Five Injured In Accident At Sixth And Highland
Five persons were injured in a morning crash at the corner of Sixth and Highland around 7:45. Martha Ann Newburn and Agnew Newburn were in the eastbound car. Jack Blom and two Holdenville passengers were in the southbound vehicle. Valley View hospital treated lacerations and chest injuries.
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Sixth
Highland
Valley View Hospital
Martha Ann Newburn
Byars
Jack Blom
Holdenville
Ed Blue
Newburn
Blom
Agnew Newburn
Johnny Warren
John Simmons
Pleads Guilty In Burglary Case
Harley M. Ritchardson pled guilty to second degree burglary and received a five year suspended sentence after arraignment in Percy Armstrong’s peace court. He admitted to burglarizing Bayless Drug Store at 116 East Main on August 2, taking two pistols four cigarette lighters and 85 cents. Police arrested him after a cut on his arm from a broken rear window pane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley M. Ritchardson
Builty
John Boyce McKee
Peace Justice
Percy Armstrong
Ritchardson
Bayless
East Main
Cecil Smith
Jet crashes in Rome belly landing injures none aboard
A BOAC Comet jet taking off from Ciampino airport for the second leg of a London to Johannesburg flight wobbled after lift off and belly landed. All 36 passengers and six crew escaped unharmed though the aircraft was badly damaged. Officials said the cause was not yet determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Britain
Ciampino
British Overseas Airways
London
Johannesburg
Lt Col Sharp Named Provost Marshal in Korea
Lt Col Hubert W. Sharp of Konawa Oklahoma has arrived in Korea and is named provost marshal of X Corps. He and his family remain in Shawnee while he serves in the armed forces. The report notes his Army entry in 1940 with the Oklahoma National Guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Konawa
Hubert W. Sharp
S. M. Sharp
Route 2
Korea
X Corps
Sharp
Kathryn
Shawnee
Oklahoma National Guard
Munsan
U. N
Sagema
Assails Dollar Value Hit By Inflation Says Senator
Vermont Senator Ralph E. Flanders charged that Democratic policy has reduced the dollar’s value and forced life insurance firms to shift investments from government bonds to private securities. He claimed inflation is encouraged for political reasons and cited a drop from 50 percent to 20 percent in government bond holdings since the last election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ralph E. Flanders
Vermont
Republican National Committee
Flanders
Large trout lands at San Francisco fishing hole
The latest and largest trout from Lake Merced was caught after a 25 minute struggle and a broken rod by Claude H. Dickens of San Francisco. The nine pound rainbow was three years old and the lake had been stocked with nine inch fish by the Fish and Game Department in fall 1950. Earlier that day 14-year old Dave Dunn caught a 7 1/2 pound trout and a 6 1/2 pounder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Sanancisco
Republicans Expand Election Charges Across Oklahoma Counties
Republicans in Oklahoma add Haskell Sequoyah Pittsburg and Creek Counties to election irregularities claims. Cherokee County denied similar charges. Sequoyah has 33 precincts but nine registrars. A Sapulpa suit to replace Creek County election board members who don’t live in precinct is planned. Floyd Carrier urges action. Governor Murray calls it politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklaahoma
Haskell
Sequoyah
Pittsburgh
Creek
Cherokee County
GOP
Johnston Murray
State Central Committee
Haskell Sequoyah
Pittsburg
Sapulpa
Albert Kelly
Bristow
Creek County
State Election Board
J. William Cordell
Floyd Carrier
Murray
De Valera May Be Forced to Retire
Dublin reports Premier Eamon de Valera faces possible retirement as eye trouble worsens His Utrecht clinic doctors plan more treatment after three operations He may be unable to continue daily duties Fianna Fail names potential successors Sean LeMass and Frank Aiken as cabinet peers await uncertain future
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Dublin
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Utrecht
Holland
de Valera
Fianna Fail
Freedom Fighter
Sean LeMass
Frank Aiken
Game of Chicken Fatal Crash Sparks Manslaughter Charge
Joy Henry Jones, 29, of Ft Pierce was charged with manslaughter after a head on collision at St Lucie Airport during a game of chicken. Peterson, 24, died. Jones and a female companion were injured along with Jones’s other passenger as both cars were destroyed.
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Ft. Pierce
Fla
Joy Henry Jones
Florida Highway Patrol
St. Lucie
Jones
Henry Hayward Peterson
Drunk Driving Charges Filed Against Thurman Bass
Thurman Harrell Bass of Mays Ville faces county court charges of drunk driving after being picked up by Highway Patrolman Aubrey A. Mitchell. Bass was reported to be driving a 1952 Ford on Ada's Main Street when apprehended.
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Thurman
Harrell Bass
Mays Ville
Aubrey A. Mitchell
Bass
Main Street
Ada
Manchester Out of Bounds for U S Airmen
The U S Air Force bans all American airmen from Manchester following two recent gang attacks on service personnel. Brig Gen Robert C Oliver of Burtonwood said the ban remains until further notice as MP's faced serious assaults by armed assailants amid ongoing demonstrations against stationing of U S troops.
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Warrington
Eng
U.S. Air Force
Manchester
Robert C. Oliver
U.S
Burtonwood
Britain
Air Force
Putnam Plans Action on Lewis WSB Override Bid
Washington reports economic stabilizer Roger Putnam will act early next week on the wage boost petition from John L. Lewis and the struck soft coal industry. The appeal argues for higher wages and fringe benefits for about 375,000 miners and urges special consideration under the stabilization program. The petition is signed by Lewis and Moses, a former U S Steel official who handles coal negotiations for 240 million tons of production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roger Putnam
John L. Lewis
Putnam
Wage Stabilization Board
U. S
WSB
Harry M. Moses
Moses
U. S. Steel
Miss USA Jackie Loughery Marries Guy Mitchell in Hollywood
Brooklyn born Jackie Loughery Miss USA of 1952 wed singer Guy Mitchell yesterday at the Little Brown Church in the Valley. Mitchell arrived from Sacramento for the ceremony and will begin a Hollywood singing engagement while Loughery plans to report to work at a film studio.
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Hollywood
Jackie Loughery
Brooklyn
Guy Mitchell
Little Brown
Mitchell
Sacramento
Calif
Long Beach
Six Brown children to undergo surgery for extra digits
The six children of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown of Holly Springs Ark will have operations next week to remove their extra fingers and toes. Mrs Brown also has extra digits and says the condition imposes high clothing and footwear costs for the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Holly Springs
John H. Brown
Milk Suppliers in Ada Approved under Health Standard
Ada lists nine Grade A milk bottlers and distributors including Ada Dairy Products Inc Coody Dairy Ada Braden Dairy Shawnee Steffens Dairy and Seminole Dairy Products. Four Pontotoc County firms Granger Jersey Dairy Sam Dew Dairy Hisle Brothers Ada Jersey Dairy and Pontotoc Guernsey Farm sell Grade A raw milk. All operate under U S Public Health Service standard milk ordinance in Ada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Mills Garrison, Sanitarian
Ada Airy Products, Inc
Coody Dairy
Braden Dairy
Sulphur
Steffens Dairy
Shawnee
Seminole Dairy Products
Seminole
Pontotoc County
Granger Jersey Dairy
Sam Dew Dairy
Hisle Brothers Ada Jersey Dairy
Pontotoc Guernsey Farm
U. S. Public Health Service
Chicago Tribune backs Eisenhower in Sunday editorial
The Chicago Tribune urged voters to back Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for president, saying he is far from ideal but preferred to Gov. Stevenson. The paper argued a stronger Eisenhower vote would boost anti socialist Republican gains in Congress and mentioned Col. Robert R. McCormick’s earlier call for an American party.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Dwight D. Eisenhower
the Tribune
Eisenhower
Gov
Stevenson
Republican
Gen
Congress
Gen. Eisenhower
Petroleum And Gas Workers Top Wage Average
Oklahoma City reports petroleum and gas production average a weekly 86.94 dollars, highest among groups. Dave Vandivier notes earnings for 41.4 hours at 2.10 dollars per hour, up from 1.89 and 83.35 for 44.1 hours a year ago. Refining workers earned 82.56 for 39.5 hours at 2.09, hourly rate up 18 cents. Hotel workers averaged 28.38 for 47.3 hours at 60 cents per hour, up two cents from September 1951.
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Oklahoma City
Pp Petroleum and Gas
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
Dave Vandivier
Commission
Beulah of Films Actress Hattie McDaniel Dies
Hollywood confirms the death of Hattie McDaniel age 57, star of Beulah on radio and TV and 1938 Academy Award winner for Gone With the Wind. Illness forced retirement from the Beulah program. show continued via radio transcriptions of her voice.
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Hollywood
Hattie McDaniel
Beulah
Miss McDaniel
Scarlett O’hara
105 year old woman votes absentee with help
Seattle reports Mrs Agatha Hamill aged 105 voted absentee in the November 4 general election with aid from her son Arthur 65 who guided her fingers. She discussed the presidential choices noting Eisenhower and Stevenson and kept her ballot choice secret.
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Seattle
Agatha Hamill
Arthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Polio Patient Is An Acute Case
Myrna Lou Whisenhunt eleven of Oleta was admitted to Valley View hospital polio ward Friday afternoon her condition reported good Saturday the new polio patient was listed as an acute case raising the number in this category to two Sandra Scott of Mill Creek is the other acute patient hospital officials report there are two other patients in ward
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Myrna Lou Whisenhunt
Oleta
Valley View Hospital
Sandra Scott
Mill Creek
Local Notices From Ada Area Readings
John Gibson of New Mexico arrived to be with his ill mother Mrs. Bell Artor in an Ada hospital. Roland Wilson was ill with a sore throat over the weekend. D C Scott is home from the hospital improving slowly. Oklahoma City visitors Mr. and Mrs Henry Ray visited friends in Ada. Mrs. L B Lackey hosted a birthday gathering for daughter Jannelle and son Lewis Howard. Jiggs Jackson of Seminole visited his parents. J R Betson spent Sunday with Fort Worth relatives. Mrs Joe Parker and her son visited Ada relatives.
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John Gibson
New Mexico
Bell Artor
Ada
Jiggs Jackson
Seminole
Z. C. Jackson
J. R. Betson
Fort Worth
Joe Parker
L. B. Alexander
Mr and Mrs Luther Linn Visit Friends in Fittstown
Mr and Mrs Luther Linn of Seminole spent Sunday with friends in Fittstown.
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Luther Linn
Fittstown
Higgs Family Plans Visit With McAlester Kin
Mr and Mrs Leonard Higgs and their sons of McAlester spent Saturday with his father George Higgs. The trip highlighted family ties and a shared weekend gathering in the region.
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Leonard Higgs
McAlester
George Higgs
Lieutenant Slocum to Depart Fort Lee for Charleston Duty
Lt. R. C. Slocum Ada Oklahoma commands the 959th Quartermaster Petroleum Products Laboratory Fort Lee for three months and will move with his unit to the Charleston Transportation Corps Depot in Charleston South Carolina He is a Tulsa Central High School 1946 and University of Oklahoma 1950 graduate married to Jane Anne with daughter Sandra Jane and parents Mr and Mrs Ray Slocum of Ada Oklahoma.
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Fort Lee
R. C. Slocum
Ada
Okla
959Th
Quartermaster Petroleum Products Laboratory
Mobile
Charleston Transportation Corps
Charleston
S. C
Tulsa Central High School
Slocum
University of Oklahoma
Army Reserve
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Army
Jane Anne
Sandra Jane
Ray Slocum
West Eighteenth Street
Oklahoma
Konawa Plans Armistice Day Observance
Konawa schedules Armistice Day events on November 11 led by the Cable-Jumper post and Auxiliary of the American Legion. A downtown parade with the Konawa high school band ends at city hall with a flag-raising. R A Hartsell will give the main address at the Rex theater program afterward. Les Nordeen hosts a free matinee for children and schools may dismiss for the show. Doughnuts and coffee will follow at the hut.
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Konawa
American Legion
Wilsey Wise Hut
R. A. Hartsell
Church of Christ
Rex Theater
Les Nordeen
Legion and Auxiliary
Highway 12 to receive retread surface in district plan
S H 12 from Murray Pontotoc county line to the Scullin Y will get a retread surface and the same work will follow on the Y to Alphur. Earl Anderson district highway head says completion before cold weather is expected. The surface will reduce bumps and slick spots on the old road.
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Murray- Pontotoc County
Rofs
Scullin Y
Alphur
Earl Anderson
Highway Division
Nine Dogs Attack Kill Mississippi Farmer in Philadelphia
A 47 year old Mississippi farmer William Pierce was found dead in a ditch after nine ferocious dogs attacked him. County Atty Laurel Weir said all flesh was gone from his left arm and toes were eaten from his right foot. Sheriff Madison Spears said the family would be satisfied if the dogs were slain. he shot all nine dogs yesterday.
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Philadelphia
Miss.p
Laurel Weir
William Pierce
Weir
Madison Spears
Ambulance Collision Injures Player. Horse Killed On Route
An ambulance carrying an injured Allen football player from Tishomingo to Ada struck a horse. no one aboard was hurt. Wayne Gray suffered leg and back injuries but was released from Valley View hospital. The horse died. the ambulance sustained minor damage after jumping a fence about 100 yards down the highway.
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Tishomingo
Ada
Wayne Gray
Dave Gray
Allen
Valley View Hospital
Aubrey Mitchell
Russell Chapman
Chapman Funeral Home
Fittstown
Morse Attacks Eisenhower Pledge In Korea Visit
Senate criticism centers on Eisenhower pledge to visit Korea if elected president. Senator Wayne Morse resigns from the Republican party calling Eisenhower's move a cheap political stunt and declares himself an independent. Morse argues top Pentagon officials already assess the war and that a presidential visit would not hasten peace.
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Washington
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Eisenhower
Korea
Morse
Republican Party
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Pace
Air Force
Finletter
Pentagon
L Eisenhower
Two forgers escape Oklahoma State Penitentiary walls
Two convicted forgers escaped the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Friday night. Warden Jerome J. Waters Jr. identified the escapees as Thomas C. Elliott, 26, of Oklahoma City, and Arthur Grimsley, 30, of Chickasha. They wore prison blue denims and may have concealed themselves in the football field before climbing the wall after dark.
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Mcalester
Okla
State Penitentiary
Jerome J. Waters Jr
Thomas C. Elliott
Oklahoma City
Arthur Grimsley
Chickasha
Big Prairie Fire Rages Near Beggs
A prairie fire burned over eight square miles east of Beggs in Okmulgee County and remained out of control at nightfall. Three farm homes were reported burned as residents and Okmulgee Technical Training School students aided the effort. the Okmulgee Fire Department fought 15 grass fires in the city.
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Beggs
Okla
Okmulgee
Okmulgee County
Public Address System Installed at Sulphur First Methodist
Sulphur special report notes a new church public address system at First Methodist, with one microphone and two speakers in the sanctuary and portable units for outreach. nursery hearing speaker added. youth fellowship led by Rev Bonner Teeter and Russell Brown raised 100 dollars toward a 200 dollar project. Loyalty Day set for Sunday November 2 with 25 pews to be filled by 25 pledging members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Bonner Teeter
Russell Brown
W. P. Colley
Henry George
Doc Braden
Lee Peveto
Paul John
Jim Zeimer
John Summers
H. E. Cape
W. T. Taylor
Roy Brown
Aneece Hassen
P. V. Annadown
Hilda Biffle
Mary McDaniel
Louella Bales
Fred
Kamikaze storms halted Mongol invasions of Japan
In the 13th century typhoons twice stopped the Mongol invasions, leading the Japanese to call the winds kamikaze meaning divide wind or divine wind in their history.
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Japan
Fourth Annexation Petition Is Filed in Cedar Grove District
A fourth petition to annex Cedar Grove school district No. 47 to Byng district has 47 signers. County Superintendent Norman C Mitchell notes action awaits resolution of a restraining order on another case. Hearing set for October 28. prior petitions were invalid or blocked by absentee voter questions.
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Cedar Grove
Byng
Francis
Norman C. Mitchell
Mitchell
Fire damages Butter Krust bakery in Oklahoma City
A two alarm blaze gutted the Butter Krust bakery garage in Oklahoma City destroying 16 delivery trucks and one sedan with damage up to 75000 dollars. Automotive equipment and a small office burned flames saved the pastry shop in the basement. Firemen faced exploding gasoline tanks but controlled the fire in about an hour with no injuries. The fire originated from an undetermined source discovered by an employee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Cty
Krust Bakery
Pioneer Oklahoma Newsman Dies at 74
Pi-Roy Milo McClintock, a veteran Oklahoma newspaperman, died yesterday at age 74. He worked with papers in Tulsa Winita Wichita Kas Fargo N C Oklahoma City and Colorado. He covered the Oklahoma Legislature for the Tulsa Tribune in 1922 and served as city editor briefly. He was secretary to Governor Kerr in 1942 and recently worked at the State Library before retiring in May due to ill health.
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Oklahoma City
Roy Milo McClintock
Oklahoma
McClintock
Tulsa
Winita
Wichita
Kas
Fargo
N.C
Colorado
Oklahoma Legislature
Tulsa Tribune
Robert S. Kerr
State Library
Suspect Admits Killing Nurse at Wesley Memorial
Chicago police Capt. John Warren said after hours of questioning Romaine Taylor 29 admitted he shot to death Margaret Brett 27 chief surgical nurse at Wesley Memorial Hospital Miss Brett formerly lived in Ponca City Oklahoma She was killed Sept 15 while seated in a parked car with Dr Ira Tresley also hospital staff Tresley was unhurt
Youth Displays Courage After Self-Inflicted Hunting Injury
Likie R. Smith, 17, of Branchland West Virginia, accidentally shot himself while hunting. He hiked half a mile carrying his exposed organs to reach a mountain trail, then was taken to a Huntington hospital in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlin
W. Va
Likie R. Smith
Branchland
Huntington
Leger Wounded in Oklahoma City Bootlegger Ambush
Orville Chambless, a 35 year old bootlegger linked to a $248000 robbery of Cuban counter revolutionaries, was shot at in his home last night. Sheriff Bob Turner placed a 24 hour guard as FBI agents join the ambush probe and seek the triggerman amid an underworld gang tied to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Orville Chambless
Ft. Worth
Chambless
Mary Lou
Bob Turner
FBI
Start Harvesting Trial Lettuce Crop On Farm at Altus
Crews began harvesting an experimental Oklahoma lettuce crop on the George Elliott farm in the Altus Lavert irrigation project. He expects 60 acres to yield about $1,000 per carload, with 20 acres harvested today and plans to extend to the remaining 40 acres next week. Growers from Arizona and California visited, signaling strong interest.
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Altus
Oklah
Oklahoma
George Elliott
Altus- Lavert
Elliott
Arizona
California
Women's Clubs of Konawa Promote Get Out the Vote
Konawa reports a joint drive by three federated women’s clubs and the Business and Professional Women’s club to increase voter turnout for the November election. Volunteers canvassed neighborhoods, leaving placards when residents were absent, and promoting registration information. The Phil Avant club sponsors a poster contest for area students with themes of Americanism, offering prizes of 5, 3, and 2 dollars. the top ten posters will be displayed downtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Konawa
Pioneer
Phil Avant
Bpw
Phil Avant Club
Improper Exhaust Charge Dismissed in Ada Court
Donald Ray Hammonds faced a charge of operating a motor vehicle with an improper exhaust in Peace Justice C. W. Floyd's court. The charge was dismissed upon the county attorney's recommendation after a stop eight miles south of Ada on SH 13 by highway patrolman Aubrey A. Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Ray Hammonds
C. W. Floyd
Allen
Ada
SH 13
Aubrey A. Mitchell
Oklahoma Potato Crop Value Report for 1952
The Employment Security Commission estimates Oklahoma's 1952 potato crop at 1.667 million dollars. Farmers earned 933 thousand for strawberries, 916 thousand for processing spinach, 468 thousand for snap beans, 35 thousand for processing tomatoes, and 30 thousand for onions.
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Oklahoma City
m_Te
Oklahoma
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Jannelle
Lewis Howard
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