District Outline Road Wants Program For Each County
Counties in the fourth district seek state highway action. Ada urban program pushed. U S 75 paved in Coal and other major routes upgraded or paved across Pontotoc, Seminole, Johnston, McCurtain areas. Roads targeted include 12 19 48 9 75 56 and more with hard surfacing and bridges.
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Fourth Congressional District
State Highway Commission
Pontotoc County
Allen
Murray
Johnston County
Coal County
Seminole County
Sasakwa
Hughes County Highway 9
Holdenville
Calvin
Vanoss Schools Set to Open September 1
Vanoss schools will open September 1 under Supt. John Wilmoth with a full faculty and new staff including Wayne Cuzzins as high school principal and Stella Robinson as English and history teacher. Buses run Friday August 29 for enrollment. a renovated building, remodeled library, and new veterans vocational agriculture department with Jack Farley and Norman Crosson.
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Vanoss
John Wilmoth
Lmoth
Wayne Cuzzins
Stella Robinson
Reuben Green
Tony Pierce
Mable Norman
Nesbit
Carrol
Theron Jones
Clara Austell
Bob Austell
M. J. Brewington
Veterans
Jack Farfey
Norman Crosson
Vaness
Green
Latta
Enthusiastic Roads Conference Draws State Leaders
More than 200 senators representatives and road enthusiasts gathered to hear state highway figures and local county spokesmen outline long term road needs in the Fourth congressional district. Senator Glen Johnson and highway officials urged pushing ahead with funding while cautioning costs may rise.
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Glen Johnson
Okemah
W. E. Grisso
Highway Commission
Marland
S. C. Boswell
Holloway
Land Needed for Canton Project Valued at $134,800
Oklahoma City. Pi Federal land appraisers set a total valuation of $134,800 for 3,411 acres in Blaine Dewey and Major counties needed by the reservoir project. Judge Stephen S. Chandler ordered $35,445 disbursed to owners of seven tracts while payments on other tracts are delayed pending jury trials demanded by the government.
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Oklahoma City
Federal
Oklahoma
Blaine
Dewey
Stephen S. Chandler
Oklahoma Weather Fair and Hot Tonight
Oklahoma expected fair skies with hot conditions tonight and into Friday. No significant storms expected. heat index rises in late afternoon and early evening across the state.
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Oklahoma
Navy jet set world speed record over three-km course
Navy pilot Commander Turner Foster Caldwell Jr. piloted a Douglas built Skystreak D-558 jet to an average speed of 640.7 mph over a three-kilometer course at Muroc California. He beat Army Col Albert Boyd who set 623.8 mph in a Lockheed P 80 R on the same track.
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Muroc
Calif
Turner Foster Caldwell, Jr
Arlington
Washington
Navy
Army
Albert Boyd
Boyd
Caldwell
Bureau of Areonautics
Ti Ny
Chickasha Rodeo Sets Over $7,000 in Prizes
Chickasha civic groups post a prize list exceeding 7000 for the annual rodeo horse races and parade. The parade is scheduled for Tuesday with rodeo and horse races running Wednesday through Friday in Chickasha Oklahoma.
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Chickasha Rodeo
Chickasha
Okla
PIA
First Day's First Grade Enrollment Up
Local schools report a gain of 33 first graders on the first day compared with last year. Ward schools share the increase. Irvin leads with many new enrollments and names A through J. Kent Morrison, son of the superintendent, among the new students.
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Irving School
Rint
Kent Morrison
Rex O. Morrison
Glenwood
Hayes
Irvin
Washington
Willard
East Fourteenth To Stadium Will Be Blacktopped
City crews began preparing East Fourteenth from East Central to Norris Stadium for a full blacktop paving. Workers removed rocks leveled the road bed and graded it while watering it to settle. The project, costing under 1000 dollars, will be completed by a contractor with new water and gas lines under the street.
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East Fourteenth
East Central
Norris Stadium
W. E. Hansen
U S Protest to Russia Over Dairen Occupation
The State Department disclosed a new protest to Moscow over the Soviet occupation of Dairen China. A note dated August 14 warns the Soviet government will be held responsible for treatment of American interests while Red Army rule continues.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Dairen
State Department
Moscow
U. S. Counsul General
Burglar Suspected in Lexington Hardware Fire
Fire destroyed three-fourths of a downtown block in Lexington Nebraska after a burglar rifled a safe at Rosenberg Hardware and Implement. Roy Rosenberg estimated losses well over half a million dollars as the blaze began in four places at midnight, aided by five towns’ fire companies who contained the fire by 6 30 a m.
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Lexington
Neb
Roy Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Rosenberg Hardware and Implement
Westcentral
Nebraska
Frye Resigns From VA Post To Lead Refining Firm
William W. Frye, public relations officer at the Oklahoma Veterans Administration regional office, resigns to become western Oklahoma representative for a refining company.
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Oklahoma City
William W. Frye
Oklahoma Veterans Administration
Western Oklahoma
Russia Protests Three Nation Meet On Boosting German Industry
W. F. Bourland Dies Suddenly. W Franklin Bourland 75 a justice of the peace died after a stroke at his Ada home. He was a Chickasaw advocate long active in Indian affairs Masonry and law. Surviving are a widow six sons three daughters two brothers a sister and 15 grandchildren.
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Russia
Justice of Peace
W. Franklin Bourland
First Methodist Church
Criswell Funeral Home
Rosedale
Bourland
Tishomingo
Vanderbilt University
George W. Burris
Standford University
University of Oklahoma
Ardmore
Washington, D. C
Oklahoma
John Lunsford
Lula Bourland
Alice Norris
Oklahoma City
Stanley Prior
Ada
J. P
Ben R
Y. W
Duncan
Joe B
Perry
Leland S. Bourland
Chicago
Michael of
Ringling
Robert Bourland
Nebraska
Rennie Eakin
New Superintendent Named for Oklahoma Veterans Hospital
Dr. Thomas Dobbins of Harrison Arkansas will become superintendent of the Oklahoma state Veterans hospital at Sulphur on September 1. He succeeds Dr. F E Sadler who resigned last December. Dobbins is a World War I veteran and Loyola School of Medicine graduate who led the American Red Cross in Europe 1920 1922 and later served as medical director for Nash Motor Co. at Kenosha Wisconsin before directing the Ozark clinic at Harrison.
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Oklahoma City
Thomas Dobbins
Harrison
Ark
Sulphur
Paul Cope
State War Veterans Commission
Dobbins
F. E. Sadler
Texas State Health Department
Loyola School of Medicine
Chicago
American Red Cross
Europe
Nash Motor Co
Kenosha
Wis
Rush Repair Work On McAlester Line
Workmen continued repairs on a second break in McAlester Oklahoma's main water line. The submerged break under a city lake required a cofferdam to access the pipe. The damaged line supplies 40 percent of the city water. 60 percent remains active, with water hauled to areas by trucks from the naval ammunition depot.
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Mcalester
Okla
U. S. Naval Ammunition Depot
Bilbo Dies In Hospital in New Orleans
Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, famed filibuster and staunch white supremacist, dies in New Orleans after cancer treatments and nerve inflammation. The 69-year-old Democrat faced congressional questions over eligibility and alleged misconduct with war contractors while maintaining a storied Senate career and flamboyant personal style.
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New Orleans
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Senate
Bilbo
Dicksburg
Miss
Foundation Hospital
Theo
Linda Gaddy
Jessie Smith
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, Jr
Fire destroys sheep pens at Fort Worth Stock Yards
A major blaze at the Fort Worth Stock Yards today wiped out the south sheep pens and sheds. An estimated 3,500 sheep died, with total damages around 120000 dollars including facilities and livestock.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Marriage licenses tally in Alva since 1893
Alva Oklahoma records show 19,398 marriage licenses issued since December 23 1893. Only one license was issued with an X in the clerk’s records, according to a court clerk’s office check.
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Alva, Okla
Heat Deaths Rise In Midwest Wave
The Associated Press reports at least 28 deaths linked to a prolonged Midwest heat wave with Chicago accounting for 24 fatalities since Monday. Indiana and Minnesota each reported two heat deaths. Temperatures were forecast to reach 96 to 102 degrees in several states with some areas hitting 105 in South Dakota and 100 in North Dakota Iowa and Illinois.
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Chicago
Indiana
Minnesota
U. S
Appalachians
Rockies
Chicago Weather Bureau
Mercury
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Iowa
Illinois
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Middle Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Russia vetoes two Italy Austria UN membership applications
The Soviet Union blocked votes on Italy and Austria for UN membership in the Security Council. France and Poland abstained on Austria and Poland abstained on Italy. The Australian plan would leave admission to the General Assembly meeting Sept 16. Gromyko argued the move violated Potsdam and UN charter, tying to security council authority.
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Russia
Italy
Austria
United Nations
Security Council
General Assembly
New York
France
Poland
United Nations Security Council
Hungary
U. N
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Assembly
Council
Gromyko
Ireland
Portugal
Transjordan
Balkan
Bomb Blast Wounds Two British Soldiers Near Natanya
Near Natanya an electrically detonated mine blasted a truck wounding two British soldiers, one seriously. In Jerusalem an Arab store was demolished by a bomb allegedly tossed by an Arab boycott patrol.
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Jerusalem
Natanya
No Prison Brick for Private Hospital
Oklahoma Attorney General Mac Williamson ruled that the Nowata Hospital, Inc. cannot obtain prison-made brick from the state penitentiary for a new facility. He said the state board of affairs has no authority to contract for bricks with private corporations, and a prior legislative act allowing brick to financially weak schools does not apply to private groups.
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Oklahoma City
Nowata Hospital, Inc
Mac Q. Williamson
W. Russell Bergman
State Board of Affairs
Williamson
Potsdam Potsdam Talks Stir Soviet Protest
The state department said Russia protested an American British French conference on German production but the talks will proceed in London. Russia claims the plan would nullify Potsdam limits while nine nations prepare to vote two thirds on conference decisions. The London meeting opens Friday as the Western bloc seeks economic steps for postwar recovery.
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State Department
Russia
Lincoln White
Soviet Union
London
United States
Dairen
Moscow
China
U. S
Britain
Australia
Canada
France
India
Netherlands
New Zealand
Philippines
Great Britain
Korea
Austria
Library of Congress
Germany
Th' Pessimist Warns of Quick Rich Schemes
An aging voice mocks the tendency of older generations to fret about the next. It notes that tightwads are quick to fall for a Bit rich quick scheme, reflecting on cautious thrift versus risky ventures.
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