Shoemaker Makes Like Workhorse
Lawton superintendent John Shoemaker returns from a brief vacation to tackle three months of summer duties. He winds up the previous year and prepares for the next with buildings, personnel, and new projects. Board members note this is his annual routine and essential to handle housing pressures, a new high school, and federal aid changes.
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Lawton
John Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Board of Education
Lee
U S Rejects Soviet Claims On Downed Plane
The United States called Russia lies over a Soviet charge that an American fighter shot down a Soviet transport inside Chinese territory on July 27. The State Department said the transport was inside Korean territory near the Yalu River and that one US pilot, Capt. Ralph S. Parr, disposed the aircraft. Russia blamed US fighters and claimed a 21 lives lost. The department awaited details on survivors of an American B 50 shot down near Siberia and noted repeated Soviet overflights of North America. More details on Page 2.
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Washington
United States
Russia
State Department
Department
Siberian
U.S
Air Force
North America
U. S
Alaska
Canada
Greenland
U. S.S
Red China
Yalu River
Korea
China
Ralph S. Parr
Apple Valley
Calif
Taft to Lie in State at Capitol Rotunda
Grieving colleagues arranged Saturday to bring Sen Robert A Taft home to lie in state in the marble rotunda Sunday and for a memorial service Monday President Eisenhower and government dignitaries will attend the state service. Taft died Friday at 63 in New York of malignant tumors and will be buried Tuesday in Cincinnati after a private service at Indian Hill Church.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Capitol
Eisenhower
Diplomatic Corps
Taft
Cincinnati
Indian Hill Church
Church
Senate
New York
Caprotunda
Police Raid Negro Vice Dens in Sweep Jail 35
Police raiders rounded up 35 persons on liquor gambling and prostitution counts in a sweeping Lawton cleanup. Officers seized liquor, shut down three dens and confiscated gambling money at 1317 Washington as they closed a two-dozen craps table. John Henry and Earl Williams faced bonds after being charged with running the gambling house and gambling.
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Jim Bradshaw
Lawton
Ralph Hennessee
Lawton View
East Lawton Honkytonks
Washington
Preston Williams
Jerry Paul
John
Shine) Henry
Earl
Lightning) Williams
Lawton Birthday Parade Plans Spark City Celebration
City plans four day birthday celebration with a horse parade Monday by Lawton Rangers Pioneers and Old Settlers clubs. Parade forms Sixth and F at 4 p.m. featuring many riding clubs from across the area and a Possum Kingdom Posse invite.
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Lawton
Lawton Rangers
Pioneers
Old Settlers Clubs
Lawrence Banks
Ranger Committee
Sixth
Roosevelt, Meers
Walters
Duncan
Comanche
Waurika
Grandfield
Healdton
Randlett
Chickasha
Cement
Cyril
Apache
Fletcher
Frederick
Possum Kingdom
Graham
Tex
Banks
Bob Dawes
Bill Williams
Clyde Moore
Blunt Zorger
Pioneers’ Club
Assembly of
Abe March
Alan Aycock
Lawton High School
Douglass High School
LO Ranch
Rangers
George Horton
T. J. Tyree
T. C. Caldwell
C. W. Haines
W. E. Provine
Hale Landes
J. M. Patterson
J. D. Poole Sr
Bertha Chapman
O. B. Shelton
John Davis
Stella DeBoy
Neville Carlock
Nettie Pippin
George McMillian
John Walding
W. H. Clark
Jess Percival
W. A. Walker
Mabel Parks
Berlin Hunger March Exposes East West Tensions
West Berlin crowds surged into the city to obtain American food as East German authorities threaten border closure and confiscate identity cards. Soviet leaders seize extra food parcels while West German workers openly defy border guards. US High Commissioner Conant planned to observe, saying feeding would continue beyond August 15.
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Berlin
West Berlin
U. S. High Commission
Germany
U. S
James B. Conant
Red
A. G. Allen Dies After Attack at 57 in Lawton
B A Gus Allen founder of Home Lumber Co. Lawton dies at 1 30 p m after a heart attack in a local hospital He moved from Grandfield in 1931 and was active in Centenary Methodist church Southwestern Lumbermen's Assn and Oklahoma Lumbermen's Assn Services set for 2 30 p m Monday at Centenary Church with Rev J Walter Browers Jr officiating Burial at Highland Cemetery Lawton Funeral Home in charge He was born April 12 1896 in Holliday Tennessee married Erlene Rosenboom June 4 1916 and is survived by his wife two sons Jack and Bennie one brother one sister and two grandchildren
Toll Road Fee Faces Discharge
Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray prepared to remove Sapulpa publisher R. P. Matthews from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. Streeter Speakman Jr., Sapulpa lawyer, named as Matthews successor and will take the post after Murray returns from the national governors conference in Seattle. Matthews criticized the toll road program, prompting the planned shakeup.
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Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
Sapulpa
R. P. Matthews
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Streeter Speakman Jr
Matthew
Matthews-Speakman
Murray
Seattle
Wash
Matthews
The
Tea Authority
LL Road
Prisoner exchange in Korea looms as POWs move
Red Cross teams prepare to cross Communist lines to greet first Allied war prisoners headed toward Panmunjom for the long awaited exchange. Kaesong and Pyongtong border moves signal the start of Operation Big Switch with 12,673 Allied captives due home and 74,000 prisoners to be returned to Communists. Armistice panels meet amid slow progress toward the demilitarized zone as talks continue.
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Munsan
Red Cross
Panmurjom
Peiping Radio
Pyoktong
North Korea-Manchuria
Kaesong
Panmunjom
United Nations Red Cross
North Korea
Neutral Nations Armistice Supervisory Committee
Joint Military Armistice Commission
U S Troops to Make Korea Peace Show
President Eisenhower backs using American troops to rebuild war wrecked South Korea as a show window of freedom. Secretary Dulles outlined plans to rehabilitate with roads bridges schools and hospitals, urging other nations with Korea forces to join.
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Washington
Eisenhower
South Korea
Free World
Dulles
Korea
State Department
U. S
Europe
Middle East
Far East
Syngman Rhee
United States
Rhee
U.S
Senate Finance panel rejects Eisenhower debt hike plan
The Senate Finance Committee rejected President Eisenhower's plea to raise the national debt limit, signaling a quick adjournment might occur and raising the possibility of a fall special session. The vote to table the measure was 11 to 4, effectively killing the bid.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Knowland
California
Senate
House
Finance Committee
Horse Crashes Car Injuring Toddler in Lee Boulevard Incident
A saddled riderless pony bolted across Lee and Seventh street and collided with Beth Miller's car on Saturday at 7 p.m. Two year old Craig Miller, a passenger with Clyde Miller, was thrown and required stitches after hitting a sharp edge. Police report the horse fled toward Seventh. vehicle damage was about $100. the parents were unharmed.
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Beth Miller
Washington
Lee Boulevard
Lee and
Seventh Street
Young Craig Miller
Clyde Miller
Station Hospital
Lawton Scouts Report Jamboree Fun and Trade
Lawton trio Mike Parsons Joe Kirkpatrick and Jack Sasser returned from the National Jamboree at Irvine ranch California with tall tales souvenirs and friendships. They traveled with Hunting Horse district and joined 50 000 scouts from US Hawaii Alaska and 28 foreign countries. The boys arrived July 13 by train toured Royal Gorge the continental divide and Salt Lake City before camping with two man wall tents and cooking their own meals each day.
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Mt. Everest
Lawton
California
Mike Parsons
O. L. Parsons
Euclid
Joe Kirkpatrick
Robert Noe
Jack Sasser
Hunting Horse
Sasser
Irvine Ranch
New Port Beach
Calif
United States
Hawaii
Alaska
Royal Gorge
Colorado
Continental Divide
Salt Lake City
Utah
Fort Sill officers survive plane crash near Wichita Mountains
Two Fort Sill officers escaped a fatal crash when an L-19 light craft faltered on approach to a strip near the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Pilot Lt. William Eddy Jr. suffered second degree burns and abrasions, while Lt. Curtis R. Powell had only minor scratches. Eddy’s father arrived moments after the crash.
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Fort Sill
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
William Eddy Jr
Columbus
Ohio
Curtis R. Powell
Eddy
Powell
Eday
Area Weather Forecast For Weekend
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies through Sunday with no major temperature change. Highs reach 100 degrees, with Sunday and Saturday highs around 100 and nights near 70s to low 70s.
Peace Dove Flew A Bit Too Slow
The last Allied soldier killed in the Korean War was Sgt First Class Harold R. Cross Jr a 24 year old veteran from Michigan and Kansas. He was wounded at 8:40 pm and died about two hours later in a bunker one mile west of Christmas Hill near Hill 931 after a heavy bombardment. Cross kept saying I’m OK and I’m fine as his comrades and a priest feared his true condition.
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Eastern Front
Korea
Harold R. Cross
Michigan
Kansas
Cross
Christmas Hill
A&M To Hike Fees For Veterinarians
Oklahoma A&M College will raise tuition and fees for veterinary medicine students, aircraft mechanics, and advanced meteorology. Veterinary fees increase from 66 to 84 dollars per semester for Oklahoma residents, with out of state students facing a 160 dollar surcharge per semester.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma A&m College
Oliver S. William
Oklahoma
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Batson
O. L Gordon
P. E. Downer
B. A
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Allen
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Home Lumber Co
Yankee Pws
Byrasmorion
Ike
Tom Ford
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