The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • Page 3

Nation's Fall Harvest Rapidly Drawing To A Close I partment reports. By Dec. 1 more than ing of the. South but i fanners" reported to have is rapidly drawing to a close at 4,1 billion bushels, it will be far from a record, ao about 15 per cent less than the cording to the Agriculture De-i4-S billion experts had predicted Jin July. Corn blight and other 90 per took the heaviest cent or the corn crop was pickedj The soybean harvest has beeni.

About 75 per of the soy- in ijift Com Blt ststcs i .1 have held, Soybean.production was Muddy 1 were at 1.131 hampering, crop bushels'; down 400,000 bushels! and report'said." running about two weeks behind Missouri where one-fourthi schedule because ol poor weath- 1 i i ft 1 i was stm in thhe fields, accord- 1 er but was about the last''-fronv October but week of November. est outputjui The movea'iiorecast- -in at 3 ofJmillion two.pei'.centg, THE LAWTOh4 CONSTITUTION, Friday, December 4,1970 3 BE SURE -TO VISIT OUR HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Saturday 9 to 6 Sunday -1 to 6 beans in Arkansas, Human Nature A Factor Louisiana, and Tennessee were cold, weather fields in 1 from. However, sj 90 per. cent'harvested end pf the i much" of tiie 'growing area. I still would mean, a per cent'larger, than all index Trading Stamp Industry Slumping By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) Their sales undermined by the mercu- consumers who rial now mood seem prices, the trading stamp try is nevertheless relying In the good old days, Olsen And, having been provided ilates, trading stamp a catalogue, she translates 'relied on female psychology.

a better life. "Stamps gave the housewife! ft means. that-while the hus- her own private' nestegg," head's' body maybe weary, his TMfpr rtkmnrt said sh have to justify Bite's determination is not, that preier discount in he stamps. on human, nature to pull it through. It always has.

Sales have something around miUJon from more than milUon in 1966-67, as cost-conscious housewives seek to receive something less in price rather than something. more in goods. The emphasis, at the supermarket is on keeping prices lower, that is. The meteoric rise of the stamp industry from a S10 Eullion-a-year infant in 1950 is now stalled, and industry offi- But if she took out of the clothes budget to- buy another item she'd have hell to pay." Things haven't changed that much. Stymied at the supermarket, the industry is now broadening into other premium areas, and human nature in the form of female psychology is still heavily relied upon, For example, Olsen explains, the industry is now aiming its ingenuity at corporations which seek to promote safety, punctuality, efficiency, productivity, sales, good attendance.

Corpc- cials are becoming used to I rate sales, in fact, are the new hearing it. frontier. Countless stories in the trade press proclaim the stick situa- OLSEN'S Gold Strike Stamp tion in which stamps are taking which operates nationally a bad licking or losing their grip on the consumer or taking a pasting. The play on words is endless. BUT.

as Max Olsen, newly- elected president of the Trading Stamp Institute of America sees it, the industry is far from meeting its end; far from being stamped out. Area Men In Service CITY SERGEANT EARJS'S ARMY COMMENDATION S. Set. Charlie L. Shepherd, whose wife, Kobertiag, lives in Lawton, recently received the Army Commendation Medal while serving with the 101st (Airmobile) earned the Airborne Division in Vietnam.

Sgt. Shepherd as a supply sergeant in Company A of the division's 426th Supply and Service Battalion, He entered the Army in 1955 and was last stationed at Fort Sill. FORMER SILL MAN RECEIVES BRONZE STAR Lt. Larry G. Hada, 26.

re-i tently received the Bronze Star Medal near An Khe, Vietnam. Lt, Hada -earned the aw; from Salt Lake City, recently devised an incentive system for a construction-related company that suffered from high absen- jteeism and tardiness, he based the campaign on safety. Each month the employe receives in the mail an educational flier on safety together with an offer of 100 trading stamps if he answers a simple question on the subject and returns it to his employer. Since wives see most mail, you can bet their instincts are excited. Something for nothing! She makes certain her husband answers the question.

That's the hooker. The wife has now been taken into the domain of her husband's other life. Company, worker -and home have been brought together in a common cause. And now the wife learns that there is mother lode of stamps. 'SIIE learns, for instance, that her husband can earn thousands of stamps by maintaining a perfect attendance record or.

by being to work on time every LEGAL NOTICES Punished In TJic Lowtoo Constitution December 4, 1770 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF COMANCHE COUNTY, STATE OF OKLAHOMA. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHLEEN E. DUMM, Deceased. Probate No: P-7M69 NOTICE OP SALE OF OIL AND CAS LEASE Note Is hereby olvcn that In i suoncc ol on order ot Ine District Court STO-, of Comcncne County, Side ot Oklahoma lor outstandingly meritorious service as a survey officer in Headquarters Battery, Sth Tar- jet Acquisition Battalion, 26th Artillery, 1 Field Force Vietnam Artillery. He entered the Army in 1967 and was last stationed at Fort Sill.

His wife, Finetta, lives on Star Route, Lawton. KEEP FREEDOM YOUR FUTURE Sign np far Savings Bonds, Freedom Shares trix of the wlote or Kathltm E. Dumm. deceased, will offer for sale and sell ot public Quction 1o the highest bidder 'on Ihe ISih day of December. 1970, ot 2:00 o'clock P.M., In thr city cl Lawton, Slate of Oklahoma, on oil and gas mlnlno Iraw uoon flic following described fond situated In Tlllmon County, Oklahoma, lo-wlf: An undivided one-half (Vi) Interest In the Southern! Quarter or Section (3), Tcwnshlo Wea (3) Soulh Seventeen (1TJ West of Die tflon noon 1he lollowlno terms and condlllons: A cash bonus oayable upon confirmation of the sole, and a royalty not less I than one-elghtti of all oil ond DOS other minerals oroduced and saved from said land, said to be -for a term or five years and Hierctrfter as oil, oas or other minerals mov be produced In oovlno quantities.

Dated this 2nd day of December, 1770. (s) ELSIE IAURLETT6 Executrix of the Estate of Kalhlcen E. Dumm, Deceased AAcflEE BENSON Attorney for Executrix Frederick, Okla. Saturday, Dec. 5-9 to 5 Sunday, Dec.

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A typical 'book of 1,200 stamps, Olsen insists, is worth the shopper gets back 3 cents when she redeems the stamps for The bargain, Olsen says, results from, power and efficient-distribution. "Distribution centers have' no thefts," 'he explained; referring to reports of big increases in shoplifting at retail stores even have the stamp company gets its.money in advance of the sale and so has considerable profitable investments in 'the money markets. jfoui 1 lyear. i The USDA's shows total output -this' yearsj down from 1969. The: latest dex showed crop production forg 1970 wiU be only IS per above the 1957-59.

average afterg reaching a record'high of 21.per§ cent last year. This means the first decline of6 "ali crops" production sinceJJ 1956; officials said. CHARM arrangements designed; for you E.H MARKETS GRAIN $3,09 in merchandise, although Mito 2.15 The Agriculture Department" says'in report on program participation that, estimated 12.3 Tnillion persons" received government help dur irig October, Compared seven million a year earlier. Asst Secretary Richard Lyng- said the largest caine in food stamp enrollment, estimated at 8.8 million ia Octo-S ber, compared with fewer than 5' 3.5 milh'on a year earlier. The -remainder received rect'food donations through the department's commodity distri-0 jution program the cost to the grocery stores is little more than $2.

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