Teetotaling Smiley Busy Cowboy in 48
Actor Smiley Burnette, top kiddies cowboy comic, keeps a grueling schedule of personal appearances from dawn to midnight. He arrives in Lawton as guest star of the Lawton Rangers and plans a nationwide circuit from Georgia to Michigan to California. He says, I thrive on hard work, after visiting polio ward patients at Memorial hospital.
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Jeanne Howell
Smiley Burnette
Lawton Rangers Eo
Georgia
Michigan
California
Burnette
Memorial Hospital
Whch
Smiley
Memorial
Smiley Burnette Brings Laughter To Early Morning Breakfast
Hundreds attend the Lawton sunrise breakfast as Smiley Burnette, son of ministers, shares humor and faith. He discusses discipline, rest, and reliance on God while entertaining polio and hospital patients at Memorial. Burnette’s musical talent spans over 100 instruments and a film career with Gene Autry began after a Wyoming cowboys’ ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smiley
Missouri
WDZ
Tuscola
Ill
Gene Autry
Burnette
Autry
Louisville
Pioneers Celebrate Lawton Birthday Parade in Downtown
Crowds thick as Lawton Pioneer birthday events kicked off with a Ranger breakfast at LO ranch and a 10 am downtown parade. Mayor Joe McCain led the procession, with awards, oldtime vehicles, Mrs Abe March and Alan Aycock as top float, and Theta Rho prize, followed by the Douglass high band and 1901 era displays.
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Lawton
LO Ranch
Joe McCain
Ralph Hennessee
Abe March
Alan Aycock
Ron Stephens
Jake Witzel
Pete Fullerton
Oklahoma
Claremore
Theta Rho
Douglass High School
Pioneer’s Club
Old Settlers’ Club
Pioneers
Union Park
McCain
R. B. Stewart
LHS
Bill Logan
Reds Promise 8 Healthy Yanks Tonight
Panmunjom dispatch reports Reds promise to return 81 more healthy Americans Friday as part of Big Switch. Recovered prisoners include 221 released in three days, with 70 in first two days and 25 later. Clark cites 2,000 to 3,000 more Americans possibly held, with thousands of unaccounted South Koreans. Among the released, several in poor health, some with tuberculosis, shock Marines at reception.
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Panmunjom
Freedom Gate
Reds
Washington
Mark Clark
Far East
Freedom
Dachau
Buchenwald
Kaesong
United Nations
Thomas D. Harrison
Sheldon St
Clovis
N. M
Lee Healthy
Mark W. Clark
Pentagon
Clark
Citadel
South Carolina
United Nations Command
Tokyo
Third Marine Division
Japan
Korea
Mothers and Child Die in Oklahoma Bus Crash
A Greyhound bus and a house trailer rig collided on a bridge three miles west of Hydro Oklahoma on U S 66. The vehicles plunged into a creek, killing six people including a mother and her three year old daughter and injuring 35. The crash near Deer Creek left wreckage scattered and bystanders in horror as responders rushed victims to hospitals in Weatherford and Clinton. Key victims included Manuel E Wilkey 21 of Springfield Illinois and his wife and child.
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HYDRO
Okla
Here
Greyhound
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
U. S. 66
Art Cordry
Bill Pratt
Oklahoma City
Pratt
Deer Creek
Cordry
Manuel E. Wilkey
Springfield
Ill
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Yuma, Ariz
Wilkey
Illinois
Susie Webster
Joplin
Jack Parris
McAlester
Parris
W. F. Brady
P. A. Ferguson
el Reno
E. W. Lewis
Weatherford
Clinton
Lewis
Vacation Pac offered to store papers during travel
An old notice promotes a Vacation Pac service for travelers with or without a permanent address. It assures no extra cost and invites readers to call the Circulation Department at 620 to arrange mail forwarding or paper storage until return.
POW camp horrors recounted by freed U S corporal
Cpl. Russell P. James of Auburn Washington, freed by Communists, says more than 1500 American POWs were buried in two months of the 1950 51 winter in North Korea. He describes burial details, starvation and freezing death, and guards at Death Valley camp.
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Freedom Village
Korea
U. S
North
Death Valley
James
City Budget Outlined by Auditor Simpson for 1953-54
City Auditor C W Simpson presented the new budget totaling 570593.23 for general funds and 99000 for the water utility, a combined 669593.23. The 1953 54 budget is 41648.87 below the 1952 53 total of 612242.10 general fund plus 99000 utility, with department totals listed for Governing Board Clerks Office Treasurer City Attorney Municipal Court Police Fire and City Engineer.
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C. W. Simpson
Water Department
City Enginee
Dick Haymes Faces Deportation Order
Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. announced that immigration agents in Los Angeles arrested singer Dick Haymes for deportation to Argentina. The warrant cites his World War II exemption from military service as a citizen of a neutral nation.
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Washington
Herbert Brownell Jr
Immigration Service
Los Angeles
Dick Haymes
Argentina
Area Weather Forecast For Local Region
Partly cloudy through Friday with scattered afternoon and night thundershowers. Temperature steady with highs in the 90s and nights around 68. At 11 am the reading was 84. Today's low is 68, yesterday's high was 92.
Stormy Seas Shroud Fate of 16 Fliers
London reports stormy Atlantic conditions hampering the search for 16 American airmen missing from a U S Air Force RB36 bomber that crashed in flames. Seven of 23 crew confirmed. four rescued, three bodies found. Rain and fog reduce visibility as ships and aircraft scour a 200 mile stretch west of Ireland. Survivors possibly in one-man dinghies. one radio garbled message raises questions.
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London
Atlantic
Ireland
Canada
Australia
Liverpool
U. S. Air Force
South Ruislip
Britain
Roy de Vere Speer
Route 1
Bennington
Okla
First Bulbar Polio Case Admitted at Memorial Hospital
Memorial hospital reports the first bulbar polio case of D3. Three year old Russell Lee Anderson, son of Mr and Mrs Donald Anderson of Lone Wolf, is admitted today and receiving oxygen. He has not been placed in an iron lung and is listed as in serious condition.
Rlinger Cracks Red Blockade
BERLIN The Communist blockade on rail travel to West Berlin’s free food stations was cracking under pressure from hungry East Germans. Thousands lined up for food packages and some reported buying railroad tickets to Berlin for the first time since Saturday, though officials made no formal lift. Rail workers and smugglers quietly moved tickets and parcels as about 160000 parcels had been distributed by nightfall despite bad weather.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
East
Brandenburg
Infant Slain as Mother Faces Charge in McAlester
In McAlester Oklahoma 21 year old Juanita Santine mother of four signed a statement admitting she stomped her twin infant daughters after they cried causing one death and one critical injury. Her mother discovered the infants and rushed them to the hospital where Janice Gail Santine was pronounced dead on arrival and Rita Joyce Santine remained in critical condition. The father worked at the nearby U S Naval Ammunition Depot.
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Mcalester
Okla
Pittsburg
Homer Neece
Juanita Santino
Neece
Santine
Lena Underwood
Sill Man's Car Halted By Shot
Fort Sill Negro soldier was halted by a single gunfire after officers witnessed him try to strike two pedestrians with his car in Lawton View. Officers Robert Jones and James Blackburn stopped the suspect as he swerved and attempted to ram other soldiers. The pursuit ended when the officers fired once to stop the fleeing vehicle.
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Fort Sill
Robert Jones
James Blackburn
Lawton View
Airman Survives Water Torture in Korean Captivity
Lt. Col. Thomas D. Harrison of Clovis New Mexico, held as a POW after his F80 fighter burned and exploded over North Korea May 21 1951, arrived in Freedom Village on crutches with a missing leg. He endured seven days of starvation and torture, but laughed at his captors while recounting his escape and recovery. He expressed desire to reunite with his wife Doris and daughter in San Francisco and to receive treatment at Walter Reed.
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Freedom Village
Korea
Thomas D. Harrison
Clovis
N. Mex
Reds
William K. Harrison
North Korea
Harrison
United States
Doris
San Francisco
Walter Reed Hospital
Sinaiju
Harrieson
Truman
General MacArthur
Pyongyang
Ko- Lee
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Rangers
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Rodeo Grounds
Doyle Williams
Charles Kelsey
Walter Crosby
Pat Chrisman
Rt. 3
Southernaires
Marcy Landall
Old Fire Department
Old
Hoss
Julian
C. R. Thomas
Glenda Fuqua
Rangerettes
Lawton High School
Yanks
Nealect
Rlinger
Sill
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