Liquor Top Issue in Oklahoma Gubernatorial Race
Campaign focus in Oklahoma centers on enforcement and repeal of Prohibition. Miskovsky, Tulsa officials and other candidates push hard on liquor laws while police report large seizures and prosecutions. Tulsa auction to liquidate seized whisky, Muskogee crackdown, and calls for state owned liquor stores frame the debate.
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Larry Friedman
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Trajor
George Miskovs
Oklahoma City
Tak
Os Doenges
Tulsa Chamber of Commerce Forum
Doenges
Guthrie
W. C
Bill) Doenges
Bartlesville
Chamber
Borger
Tex
Jack Caldwell
Vier Bureau
Tulsa
Bill Bliss
Muskogee
Funeral Rites For Mrs Hart Held In San Diego
Funeral services were held today in San Diego for Mrs. W. A. Hart an early Lawson resident who lived here many years before 1989. She died Sunday in San Diego. She and her husband ran a feed store here until 1938. She moved to San Diego in 1939 to live with her daughter Mrs. Lee Christensen. She was a member of the First Methodist church a past matron of the Order of Eastern Star and a member of the Past Matrons club. Survivors include her daughter three grandchildren and several great grandchildren.
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San Diego
Calif
W. A. Hart
Lawson
Hart
VFW Installs Two Officers At Meet
At the regular meeting of Post 1193 Veterans of Foreign Wars Raymond Rust installed two officers. Bob Wheeler was elected and installed as post quartermaster and Morris Glass as junior vice commander. Commander W D Jones announced a trustee election for three years at the next business meeting August 20.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Raymond Rust
Bob Wheeler
Morris Glass
W. D. Jones
Lawton General Wins AF Award for Community Relations
Brig Gen Sam Maddux Jr senior commander of Mather Air Force Base and deputy commander of the reorganized Flying Training Air Force at Randolph received the Air Force Association award for outstanding work improving public understanding of Air Age issues. APA president J E Hendry praised him as a master of community relations for his handling of a B 52 jet noise problem. The presentation occurred at the APA Air Power luncheon during the 12th annual AFA convention in Washington.
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Sam Maddux Jr
Mather Air Force Base
Flying Training Air Force
Randolph
Maddux
U.S. Air Force
The
Air Force Association
J. E. Hendry
Maddus
Mather
APA
Sheraton Park
AFA
Air Force
Washington
Maddox
Gen
Sani Maddux, Lawlor
Attorney Urges Tight Liquor Laws in Oklahoma
Tulsa county attorney J Howard Edmondson urged stronger liquor laws as a remedy for prohibition issues. Speaking to the Downtown Rotary Club, he argued enforcement barriers harm police ability to prosecute bootleggers, noted petitions for seven reform bills with no action, and endorsed strict enforcement plus defined restrictions and education as the path forward.
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Tulsa
J. Howard Edmondson
Oklahoma
Edmondson
Rotary Club
Eufaula Merchant Acquitted in Shooting Death Trial
W. B. Sessions a prominent Eufaula merchant was acquitted by a district court jury of a murder charge in the April shooting death of Lewis Sonny Smith. Sessions testified the shooting was accidental saying a gun discharged while he wrestled with Homer Hopkins as three men played cards. He did not know Smith until he heard the victim fall.
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Eupaula We— W
Bill) Sessions
Eufaula
Lewis
Sonny) Smith
Sessions
Smith
Homer Hopkins
Rancher Prather Defies Court as Army Seeks Land
In ORO GRANDE New Mexico AP reports 82 year old rancher John Prather defied a court order to sell 27 000 acres for a McGregor missiles test range. A crowd spent the night with him behind a hill as 12 military policemen from Fort Bliss and 3 U S marshals pressed the eviction. Prather warned he would shoot anyone attempting to remove him. The government offered 209 an acre but he refused and received local backing from friends and relatives to stay. About half the land in New Mexico is government controlled.
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Prather
Ing
New Mexico
Navy radio beams drive up to date automatic doors
At North Island Naval Air Station California residents report radio controlled garage doors opening constantly while pilots hear static on the ground control approach system. FCC found 200 doors were timed to the Navy radio beams and ordered modifications to remove the Navy beams from triggering doors.
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San Diegg
Calif
Navy
North Island Naval Air Station
Naval Air Station
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
U S Toddlers May Start Learning Foreign Languages
In the United States a growing push for foreign language instruction from kindergarten onward faces both support and criticism. Proponents cite global need and early language receptiveness, while critics warn of costs and limited teacher supply. The movement has surged in five years with 271,617 grade school pupils in 1955, and DC has piloted closed circuit language teaching amid teacher shortages.
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Fatricia Wiggins
United Press Stall
Washington
Johnny
Modern Language Association
U.S. Office of Education
District of Columbia
Albuquerque
N-M
Sengal
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ROUTH
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Philco
DaAvenne Lawton Dial
Constitution & Press
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Otero County
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Army
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M & D Finance CO
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Lakeview
Liberty Avenue
Cache Road
Kilroy Dog Food
Boomer Belle
Golden Valley Orange
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Sherine
Sears
Kenmore
Tunis
Olympic
Kenmore Canister Cleaners
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Lawton Plumbing Co
House of Better Service
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