Insurers Push Car Safety Belts in Oklahoma City
Two insurers offered client incentives to use seat belts. Standard Insurance provides a 10 percent rate reduction on bodily injury medical payments and death weekly indemnity coverage for belt users. American Travelers boosts medical benefits by 100 percent for belt users. Tedford noted tests show belts reduce severe crash injuries and that Ford and Chrysler offer belts as options.
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Oklahoma City
Standard Insurance Co
J. Paul Tedford
American Travelers Insurance Co
Standard
Tedford
State Insurance Board
Ford
Chrysler
Barkley accuses Chandler in Kentucky primary fight
Sen. Alben W. Barkley returns to Kentucky to join Bert T. Combs in challenging A. B. Chandler for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Barkley accuses Chandler of deserting him at the 1952 national convention and says Chandler urged Kentucky delegates to oppose him. Primary election is held tomorrow.
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Louisville
Alben W. Barkley
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Barkley
Chandler
Washington
Bert T. Combs
Kentucky
Chicago
Sen
Richard Russell
Georgia
Earle Clements
Lawrence Wetherby
OU Expects Biggest Freshman Classes
OU President Dr. George L. Cross announced that 1,780 freshmen pre enrolled in June and July, up 480 from last year, with a total freshman class expected to reach about 2,800 this fall, following last year’s 2,600.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
George L. Cross
Cross
Aspirin Overdose Still Killed Richard Banner in Manchester
A coroner ruled that 32 year old Richard J. Banner died from an overdose of aspirin. He took the pills to ease severe sunburn pain suffered during a seaside holiday.
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Manchester
England
Richard J. Banner
Banner
Weekend TV Highlights on Channel 6 Featuring Giants Reds
Channel 6 offers a packed lineup led by the New York Giants versus Cincinnati Reds on TV Game of the Week with Willie Mays and Ted Kluszewski chasing Babe Ruths 60 home runs. Also on tap are Dizzy Dean and Birdie Tebbetts in Baseball Preview, Olivier in Clouds Over Europe, Ducat Dan in A Nice Place, The Death of Stonewall Jackson, Private Secretary, Toast of the Town from Stratford, and more comedy and drama through late evening.
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Channel 6
KWFT
New York Giants
Cincinnati Reds
Willie Mays
Ted Kluszewski
Babe Ruth
Dizzy Dean
Birdie Tebbets
Britain
Sir Laurence Olivier
Europe
Damon Runyon Theatre
James Dunn
Ducat Dan
New London
South
Stonewall Jackson
Ann Sothern
Susie MacNamara
Peter Sands
Vi Praskins
United States and Britain deny trailing Argentine fleet
Buenos Aires reports that Washington and London rejected claims a "big foreign power" shadowed Argentine maneuvers in the South Atlantic. U S naval officials said no U S capital ships were present, and a British spokesman confirmed no British vessels were in the area.
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Argentina
United States
Britain
South Atlantic
Oscar Alende
Radical Party
Congress
Alende
Washington
Navy Department
U. S
Cleem
Atka
Antarctic
Freight Traveler Rides In High Style
Newark Ohio report shows Mumree Artis, 64, charged with shoplifting 75 cents of ham. Municipal Judge Harvey J. Alexander fined him ten dollars and urged him to leave town. Artis claimed he would catch the first freight tonight and clarified he intended to ride a boxcar, not the rods.
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Newark
Ohio
Columbus
Mumree Artis
Harvey J. Alexander
Alexander
Artis
Copy Of First Copyright Bill Found In 18th Century Book
Librarian Mrs. Wilma Davis at the Library of Congress uncovered a letterpress copy labeled HR. 10 from 1st Congress June 23, 1789. Legal adviser George Cary notes the bill protected authors, printers, and booksellers with penalties and informer shares. The incident predates later copyright expansions to music and periodicals.
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Washington
Wilma Davis
Library of Congress
House of Representatives
Benjamin Huntington
Connecticut
Cary
Crowing Hen Near Texarkana Sparks Rooster Clash
Ed Easley a Texarkana grocer reports a hen began to resemble a rooster and crowed loudly then laid an egg provoking a fight with the male bird. He served fried hen at home Friday as the odd tale drew laughs.
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Texarkana
Tex
Ed Easley
U.S. 71
Easley
Easley House
Bandit Says Brinks Guard Too Brave
In Buffalo, a captured bandit says Brink’s guard Eugene Clohessy is too brave to protect only money. Clohessy, wounded, helped halt a Brink’s car robbery as Mazzella and Pattinato were captured within an hour. Sheridan alias Salomerio sought across Peace Bridge. $150,000 looted found abandoned. 14 state alert issued.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Brink
Sylvester Mazzella
Eugene Clohessy
Clohessy
Brink’s
Mazzella
Bronx
Anthony Pattinato
Baltimore
Jimmy Sheridan
Jimmy Salomerio
New York City
Sheridan
Peace Bridge
Boston
Lincoln’s Eldest Son Robert Lincoln Served as War Secretary
Robert Lincoln, eldest son of Abraham Lincoln, held the role of Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885, a notable early instance of a presidential offspring taking a high government post.
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Robert
Abraham Lincoln
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