Oklahoma Solons Urge Bigger Narcotics Enforcing Staff
A five member subcommittee of the Legislature favors expanding Oklahoma’s narcotics enforcement staff from two to four, with a gradual approach and no immediate funding plan. Westover seeks six, but the panel endorses careful study and recommends about 6,000 for informer payments from the next session.
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Oklahoma City
Legislative Council
HL. B. Westover
Westover
Johnston Murray
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Attorney General
State Crime Bureau
Federal
Narcotics Division
Midwest City Lifts Building Ban After Shortage
Midwest City council votes to end a week long construction ban in areas with existing utilities and previously approved plats. Mayor Marion Reed says a committee will study water and sewage problems amid local builder concern.
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Midwest City
Ohio City
Marion Reed
Sooner Pipeline Firm Sued For Contract Violation
The J. W. Huber Corp of New Jersey sues Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co of Oklahoma for 8810 alleging breach of a natural gas purchase contract. Huber claims gas from nine Hugoton wells in Oklahoma was to be supplied but payment was not made.
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Sooner Pipeline
Oklahoma City
J. W. Huber Corp
New Jersey
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co
Oklahoma
Huber
Hugoton
Wholesale Food Prices Hit Post January Low
New York wholesale food prices, as tracked by the Dun and Bradstreet index, slipped to $6.89 this week. This compares with $6.96 on January 19, $7.07 a week ago, and $6.67 in the same week last year.
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New York
Dun &Radstreet
Dems See Johnson as Unity Maker in Party Fight
Senate leader Lyndon B. Johnson is seen by fellow Democrats as dedicated to unifying the party. He favors restraint to avoid obstructing the Eisenhower program, seeks issues with cross-wing support, and aims to harmonize conservative and liberal factions amid farm and tariff debates.
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Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Eisenhower
Walter F. George
Hubert
Kiam F. Knowland
Knowland
House
Roosevelt
Sam Rayburn
Amvet Convention Highlights Wartime Vets in Miami Beach
About 1,500 World War II and Korean War veterans gathered in Miami Beach for the 10th annual Amvet convention. Assistant Secretary of Defense Fred A. Seaton delivered the keynote, stating the Defense Department is preparing a program to improve reserve forces aimed at providing a ready and active reserve, to be presented to the next Congress.
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Miami Beach
Fred A. Seaton
Seaton
Defense Department
Funeral Rites for Elmer Brinton Jarred Held in Apache
Funeral services for Elmer Brinton Jarred 64 will be at 2 30 p m Thursday in the First Baptist church. He died Monday in Anadarko after a three year illness. He moved to Anadarko four years ago after retirement and ran a service station and grocery in Hatchetville for 25 years. Born Swan Creek Michigan April 10 1890 he lived with his parents in 1907 and married Mable Jones in 1914. He is survived by his wife five grandchildren and two children. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery Apache with Rev Jack Stuart and Rev C C Edwards officiating. Anadarko Funeral home is in charge.
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First Baptist Church
Jarred
Anadarko
Ale
Hatchetville
Swan Creek
The
George Jarred
Mable Jones
Apache
Lon ‘City
Jack Stuart
Anadarko Bethel Baptist Church
C. C. Edwards
Baptist Church
Six New Polio Cases Reported in Oklahoma
Oklahoma adds six polio cases in the 24 hour period ending at 8 a.m., bringing the year total to 351. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis says 127 are hospitalized with the disease, 40 in the acute stage, versus 348 at the same time last year.
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Oklahoma
Associated Press
National Foundation For
Air Tight Alibi He Was In Jail
Kansas City August 25 Upset police officials said they would drop first degree robbery charges against an Oklahoma City man Wednesday due to an acute alibi. Emory Hughes, 30, had been identified by the proprietor through a police photo as the man who robbed a local business on May 5. A new complaint was filed Monday and records show Hughes was serving a petty larceny sentence in Jackson County jail in May, not released until May 5.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma City
The
Oklahoman
Emory Hughes
Regol Marshe Robbe
Anu
Hughes
Jackson County
Undertaker Offers $1000 Reward For Ghosts In Town
West Hollywood Florida undertaker Alan Wright announces a $1000 reward for the capture of ghosts, living or dead. Wright says his new funeral chapel has unsettled locals who fear spectral visitors as his business opens in the community.
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West Hollywood
Fla
Alan Wright
Drouth disaster policy touted to force cotton price protection
A clipped report notes a proposal to pressure farmers into accepting cotton price protection by threatening removal of support if they do not comply. The wording implies a coercive plan tied to drought relief measures.
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Drouth
Eager Man Leaps To Prove His Point
A man in New York shows his theory by leaping 160 feet with a blanket as a rudder. He believes the blanket keeps his head up and feet down to prevent injury. Police later picked him up and took him to Kings County.
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New York
Charlie Flecking
Leager AE Bridge
Kings County
Six Burned As Fuel Ignites After Train Collision
In KOKOMO Indiana a collision between a Pennsylvania Railroad diesel engine and a truck caused a ruptured fuel tank to spray liquid petroleum bottle gas. Flames engulfed the engine and truck, burning five train crewmen and the truck driver.
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Kokomo
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dying De Gasperi Forgave Defamer
In Rome former Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi officially forgave the author of the defaming letter. Giovanni Guareschi remains to serve a one year defamation sentence. A letter from De Gasperi to the public prosecutor stated forgiveness and no objection to pardoning, as long as the conviction's truth stands and no doubt remains. The prosecutor later learned the pardon requests came from Guareschi’s friends, not his family, so no action was taken.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Giovanni Guareschi
Guareschi
de Gasper
de Gasperi
Hll
Cereal Technologist Joins Oklahoma A and M College Faculty
Abbott a cereal technologist with work at a soft wheat quality laboratory in Wooster Ohio joins Oklahoma A and M College faculty station.
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Oklahoma A&m College
Abbott
Wooster
Ohio
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