Perkins Boy Wins Farming Award in Oklahoma
Charles Wall an 18-year-old Perkins youth was named Oklahoma's outstanding young farmer for 1954 receiving the Governor's Award among 246 Junior Master Farmer candidates. He rents 31 acres on a 518-acre family farm, serves as FFA chapter president, is an honor student, superintendent of his Sunday School and has filled the pulpit in the pastor's absence. His father Ephraim Wall was state FFA president in 1930 and a Junior Master Farmer.
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Okla
Charles Wall
Perkins
Oklahoma
Wall
Future Farmers of America
Ephriam Wall
FFA
Rat Causes Much Clamor In Courthouse
In Tulsa on a crowded courthouse day a rat climbed onto a woman in a basement corridor. Arminta Zink screamed as two colleagues helped her flee into the sub basement while others chased the rat through the building.
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Tulsa
Tulsa County
Arminta Zink
Aged Woman Dies In Traffic Wreck
Sarah Elizabeth Protsman 97 of Billings died from injuries after a pickup driven by Sylvia Elizabeth Parker 63 collided with a flatbed truck four miles east of Hunter. Parker’s truck traveled 52 feet and overturned. others escaped serious injury. Oklahoma highway fatalities for the year total 167, up 18 from last year.
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Associated Press
Sarah Elizabeth Protsman
Billings
Hunter
H. F. Summers
Sylvia Elizabeth Parker
Oklahoma
Hostess Committees For City Arts Crafts Fair Announced
Hostess committees for the Lawton public system second annual Arts and Crafts fair were announced by Mrs Marguerite Thevaled general chairman The event runs Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Howell school featuring student artwork and demonstrations.
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Marguerite Thevaled
Howell School
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Lawton Public School
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Jennie Schwarte
Roosevelt
Esther Powell
Eva Seigler
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Whittier
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Bonnie Paine
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Ann Argo
Ben Hoover
Frankie van Hoover
Oleta Littlefield
Ethel] Blair
Reba Jeffries
Rozella Becker
Eula
Schooner Still Adrift At Sea
CHICAGO April 22 UP The battered Oro de Oro II a 20 foot schooner with five Iowa radio hams and a Mexican crew drifted farther from its Clipperton Island goal in a four knot Pacific current. The operators seek to become first to send radio signals from the uninhabited island about 685 miles west of Acapulco. An executive said the ship has drifted about 100 miles from the island after being within 11 miles Tuesday. The mainsail is ripped and the craft sails on a broken diesel motor unable to duck the sea.
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Chicago
Clipperton Island
Acapulco
Mexico
Senator Mansfield Defends Indo-China Troop Talk Critique
Senator Mike Mansfield accuses Vice President Nixon of a publicity stunt when he suggested U.S. troops might be needed in Indo China. Mansfield spoke at a Veterans of Foreign Wars dinner in Greeley Colorado noting Nixon did not discuss the idea with Congress. Mansfield, on the Foreign Relations Committee, had visited Indo China last September.
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Indo-Chios
Mansfield
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Indo-China
Sparks Runs as GOP Governor Hopeful Ahead of Senate Bid
Sparks 48, a Woodward native and OU Law School alumnus, plans a cornbread and buttermilk party in Guthrie for the '89er Day celebration as he considers announcing a Senate bid. He criticizes Oklahoma’s one party government saying population declines from 1940 onward reflect the party dominance and warns of stagnation versus surrounding states.
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Guthrie
Sparks
Woodward
University of Oklahoma Law School
Parks
Oklahoma
U.S
Unanimous Vote Rejected For Honorary Osage Members
The Osage Tribal Council rejected a petition demanding unanimous council approval to award honorary memberships to white people. The decision allows Chief Paul Pitts to grant honorary status at his discretion, interpreted by Andrew Gray Pawhuska as granting all members the same privilege.
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Pawhuska, Okla
Osage Indian Tribal Council
Paul Pitts
Andrew Gray Pawhuska
Partygoers Wine Dine At Dead Man's Odd Inheritance
Detroit mourners and friends of Carl Clarke gathered for a bizarre bequest sale of 261 trinkets from his half million dollar estate. Clarke 79 died November 17. nine charities receive the bulk of his fortune as guests drew numbers for first pick from items including snowshoes paintings and a Lincoln etching. Gordon MacEdward recalled Clarke as quiet not eccentric, and the Wednesday Nighters Club kept monthly arts talks at Clarke’s apartment.
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Ana Ween
Carl Clarke
Monroe (Mich
Abraam Lincoln
Gordon MacEdward
Clarke
MacEdward
Hicks Carl
Cement Freshmen Fly to Oklahoma City Tour
Ten Cement freshmen traveled by plane from Chickasha to Oklahoma City and back last Tuesday. The group rode a bus to Chickasha airport and were flown to Will Rogers airport, where airline officials planned and conducted a tour of the Oklahoma City airport.
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Oklahoma City
Will Rogers
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