Easter Service Singers To Record For Wichita Mountains Pageant
Russell Peterson announces the 193% presentation The Music Hour begins at 12 15 am Sunday with congregational singing at 1 30 am The flagan starts at 2 am and ends at dawn about 4 50 am All music except congregational singing will be recorded to improve tone and prevent pauses Participating choirs include Centenary Methodist Fort Sill W.E.B Post Chapel Duncan First Baptist Duncan High School Madison group and Layton First Christian with several named soloists and choirs The event will be recorded at the New Post Chapel by Chaplain Sheffield See MUSIC Page 2 Col 1
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Wichita Mountains
Russell Peterson
Cameron College
Peterson
Centenary Methodist Church
C. A. Roberts
Fort Sill Wen Post Chapel
Isaac Hawkins
Andrew ,Householder
Frank Wanhiman
Kenneth Westerdahl
Chicago
Amerly
Fort Sill
Midwestern University
Chita Falls
Tex
Duncan First Baptist Church
Bob Woolley
Duncan High School
Allen Clinkscales
First Christian Church
Laywton
New Post Chapel
O. Sheffield
Frank Kauhlman
Immanuel
Patrol Cruisers and Plane Assigned for Easter Pageant
Forty five Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers in 23 cruisers and a patrol plane will guard Easter Pageant traffic. Lt. F. A. Mussen and Capt. W. E. Shackelford lead units from Lawton and Oklahoma City with 10 local and 13 from other districts. Officers urge worshippers to prepare, fuel up, and stay in line to reduce congestion.
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Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Holy
Oklahoma City
F. A. Mussen
Lawton
W. Ei
Shackelford
Oklahoma
Lt Mussen
Mussen
Warm Weather Expected For Easter Pageant Plans
The weather bureau forecasts warm conditions for Easter Sunday with 1 to 3 degrees above normal highs and lows over the five day period Thursday through Monday. Thunderstorms are possible tonight and Thursday and again Sunday or Monday with moderate to heavy rains, varying by region. Meanwhile, preparations for the Wichita Morning Easter Service, the 32nd annual pageant, proceed with final rehearsals and lighting adjustments as director Jack Batten reports the program is near completion.
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Weather Bureau
Wichita
Jack Batten
Discharged Soldier Brought to Vinita for Quick Prosecution
Billie Lou Gregory a 19 year old from Disney Oklahoma was moved from Fort Sill to Vinita for immediate arraignment on a charge of attempted robbery. The case follows a Mayes county jail dispute where he was held 18 months without trial on burglary charges. The state appealed for speedy trial rights and won. Gregory will be arraigned at once in Craig county with no delay expected.
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Fort Sill
Vinita
Billie Lou Gregory
Disney
Okla
Mayes County
State Criminal] Court of Appeals
Gregory
Craig County
Comanche County
Army
Col
Chemical Plant Blast Kills Four at Monsanto Site
An explosion at a Monsanto Chemical Co plant near Charleston West Virginia leveled a three story building, killed four workers and injured five others. Chlorine fumes forced 1500 residents to evacuate as the shell building shattered at the Nitro installation fifteen miles away.
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Charleston
W, Va
Monsanto Chemical Co
Monsanto
Nitro
W. Va
Distance Dialing Directories Out
Telephone directories for direct distance dialing are mailed to Lawton subscribers as the new system goes into effect Sunday April 28. The 730 listed towns show the area three-digit codes preceding local numbers. calls to other regions require dialing area code digits before the seven-digit number.
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Lawton
Southwestern Bell
United States
DDD
Toe
Oklahoma
Bea
Eisenhower Hopes for Suez Solution Without UN
President Eisenhower said the United States still hopes to resolve the Suez Canal dispute with Egypt without immediate UN Security Council action. He indicated progress in talks, did not rule out UN involvement long term, and affirmed that both the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba remain international waterways open to ships of all nations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
U.N. Security Council
Egypt
Council
Gulf of Agana
Suez Canal
TRE
A Tests May Cause Cancer by Nuclear Test Radiation
The Atomic Scientists Assn of Britain warns a single high yield nuclear test could cause up to 20,000 bone cancers worldwide over decades. They base this on a hypothesis linking bone cancer to total radioactivity, with an H-bomb test potentially yielding about 3,000 casualties per million tons of TNT.
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London
Atomic Scientists Assn
Bikini
Gulf Oil Rig Turns Over Off Mississippi River
A Gulf of Mexico rig named Golden Meadow No. 7 capsized near the Mississippi River mouth. Nine crewmen are missing and presumed drowned, six were saved as tugs moved the rig to a new location. The cause is suspected to be shifting drilling pipe onboard.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
Golden Meadow No. 7
Golden Meadow Well Service Co
Lewis Geer
Five Leggers Testify They Passed Payoff Money to Tulsa Man
Five witnesses connected with the whisky business testified they paid sums of money to Cecil Boone in 1950 and 1951 as prosecutors seek to prove a large liquor law violation plot. U S Attorney B Hayden Crawford outlined a 5 year payoff conspiracy to violate federal whiskey importation and sales laws in dry Oklahoma. Judge Royce H Savage ruled against admission of some testimony pending proof of a conspiracy and connected seizures.
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Tulsa
Cecil Boone
U. S
B. Hayden Crawford
Crawford
Oklahoma
Cial Waxes
Royce H. Savage
Savage
Ralph Lashbrook
Kansas City
Alcohol Tax Unit
Joplin, Mo
Pate
Lashbrook
Don Gray
Harry
Big Imac
10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Nolen Bulloch
Tulsa Tribune
Bulloch
Jay L. Jones
Paul J. Livingston
Bob Bates
Herschel
Slim) Mathis
Lee Uto
Ed DeWeiss
Harry Miller
Roy D
Dale) Hines
Boone
Bates
Mathis
Wie
DelWeiss
Miller
Vice Squad
DeWeiss
de Weiss
E. C
Red) Carter
Blaster Denies Union Orders in Scranton Dynamite Case
William Munley testified before the Senate rackets committee that he dynamited a nonunion house project in Scranton in 1954 on a dare and without orders from union leaders. He said Paul Bradshaw urged the act but he never spoke to higher union officials. The hearing also featured Helen Canfield, Bradshaw’s associate, who said she and Bradshaw recorded conversations with union officials to help Bradshaw.
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Washington
William Munley
Scranton
Munley
Senate
Paul Bradshaw
Teamsters Union
Bradshaw
Manley
Senators
Helen Canfield
Divcrese
Canfield
Cal
Hoffa Hints Beck May Retire Amid Union Turmoil
James Hoffa indicated Beck might retire soon amid ongoing charges of corrupt practices and misuse of union funds. Hoffa said Beck is 62 and slowing, while the Teamsters executive board backed Beck in the dispute and Hoffa reflected on past ambitions.
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Houston
James Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Hoffa
Detroit
Teamsters
Beck
Solons Order Probe Of Finance Firm
Oklahoma lawmakers pressed for a securities commission probe into General Finance Co of Oklahoma City after Rep. R. W. Cunningham charged the firm has been taking thousands from homeowners by questionable means. The House passed a resolution directing an investigation and report within a week, with findings to be sent to the county attorney and Federal Housing Administration.
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Qnlahoma City
General Finance Co
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Houston, Tex
House
Tre
Rateri
Cunningham
Securities Commissioner
State Records Sisters
Dedsvick
L. B. Howell
Yoo M. Browning
Houston
Federal Housing Administration
Fort Sill to Welcome Home 1600 Soldiers Friday
About 1 600 Fort Sill men return Friday afternoon after the King Cole exercise. They travel by motor convoy to Fort Sill with 159th Field Artillery Bee Battalion arch salute and Fort Sill band in attendance. Lt Col Henry E. Biefeld Jr. leads ceremonies with Col H L Sanders as convoy commander. Some gear via train. 372 men join in a mustache contest from Ning Cole.
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Fort Sill
Evan Fort Park
Sil
159Th Field Artillery Bee
Ate No. 4
Henry E. Biefeld Jr
158Th FA Bn
Biefeld
Sill
H. L. Sanders
Sind
Fort
Acid Sprays Three In Cushing Plant
An acid spray injured three workers when a gasket blew during unloading at Midland Cooperative refinery in Cushing. William Mathis suffered eye injuries and facial burns and is hospitalized in Tulsa. Freeman Denton and Bill Myers also sustained facial and minor burns. The acid was being pumped from Mathis’s truck into a tank under pressure.
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Cushing
Midland Cooperative
William Mathis
C&s Chemical Co
Sand Springs
Tulsa
Freeman Denton
Bill Myers
Mathis
Area Man Dies In Car Accident
A 23 year old Porter Hillman died in a car crash southwest of Lawson Tuesday evening raising the year's traffic fatalities to 170. The mishap on SH 36 six miles south and six west of Lawton occurred at 7 p.m. and involved a 1939 Chevrolet driven by Luis C. Gonzales.
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Porter Hillman
Lawson
Highway Patrol
SH 36
Lawton
Luis C. Ciomzales
Rt. 3
Elgi Lawlin
Lee Blvd
O. W. Wortham
McKinley
Memorial Hospital
Eulis Young
Wortham
Lee
Charles W. Shipman
Oklahoma City
Young
H. D. Morgan
Norman L. Carroll
Gonzales
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Canturion
Holy City
Peter
Ike
Suez
Central Junior High School
Haster
Sandra Shoemaker
M-Sgt
William A. Gillespie
Blaster
Solons
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