Racial Committee Cancels Jobs Conference As Picketing Began
The Lawton Committee on Racial Affairs cancelled a planned equal job opportunities meeting after picketing of two downtown eateries began. Dr. C L Parsons cited disruption of peaceful progress toward integration while noting prior gains in cafes, hotels, and theaters. Rev C B Davis co leads the bi racial committee and NAACP representative Mrs Charles McPeters demanded total integration.
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C. L. Parsons
Lawton Committee On Racial Affairs
Dr. Parsons
Parsons
C. B. Davis
Lawton
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Charles McPeters
NAACP
Lawton City Sets 42nd Birthday Dance and Rodeo Week
Lawton kicks off its 42nd birthday celebration with a Friday night street dance and a five day program including two parades a memorial service and a Pioneer Women’s club breakfast. The 16th Lawton Rangers rodeo runs Saturday to Wednesday with performances nightly at 7 30 and a 5 p m parade downtown. Notable riders include Bill Williams Bennis Johnson and Clark Holder from Texas while Freckies Brown sits out due to injury but acts as a judge. A $2500 purse awaits contestants plus other prize money.
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Lawton
Pioneer Women's Club
Lawton Rangers
Lawtonian
Kiwanis Club
Bill Williams
Clarksville
Tex
Bennis Johnson
Cleburne
Clark Holder
Freckies Brown
Rodeo Committee
Khrushchev to Attend Pact Signing in Moscow
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will attend Monday's signing of the partial nuclear test ban treaty and lead high level talks with the United States and Britain. He altered vacation plans to take personal part in the ceremony and subsequent discussions with Dean Rusk and Lord Home.
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Moscow
UPS
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Britain
Khrushchev
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Black Sea
Yugoslavia
Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Gromykov
W. Averel Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Hero Of Two Wars Retires In Hawaii
General Emmett Rosie O'Donnell, an air hero of two wars and West Point trained Army officer, retires from active service at Hickam Air Force Base. He ends his career as commander of United States Pacific Air Forces amid a salute from hundreds of service members and cheering families.
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Honolulu
API
Emmett Rosie) O'Donnell
West Point
O'Donnell
Hickam Air Force Base
United States Pacific Air Forces
Oklahoma Commerce Director vows to improve state image
Oklahoma's new Commerce and Industry Department director Lloyd K. Allen said the state is one of the most maligned places in the world and will work to revise Oklahoma's image. The Republican former Maine official took office amid prior Senate investigations and criminal charges against former director Max Genet Jr.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Commerce and Industry Department
Saki
Lioyd K. Allen
Maine
Allen
Senate
Max Genet Jr
Eisenhower Signals Caution On Test Ban Pact
Former President Eisenhower signals caution on the nuclear test ban treaty as Republicans seek full testimony from military and scientific advisers. His nuanced stance aligns with a wider GOP call for a minute examination before Senate consideration and potential party support.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Eisenhower
New York
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Eisenhower to Tour Normandy Shores on D Day Anniversary
President Eisenhower and Mamie embarked on a weeklong European trip aboard the Queen Elizabeth to relive the D Day era. He described plans to walk Normandy beaches and visit Portsmouth, England during the journey.
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New York
UPI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Normandy
England
Eisenhower
Europe
Mamie
Portsmouth
Escaping Prisoner Shot By Sill Stockade Guard
Two prisoners attempting to flee a grass cutting detail at Fort Sill were halted by guard Pfc. Lovette Brasby. One prisoner, Pvt. Franklin B. Freeman, was captured. the second was wounded in the lower back and taken to the U.S. Army Hospital in serious condition. The injured man’s name was withheld pending kin notification.
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Fort Sill
Lovette Brasby
Franklin B. Freeman
Post Information Office
Freeman
Information Office
U.S. Army Hospital
Ward in iron lung as pneumonia worsens after trial
Dr Stephen Ward, 530, placed in an iron lung with bronchial pneumonia and near death after drug overdose and surgery to aid breathing. He had been convicted at Old Bailey on two counts of living off prostitution linked to Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies amid the Profumo scandal.
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London
Stephen Ward
Britain
Society Osteopath
Ward
Old Bailey
W. Mayne Butcher
Profumo
John D. Profumo
House of Commons
Christine Keeler
Henry Brooke
Vicky Barrett
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
Christine
Eugene Ivanovan
Thunderbirds Headed to Fort Chaffee National Guard Camp
About 400 southwest Oklahoma men from Lawton depart for Fort Chaffee Arkansas for the 45th Infantry Division annual two week summer camp. Units include the 1st Squadron 145th Cavalry with multiple detachments departing Saturday morning and returning August 17.
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Southwest Oklahoma
Lawton
Fort Chaffee
Ark
National Guard
Thunderbirds
Oklahoma
45Th Infantry Division
145Th Cavalry
Ardmore
RFT Ee Sat
Okishoma Air
Paul S. Peck
Hobart
Charles E. Myers
Walters
William H. Crawford
Jo W. Rabb Jr
C. Mar
Milton C. Worley
Oral M. Southwick
John EF. Cruse
Oklahoma National Guard
Jimmy Branstetter
700Th
Foreign aid bill clears House committee with 4.087 billion ceiling
The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a foreign aid authorization totaling 4.087 billion dollars for the current year, with final cuts of 438 million and routine vote pending on a clean copy. President Kennedy had sought 4.5 billion, while the plan approves ceilings rather than appropriations.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Kennedy
Nationalized Railroads Urged If Strike Denied
AFL-CIO President George Meany told the House Commerce Committee that denying workers the right to strike could lead to nationalizing the railroads. He urged Congressional supervision of bargaining and dismissed compulsory interim rules, saying the move would be a sad day for America. In Washington, Senate Commerce Committee hearings continued with rail carriers defending manpower cutting plans.
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Senate
Dirksen
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Arown
Chai
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Mansfield
Kennedy
Washington
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Congress
House Commerce Committee
America
Meany
Interstate Commerce Commission
Capitol
Chamber
Commerce Committee
J. E. Wolfe
Wolfe
Defector Returns to West From Communist China
Lowell D. Skinner, 32, Akron Ohio, a Korean War defector who stayed behind the Bamboo Curtain, crossed into Hong Kong from Communist China saying another American may follow. He said he kept in touch with 21 stayers and noted Scott L. Rush of Marietta Ohio might leave soon from Wuhan, a steel center.
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Hong Kong
UPI
China
Lowell D. Skinner
Akron
Ohio
United States
Skinner
Scott L. Rush
Marietta
Rush
Wuhan
Fund Drive Kickoff Set For Sept 10
Division chairmen for the Lawton Fort Sill United Fund 1963 drive were announced by Bill Johnson campaign chairman with a kickoff Oct 14 and advance gifts starting Sept 10. Ross Porter heads divisions. captains to be named later with first meeting at 9 a.m. in the Civic room. The 100 Plus club orientation for loaned executives is Aug 9, and a speakers bureau will use slides showing agency programs. Local agencies include Red Cross Salvation Army YMCA USO and more.
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Lawton-Fort Sill
Security Bank and Trust Co
Sieg
Advance Gifts
Wichita Falls
Tex
Ralph Husted
National Fund Raising
Wichita Falls United Fund
Red Cross
Lawtonians
Johnson
Bauman
Jerry Mustain
United Fund
Bill Hutson
Salvation Army
Wichita Mountains Easter Service Association
Chartered Negro Mission
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
YMCA
Patterson Community Center
Lawton City Mission
Goodwill Industries
USO
Mercury To Hit 102 Here Today
Temperatures rise above 100 degrees across Lawton and southwest Oklahoma with no relief in sight. High today expected near 102, with 104 recorded Wednesday. Overnight lows vary from 70 in Oklahoma City to 75 in Ponca City and Tulsa, as clear to partly cloudy skies persist into Friday.
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Mercury
Lawton
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Altus
Broken Bow
Oklahoma City
Ardmore
Ponca City
Tulsa
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Leverett Saltonstall
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George D. Aiken
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