Lobbyists Spend $2 Million in First Congress Session
Registered lobbyists filed expense statements showing $2,377,000 spent on legislative interests in the first six months of the year. Over 400 individuals and organizations reported, with the National Association of Electric Companies the top spender at $268,937, followed by the Association of American Railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Arbogast
Washington
Capitol Hill
National Association of Electric Companies
Association
Association of American Railroads
Area Men In Service Area Men In Service
Pvt Billy Mansel is stationed at Fort Meade Md after transferring from Fort Bliss Tex He completed the lead er’s course at Fort Bliss Antiaircraft Artillery Replacement Training Center Paul Pack a hospital corpsman third class USN son of Mr and Mrs John A Pack Walters has been assigned to the Naval Air Jet Training Center at Kingsville Tex
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Mansel
Fort Meade
Billy Jr. Mansel
J. D. Mansel
Elgin
Fort Bliss
Tex
Paul Pack
USN
John A. Pack
Walters
Naval Air Jet Training Center
Kingsville
Aggie Group Plans Apache Fair Date
Apache fair runs August 26 to 29 with Apache day Friday and a horse parade Saturday. The A and M show Thursday August 27 features Okla A M personnel including a juggler magician musical reader and accordionist. Mrs Claud Johnson leads a local talent show at the fair studio Wednesday. Anadarko and Apache high school bands provide music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A&m
Oklahoma A&m College
Claud Johnson
Anadarko High School
Tulsa Officer Follows Clues In Gleason Murder
Tulsa sheriff’s office pursues new clues in the murder of Lawrence D. Gleason 45 aircraft worker found beaten Aug. 10 near Taft. A witness says she saw Gleason with suspect Jesse Tecumseh 29 of Bokoshe shortly before his death. Gleason’s wallet was found under a Fort Smith bridge.
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Tulsa
Okla
Sheriff’s Office
Lawrence D. Gleason
Gleason
Taft
Fort Smith
Ark
Jesse Tecumseh
Bokoshe
Court Building Proposal Made
Oklahoma City State Senator George Miskovsky said he will introduce 1955 session legislation to build a state court building to relieve the crowded capitol. He opposes a recent act giving Gov. Johnston Murray power to authorize private trusts to issue bonds for a capital office building and will seek a direct appropriation for the court building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
George Miskovsky
Miskovsky
Johnston Murray
Court notes from district and superior courts in Lawton area
District Court actions include Creed H King versus Almon R Long and others for 143000 in damages from an auto crash, Medicine Park company versus B M Construction for 51650 over a water line project, Penn Chemical Co versus Ira Finley on open account, Lawton Community Hotel against Emmett Long and others for 2000, state of Oklahoma versus Bally Cit ation slot machine for confiscation, Kenneth A Cohen versus Robert A Hansen for 6075 auto injuries, and cases against Security Bank and Trust Co, Ira Beasley habeas corpus, Shaw Equipment versus Poston Construction for money, and a cattle feed poisoning suit by Hewes against Ralston Purina and Stone. County Court lists beer licenses for Rialto Bar, Dixie Kitchen, Beaty’s Tavern, Way Side Inn, Skyline Cafe, Leonard’s Pool Hall, Jim Jak, plus pool hall license for Leonard’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creed H. King
Almon R. Long
J. Frank Wolfe
Mayme S. Wolfe
Medicine Park Company
B&m Construction Co
Earl Penn
Penn Chemical Co
Ira Finley
Lawton Community Hotel
Emmett Long
Howard Shaw
Eugene Carney
State of Oklahoma
Kenneth A. Cohen
Robert A. Hansen
Superior Court Security Bank and Trust Co
Joe Wilkerson
Ira
Beasley
Shaw Equipment Co
Harry Poston
Poston Construction Co
George Hewes
Radford
A. A. D. Beaty
McKinley
Opal C. Brown
Walter C. Donaldson
Way Side Inn
Washington
Lila White
Skyline Cafe
Cache Road
Richard Leonard
Leonard’s
Jimmie Rice
Jim Jak
Fort Sill Blvd
Public Records Marriage Licenses and Divorces Listed
A list of marriage licenses shows Robert L Landes and Ann Alexander, both 20 and 17 in Petersburg, and other couples from Lawton Fort Sill Mesquite and Dallas. Also includes Travis Light and Helen Mae Miller, and James A St Amand with Barbara Gagnier. Divorces include Fernberg Burnett Davis Howard Lancie Phillips Howard Payton Langford Robinson Young Penland Montpetite Hix Robling among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Landes
Petersburg
W. Va
Ann Alexander
Charles Williams
Fort Sill
Ella Doris McNeil
Lawton
William Edward Lewis
Mesquite
Tex
Mary Joyce Frankun
Mesquite Tex
Bennie L. Betz
Dorothy M. Scott
New Orleans
Lawrence L. Houston
Flora Mae Hooks
Homer Ray
Jo Lillyan Jones
Dallas Tex
Travis Light
Helen Mae Miller
Duncan
Derrell G. Andrus
Anne Jones
Hendrick
James A. St. Amand
Barbara Gagnier
Pontiac
Mich
Warren J. Shelton
Joan Rose
Richard A. Sands
Joan LaRue Ingram
Eugene Hamm
Oklahoma City
Patsy Beauford
Geraldine H. Fernberg
William Thomas Fernberg
Audra
Burnett
William G. Burnett
Myrtle Davis
Thomas C. Davis
Florence Howard
B. W. Howard Jr
Funeral Rites for Claude F. Davis 69 in Lawton
Funeral services for Claude F. Davis aged 69 will be at 10 a m Monday at Lawton Funeral Home chapel with Rev J L McQueen officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Davis died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home born September 6 1884 in Crested View Colorado moved to Beaver County Oklahoma in 1892 later to Hobart in 1929 and Lawton in 1940. He worked as a civil service employee at Fort Sill. He married Lydia West in Lone Wolf in 1921. she died January 1951. He wed Dolores Yoder in Lawton on September 6 1952. Surviving are two daughters Orpha Burk Roswell New Mexico and Pauline Snyder Brownfield Texas two sons Charles and Omar 913 H one sister Mrs E J Schall 1411 S 10th and five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude F. Davis
Lawton Funeral Home
J. L. McQueen
Assembly of God Church
Ninth and
Columbia
Highland Cemetery
Mr. Davis
Crested View
Colo
Beaver County
Okla
Hobart
Omar
E. J. Schall
Cordell Engineer Drowned In Pool
Cordell Oklahoma. A Cordell city engineer, 36 year old Robert E. Moore, drowned when a tractor toppled into a shallow lake and pin ned him. Moore was mowing weeds near the lake when a bank collapsed under the tractor. His 9 year old son Gary witnessed the accident and summoned help. Attempts at artificial respiration failed.
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Cordell
Okla
Robert E. Moore
Cordell City
Moore
Gary
Capital Woman Killed In Iowa Car Accident
A two car collision on Highway 69 at Little Wall Lake near Ames Iowa killed 45 year old Teresa M Canfield of Oklahoma City. She was alone in her car.
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Ames
Iowa
Little Wall Lake
Here
Oklahoma City
Teresa M. Canfield
McCarthy Seeks Data On Subsidy For Newspapers
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy asked the Post Office Department for estimates on the cost of subsidizing distribution for the Washington Post the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Worker official paper of the Communist party He criticized subsidizing papers that he says mislead readers while noting no complaint against the Journal which he calls financially able to pay mailing costs He contrasts papers from opposite ends of the economic spectrum and cites Congress a 240 million subsidy request by Postmaster General Summerfield
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
Post Office Department
Washington Post
The
Wall Street Journal
New York Communist Daily Worker
Los Angeles
McCarthy
Arthur E. Summerfield
Summerfield
Congress
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Post
J. R. Wigginson
Daily Worker
Communist Party
Adlai Stevenson Plans Quiet Rest After World Trip
Adlai E Stevenson, weary from six months abroad, settled at his Libertyville home to rest and walk on Saturday. He planned to skip strenuous events until Monday then attend a cocktail party and a planned welcome home celebration next month. He spoke briefly with Democratic National Chairman Stephen A Mitchell.
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Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Libertyville
Ill
Ballyhoo
Stephen A. Mitchell
Stevenson
Illinois
Mitchell
Owens Becomes Doctor After Football Injuries
In Naugatuck Connecticut Stephen Owens recalls that treatment by Dr Arthur E Anderson inspired him to pursue medicine. Ten years later Owens is now a doctor working with Anderson and following the same path that helped him recover from football injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naugatuck, Conn
Stephen Owens
Arthur E. Anderson
Anderson
Youths Confess Shattering 200 Windows In Cars
Four youths admitted shattering windows in more than 200 cars in Kansas City Kansas early Wednesday. Leland Goodal eighteen William Stack seventeen James Waldo seventeen and Herbert Reed sixteen were booked on destruction of property charges after gathering bricks then using a wrench to batter windows and windshields. Patrolmen Earl Barnes and Edward Laundy Jr. said the youths gave an oral confession and could not explain the vandalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Leland R. Goodal
William F. Stack
James C. Waldo
Herbert Reed
Earl W. Barnes
Edward Laundy Jr
Edmond Teacher Dies In Crash On Hayride
Ruth Elizabeth Jackson, 22, a new Edmond teacher at Port School in Washita County, died in a Sunday school hayrack ride eight miles northwest of Sentinel. The tractor trailer, hay filled, pulled by the driver, struck when the ball bounced back. She fell under the wheels as she attempted to retrieve it.
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Associated Press
Ruth Elizabeth Jackson
Edmond
Miss Jackson
Port School
Washita County
Sentinel
Highway Patrol
Tulsa Slayer Admits Killing Divorcee At Home
Tulsa police say 44 year old Jess Raymond Dodds confessed to shooting Mrs Roberta Whitacre to death after an argument at her kitchen door. He returned to the scene at 3 am and gave a statement detailing four shots fired through the door, saying she was unfaithful. The body was found earlier by Thomas Carr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Earl Beddoe
Jess Raymond Dodds
Roberta Sybil] Whitacre
Dodds
Whitacre
Motorists Pay For Infractions July Fines Totaled
Oklahoma City report shows motorists paid 57000 in fines and costs for traffic violations in July. Speeders contributed 11076 to county treasuries while those without valid state licenses paid 10061, as stated by Safety Commissioner Dixie Gilmer.
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Oklahoma City
Dixie Gilmer
Speeders
County Treasuries
Paratrooper Saved After Chute Fails at Fort Campbell
Pfc Harold D Lovell an Oklahoma City paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division was saved from death in a mass practice jump at Fort Campbell Kentucky. Sgt Richie Cleaver of Niagara Falls grabbed Lovell as his chute collapsed and held on until both men landed safely. Cleaver said a wad of silk swept across his face but he held on and Lovell was uninjured.
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FT. Campbell Ky
Harold D. Lovell
Oklahoma City
11Th Airborne Division
Ft Campbell
Lovell
Richie Cleaver
Niagara Falls
Cleaver
New York
Charity bid starts downtown with prison term
Harrisburg report says James Charity faced 18 months in county prison and a $40 fine after passing worthless checks to obtain $245, a downtown department store case that began with charity efforts in the city.
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Harrisburg
James Charity
Red Loses Appeal In African Court
Nairobi Kenya The East African reports the Appeal Court denied a new trial for Jomo Kennytta known as Burning Spear and five associates serving seven years hard labor for leading Mau Mau. The ruling supports the government prosecutor after Kenya Supreme Court ordered a retrial due to questions of jurisdiction.
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Nairobi
Kenya
East African Appeal Court
Kennytta
Mau Mau
Kenya Supreme Court
Rent Gouging Complaints Stay Low After Decontrol
Washington The National Assn of Real Estate Board reports few rent gouging complaints since federal controls ended August 1 in 1,400 communities. President Charles B Shattuck notes decontrolled cities show landlords acting fairly and tenants' complaints are negligible, with rent increases averaging about 10 percent.
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Washington
National Assn. of Real Estate Board
Charles B. Shattuck
Association
Shattuck
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Red
Beltone
Raytheon
Beltone Hearing Service
J. E. Holtzman
Koehler
Fabulous TV
Zenith
Zenith TV
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Cobra-Matic
Zenith RaDio Corporation
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