Wind and Rain Storm Roils Lawton Area
Strong winds early today in the Lawton area caused widespread minor property damage with no injuries reported. Rain totals reached up to three inches in Saddle Mountain as outages affected north of the railroad tracks. Heaviest damage occurred in Cache and Jackson County with farms and a home destroyed in a twister.
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George Gravley
Lawton
Saddle Mountain
Cache
Myrtle Terry
J. @ Conner
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Roosevelt
Friendship
Highway Patrol
Jackson County
Earl Kidd
Henry Townsend
J. Perry
A. D. Saddler
Bill Benigot
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Bavister
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Violence erupts in Santiago amid state of siege in Chile
In Santiago crowds of about 1,000 attacked police and soldiers as emergency military law expanded nationwide. Rioting left scores dead or wounded after attempts to storm the Pan American Bank. tanks and armored cars patrolled the capital as President Ibanez urged calm and promised strong action.
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Santiago
Chile
Pan American Bank
Carlos Ibanez
Benjamin Vidra
Horacio Gamboa
Yarborough Wins In Texas Victory in Senate race over Dies Hutcheson
Ralph Yarborough, 453, wins the Texas U S Senate race against Martin Dies and Thad Hutcheson as Democrats solidify a 49 4? edge. Final totals show Yarborough leading with 310842 votes, Dies 235016, Hutcheson 202721, amid GOP hopes of a tie and Nixon tiebreaker uncertainty.
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Omi
U. S. Senate
Ralph Yarborough
Yarborough
Rep
Martin Dies
Un-Americans Committee
GOP
Thad Hutcheson
Oery
Hutcheson
Senate
Nixon
Texas Election Bureau
Dies
Elgin School Receives Immediate $19,215 Aid
Elgin Independent School District No. 16 was awarded an immediate payment of $19,215 by the U S Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Rep Toby Morris said the district near Fort Sill is a federally impacted area and will receive a total tentative entitlement of $24,019.11 for 1958. A treasury check for $19,215 will be sent within a week to fund maintenance and operation.
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Elgin Independent School District No. 16
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Toby Morris
Fort Sill
Treasury
Morris
Heavy Rains and Tornadoes Lash Oklahoma
The state endured a dozen tornadoes and up to 4% inches of rain with widespread flooding. McAlester area saw the heaviest rainfall and several roads blocked by high waters. Schools closed in Pittsburg County as the McAlester Lake spillway neared capacity. creeks flooded docks and cabins. multiple rivers and creeks rose, sweeping U.S. highways and forcing closures across the region.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
McAlester
Weather Bureau
Pittsburg
Mekko
Mitchell
Tanne
Hill
Spring Hill
McAlester Lake
Oklahoma Texas twisters kill five across southern counties
Dozens of tornadoes ripped through southern and eastern Oklahoma, killing five people in Marshall Bryan and Murray counties. Durant and Little City suffered the heaviest damage with numerous homes wrecked and Southeast State College heavily damaged. Debris blocked highways as crews assessed property loss and injuries across multiple communities.
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Oklahoma
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Bryan
Murray
Pure Oil Co
Marshall County
Durant
Bryan County
Southeastern State College
Arbuckle Mountains
Ardmore
Murray Country
Joe Brimage
Lansing
Mich
Richard Dean
Mary Anne Dean
Donald W. Faulkner
Baxter Springs
Kan
Leland Polly
Joplin
Durant High School
Madill
Warren Petroleum Co
Cole
Dallas Tornado Toll Hits Ten as North Texas Braces
Tornadoes menaced north Texas after a deadly funnel killed 10 and injured nearly 200 yesterday. Dallas suffered four million dollars in damage, 75,000 homes lost power, and 4,000 telephones went out. The Dallas area saw 500 residents homeless as several funnels spanned county lines.
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Dallas
Texas
Eisenhower Denies Resignation Rumors Despite Pressure
President Eisenhower rejected reports he will resign before his second term ends and cede duties to Nixon. He called the rumors the worst rot since taking office and stressed his doctors deemed him able to continue. He recalled asserting fitness for a second term and questioned the source of the speculation. He also noted headlines over his rapid Gettysburg trip and said he would not let rumors affect his work.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nixon
Gettysburg
Ike
Israeli Pursue Arab Ambushers
United Press reports Israeli forces moved toward the Jordan border in pursuit of Fedayeen after ambushes on police patrols. A 20 minute border clash with Syrian troops was reported, while Jordanian tensions rose as patrols faced gunfire near Jerusalem and a farmer was killed near the Jordan border. King Hussein and Premier Nabulsi were described as in political turmoil over Jordanian alignment.
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United Press
Jordan
Fedayeen
Israel
Nehemiah Brosh
Jerusalem
Taibeh
Israali
Ere
Hussein
Suleiman Nabulsi
Sooner Dies In Navy Bomber Crackup At Chincoteague
The Navy identified nine officers and two enlisted men killed in a Neptune patrol bomber crash near Chincoteague Virginia Tuesday. Among the dead is Cmdr. Eugene T. Allen co pilot from Chincoteague, son of Mr and Mrs William D Allen of Fairview.
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Navy
Chincoteague
Cmdr
Eugene T. Allen
Ae Wiliam D. Allen
Fairview
Pilot Survives Jet Crackup Near McAlester
McALester A F B. Fla. Capt. Ed Powell of Tyndall AFB survived a training jet crash after being trapped for about 90 minutes. He was found by Highway Patrolman H C Carmichael and rushed to a local hospital in Panama City, Panama City, Fla. Powell, 31, was not believed to be seriously injured. Carmichael initially had trouble locating the wreckage on a ranch five miles south of town.
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H. C. Carmichael
Ed Powell
Tyndall Afb
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Panama City
Powell
Carmichael
Here
Blizzard Kills Five in Rockies
A spring blizzard swept the Rockies today causing five deaths and heavy rainfall. The storm damaged towns and farms, with five-foot snow drifts in mountain watersheds and wide power and transit outages. Schools closed across Denver Cheyenne and many rural districts while Dallas faced a devastating tornado that killed or injured hundreds and destroyed hundreds of homes. Red Cross shelters opened as relief efforts mobilized nationwide.
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Rocky Mountain States
Jubicant Farm
Cheyenne
Wyo
Oak Cliff
Trinity
Dallas
Love Field
Bill McGill
Defense and Disaster Relief
Red Cross
McGill
Tornado Warning Area Moves East in Oklahoma and Surrounding States
The Weather Bureau issued a forecast at 10 20 a m today predicting thunderstorms across northeast Texas southeast Oklahoma and western Arkansas with severe storms and tornadoes from 10 a m to 4 p m within 60 miles of a line from Lom Tyler Texas to Paducah Kentucky encompassing Oklahoma's southeast and areas near Hugo and Heavener.
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Weather Bureau
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
U S Attacks Hungary Puppet Regime Over Stalinist Terror
In Washington, the United States accuses Moscow's puppet regime in Hungary of regressing to Stalinist terror practices. The statement asserts Russian forces remain and lack popular confidence, existing only with Soviet troop protection.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Hungary
Lawton Lawton Family Shopping Day campaign launches Thursday
Lawton retail merchants start a 33 week effort promoting Thursday as Family Shopping Day. Sponsored by the Retail Committee of the Lawton Chamber of Commerce, ads run in papers and on radio and TV to broaden Lawton shopping and showcase wide merchandise and fair prices. Stores extend hours to 3 pm each Thursday to aid daytime shoppers.
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Ad- See Family Night
Face & Ca
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