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Area Weather orecast THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION Hi Mabor THIRD Af4D A AVE LAWTON OKLA RIDAY APRIL 12 1957 VOLUME NO 180 (AP) (UP) AP WJREPHOTO 18 PAGES SINGLE COPY INAL EDITION by a I I Cpmpromise gown ana sat i ambassadors at table even were reports that Harold Stassen President Ei i disarmament adviser I The i sinking 71 shit I heiner held in CIRCULATION DEPT Cold To Linger Another Day him the chief symbol of newly forged ties with Gary ears Raid On Road unds Boy Scouf Camp At Sill Cahcelled Pageant's Grounds Now In ine Shape renovated and will now be used for only" The concrete block structure has also been finished to add to the appearance Batten explained thing makes at lots of folks work 'stem 1958 3 The Pageant grounds are hi "fine" shape for the 32nd annual presentation of the Wichita Moun tains Easter Service on April 21 Jack Batten executive director said today room facilities have been greatly improved for this the director said Steal Thunder ur ig mem through Saturday morning with occasional rain freezing rain or sleet Partly cloudy and not so cold Saturday afternoon High to day 30s: low tonight 25 high Sat urday 40s low today 28f 11 am reading 29 trace moisture Record Spring Snow Sleet 1 Storm Roars Into Oklahoma I 4 a i Crop Damage May Be High ii'h XXX 'V I Top GOP Solon Urges 5 Billion Dollar Tax Cut rom Duchess I WASHINGTON A high ranking Republican congressman ri NEW YORK Elsa suggested to the United Nations Disarmament subcommittee that technicians begin Sept 1 to study how such an agreement could be enforced Sources inside the subcommittee room said Stassen recoin that an agreed inspection begin to function March or as Soon as possible th upon the ratification of agreements money is also the root of a lots REPRESENTING ort Sill on the steering committee for the day activities are Capt I Daugherty assistant Armed orces Day project officer Capt Voit parade project of See ARMED ORCES 2 Col MEMBERS of the steering committee who met for their first planning session Thursday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce office announced that no commercial vehicles will be in the morning parade Participating in the parade will be two battalions of march ing men and one motorized bat talion in addition to the five bands including two Army! bands and the Lawton high school Cen tral Junior high and Douglass bands Weapons to be included in the parade include batteries of 105s 155 howitzers and 1 8 inch howitzers I Merchants are urged to display flags during Armed orces Day Col Williams said I dieted for tonight Possible Crop Damage The mercury hit 28 degrees early today with freezing rain bringing possible damage to area wheat crops and fruit trees Local farm officers said today considerable wheat damage was possible from I the freezing tem peratures but i exact damage will not be determined for several days I The high today will be in the 30s nearly 40 degrees below Thurs high of 71 A slight warming condition is expected Saturday af ternoon with temperatures in the high 40s I Three Accidents Lawton police department re ported weather conditions such as glazed windshields contributed to three accidents within 14 minutes here early today No personal in juries were reported in the three accidents occuring from 8:29 am to 8:43 ain Theextended outlook for the state calls for temperatures five to 10 degrees below the normal through Wednesday More show ers are expected to bring a quar ter inch rain to the western part of the state Sunday and Wednes day rain freezing rain or sleet is ex pected in the Lawton area through Saturday the weather bureau said today Another hard freeze with a low safeguard the Highway Depart ment The proposed southwestern pike would extend from Oklahoma City toward Lawton and perhaps to Red River north of Wichita alls Tex "I will read the bill over this weekend and prepare some amendments that win make the bill acceptable to Gary said don't want to say I am opposed to the bill because I haven't heardiit all I am for the prin thority some Plans Set or Armed orces Day PRELIMINARY plans for the annual Lawton ort Sill Armed orces Day observance Satur day May 18 ere announced today by Col (Ret) Will iams chairman of the steeringcommittee i The activities I will be launched with a 10:30 am par ade in downtown Lawton with five bands several ort Sill units and city organizations participat ing Highlight of the will be held at ort Sill from il 5 pm when the Army will present an aircraft demonstration and a non firing heavy artillery demon stration Static displays also will be set up for inspection trf visitors More than 30 photographers de serted the table in a body They were followed at a pace only slightly more sedate by some of New York's most upper crust society dowagers waving programs for autographs 'Die waiters couldn't get through with next course for half an hour Th? duchess had had it Miss intentions were barely short of audible She and the duchess have been feuding since a hassle over a similar char ity party four years ago US Urges Halt To A Bomb Race LONDON The United States proposed today that all production of fissionable materials after April 1 1958 be confined to nonweapons nurnoses 1 Right of Way Needs Discussed ery and cut back other postal serv ices if he get more money immediately i The House will consider the Ap propriations recom mendations Monday and is ex pected to approve them Speedily so the Senate can act at once and get the bin to the President Restore Service The new allotment would boost to $2165000000 the funds given the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending' June 30 Summerfield told newsmen yes terday he would hot "be able restore any of the! scheduled mai service cuts until a bill! giving him sufficient funds has passed both House and Senate and has been signed by President Eisenhower Under orders already issued all post offices will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays and all city and rural mail delivery wall be stopped on Saturdays except for special delivery items On Monday deliveries to city business districts will be cut to two a day ana post office window service will be reduced Third Class Discontinued All third class mail chiefly advertising matter and small mer is scheduled) to be dis continuetk April 29 except for certain medical items On the same day sales of money orders will be halted at first and second class post offices A suit was filed in ederal Dis trict Court here yesterday seeking to restrain Summerfield from sus pending the third class! mail serv ice 1 Road Conditions Perilous Three Killed Nine Injured In Wrecks On Slick Highways OKLAHOMA CITY (UP) Gov Raymond Gary said riday he wants to be sure that a bill that would earmark gasoline taxes to help finance the proposed south western turnpike does not consti tute a on the Highway De partment funds He said he approves the prin ciple iof the MH but it will have to be amended 1 The House Revenue and Taxa tion Committee passed the bm this week after inserting one left or west of Audience Hill Refreshment stands will again be located on Audience Hill Batten mid i Refreshments wfil include coffee soft drinks sandwiches milk can dy and ice cream All proceeds will go to the Easter Service As sodatibo The information booth and lost and found department housed in portable wood strucutres will again be situated beneath the light ed cross on Audience HID Drink ing water is available in the front of the chapel he said A major change in the grounds this year is a new concrete floor in the temple During the past sev eral years actors were unable to Maxwell i stole: the Duchess of Windsors thunder Thursday night with a ballroom Mari lyn The duphess should have had the evening made She was honorary cbairmari of the flossiest charity shindig the in Ball She and the duke were guests of honor at 'a table carefully positioned for the spot light and all eyes The light went off it about half wry through dinner Miss Monroe with her husband playwright Ar thur slunk in fashionably late in a little black sequin gown and sat down among the ambassadors i at Miss Right of way needs for the pro posed four land project on US 277 62 from the three level interchange northward for 38 miles through a portion of the ort Sill military reservation were discussed today at a conference of city state and military representatives Dyches right of way engi neer and Powell urban en gineer for the state highway de partment advised local officials complete right of way and! ease ment data will be prepared and made available within the next few days Preliminary information in i dicates some private property will be needed as weH as Indian land between the Rock Island railroad and the present easement some of the railroad easement and some military property It was hot known what the easements would cost on some sections of pri vate and Indian property i Mayor Ellsworth quoted Bob Barr district highway com missioner as saying the project Could be let to contract at the July letting if right of way has been secured five weeks in ad vance This would mean clearing the right of way by late May Plans for the big highway proj ect estimated to cost aboil 51 750000 have received approval from military state and federal authorities it was indicated Con tracts for the entire project will be let at the same time Major phases of the construction program include traffic i inter changes at Gate 1 and Gate 2 at ort Sill and a bridge over! Medi cine Creek Some service i roads also are programmed Participating in the conference were State Rep Charles Ozmun uller chief civUiarj engi neer at ort Sill Lt Col sC Roberts post engineer rank Kitchens chairman of the Cham ber of Commerce roads committee Milt Keating secretary manager of the chamber Gty Attorney War ren Chrisman State Sen I red Harins and Montgomery chamber board member Eden aces New Surgery Saturday BOSTON oU a hospital bulletin said today an eperation will be performed tomorrow on Sir Anth ony Eden to remove a tube placed in the bile duct in 1953 for (relief of a duct obstruction I Dr Richard CatteJl of the famed Lahey Clinic who perform ed the operation four years agowill be the surgeon tomorrow al so Eden personal physician Sir Horace Evans is flying from Lon don to be present at the surgery Hussein moved riday for a compromise end to 11! crisis uuL evtuu Hieic defending dispute over the Aqaba increased world for peace in the Middle Brucker jCalls Off 'Derby Jufikef WASHINGTON (UP) Army riday cancelled itj pro posed congressional trip to ort Knox Ky for a military show scheduled over the Kentucky Der by weekend Army Secretary Brucker said he is not! bers of Congress (who1 had been invited to the May 3 4 demwistra tion that he is cancelling be cause the "serious purpose has been so I Until riday morning Bruck aides had insisted I there whs no intention of calling ot the demonstration unless too few con gressmen accepted invitations By UNITED PRESS King political and the Gulf anxiety East Hussein asked Abdul Halim Nixnr to try to form a cabinet Nimr was defense and interior mitiistef in the cabinet of ousted Premiet Suleiman Nabulsi but is considered more conservative than the left wing Nabulsi The: first choice for pre mier Hussein el Khalidi failed and it I became increasingly evi dent that Nabulsi still commanded a hig following among those who consider him the chief symbol of Jordan Egypt The HuSseiH might be forced store Nabulsi to the premi an be cleaned up over the weekend In time for inspections by two city sanitarians beginning (Monday The big spring cleanup will con tinue Monday and Tuesday when trash and refuse jrill be picked up from all sections of town except the area east of Second Various civic and service clubs of the city are cooperating in the drive and many individuals (and business firms have donated! trucks to be used in the campaign ort SIH authorities have donated 10 trucks and 20 men to assist in the drive Gty officials expressed hope of having Lawton cleaned of trashand refuse before the arrival of visitors from all parts' of the na tion to attend this year's famed Easter Pageant Hiroshima police said a 16 yer ojd boy was at the helm and the i a a i was collecting tickets when the 40 ton vessel slammed into Toramaru Rock at 1:15 pm The (boat capsized and sank The of Transportation said the ferry the No 5 Kitagawa Maru had a registered capacity of i 82 passengers It was carry ing 4 'crewmen and 218 passengers the codst guard reported The boat was en route from Setoda to Onomichi with vaca tioning (Japanese tourists Japanese defense forces rushed to the! area Patrol boats con verged Jon the winding waterway between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku The Kitagawa Maru went down the (same general area where thq Shiun Maru sank in May 1955 vriljh a ideath toll of 160 WTorst i ferryboat disaster was the capsizing during a typhoon of the Toja Maru Sept 26 1954 A total of J1J72 persons were drowned in cluding 56 Americans By UNITED PRESS A record breaking spring snow and ice storm caused untold damage to Oklahoma crops riday and forecasters said even colder weather was likely riday night Snow sleet and freezing rain which began in northern areas of the state during the night Were expected to spread as far south as the Red River Low temperatures riday night were forecast at 20 in the Panhandle to 30 in the southeast More than five inches of snow and sleet were on the ground in Kay Osage Washington and Nowata counties Road conditions were ex tremely hazardous as far south as Muskogee and Oklahoma Qty with Dnages icy Three persons Had been killed and nine others injured five crit ically in accidents blamed on icy roads One of those killed was an Okla homa Qty father who was taking his son wife two 'other high school musicians to a music con test at Stillwater The Highway Patrol was attempting to discour age StHlwater jaunts by hundreds of other high school musicians over the state Another fatal acci dent had occurred on a road west of Stillwater Miami Has Seven" Inches Miami in Ottawa county had seven inches of snow by 11 am riday Two big events on the campus of Northeastern Col lege at Miami were postponed be cause of the weather The Aggie Day which was expected to attract 1000 agricul ture students from high schools in the tri state area was fut off un til Wednesday of next week The Norsemen relays in (which 14 junior colleges and high schools were entered was postponed in definitely lights Delayed Airlines reported some flights delayed particularly from Dallas The effect of snow and sleet on top 'of wheat puzzled agricultural experts They said its effect could not be appraised im mediately Blood federal agricultural statistician said (not going to help it any Sleet and snow will do some damage but how much no one knows reeze dam age become apparent until harvest time The wheat in some areas was far advanced for this season of the year" The below freezing (prediction for southeastern Oklahoma may mean the coldest weather in re corded history for this date Blood said 'x Oats In Danger "It may knock it out complete Blood said there may be some survival in the ex treme southeast A lot of fruit can survive at 30 degrees but at degrees or below fruit is killed" The moisture being supplied by the storm will be of little benefit Blood said since moisture condi tions over the state generally adequate except for heavy runoff needed to fill popds and reservoirs The storm apparently was not sup plying runoff Guymon Has Low Sleet was reported as far south as Soper in Choctaw county be fore noon Temperatures droppedo near freezing at Ardmore while onca Qty had a reading of 25 at 8:20 am and Oklahoma temperature dropped to 28 at 10:30 am Guymon had the overnight low 24 degrees The storm had provided 19 nch of precipitation at Ponca City overnight Despite the heavy layer on the ground enough heat had been stared in highway pave ments generally to keep them from becoming ice coated imme diately Perry streets were slushy at 10 am although ice and sleet covered the ground there North Central Oklahoma was the hardest hit in the early morning ciple pf giving the toll road au Cleanup Drive Ready To Start i "Operation Big Broom" slated as the largest spring cleanup in the history begins at 8 am Saturday when city arid volunteer workers start a "clean sweep" of the section east ot Second Mayor Ellsworth siid today 7 The spring cleanup for this sec tion ill be sponsored! by the Ne gro Chamber of Commerce The area includes all residential prop erty between erris and east of Second Residents of this (area were re quested today to their prem ises stacking trash and refuse in places where city workers normal ly pick up garbage The refuse should be placed in the alleys if garbage is normally' picked up from the alleys or at the curbs if the garbage is usually picked up from there An estimated 15 trucks manned by city workers and volunteer cleanup campaign members will haul the trash and refuse to the city dump grounds i Mayor Ellsworth reminded city provide adequate funds to have rest room facilities as we would like" he said A new temporary rest room area has been provided for the men These facilities are located to see bagiasl a 1 day advocated a five biHon dollar tax cut He said it would force the spenders in to economize RepL Richard Simpon( (R PaJ introduced a tax bill Thurtday to lower both individual 'and corporation taxes effective Jan 1 The bill was forwarded at a time When belief is growing that Democrats will uegin eany mis summer it arive to cut taxes Simpson is third ranking Repub lican on the House Ways and Means Committee Which initiates all tax legislation The! committee is composed of 15 Democrats and 10 Republicans Thus even if Simpson per suades his Republican colleagues to back his bill there weuldbe no action on any tax relief legis lation until Democrats decide to push for it 1 Speaker Sam Rayburri (ETex) who will call the signals for the Democrats said Thursday they be able to tell before June whether the budget has been cut enough to justify reducing taxes But he feels chances are good for la tax cat to take effect Jan) 1 bill would (increase to $650 from the present 5630 the amount of tax exempt dneothe al lowed a taxpayer for himself and for each dependent! or most married couples this would mean a tax saving of $20 and an addi tional 510 for each child In addition the bill would (make an across the board reauctici of 5 per cent in the income tax! rates OU individuals and corporations Il( also would slash by half the maximum tax on capital lowering it from 25 per cent to The Boy Scout Hunting Horse district Camporee scheduled for today and! Saturday at ort Sill was cancelled just before noon to day Tex McCoy assistant district executive saidj "The danger ot fires in this high wind is our principal reason" Mc Coy said) district camp prob ably will not be held The full camping scheduled ahead would make re scheduling almost impos sible" Next area camping activity will be the Blue Ribbon camporee May 24 25 at Camp George Thom as McCoy said I YOU MISS YOUR PAPER PHONE CELEBRANTS AT BALL Marilyn Monroe and her husband playwright Arthur Miller enjoy themselves at "April in ball iq Waldorf Astoria Hotel last night i A jp Wirephoto) HIROSHIMA A small ferryboat carrying more than twice its registered passenger capacity rammed a rocky obstruction in Japan's picturesque inland sea today and sank quickly More than 100 persons were feared lost Die (coast guard reported 222 persons were aboard the small vessel It said 29 bodies had been recovered 73 persons were missing and 120 had been rescued i 'The national police reporting 219 aboard said there were 27 dead 97( missing and 95 rescued There was no indication that any Americans were aooara (Twelve patrol boats crisscrossed the area 27 miles east of Hiro shima as darkness fell Hope of finding more survivors faded rap Japanese erry Solons Vote Sinks 100 Lost More Money WASHINGTON Iw The House Appropriations Committee today voted to give the (Post Office De partment an extra 41 million dol lars in a move to prevent pro longed curtailment of mail serv ices i The action taken behind closed doors was vote reported as 37 10 i Request Still qut The amount approved is six mil lion dollars less than the Post Of fice Department requested and is for use during i the next 2 months si It is 24 million dollars! more than a subcommittee had recommend ed after Postmaster General Sum merfield said it would be neces it that would bring dismay el which fears a three ttack from Syria Jordan and Eypt if Hussein loses the power (struggle riday was the Moslem sabbath and Jrirdan was reported quiet some (provocative leaflets were distributed on the streets but there was almost no outward show of the tension gripping the entire country Al stern Saudi Arabian warning use of tb4e Gulf of published in Cairo aroused MIDEAST xe C4 EL 3 0626 and a copy will be delivered to your home! OR TIIE CONSTITUTION Phone Between 5:30 and 7:30 pjn OR THE PRESS Phone Before 10 sun SUNDAY i CONSTITUTION PRESS Call Before 10:30 azn SQUEEZES THROUGH The airciaft carrier Enterprise of World War a tn with masts collapsed and taking! advantage of low tide slips the Brooklyn bridge yesterday enroute to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where all reusable equipment will be removed The carrier credited with shooting down 911 Japanese planes and ps was to have been cut up for scrap metal but scrapping plans are rts to have the vessel saved (AP Wirephpto) Kg I i viii i ii 1IM i KT 1 I 1 Aqte 1 SR EMSM' Ii Itri I'.