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The Lawton Constitution from Lawton, Oklahoma • 3

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uneral Rites 4 aBSEEEEZSS Violin Concert 4 Persons Hurt 49 CHILD OR THIS WEEK GET THE EL 3 1780 421 Avenue COM PA MY At a Savings! CONVENIENT BUDGET TERMS ON ANY INSTALLATION CULLIGAN SOT State PO Box 666 Kcjinedu PARTNf BUHDING OR WITH OKLAHOMA HOME OICE OKLAHOMA CITY AUTOMATIC SERVICE UHIT Ages 0 Through 6 Years a UP ully automatic 10 year guarantee policy SOn WATER SERVICE Saturday March 21st Have the of the Starts St Day! The Public Is Invited Auspices: irst Church of Christ Scientist Lawton Comparable to Pictures Costing As Much as $250 Each March 17th thru MADE WITH SENSATIONAL ALL AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC CAMERA EMERSON AUDITORIUM JOE ORD INSURANCE PARTNER AUTOMATIC HOME OWNED MODEL COME TO WARDS 2ND LOOR NOMINATED OR OICE Donald Kourt son of Mr and Mrs Eddie Kouri 2119 Arlington has been nominated for vice pres ident of the Oklahoma Baptist uni versity student government asso ciation He is a junior student Rone Lawton the past Landon Rone SI Taxpayers may consult with me income tax assistants in the of fice of the county commissioners located ori the first floor of the courthouse NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY Whole amily Protection Texoma Is Hunted Three Texans DURANT (AP) Engineers Corps search crews and Texas and Oklahoma game rangers searched sprawling i Lake Texoma today 'seeking three Texans missing since Sunday The trio was last seen Sunday morning leavingjhe Walnut Creek resort in a 12 foot aluminum fish ng boat They were identified as Jess Atnip 53 Sherman Tex his son Atnip 24 and arrel Kyzer 32 both of Garland Tex Rangers said the men embarked on the lake on the Oklahoma Texas border in the face of winds that were too high for small craft TUESDAY MARCH 17TH 8 PM NEW MID CONTINENT LIE AMILY POLICY GIVES Amvriee's Lorgetf SelKeg TOILET TANK BALL Kony running loiUti con west over 1 000 gallon rf water a day Th efficient patented Water Master tank ball tnrtantly stops the Row of water after each flushing 75c AT HARDWARE STORES CAE EQUIP A SUPPLIES Can EL 5 5928 SOUTHWEST CHEMICAL CHRISTIAN SCIENCE can help you fare you ever wondered how? (Maj) Thomas Whitmire offici ating Becker uneral home is in charge of arrangements Capt Strawhand is with the 1st Student Officers Battery at ort Sill having resided here sinceSeptember of 1958 Other survivors include a brother Robert Lloyd of the home the paternal grand parents Mr and Mrs Straw hand Norfolk Vat and the ma ternal grandparents CWO andMrs Edward Snyder Hawaii Regenerates itself au tomatically We own this unit serviceman calls once or twice a City Instructors Named To Posts At OEA Meeting Three Lawton instructors were elected to major offices at the Annual district convention of the Oklahoma Education association last weekend in Altus Mrs Mary Sue Silk was elected president for 1959 60 Also named to offices were Mrs Betty Roundtree secretary and Orvis Rigsby treasurer Next convention wall be held at Southwestem State College Weatherford Hevi tfv inter Yon need more than the luck of the Irish to pro tect yoa from' costly losses See LINGEN WOOD CS of Vancouver British Colombia Member of the of Lectureship of the Mother Church The irst Church of Christ Scientist in Boston Nass LETZO Plumbing Dial EL 1 5880 Repairing and Contracting rom rance The Renault Dauphine (the car that makes driving fun again) On Tap Tonight Violinist Carroll Glenn will be presented tonight in the final pro gram of the 1958 59 Lawton Com munity Concert association season The recital is scheduled at 8 in McMahon Memorial audi torium Elmer Thomas park A renownea violinist Miss Glenn has appeared in numerous con certs throughout the United States and Europe with her husband pianist Eugene List Miss Glenn who arrived in Law ton Saturday night plays a price less violin made in 1743 by Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu of Cremona At a recent concert in New Carnegie Hall she played the United States premiere of the Violin Concerto of Richard Strauss QUICK LOANS Borrow money on your car or other good security No red tape Well finance you INANCE CO 828 Avenue Dial EL 8 0820 Mid Continent Life insurance Company Now In Our 50th Yoor I INCOME TAX RETURNS A GIBSON 1911 Pollard EL 3 8595 Photographer'i Heun Tues Wed ri 9:00 am till 5:30 pm Thurs 12 noon till 8:45 pm Sat 9 am till 6 pm 2 Registered Jeweler American Gem Society 414 Avenue Dbd 8 5555 Henry HowelL Gemologist WATER Dial EL 5 3708 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION Monday March 16 1959 3 ONE OR TWO CHILDREN IN A AMILY OR 49c EACH ADDITIONAL CHILDREN IN SAME AMILY PHO TOGRAPHED OR ONLY $1 EACH Groups $1 Extra Limit 2 Children to a Group REE LECTURE ENTITLED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Its Practicality iri Daily Affairs 1 your pocket so wnar me ans a the insignia you see in your jewel i 4 You See No Proof Only inished Picture Now One Policy Insures Every Member of Your amily A camera designed entirely for Baby Photography cap tures natural lovable picture of the amazing speed of 11000th of a second NO GLARING HOT LOOD LIGHTS NO WAITING OR THE BABY TO A STOP MOVING! Babies are the cutest when moving and completely ani mated This amazing equip ment is designed to get such shots Spurned Widow On Trial or Life In Sensational Case Continued rom Page One Lilly Co had promised to divorce his wife Mary 48 and marry her when his 14 year old adopted son finished school She said they carried on an illicit love affair for 15 years The vounger woman Laura Mowrer 30 was a secretary at the Lilly firm She moved to California shortly after the slaying and is not expected to testify Mrs Nicholas also met Teel while work ing at Eli Lilly The staff refused to say whether it wall demand the death penalty for Mrs Nicholas who is charged with first degree murder Indiana has never electrocuted a woman Teel was still alive and conscious when police arrived but re fused to identify his killer Mrs Nicholas was found about 20 hours later unconscious in her car after taking 75 sleeping capsules mixed ith pineapple juice She was in a coma for days She was taken to the county jail Saturday from General Hospital where she has been under treatment She had two operations after complaining of paralysis in her riht arm Her right hand fingers ere in a harness when she entered toe jail A 5x7 PHOTOGRAPH YOUR ONLY I CULLIGAN SOT WATER PO Box 666 Lawton Oklahoma I I would like to see a free I demonstration and enter CuUigan contest to AN IMPORTED CAR I understand that there is no rthing buy (Contest ends May 30 19o9) I Name Address City I Phone A variety of careers and profes sions will be discussed at the an nual Career conference scheduled Tuesday at Cameron college About 250 Lawton area high school girls are expected to attend the one day conference sponsored by the Lawton branch chapter erf the American Association of Uni versity Women Registration opens at 9 am Jamest Taylor Cameron dean of students will be principal speaker Other speakers are Mrs Clara Kelley home demonstration agent: Miss Gerri Hair secretary Mrs Bess Christy Lawton Retail Merchants association manager Mrs Ernest St Clair supervisor of nurses at Southwestern hos pital Mrs Velma Nelson Lawton Beauty School director Also Richard Worrall Memorial hospital physical therapist Em mett Keough radio TV station manager Mrs Shepard pi ano instructor Mrs Wesley Silk Lawton high school guidance di rector and Mrs Clanre ce Dav is Howell elementary school teacher In City MisHaps our persons wOre injured here Stihday In two traffic accidents in south Lawloh Officers reported three persops were injured as a result of a two car collision at ourth and I about 1:50 pm Sunday Injured were Sue Westmoreland 15 of 2059 Evans Road ort Sill: Bennie Henson 19 Apache and Dudley ite 17 of 1201 Wash ington Police said the Westmoreland girl who was taken to the Army hospital at ort wasthe most seriously injured Hen son was treated at Southwestern hospital for minor injuries and ite was taken to a local clinic here he was released after re ceiving treatment for shock ite was identified as the driv er of a 154 ord owrted by Hen ry Watson' of the Washington ad dress The ord was travel1 ng east on I when the vehicle collided with a 1953 ord station wagon driven north on ourth by Leland Joe Musgrove 19 of 507 Washington who is a brother of police patrol man Derrel Musgrove Damage to each vehicle was es timated at 5350 Officers said Henson was a pas senger in the station wagon while the Westmoreland girl was an oc cupant of the car driven by ite In the other accident Sunday po lice said an 81 ycar old man Eli jah Randolph 1324 Garfield had started across 11th about 50 feet north of Garfield when he slipped and fell to the paving as a car approached from the north Officers said the car a 1955 Stu driven south on 11th by loyd Pierce 54 of 1006 did not strike the pedestrian The car came to a stop after skidding 35 feet police said Randolph was taken to South western hospital for treatment of bruises about the head i tun CULLEN RALEY Take advantage of this new opportunity to have life insurance for each member of your family in one policy at a special family rate! Mid Continent new Policy is balanced in units It insures father for $5000 (ordinary life) mother for $1000 (ordinary life) and each of the chil dren for SlUUU (term to age ZZr IO give you an med in nvw much you save with this policy the part of the Eolicy costs $283 per thousand for a wholeyear! If something a ppens to father the family receives $5000 and the pol icies on mother and the children are automatically paid up Insure each member of your family! Save with low family rates! Get the complete details on the new today CaR CULLEN RALEY Phone 8 5122 318 Security Bank Bldg Lawton Oklahoma 1 We exchange softener 1 at regularly scheduled intervals No equip 1 ment to buy no work 'l to do Boy! 1 excites 1 send soft 1 a ree Oration en 1 demons0 contest 1 i receiveThat so I VX or MMtCA HAHP't 1 COUPON 1 NOW0 Vrf A STORM Confirmed rom Page One windstorm which carried gusts 1 to 82 mph Mnrr than a score of persons suffered injuries in the storms Property damage was heavy The massive storm center roll ing out of the Rockies Saturday dumped heavy snow on Wiscon sin Iowa and Nebraska The vicious winds battered northern Midwest areas with gusts up to 78 mph in parts of Michigan The snow powered by the high winds ranged up to a foot or more and blocked highw ays In many Midwest areas The last of the passenger trains was freed from its snow bound station by five diesel units coupled together It was en route from Ashland to Green Bay Milwaukee Chicago Three other trains were stalled by big snow drifts until snow plows arrived' One train with S3 passengers was stuck at Randolph 80' miles west of Milwaukee for 10 boors before a giant railroad plow from Milwaukee cleared the tracks and pulled it free Another train with 90 passengers en route from Green to Chi cago waited at Campbellsport for 12 hours before the plows cleared rails A fourth train snow bound at Appleton was pulled free earlier Sunday and continued its trip to Green Bay with 12 passen gers The gusty winds carried snow flurries and cold air cast and southward and fain changed to snow as the cold front swept into toe Appalachians The front crossed Georgia preceded by showers and thunderstorms which pelted areas southward into lor ida The tornadoes struck the towns of Opal Owensville and Moko in Arkansas Saturday night Casual ties included one dead in each of the small communities and 11 in jured Twisters also hit areas in southern Illinois Severe wind storms also lashed the Memphis Tenn area Satur day night damaging nearly 250 homes and causing an estimated 5250000 damage Winds were clocked at from 80 to 100 mph in the heart of the storjn Winds gusted at 80 mph in toe Cleveland area and were clocked at 93 mph at Niagara alls as the storm weather swept into western New York Winds gusting at 30 to 50 mph continued during the early morn ing from eastern Michigan across the lower Great Lakes region Considerable Ip wing snow in northern Lower Michigan and eastern Upper Michigan blocked many roads Snow on the grounds ranged between 40 and 50 inches including fresh falls from 1 to 4 inches 45 Now! 3 Ways to Enjoy Unlimited Soft Water Automatically! i YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED JESSIE BOONIE ADAMS Democrat for Street Commissioner CITY LAWTON TUESDAY MARCH 17 1959 My Campaign Is Self Supported How Can I Recognize a Reliable Jeweler? You always rely on from friends And you carry a jewelers loupe iu pwnci rm in fko incioTiia vnil ih'VflU leWCr window that reads: "Registered Jeweler American Gem a Rnc ictered Jeweler title a leweler must know all the intricacies of judging gems and silverware This knowledge he gains from educators scholars and other fine jewelers who form the American Gem Society His ren 6 utation must be aoove reproacn anu ne muav 6 tests" in addition to his many years of schooling 9 trust to luck Choose the jeweler whps earned the title: Registered Jeweler American Gem Society 4 Barney Ballou APACHE (Special) Arrange ments are pending at Crews Tu neral home for Barney Ballou 56 former Apache resident who died Sunday morning in Lynwood Calif alter suffering a heart at tack Born in Augustof 1902 at Grand view Tex Ballou moved to Elgin iqnfi and lived in Elgin and Apache until 1954 when he moved day to Ganiornia He was married in 1924 to the former Dorothy Johnson at ort Cobb She died in 1945 He was la ter married to the former Ellen Ryan who died in 1948 Survivors include three sons Don of Tor rance Calif Eugene of Amaril lo Tex and Larry of Apache a stepson Albert Heygood Stecker HL: four daughters Mrs Dorothy Huskey' Bonner Springs Kan Mrs bonus Lodes Apache Helen McVivkers Lyn wood Calif and Miss Shirley Ballou also of Lynwood: three brothers Albert of Altus: Merdie of Grandview Tex and William of Rush Springs and 13 grandchildren Ballou was a member of the Catholiq church John A resident vAars Jlohn of 2202 19th died about 12:50 am today in a local hospital after an illness of "several years Services are tentatively set for Wednesday afternoon Time and places of services will be announc ed bv Becker uneral home Born Aug 5 1877 in Prentice Miss Jtone came to Cot ton county irifc 1907 from Texas where he had worked with the rail roads He later farmed in Texas and Oklahoma Survivors include his wife Sud ie of Okmulgee: five daughters Mrs MO Robertson 1130 Long view Mrs Hams 2202 19th Miss Iva Jewell Rone An chorage Alaska Mrs A San Bruno Calif Mrs Alverson Tyler Tex a half sister Mrs Mamie Johnson Cyril a half brother Bob Bird (dahoma City 18 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren Rone was a member of the irst Christian church of Decatur Tex Birdie Cotney Services were held at 10 am today in the Lawton uneral home chapel for Mrs Birdie Cotney 69 former Lawton resident who died riday morning in a Lubbock Tex hospital Rev A Ridge pastor of the irst Methodist church officiated Bearers were" John Japp Darold English Tom Oliver Creed King Mahaffay and John Hobbs Burial was in Highland cemetery Everett Hurst Hurst 69' ot Rt 1 ax on died about 9 pm Sunday at his home after suffering a heart attack Services have been scheduled for 3 pm Tuesday in Lawton Heights Methodist church Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens un der direction of Becker uneral home Bom Jan 24 1890 in tTairie Qty Iowa Hurst had resided in the axon community since 1907 He was a member of an Iowa Metho dist church He was married Jan 23 1921 in Lawton to the former Elizabeth Mixa who survives him at the axon home Other survivors are two sons Harold of 1411 24th rank of axon a brother Carl of Rt 1 axon and three grandchildren Kimberly Strawhand The infant daughter of Capt and Mrs Tunstall Strawhand 1614 38th died about 6 am to day in a local hospital The child Kimberly Jane was bom Saturday Services are set for 1: 15 pm Tuesday at Post ceme tery ort Sill with Chaplain 1 State Tax Men Visiting Lawton Representatives from the state income tax division of the Okla homa Tax Commission arrived here today to assist Comanche county taxpayers in preparation of their state income tax forms The tax men Joe Cunning ham and William Crump will be available from 8 am to 12 noon and 1 pm to 5 pm Monday through riday They also will be here from 8 am to noon Satur '4 or A Sets Cameron Career Parley A 9 A I Tuesday 1 llfw mfl LL Il IIwkW'I yJjiBTB Ii ij I 4 i 1 fifes 1W JOE ORD iNSUfiANSE.

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