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The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 3

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THE LAWTON (OKLA) CONSTITUTION Sunday Morning May 9 1948 PAGI THREI Walters May 16 Members of District 16 Okla Bids Wanted NEW (NEA) Big game game they can find and as a result is getting smaller and the hunt the smaller animals in each classi It Pays to Be Choosey NEXT TIME Autry Cleaners cen tury 48th Repairing Service Carried by High Class Jewelry Stores no Easy Terms! GIVE HER A IiOVELY PHONE 900 Chest No 2221 Chci No 2216 Phone 630 wturwATCh REPAIRING lEWELERSS' iLawfpnians At Camp Classen eps have only themselves to blame That seems to he the conclusion drawn from the first con Ownership insurance in the United hag more than quadrupled In colonial America a cap wag the sign of a married woman A1 You bet it does when you select a dry cleaner AUTRY'S know you want good cleaning spic 'n span with the original fit pressed in and that's exactly the kind of service you get at Autry's! ormer Aggies Will Gather At USE YOUR CREDIT The custom of wearing "mourn Two members of the Lawton high I homa A and College ormer school science faculty and a party Students association will be enter NEW of life States 1 since 1920 Two Comanche county 4 club federation officers have returned from Altus where they attended a seven county meeting sponsored by the Oklahoma armer Stockman The meeting was conducted as a youth forum on "Recreation" Club members and their parents held separate discussions with all 4 delegates divided into panel groups of four The delegates were entertained at a luncheon in the New Orient hotel as guests of the armer Stockman Several armer Stock man officials were on hand to con duct the meeting including Mrs Katherine Randall "Good editor Raymond Martin field edi tor and Tom Killian photographer tzomanche county members at tending were Rudolph Buchwald axon federation president and Betty Mae Wege Cache club mem ber and federation vice president They were accompanied by Betty parents Mr and Mrs Paul Wege Star route Lawton Other counties represented were Beckman Greer Harmon Jack son Kiowa and Tillman or Public Address sys tem for high school au ditorium Phone 2610 Kuntz Clerk Board of Education Big game hunters (left to right) William Chandler Samuel Webb Roland Harriman and Cnrl Kungius go hunting uith a measuring tape at the Museum of Natural History New York sizing up the horns of a white sheep Diamonds Watches Jewelry uiiu jikvcnwAKC only Power Under Control PITTSBURGH 4 IP Westing house Electric Corp engineers ex perimenting with a new circuit breaker poured 7500000 kilowatt amperes the largest con centration of electric power into a short circuit test at Grand Cou lee Dam The breaker cut off the power within 1 20th of a second the company said' Many Pay Visit To Scene' Of Wichitas Easter Pageant Over 500 visitors have jouriieyed to the Holy City of the Wichitas in the first week of May it was re ported Saturday Visitors in the past week in cluded 90 seniors of the Graham Tex high school under the super vision of Mrs Eugenie Howell Miss Evelyn Garth Baker and Billy Mayes The group made the trip from Graham in three buses spending Thursday night in the Wichita mountains and return ing to Texas Saturday With Caliphers Game Shrinks widely kwown in haa Hunters ind Big Stop Look Buy USED CARS of 11 students are at Camp Clas sen in the Arbuckle mountains this weekend attending the spring meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science The meeting riday through to day is being conducted by science department personnel from the University of several state colleges Evening sessions were to' be de voted to lectures and discussions and field trips were planned Sat urday morning and today Geology discussions are being conducted by professors from the OU school of geology and officials of the Oklahoma Geological sur vey Local students attending who were particularly interested in the geology studies include: Mary Helen Pursley Sarah Hankins Joyce Hankins Jetta Jor genson Nancy Brunzell Craig Coverdale Stanley Hewett Tat Yarnell Douglas Phillips Chandice Johnson and Vernon Scarbrough They were accompanied by Miss Lily Stafford high school science department head and Mrs Mary Sue Silk biology instructor Lane Cedar Hope Chest As advert! SEVENTEEN and LIE sociation 'were among the more 'fW than 150 members attending the state parley Mr Gilbert state merchandising circles been a member of the state as sociation for some 12 years and has served as a director for about five years Lawton has been represented on the board of directors since 194L tamed at a steak fry Sunday after noon May 16 in the Walters city park Merritt Ohlmstcad alternate I director announced here Saturday Carl Neumann Walters district director is completing plans' for the trl county picnic for all grad uates and former students from Comanche Stephens and Cotton counties The event will open at 4 pm 4 Picnic reservations should be made with Mr Ohlmstcad at a business' meeting of Comanche county members at 7:45 pm in the Emerson school auditorium he in dicated Wednesday session will be devoted to discussion of a coordin ated program through which local Aggies may support the college and encourage outstanding high school graduates to attend A and Homeless Indians Seek New Land With State unds 4 Officials At Area Conference Gift of Her Desire Girl grads today know what they want Most all of them want a beauti ful Lane Hope Chest And no wonder! This romantic gift does so much to make dreams come true Choose one of our popular Lane Cedar Chests for your girl graduate It will have all the exclusive features that make a Lane a lifetime possession Come in soon PLUM BING CONTRACTING AND REPAIRING Complete stock of plumbing supplies KEPHART PLUMBING CO 926 Second 1 Phone 1784 uianil uuiu mu JU3L ALUliLClO VYCXiJ test to decide who brought home 1 amons inn Vs rvrv net z4zz skulls of North American big game The judging is being done at the Museum of Natural History here and is sponsored by the Boone and Crockett club a group of American hunters' While it is the first contest of its kind on record the club's ar chives provide information on big kills of the past Entries this year surpass old records in oqly three instances but it will take several weeks before every skull and ant ler has been accurately judged with caliphers and tape 1 The three specimens that the club feels set new records are a coues deer shot in New Mexico an Alaskan brown bear brought down in Kodiak and a whitetail deer bagged in New Brunswick Canada The whitetail deer had a left antler 31 inches long and a right antler 31 inches Other entries included moose caribou Rock Mountain goat Wapiti a form of elk and bear and puma skulls Harold Anthony chairman of the Department of Mammals at the Museum blames the shrink ing head sizes on the hunters He says they go after the biggest OR A CHECKER CAB or the Girl Graduate Chest No 2231 above $5995 ey Dikes was re elected man and Mrs Ralph was named secretary During the summer the group will meet only on call Mrs Ed wards announced However sever I al summer projects are contem plated including encouragement of all electors to register for voting In meeting members completed their extensive study on taxation By special' invitation Mrs' Ed I warns was a guest at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Public Expenditures council Wednesday "night at Oklahoma City in recogni tion of her taxation sur veys Mrs Edwards Is Renamed Head Of Government Unit Mrs Hale Edwards prominent state club woman this weekend was preparing to serve another year as chairman of the government de partment of the Lawton orum Mrs Edwards was re elected ri day at the government fin al meeting of the year in the Army Navy YMCA club Mrs Ethel Dick 1 vino Wolverton "Drive in on the Curb" Aubrey Haynes owner 21 1 Sixth Street PAU pllX REPAIRS run Radiators HHuNc 2055 Retail Merchants Name Gilbert To State Position ft Gilbert owner of Gilbert's drug store has been re elected to serve for another year as a direc tor of the Oklahoma Retail Mer chants association Mr Gilbert was one of the eight directors named at the annual con vention Thursday in cham ber of commerce building King Dickason of Muskogee was elected as president Mrs Bess Christy manager and! Mrs Sam Lambert bookkeeper for the Lawton Retail Merchants as fication have a tendency to survive The Boone and Crockett Club was founded 61 vears azo hv ig otners resident Theo dore Roosevelt It hopes its cum I petition will "stimulate sportsmen to be more discriminating in tneir and "provide an incentive to secure better trophies and sug gest a definite purpose in lieu of the casual or random for a Winners get a bronze medal bearing the profiles of Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett fa mous early American hunters The club plans to make the competition annual and open to rings parti6uparly in memory anyhunter professional or ama of dead sovereigns reached hi eh Ti i uie popularity in tne lourteenth UI1U laifiy SENECA ALLS Cayuga Indians have $300000 They are looking around for a new home land But they must produce a new chief before they can do any thing about it i Under tribal law that is up to the "clan The Six Nations Council at Onon daga reservation" near Syracuse ifruled that the Cayguas must have the necessary number of chiefs be i fore they can vote on what to do with the money allotted them by New York State and on where to set up a new reservation One hundred years ago the gov ernment offered the Cayugas land in Missouri in exchange for their upstate New York farm lands The Cayugas decided to go but found their new location was in swamps Some of them drifted back and settled on other reservations in the upstate region Want Own Home Now that they have the money from th state to compensate their lost land the Cayugas would like their own home again like to return to the shores of Cayuga Lake where once they hunted and fished at will Taxpayers in Seneca county however are opposed to the idea Business men point out that both the federal and state governments 1 already have taken over large sec tions of the county during the last few years which has hit property assessment roles hard Some of the Indians themselves not wishing to offend the White Man have suggested going to neighboring Cayuga county which borders rn the north and east sides of the same lake But so far the matter is resting Anyhow the first move is up to the Cayuga squaws to chose a new chief When the Cayugas went west to the Missouri swamps they had eight chiefs ive of them migrat ed three remained here Since then the tribe always has kept them here but one died last year Must Be Ratified inally after the Cayugas do their voting their reservation plan must be ratified at a council ses sion of the entire Iroquos confed eracy Dr Earl A Bates of Cornell uni versity advisor to the Six Nations Indians says between 350 and 400 Cayugas probably will be involved in the move Resettlement will be further complicated he adds be cause the Cayugas have inter mar ried with other tribes and under their matriarchal system a ma Jonty of the women and children on the new reservation must be Cayugas Bates also says he wants to make sure that if and when the Indians do choose a reservation site it will be kept secret until all negotia tions are completed so that no will take options on the land and advantage of the Indians again URNITURE CO LAWTON OKLAHOMA Avenue and ifth New Location 4th and Street Phone 254 Tom Visit Convenient Champlin 6th and Avenue This Time It's Hudson or New Hudsons Service 308 4th hom Spi vi tent itli Home olks' Stays at Home 3 Days GUARANTEED Best Watch Jewelry ItoB Jhs gift fash i e'B Of ft 4 til resh Candies beautiful Ai ft1 kxrw nfr! 1 1 tiu i ff ri rj 1 ear fr 431 Ave Phone 397 IL BBH HI en mvei cn iwb SfWJUyByjl 9 ILJAVErMlJE VWriKIL17Vn 118 I I Ready for action fun comfort I Vacation Time Xzfip CaJeL Zr'l I I AVOWriTEl SHUTS I A 1 irm woven cotton that retains its 'Wl I "ft i I fhape Vat dyed stripes or solids I i I I A A SvV TCrv Sizes: small medium and large 98c vr i ataei i i i a Il 1 I is? 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