Tea and Sympathy comes to Lawton stage December night
Broadway hit Tea and Sympathy booked for one night at Mc Mahon Memorial auditorium Lawton Oklahoma December 18 Deborah Ken to reprise her leading role in Lawton and later MGM movie version Plans include possible seating revamp for tickets The piece discusses Hollywood censor clashes over its themes and the nature of the devised staging plus other film previews and show notes from the Billboard brief column.
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Lawton
McMahon Memorial
Graydon Miller Jr
Deborah Ken
William Bendix
Robert Lowery
Miller
Oklahoma City
All-American Indian Days Rites Open in Sheridan
Thousands of Native Americans from across the United States Canada and Mexico began the two day All-American Indian Days celebration in Sheridan Wyoming with a parade. Napoleon Johnson Oklahoma chief justice was named outstanding American Indian of 1954 55 and Miss Indian America 1955 will be chosen Sunday. Gov Milward Simpson presented the award. Russian farm leaders including Yuri Golabash attended. Ten tribes participate Caddo Choctaw Chickasaw Creek Cherokee Comanche Cuskee Osage Pawnee Seminole. Army designation five outstanding Indian representatives led by James Red Door from Montana.
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Sheridan
Wyo
United States
Canada
Mexico
Napoleon Johnson
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Milward Simpson
Johnson
Yuri Golabash
U. S. Fifth Army
James Red Door
Montana
First white man to cross Texas named Vaca
The first European credited with crossing Texas is thought to be Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer who traversed the region in the 16th century, mapping parts of the coast and interior during his expedition with Estevanico and others.
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Texas
Cageza de Vaca
Oklahoma City Weekly Livestock Prices and Receipts
Local livestock receipts for the current week total about 3300 head more than last week and roughly 5500 more than a year ago. Cows are 20 percent of the run, stockers and feeders 65 to 70 percent, with beef steers and heifers around 37 loads offered. Prices show high choice and prime 1235 lb steers at 22.25, 1325 lb loads at 22.00, and various classes from 17.00 to 22.00 for select cattle, while grassers are weaker and cows 30 to 1.00 under last week amid a heat wave impacting orders.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Market Report: Livestock Prices Across Weights and Grades
Calves up to 21.50 with medium and good feeder steers at 16.00 to 18.75 and feeder heifers 15.00 to 17.00. Hogs show weakness from last week with barrows and gilts 200 lbs and up 75 to 1.00 lower, lighter weights 1.00 to 2.00 off. sows steady to 50 lower. Week’s top hogs 16.75, close around 15.75 to 16.00. No 1-3 200-250 lbs near top prices, 150-170 lbs 12 to 14. sows 500 lbs and down 12.50 to 14.50. choice under 300 lbs up to 15.00. Sheep week overview: spring lambs opened 50 higher then slipped 50 to 1.00. early top 20.00, but sparingly paid. choice and prime 18.50 to 19.00, utility to choice 15.00 to 17.00, good and choice shorn ewes 3.50 to 4.50.
Bandit Says He Will Return For More Cash
A gunman entered Taft's Cleaners in Newark and demanded money from clerk Mary Madheski. Seeing only four dollars in the register, he exclaimed that is all and left, promising to return later.
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Newark
N.J
Taft’s Cleaners
Mary Madheski
Mountaineer Team Conquers Second Himalayan Peak
A four man Bauer Mountaineering School team from Munich led by 28 year old Heinz Steinmetz reportedly conquered its second Himalayan peak this season. They assaulted 23 000 foot Kong Guru on July 2.
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Nepal
Bauer Mountaineering School
Munich
Germany
Heinz Steinmetz
Oklahoma Solons Clear Desks For Various Aecess Activities
Oklahoma's congressional delegation cleared unfinished business before leaving for home. Most House members planned to go home, with Carl Albert visiting Dallas and Victor Wickersham heading to Bethesda for a check up. Senators Kerr Monroney plan state and overseas trips, while Jarman and Wickersham prepare congressional junkets. Tom Steed eagerly awaits his new granddaughter.
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Oklahoma
Carl Albert
McAlester
Dallas
Texas
Victor Wickersham
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
Mangum
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma City
Brainerd
Minn
D.C
Mike Monroney
Wickersham
John Jarman
Pacific
Okinawa
House Armed Services Committee
Jarman
Far East
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Sen
Kerr
Panama
Senate Public Works Committee
Rep
Albert
South America
Foreign Operations Subcommittee
House Agriculture Committee
Tom Steed
Shawnee
Fog not heat big astronomer gripe
Norman August 6 University of Oklahoma astronomer Balfour S Whitney faults the weather for excessive fog. As director of the University Observatory he calls this one of the foggiest summers he recalls, hindering telescope work and ruining photographic plates.
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Norman
University of Oklahoma
Balfour S. Whitney
University Observatory
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