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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1955
Page
5
Bernard M. Baruch, adviser to presidents, marks his 85th birthday with a candid phone interview. He cites heredity and self care for longevity, describes daily routine, reading habits, and work cadence, and notes he no longer claims to know all the answers as he did at 21.
An Oklahoma convict, Billy Joe Kunkel, 27, evaded prison by hiding under a truck in McAlester. A motor problem forced the driver to stop, exposing the man who was found under the hood near the gates and recaptured. He returns to serve a 50 year term for armed robbery from Muskogee County.
London transport authorities dismissed Douglas Ernest Haven after he spanked 19 year old Shirley Ann Ellison on a bus as a dare. Ellison, who supported a woman unable to board during a stop, provoked Haven who threatened to spank her and carried out the act.
Sanzo Nosaka was appointed the top post in the Japan Communist Party as first secretary. He succeeds Kyuichi Tokuda, who died in Peiping in October 1953. Both men had gone underground in 1950 during MacArthur's purge of the Diet. Nosaka was briefly arrested last week but released after prosecutors voided a MacArthur occupation order.
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