Governors to Meet At Houston With Plenty To Discuss
Governors from 48 states and four territories converge on Houston for the 44th conference at the Shamrock Hotel June 29 to July 2. The formal program covers tax policy higher education highway safety and construction while political discussions and candidate chatter are likely to dominate private talks and public comments.
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Wilbur Martin Houston
Unite States
U. S
Swank Shamrock Hotel
Earl Warren
California
Jonn S. Fine
Pennsylvania
Allan Shivers
Texas
Democratic Party
Desperate convicts recaptured after island prison escape in Brazil
Brazilian police fought a blazing gun battle to recapture 21 of almost 300 escapees from Anchieta Island prison after a raid that left 15 guards and workers dead. The Blond Devil was among those captured as authorities chased groups toward Ubatuba and Parati.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Anchieta
Ubatuba
Sao Vicente
Caraguatuba
Parati
Polio Takes Two More Texas Lives
Houston reports two new polio deaths a 15 year old girl and a 6 year old boy Alma Jean Wagner 15 Willis and James McGowan 6 die as Texas faces a severe polio surge Health Department shows 771 statewide cases versus 717 in 1950 peak and Dallas Houston totals exceed 330 patients under treatment
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Dallas
Alma Jean Wagner
Willis
James McGowan
New Yorker Dies From Highway Wreck Near Bartlesville
Robert H. Griffin 31 of Brooklyn New York died in Bartlesville Oklahoma hospital from injuries suffered Friday in a U S 60 auto collision two miles west of Bartlesville He was a passenger in a car driven by John H Wilson 32 of Bartlesville Wilson was uninjured but his wife Virginia a expectant mother suffered cuts bruises and shock A second crash involved J E Stackhouse of Copan according to Highway Patrolman Will M Rogers
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Robert H. Griffin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bartlesville
U. S. 60
Oklahoma
Griffin
John H. Wilson
Wilson
Virginia
Will M. Rogers
J. E. Stackhouse
Copan
Oklahoma pig population drops by 26000 in 1952
Oklahoma City report states 1952 pig population is 26000 fewer than 1951. Federal-State Crop Livestock Reporting Service released the figures today, noting the decline across the state.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Camp Ada Sends Three Buses of Girls to Ada
Joyce Plummer and Diane Dillon report Camp Everyone departs Ada on Wednesday morning with three buses carrying 30 Blue Birds 59 Camp Fire Girls and 10 CITs. Miss Mary Ann the camp director and counselors greet arrivals as cabins are assigned and bags are unloaded.
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Joyce Plummer
Diane Dillon
Ada
Niy
Adaa
CIT
Mary Ann
Ernie
Clive
Russia Mobilizes Satellites to Aim At West's Move
Article describes Soviet diplomatic and military pressure with satellites moving to counter Western European and U S arms talks. It cites Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland urging parliaments to oppose the Western peace pact with Germany and to press for a four power conference on a German peace treaty. It notes broadcasts and government statements from Eastern bloc states and comments on West European reactions.
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Russia
West
London
Czechoslovak National Assembly
Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
United States
Germany
Foreign Office
Josef Ullrich
Boleslaw Bierut
Polish United Workers (Communist) Party
U. S
Allied Negotiators Return to Parleys
Allied negotiators resume talks at Panmunjom with Red delegates amid debate over voluntary repatriation of POWs. Maj. Gen. William Harrison notes Soviet history of offered choices in 1943 and emphasizes no forced repatriation as a Soviet principle. The Red side and Chinese North Korean deputies push back on prisoner screening and voice in return.
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Munsan
Korea
Russia
William Harrison
Panmunjom
Soviet Union
Stalingrad
Budapest
Harrison
Nam II
Union of
Air Dropped Truck Nearly Falls Into Troops at Ft Sill
An air drop from 14 flying boxcars over Ft Sill Oklahoma nearly dumped a 100 foot parachute truck onto 2000 troops. The parachute drifted near a crowded bleacher and only four paratroopers were slightly injured in the high wind.
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Sill
Okla
Camp Morning Classes Begin and Banner Winners Named
Thursday morning opened with first classes for campers enrolled Wednesday night. Cabin 13 won the Blue Bird Banner with Peggy Brown Ann Kingery Gwen Davis Donna Gail Duncan and Gail Smyth. In Unit 2 Cabin 20 earned the Camp Fire banner with Mary Young Diana Vickery Nancy Lambert Laura Morrow Jo Anne Erwin. Unit 3’s banner went to Cabin 7 listing Catherine McBride Verte Jane Butler Mert Davidson Mary Ann Miller Sylvia Robertson Jackie Watson and Carol Kay Wheeler. After lunch and a beach visit, Blue Birds enjoyed nature games and a hike led by Miss Pat and CITs Sarabeth and Sondra with plans for relaxing games. Supper at 6:30 and flag lowering preceded unit entertainment and taps signaling bedtime.
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Miss Ann
Cabin 13
Blue Bird
Peggy Brown
Ann Kingery
Gwen Davis
Donna Gail Duncan
Gail Smyth
CIT
Diane Dillon
Barbara Eoff
Pat Walsh
Mary Young
Diana Vickery
Nancy Lambert
Laura Morrow
Joanne Erwin
Cabin 7
Catherine McBride
Verte Jane Butler
Mert Davidson
Mary Ann Miller
Sylvia Robertson
Jackie Watson
Carol Kay Wheeler
Blue Birds
Pat
Sarabeth
Work Down On Five Turnpike Bridges
Oklahoma City June 21 The shortage of reinforcing steel has shut down work on five Turner Turnpike bridges manager H E Bailey announced. He said work cannot restart until steel mills, now shut by a strike, resume. Paving is proceeding at five locations on the eight mile toll road between Tulsa and Oklahoma City with two sections on the west end two in the middle and one on the east end.
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Oklahoma City
Turner Turnpike
H. E. Bailey
Bailey
Tulsa
Bugs Driving Hazard Warns Oklahoma Drivers
Safety Commissioner Dixie Gilmer warns summer drivers to stop and kill pests only after safely parked. He notes insects create crashes when drivers fight them with one hand and highlights sun glare and high weeds obscuring intersections as additional risks on Oklahoma highways.
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Dixie Gilmer
Gilmer
Oklahoma
Giraffe Reaches Ground With Mouth Only in Odd Pose
A giraffe can reach the ground with its mouth only by bending its legs into an awkward position. This unusual stance highlights the animal's long neck and tall height.
Oil activity slows in Pontotoc County lull
Oil fields in Pontotoc County ease after a busy period with several rigs at Byng Francis Oakman and Bebee. Yingling No 7 A Floyd deepening at 1495 feet. Woodruff No 2 Little drilling at 985 feet. Woodruff No 1 McClure staked near Center with plans for 1320 foot Calvin test. New locations expected at Center in days ahead.
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Pontotoc County
Center
Yingling No. 7
A. Floyd
Byng
Francis
Oakman
Light’s
Bebee
Jesse
Woodruff No
Little
Calvin
Littlewell
Woodruff No. 1
McClure
Kidnapping Charge Linked to Mental Patient Escape
Ottumwa Iowa sheriff holds Robert Red 42 an Oklahoma native charged with kidnapping. Red escaped from Vinita Oklahoma mental hospital May 16 with two others after forcing guard Scott Cochran to surrender keys at gunpoint. Red was arrested at a Milwaukee road labor camp and later confirmed wanted by Oklahoma authorities. During search a powder labeled poison was found among Red’s possessions.
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Ottumwa
Eastern Oklahoma Hospital
Oklahoma
Everett Orman
Robert Red
Eufaula
Okla
Vinita
Orman
Milwaukee Railroad
Montie Kent
Red
Milwaukee Road
Vinita Hospital
Scott Cochran
Edward Harrison
Okmulgee
Kansas City
Forrest Taylor
Durant
Bert Acosta Found Living in Tulsa
Bert Acosta the 59 year old aviation pioneer who vanished in January from New York was found in Tulsa living under a nurse care claim. He says he is healthy now and works as a machinist while recounting his Atlantic flight with Byrd in 1927 and a polar crossing in 1929.
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Tulsa
Okla
Bert Acosta
New York
Acosta
Richard E. Byrd
Atlantic
France
Byrd
South Pole
Bert Hall
Shanghai
Teel Held on Burglary Charge in Wichita Case
A hold order for Killes Delton Teel, charged with burglary, was received by the county sheriff from Wichita authorities. The alleged break‑in occurred at the 105 Club on 105 West Twelfth, where a west rear window was broken. Lawrence P. Poole saw a man exit the club about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. A juke box and cigarette machine were damaged and $27 taken. The club is owned by T. E. Kemp and operated by Lorene Wilmoth.
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Killes Delton Teel
Sheriff's Office
Wichita
Kan
Teel
105 Club
West Twelfth
Lawrence P. Poole
Clinton Dame
T. E. Kemp
Lorene Wilmoth
Fumigate Wheat In Storage After Harvest, Experts Say
Oklahoma A and M Extension entomologists advise fumigating stored wheat six to eight weeks after storage to kill field brought insects and those moving into bins. August is an ideal time for this fumigation.
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Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Old British law limited wife beating with arm length rod
Historical statute allowed a husband to strike his wife with a stick no longer than his arm or thicker than his middle finger. The rule reflects archaic gender norms and violent discipline once sanctioned by law.
Eight Years of GI Bill Shows Loan Gains and Declines
The VA marks the eight year anniversary with $18 billion in loans issued and over three million guaranteed, 90 percent for homes. Education aid falls as eligibility expires, while readjustment allowances total $3.2 billion for unemployment and $600 million for self employment.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Briton Marshall Charged With Giving Secrets to Russia
William Marshall a 24 year old Foreign Office radio operator faced additional charges for allegedly giving state secrets to Russia. Prosecutors claim he delivered data to Pavel Kuznetsov at Kingston Wimbledon and Wandsworth between April and June and possessed information at Hanslope Park near London.
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London
William Marshall
Foreign Office
Russia
Marshall
Britain
J. S. Bass
Bess
Pavel Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
Kingston
Surrey
Wimbledon
Wandsworth
Hanslope Park
Noisy Mouse Triggers Fire Alarm in Barre Home
In Barre Vermont on June 21 a loud mouse sound led Mrs. Gordon to check her home. The mouse prompted a call to firefighters who extinguished a blaze in the garage before it spread. A car and the garage were destroyed in the incident.
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Barre
Charles H
Gordon
Warden Supports Parole Bid for Notorious 1920s Bandit
McAlester Oklahoma June 21 George Kimes a bank robber and former deputy killer seeks clemency via the Pardon and Parole Board He has the support of prison warden Jerome Waters Jr and Lt Governor James E Berry as he contends with a 50 year sentence for the Covington Garfield County bank robbery in 1925 and a prior 25 year term for slaying a deputy sheriff in Sequoyah County He previously fled the penitentiary in 1948 and was arrested in Burns Oregon thirteen months later.
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Mcalester
Okla
George Kimes
State
Pardon and Parole Board
Kimes
Covington
Garfield County
Sequoyah
Jerome Waters Jr
Burns
Ore
Oklahoma City Polio cases rise to 29 this year
Five new polio cases were reported to the State Health Department during the week ended June 14, raising the year's total to 29. A year ago at this time the figure stood at 37.
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Oklahoma City
State Health Department
Compromise Group Seeks Solution of South Korean Crisis
South Korea faced a volatile political crisis as supporters of a compromise plan pressed for a special National Assembly meeting on the eve of an unspecified presidential election. Rhee opponents boycotted the Assembly while arrests and martial law hindered governance, with two constitutional amendments proposed to shift election and cabinet accountability.
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Pusan
Korea
South Korea
National Assembly
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
Assembly
National Congress
Chank Taik Sang
Yu Chin San
Democratic Nationalist Party
National
Camp Gruber to See Multi Million Construction Plan
Tulsa report notes about seven million dollars in contracts for Camp Gruber in Muskogee County will be let before 1953. Utilities funding reaches about three million with road and warehouse allocations totaling around two million. Remaining funds cover a cold storage plant and more buildings as plans target major contracts by year end. Land retaken will be limited to cantonment needs about 25 000 acres.
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Tulsa
Okla
Camp Gruber
Muskogee County
E. G. Herb
Tulsa District Engineers
Herb
Washington
Chickasaw Tribal Council Calls Meeting for June 28
The Chickasaw Tribal Council will meet in call session at 1 30 p m Saturday June 28 at Sealy Chapel. J J Humes president urges all members to attend. Choctaw tribe members are invited as well to participate in important business.
Blood Donor Rules Spark Red Cross Probe Findings
Oklahoma City report cites two technical violations of Red Cross regulations after review of complaints that malaria contaminated blood may have shipped to Korea. Officials say errors were due to interpretation of rules and future donations will be used only for plasma. Cordell criticizes the investigation as incomplete while urging a site visit.
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Oklahoma City
Red Cross
Washington
St. Louis
Korea
Carl Belliston
Raymond Barnes
William H. Cordell
Oklahoma
Defense Center
Public Health Service
Blood Center
Impeachment Ardor Fades
Washington dispatch reports dwindling enthusiasm for impeachment of President Truman as 20 signatures are on a petition that would require 218 for a House vote. Rep Shafer filed it after the Judiciary Committee shelved the resolution linked to Truman's April 8 steel mills seizure.
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Washington
House
Truman
Shafer
R-Mich
House Judiciary Committee
Last Large 45th Group Arriving at Fort Sill
Nearly 700 Oklahoma members of the 45th Division, likely the last large shipment, will arrive this weekend from Korea for discharge. The first train of 350 men was to arrive tonight with another troop train due late Sunday. All enlisted men of the 45th expected home by July 4. The 700 arrived on the We Coast earlier this week. A giraffe can run at more than 30 miles an hour.
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Ft. Sil
Okla
Oklahoma
45Th
Korean Battlefields
Car Out of Control Pins Elizabeth in Kitchen Wall
In Ventura California June 21 a runaway 1936 car driven by 18 year old Marvin E. Wenzel barreled into Elizabeth Grizzard home knocking her through a wall into the kitchen. The high school student was hospitalized and is recovering. No charges have been filed.
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Ventura
Calif
California Highway Patrol
Elizabeth Grizzard
Marvin E. Wenzel
Wenzel
Elizabeth
Mexicans Die Walking Desert Peril in Border Crossing
In Yuma Arizona four Mexican nationals attempted a 40 mile desert crossing from San Luis Sonora to Wellton. Two died of thirst en route and Alfredo Garcia aged 35 reached Yuma. Antonio Jaime 25 may have reached Somerton while a search seeks him. Ricardo Aguayo 20 and Luis Molina 20 are identified as the deceased.
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Yuma
Ariz
San Luis
Sonora
Mexico
Wellton
Jred
Alfredo Garcia
Antonio Jaime
Somerton
Val Quintero
Jaime
Ricardo Aguayo
Luis Molina
Big Summer ROTC Camp Opens at Ft Sill
The largest summer ROTC camp in Ft. Sill history opened with nearly 2,000 cadets from 49 colleges. Cadets learn artillery techniques and six come from Hawaii. Training begins Monday after a welcome by Maj. Gen. A. M. Harper. The camp runs 100 hours of field training through July 31.
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FT. Sil
Okla
Ft. Sill
Hawaii
A. M. Harper
Ada Rodeo Tickets On Sale Soon With Hendryx Family
Tickets for the Ada Rodeo go on sale July 1 at the Aldridge hotel lobby with Bonnie Allen in charge. August 12 to 16 event dates are set as the Elks showcase the Hendryx Family for nightly acts. arena improvements shorten the field and bring spectators closer to the riders as preparations continue.
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Ada _ Rodeo
Aldridge
Bonnie Allen
Ada Elks
Hendryx
Red Cross Swim Program Sees Busy First Week
The Red Cross Summer swimming program at Glenwood Park completes its first week with 430 enrolled and an average attendance of 389. The junior and senior lifesaving class begins and runs for 20 hours over four Saturdays. Mont Comer leads lifesaving instruction while also serving as lifeguard and assisting weekly classes.
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Red Cross
Glenwood Park
Billie Jean Fabree
Mont Comer
Comer
Government Probes Lattimore's Plans
Washington reports an official inquiry into Owen Lattimore’s travel plans. The State Department ordered customs exits barred while it examines a tip of possible visits to Russia or satellites. Lattimore denies any truth to such reports and officials say the ban may last a week.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
State Department
Lattimore
Russia
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Engineers offer Iceland job posts to fight heat
Tulsa readers are told the U.S. Corps of Engineers opened a north district in KeFlavik Iceland to hire staff. Applicants must meet qualifications and married applicants must apply solo. Benefits include mild summers and excellent hunting and fishing.
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Tulsa
Okla
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Keflavik
Iceland
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Kay
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Frances
Camper Council
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Sharon Lowe
Ann King
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Kansas
Adan
Waters
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