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The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 2

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1 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION Wednesday November 6 1957 2 3 Vehicle Crash i UND Hurts Area Man 300 Abi or 4500 dozen pair' IKE or ic fto WenM m4 fl I JMMSgg farVmJGlKHU was in New Mexico said yes terday two ty pes of the Navy TaJos missile had been fired sue 1 County Records 234 Births cessfuliy at airborne targets EL 3 3456 UP DOUGLAS OPTICAL Ji AND MORE! the debate over the and satellite status offi of an Apache To Keep Schools Closed Hugo Plant Will Double Production 319 Phone EL 3 3456 tad tow they da tt Pint a ti fie eoattar car ries tto tablet into tto towete to Vnifin uuH eesy to Uto tyer ie rim tar cMldn Texan Says UO Rate To Increase mrt sot only to kflW tot ta tto tor istmtfeO where Nationally Advertised Standard Brand APACHE (Staff) Classes will not be resumed at Apache schools until Monday Gwyn Miller prin cipal said today The school was closed Monday and Tuesday because of influenza but was scheduled to re open to day A check made early today shows that a large per cent of the school enrollment is still JIT Miller said Sorhe 120 pupils were absent Monday and many more have been afflicted since he said School Enrollment is 460 319 Avenue AXYWXUUlll CLARENCE MADDEN 401 North Second PteeeELWES 45 Deaths During October Two hundred and thirty four births 121 girls and 113 boys were recorded in Comanche coun ty this past month Mrs Mollie Randolph local registrar of vital statistics announced today Deaths totaled 45 comparable to a total of 47 in September security of the United Stales Earlier Secretary of State Dulles conceded the Russians seemed to have pulled ahead in missiles some He told his news conference the Eis enhower administration "is taking a new look at the US missiles KHRUSHCHEV Continued rom Page One be diretet disarmament negotia HUGO 14 The' Weil Lamont Corp Chicago glove manufac turers plans to double production at its plant here about Jan 1 John Podany manager has an nounced fodany said 120 to 150 employes will be added to handle the extra output The plant produces about 1 2400 dozen pair a week and th is be stepped up to 4wu Continued rom Page One US technological achievement nlans change of plans reflected increasing top level ad ministration concern over the psy chological gains Russia has scored with its rockets and two Sputniks Secretary of State John oster Dulles conceded at a news confer ence Tuesday that Russia appar ently is leading this country in some phases of missile develop ment But he said he felt sure the United States would overtake the Soviets And Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A Quarles said in a Bal timore speech Tuesday night that recent Russian weapons strides leave the United States no choice except to' whatever must be done to stay out Democratic leaders of the Sen ate meanwhile put new pressure on the President to speed up the satellite missile pro grams Democratic Leader Lyn don Johnson announced that the Senate Preparedness Subcommit tee would soon begin a Into these fields Eisenhower called otf his news conference originally planned for today Mrs Anne Wheaton acting White House press secretary said Thursday speech would cover much the same ground as a news conference and that the President wanted to a larg er than would have been possible at quest ion and an swer session with reporters Garage Tools Razed By ire A earace at 23rd destroyed by fire about 7:23 pm Tuesday city firemen reported Lt Wilev Cox of the Southside station'said the firemen were ham pered in fighting the bktze because water hydrant was near the garage which was outside the city limits Owner of the garage was identified as Bill Whtmcy who said a large number of tools were housed the garage Highway patrol officials report ed this morning a 44 year old Stephens county man was injured in a three vehicle collision on SH2S east of Marlow Injured was Jefferson Worth am Star Rt Marlow Trooper Landis of the Duncan highway patrol detach ment said Wortham was injured when the car he was driving collid ed with the rear of an auto driven by Dallas Johnson 23 Pauld Val ley and then whipped into the path of a propane truck operated by Alton Eugene Cox 25 'Duncan The mishap occurred about 3:15 pm Tuesday 6 of a mile east of Marlow OR SALE Rental Property House Completely urnished I Lawton at 305 North Third 307 North Third 309 North Third 311 North Third 216 Dearborn Beat! Income Over $308 Month Must Be Sold Immediately As for the Russian feat in send ing aloft a second and heavier satellite Dulles said this con firms views that the Soviet Union has developed powerful rockets But he said the achievement does not show conclusively whether the Russians are in quantity produc tion of intercontinental ballistic missiles Amid missile dais at the White Sands Proving Ground Health Director Attends Mexican Council Meeting Dr Charles Miller Jr direc tor of th? County City Health De partment No 10 East is cur rently in Victoria Mexico where he will attend the International Good Neighbor CouncH Thursday through Sunday Dr Miller will speak on local health experience in an infectious encephalitis based on the Rio Grande Valley epidemic in August 1934 He wHll also discuss the value of a Vector control program in pre venting such an epidemic Dr Miller will deliver a letter of greeting from Mayor Ellsworth to members of the good neighbor council He will return SPACE TALE Continued rom Page One to see a minister He said be was drivfng near Kearney on a grain buying expedition when he spotted an object that looked like a Navy blimp He said the four men and two women in the object spoke Eng lish and German wore conven tional clothes and appeared be in their 40s The salesman said hi car en gine died when he approached the object which stood on four posts got out and walked about 25 or 30 feet from Schmidt said men came out and came toward me One waved what looked like a flashlight which glowed for a second I move I know whether I was just afraid or what but it was like being Schmidt said the walls of the ship were transparent from the in side and contained a of dials instruments and wiring in was in the ship 20 or 30 min Schmidt said He quoted the as saying have to be here a little while you may as well come They appeared to working on i the wiring the salesman said and i did not offer explain any of the equipment They spoke among themselves in German Schmidt said inally be said tney told mm to get out and the ship propellers whirring took off like a helicop ter Huge Manhunt On for Slayer ELLERBE NC About state highway" patrol cars prowled the roads of central North Caro lina today seeking a driver who shot and killed two state troopers at separate locations Barricades blocked major high way intersections The mahbunt began about 8 o'clock last night when the driver of a 1357 automobile bearing Pennsylvania license plates walked from his car to a patrol man who stopped him for speed ing whipped exit a pistol and shot the officer dead Passenger lees The victim was Pfc Mister Lee Reece 39 of Ramseur NCJ a 10 year veteran trooper The shoot ing took place at a speed check point on US 220 A Negro passenger in the Penn sylvania car fled when he saw the driver slip a pistol from the jglbve compartment and walk to ward Reece The passenger Rob ert Perry Jr 30 of Norman NCi was held on an open charge in a Rockingham jail 10 miles south of here He told police he was a hitchhiker Sw nnrt Shot An hour later near Sanford about 50 miles away Pfc Brown radioed that he was stop ping the car on US 1 Another patrolman Gates was ahead of the fleeing vehicle Shortly thereafter Brown sent I a message that he had been shot Gates left his post and drove toj assist Brown Gates said he saw the car pass him as he drove to ward Brown Gates found Brown lying partial in his patrol car Brown died about 10:30 pm on an operating I room table in a Sanford Perry who said he caught a ride with the driver at Asheboro i 45 miles north of the Ellerbe checkpoint told police the driver said he was from Brooklyn NY and was on his way to lorida Richmond County jailer Mack Wallace quoting Perry said the 1 driver Spanish and talked with an Italian Police said the driver was about 25 years old AUTOPSY Continued rom Page One and door dosed fcr they were not aware of the increas ing temperature The report showed the temperature was taken by the' family' physician 30 minutes after the child was discovered dead and that the thermometer registered 106 degrees part that high environ mental temperature would play cannot be definitely determin the autopsy report stated "If present it was probably a contributory lac to (to the Primary diagnosis as reported by the pathologist indicated marked congestion of all organs moderate dehydration of the body and inflamation of the lungs (pneumonia) It was indi cated the pneumonia was prob ably viral in nature Members of the jury were Sheriff's Deputies Cart Arvfl Roberson and Wallis Jess Stanley 613 Gore John Wood 1516 and Cooper 8 Second A modern family of four needs about 3212 gallons of petroleum a year directly and indirectly in manufacture of personal goods Continued rom Page One drive leaders several agencies had requested additional funds just prior to the kickoff date of Oct 6 or this reason United und hoped to go the must be successful in this Carter said order to help these many agencies that de pend on us for He added that division leaders had been di i rected to visit certain firms again in hopes of obtaining even a "small Local agencies participating in United und are the Boy Scouts Giri Scouts YMCA Salvation Army Lawton Chartered Negro Mission Wichita Mountains Easter Service association Camp ire Giris City Mission and USD National agencies include the United service National Urban league Blinded association National Aid society National Social Wel fare assembly and the American Social Hygiene association In tions with the United States was in these words: Soviet Union strives to reach mutually acceptable agree ments with the West on all ques tions of disarmament If all states and especially the USSR and the USA the states with the greatest economic and military 1 1 sources reach agreement on disarmament the chances of pre venting war and establishing peace would increase greatly establishment of an under standing between the USSR and the USA can exert decisive in fluence on improving the interna tional situation We do not want tn reach agreement at the expense of other countries The policy from positions of strength must be His proposal for an East West meeting was in these words: should like to hare a high lescl meeting of representatives of capitalist and soidalist coun tries so as to reach agreement on excluding war as a means of solving political He asserted the NATO summit meeting to be held in Paris next month nothing good in the cause of He also took a dig at US Secre tary of State Dulles saying: keeping the world oh the brink of war as Dullei put it the imper ialists are trying to make favor able conditions for the imperialist monopolies" HEARING Continued rom Page One connection betw een the trades council and I AM picket action on ort Sill gates as charged by the NLRB He further testified that some contractors had been asked to sign union contracts with the council prior to the start of coun cil picketing Aug 21 Kennedy said the state trades group was called in to help be cause the local organization had no funds or strength to wage a cam paign He said a letter written to congressional representatives ex pressing council concern brer the Page dispute resulted because of a belief it vgould interfere with the objective of the trades group That objective was to get union contracts from contractors Kennedy was vague on some phases of talks with contractors at the post He said contracts were prepared a few days before picket action started SNAU Continued rom Page One the intentions of the governing board were in establishing the ing boundaries Impossible Situation Plotting of the zone as indicated by the paragraph in question how ever revealed an almost impossi ble situation The paragraph in question reads as follows: "Commencing at the intersection of Railroad and Arlington thence 1 west to the east line of lot 11 block 45 North addition: thence north to ems thence west to the UTst line of lot 3 block 3 North addition thence south to A thence west to ourth thence north to Gore Blvd thence west to 13th thence south to A thence east to the west line tit lot 5 block 6 Butler addition thence south to the north line of the Lawton Muni cipal Airport: thence east to 11th thence north to Douglas thence east to the east line of lot 3 block 42 McClung addition: thence north to thence east to ourth thence south to the alley between and thence east to Third thence south to thence east to the east line of lot 9 block 25 Woods addi tion thence south to Washington thence east to Second thence north to Lee thence east to Railroad thence north to the point of begin The Defense Department said a New engineering architec tural firm Grad Urbahn rSeelye had been chosen jo plan a mul timillion dollar launching device for the Snark The Snark is a jet powered guided missile with in tercontinental capabilities It trav els at subsonic speeds While political developments temporarily overshadowed the sci entific aspects of Sputnik II the huge satellite kept whirling around the globe at nearly 18000 miles an hour in an orbit that takes it 1000 miles out in space The first Russian satellite a small sphere launched Oct 4 kept up its round and round trips Dr red Whipple director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge Mass said last 'night a number of sight ings of Sputnik II had been re ported from various parts of the world including Japan Austria California Arizona England and Eduador Whipple said Sputnik II appears to be about as bright as the rock et" which carried Sputnik I into its orbit more than a month ago The scientist also said the ob servatory which sent out the Moonwatch alert for possible sightings today has not yet re ceived enough observation reports to fix a really accurate orbit for the new satellite However Whipple said compu tations made so far indicate that I Sputnik II has speeded up slight ly and has been losing some alti tude since its launching last Sat urday In Tokyo the director of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory said an object appears to be run ning ahead of Sputnik II Prof Massashi Miyagi said this object may be part of the rocket that launched the second satellite Tt was observed over both To kyo and Sendai today two min utes before the satellite ap peared" Miyagi said Russian scientists have said the new satellite is the final stage of the carrier rodeet rom Britain and rance came varying estimates of the cost to Russia of firing its satellites The science editor of the London Star estimated it cost the Russians about 840 million dollars to send out Sputnik A rench govern ment official said usually reliable sources in Moscow pegged the cost of Sputnik I at more than one billion dollars and nearly two bill lions for Sputnik II In Moscow Russian flushed with Soviet came up with exuberant forecasts of Russian rockets to the rooonj to and to Venus Manufacturers prohibit the use of their names but the watch you want the make style and type of watch is included in this great discount selling event Come in Now See for yourself We can prove LALES SELLS OR LESS! Open TUI 9 pm Thursday IAM attended a Central Labor un aiKj expressed confi ion meeting uhen the resolution we can catch up was presented and made a talk I concerning the Page problem" How I Dulles voiced the opinion that a i I fVmAntraiinrt nf AmlCan ne Scuu ue uiuii ivvlh whoi it said bility to launch a satellite would home Ncn 11 The general counsel is attempt 1 give a boost to foreign poucy Ing to show that the three labor And he said I think we snail unions in to bring show the world the United States pressure on contractors and the I has such a capability Army to force rage Aircran com pany to do business with the IAM The latter struck against Page Aug 1 the day Page look over the aircraft maintenance work at ort Sill Picketing by the IAM and later by the trades councils resulted in numerous work stoppages on con struction "projects at ort Sill not related to the Page operation Derington general super intendent of reeman Construction Co one of four firms which lodg 'ed secondary boycott complaints against the unions said the trades councils had not advised his firm of any labor disputes prior to the Aug 21 picketing Derington said the trades people advised him of a dispute Aug 22 following start of picketing and wanted a union contract He said nodemands had been made pre viously loyd Briggs general superin tendent for Best Co said Kennedy Quenton Elam president erf the Lawton council and Roy Tillman president of the Oklaho ma trades group visited the ort Sill job Aug 19 and advised that some non union roofers were working He said they asked for Mr Best but were advised he was in Wichita alls Briggs said the union people made no demands and did not ask about any authority to sign a con tract He said nobody showed him a contract until a meeting at Hotel Lawtonian following start of pick eting Recalled to the stand after tes tifying Tuesday Elam said he had signed the Central Labor Union resolution in sympathy with the IAM He said Witcher had appear ed at the meeting and talked about difficulties the IAM was having with Page and indicated a strike might develop session in the district courtroom was a repeat perform ance of the August hearing be fore US Dist Judge Wallace 4n Oklahoma City which resulted in curtailment of picketing activ ties at the post Pickets Not Reinstated The Oklahoma City hearing was conducted in connection with a re straining order sought against post wide picketing Judge Wallace ordered the IAM to confine pick eting to Gate 2 and held that the two trades councils were not guilty of unfair labor practicesHowever the councils have not reinstated pickets at the post Testifying Tuesday ere Col Morrow ort Sill 4 Lt CoL erguson 4 executive of ficer: Col I Bonifay provost marshal Maj Harvey Walder chief of 4 Supply and Mainte nance division John Woodward 4 contracting officer Quenton Elam president of the Lawton trades group and Sam and Jack Austin representing com plaining contracting firms Testimony reviewed the labor difficulties which started at ort Sill Aug 1 when the IAM struck against Page the day the firm took over as aircraft maintenance con tractor Witnesses told how IAM picket ing at all ort Sill gates had shut down several construction projects during the early part of August The situation worsened testimony showed when pickets of the two trades councils joined IAM pickets at ali post gates PROBE Continued rom Page One Leader Lindon Johnson Texas made public plans for investigation of American missile and satellite programs The probe to begin this month will be con ducted by the Senate Prepared ness subcommittee which Johnson heads Johnson told a news conference "We are lagging in both the satel lite and missile programs" But he said is no reason to believe we catch up if we apply: the necessary will power man power and money to theproblem's involved I Th Texas Democrat said his Everet Rhea acting as general subcommittee will to deter counsel for the NLRB introduced mine ways and means of speeding in evidence a July TO resolution up these (satellite and missiles) directed at Page and signed by programs and strengthening the delegates oi me uvnuai Labor Union Kennedy said ne remember it the resolution was signed when the representa tives were together or individual Ty Kennedy said James Witcher grand lodge representative of the IAM attended a Central Labor Un ABILENE Tex An lene man who has Studied uniden tified flying objects (UO) for 20 years predicted today will soon come in large numbers for all to Jim Lee of Abilene head of a group called the Interplanetary Space Patrol was critical of a harvard explanation of the object reported seen near Levelland last weekend i Dr Donald MenezI director if observatory said the bright lights and similar oddities were another example of the ing saucer so prevalent several years ago But lie termed ob servations and not based on known Lee said of the skeptics are numbered and they had better find a good place to hide away for even the entire pop ulations of our large cities will see these ships as they come in from outer space "They will soon come in large umbers for all to see and the keptic will not have a leg left to stand on There is no needor hlarrn over the situation at this Lee said His organization5 was formed about two years ago in Abilene and be says has chapters all over the world He said his iftail since theLevelland incident had been He' went to Levelland and talked to persons "bo saw the object there and observed they had seen something from outer space Burglars Hit Oil Company Thieves broke into the office of a local wholesale oil firm last night and took a small amount of change city detectives reported this morning Break in was noted at the Gulf Oil Co Railroad and where a south window was pried open to admit the burglars Detective Lt Cleo Stout and De tective A Davis quoted Johnny Runyon owner of the wholesale oil company as saying a small amount of money packages of rigarets and a clock were 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