Rhee Seeks U.N. Aid as Korea Tensions Rise
As President Rhee presses for a renewed Korean war, South Korea faces rising incidents near the armistice, including threats by Lt. Gen Won Yong Duk against communist inspectors, gunfire near Pusan, and bombings at Kun san. The U.S. and U.N. stance remains cautious while Rhee calls for unification by force.
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Syngman Rhee
Republic of Korea
United States
Korea
United Nations
North Korea
Congress
Rhee
China
Won Yong Duk
Armistice Supervisory Commission
Won
Sig
Pusan
Inchon
Seoul
Kunsan
Kangnung
Taegu
Goodyear Union Deadlocked in Akron Wage Talks
Four weeks of negotiations fail to break the stalemate between CIO United Rubber Workers and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. All four major rubber firms are involved with wage demands from the union. Goodyear employees nationwide struck July 7, with 23 000 workers seeking 7 44 cents an hour increases plus 44 cents for inter plant inequities, while Goodyear offers five cents. Wage talks continue in Cincinnati with Goodrich and in New York with U S Rubber as possible strike deadlines pass without action.
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Akron
Ohio
CIO
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Rubber Industry
B. F. Goodrich Co
U. S. Rubber Co
Firestone Tire Rubber Co
Goodyear
Rubber Workers Union
Cincinnati
Goodrich Co
New York
U. S. Rubber
Muldrow Votes Water Bond Issue
Muldrow Oklahoma voters approve a $40,000 water bond to finance a supply from Little Skin Creek to two reservoirs. With Poague Creek drained, an emergency line to a nearby Arkansas River well will run in two weeks, and residents rely on private wells until completion in two to three months.
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Muldrow
Okla
Little Skin Creek
Ellis Coan
Arkansas River
Coan
Case Against Nix Reported Complete
OKLAHOMA CITY Filing of briefs in the disbarment case against Sen Kirksey Nix has been completed and findings are due in 30 to 45 days. Trial examiner John M Holliman will issue a finding after reviewing the 900 page briefs to decide if Nix should be disciplined with the state Supreme Court to approve any disbarment.
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Oklahoma City
Kirksey Nix
McAlester
Nix
Senate
Carl Austin DeWolf
Oklahoma Bar Association
Criminal Court of Appeals
DeWolf
John M. Holliman
Bartlesville
Worm Raiser Wins $500 Conservation Scholarship
Jerry Arledge, an Explorer Scout who raises worms as his project, was announced winner of the James E. West $500 Scholarship Award for Conservation. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary presents the award in honor of the late scout executive.
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Oklahoma City
Jerry Arledge
James E. West
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
The Constitution's Yesteryears Notebook Highlights
Ten years ago items note Pvt Emmett E Hunter reported missing in France Mrs Marydell Sims returns from Texas Lt W W Overton flies 50 sorties over Italy Maj Gen A M Tuthill arrives Fort Sill and local events include Rotary chair Joe Mullin Klan endorses in Democratic primary Livingston leads county sheriff race Parisian shop owner Herskowitz leaving for New York markets
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Emmett E. Hunter
Summit
France
Marydell Sims
Park
Olney
Tex
W. W
Bill) Overton
Arnold Overton
Italy
D. R. Grimes
Lake
Earl Lear
A. M. Tuthill
Fort Sill
Earl Drug
4Th
John Thomas
Joe Mullin
Rotary
Daniel Becker
B. Parmenter
Dick Livingston
M. D. Herskowitz
New York
Expectant Mother Dies From Polio in Tulsa
A 25 year old expectant mother Mrs Mary Arleen Burden died of bulbar polio at Hillcrest Memorial hospital Wichita county health officials closed a Fort Gibson reservoir summer camp for boys after three polio cases at the camp. YMCA officials said the season’s final session would end early with 55 boys brought home Wednesday.
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Tulsa
YMCA
Fort Gibson Reservoir
Mary Arleen Burden
Hillcrest Memorial Hospital
Fort Gibson
T. Paul Haney
Rom
Champe Stoakes
Progress Against Sleeping Sickness Seen in Angola
In Portuguese West Africa the campaign against human sleeping sickness shows progress with new cases dropping from over 4 000 in 1949 to around 574 this year. Mobile medical units administer preventive injections as DDT control efforts reduce tsetse fly habitats, though animal sleeping sickness remains a major problem in eastern and central Africa.
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Luanda
Angola
Equatorial Africa
Portuguese West Africa
Pinto da Fonseca
Africa
Kenya
Rhodesia
Uganda
Martin Van Buren First U S Born Citizen President
Martin Van Buren is identified as the first U S born citizen to become president marking a notable milestone in the nation’s early political history.
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Martin van Buren
The
United States
Solons Reject FPC Request For Money
Law legislators refuse funding for the Federal Power Commission amid a Phillips case ruling. The Supreme Court's June 7 decision expands FPC reach to about 4 000 gas and distributors, up from 120, with the appeal ongoing and concerns over interstate pricing and regulation.
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Ferguson
Supreme Court
Phillips
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United Press
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Constitution
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Fort Sill Blvd
Bernell Gilbert
Mgr
Lawton’s Prescription Center
Lawton
Sahara Desert
Miami
Fla
Piper
Maytag Washer Service
Automatic & Conventional Midwest Maytag CO
Builders Equipment & Supply CO
E. Gore Lawton
H.P
Ford
Ford’s
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