Verdict Ready On McCarthy Army Dispute
Senate reports on the McCarthy Army dispute are prepared with Mundt stating a majority report to be filed by Aug 30 and Trice to forward statements to the government printing office. Watkins says the six member inquiry will not call witnesses who accused McCarthy. Flanders seeks testimony to repeat 33 charges.
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Potter
R-Mich
Dirksen
Ill
Dworshak
Idaho
Mundt
J. Mark Trice
Senate
Mebers
Trice
Government
Seriuonieer
McCarthy
Sen
Watkins
Utah
Rtisan
Flanders
R-Vi
Ibright
D-Ark
Morse
Ind- Ore
Evi
Committee
Vermont
Rutledge Named Bliss Commander at Fort Bliss
Maj. Gen. Paul W. Rutledge has been named commander of the redesignated Antiaircraft and Guided Missiles Center at Fort Bliss Texas. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Stanley R. Mickelsen who is relieved as commandant of the AA and GM Branch of the Artillery School at Fort Bliss and reassigned to Headquarters End Antiaircraft Command at Eighth Air Force Base Colorado. Mickelsen’s new assignment transfers Gen. Rutledge to Fort Bliss from Fort Monroe Virginia and details his reassignment.
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Paul W
Fort Bliss
Tex
Stanley R. Mickelsen
End
E Air Force Base
Colorado
Cole
Fort Monroe
Mick
Sheriff Warns Night Club Bosses to Bar Thugs
Comanche county sheriff Jett Ray Hale blasted night spot operators for allowing gambling offenders to hang around and vowed padlocking if they fail to act. He plans to meet with County Attorney Manville Redman and will visit operators this week to push the crackdown.
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Jett Ray Hale
U S Senate Paymaster Kills Wife Then Himself
Joseph C Ellis paymaster for the U S Senate shot his wife Elizabeth and killed himself after a dispute over long hours. Their son 17 described a tense morning and heard his father call out mind your own business. The family was taken to Emergency Hospital where Elizabeth died and Ellis died a half hour later.
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Washington
Joseph C. Ellis
U. S. Senate
Joseph
Ee R. Donahue
Donahue
Anthony Richitt
Ellis
Senate
Elizabeth
Young
Lawton Junior High to Become Oklahoma’s Largest
Lawton Junior High School will be the largest junior high in Oklahoma with an expected enrollment of 1600 to 1700 students, the principal says. Lawton houses a single campus while others like Oklahoma City and Tulsa split junior highs into several schools.
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Lawton Junior High
Oklahoma
Lawton
Southwest
A. Richardson
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Muskogee
Enid
Richardson
C. A. Roberts Jr
Saranae Tone Cohebienatas
Braniff DC3 Crash Near Mason City Kills Eleven
A Braniff Airways DC3 crashed near Mason City Iowa during a storm. Eleven people died and eight injured as the plane, en route Memphis to Minneapolis, struck a power line and overturned. Pilot William Pickering reported trying to skirt the storm before the fatal impact. The wreckage spread across about 52 blocks. no fire occurred. Stewardess Bettie Ann Truly survived.
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Mason City
Iowa
Braniff Airways
Memphis
Tenn
Minneapolis
Minn
Iowa City
William Pickering
Braniff
Oklahoma City
Bettie Ann Truly
Shreveport
St Marys School Sets Sept 1 Start Date
Enrollment under way at St Marys school. Sister Macaria notes classes begin September 1. Fourteen instructors return. last year enrollment about 475 with expectations similar this year.
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St . Mary's School
Macaria
Airmen questioned in Chanute over Pachuco gang ties
About 30 airmen at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois were detained on suspicion of gang affiliation with the Pachuco society. Col Grover Wilson said tattoos, knife carry, and a blood pledge pointed to gang involvement while Lt Whitley coordinated interrogations with Los Angeles police help.
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Bulengux
Col
Grover Wilson
Chanute
Pachuco
B. E. Gates
Los Angeles
Robert D. Whitley
Whitley
Pachuco Gang
Cholo
Spicks
Chancona
Spades
Espanol
Cistle
Chaco
President Eisenhower vetoes 5 percent federal pay raise
President Dwight D. Eisenhower vetoed a congressional 5 percent pay hike for 500,000 federal workers. In a statement from his vacation headquarters he said the bill would add over 200 million dollars to civil service pay without revenue to cover it and would worsen the post office deficit. The veto follows Congress sending the measure to the White House and ignores prior recommendations against the increase.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Postal
French Premier and Churchill Discuss EDC Salvage
Mendes-France and Churchill weighed alternatives to salvage the European Defense Community ahead of a French National Assembly debate. The French leader, visiting Britain after talks in Brussels, outlined concerns about the EDC treaty as it stood.
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European Defense Community
EDC
Weong Sgerk Churchill
Mendes
Chertwell
French National Assembly
Hill Air Field
Paris
Britain
Brussels
France
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Chartwell
Kent
London
Mendes - France
United States
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Italy
West Germany
Washington
Mendes-France
Heroic climber dies saving friend on Mt Olympus
A mountain climber perished in a crevasse on Mt Olympus in Olympic National Park. National Park Service teams, aided by volunteers, fought their way up the peak to rescue him and a companion, but the effort ended tragically.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Mt. Olympus
Olympic National Park
National Park
Jeeal
Neal
Eisenhower Launches Republican TV Drive From Denver
President Eisenhower heads to KLZ-TV studios in downtown Denver to deliver a six o clock p m Pacific or mountain time political speech. He aims to defend the GOP legislative program and capitalize on the party majority in Congress while on a seven week work and leisure trip from Washington.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Monda
Klz-Tv
Robert Monteesee
Five Children Die in House Fire Tragedy
Police identify four older children Patricia seven Daniel six Judith five and infant Ann fifteen months who perished in a flash blaze at the home of Mr and Mrs Richard Vashon. Fire started from a chimney backfire and the parents and neighbor Michaud tried to rescue them before flames drove them from the house.
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Richard Vashon
Patricia
Daniel
Judith
Ann
Planning Commission Reorganizes and Reviews Long Range Plan
The Planning Commission reorganized with Harry Miller re-elected as chairman and plans to assume long-range city planning duties. Officers named were Jess Forbess as vice chairman and Ewing Gafford as secretary. The group discussed revising the 1947 ordinance creating the board and debated defining duties and broadening business zoning. Two business applications were approved, and proposals to include more areas in city limits were discussed but not acted on.
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City Planning and Zoning Commission
Harry Miller
Jess Forbess
Ewing Gafford
Miller
Page Tah
of Ferris
Charles Gallaher
T. O. Carson
A.e A
Mit
Lee
Delphia Massey
Gafford
Muskogee
Enid
Ada
Lawton
Long
Forbess
Harvey
John Plaxco
Rev. J.J
Army Backs Brazil Chief Against AF
Army and air force chiefs clashed over a plan to remove Brazil’s president after Radio Nacional cited unrest at the presidential palace. Troops and police were alerted as reports of an assassination plot against editor Carlos Lacerda surfaced, prompting resignations and high tension.
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Brazil
Radio Nacional
Riecons
Aimee
Air Force
Eee Eee
Ittereaee
Carlos Lacerda
KLM Airliner Crashes Off Dutch Coast with 21 Feared Dead
A KLM jet from New York crashed into the North Sea off the Netherlands with 21 or more aboard feared dead. Debris and a life raft were sighted north-west of IJmuiden as Royal Dutch authorities and British planes joined the search.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
KLM
New York
North Sea
KLM Air Line
Shannon
Ireland
Ijmuiden
O’riordan
Royal
Charlesne
Ra- Trent
Free Fair Plans Take Shape Here
Entries will begin soon for the Comanche County Junior Free Fair and Women s Free Fair set for September 21 22 and 23. Last year the event drew 500 plus entries with a fat stock show for 4H and FFA youths and several women s divisions. Prize money totals 2250 across 38 classes. Women's events cover food preservatory clothing home management and group club activities while Junior Fair entries span crops bundles poultry rabbits turkeys swine beef cattle sheep dairy cattle horticulture engineering handicrafts home electronics insects clothing canning and record books. A new item this year is home handicrafts and group exhibits. The top Junior Fair class remains the fat stock show drawing prize livestock from the county. The show includes six swine four sheep three beef cattle. See F Page 2.
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Comanche County
FFA
Rain Likely In Southwest This Weekend
Moist Gulf air cooled Oklahoma weekend highs into the 90s with scattered showers and thunder showers forecast today through Tuesday. Lawton area expected partly sunny with highs near 90s and a low around 72. 11 a.m. temperature was 84 degrees as of this report.
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Gulf of Mexico
Oklahoma
Lawton
Four Die As Crack Streamliner Derails
LOMAX Illinois trains reports say a crack Sante Fe Chief streamliner derailed with four dead. Rescue teams rushed to the scene as investigators began to determine cause and identify victims.
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LOMAX
Sante Fe Chief de
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Bliss
Hale
Betty Thomas
Fort Worth
Linda Kay
June Patrick
U.S. Senate
St. Mary’s
Pachuco’ Society
Winnie
Michaud
Planning Commission
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