Pilot Hobby Shop Lead by Pvt George Harris at Keesler Field
Pvt George Harris 26 son of Mr and Mrs Roy Harris of 600 East Twelfth runs a hobby shop at Keesler Field Mississippi for airline pilot trainees. He engineered tool checkouts and benches and built projects from knitting boards to a modern white leather desk. He previously flew for Pan American and Penn Central and taught basic flight at Brady and Brownwood AAFS. The shop began with a $200 fund and now powers a range of equipment for hands on learning.
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George Harris
Roy S. Harris
East Twelfth
Army
ATC
Keesler Field
Miss
Harris
Pvt
Fort Worth
Tex
Pan American
Penn Central
Capitol Airlines
Brady
Brownwood
Texas
AAFS
Sheppard Field
Blackshirts Writhe at Sight of Duce's Palace School
In Rome, English speaking children from many nations attend an overseas Rome school housed in Foro Mussolini now Foro Italia. The mix of American British and European families forms a volunteer staff with U S Army support. A diverse faculty spearheads a rigorous program under Miss Anna Thomas and leaders like Miss Edith Lillian Watson and Dr Elizabeth Schorr.
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Rome
America
Foro Mussolini
Foro
Italia
Scotland
MNRRA
United States
England
Sylvia Horwitz
New York City
U. S. Army
Charles L. Dasher
Mussolini Forum
Anna Thomas
Fela
Gland
Switzeland
Edith Lillian Watson
London Royal Academy of Music
Henr
R. H. Nichol
McGill University
James Gray
San Francisco
Elizabeth Schorr
University of Vienna
Paris Sorbonne
Richard Hauser
Rogge Fired Over Nazi References Policy Row
Attorney General Clark dismissed O John Rogge over a speech alleging Nazi schemes to influence elections. Rogge said Clark planned to handle sedition cases personally and that he would continue to tell the public about fascism.
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Washington
Clark
O. John Rogge
Rogge
Justice Department
Seattle
Swarthmore College
Department of Justice
Edward E. Eicher
Many Radios Readied For Christmas Gift Selections
Readers are shown a broad range of radios and radio phonographs as Christmas gifts. The article discusses cabinet styles TABLE MODELS CHAIRSIDE CONSOLES and console models, and explains how each suits different rooms and uses.
OPA Ends Intervention in Utility Rate Cases
Harry R. Booth resigns as OPA utilities counsel signaling end of federal price agency opposition to utility rate increases. Decontrol of foods is cited as undermining stabilization claims while state and federal standards remain to govern reasonableness of charges. An OPA aide says expect less intervention as decontrol continues. Porter may suspend Saturday radio talks to housewives depending on price control remaining after decontrol.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
OPA
Harry R. Booth
OPA Utilities
Public Utilities Branch
Booth
Price Agency
Paul A. Porter
Porter
Modern cabinets and record gear brighten holiday gifts
Storage rooms become starter homes with new cabinets in various styles. Improvements in automatic record changers and English makers appearing in quality lines expand listening options. A radio with a phonograph jack can connect a record player. Home recorders including clock controlled tape recorders preserve programs and memories. Radio phonograph combos promise fine Christmas gifts.
VFW Auxiliary Ends Jelly Drive And Plans Smok es Delivery
Local VFW Auxiliary reports $23 collected in downtown jelly boxes and bottles to buy cigars for veterans in hospitals. They thank donors and will deliver jams and jellies and smok es to the Veterans Hospital at Sulphur this week.
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VFW
Veterans Hospital
Sulphur
Oklahoma farmer Gauldin jailed 25 years for wife slaying
District Judge A P Van Meter formally sentenced Robert Lee Gauldin to 25 years in the penitentiary after a July murder verdict. The judge overruled a new trial motion. attorneys may appeal with a $25,000 bond. Also noted, transport firms spent over 106 million dollars on fuel and lubricants.
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Clayer
Oklahoma City
A. P. van Meter
Robert Lee Gauldin
Oklahoma County
van Meter
Gauldin
Another Grandson For the Morrises
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hoover announce the birth of a son Frank Calhoun Hoover Friday night at 8 30 o clock. This is the third boy name chosen for Morris grandsons, linking to Clyde Calhoun Morris and Kathryn Morris nee Hoover. The infant weighed eight and a half pounds and joins two older Morris boys in the family standings.
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Billy Hoover
West Fifteenth
Frank Calhoun Hoover
Frank Calhoun
Hoovers
Calhoun
Hoover
Kathryn Morris
C. C. Morris
Dr. Morris
First Baptist Church
Clyde Calhoun Morris
Morris
Don Highs
Oklahoma City
Virginia Morris
Bill Hoover
Kathryn
Jed Johnson Plans Apple Experiments on Oklahoma Farm
Rep. Jed Johnson of Oklahoma announces upcoming apple trials on his Chickasha farm. He plans to plant about 100 trees after the November election and will include at least 18 varieties, testing types not usually suited for Oklahoma. He also grows pecans with 36 pecan trees existing alongside the orchard.
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Washington
Jed Johnson
D.-Okla
Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Lloyd Stark
Stark
Johnson
Chickasha
Oklo
Oklahoma
Few Veterans Loans Foreclosed In Oklahoma City Area
The regional Veterans Administration office said only six of 276 loans to veterans in 47 counties were foreclosed. L. O. Gilstrap noted some loans accounted for 90 percent of guaranties with only two foreclosures. Over 14 months 5 396 loans were approved and eight foreclosures occurred. Bill Ragan marked his seventieth birthday. his wife died four months earlier, and they would have celebrated their fiftieth anniversary.
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Oklahoma City
Veterans Administration
L. O. Gilstrap
Bill Ragan
East Ninth
Mrs. Ragan
Satevenost Uses Ad Man's Story
Henry C. Jones advertising manager of the C. R. Anthony Co Oklahoma City wrote "The Big Lot Sale" in The Saturday Evening Post October issue. The story will be broadcast as a 15 minute dramatized program on The Listening Post October 29 at 9 45 a m.
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Henry C. Jones
C. R. Anthony Company
Oklahoma City
Saturday Evening Post
Listening Post
American Broadcasting Company
Campaigning From Hospital Bed by Lola Peery Taylor
Mrs Lola Peery Taylor Republican nominee for commissioner of charities and corrections campaigns from a hospital bed after injuries from a September 19 automobile accident. A fractured leg and arm and head injuries limit mobility but she sends out thousands of campaign cards and letters while recovering in Stillwater.
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Oklahoma City
Lola Peery Taylor
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections
Taylor
Stillwater
Chickasha
Oklahoma to Set 60 MPH Day and 50 MPH Night Speed Limit
Oklahoma’s State Safety Commissioner J M Gentry announced the next legislature should establish a 60 mile per hour daytime limit and 50 mile per hour at night. Attorney General Williamson ruled the 45 mile limit remains in force due to a legislative quirk, though Gentry argues it is impractical. The highway patrol will enforce only speeds reasonable for road conditions.
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Oklahoma City
J. M. Gentry
Mac Q. Williamson
Criminal Court of Appeals
Williamson
Gentry
Highway Patrol
Former Soldier Denies Army Order to Leave Rome Hotel
Oct. 26 A lone American civilian refused an Army order to move from Rome's Ex Caad Ex celsior Hotel while fellow War Department employees packed their bags under threat of discharge for insubordination. Robert Ezell a lanky former Fifth Army sergeant from Tucson Arizona said he would not leave and would observe a solemn pledge not to depart unless forced out.
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Rome
Excelsior
War Department
Robert Ezell
Fifth Army
Tucson
Ariz
Annual Meeting Of Pontotoc County Red Cross Chapter
The Pontotoc County Chapter of the American Red Cross holds its annual meeting Monday night at 8 in the Aldridge Hotel dining room. Dr. Frank Spencer will speak, officers will be elected, by law amendments considered, and the year’s activities and finances summarized. The report covers $100,000 in donations over four years and $3,938.52 in military aid so far in 1946 plus 750 home service cases.
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Pontotoc County
The
American Red Cross
Aldridge Hotel
Frank Spencer
East Central College
Ada
J. A. Richardson
Red Cross
Richardson
Mitchell S. Epperson
Joyce Miller
W. W. Sledge
Home and Hospital Service
J. H. Biles
Ada Members Attend Fourth District American Legion Event
Five Ada Auxiliary members and two Howard-Maxey Post 72 members attended the Fourth District convention of the American Legion and Auxiliary in Seminole. Speakers included department leaders led by Mrs. O B Grimmett. The Ada unit reported hospital visits, donations, and eight delegates elected to the department convention.
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Ada
Howard-Maxey
American Legion and Auxiliary
Seminole
Robert Ferguson
Shi Cash
E. H. Schroeder
Winston Wiggs
J. A. Lea
Joe Roper
O. B. Grimmett
Cash
Clarence Duffy
Ponca City
Ferguson
Muskogee
Dewey Snider
Will Rogers Hospital
Oklahoma City
Vet
Department
Orators Target Get Out The Vote In Final Campaign Push
Democratic and Republican speakers enter the last week before the November 5 election aiming to boost turnout amid apathy. Governor Kerr centering on a large Democratic turnout after a 17-city swing. Democrats insist Little Dixie leans their way if voters participate.
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Gene Potes
Oklahoma City
Little Dixie
Robert S. Kerr
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Duce
Frank Brutto
Hal Boyle
BRACK
C. Curry
Mrs
Genevieve Smith
Financial Employer Guild
CIO
Wall Street
Bankers Trust Co
Bankers
Sulphur Hospital
Fred T. Motz
Flushing
United Nations Police Force
United Nations
Morrises
Family Friday
Jed
Satevenost
Ad Man
C. R. Anthony
Jeat
Mike
Uncle Sam
Fort Collins
Colo
Leslie L. Craig
Craig
Charles J. Morrison
County Red Cross Chapter
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