Threat Remains For Highway Bill
Oklahoma City toll road plan to connect Oklahoma City and Tulsa awaits Gov. Roy J. Turner’s signature with opponents threatening an initiative petition to repeal. The measure cleared the Senate 26-12 and lacks an emergency clause, delaying effectiveness until after adjournment. It envisions self liquidating bonds of 23 to 30 million dollars funded by tolls on highway users.
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Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Roy J. Turner
House
Senate
Zist
German farmer’s hoarded food seized for distribution
In Württemberg near Tamm German officials seized the farm of Ernst Hahbeke and confiscated a hoard of food. The action invokes control council law against recalcitrant farmers blamed for Germany’s food shortage. Food will be distributed to children’s homes nurseries and hospitals.
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Stuitcart
Germany
IAPO
Wuertetemberg-Tinden
Beer Tax Measure Signed Into Law By Governor
Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner signed a 37 per barrel beer tax bill into law after passage by the legislature. The measure imposes a regular tax and a 39 percent excise tax with an expiration set for two years. The article notes the uranium reference as a distant, unrelated detail.
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Oklahoma City
Roy J. Turner
Radio Schedule Fragments From April 1947 Daylight Hours
A dense listing of radio programs and sponsors for April 29 1947 and partial April 30. The timetable shows networks ABC and local sponsors like Currell Lumber Co White's Coffee Shop Lum and Abner Gordon Russell and various music and talk shows across daytime and evening slots.
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ABC
Sky King
News of the World
Currell Lumber Co
World of Sports
Elmer Davis
Bing Crosby
Jammon Cleaners
Welch Oil Co
Wayne King
Lum
Abner
Bobby Doyle
Boston Symphony
Reax Maupin
President Truman
Earl Godwin
News of Tomorrow
Hasel
Sparta
Gems
Orch
News
Palmer House Orch
Grae Mere Trio
Os—News
Local Park Hospital Notes and Family Readers
Sunday to Monday medical updates from Angus hospital and Southwestern hospital in Lawton Oklahoma list: Minn Waynette Black Hig tatuen edate visits with grandmother Mrs Jane Carter. Truman Vosburg and Mrs Bob Morford treated after slips and falls. Barbara Ann McCoy tonsi lectomy. Ted Ishmael appendectomy. children and other patients discharged after minor procedures. Includes visiting guests Mr and Mrs Bill Kephart and local officials.
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Minn
Waynette Black
pGbh
Olelahoma City
Jane Carter
Bob Morford
Gare
Angus Hospital
Barbara Ann McCoy
Lewis. McCoy
Ibsh
McCoy
Boy Killed in Street. Bicycle Stored Again
In Newark New Jersey on April 19 7 year old Alan Tabonitin rushed home to celebrate making the school honor roll. A lumber truck struck his red and white bicycle as he rode, fatally injuring him and ending plans to store the gift.
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Newark
N. J
Cato
Alan Tabonitin
Schuol
Alan
Church leaders on mission to Oklahoma City convention
Dr H Tom Wiles pastor of First Baptist Church leads local church delegates to a brotherhood convention in Oklahoma City. G Blanchard and George Meysr are among attendees with Mrs Henry Wed dle and family mentioned in the hospital note.
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H. Tom Wiles
First Baptist Church
G. Blanchard
George’ Meysr
Oklahoma City
The
Baptist Church
Blanchard
C. J. Blanchard
President Truman's mother sits up for first time since fall
Mrs Marthe Truman, mother of President Truman, spent about six hours in a wheelchair yesterday, the first time she has been up since a right hip fracture in a February 13 fall at her Grandview home. Miss Mary Jane Truman said she was tired but in good spirits as doctors consider removing her cast in a week or 16 days.
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Grandview
Marthe BE
Births Reported for DeLoy Luena Sherrill and Hollis Families
Mr and Mrs DeLoy Luena of 1515 Euclid welcomed a 6 pound 12 ounce daughter at 1:12 am today. Mr and Mrs A D Sherrill of 3515 Cs welcomed a 7 pound daughter at 3:21 pm Monday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Hollis of 1001 Arlington welcomed a 7 pound 4 ounce daughter at 3:97 pm Monday.
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Anwua Wasrelaas
DeLoy Luena
Experiments In Grass Plantings Will Be Viewed
An estimated 600 acres of native and introduced grasses will be viewed in Comanche county on May 7 during the First Annual Southwestern Oklahoma Range Improvement Field day. Farmers, led by Comanche County Soil Conservation district supervisors, planted Blue Gama, Buffalo, Little Bluestem, Sand Love Grass and African Weeping Love Grass with various mixtures. several names of contributing farmers are listed as participants and supporters.
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Comanche County
Oklahoma
Soil Conservation District
Glenn A. Beecham
Lee Poppel
Lyman John
Eurald Jahonon
Walter Bruns
Elton Kriss
D. L. Huseher
Roy Cremer
Max Brook
George Horton
Henry Pleck
A. C. Wolverton
Beesham
Phintuy
Little Bluealem
Edgar Milburn
Jon Tutonaky
L. H. Seburann
Floyd Touseholder
O. V. Panland
J. D. Watson
S. Binck
J. B. Huitt
Cameron College
Beecham
T. EH. Lee
Clair Payatte
Wat
Clyde Peters
John W. Storer
Floyd Householder
J. O. Bailey
B. F. Cook
Max Brock
C. F. Schultz
Soli Consor
Seed production trials and brush control tests progress
The Seed production service conducts trials with Yellow Bluestem native to the East Indies for erosion control in Grady county. County Agent Ted Krisher and Harry M. Elwell lead field trials at Wayne Rowe ranch near Meers, testing new chemicals for brush control with substantial early promise.
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Vation Service
Cisire Payette
East Indies
Grady County
Beecham
Ted Krisher
Harry M. Elwell
Red Plains Soil Conservation Experiment Station
Guthrie
Wayne Rowe Ranch
Meers
Forrestal Sees Improved Prospects for World Peace
Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal told the 86th annual convention of the U S Chamber of Commerce that world peace prospects were somewhat improved since the United States adopted a more realistic stance in global affairs. He cautioned that restoring normalcy to a fractured world remains a very large task.
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Washington
James V. Forrestal
United States
U. S&s Chamber of Comerce
Forrestal
Regent Reappoints Wharton Mathies to Oklahoma Regents
Governor Roy J. Turner re appoints Wharton Mathies of Graytop to the Oklahoma regents for higher education. Mathies was originally appointed in May 1841.
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Regent
Oklahoma City
Roy J. Turner
Wharton Mathies of
Graytop
Oklahoma Regents For Higher Education
University of Minnesota Sends One Thousand Books to Oslo
The University of Minnesota selected about 1000 duplicate books from its library to ship to the University of Oslo. The volumes cover American culture history literature and business and were received as gifts.
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Oslo
U.S
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Univerity of
Texas Ol Fighter Called To Aid At Duncan
Frank McKinley, famed Houston firefighter, arrived to direct efforts to cap a wild gas well near Duncan Oklahoma. Amerade Petroleum Co officials weighed igniting the well to reduce explosion risk after Sledge No 11 went out of control last Friday.
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Duncan
Okio
Frank McKinley
Houston
Tex
Todny
Amerade Petroleum Co
Discovery Of Plot For Mass Prison Escape
Jerusalem authorities announced a plot to free Jewish prisoners from a local jail. They reported ongoing preparations spanning a long period and promised further details later.
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Jerusalem
Prison Break Plans Reported in Jerusalem Compound
Reports describe plans to breach interior walls and partial exterior wall penetration of a Jerusalem prison. Unofficial estimates put about 100 Jewish prisoners inside, including political and non political detainees, in the central Russian compound.
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Jerusalem
Hugo Voters Approve Bond Issue For Memorial Hospital
Hugo Ohio residents vote overwhelmingly to approve a $300 000 bond issue to build a 10 bed county hospital as a memorial to Hugo soldiers who lost their wives in World Wars I and II. Official count shows 3604 in favor and 186 against with weathering turnout.
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Hugo
Ohio
Two Czechs Hanged for Betraying Paratroopers
In Prague on April 29, Karel Curda aged 35 and Wilam (Willam) Gerta aged 27 were executed in the courtyard of the Prague Frantisek penitentiary. They had betrayed fellow parachutists to the Gestapo and aided the capture of resistance fighter Reinhard Heydrich after parachuting into Czechoslovakia from a British plane on March 27, 1942.
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Karel
Curda
Willam Gerta
Gestapo
Reinhard Heydrich
Fankrac
Gerik
Czechoslovakia
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