Oklahoma Telephone Walkout: 7,000 Strike in State
About 7,000 Southwestern Bell workers in Oklahoma walked out at 6 a.m. Thursday over pay, with 2,000 supervisory staff manning key exchanges to keep service near normal. Pickets appeared at major exchanges. 50 small one- person boards and 300 other points were unaffected. The company strives to maintain near normal service, while union reps vow to continue until a contract is reached in St Louis. A few non union workers returned to work. See WALKOUT, Page 2.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Communications Workers’ Union
Southwestern Bell
Frederick
Sulphur
Erwin Cotter
CWA
St. Louis
Cutter
Lawton Bell Strike Slows Service As Walkout Spreads
Union officials say about 400 Southwestern Bell workers in Lawton joined a CIO CWA strike, leaving switchboards at half strength and causing slower local and long distance service. Picket lines formed at exchanges, with 40 operators on duty during peak hours, as unions seek reclassification to Group 3 pay. No violence reported as headquarters coordinates strike actions with a Warren hotel union office.
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Lawton
Telephone Company Exchange
Telephone Company
Enid
Bartlesville
Muskogee
George Page
Southwestern Bell
Page
Warren Hotel
Chickasha
Duncan
Altus
Hobart
Anadarko
Rebels Capture Mossadegh in Tehran Mob Clash
London dispatch notes Royalist Tehran radio reporting the ousted Premier Mohammad Mossadegh captured by regime forces while street fighting continues in the capital. Maj. Gen. Fazollah Zahedi forms a cabinet as the Shah plans return from Rome and Fatemi is missing amid deadly violence.
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London
Tehran
Radio Today
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
Fazollah Zahedi
Zahedi
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Rome
Hossein Fatemi
Don Schwind
Fatemi
Mos
H BOMB TURMOIL SPARKS NEW U S DEFENSE PLEA
Russia announced an H-bomb test as the United States confirmed a Soviet explosion on Aug 12. Chairman Strauss said the U S tested an H-bomb at Eniwetok in 1951 and warned Congress to speed up defenses. President Eisenhower and State Department offered cautious responses while calls grew for stronger radar and intercept measures.
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Washington
Russia
U.S
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Moscow
Soviet Union
Strauss
Eniwetok Island
Pacific
Eniwetok
Eisenhower
New York
State Department
W. Sterling Cole
Rn.y
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Reds To Free 7150 Americans In Next Trade
Panmunjom reports mid exchange progress as 150 Americans and 300 Koreans are slated for release tomorrow. Today 60 Americans 90 British and 300 Koreans were freed, with 6,533 Allied troops released so far this year. A Medal of Honor winner Hiroshi Miyamura, 27, was among those freed. The talks at Panmunjom followed Red accusations against the UN Command and Red Cross team conduct, amid typhoon disruptions hindering shipments.
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Panmunjom
U. S
Koje Island
Korea
America
Hiroshi Miyamura
Gallup. N
Red Stockades
Joint Military Armistice Commission
Red
Reds
U. N
Red Cross
Red China
Peiping
Turnpike Take Exceeds Estimate in Early Payoff
Oklahoma City August 20 Turnpike manager H E Bailey says figures from anti toll readers show Furner Turnpike will pay bonds in 36 years well ahead of schedule Using a standard amortization table from the Free Roads Association he notes first 45 days revenue will cover bond payments Bailey had earlier estimated 25 years and sticks to the longer span based on traffic growth He cites Free Roads Association claims that the 38 million project lost forty five thousand dollars in 45 days and would never pay out
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Oklahoma City
H. E. Bailey
Furner Turnpike
Free Roads Association
Bailey
Last Resort Court Report Yields No New Clues in Fowler Case
Sam Lattimore assistant attorney general said the Argosy magazine Court of Last Resort produced nothing new in the Helen Beaver s murder case. Fowler is serving life for the trunk murder in Duncan in 1948. The Court led by Erle Stanley Gardner claimed new light, but Lattimore finds only second hand statements from Yvonne Stephens and no signed testimony. He will not make a clemency recommendation, leaving the rum or to speak for itself.
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Oklahoma City
Sam Lattimore
E. L
Lefty) Fowler
Argosy Magazine
Helen Beavers
Fowler
Duncan
Beavers
Erle Stanley Gardner
Lattimore
State Pardon and Parole Board
Court of Last Resort
Yvonne Stephens
Pardon and Parole Board
Stephens
San Francisco
Knowland To Speak In Oklahoma City
California Senator William Knowland will address an Oklahoma Republican meeting in November. Party officials said the GOP national speakers bureau assured availability, with the exact date dependent on his Far East trip, as Knowland leaves at the end of August.
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Oklahoma City
California
William Knowland
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Oklahoma
Robert Aitken
GOP
National
Knowland
Far East
Secret Witness Reveals Code Theft at Printing Office
Senate investigators publicized sworn testimony by Miss Cleta Guess that Edward Rothschild took a code book and secret military data from the government printing office during World War II. Witnesses included Jack Zucker who declined to discuss Rothschild’s associations or a 1940s Communist hearing. McCarthy defined white chauvinism as unequal treatment of Black people.
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Washington
Senate
Government Printing Office
Edward Rothschild
Cleta Guess
New Orleans
McCarthy
R-Wis
Miss Guess
Jack Zucker
Philadelphia
Rothschild
MacCarthy
France Deposes Moroccan Sultan and exiles him to Corsica
France ousted Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef of Morocco after Berber forces led by Thami El Glaoui marched on Rabat. The sultan and two sons are sent to Corsica as civil unrest looms, with French officials citing overwhelming Moroccan will against him.
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Paris
France
Morocco
Interior Ministry
Corsica
Mediterranean
Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Pasha Thami el Glaoui
Marrakech
Rabat
el Glaoui
Foreign Office
Napoleon
Augustin Guillame
Thami el Glaoui
Fourth ROK Class Graduation Slated
The Artillery School will award diplomas to its fourth class of Republic of Korea officers at 10 a.m. on September 1 in the theater. The group began in April and maintained high grades despite language difficulties, with no commencement speaker named yet. The ceremony is open to the public.
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Republic of Korea
Oklahoma
Texas
Fort Sill
U. S. Army
Korea
Fliers Parachute After B50 Bomber Explodes Near Picacho Peak
A B50 bomber on a training flight exploded early today near Picacho Peak Arizona. Eleven of twelve crew parachuted into the desert and suffered injuries while some were killed. The Pinal County sheriff reported one death at the scene and later a second body was found in the wreckage.
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Picacho, Ariz.p
Arizona Desert
Picacho Peak
Pinal County
Kinsey Report reveals differences in sexual activity by gender
AP report from Bloomington outlines Kinsey findings that women stay young longer in sex activity, with psychological factors driving arousal. It notes most women need steady contact to climax, a rise in female sexual freedom since the 1920s, and gendered patterns in peak activity and aging. It highlights adultery rates, premarital relations, and arousal contrasts, forecasting marriage and law implications.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Bloomington
Ind
Kinsey
Alfred C. Kinsey
Indiana Phone Pickets Greet Non Strikers With Egg Barrage
More than 50,000 Southwestern Bell Telephone workers went on strike as order was restored in Indiana after violence. Negotiations had stretched over 20 hours. the union rejected a wage offer of 4 1/2 cents while demanding 7 1/2 cents. Picket lines formed in St. Louis and Kansas City with orderly police presence.
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Indiana
United Press
Southwestern Bell Telephone System
CIO Communication Workers of America
Southwestern Bell
CIO Communications Workers of America
Kansas City
Frank P. Lonergan
CWA
District 6
St. Louis
Strik
War veterans seek reasons for civil layoffs in Oklahoma City
War veteran groups met with a Civil Service official to learn why veterans face layoffs while non veterans stay on the payroll. The August 20 meeting in Oklahoma City focused on employment protection and job retention for veterans within civil service.
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Oklahoma City
Civil Service
Firemen Foil Hose Theft During City Blaze
Firemen from stations No 2 and 3 fought a 1 a.m. blaze at 2304 H while three men tried to steal hose nearby. Captain J P Cox of station No 3 spotted the suspects as they hauled hose to a car, claiming they were “getting water” when confronted. See HOSE, Page 2.
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J. P. Cox
Military Highway
H Street
Cox
Water line work continues near Lake Lawtonka dam
Medicine Park corporation sues B M Construction in superior court seeking 51 650 damages for alleged trespass and loss from a water line project. City officials say work proceeds despite the suit, with expected delays uncertain as crossing private land looms. Damages claimed cover cabin rental losses, hotel rent, skating rink revenue, bath house income, drive in pig stands, and property rights interference.
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Lake Lawtonka Dam
Medicine Park Corporation
B&m Construction Company
Medicine Park Group
Lester McKenzie
McKenzie
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