrils and she bares her fangs at the most subtle scent of sale remember an incident at ort num and Mason a a ery nice shop in Picadilly" said Mrs Adams "To give you an idea of the type of shop it is all the shop assist ants (clerks) on the first floor vear frock coats and on occasion camatieps in their lapels were holding their very first sale They simply placed a small sign in the window saying that was' all There was a mob scene One woman had her mink cape tom from her shoulders" Airs position as the only woman sales training director in the British Isles puts her in a posi tion to observe such things She travels throughout Britian teach ing shop assistants the fine art of selling She came to the United States where'hcr firm has home offices looking for sales Her quest took her into stores in Chica go: ort Madison Jowa Iowa Crty Columbus Ohio and New "You Americans are much more Daily i a IB khBB i ity Gifu Busy busy busy ') i your chin in fashion IB BKmHmSr rosewin mHHK design Ljf WB wonderful Windfall foues StroocVs dramatic tweed buttons high in Colfectfon A suit that keeps early or late 3 chin snuggling collar hours Lotties had your busy a cascade days in mind in 'designing of graceful shirring two piece suit just for Upers gently to a I sity green sierra gold casual narrowed hemline 1 blue wood taupe and fire red greenhlack blueblack Sizes 8 to 20 and 7 to 15 I blackwhite oatmeal 29 98 1 ginger sizes 6 to 18 Mr Three ro Day Account Convenient 7 October Pay November Pay Deeember Credit PUrs Rerotvtng Badget Plan Take Mouths to Pay! 11 1 1 r1 THE BLOUSON I Jne flattery of a slim I skirt topped with a short sleeved A blouson Simple in design to i feature the A 1 00 Zephyr Wool YAx with a woven tweed plaid in contrasting color COLORS: WB 'V Scarlet Red Electric Blue SfZES: 8 Oagl 5 to 15 2998 Kir A JS? IV 4 1 5 Avenue Dial EL 5 21 65 Nero says to take these martyrs off their ROMAN MEAL BREAD losing too many lions" i Sz 1 1 OMk ii I IV 1 I MORAL: Do as the Include whole grain energy in your daily diet Modern RXJMAN MEAL (wheat rye bran flax) when made into bread makes delicious toast superb sandwiches Vitamin fortified Good protein eating Look for the ROMAN GLADIATOR on the wrap enrrAtfifhr MADE BY THE MAKERS MEAD'S INE BREAD.

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