Colorful Oklahoma First Lady Willie Murray Dies at 54
Mrs. Willie Murray ex wife of Gov Johnston Murray died in Oklahoma City after a cancer battle. She was 54 and lay in state at the Capitol rotunda before a Saturday funeral at Crown Heights Methodist Church. Burial is planned in Weatherford.
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State
Willie Murray
Constitution
Lahoma City
Johnston Murray
Murray
Oklahoma City
Capitol
Crown Heights Methodist Church
Weatherford
Oklahoma
Alfalfa
Bill Murray
Ladies Music Club of
Southwestern State
Custer County
Cit
Blackwell
Tonkawa
Henry Bellman
Willie
Johnston Murra Jr
Bill
Johnston
Willie Murra
Raymond Gary
Texas
Budapest
Increasing cloudiness and cooler with scattered storms
Area weather forecast shows increasing clouds and cooler today with widely scattered thundershowers tonight and Friday. Highs near 65 today, 72 tomorrow, 69 Wednesday. Lows around 52 tonight and 44 last night. 11 a.m. reading 55. Volume 61 no 174.
Girl Aerialist Debuts With Ringling Bros Circus
Vicki Unus aged 18 debuts in New York as La Toria with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus where her father also stars. The Sarasota high school graduate performs 23 feet above the arena on a wrist strap and seeks higher height after a two month run toward Madison Square Garden.
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Charles West
NEW York
Center Ring
Vicki Unus
la Toria
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Franz F. Unus
Vicki
Sarasota
Fla
Madison Square Garden
Post Units Going To Army Exercise
Three Fort Sill units join Joint Exercise Coulee Crest at Yakima Washington for 15 days starting May 4. The 3rd Target Acquisition Battalion 26th Artillery leads 156 officers and men to back blue forces. Lt Dale D Burleson heads Battery B. The 661st Ordnance Company under Lt Robert Schulitz will man depots with 260 personnel. Lt Homer R Gardner commands 163d Transportation Company aiding red forces with 168 personnel. Major units include the 5th Infantry Division and elements of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division from Fort Carson Colorado. Several thousand personnel participate.
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Fort Sill
Yakima
Wash
26Th Artillery
Dale D. Burleson
661St Ordnance Company
Robert Schulitz
163D Transportation Company
Homer R. Gardner
5Th Infantry Division
Fort Lewis
5Th Mechanized Infantry Division
Fort Carson
Colo
Early June Adjournment Hopes Held in Oklahoma House
Oklahoma House Speaker J D McCarty urged adherence to a 1961 legislative procedure, hoping for an early June adjournment while the body rushes to finish May work. The session passed 16 bills totaling 3.8 million in appropriations, including 250 thousand to the governor's contingency fund.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
J. D. McCarty
House
McCarty
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Bill Skeith
McAlester
Atty
Charles Nesbitt
Roy Beecher
Kingfisher
Ray Fine
Gore
U. S
Fort Sill Soldier Shot at Chicken Shack Fight
Carlton Walker, a Fort Sill soldier, was hospitalized after a fight at the Chicken Shack in Lawton. Police say he was struck and shot by a youth who had also been in the venue earlier. Walker was taken to a local hospital then to the post hospital. the incident occurred around 2:20 a.m. with witnesses describing an argument and assault.
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Fort Sillman
Cleo Stout
Carlton Walker
36Th Arty
Fort Sill
Walker
U.S. Army Hospital
7Th
New York
Lawton
Beatrice Merrill
Harry R. Byrd
J. See Sill
Loyalists seize Mar del Plata base in Argentina uprising
Loyalist forces and 3 000 troops moved into Mar del Plata and took the rebel submarine base without firing a shot. Rear Adm Eladio Vasquez met with loyalist leaders on a possible truce as rebels held Puerto Belgrano and Bahia Blanca strongholds.
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Buenos Aires
Mar del Plata
Adm
Eladio Vasquez
Government House
Jose Maria Guido
Argentina
Puerto Belgrano
Here
Associated Press
Robert Berrellez
Navy
Marine
Bahia Blanca
Berrellez
Vazquez
Independencia
Telpyess
Espora
Bariloche
Naval Air Station
New Army Airplanes Arrive at Fort Sill Unit
Fort Sill receives Caribou transports as the 57th Aviation Company, formerly Otter equipped, is redesignated and readied to receive the twin engine cargo plane noted to carry up to 32 combat ready personnel and 4,268 pounds of cargo under Maj. H. C. Smith as part of Army aviation modernization.
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Fort Sill
Army
Post Field
57Th Aviation Company
Maj
H. C. Smith
Army Aviation
Vote Case Swap Hits Mississippi Justice Scene
In Greenwood Mississippi the government withdrew a bid for a temporary restraining order in a Negro voter registration dispute. Judge Claude Clayton scheduled a full hearing for October on a permanent injunction while eight jailed demonstrators await his decision.
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Greenwood, Miss
Greenwood
U.S
Clayton
Leflore County
Greenville
Tupelo
Miss
Dick Gregory
Mississippi Delta
Prices Rise as Sweden Hikes Hard Liquor Prices
Stockholm AP reports Sweden drives up hard liquor prices by 15 percent after a five week state monopoly strike. Parliament approved the measure 279 to 61, aiming to curb shortages and fund government needs though bottles remain scarce.
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Stockholm
Kansas Mayor Faces Tax Rap
Kansas City report: William H. Sermon former mayor of Independence Indicted for willful evasion of federal income taxes from 1956 to 1960. He allegedly earned 172 518 over five years and paid 58 499 in taxes while owing 225 834. Sermon led Eastern Jackson County Democrats and resigned as mayor in 1961 amid factional conflicts.
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Kansas City
William H. Sermon
Independence
Truman
Sermon
Jackson County
Roger
Weather outlook for southwest Oklahoma showers possible
Cloudy skies and cooler temperatures described for southwest Oklahoma. The U S Weather Bureau forecasts rain tonight or Friday with warmer conditions thereafter. Highs near 60s today, 52 at night, and a warmth to around 72 by Friday.
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Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
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