Nation pays tribute to Robert Taft in Capitol memorial
President Eisenhower and the nation honored Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft with a national farewell in the Capitol rotunda. John W Bricker led the memorial praising Taft as Mr Republican. Taft died Friday of cancer and his body was later moved to Cincinnati for burial Tuesday.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Capitol
Congress
Ohio
Republic
Bricker
Taft
John W. Bricker
Republican
Martha
Senate
Cancor
Bob Taft
Cincinnati
Abraham Lincoln
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
Warren G. Harding
William Howard Taft
Mrs. L. Burton 75, City Pioneer, Dies
Mrs. Martha Ann Flack Burton a Lawton pioneer born August 22 1877 in Slayter Kentucky died at 4 30 am at her home 511 B after a six month illness. She moved to Lawton in 1901 from Galena Kansas married to Lawton Burton who died in 1944. Survivors include two sons a brother a sister and three grandchildren. Service 3 30 pm Tuesday at Centenary Methodist church with burial at Highland Cemetery.
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L. Burton
Lawton
Martha Ann Flack
Slayter
Burton
Wickliff
Galena
Kan
Centenary Methodist Church
Lawton Burton
Parkview
John Burton
Oklahoma City
T. J. Flack
Tulsa
Walter Flack
Hal Warden
Jackson
J. Walter Brewers Jr
H. E. Snodgrass
Highland Cemetery
Lawton Funeral Home
Reservists Begin Fort Sill Encampment Training
Nearly 400 reservists from five states started two weeks of training at Fort Sill for the 315th Logistic Command. Sixteen units are represented, with arrivals Sunday and official training starting this afternoon. Col. Jeff W. Sawyer of El Dorado Arkansas named deputy camp commander under Maj. Gen. A. M. Harper. Two units arrived by air.
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Fort Sill
315Th
Jeff W. Sawyer
el Dorado
Ark
A. M. Harper
City Milk Tab Dips As Price Battle Flares
A milk war breaks out in Lawton as La Sill Milk, Herbert Johnson, and two other processors drop wholesale to 15 cents per quart to meet rivals. Retail prices fall to 18 cents in some stores and Fort Sill contracts drive competition with out of town firms entering the Lawton market.
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Lawton
la Sill
North Second
Johnson Milk and Ice Cream
Fairmont Foods Company
Fort Sill
Carnation Milk Company
Wichita Falls
Texas
Fort Silicon
Duel Over Woman Ends In Murder in South Carolina
In Aiken, South Carolina, two night club operators invoked the dueling code and exchanged gunfire before dawn. Denver Winter, 59, died. Carl Dye, 34, was booked on murder. The confrontation occurred outside a rural tavern over a woman, echoing historic chivalry codes. Both men were described as possessive of women.
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Aiken
S. C
Denver Winter
Carl Dye
Wind Storm Damages Homes Near Medicine Park
Severe wind and storms swept parts of Comanche and nearby counties Sunday afternoon causing destruction of a three room home east of Medicine Park and a hay barn along with a chicken house at the Ben Penick farm. A mother and her 17 year old daughter were injured when their house was wrecked. Additional damage reported at Army Rabbit Hill airfield and the Dan Ray farm east of Geronimo with no injuries.
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Ben Penick
Medicine Park
Donald
Charles
Cecil
Eugene
Comanche
Lawton
Army Rabbit Hill
Geronimo
Dan Ray
Penick Farm
Penick
Airman Drowns In Jed Johnson Lake
Airman 3C Allen J. Essex, 19, of Sheppard Field Texas drowned accidentally while swimming with about 25 companions in Lake Jed Johnson. He slipped near the dam, was recovered from 40 feet depth after an hour, and artificial respiration failed. Essex was a student in the 3757th Student Squadron. The incident prompted a search with grappling hooks after he was last seen seated on the dam.
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Allen J. Essex
Sheppard Field
Texas
Jed
Jed Johnson
Essex
Sheppard Air Force Base
3757Th
Vacation Pac and permanent address mail service offered
A circular advertises two services for travelers: a permanent vacation address mail option and a Vacation Pac to securely store papers while away. Neither service incurs extra cost, and readers are instructed to call the Circulation Department at 620 to place an order.
Governor Bloc ks the Policy
SEATTLE August 3 The 45th annual governor s conference opened its first session with most state executives hoping President Eisenhower will help sell Congress a program to reduce federal aid. GOP governors voiced support for balancing the budget before tax cuts and raising the national debt limit while seeking to expand states rights and authority.
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Seattle
Eisenhower
Congress
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
GOP
POW Exchange Drills Mark Korean War Homecoming Effort
The United Nations Command staged a dress rehearsal at Panmunjom and Inchon to speed 3313 Allied POWs home. About 150 soldiers acted as liberated prisoners in the drill, with joint Red Cross teams set to inspect camps as far north as the Manchurian border. A late negotiation produced an agreement allowing 60-man teams to visit camps, though a Reds’ counterproposal briefly halted the plan.
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Korea
United Nations Command
Panmunjom
Inchon
Red Cross
Reds
Manchurian
Peiping
Kaesong
Pyoktong
U. N
Munson
Maxwell D. Taylor
U. S. 8Th Army
Freedom Village
Maurice Kahn Dies At Capital
Maurice Kahn 67 longtime Lawton Masonic leader dies Saturday night at his son’s home in Oklahoma City after an extended illness. Services will be at 10 30 a m Tuesday at Kahn Funeral Home. He was for years with the Dixie Store and a trustee of the Masonic Temple Association. A Kiwanis member of 24 years and active USO worker, he resided with his son Robert W. Kahn at 3029 W Park Place. He held past titles in Lawton Blue Lodge Royal Arch and Masonic Council and received an honorary degree this year from the Grand Royal Arch chapter of the state.
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Kahn
Oklahoma City
Maurice Kahn
Lawton Masonic
Dixie
Robert W. Kahn
W. Park Place
Lawton Blue Lodge
Royal Arch
Masonic Council
Grand Royal Arch
Masonic Temple Association
Kiwanis Club
USO
See Kahn
White House Debates Debt as Congress Hits Break
The Republican Congress adjourned its first session after rejecting President Eisenhower's request for a 15 billion dollar debt increase. Senators Knowland and Millikin said they aim to avoid a fall special session, though no decision will come until after September's tax receipts. Treasury Secretary Humphrey urged caution, noting the current 275 billion dollar limit constrains federal finances and pledging further spending cuts to fund past obligations.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Knowland and Millikin
R-Colo
Senate Finance Committee
House
Secretary of Treasury
Humphrey
Dodge
White House
Knowland
Millikin
Geo
Senate
Cement Girl 21st Area Polio Case
Memorial hospital reports its 21st polio case of 1953, patient Mattie Dotson, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dotson of Cement. She is in isolation with the illness described as fair. Four polio patients were discharged over the weekend, including George Ramsey, 30, Ardmore. Eugene Allen, eight, son of Mrs. Gertrude Allen. James O. Woolums, 35, Altus, and his 14 month old daughter Paula Jan. Seven year old Kenneth Ray Woolums remains hospitalized.
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Altus
Paula
Keneath Ray Woolums
Dulles Heads Pacific for Korea Pact Talks
Secretary of State Dulles flies from McChord Air Force Base toward Seoul to discuss a Korean American security pact with President Syngman Rhee. He seeks a preliminary exchange of views, with plans to consult UN members and a rehabilitation program for postwar Korea. Dulles stressed talks will be exploratory and not binding.
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Mcchord Air Force Base
Washa
Dulles
Pacific
Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Red China
Peiping
Tacoma
Washington
Eisenhower
South Korea
United States
U. N
Korea
Rhee
Republic of Korea
McCarthy Seeks Grand Jury Probe Over Korea Deaths
Senator McCarthy announces a plan to urge a federal grand jury to investigate individuals whose incompetence or treason he says caused American deaths in Korea. He spoke at a Cumberland Wisconsin dinner honoring M Sergeant Rodney Mettner, wounded thrice in Korea, linking shortages and faulty orders to battlefield losses.
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Cumberland
Wis
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Korea
Wisconsin Republican
Rodney Mettner
Yalu River
General Taylor Oversees POW Processing Prep in Korea
Gen Max D Taylor supervises U N Command drills as POW return begins at Panmunjom to Freedom Village 15 miles away. Maj Gen William Dean to be processed like other prisoners. X-ray processing to take about an hour. Thousands participate in day run. sick POWs sent to Seoul evac hospital. able-bodied to Inchon for flight home.
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Taylor
William Dean
Dean
U. S. 24Th Infantry Division
Panmunjom
Reds
Freedom Village
Seoul
Inchon
United States
Hunger Drives Germans Into Russian Guns
East Germans faced hunger and travel bans as protests spread from Cottbus to Merseburg Chemnitz and Zittau. Soviet tanks and troops moved to suppress the unrest while police raided homes and blocked routes to West Berlin food parcels. Union strikes and plant sit-ins crippled Merseburg Bit Jena Magdeburg Erfurt electro chemical works.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Cottbus
Merseburg
Chemnitz
Zittau
Soviet Zone
East Berlin
Potsdam
Radio
Germany
Luena
Electro-Chemical
Bit- Jena
Magdeburg
Erfurt
Jena
Crash Injures Sill Aircraft Worker
A Fort Sill Spartan Aircraft Maintenance division worker and a Sayre woman died after their car ran off U S Highway 183 five miles south of Roosevelt and crashed into a washout. Mrs Rita Geraldine Tirewater Scott 31 was fatally injured. Driver Charles Albert England 33 was treated for facial lacerations and broken ribs. Services for Mrs Scott will be held at Sayre.
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Fort Sill
Charles Albert England
Spartan
Altus
England
Hatfield
Lawton
Sayre
Scott
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