Work Stoppage Hits Phone System Today
A nationwide walkout by CIO Communications Workers union equipment workers disrupted Bell Telephone operations. About 33,000 strikers, including 16,000 Western Electric employees, protested a wage offer, using pickets at Tulsa and Oklahoma City with plans to expand to other Southwestern Bell plants if the strike persists.
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New York
Bell Telephone
CIO Communications Workers Union
Western Electric Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Associated Prear Western Electric Co
Oklahoma
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Tulsa
W. E
Communication Workers Union
CWA
Oklahoma City
Muskogee
Bartlesville
Stillwater
Chickasha
Henryetta
Southwestern Bell
All Campus Stunt Night Program At College Tonight
East Central State hosts the annual Fall Follies tonight at 7 30 on campus. Student Senate provides prizes of 15 to winner 10 to runner up and 5 to third. Alpha Psi Omega sponsors and leads with a skit Syncopated Justice. Skits judged on originality cleverness and talent.
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East Central State
Alpha Psi Omega
Navy Pilots Shoot Down Russ Made Jet and Hit Bridges
Navy pilots from a carrier task force shot down a Russian made jet fighter over the Sino Korean border area near Sinuiju. Sky Raider dive bombers struck two railroad bridges crossing the Yalu river with 1000 and 2000 pound bombs while B 29 Superforts bombed Sinuiju. Planes returned safely to the Philippine Sea after facing varying flak and avoiding frontier violation.
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Yalu River
Korea
Manchuria
Sinuiju
U.S
Philippine Sea
Oklahoma Weather Outlook Tonight and Friday
Fair weather dominates Oklahoma tonight and Friday with cooler air in the east and south. Lows dip to 20 in the northwest and 25 to 28 in the east and south. Friday remains cold with highs between 40 in the north and 45 in the south as winds diminish this afternoon and tonight.
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Oklahoma
Still Colder Weather Hits Ada and Statewide
A sharp cold wave swept Ada and Oklahoma, spoiling mild highs of 79 in Ada, McAlester and Fort Sill. Gusty winds, frosty lows, and subfreezing readings dominated the night into Thursday with forecast lows near 15 to 25 degrees and strong northerly winds across the state.
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McAlester
Fort Sill
Associated Press
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Gage
Waynoka
Ardmore
Fort Sile
Oklahoma City
Ponca City
Tulsa
Yes
Caddo Co Man Slain Wife Held in Shooting
Leonard Adam Graves a 46 year old Caddo county farmer died from gunshot wounds at his home near Hinton. Ruth Graves, 22, admitted shooting after a quarrel about her staying away from home Tuesday night. She was allowed to remain at home with six children.
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Oklahoma City
Leonard Adam Graves
Caddo County
Hinton
Louis Allen
Ruth
Graves
Allen
VFW Pushes Oklahoma state bonus proposal plan
Oklahoma City November 9 VFW members meet to draft an initiative petition for a special election on a new veterans bonus. The plan seeks up to 500 dollars for overseas service and 300 dollars for stateside service for the last three wars, financed by bonds. About 20 percent of Korea's 64,532,000 acres are under cultivation.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
VEW
Korea
Armistice Day Closures Cited County Offices
County offices will close Saturday in observance of Armistice Day. Ada lumber desires announce closure and rural postal carriers will not go out while local carriers make one delivery trip. Saturday features the county finals in the Voice of Democracy with top high school entrants competing at the Pon totoc county college auditorium.
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Voice of Democracy
Pontotoc County
Bodies of 22 Pulled From Montana Mountain Crash
Late November 9 report from Butte Montana describes rescue teams retrieving 22 victims from the Northwest Airlines Flight 202 crash scene on Home Stake Pass. Flashlights guided search through a blizzard as crews carried bodies in burial bags over rocky snow covered terrain to a waiting train. Four crew members and passengers died in the instrument letdown at about 8500 feet above sea level.
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Continental Divide
Art
Northwest Airlines
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Shot His Estranged Wife Is Charge
MUSKOGEE Okla Nov 9 Toan Camp Bernay 19 ordered to stand district court trial after a preliminary hearing on a charge of murdering his estranged wife Melba June 16 mother of a 10 month old boy was slain with buckshot as she sat in her husband s truck Oct 29 Bernay told investigators she refused reconciliation City Judge J F Beavers ordered him held without bond The victim s mother Mrs Jesse Holt testified her son in law phoned to say I just shot June His brother in law Stanley Holt said he asked Bernay if June was really dead I just blowed her damned head off with a shotgun Bernay sat through the testimony expressionless smoking cigarettes The defendant s grandmother Mrs Jennie N Russell outside whose home the shooting occurred and his mother Mrs Nedra Russell Bernay also testified
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Muskogee
Okla
Toan Camp
Bernay
District Cout
Melba June
J. F. Beavers
Jesse Holt
June
Stanley Holt
Holt
Jennie N. Russell
Nedra
Russell Bernay
Beef Project For 4-Hers Opens In Pontotoc County
Pontotoc county 4 H youth start a farm to market beef project led by county agent C H Hailey from November 15 1950 to June 15 1951. Rules require calves be owned by entrants weigh 460 to 550 pounds start weight. official weights filed. up to five calves per contestant. nurse cow not allowed. purebred not required. emphasis on accurate weights and feed and records.
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Pontotoc
C. H. Hailey
Vital Hailey
Signboard Brings Duck for Dinner
A signboard outside Jim Brady's service station draws a mallard to a makeshift pond. The duck attempted a landing, mistaking the display for water, and Brady ended up with a duck dinner after the bird’s curious dive.
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Seatile
Jim Brady
Brady
Truman Delays Congress Call Aboard Presidential Yacht
President Truman delays decision on recalling Congress until he returns to Washington. On the Williamsboro yacht, he stays cheerful after Republicans trimmed Democratic majorities. He signs letters of thanks for the assassination attempt, sends sympathy to Governor Warren, and weighs Eisenhower’s possible European duty amid election setbacks.
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Truman
Congress
Washington
Chesapeake Bay
White House
Williamsboro
Charles G. Ross
Williamsburg
Ross
Warrens
Earl Warren
California
Nina
Fort Worth
Texas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Eisenhower
Jhence
Two Little Girls Court Fight Over Guardianship
In Los Angeles a guardianship dispute pits aunt Mrs Rose Gandin Jaffe against the mother of Leslee four and Peggy Dee Gandin 18 months. The father Capt David Gandin 32 a navigator was killed Oct 19 in an air force B 29 crash after takeoff from Okinawa for Korea. The will he signed says his wife had an affair with his former friend David Dobreer 32, and he was awarded custody after finalizing the divorce last May.
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Los Angeles
Leslee
Pegey Dee Gandin
David Gandin
Air Force
Okinawa
Korea
Rose Gandin Jaffe
Daffe
City Destroyed in Half Hour by U S Bombers in Korea
A dramatic report describes Sinijuju near the Yalu River being flattened in minutes by 90000 tons of bombs from B 29 Superfortresses. The account likens the raid to a surgical strike as planes fly through flak to target the city, leaving ruin, ash, and displaced survivors.
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Far Eastern
Sinuiju
Flock of helicopters makes Ada stop during training flight
Operations Eggbeater halted when a helicopter suffered a failed fan pulley and shaft near Ada eight miles west, while five other craft landed at Ada Municipal. repairs were dispatched from Fort Sill and expected to return the stranded unit to air in time for the home port. Dozens visited the field to watch mechanics work and refueling was cited as the reason for the Ada stop.
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Ada
Fort| Dd
Tulsa
Guthrie
Oklaoma City
Fort Sill
Wichita Falls
Tex
Fort’ Sill
Municipal Airport
Korean Officers Return 150 Miles Saw Only Chinese
Three South Korean officers of the Seventh regiment, Sixth division, who walked 180 miles through enemy lines report only Chinese Reds fighting UN troops north of the Chongchon river. They were civilians in disguise and say Chinese fire killed one American officer and two enlisted men. four others are unaccounted for.
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United Nations
Chongchon River
Seventh Regiment
Republic of Korea
ROK
U. S. First Cavalry Division
Food Handlers School Rescheduled in Pontotoc County
The Food Handlers School, moved from Monday November 13 to Tuesday November 14, will be held at Convention Hall. Sponsored by the City County Health department, it is for all food handlers in Pontotoc County. A prior session was cancelled due to room conflicts.
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Convention Hall
Pontotoc County
Time Now to Furnish Gifts to Menon High Seas at Christmas Time
A WWII era appeal invites donations of Christmas gift boxes for servicemen at sea. The Red Cross will coordinate 50 packages from the midwestern area, each about 2.50, with six items from a listed gear trove. Deadlines urge prompt replies by November 18 and gifts arriving to the San Francisco office by December 1.
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High Seas
Department of the Army
American Red Cross
Wesemen
Red Cross
Ontotec County
San Francisco
Hugh Biles
Volunteer Service
Red Cross Pice
South Broadway
Tel
Missing Man Wins Re election Vote
Hartford City Indiana November Lester Hiser a Democrat was re elected Blackford County treasurer with 2460 votes vs 1251 for Luther Brandt Prohibitionist. Hiser has been missing since October 11 when his burning truck was found. State examiners report a substantial shortage in accounts. Dennis Guy appointed to serve the unexpired term ending December 31.
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Hartford City
Ind
Blackford
Lester Hiser
Luther Brandt
Hiser
Here
State Board of Accounts
Dennis Guy
Oldest Quad Dies in Five-Day-Old Ogle Quintuplet
In Melbourne Australia this afternoon Gerhard Huaymond, oldest of the five day old Ogle quads, died. Anxiety remained for the survival of the other three children of Mr and Mrs Gordon Ogle.
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Austraia
Gerhard Huaymond
Ogle Quads
Gordon Ogle F
Melbourna
Bombers Hit Supply Lines On Korean Front
On the Korean front today fighting was quiet with no major clashes reported. U S Marines moved within nine miles of the Changjin power dam while a U S 24th division patrol clashed with 200 to 300 enemy near the northwest front. Diplomatic moves gained emphasis as U N charges against Chinese intervention drew responses and estimates placed tens of thousands of Chinese and Korean Reds at the Manchurian border. Weather was generally good and allied air forces targeted supply lines and bridges along the Yalu.
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Seoul
Korea
Changjin
Hamhung
U.S. Eighth Army
U.N. Security Council
China
MacArthur
U. N
Tokyo
Manchurian
Yalu River
Manchuri
Pukthon
Chongjin
Navy
Assembly Keeps Petain in Prison
Paris reports the national assembly voted 466 to 92 to refuse freeing 94 year old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain from prison. Petain remains jailed for life on Yeu Island after a postwar death sentence was commuted by Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Henri Philippe Petain
Louis Terrenoire
Charles de Gaulle
Petain
Yeu
Atlantic
de Gaulle
TH PESSIMIST TH PESSIMIST Woman backs money clerk amid transit humor
A fragment from a humorous column laments the modern shopper and a disdainful note about drivers. The piece contrasts a retro complaint about a "back-turned" woman paying a clerk with a motorist's habit of honking at red lights behind a moving van.
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