Patience Pays Off Cityan Granted Legal Residence In Country
City resident Crista Harkrader after a three year illness battle was granted legal residence in the United States by a presidential signature. German born in Dresden she came to the country in 1952 for tuberculosis treatment and later received a visa for further care. Her husband Sgt Joseph Harkrader stationed at Fort Sill spoke of the joyful ending and thanked Congressman Page Belcher for his role.
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Crista Harkrader
Hoover
Eisenhower
Harkrader
Dresden
Joseph M. Harkrader
Fort Sill
Sgt. Harkrader
Germany
Crista
Page Belcher
Oklahoma
Korea
Chris
America
Virginia
Fort Benning
Sgt
Joseph Harkrader
Court Clamor Fails To Stir Dr. Galbraith
In McAlester Oklahoma Dr Ben T Galbraith sits unmoved as jury selection for his murder trial proceeds with nine challenges by each side. He stands accused of killing his wife Mary Katherine 34 and harming his children then setting fire to their home. Notes from his jail cell reveal he contemplated killing them in their sleep and described thoughts as mechanical.
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Mcalester
Okla
Ben T.galbraith
James P. Whyte
Fred Whetsel
James A. Rinehart
Dr. Galbraith
Henderson
Tenn
Mary Katherine
A. Lackey
Galbraith
Ben T. Galbraith
Rudolph Myers
Pittsburg
Dee Sanders
Ozmun Says He Asked For Transfer Of Raley
State Rep Charles Ozmun admitted asking for the transfer of Lt C T Raley amid a realignment in the Oklahoma Highway Patrol top echelon The Lawton dispute centered on Raleys demotion from Lawton chief of patrol and his role in the Bud Williamson case Williamson was exonerated by a patrol board after being charged with falsifying an accident report The governor and patrol leaders denied political motives Ozman rebutted a ministers charge during a radio broadcast
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Charles Ozmun
Highway Patrol
C. T. Raley
Oklahoma Highwayatrol
Ozman
Lawton
Raymond Gary
Raley
Bud Williamson
Williamson
Lawton Citizens Plan Parley On Highway Patrol Axing Probe
Lawton residents led by Olen Conner plan a 2 p.m. Thursday meeting at the Hotel Lawtonian ballroom to form a citizens group to probe the governor’s actions and the demotion of Lt. C. T. Raley. Letters go to civic clubs inviting participation in the probe of political axing and patrol policy.
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Lawtonians
C. T. Raley
Lawtonian
Raley
Kiwanis
Olen Conner
Lawton Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis Club
GMAC Plans Lawton Office Expansion
GMAC and MIC plan a Lawton branch to serve 68 dealers across nine counties. Managers Hunt and Cobb sought 2,900 to 3,000 square feet of space and noted possible construction if suitable facilities are unavailable. The Lawton office would be under Oklahoma City control, joining existing offices in Tulsa Amarillo and Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
General Motors Acceptance Corp
Motor Insurance Corp
C. H. Hunt
GMAC
Oklahoma City
Hunt
A. C. Cobb
MIC
Amarillo
Lubbock
Tex
Tulsa
General Motors
Area Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and hot through Wednesday
Partly cloudy and hot through Wednesday with a chance of scattered late afternoon or evening thunderstorms. Yesterday's high reached 98 and today near 100 with an overnight low around 75. By 11 a.m. the temperature was 90.
Girl Found on Mountain Near Mount Evans
An 11 year old Missouri farm girl Colleen Patton from Clifton Hill was found after near 30 hours missing on Mount Evans near Idaho Springs Colorado. She arrived tearful into the arms of a search party and was brought down safely to Evans ranch west of Idaho springs.
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Idaho Springs
Colo
Mount Evans
Colleen Patton
Clifton Hill
Timberline
Denver
Evans Ranch
Marland Trail Leads To Kansas
The Kansas City Star reports the widow of former Oklahoma governor Ernest W. Marland lived in the Independence area for several months after disappearing 29 months earlier. She reportedly stayed three to four months at a nearby motel in 1953 while traveling to Chicago and New York to sell paintings from the Marland estate.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
The
Star
Ernest W. Marland
Chester C. Andes
Independence
Mother Hears How Ex-POW Killed Her Son
A Detroit mother hears a court martial account of how her son died in a Chinese Red prison camp in Korea allegedly at the hands of Sgt. James C. Gallagher. A fellow American testified Gallagher slapped and dragged Cpl. John William Jones into freezing weather after Jones collapsed. The mother remained composed, then cried during recess as she learned more of the case.
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New York
Korea
Loretta Jones
Detroit
James C. Gallagher
Brooklyn
Gallagher
Sgt
Donell Adams
Cottonwood
Ala
Ft. Lewis
Wash
John William Jones
Adams
Jones
Hurricane Connie Hits East Coast Alert as Storm Advances
Tropical storm Connie neared the East Coast prompting hurricane warnings from Cape Lookout North Carolina to Norfolk Virginia and a regional alert as far north as Mineola New York. Forecasters noted Connie slowed while a new trough loomed, offering a possible path back to sea.
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Miami, Fla
North Carolina
Virginia
Norfolk, Va
New York City
Cape Lookout
N. C
Weather Bureau
Washington
Miami Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
Fla
Cape Hatteras
American Red Cross
Maryland
Mineola
N. Y
Massachusetts
Carolina
Carolina Capes
Cape Cod
Connie
North
South Carolina
Excise Board Recessed After Budget Session
Comanche county and Lawton officials submitted budgets but neither was ready for approval. Board chairman Logan Hyder said a full week of work lies ahead as about $39,000 will be trimmed from the county budget. The city budget was to be $1,109,000 and trimmed to $1,103,241. the county budget of $340,559.20 will be reduced to about $301,000.
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Comanche County
Lawton
Logan Hyder
Chattanooga
Hyder
Rains Miss City as Lawtonka Receives Inch
Rain clouds passed over Lawton County Monday night preventing cooling showers for residents. Lake Lawtonka rose by a full inch from rainfall concentrated on the lake itself, with runoff minimal. Forecasters predict similar showers may reach other county areas Tuesday night and into the week. Patrolman John Frampton noted the lake received the rainfall directly with little watershed runoff.
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Lawton
Lake Lawtonka
Lawtonka
John Frampton
Forays In Lawton Booze Raids Spark Confusion On Initiation
State crime bureau agents joined Lawton city and county officers in six raids, four resulting in arrests, with about 70 bottles of liquor seized. Authorities disagree on who initiated the operation, noting agents were asked by persons outside local law enforcement to help.
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State Crime Bureau
Lawton
Ralph Hennessee
Ray Page
Norman Hunter
Oral Ridgeway
O. K. Bivins
Oklahoma City
Bivins
Hennessee
Page
Hunter
Cheap Atomic Power Seen For U S By 70
At the atoms for peace conference Dr James A Lane of Oak Ridge said nuclear power could compete with coal electricity in the United States within 15 to 20 years. He cited cost estimates of four to seven mills per kilowatt hour and called the outlook very promising.
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Atoms-For-Peace Conference
United States
James A. Lane
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge, Tenn
National Laboratory
Soviet Union
D. I. Blokhinstev
N. A. Nikolayev
Lane
Lawtonian Loses Insurance Fight
Oklahoma City state Insurance Board dropped a bid to regulate mortgage firms charging homeowners for changing insurers. It dismissed the complaint against T. J. Bettes Mortgage Co. of Lawton after ruling mortgage firms fall outside board jurisdiction.
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Oklahoma City
State Insurance Board
Joe B. Hunt
T. J. Bettes Mortgage Co
Lawton
Louis V. Woodruff
Ralph Duroy
Allen J. Bilbrey
Airmen To Start Home Tomorrow
Tokyo reports eleven U.S. airmen freed from Communist captivity will depart for Travis Air Force Base California aboard two C64 transports via Midway and Hawaii. Col John Knox Arnold leads the group with ten other fliers who spent 32 months as prisoners and are finally headed home this weekend.
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Tokyo
U.S
Air Force
John Knox Arnold
China
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Midway
Hawaii
Walters Co op plans big Wednesday gathering in Walters
About 7500 people are expected to attend the Cotton Electric Co operative annual meeting in Walters with Roscoe Keifer of the Oklahoma Statewide Electric cooperative as keynote in the afternoon. Congress member Victor Wickersham is slated to speak. Registration starts at 9 a.m. at Sultan Park and the main session begins at 1 p.m. Ballot results on raising the debt limit from 7 million to 14 million will be announced. a counting committee will tally at 1 p.m. Ketels presides. bylaw amendments will be voted on. treasurer Luther Eubanks will present the financial report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walters
Cotton Electric Co-operative
Roscoe Keifer
Helena
Oklahoma
Statewide Electric Co-Operative
Victor Wickersham
Sultan Park
Co-Op
T. H. Ketels
Luther Eubanks
Ketels
Virgil Trout
Walters Church of See Co-Op
Dean Quizzer To Be Shot By South Korean Army
A South Korean army court martial sentenced Lee Chang Kwang to death for aiding the enemy by passing information to the Communists after interrogating Maj. Gen. William F. Dean early in the Korean War. President Rhee and higher tribunals must approve before execution by firing squad. the 25 year old was arrested in July and the trial lasted five and a half hours.
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Seoul
Lee Chang Kwang
William F. Dean
Lee
Dean
Rhee
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Bob Greenberg
Mornag Pres
Ozmun
Conner
Kansas
East Coast
Gordon Dunn
St. Augustine
Fila
Excise Board
Inch
Dean Quizzer
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