Monkey Proves Popular Pet Rebel Rough On Cages
Fort Sill captain and wife cherish a cinnamon ring tail monkey named Rebel living at 211 Northwood Ave. The pet attracts neighborhood children and eats vegetables peanuts and bananas. Rebel dislikes confinement tearing cages every few months while the couple recalls buying him in Florida as a three month old five months ago. Capt. Ciley 52nd FA Bn has served seven tours at Fort Sill.
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Fort Sill
C. D. Ciley
Northwood Ave
Rebel
South America
Cileys
Capt. Ciley
Capt
Ciley
Florida
Arlington
52Nd FA Bn
Malenkov Claims Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Mastery
Premier Georgi Malenkov told a joint session of the Supreme Soviet that the United States no longer has a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb and that the Soviet Union has mastered its production. The 1,300 legislators cheered as he warned the United States remains a danger while detailing the new balance of power in nuclear weapons.
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Moscow
Georgi Malenkov
United States
Soviet Union
Lavrenty P. Beria
Supreme Soviet
Alenkov
Security Council
U. S. Atomic Energy Committee
Lewis J. Strauss
Pacific
Malenkov
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
North Atlantic
French Premier Sticks To Guns
Paris on Aug 8 reports Premier Joseph Laniel maintaining a plan to prune the French economy as half a million government workers stage their third day of strikes. Mail and telegraph services falter, trains delay, and Paris streets see uncollected garbage amid France’s worst strike wave in 17 years.
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Paris
Joseph Laniel
France
Nll
Laurel
East Reds Use Polio As Scare
East German Communists used a polio germ scare to disrupt the Eisenhower free food parcels. They claimed infantile paralysis germs were in the packages, then urged harvests as transport faltered. Officials warned of a potential famine without Soviet aid while tightening travel bans to West Berlin.
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Berlin
U.S
Red
Red Army
Peoples
East Berlin
East Germany
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
West Berlin
East Zone
Trial Docket Cut Sharply
An 86 case county court jury trial docket scheduled to unfold Monday has been cut nearly in half by pleas motions and dismissals. Thirty jurors were called for service with bootleggers pleading guilty in multiple liquor cases and others winning suppression motions on bad search warrants. Names include Jack Shaw A P Boots Gent Howard Shaw R E Snake Atkins E P Chic Carney Pete Hise and Robert Wimple. Several cases continued or reset to Sept 3 with fines from 50 to 150 and concurrent See DOCKET Page 2.
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Ella Sue Williams
Lawton
Jack Shaw
A. P
Boots
Baxter Lee Harrell
Ross Hinkle
Dean Sills
Elmer Hardy
Bill R. Stanley
Earl
Lightning) Williams
Melvin Davis
Eldon King
Converted PWs Return. 112 Americans Freed in Korea
PANMUNJOM August 9 1953 United Press In a five day switch exchange 112 American prisoners including AP photographer Frank Noel were released by the Communists Noel captured November 1950 during the Chosin reservoir withdrawal He is the first named prisoner freed while Maj Gen William F remains held without word on his release
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Panmunjom
Associated Press
Frank Noel
Noel
United States
Chosin Reservoir
William F
Army
Japan
U.S
POW List On Page 2 From Panmunjom Exchange
Former U S 24th Division commander Dean nicknamed Pappy is listed among the large group of Americans repatriated in the Panmunjom exchange. Four hundred UN prisoners returned Sunday including 250 South Koreans. Litter cases were carried from ambulances to Allied reception tents as wounded and emaciated men showed grim, nursing pain.
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Dean
U.S
Noel
Pappy
100 Guardsmen Take Train For Fort Hood Camp
Nearly 100 Oklahoma national guardsmen from Lawton depart by Rock Island train at 8 45 a m Sunday for Fort Hood Texas for the 45th Infantry division first summer encampment since its reorganization less than a year ago.
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Lawton
Fort Hood Texas
45Th Infantry Division
Oklahoma National Guard
Vincent E. Hargett
Eugene Wroten
700Th Ordnance
Larry Underhill
179Th Infantry Regiment
Fred B. Snyder
Edmund
Rock Island
George M. Donovan
Wayne C. Hendrix
Jack W. Wolfe
Korea
Worley
Vincent E Hargett
WO Dale O. Ward
Clarence E. Avery, Jr
Carl G. Brooks
Scientist Urges Congress Recall Over H Bomb Threat
Washington atomic scientist Dr. Ralph Lapp warned that if Russia has the hydrogen bomb President Eisenhower might be justified in recalling Congress to consider unprecedented air defense. He suggested Russia may have conducted small scale tests to prove H bomb principles and said Malenkov’s boast could be propaganda to beat the United States to the news.
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Washington
Russia
Eisenhower
Congress
Ralph Lapp
Lapp
Defense Department
United States
Malenkov
July Rainfall Above Normal in Southwest Oklahoma
Comanche county recorded 4.11 inches of July rainfall, part of a broader swath where southwestern Oklahoma saw above normal moisture. The heaviest daily total was 2.90 inches on July 20, with other measurements listed for July 1, 8, 17, 19, and 24. Nearby counties Kiowa Caddo Grady Stephens Cotton Jefferson Tillman Jackson Harmon also reported varied totals.
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Comanche County
Oklahoma
Greer County
Cotton
Jefferson Counties
Southwest
Kiowa
Caddo
Grady
Stephens
Jefferson
Tillman
Jackson
Harmon
Trials and Tribulations of Lawton Police Force
Lawton police are seen as multi skilled servants handling not only crime but advice on marriage, plumbing and landscaping. A recurring caller base includes the imagination and weather lore of a south town resident warning of gremlins and blackouts. Page 2 police feature notes wacky inquiries about watering laws and a pregnant woman asking how long she can hold her job.
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Jim Bradshaw
Lawton
Cadremen Transferred to Build New Camp Chaffee Center
Fifty Fort Sill artillery replacement cadres including training officers and NCOs will move to Camp Chaffee Arkansas to establish a new field artillery replacement training center. The Fort Sill center is slated to close around October 1 and has not received trainees for several months.
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Fort Sill
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Field Artillery
Nine Oklahomans Are Casualties
Defense Department lists nine Oklahoma Army personnel among Korea casualties as fighting ends. KIA Lt Kenneth R McLeister, Konawa, son of Walter A and Mrs. McLeister. Wounded Pvt John W Barker South Coffeyville Pvt Ancel M Howeth Pauls Valley Pfc Harold E Slate Davis Sgt Walter R Smith Jr Hardesty Leon C Wadley Stanley listed as injured.
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Washington
Korea
Defense Department
Army
Kenneth R. McLeister
Walter A. McLeister
Konawa
John W. Barker
South Coffeyville
Ancel M. Howeth
Pauls Valley
Harold E. Slate
Davis
Walter R. Smith Jr
Hardesty
Leon C. Wadley
Stanley
Area Weather Forecast Mostly fair today in urban region
Mostly fair weather dominates the area with no major temperature changes. Overnight low expected in the upper 60s while daytime highs reach the lower 90s. Saturday forecasts show a high near 92 and a low around 70.
Vacation Pac offered for paper storage during travel
If you will have a permanent vacation address have your papers mailed to you or use the Vacation Pac to save your papers in a package until you return home. No extra cost for either service. Phone Circulation Department 620 and place your order.
Grim tales rise from freed Allied prisoners report
Freedom Village August Sunday account describes Communist brutality and unmarked graves for about 1700 American dead near Pyoktong prison camp by the Yalu River. Corporal Fred W. Porter of Los Angeles recalls trenches three feet deep and 50 yards long, mostly unmarked, with some chalked names. He pleads to recover the bodies for return to America.
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Freedom Village
Freedom
Cpl
Fred W. Porter
Los Angeles
Yalu River
Pyoktong
Porter
Pardon sought for former Duncan officer in 1948 murder
Tulsa report states E L Fowler, a life sentence for Helen Beavers murder in 1948, has a pardon petition filed with the Pardon and Parole Board by Hicks Epton O A Brewer and Floyd Rheam. They cite Argosy Magazine and Erle Stanley Gardner findings claiming Fowler was framed. Parole Board chairman Tom Phillips says the matter will be given serious consideration. Beavers was found beaten Feb 9, 1948, in a Duncan car trunk.
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Tulsa
Okla
Duncan
E. L. Fowler
Helen Beavers
Oklahoma
State
Hicks Epton
Wewoka
Oklahoma Bar Association
O. A. Brewer
Hugo
Floyd Rheam
Argosy Magazine
Erle Stanley Gardner
Fowler
Tom Phillips
Holdenville
Parole Board
Miss Beavers
Craterville Kid's Day At Park With Discount Rides
Craterville Park Ranch Resort hosts Kid's Day with Lawton Constitution and Frank Rush promoting. On Friday Saturday and Sunday children age twelve and under may ride six attractions for thirty cents with fourteen ad coupons. Connor Dog and Pony Circus performs at four and eight o clock today.
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Craterville Park Ranch
Cache
Lawton Constitution Press
Frank Rush
Craterville Park
Mer
Mr. Rush
Connor
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By Jeanne Howell
Bill Dixon
East Reds
Pws
Thomas R. Murray
Baltimore
Inchon
Murray
Chaffee
Craterville
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