Produce Market Holds Steady Across State
The Oklahoma Board of Agriculture says most state produce markets were steady for the week ending Saturday, with candled eggs rising 1 to 5 cents. Gash wheat slipped slightly as prices ranged 1.96 to 2.04. Broiler demand stayed soft, prices mostly 28 cents, heavy weights at Tulsa up to 23 cents, light at 13 cents. Watermelon prices ranged 60 to 75 cents per hundredweight, with limited rail shipments and two truckloads from Rush Springs.
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United Press
Oklahoma Board of Agriculture
Larry Robinson
SDA
Tulsa
Ardmore
Alva
Laverne
U. S
Grady
Rush Springs
Isabella
Markets Weekly Livestock Oklahoma City Market Report
Oklahoma City market report shows cattle and calves mixed with declines across most categories. Fed steers and heifers steady to lower, grassers and stockers down, slaughter calves softer, hog and sheep prices also largely weaker with early highs fading by week end.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Eighth Army Medals Awarded in Korean War
Seoul report shows almost one in seven Eighth Army soldiers earned a decoration for valor or meritorious service during the Korean conflict. The Army adjuvant general announced that 65 Medals of Honor have been awarded and by July more than 105000 veterans had decorations. More than 750000 served. recommendations will be considered until a Department of the Army cut off is set.
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Seoul
Korea
Eighth Army
Eighth Army Adjutant General’s Office
America
Army
Department of the Army
KSWO 1880 On Your Dial Sunday Program Guide
Radio schedule listing daily and Sunday programs across KSWO, with times for church services, news, music, and variety shows. Includes names like Billy Graham Hour, Paul Harvey News, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Betty Crocker, and Edward Arnold Storyteller, spanning morning to late evening.
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Weldon Rightmer
Assembly of God
First Baptist Church
Church of Christ
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Drew Pearson
Taylor Grant
Austin Kiplinger
Emile Cote
KSWO
Martin Agronsky
Esson
Betty Crocker
Airlane Trio
Jack Berch
Bill Ring
Carle
Paul Harvey
Edward Arnold
Jack Owens
Big Jon
Spark
Play Fair
Ebony
al Trace
Elmer Davis
Griffith News
Prisoner Once Ruled Oregon Pen With Prosperous Misrule
Warden Clarence T. Gladden told the state emergency board that a near genius inmate ran Oregon state penitentiary by appointing co conspirators to jobs and trusted posts, oversaw illicit liquor and narcotics, and built a $10,000 liquor business before his deposition. He had an IQ of 129 and is unnamed.
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Salem
Ore
Clarence T. Gladden
Oregon State Penitentiary
Gladden
State Emergency Board
GM Fire Triggers Mass Layoffs Across GM Plants
UNITED PRESS reports a devastating fire at General Motors Livonia plant may trigger layoffs totaling 29,460 across Michigan and other cities. Spot checks show many plants plan reductions in force and output due to fire on August 12. Transmission production halted at Livonia, with Michigan hit hardest as GM officials anticipate further plant impacts.
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United Press
General Motors
Livonia
Mich
Michigan
Returns Home Apache Special News Item
Travis Childers has returned home after spending three weeks at Southwestern Hospital Lawton where he was a surgical patient.
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Travis Childers
Soutwestern Hospital
Lawton
Governor Murray Seeks Return of State Tax Control
Governor Murray urged dismantling federal bureaus and restoring tax funds to states in a bi weekly radio address. He cited the gasoline tax and highway programs noting state and local control would cut costs, while urging voter pressure to loosen federal grip on government functions.
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Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
Murray
Washington
Councilman Faces Trial At Capital
Oklahoma City councilman Laverne Carleton will go to trial September 21 in common pleas court on a charge of violating state election laws. Former city employees Raymond Leasure and John Roy Reid also face trials in September for similar charges.
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Oklahoma City
Laverne Carleton
Common Pleas
Raymond C. Leasure
Municipal Auditorium
John Roy Reid
ITU To Continue Unitype Publishing Program
Detroit delegates at the International Typographical Union 95th convention voted to keep the Unitype program despite recent losses. Supporters argued union created newspapers in 11 cities countered strikes, while opponents cited a $63,000 operating loss and calling it costly and ineffective.
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Detroit
International Typographical Union
Unitype
ITU
World’s Just A Big Stage In Nightwear Debate
In Chicago on Aug 22 a hosiery firm disputed Kinsey’s claim that half of American wives sleep nude. Interviewing 345 women, 163 wore pajamas, 150 nightgowns, eight night shirts, six slept in men’s pajamas, and 18 slept nude.
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Chicago
Alfred Kinsey
Kinsey
Clothes Make The Man In Denver Case Of Sleeping In Doorways
A 69-year-old unidentified man in Denver, who buys a new suit monthly with his old-age pension and sleeps in downtown doorways, has been temporarily lodged in the county jail.
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Denver
Barn Fire Attacks Decline as Fire Brigades Praised
Vienna organ of the Slovak Trade Unions reports harvest season barn burnings fell by 57.5 percent versus last year. It notes fire brigades extinguished arson fires quickly and praises their efficiency.
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Vienna
Praca
Butcher Bowman Detours Down One Way to Flee Frog
In Dereham England on a Saturday Bowman explained he drove opposite traffic after a frog hopped into the back seat of his automobile causing panic among the ladies and distracting him. He was fined 3 dollars and 20 cents.
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Alway Dereham
Eng
Stanley Bowman
Bowman
Wildlife exhibit comes to Stony Point with free watermelon
Oklahoma Game and Fish mobile wildlife exhibit visits Stony Point school gym Monday from 7 to 10 p.m. The Stony Point Rod and Gun Club sponsors free ice cold watermelon for attendees. The display features 20 to 50 live Oklahoma native birds fish mammals reptiles and amphibians. Set up at 17 500 dollars the exhibit includes its own power plant lighting aeration pumps sound system video projector and climate controls. Bob Jenni Tom Jessee and the local district ranger accompany the exhibit.
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Oklahoma Game and Fish Department
Stony Point School
Stony Point Rod and Gun Club
Lawton
Rod and Gun Club
E. A. Welch
Charlie Eads
A. Rose
Oklahoma
Bob Jenni
Tom Jessee
Distact
Air Force Association seeks full atom use policy
Washington report notes the Air Force Association and veterans groups urge a national policy to unleash air-atomic power against future Korean style aggression. They call for UN recognition of overwhelming immediate military defeat as deterrence and demand an independent weapons advisory commission separate from budget concerns.
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Washington
Air Force Assn
Association of
Air Force Personnel
United Nations
Strategic Air Command
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs
Birth certificate sought for daughter born in 1934
A former Memphis resident wrote the Bureau of Vital Statistics seeking a birth certificate for her daughter born in 1934 but she cannot recall the daughter's name. The note highlights a memory lapse complicating official records.
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Memphis
Tenn
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Soviet Blast Considered Hoax Bomb Says Telegraph
British atomic scientists reportedly doubt Russia exploded a true hydrogen bomb claiming a hoax may have been staged. The Daily Telegraph quotes Leonard Bertin noting clues could be planted for American investigators and that hoax ingredients might resemble those of a real device.
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London
Russia
Daily Telegraph
Leonard Bertin
Ministry of Supply
Atomic Energy Division
Japanese Union Sets New Strike
A Japanese labor union with 107000 members in U S bases said a second 48 hour strike would be launched next Friday to back demands for a revision of the basic United States Japan labor contract covering workers employed by American forces, per Asahi Shimbun.
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Tokyo
U. S
Asahi Shumbun
Japan Garrison Forces Labor Union
Zenchuro
United States & Japan
Five Motorists Face Driving Charges in County Court
County highway patrolmen filed traffic charges against five motorists on a Saturday in two justice courts. Albert Vernon Bunch of 5 N Ninth faced running a stop sign. L C Lawton of 1424 Monroe was charged with leaving center. In Cameron court William Dewey Hed den of Fort Sill and Vernon C Chockpoyah of Walters were charged with passing in a marked zone and running a stop sign respectively. Joseph Louis Crider of Houston faced speeding charges.
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Justice of the Peace
Woodrow Giles
Albert Vernon Bunch
N. Ninth
L. C. Lawton
Monroe
Marvin Cameron
William Dewey Hedden
Fort Sill
Vernon C. Chockpoyah
Rt. 3
Walters
Joseph Louis Crider
Houston
Tex
Floods in Chile Kill 28 Persons
In central and southern Chile storms and floods left at least 28 dead and 4,000 homeless. Santiago was isolated as rivers overflowed and landslides disrupted rail, road, and communications. About 400 families were evacuated. Damage estimated above 20 million dollars.
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Santiago
Chile
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