Protestant Group Faces Clash Over Smaller Churches
Denver reports at the National Council of Churches assembly many Protestants worry about including "The little brown church" in interdenominational work. Critics urge stronger liaison between the national council and local church councils and emphasize local cooperation. Delegates from 29 denominations meet as the assembly opens, representing 33 million members.
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Denver
Dec
Little Brown
General Assembly
National Council of Churches of Christ
O. M. Walton
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County Council of Churches
National Council
Motion Docket Set By McKeel in District Court
A motion docket of the district court is set for Wednesday December 17 at 9 a.m. Judge John Boyce McKeel presiding. Ten cases include demurrers trials judgments defaults and interventions among parties E H Hollis v Arthur Willingham C M Bland v Federal National Bank of Shawnee R H Stokes v Heirs of W W King Spencer Crowder and Virginia Crowder v Unknown Heirs of William B Crowder J J Garcia v Lee Simmons Jerry Swindell minor by father v Betty Ann Swindell minor State of Oklahoma v John Corday minor cases involve in trial and motion to intervene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Boyce McKeel
E. H. Hollis
Arthur Willingham
C. M. Bland
Federal National Bank of
Shawnee
Oklahoma
R. H. Stokes
Husband Fined in Drunken Driving Case
Arlington news: 10 day postponement ordered in trial of Phyllis Penn Kohler wife of Voice of America aide for drunken driving. Her husband Foy Kohler paid an $8.25 fine for public intoxication and was released on a $500 bond. Car crash into a tree drew reports of possible secret State Department records.
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Arlington
State Department
Phyllis Penn Kohler
Foy David Kohler
Voice of America
Ft. Worth Hotel Fire Kills Three
A downtown Ft. Worth hotel fire killed three people including 83 year old Mrs. Hattie McCroskey and a man tentatively identified as James Burton Shearer Jr. The hotel housed 32 guests at midnight and the blaze began about 1 18 a m with 50 off duty firemen aiding to extinguish by dawn. Nearby cafes also suffered damage.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Hattie McCroskey
James Burton Shearer Jr
Pantex
Onroe Givins
Sooner Jet Pilot Recounts First MIG Kill Over Korea
South Korea report details Second Lt. Edmond Hepner a Selman Oklahoma sabre jet pilot who shot down a MIG after being shot down November 22. He says escorting F-80s at 19000 feet he saw a MIG fire on them and opened fire causing the enemy to spin and fall. He says he repaid the communists for being shot down weeks earlier.
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Seoul
Okla
Edmond Hepner
Little Things Count in Being Sure Yuletide Mail Gets There
Postmaster Mary West urges careful holiday mailing with a Q and A on first class cards, timed parcel post, and handling tips. The guidance covers bundles, legible addresses, do not open until Christmas stickers, and specific shipping deadlines for local and distant destinations.
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United States
Small Wreck Triggers Extensive Joliet Outage
Lukie Wright aged 17 from Chicago lost control on Joliet outskirts tearing down a utility pole and 700 feet of 16 000 volt line causing a blaze. The crash knocked out East Side lights for hours and halted a radio station. Wright was charged with reckless driving. He claimed the car was moving slowly.
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Joliet
St.p
Lukie Wright
Chicago
Lukie
Luke
Wright
Man Who Dueled Police Is Dead
Homer Marvin Spruell, a 50 year old carpenter, died from wounds after an hour long gun duel with police. Patrolman W M Richards, age 56, was killed and two other officers wounded near the Georgia Tech campus when officers went to Spruell’s apartment to investigate a minor traffic mishap. Spruell had been under police guard at Grady Hospital since the Tuesday battle.
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Spruell
Warren Won’t Appoint Self to Nixon Senate Seat
California Governor Earl Warren announced he will not appoint himself to fill the U S Senate vacancy left by Richard Nixon. He aims to choose a relatively young man who can gain seniority, with a decision around January 1 as Nixon becomes vice president. Warren is in Arizona for the Western States Governors Conference in Phoenix.
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Tucson
Ariz
California
Earl Warren
U. S
Senate
Richard Nixon
Warren
Sen. Nixon
Phoenix
Spiro Man Wins W. G. Skelly Award
R Spencer Littlefield of Spiro Oklahoma was named the weekly winner of the W. G. Skelly agricultural achievement award in Chicago. He will receive a $100 savings bond a gold lapel pin and a scroll at a breakfast celebration Saturday hosted by Skelly officials. Littlefield owns 560 acres in LeFlore county.
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Chicago
R. Spencer Littlefield
Spiro
Okla
W. G. Skelly
U. S
Skelly
Littlefield
LeFlore County
Police Make Four Weekend Arrests
City police report an uneventful weekend with four drunkenness charges and one minor accident. Total fines collected amounted to 79 dollars during the period.
Boy Calm After Swallowing Pencil
First grade pupil Jimmy Richard swallowed a three inch wooden pencil and calmly informed his teacher. Doctors expect possible non surgical removal while daily X rays monitor the pencil in his upper intestine. Jimmy remains pain free as he rests in Faith Hospital. his mother works for a pencil manufacturer.
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ST. Louise
Jimmy Richard
Jimmy
Andrew Signorelli
Faith Hospital
Henry Richard
Leading Citizens Pallbearers For One Time Slave
Uncle Jack Riddle, 111, a former slave and Talladega farmer, will be buried Thursday with leading local citizens as pallbearers. Born November 15, 1841 in Marietta Georgia, he survived slavery and lived in Alabama with his wife Josie 97. He left 80 descendants.
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Talladega
Ala
Jack Riddle
Jack
Marietta
Woodfin Owens
Martha
Josie
Wedding Trip Fatal To Enid Residents
A wedding trip near Ransom Kansas turned deadly when an auto collided with a Missouri Pacific freight train. Three Enid Oklahoma residents died: Edwin Shiever 26 Rose Shiever 22 and Lee Stephen Bamberger 26. Edward L Shrever 51, father of a victim, was said to be in critical condition.
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Ransom
Kas
Enid
Okla
Missouri Pacific
Here
Edward L. Shrever
Kansas Highway Patrol
Edwin Shiever
Rose
Lee Stephen Bamberger
Wakeeney, Kas
Leslie Shiever
Globe-trotting filly heads to Hialeah for NA bid
The Irish-bred four year old Gold Cup arrives at Hialeah for winter racing in North America. Bob Odom trains the horse who previously ran in Ireland England France and Venezuela and helped develop Crafty Admiral.
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Miamip
Ireland
England
France
Venezuela
Hialeah
North America
Bob Odom
Pacific Ocean Size Compared With Atlantic
The Pacific Ocean is about twice the size of the Atlantic. The sea near Egypt remains durable and in good condition after 4,000 years.
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Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Egypt
Eisenhower Korean trip eases European fears over war spread
The Times and other European papers express relief that President Elect Eisenhower signaled no rush to widen the Korean conflict. Editorials note his statements avoid extreme measures and caution against extending the war, reassuring many observers across Europe.
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London
London Times
Dwight Eisenhower
Independent
Eisenhower
Times
le Monde
Paris
Switzerland
Tribune de Lausanne
MacArthur
Byrd to Introduce Bill to End RFC Power
Sen. Byrd of Virginia stated he will file a bill to abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation early in the new session beginning January 3. He has long opposed the agency and noted his 1936 37 efforts and last year’s failed end bill by two votes. He opposes the RFC as a wartime era measure now deemed useless amid inflation.
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Washington
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Virginian
Adlai Stevenson
Local social notes from Allen county meet and visits
Mrs Harve Butler and Mrs Peno Cox attended a White Shrine meeting in Norman. Burl F Black visits relatives in the area while awaiting a transfer to Germany. S A Jesse F Boulding and S A Cecil Reeder depart to San Diego after returning from Korea. Mrs Cox visits Atoka. Mrs Luther Jones and Mrs H H Hamilton visit Ada.
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Harve Butler
Peno Cox
Norman
Butler
Cox
Burl
F. Black
J. O. Hamilton
H. H. Hamilton
Scott Air Force Base
Illinois
Germany
Jesse F. Boulding
Cecil Reeder
San Diego
Calif
Jess Haynes
A Reeder
Atoka
Local visits include Forshee and Tillery families
N. J. Forshee returned Friday night from Bakersfield and Ceres California where he visited relatives. Mrs Lizzie Tillery and her daughter from Fitzhugh spent the weekend with her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Jesse Frederick and her sister Joe Hemingway and family
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. J. Forshee
Bakersfield
Ceres
Calif
Lizzie Tillery
Fitzhugh
Jesse Frederick
Sir Joe Hemingway
Caldwell to enter military service this week
Billy Glen Caldwell son of Mrs Esther Caldwell will leave Tuesday for Ft Sill where he will enter military service. Cye Woods and his mother Mrs Fannie Donaghey will also leave Tuesday for Des Moines Iowa to visit awhile. Mrs Berch Walker Mrs Lela Long Mrs Dale Cook and Mrs H D Yoakum were among Allen residents in Ada Saturday.
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Billy Glen Caldwell
Esther Caldwell
Ft. Sill
Cye Woods
Fannie Donaghey
Des Moines
Iowa
Berch Walker
Lela Long
Dale Cook
H. D. Yoakum
Allen
Ada
Job seekers flood GOP senators with federal payroll letters
Washington reports show letters from would be federal workers piling up as Republicans contend for patronage after years in the wilderness. Amid questions over postmaster terms and civil service tenure, aides note many applicants may be disillusioned by limited openings and high living costs in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
GOP
Civil Service Commission
Eisenhower
Herbert Brownell
Ane Gop
Thomas E. Stephens
New York
White House
Council Notified of Ed Haley Resignation
Ada City Council heard of the resignation of Ed Haley after 38 years with the Ada Fire Department. The move, effective Jan. 5, followed council discussion on civil defense grant use and bids for a new police car.
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Council
Ed Haley
Ada
Ada Fire Department
Luke Dodds
County Civil Defense Co
March of Dimes
Dimes
Norman C. Mitchell
Beauty Queen Greta Hoffstrom Changes Swedish Money Designs
Greta Hoffstrom a 25 year old Lake Malar beauty queen and professional model appears on the 1000 kronor bill and is expected to appear on smaller denominations. The Swedish artist Markl Sylvan selected her for the new note after a photographer's tip making her likely the first woman to grace money from magazines.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Greta Hoffstrom
Lake Malar
Greta
Markl Sylvan
Major New Czech Purge Under Way
Belgrade radio reported a major purge of Czech communist leaders in Czechoslovakia. The Yugoslav News Agency cited arrests including Antonin Gregor former foreign trade minister and Gen. Ludwig Svoboda former defense minister, among others such as Kopshiva Erban Kliment and Fierlinger.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Belgrade Radio Today
Czechoslovakia
Tanjug
Antonin Gregor
Ludwig Svoboda
Adimir Kopshiva
Eugene Erban
Augustin Kliment
Zdenek Fierlinger
Car Hits Horse Injuring Two Riders Near Tulsa
A teenage girl Beverly Carter 14 and 4 year old Claude Bryson were riding a horse on State Highway 33 east of Tulsa when the horse was struck by a car. Beverly sustained a possible skull fracture and was hospitalized while Claude received minor bruises after landing on a dirt-filled center island.
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Tulsa
Okla
Beverly Carter
Claude Dale Bryson
Beverly
Claude
Kansas oil reserves and production update report
Gov Arn reported to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission that since 1942 Kansas has produced 66 percent more oil than previously known and still holds about 800 million barrels. Reserves were 600 million at 1942 start, with production since 1942 exceeding one billion barrels and end 10 year period near 800 million barrels.
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Wichita
Gov. Arn
Interstate Oil Compact
Kansas
Northern California Weather Brings Heavy Losses and Transit Halts
A weekend storm across Northern California caused five deaths and stranded 1,370 passengers on seven trains. Flooding and power outages disrupted roads and towns from Mendocino to Marin, while snow plows freed four delayed north-south trains near Dunsmuir. Authorities report multiple fatalities, including a family of four near Ukiah, and a missing mystery flare incident near Tahoe City remains unsolved.
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San
Ukiah
Russ Tulla
Logan Trever
Bobby
Tulla
Carl Seidner
Humboldt County
Mendocino County
Woodacre
Marin County
Kay Park
Tahoe City
Arson Brings Fine And Time In Jail
Doyle Millican of Konawa was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined 100 dollars after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor arson charge. He was found guilty of setting fire to several acres of pasture and brush land near Konawa several weeks earlier before Peace Justice Grady Nelms in Wewoka.
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Konawa
Doyle Millican
Grady Nelms
Wewoka
Airliner Survives Emergency Landing in Fallon Nevada
Forty four aboard a Trans World Airways Super Constellation escaped disaster when two of four engines failed en route from Chicago to San Francisco. Pilot Irvin Kravitz made an emergency landing in Fallon with brakes failing, a collapsed right gear, and a wing tip to halt on two wheels. All passengers and crew were unharmed.
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Fallon
Nev
Chicago
San Francisco
Transworld Airways
Irvin Kravitz
Kravitz
Associated Press
Nevada
Huge Shark Kills Young Swimmer
In Pacific Grove California a 15 foot shark killed 17 year old Berry Wilson near Monterey Bay. The shark severed a leg and gouged the other before Wilson bled to death. It then attacked 15 year old Brookner W Brady Jr as four swimmers approached. Marine biologists identified the shark and fishermen speculated storms drew it into the bay. It was the first shark injury off the Northern California coast in memory.
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Pacific Grove
Calif
Berry Wilson
Monterey
Bay
Wilson
Brookner W. Brady Jr
California
Lie Sees Little Korean Peace Hope
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie says in a recorded interview that there is little hope for peace in Korea. He notes the Soviet Union and four Communist nations are isolated and that world opinion may influence the armistice decision.
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Oslo
Norway
United. Nations
Trygve Lie
Norwegian State Broadcasting System
Korea
United Nations
Republic of
South Korea
Lie
Soviet Union
Ancient Egyptian plasterers used tools similar to modern
Ancient Egyptian workers used plastering tools closely resembling those used by today’s tradespeople. The craft involved lime based mixes and smoothing implements, indicating a continuity of technique across millennia and cultures.
Oysters Depend on Myiscopic Plants and Animals
A brief note states that much of oyster food derives from myscropic plants and animals, highlighting the ecological link to their diet and habitat.
New Lens Aims to Restore Partial Vision for Blind
Dr. William Feinbloom of Columbia University announced a clear-image lens designed to help about half of the estimated 150 000 partially blind Americans. Worn like ordinary glasses, it comprises two or three lenses spaced about one eighth of an inch apart with a total thickness around seven sixteenths of an inch. He told the Maine Optometric Association the device removes all optical blur possible for a partially blind person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
United States
William Feinbloom
Columbia University
Defense Revised Bible Version Defends Virgin Birth Doctrine
Yale divinity dean Dr. Luther A. Weigle says the Revised Standard Version preserves the doctrine of the Virgin Birth and criticizes opponents. The dispute touches Isaiah 7 14 where virgin is rendered as young woman. critics plan a rally in Denver.
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Denver
Luther A. Weigle
Yale University Divinity School
Weigle
Akron
Ohio
Bill Denton
Furnace Street Mission
Rocky Mount
N.C
American Council of Christian Churches
Emmanuel
Final Rites Held For Mrs. Wallace
Independence Missouri reports a private funeral for Mrs. David W. Wallace 90 at the little White House with President Truman and daughter Margaret in seclusion. The service followed a cerebral thrombosis death last Friday at the White House. The President will depart for Washington on a nine car special after 6 p.m. CST Tuesday.
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Independence
White House
David W. Wallace
Truman
Margaret
Trumans
Wallace
Little White Ouse
Woodlawn
Madge Gates
Elizabeth Virginia
Bess
Frank Gates Wallace
George P. Wallace
Fred Wallace
Albuquerque
N. M
Washington
Five Air Force Officers Die in Rapid City Barracks Fire
Five officers were killed when a two story frame barracks at Rapid City Air Force Base burned. Six other officers were injured with 2nd Lt John Rycroft leaping from a second story window breaking an ankle. Four more suffered lesser injuries as three identified victims included Ist Lt Jerome A Weinshank Kansas City legal officer at the base, 2nd Lt Robert W Wooten Jr March Field Calif, and Chief Warrant Officer Paul W Beers Benicia Calif Arsenal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
S. D
Air Force
Rapid City Air Force Base
John Rycroft
Yonkers
N. Y
Paul W. Rous
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Ohio
Denver
Fitzsimmons Military Hospital
One US-born player in NHL this season Pete Babando
Chicago Black Hawks forward Pete Babando is noted as the sole United States born player this season, with his birthplace listed as Braeburn, Pennsylvania.
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Montreal Ip
National Hockey League
United States
Pete Babando
Chicago Black Hawks
Pete
Braeburn
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R. E. Gilmore
Jesse Compton
Alen
Walter Malone
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C. W. Malone
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A. E. Malone
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Haynie
Billie
Roger Lee
Michael
AFD
Mrs. Wallace
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