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Draws Tourist Swarm
The son of Mrs. Verda Brown,
By STEPHENS BROENING
during
Choose the air conditioner most
ment near Long Giao. Last sta-
had hardly to hawk their wares.
Strategic
Services
for
Lawtonians recommend for
team
disappeared by the thou-
sands.
and has lived in Bangkok ever
since the Japanese surrender.
quietness, economy and dependability!
to the shore, flooding low marsh
riedrich
bling designers to recreate and
enlarge the color combinations
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PRE-SEASON
exports to the Western world.
DISCOUNTS!
SAVE
SAVE
(AP)
Some drugstores closed in sym-
pathy.
ON A 1 12 OR
The loot: a pair of German
It’s not spectacular. It never shepherds, also known as police
dogs.
is. But it’s pretty isn't it?”
received patients privately.
1217 New York.
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PVT. JAMES CALDWELL
Army Pvt. James C. Caldwell,
He outlined these plans: First,
the school would be staffed ade-
quately to avoid the high pupil-
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53 Girl's name
55 Italian city
56 Greek letter
57 Varnish
ingredient
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59 Scottish
explorer
SGT. JENNINGS WINS
COMMENDATION MEDAL
Enjoy the
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1310 GORE
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High School graduate. He was
last stationed in Germany.
Travis Air Force Base, Calif.,
where he is now stationed.
Sgt. Jennings is a veteran of
World War II and the Korean
War.
Police Doas Take
Shine To Burglar
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP)
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Chi. He was last stationed at
Fort Sill.
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NO PRINTED CIRCUITS!
NO PRODUCTION SHORTCUTS!
100% handwired chassis connections
for greater dependability. Metal
chassis has up to 200 times greater
heat conduction ability than phenolic
used in printed circuit boards.
This means longer TV life.
3 Miles South on
Highway 277
— Both Sides —
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Friedrich delivers more cooling
power with less electricity than
any other air conditioner on the
market.
DOWN
1 Boxlike wagons
2 Neck scarf
3 Feminine
name
4 Annexes
5 Immersed
6 Feminine
appellation
7 Incumbents
8 Shower
9 Assimilate
again
10 Possess
11 Honey source
17 Negative word
Color TV
$498-
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FRIEDRICH
best because it9s
HANDCRAFTED
workers to produce the silks on
home looms.
QUIETNESS
Friedrich offers you a choice of
5 whisper quiet speeds and you
select the temperature you want
with automatic temperature con-
trols.
attempt to involve parents in all
Inside the medieval city, busi-_MI
mechanic at Da Nang Air Base,
Vietnam.
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let them form a nonprofit corpo-
ration to take over one of the
city’s public schools to try to
prove it.
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level at which they are now in
25th Infantry Division, 125th Sig-
nal Battalion stationed near Cu
125 sq. in. rectangular
picture area
Common Kidney or Bladder Irrita-
tions make many men and women
feel tense and nervous from frequent,
burning or itching urination night
and day. Secondarily, you may lose
sleep and have Headache. Backache
and feel older, tired, depressed. In
such cases, CYSTEX usually brings
relaxing comfort by curbing irritat-
ing germs in acid urine and quickly
easing pain.Get CYSTEX at druggists.
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A Lawton man is currently
with the 101st Airborne Division
in "Operation Farragut” in Viet-
nam.
Army Sgt. Thomas I. Briscoe,
THERE’S ONLY ONE TROUBLE WITH FRIEDRICH-
IT PRACTICALLY NEVER WEARS OUT!
Home Decor is known as the
store with the “Hand-Picked
Brands” where only the finest
quality appliances and furniture
are sold.
DEPENDABILITY
Year after year. Friedrich cools
their owners continuously, quietly,
with no sign of let up or let down!
14 Female sheep
15 Needle (comb,
form)
16 “Great Birnam
wood to high
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(Macbeth)
18 Swamp
20 Head (slang)
21 Male deer
22 Self-esteem
25 Former Russian
ruler
28 Pertaining to
hearing
31 Unclose (poet.)
32 Turn inside out
35 Visionary
(Scot.)
36 Royal Society of
Edinburgh (ib.)
37 Irritate
38 Social insect
40 Re
insubordinate
42 Native of
(suffix)
43 Rude (var.)
This fleet of Home Decor service trucks is our service deportment's way of assuring you that you will always
locations "1315 finest °C Heme Deor ... no matter which etore you trade. Home Decor has two
2 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Monday, March 27, 1W
Area Men In The Service
30 English circuit 50 Robert ----,
Scottish king
CARRIER DELIVERY OUTSIDE
LAWTON—FORT SILL
Morning Press & Sunday_______
Constitution & Sunday...........
Constitutlon. Press, A Sunday__1
Home Decor is also noted
for its "Hand-Picked Service
Department” where every
member is selected for his
watch what he been billed as
"the tide of the century."’ Crepes, a local pancake special-
They stood, or sat, in a driv-ty.
Home Decor Has S.W. Oklahoma's
Largest and Finest Service Department!
SECURITY
BANK & TRUST CO.
MEMBER F.W.G
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the son of Mr. and Mrs. Law-
rence A. Werley, 3416 Williams.
He was last stationed at Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo.
CAPTAIN NOW TEACHING
STUDENT PILOTS AT ENID
Capt. George O. Ziegweid has
been graduated from the U.S.
Air Force pilot instructor course
at Randolph Air Force Base,
Tex.
The eon-in-law of Mrs. Maude
Cochron. 1411 Lindy, he is now
qualified to teach student pilots
to fly jets and is assigned to
Vance Air Force Base, Okla.
A member of the Air Training
Command, he has completed a
tour of duty in Vietnam.
FORMER CITYAN NOW
A MASTER SERGEANT
Francis H. Letcher, former
Lawton resident, recently was
promoted to the rank of mas-
ter sergeant. He also received
the first oak leaf cluster to the
Army Commendation Medal in
February.
Sgt. and Mrs. Letcher lived
in Lawton before moving to
Germany in November of 1966.
He is a member of Headquar-
ters Battery, 6th Battalion, 517th
Artillery.
TURE ELAWTON MEN
TAKE MILITARY TRAINING
Three Lawton men are now
A
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He brought his product to
New York, interested fashion
designers and home decorators I bey of Mont
47 Scottish river
48 Brazilian
cordage fiber
52 Fish eggs
54 Made of cedar
(poet.)
56 Scottish swords
60 Something
ruminated
61 Headpiece
62 Intended
63 High card
64 Frozen dessert
65 Rugged
mountain crest
66 Married
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r Conditioning
Assigned to Company C, 15th
Battalion, 4th Basic Combat
Training Brigade, Pvt. Thomp-
eon is the son of Mrs. Helen
R. Leu, 2612 J, and Claude
Thompson, Waco, Tex
Jefferson Davis was born at
Fairview, Ky.
Staff Sgt. Lee T. Jennings has
received the U.S. Air Force
Commendation Medal for meri-
torious service as an aircraft
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specialty. Home Decor found
out long ago that a store to
only as good as its service de-
partment and has always se-
cured the finest men avail-
able.
19 Culture medium 33 Interdiction
23 "Oh wad some 34 Detest
power the---- 39 Bow slightly
gie us ' (Burns) 41 Arthurian
24 Mr Bull, maiden
violinist 44 Seemly
and built up an
Thompson, 61, is one of the
best known Americans in South-
east Asia.
Visting a friend in the Malay-
sian hill resort, Thompson went
for walk Sunday afternoon in i
the jungle. When he did not re-;
turn after about three hours, a
search was launched but the
darkness hampered it.
At least 100 police, troops and
civilian volunteers searched
through the jungle today but
found no trace of Thompson by
evening.
Thompson headed an Office of
(AP) — Hundreds of thousands
of Frenchmen and foreigners narrow streets and jammed res-
flocked to the seashore today to taurants.
an indefinite period.
Skeleton staffs remained on
duty in major hospitals to treat
emergency cases. Doctors also
Sgt. Collier, whose wife, Vel-
ma, resides in Lawton, is a
mess steward in Company B,
s
demands for higher pay and
improved working conditions.
special subject fields. Curricu-
lums would be adjusted to meet
pupils needs rather than some
general standard.
FINALLY, the school would
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have left the area to come back
to send their children to this Wheat
international movement of the tides is said to
or be the most spectacular in
The unusual tides occurred
because the sun and a full moon
were directly in line over the
equator and exerting the great-
est pull on the sea. This happens
once every 18 years.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Can having them merely as observ-legal aspects of “operating the
jungles of the Cameron high-
lands resort area. Malaysian
police reported today.
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training! In fact, the high water mark
5 ; reached this morning had been
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Saigon depot. He is the son of military law, traffic control.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Thomaso map reading, prisoner-of-war
1413 Bell, and is a 1965 Lawton control and self-defense.
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Comanche, Cotton, Tillman, Kiowa, Cad-
do, Gradv. Stephens, Jefferson, and Jac*-
•an Counties
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Const & Sunday 10.20 6.12 4.08 10
Press 4 Sunday 10.20 12 4 04 1.43
Const. Press, a Sun 18.36 12.24 6.12 255
BALANCE OKLAHOMA
A LAWTON P.O. BOXES
_. . 1 yr. 4 mo. 3 mo. Ima
Const & Sunday 1530 9.i6 6.52 255
Prom & Sunday 15.30 9.18 4.13 2.55
Const, Press, A Sun 24.40 14 32 9.i8 408
OUTSIDE OKLAHOMA
1 yr. 4 mo. 3 mo. 1 mo.
Const & Sunday 39.40 13.14 7.14 2.75
Pram & Sun 20.40 12.24 D4 2.75
Const, Press A Sun 34.64 22 44 ) 2.24 1)0
SUNDAY CONSTITUTION-PRESS
(Only 1 vear 7M) (Lem than 1 mar's
gubscriptlon, 30c per coov DIUs tax.)
Prices inclde l bercent state sales tax
-___________ ag121 p.... .... u.. pJp.U. contract” operation of public
an interview that the group Cary said his group is ironing schools. He said groups in Bos-
hopes to “lift achievement lev- out details of the experimental ton and Chicago—one of them
----------------------------- comprised of Roman Catholics
ceremonies at
"ALTERATIONS"
Military and Civilian
Hollywood Cleaners
1404 Goro
Fades In Jungle
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
ATHENS, Greece
29 Western state 49 Large parrot
school because of the very high Barley
level of education offered,” n. ’
Cary said mho ________
What might at first sound like Alfalfa Hay
a pipe dream is based on some Prairie Hay
very sound educational princi- Oats
pies, said Cary.
When he settled in Bangkok,
the production of the brilliantly land and beaches,
colored Thai silks by native cot-1 The crowds themselves were
tage workers had died out, pulled to the Atlantic and
Thompson revived it, assem- Channel coasts by promises that
: today’s tide would be the high-
est since 1900.
MONT ST. Michel,
tendent of schools, Mark Shedd, * .—g
THE group’s leader, Stephen appointed a committee to ex- not the only one thinking about
G. Cary, explained Sunday night piore the Quaker proposition
in an inte-i--- +k~* *L- — .____I Caw- -~iA hi-
as and David L. Thompson. . 1 - -------- -----------
The son of Mr. and Mrs. ing stock records for the _ -
Woodrow McClung of Lawton,; ceipt and issue of supplies and
Star Route, Pvt. McClung is materials and also learned typ-
stations with Company 5, 15th ing and general administration
Battalion, 4th Basic Combat J
Training Brigade.
Pvt. Thomas, whose parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Thomas 1603 N. 34th, is as-
signed to Company C, 15th Bat-
talion, 4th Basic Combat Train-
ing Brigade.
ing rain this morning as the sea
—given a heavely tug—rushed
marketing and promotion Ul-, ,
ganization. His silks are now France. Legend and local cus-
one of Thailand’s best known
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tioned at Fort Sam Houston.
Tex., he is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bailey W. Hill. 1602 Smith. 1 c.ag..
A combat specialist in Com- LAWTON SERGEANT SERVES Thailand during World'War II
pany A stationed near Pleiku. WITH AIRBORNE DIVISION and hoc li-ed DemeL-el- -----
Pvt. Mason was assigned to the,
20th Engineer Battalion. He is
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ACROSS
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O'Shanter"
4 Robin---
Four Lawton men have re-1 •
cently been assigned to duty in PVT. DANAL FERRIS
Vietnam. They are Army Capt. Army Pvt. Danal W. Ferris
Glen R Thomason, Army Staff has completed eight weeks of
T ” Jr., and military police training at the!
W. Hill Army Training Center, Fort I
Gordon, Ga. (AP) — James Thompson, the
_ . Pvt. Ferris, the son of Mr. American king of Thailand's
Depot in Vietnam, Capt. Thoma- and Mrs. Robert E. Ferris, 3813 silk industry, has been missing
-en ie • etepoe monacep in the E .—;—1 - --1 —1 for more than 24 hours in the
Helf are color pioneers who are delays which could cause in-
capable of servicing any make. convenience to their customers.
.Even the finest appliances
and air conditioning equipment,
such as Home Decor sells, need 1 and see
periodic service and all have Brands”
full factory warranties that
. —----- must be fulfilled. These men are
west Oklahoma’s most qualified trained to service anything we
auny m . certatm service u- £ "uiSl
(city) schools.
“Also, wp hope we can en-
courage white families who
Souvenir salesmen
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■ (TTY SOLDIER IN VIETNAM
PROMOTED TO SERGEANT
William T. Abbott, formerly of
Fort Sill, has been promoted to I
d Army sergeant while serving
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and patterns, and
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shoulder along the more than a
„ mile of raised roadway that
More than 15,000 Greek doctors links Mont St. Michel with the
a V,- dentists walked off their shore. The roadway remains
public healthjobs today to press above water at high tide, but
Mont St. Michel is otherwise — Gus Crittenden’s two crime
isolated. deterrents were taken by a bur-!
A.spokesman at the Mont St. glar who crawled through a
-..1 , , Michel Chamber of Commerce m ... . IS.
A last-minute personal appeal trying to explain the disappoint- window of his home, he told
by caretaker Premier John Par- ment voiced by many of the police Sunday,
askevopoulos failed to avert the tourists said- -* - -
walkout, which was called for —191 i
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Here at the 1,000-year-old Ab-
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INCREASE SUPPORTS
WASHINGTON (UPD —The
Agriculture Department has
announced price supports for
the 1967 tobacco crop will be 2
per cent higher than in 1966.
THELAwrONTCONSTITUTION
Evenings Exept Sot. and Sun.
LAWTON MORNING PRES
Mornings Except Mon. and Sun.
THF LAWTON CONSTITUTION
AND MORNING PRESS
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.Lowton Publishing Co., Inc.,
ard & A Ave. Lawton, Okla. T3501
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
______ (Pavable In Advance)
Otelah^mS10** Postaoe Paid at Lawton.
CARRIER DELIVERY IN LAWTON
AND FORT SILL
___ (Monthly)
Mamina Press and Sunday ____________
Constitution and Sunday_______
Constitution-Press and Sunday __________
E™” ** Sunday and Monday Const 2.00
Constitution-Sunday and Safurday-Press
France ness was booming. Mobs of
tourists shuffled through the
—are seeking the same thing.
“All of us have come about it
(the idea) independently, but we
are working along the same
road,” said Cary.
Cary, associate executive sec-
retary of the American Friends
Service Committee, said his
group was formed last year aft-
er the Philadelphia school
Board suggested that Quakers
might be able to contribute
some new ideas to solve Phila-
delphia school problems.
As Pilot For Quality Education
Quaker Group Offering Plan
To Run Philadelphia Schools
the “Hand-Picked
and our complete
sendee facilities. That’s Home
the teaching flexibility of a pri- ers. school on a contract basis.”
While Cary's committee is T.'.......
ily participation and support by made up of members of the reli- more'’ “U. 1. ...
tax funds combine to provide । gious Society of Friends (Quak- tures in it to be more expensive,
high quality public education? ers), the church-state problem but we hope to prevent expenses
A group of Philadelphia Quak- would not be involved, he said, from getting so badly out of line
ers think so and have asked the because the corporation formed that it wouldn't be useful as a
-........ to operate the proposed model pilot project,” Cary said
school would be nonsectarian The theories of the experi.
and include non-Quakers. mental program could be ap-
Recently, he said, Philadel- plied to many schools, he said.
phia’s newly appointed superin-
mr-=-
gm
Greek Doctors.
Dentists Strike
can gallop. One experienced
observer estimated the speed of
the morning t\de today at only 6
m.p.h.
Several thousand drenched
tourists were shoulder to
A 1965 Lawton High School The son of Mrs. Verda Brown,
graduate, Pvt. Hill is assigned 310 Euclid, he was awarded the
as a medical aidman in Head- medal
quarters Troop, 3rd Squadron,
11th Armored Cavalry Regi-
to-teacher ratio of many citv -------— , .
F schools. ‘ Rev. Cornelius J. Ryan, 51, pro-
Teachers from private schools vincial treasurer of accounting
would be brought in to aid in B ki John's University in
B&W 22” Console
Walnut H gQ
Cabinet LUO
whose wife, Celia, resides in
Lawton, is a gunner in Battery
B, 2nd Battalion, 320th Artillery.
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undergoing their initial eight - .
weeks of military training at the son of Mrs. Letha B. Pollard,
United States Army Training 1217 New York, arJ — ■
Center, Armor, at Fort Knox Caldwell of Tatums._______
Ky. pleted a six-week general sup-
They are Army Pvts. Eugene ply course at Fort Huachuca,
W. McClung, Jimmie E. Thom- Ariz.
He was trained in maintain-
A guide at the abbey which
tops the steep mound of granite,
said he had never seen such a
crowd. At the Chamber of Com-
merce, the crowd estimate at
noon was 30,000. There are 132
permanent residents here.
The sky cleared and the sea
sought its low mark. The gray-!
green water—whipped into
whirls and eddies by a stiff
breeze—moved much more
swiftly on its outward passage.
It was as if the world was a
large bathtub and someone had
pulled the plug.
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The son-in-law of a Lawton *
couple has been decorated with ;
the Air Medal at Brooks Air |
Force Base, Tex.
U.S. Air Force Doctor (Maj.) L 4
Orville L. Langford, son of Mrs. I MH
Nina Langford of Dewey and
son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Ken-
neth C. Watkins, 1306 Baldwin,, (
was cited for meritorious ’
achievement as flight surgeon
and radiologist at Cam Ranh
Bay Air Base, Vietnam.
He was honored for "his out-
standing airmanship and cour-
age on successful and important
missions under hazardous con- mms
ditions." E
Now assigned at Brooks, Dr E
Langford is a member of the
\ir Force Systems Command. E
A graduate of Dewey High E
School, he received both his
P S and M D. degrees from the
University of Oklahoma. E
4 CITYANS ASSIGNED KS
1O DUTY IN VIFTNAM n
with the 25th Infantry Division
tn Vietnam.
He is the son of Mrs. C. E.
Stevenson, 1712 Cache Road. A
radio team chief in Headquar-
ters Company, 3rd Brigade, Sgt.
Abbott is a 1958 graduate of
Lawton High School.
SON OF CITY COUPLE
NOW SERVES IN VIETNAM
The son of a Lawton couple
has been assigned as a com-
bat construction specialist in
Company B, 39th Engineer Bat-
talion, near Tuy Hoa, Vietnam.
He is Army Pfc. Ronald L.
Kencke, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon F. Kenche, 4624 Atom.
He was last stationed at Fort
Gordon, Ga.
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