Fort Sill Lt Faces Court Martial Over Firing Mishap
Lt Rosser L Moody Jr a 37th FA Bn faces a general court martial at Fort Sill for four counts of negligent homicide in the June 22 firing mishap that killed four soldiers and hospitalized 13 others. The case opens with a nine officer panel in Building 35 5283. A second related case is pending with few details released. Moody is charged for each death with transmitting erroneous firing data as fire direction officer. Max penalties include discharge forfeiture of pay and four years hard labor. Court members include Col Lindsay DeFrees and Lt Cols Ferguson Bryan and others with Capt John Kurz as judge advocate general law officer.
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Fort Sill
Public Information Office
Rosser L. Moody Jr
FA Bn
PIO
Moody
Eid
Lindsay J. DeFrees
Thomas G. Ferguson
Willie E. Bryan
George HH. Wolf
Sigmund Chmielowski
John C. Kurz
James W. Herring
Noel B. Wright Jr
Edward Ibsen
John C. Powell Jr
Judge Advocate General's Corps
Powell
Sulphur
Gilbert A. Frisbie
Gordon P. Ralph
Moody's
City Reads Court Appeal In Milk Fight
Lawton moves to appeal a federal ruling that blocked strict local milk rules. City plans to take the case to the Denver circuit to keep a 30 minute cooling standard and annual bovine tuberculosis checks.
Area Weather Forecast With Hot Temperatures Ahead
Forecasters predict partly cloudy conditions with scattered showers through Thursday. Expect a high near 100 today, a low around 75 tonight, and temperatures climbing to 102 by Thursday. Readings show 90, with high 103 on Tuesday.
Hike In Electric Rates Approved
The Federal Power Commission approved a 427 per cent rate increase in wholesale electric power sales by the Southwestern Power Administration affecting about 250,000 rural customers in Oklahoma Arkansas Texas Missouri and Louisiana. The FPC extended approval of rates for SPA agreements with Public Service Co of Oklahoma Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co and Southwestern Gas and Electric Co for up to one year. Rates rise to 6.97 mills per kilowatt hour at load factors below 50 percent and vary by local facilities and distribution. SPA serves towns including Skintook Hominy Yale Welumba Spiro Crescent Eldorado Galtry Lexington Purcell Ryan Anadarko and bases such as Fort Sill Vance Altus and McAlester Navy Depot.
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Southwestern Power Administration
Federal Power Commission
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Missouri
Louisiana
SPA
Interior Department
Public Service Co. of
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co
Southwestern Gas and Electric Co
Skintook
Hominy
Yale
Welumba
Spiro
Crescent
Eldorado
Galtry
Granite
Lexington
Purcell
Ryan
Anadarko
Ft. Sill
Vance Air Force
Correction in Constitution Press misnaming V F S club
The newspaper corrects an error naming the V F S club operator in the Warren hotel basement as Truman Riley instead of Travis Riley. It states Truman Riley runs a garage and is not connected or related to Travis Riley. The Constitution Press apologizes for the mistake in names.
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Constitution Press
V.F.S
Warren Hotel
Truman Riley
Travis Riley
Witness testifies he was drunk when voting in union election
Anthony Barbera, a truck driver, told the Senate Rackets Committee he was drinking in 1956 and woke up voting for James Hoffa’s candidate for Teamsters boss in New York. He said he did not know he voted and could not recall the location, while the committee linked him to a pattern of phony locals and votes cast in others’ names.
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Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
New York
Anthony Bartera
Senate Rackets Committee
Teamsters
Holla
Barbera
Hoffa
John O'Rourke
Officers think woman died natural death
A Lawton woman, found dead Tuesday morning in a room above the Comet Drug, apparently died of natural causes. Pathologist Dr L F Thornton said no violence was involved and poison tests were ordered. Tommy Moore, the last person to see her alive, was questioned and released. The woman was about 40 and reportedly had worked as a waitress in Lawton.
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George Gravley Statt
Lawson
David TJ. Aubrey
Aubrey
L. F. Thornton
Mary D. Harrison
Thornton
Oklahoma City
Tommy Moore
Elm
Duncan
Moore
Lawton
Fitzgerald, Ga
Ntarvison
Ician
University of Georgia
Lawlon
Health Groups Plan Flu Battle
Surgeon General Leroy E Burney meets with 13 major health organizations to map plans for an Asiatic flu epidemic this fall and winter. AMA American Red Cross and others will outline mobilizing emergency medical manpower and vaccination efforts with the new Asian strain vaccine as supply permits.
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Washington
Leroy E. Burney
Burney
American Medical Association
American Red Cross
AMA
Mail Hike Bill Appears Dead in Senate
Washington reports the House approved a half billion per year postal rate hike on a 296-129 vote. It would raise first class mail by one cent to four cents, air mail to seven, and postcard rate to three. Senate action was doubtful this year. Eisenhower expected to veto related pay bills.
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Washington
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Missing climber Inesline Roberts found dead on peak
Colorado Springs bulletin reports 84 year old Inesline B Roberts found dead today on High One s Peak after missing since August 5 during her 35th ascent. Rescue crews confirmed her body at the summit and notified next of kin.
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Colorado Springs
Coin
Inesline B. Roberts
High Ones Peak
Polish Transport Strike Clashes As Army Steps In
In Lodz Poland Hundreds of troops moved to end a nine day trolley strike. Police and riot squads faced stone throwing workers while a battle at Piotrkowska main street left arrests reported. Negotiations failed with strikers demanding a written pay rise promise before return to work.
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Lodz
Poland
M—Cluba
Arden
Piotrkowska
Communist Party
Fhe
Warsaw
Confidential Trial Reveals Scandal Magazine Tales
In a Los Angeles criminal libel trial, jurors heard lurid stories from Confidential about Hollywood stars. Prosecution witnesses described articles on Maureen O’Hara, Dorothy Dandrige, and Alan Dale with sensational headlines.
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Los Angeles
Eday
Scandal
Hollywood
Maureen O'Mara
Maureen O'Hara
Dorothy Dandrige
Alan Dale
Ronnie
Carmen Jacques
Ronnie Quillan
Solon Signals Possible Stall Over Civil Rights Bill
Washington D C reports Chairman Smith of the House Rules Committee hinted he may stall any civil rights bill. Reporters pressed about rival Democratic and Republican measures aimed at forcing action as lawmakers seek to break the session stalemate. The Rules Committee’s fate could gate when the issue reaches a House vote. A closed door session followed Speaker Rayburn’s meeting as Democrats proposed a scaled back Senate jury trial amendment limiting its scope to lower federal district courts.
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Washington
Smith
D-Va
House Rules Committee
House
Rayburn
Texas
Senate
Rep
Celis
Weather stays hot with limited rain forecast
Cloudy skies kept Lavtot temperatures slightly below expectations today but the weather bureau warns more hot weather ahead. Five day forecast calls for near 100 degree days through Monday with little chance of rain. Highs reached 103 in Lavtot and 105 in Ponca City with only .09 inch rain reported at Cage in the last 24 hours.
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Lavtot
Weather Bureau
Ponca City
Defiant Youth Heads for China Amid State Department Warning
A group of 46 American youths set to travel to Red China for a Moscow youth festival defied officials and boarded the Moscow Peiping trans Siberian express. Two withdrew before departure, with others considering joining by air. State Department warned passports could be seized, saying the trip could violate U.S. law amid no diplomatic ties with Maoist China.
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Moscow
United States
Red China
Peiping
Jake Rosen
New York
Kiev
U.S. State Department
State Department
Christian Herter
Talen
China
Dan O'Connell
Chicago
Walters Officer To Stand Trial
1 Lt DeWitt Adkins of Walters Oklahoma will face an Army court martial Thursday on charges of involuntary manslaughter in four German deaths when his car struck their auto at a street intersection on June 20. The case unfolds at Frankfurt Germany under military authority.
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Frankfurt
Germany
DeWitt Adkins
Walters
Okla
Adkins
Strikers Expand Picket Lines at Fort Sill Gates
International Association of Machinists tightened the noose around Fort Sill by erecting picket lines at two auxiliary gates to block Page Aircraft Co supplies and construction workers. Other unions joined, shifting access to the post while military police monitor lines at Gates 2 3 4 and the Medicine Park Y. Fort Sill opened one gate for non Page workers and awaits further action as legal oversight continues.
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Fort Sill
International Association of Machinists
Stviking
Page Aircraft Co
Spartan Aircraft Inc
U.S. Army Artillery and Missile Center
Teamsters Union
Electrical and Plumbing
Page
22Nd Street
Rogers Lane
Washington, D.C
Bill Sexton
Apache Gate
Medicine Park “Y
U.S. 277
Sexton
Military Reservation
Strange
Public Information Office
Everett Rhea
National Labor Reations Board
Lawton
Rhea
Insurance Frauds Increase In State Oklahoma City
Oklahoma State Insurance Commissioner Joe B. Hunt reports a surge in fraudulent sales of health insurance to elderly pensioners. He cites hundreds of complaints from nearly every county, noting many agents are unlicensed and use hospital or welfare department linkages to pressure seniors into policies. The activity began in Bryan County last month, then widened despite board efforts.
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Oklahoma City
Joe B. Hunt
Hunt
Bryan County
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US Circuit Court of Appeals
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Lawinn
Hugh C. Corvin
Corwin
Elmer C. Bayman
I Kpatrick
Stitt Pair
E . Parks
BD. L. Shelton
Bluntberger
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Apache
Bill Dixon
Arre
Solon
Defiant Youth
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