Eisenhower outlines possible cuts in big budget
President Eisenhower told Congress he can cut appropriations by about 1.856 million dollars without substantial spending reductions unless laws are revised. In a letter to Speaker Rayburn he listed six economies. he also proposed a 10 point program including user charges, blocking unapproved river and harbor projects, and veto power over individual items. He noted a resurvey of agency spending and distinguished between cash outlays and budget authority.
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Brutal Hit Run Driver Hunted in San Francisco
Police search for a driver who struck and killed 68 year old Lloyd V. Stephens after a night baseball game. The driver drove in short bursts and slammed brakes to hide the body under the car before fleeing, leaving Stephens dead in the street.
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Torrential Rains Drench North Central Oklahoma
The Associated Press reports heavy rains up to 3.91 inches in Perry and widespread flooding across north central and southern Tulsa County. U.S. Highway 77 near Perry closed after Black Bear Creek overflowed, with Red Rock Creek rising sharply. Hail accompanied storms, and ditches overflowed causing Liberty School near Mounds to close. Local reports note varying rainfall across the state while the sun shone in downtown Tulsa at noon.
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Fort Gibson
Cleveland
Enid
Ralston
North Central
Oklahoma
Gage
Panhandle
McAlester
Oklahoma City
Heat Will Stay Forecast From City Weather Office
Forecaster says no relief in warm humid weather. Lawton expects continued clouds and 80s through Friday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Today’s high near 82, overnight low around 70. Friday showers likely as a new cool front approaches from the north.
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Weather Bureau
Lawton
Brother of Killer Cop Found Slain
Joliet and Will County police hunted for clues in the gangland style murder of Salvatore Moretti 22 whose body was found strangled beaten and shot in the trunk of a car along a country road seven miles west of Joliet. His brother Michael 37 is serving a life sentence at Stateville Penitentiary for the 1951 slaying of a 15 year old girl after a tavern fight.
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Mind Reader Foresees Orange Bowl Clash On Wilkinson
Norman hypnotist Franz Polgar read the mind of OU coach Bud Wilkinson from a photo on the Celebrity Series program. He predicted Wilkinson is a natural pessimist with many plans for each game. Polgar also forecast Notre Dame vs Oklahoma in the next year’s Orange Bowl, and Wilkinson’s lack of direct comments from Tulsa.
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Empire State Building
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Oklahoma
Culsa
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Fighting Irish
Masked prowler suspect nabbed in Lawton
City detectives say a 25 year old Fort Sill man arrested on a prowler call is the phantom burglar who struck at least four Lawton homes the night of April 6. Detectives link him to break ins at 603 N ith 1502 E and 804 Gore and seek where the lighter and other items in his car came from. He was arrested near Mrs Turner’s Ozaman Street home at 1 13 a.m. today and was unmasked at arrest.
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Lawton
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Ozaman
Three Teamsters Deny All Charges Before Rackets Panel
Three Teamsters Union business agents from Scranton Pennsylvania testified before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee denying charges of terrorism and bribery. The hearing sought possible perjury and referenced federal indictments against agents for extortion linked to a Virginia pallet manufacturer. The panel questioned why Bettendorf’s payoffs were not indicted alongside union officials.
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Army Signal Corps
Robert Malloy
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Area Weather Forecast: Warm, Cloudy Through Friday
Mostly cloudy and warm through Friday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs 80 to 85, nights around 70, low today 63. 11 a.m. reading 73. High Wednesday 82.
Temple Lands New Factory
Temple announces a 42,000 square foot municipally owned building will house a new clothing plant with a minimum payroll of 1200000 yearly. Mayor Dave Richardson said the Sears gift fits a two and a half year drive by local leaders. Interviews for women 18 to 40 start Monday at Temple City Hall with 60 initial jobs. The factory will follow federal wage laws and run a training school. A 20 year lease with three year option is being prepared.
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Temple
Temple of & New Clothing Manufacturing
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W. A. Yeilding
Students Attend Lawton Phi Theta Kappa National Meet
Junior college delegates from across the United States gather in Lawton for the first national Phi Theta Kappa convention. The three day event opens with a 3 PM session at Cameron College auditorium. Over 300 delegates are expected, with officer elections Saturday morning.
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Elpin
Jane Lowe
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Pageant Food Caravans Set for Easter Pageant
A giant food caravan will depart Layton early Saturday for the Holy City to feed Easter Pageant worshippers. About 2,000 sandwiches are prepared, with supplies on hand for another 2,000. In addition, 400 dozen doughnuts, 280 pounds of coffee, 25 dozen cookies, 75 dozen potato chips, 1,000 gum packs, 1,200 candy bars and 409 dozen popcorn boxes are planned. Volunteers operate stands atop Audience Hill near the lighted Cross, serving from 10 a.m. until the Pageant begins at 2 a.m., with proceeds supporting the Wichita Mountains Easter Service Association.
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Holy City
John Keathley
Audience Hill
Lighted Cross
Wichita Mountains Easter Service Association
Witness Says Cop Got Cash In His Office
A professional bondsman testified he helped move money from Tulsa bootleggers to Arthur Graves, head of the Tulsa vice squad, as part of a broad conspiracy tied to federal liquor laws. The trial links Tulsa police figures and journalist Nolen Bulloch to a nationwide illicit liquor network.
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Cleo Epps
Oklahoma
Missouri
Don Gray
Gray
Joplin
Jay L. Jones
Paul J. Livingston
Harold Haas
Mounties Listed Norman As Red
Ottawa reports the death of Norman, the Canadian envoy to Cairo, who died by his own action last month. The case reveals he carried a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Communist tag in 2840 and that the tag was removed ten years later. A U S Senate committee learned of the matter through Canada’s security channels.
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Pike Financing Bill Action Seen Soon
Oklahoma City expects next week to pass a resolution authorizing earmarking certain gasoline taxes to help retire revenue bonds for toll road projects. The move aims to provide additional security to financiers considering purchasing bonds for the proposed Southwestern turnpike connecting Oklahoma City and Lawton.
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