New Cuts Sought In Welfare Fund
The House Appropriations Committee recommended a $309.5 million cut in new funds for the Labor Department and the Department of Health Education and Welfare in a $5.45 billion bill. NIH received a $18 million cut but a $70.1 million year over year increase, with overall appropriations about 6 percent below the Kennedy request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
House Appropriations Committee
National Institutes of Health
House
Kennedy
Congress
Dinner Tonight Kicks Off YMCA Building Fund Drive
Workers will launch the public phase of a 400000 YMCA building drive for Lawton Fort Sill with a 6 30 p m dinner at the Hotel Lawtonian ballroom. Wes Miller directs the teams division as campaign workers prepare prospect cards for tonight’s event and a first report meeting is set for Tuesday at the USO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMCA
Lawtonian
Wes Miller
Lawton- Fort Sill
Cameron Players
Jane Quaid
Mike Mustain
Linda Buck
Lawton
Girl Scouts
Ymca Boys Leader Club
First Christian Church Youth Group
Camp Fire Girls
USO
Rex Madeira
Wife 19 Fatally Shot By Mate 58 In Stilwell
Mrs. Letha Mae Wolfe nineteen was killed in her Stilwell one room apartment while breakfast preparations. Her husband George Wolfe fifty eight claimed accidental discharge while checking a shotgun and said she asked him to load it. Investigators continued. He was not held. The couple operated a nearby grocery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stilwell
UPT
Letha Mae Wolfe
Adair Co. Atty. L. T. Spray
George Wolfe
Spray
Wolfe
Deadly Bacteria Source Is Sought At New Rochelle Hospital
Medical sleuths investigate a common bacteria after three patients die or fall gravely ill following routine surgery for fractured right thigh bones at New Rochelle Hospital. Victims: William J. Isbister 68 of New Rochelle, Mrs. L Goobie 56 of Eastchester, Lena Young 26 recovering after Sunday operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Rochelle
N.Y
New Rochelle Hospital
William J. Isbister
L. Goobie
Eastchester
N. Y
Lena Young
Aerialist Falls 30 Feet at Shrine Circus
Ely Albaracen of Bogota Colombia, 22, member of Flying Davilians, fell 30 feet during a trapeze act in Duluth Minnesota. He waved to the crowd then collapsed and was taken to St Marys Hospital in fair condition, later checked for internal injuries as his condition worsened. He performed with his wife when the accident occurred, landing on his knees. Authorities noted the circus differed from the Omaha fatal accident a week earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minn
UPI
Flying Davilians
Shrine Circus
Ely Albaracen
Bogota
Colombia
St. Mary’s Hospital
Albaracen
Omaha
Neb
Marriage Go Round heads Lawton Little Theatre season end
Lawton Little Theatre closes its 1962 43 season with a two night in the round staging of The Marriage Go Round at the Museum of the Great Plains McMahon room. Director John Denney leads Edward Beatty Carol Beatty Stephanie Lester Sosa and Fred Stegin with Jean Nine Stegin as producer. Advance tickets available at Leister’s Music Center Bernell Gilbert Pharmacy and Roper Motor Sales. Ducats will be sold at the museum Friday and Saturday nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton Little Theatre
Museum of the Great Plains
McMahon
John Denney
Community Theatre Group
Edward
Carol Beatty
Stephanie Lester Sosa
Fred Stegin
Jeannine Stegin
Leister’s Music Center
Bernell Gilbert Pharmacy
Roper Motor Sales
Ducats
State Man Draws $5,000 Tax Fine
Ada rancher Elmer Morgan was fined 5000 dollars and placed on three years probation after pleading no contest to falsely reporting taxable income for 1957. U S District Judge Fred Daugherty accepted the plea as the remaining indictment counts were dropped. The case alleged Morgan underreported cattle and mineral rights income, with government figures showing 87968 from cattle and 55846 from mineral rights versus Morgan's 34402 and 23971.
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Muskogee
TAP
Elmer Morgan
U. S. Dist
Fred Daugherty
Morgan
Chicago’s call girl queen arrested in federal sweep
Torch-haired Pat Atkins 36 was seized at her North Side apartment as FBI agents began rounding up other alleged Chicago area call girls. Police say she headed a $750,000-a-year prostitution ring with up to 15 workers operating from their own apartments.
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Chicago
UPS
Pat Atkins
North Side
FBI
Miss Atkins
Cityan Accused In Molestation
Eugene Nickerson, 23, of 28 SE Seventh, was charged in Special Sessions with molesting an eight year old girl visiting his home last Friday while her and his daughter played on a bed. Five others charged in felony cases were ordered to stand trial after preliminary hearings. Swinford, Hicks, and Lambert of Walters bound over for burglary of a Virgil Wheitner automobile, and Cruz Macias, 22, of 313 Douglas, with robbery and attempted murder of Carlton Walker of Fort Sill.
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Eugene Nickerson
Special Sessions
Special Sessions Court
George Swinford
Doug Hicks
Charles Lambert
Walters
Virgil Wheitner
Cruz Macias
Douglas
William G. Barcindebar
Baldwin
Fort Sill
Carlton Walker
Rubber firms notch wartime pact with workers
Goodyear Signs COLUMBUS Ohio The B F Goodrich Co became the last of the Big Three rubber firms to reach accord with the United Rubber Workers Wednesday night The settlement followed agreements reached Tuesday night here with Firestone Tire and Rubber Co and with Goodyear Tire and Rubber at Cincinnati earlier Wednesday
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
B. F. Goodrich Co
United Rubber Workers
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Cincinnati
Pershing Test Firing Concludes at Cape Canaveral
American radar tracked the jet during a 20 minute hold in the Pershing countdown while the missile warhead impacted in the pre selected area. Fort Sill troops will return by 6 p.m. Brig Gen Safford and Col Thomason greet the contingent. The program moves to White Sands New Mexico for practice before Western Europe deployment.
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FAA
Cant. O. M. Hirsch
Pershing
Army
Post Field
Robert H. Safford
1St Field Artillery Missile Brigade
Joel F. Thomason
9Th Field Artillery Missile Group
Fort Sill
Cape Canaveral
44Th Artillery
Donald L. Phipps
White Sands
N. M
Europe
German Girl Held As American Spy
Moscow reports that East German medical student Olga Bauer confessed to feeding Soviet anti aircraft and civil defense data to the US Central Intelligence Agency. Trud calls her an unwanted guest and gives no trial date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
UPI
United States
Olga Bauer
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
Trud
Miss Rauer
Plan and zoning changes limit county authority and subdivision rules
The House proposes to retain three miles but cut the highway setback from 300 feet to 300 feet. It would strike statewide planning provisions and limit the planning commission to local plats. Officials warn promoters could bypass rules by creating parcels over 2.5 acres.
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Lawton
Planning Commission
Commission
Historical Tour Space Still Open
Bus spaces are still available for the fourth annual tour sponsored by the Great Plains Historical Association. The 125 mile round trip on Saturday leaves the museum at 8 a.m. Tickets are $2.75. Narrators will point out historical sites at each stop including the old Spanish ar raStve near Meers and Rainy Mountain Mission.
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Great Plains Historical Association
Oklahoma
Hugh Corwin
Meers
Odlepaugh Springs
Rainy Mountain Mission
Skeen Museum
Carnegie
Cedar Creek Church
Cache Creek Mission
Wrong Woman Pleads Guilty Pays $10 Fine
Local officers confronted a courtroom mix up when Carrie Belle Harper 45 of 1212 S 25th appeared to plead guilty to speeding. Judge J Merle Oaks recalled a prior call in which a Negro woman answered and was fined ten dollars, but identity could not be confirmed by noon.
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J. Merle Oaks
Carrie Belle Harper
Mutual Fund Investment Opportunity Inquiry
Why not give your dollars a chance to work for you in a mutual fund. For information write or phone the contact listed.
Luncheon Marks Secretaries Day Observed in Lawton
Lawton chapter of the National Secretaries Association International observed Secretaries Day with a noon luncheon at the Holiday Inn. Miss Wynema Sloan presided. Bill Smith of the Junior Chamber spoke on the Miss Lawton Pageant. Special guests included Mrs Irene Sloan Mrs Luwana Iles Miss Billie Petty Mrs Betty Kirsey and Mrs Margaret Gover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
National Secretaries Association International
Holiday Inn
Wynema Sloan
Bill Smith
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Polish spy Sigmund targets British embassy staff
The article recounts Sigmund's espionage network among British Embassy officials from 1954 to 1956. He induced at least three to engage in black marketing, was exposed by a British stenographer in late 1955, and the Pole Mikhailski was fired nearly a year later after the staff was alerted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigmund
Nice
Mikhailski
Dust Bowl crisis worsens as drought bites wheat and corn
The report notes the Dust Bowl region remains a dry wasteland despite conservation and irrigation efforts. Farmers chisel the land to block winds, risking erosion until rains restore soil. severe impacts hit wheat in winter dormancy and the vast corn belt, with April 1 forecasts showing a sharp drop in winter wheat.
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Plains
Arkansas
Missouri
Syracuse
Kan
Robert McCauley
Federal Crop Reporting Service
Austin
Tex
High Plains
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Mate
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Pat
Holsey’s
Mark Barker
Ralph
RCA Victor
W.t
Cache Road
Cityan
Goodyear
U. S. Air Force
King Merritt & CO. Inc
Roy N. Guzzle
Mgr
Columbia—Ph
Vassall
Rockies
Cooper Automotive
Brammer
Oxfords
Fort Sill Blvd
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