Atoka Plans Big Halloween Party For October 30
Plans are underway in Atoka for a Halloween street party on October 30 featuring 18 events and a Miss Atoka queen contest. The event helps fund city lake park and swimming pool improvements with a portion of proceeds outstanding. Local officials, PTA, and school staff hosted a large gathering, including teachers, parents, and friends, at Spreadstie.
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Atoka
City Lake Park
Awimming
Atoriz
Albert Pure
Jap Surrell
PTA
Atuku
Jack Dale
Benny Cooper
Bob Surman
Allen News Ties Up Local Social Ties and Visits
Local notes report Mrs C. Cal visiting her parents and joining daughter Doliin Jo for a few days in Millisun Kansas before returning to ter Hote. Alfreda Stout undergoes major surgery at Valley View Hospital. Mrs Marcy Bates visits Oklahoma City relatives. Rev James S Hoge hospitalized in Oklahoma City. George McDunn heads to Minnesota on a live-week engagement. Buddy Yount attends Oklahoma football game in Norman. Aggie student from Tishomingo at home with family. Several Allen residents attend the Ada Wewoka football clash. Sunrise coffee postponed due to weather. junior class fundraiser afoot. The Hull family returns from a four-week vacation. birthdays noted in Oklahoma City.
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C. Cal
OK. Kidwell
Doliin Jo
Ole- Thoma City
A. B. Kidwell
Ter Hote
Millisun
Kansas
Singapore to Get Its First Air Conditioned Large Office Tower
Singapore will see its first fully air conditioned large office building named for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The structure will feature the fastest elevators in Malaya and is pitched as a modern business hub.
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Lifilk
Singapore
Poor
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Malaya
County home clubs elect officers and plan 1948 programs
More than 80 women attended the county council meeting Friday. Officers elected for a second term are Mrs Rae Thompson president Mrs Nellie Due vice president and Mrs Eva Mae Fisthards. Projects for study include clothing home management and horticulture with yearbook programs such as Let’s Buy a Dyess and making old lathes do. A plans committee led by Mrs Ruby Stephens Vaness Mrs Alma DeSbazo and Mrs Ruth Martin Allen will meet Monday October 2 at 1 30 p m to plan the yearbooks. A report from Miss Barby Stevens noted a week of farm work and improvements in club activities.
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Nellie Due
Eva Mae Fisthards
Nowers
Oklahoma
Ruby Stephens
Vaness
Alimu DeSbazo
Ruth Martin
Allen
Hore
Fim
Bar
Stevens
Mes
Mewland
Pontatec
Rational Home Clarmson
A. ©. Griffith
E. ¥. Owenby
John Foutses
Hart
Lomna
Maloney
Pontotos County
Mitanuy
Sather
Mather
Oklahoma City Launches Major Urban Highway Plan
Oklahoma City initiated a large urban highway program with an estimated cost of at least 20 million dollars and a projected multi year timeline. State Highway Director H E Bailey announced federal approval, with funding split between state and federal governments and the city to cover right of way. The plan’s exact routes and full funding await further steps as Stillwater starts a separate project of 505 805 dollars, marking the first such contract in the state after a lengthy dispute with the Federal Public Roads Administration.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahomar City
Firse
Tita
Ely
H. E. Bailey
Stillwater
Commissid
Federal Public Roads Administration
Plang
Hunters Watch Hunting Dates in Pontotoc County
State game ranger Bob Homer urges farmers ranchers and hunters in Johnston and Pontotoc counties to report any person seen hunting with two guns before the season opens. A $4 reward is offered for information leading to a violator. The Pontotoc County Sportsman Club has placed several young quail for release and hopes for a successful season. President is identified as C. C. Lanier.
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Bob Homer
Johnston
Pontotes
Tre
Pontotoc County
Hamer
Wapanucka
Four More Die in Oklahoma Monday Of Highway Hurts
Four more motorists died in Oklahoma Monday raising the toll since Friday to 10. The 1948 traffic toll stands at 393. Casualties include Bari Marius Nelson, 51, Oklahoma City auto company exec. Alvin D. Free, 51, Bethany, head-on collision. A. Story, 47, school employee. Salvatore Graffagnina, 84, Brooklyn, killed in Edmond after a trailer incident. The state highway patrol and officials meet to halt fatalities with regional meetings statewide including Oklahoma City, Claremore, and Lawton.
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Oxlshoma
Bari Marius Nelson
Oklaoma
City Auto Agency
Alvin D. Free
Bethany
Nelson
Oklaheca City
Dee A. Story
Taxon
Oxhe
State
Walters
Salvatore Graffagnina
Brooklyn
Edmond
State Highway Patrol
Oklahoma City
Claremore
Lawton
Merger Moves to Complete Western Germany Bloc
Berlin Oct 16 An announced merger fuses foreign trade of the French Zone with British and American zones, creating a unified western economic bloc. The three western Allied governors sign to form a single western Germany except for the Russian zone as talks on a provisional government advance.
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U. S
Berlin
Get
Atp
Amal
Germany
Crippled transport crashlands near Clinton Louisiana
A crippled Air Force C-82 transport crash landed near Clinton Louisiana after departing from Biggs Field Texas en route to Eglin Field Florida. Four of 32 aboard were killed including two Fort Bliss officers, with Brigadier General Hart among survivors. The plane descended through 5000 feet before landing in a ravine, heavy weather and wing damage cited in the accident.
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Clinton
Air Force
Yacine
Here
Biggs Field
EL Paso
Tex
Egon Field
Fla
Fort Bliss
Fort Sill
Okio
Colt
Herbert S. Ramsey
Harold M. Dudley
Ciiss
Ramey
Springfield
Durley
Long Meadow
Mass
BH. Hart
E Brow
Mosthugast
Ada Exhibit Opens in Ada Show Window
An Ada exhibit featuring items manufactured or processed in Oklahoma is now on display in Ada City at S. and Clath ier. Keith Marshall of the Ada Chamber of Commerce did not comment on the display period. The show was installed Monday afternoon after a return from Oklahoma City and mirrors the Oklahoma City booth attracting many visitors.
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Oklahoma City
Clathier
Keith Marshall
Ada Coimber of Commerce
Farm notes on clover seed trials and county organization
Farmers report success with sweet clover trials at Joe Picarcy's farm in Olney and discuss lime and phosphate soil corrections. Emphasizes planting vetch and winter oats by Frank King and James Nix, with 60 pounds of seed already sown. Oklahoma Farm Bureau organizers push county level farm groups to reach 169 members, with W L Brothers and Frank King coordinating through the A A A offices.
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Joe Picarcy
Doal County
Frank King
James
Nix
Bill Hartsfield
Farm Bureau
Berg Orgenieed
Dan Arnold
Seretary
Oklahoma Farm
Bursa
Amy-eng
Imbeau
W. LB. Brothers
Pleasant Ell
Tulsa Police Seek Identity In Fatal Youth Car Chase
Tulsa police hunt for the identity of a about seventeen year old youth fatally shot after a two to three quarter hour high speed chase in a stolen late model sedan reported stolen in Ponca City. Four officers fired revolvers and shotguns as the youth abandoned the car after a long circuitous pursuit through the west side. he was hit in the head and died at a hospital two hours later.
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Tulsa
Okie
Ponca City
Bob Thomas
Alfred DeMoss
Carity
State Supreme Court Opinions OKLAHOMA CITY Oct
State Supreme Court opinions list several cases across Oklahoma counties. Awards and affirmations include Manhattan Construction Company and Hartford Accident and Indemnity versus Ed Deasley and State Industrial Commission. Cities Service Oil Company versus Oklahoma County. Fidelity-Pharaoh Fire Insurance Company versus Board of Education of Rosedale. A Tettleton and others in Duncan. Canada Dry Ginger Ale versus Wayne W. Fisher. Muskogee officials case involving J Clie mayor and city clerk. Allen D Strath and Louis A Schaffer co partners. White Knight Parking Lot versus FR Bo Murrey in Tulsa County.
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Oklahoma City
Suprams Court Apincoms
Onhattan Constructionm Company
Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company
Ed Deasley
State Industrial Cormmission
B. Fox
Ethel Fox
Cities Service Oil Company
Oklahoma
Fidelity-Phraiz Fire Insrance Company
Board of Education
Rosedale
Duncan
Stephens County
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc
Wayne W. Fisher
Muskogee County
Aid Deze
T. Sharpow
J. Clie
Muskogee
BR. L. Davis
Cunty
Allen D. Strath
Lou
U N Acknowledges Palestine Issue and Israeli Reality
BeWITT MacKENZIE analyzes UN potential role in Palestine as the Jewish state solidifies. He notes Israel’s resilience, Bunche’s remarks, and asks how UN guarantees peace while negotiating borders and a southern Negev future with potential irrigation, agriculture, and resources.
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Palestine
United Nations
Irael
Ralph Bunnehe
Palestiine
Bunche
USM
Israel
Peace Organization
Negev
U. . Assembly
Trans-Jordan
Bermadotte
Milton Keatings Visit in Ada
Mr and Mrs Milton Keating of Lawton visited overnight in Ada with their daughter Mrs Byron Appler Jr and her family She returned with them from a trip to Cleveland Ohio and Washington DC where he attended a national convention of secretaries of chambers of commerce Mr Keating was for several years secretary of the Adg Charity Chamber of Commerce for Greater returns for amounts vested.
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Milton Keating
Lawton
Ada
Byron Appler, Jr
Keatings
Cleveland
Ohio
Washington D.C
Secretaries of
Chambers of Commerce
Keating
Adg
Chariyber of Commerce
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