Churchmen Attack Godless Reds at World Council Assembly
In Evanston the World Council of Churches denounced Western capitalism as too materialistic and communism as too Godless. The assembly elected six new presidents including Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill and Archbishops Michael and Baillie, with debate over lay delegates and a broader Christ-centered message dominating proceedings.
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Evanston
Til
World Council of Churches
Theing
International Organization
Henry Knox Sherrill
New York
Michael
Eastern Orthodox Church
John Baillie
Church of Scotland
Sante Uberto Barbieri
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Mar Thoma Juanon
Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Malabar
South India
F. K. Otto Dibelius
Berlin
Council
Four Teenagers Indicted in East River Drowning Case
Four teenage boys were indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury on first degree serious case charges for a thrill-seeking incident. They pleaded not guilty. The case involves Wilard Menter, a Black man mistreated with cigarettes and drowned in the East River.
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New York
Brooklyn
Wilard Menter
East River
Distraught mother throws baby into Pelican Lake
BRAINERD Minn. A distraught mother admitted tossing her 6 week old daughter Janet Ruth into Pelican Lake near the family home after reporting the child missing from her crib. Sheriff Roy Wickland said the mother remained semihysterical as investigators planned a dawn search. The husband, a carpenter, could not explain the act.
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Brainerd
Minn
Roy Wickland
Archie Sanders
Janet Ruth
Pelican Lake
Wickland
Sill Boulevard Opens Today
Fort Sill Boulevard reopened to traffic at 3 30 p m after State Highway signs were erected. The ceremony last Friday featured Gov Johnston Murray Maj Gen Edward T Williams and other dignitaries. No traffic signals yet and officers will direct traffic as the Fort Sill Lawton artery returns to use.
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Fort Sill Blvd
State Highway Department
Johnston Murray
Edward T. Williams
The
Artillery Center
Lawton
Windfall housing project near-future collapse warned
Senate investigator says the Farragut Gardens FHA insured Brooklyn project already shows serious structural damage with 14 foundation cracks and loose mortar. If repairs lag, the six story complex could fail to survive the remaining term of its Federal inspection. Promoters allegedly secured a four million dollar windfall from the scheme.
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New York
Senate
Brooklyn
Myron Hedges
Banking and Currency
Federal Housing Administration
Farragut Gardens
Enery
Prescott Bush
Hedges
Pemenek
Copter Crash Kills Army Pilot at Fort Sill
Captain Kenneth B Scurr Jr 30 of Pierre South Dakota an Army aviation instructor was killed when his H 23 helicopter crashed in a pasture northwest of Lawton Oklahoma The crash occurred near N 38th street and the Fred Heinz dairy Fire units extinguished the fire and an immediate investigation was started The West Point graduate who served at Fort Sill since December 1951 previously earned the Silver Star Bronze Star with Valor and the Air Medal with five clusters Becker Funeral Home is handling local arrangements
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Fort Sill
Army Aviation School
Lawton
Kenneth R. Scurr Jr
Pierre
S. C
Kenneth B. Scurr Jr
S. D
Fred Heinz
N. 38Th Street
South Dakota
Scurr
Kenneth R. Scurr
Army
Ferrell Pennington
Cache
Trenton Porter
Atlanta Street
38Th Street
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
Korea
Becker Funeral Home
Mercury Back In 100 Groove In Oklahoma Weather
Normal weather returns to Lawton and vicinity with a mostly fair hot forecast. Highs near 100 today and tomorrow, after yesterday’s 100 degree high ended a four day stretch below the century mark. Low tonight around 78, last night 75. Ponca City tied Lawton with 100 for high state honors. Wichita Falls led Texas with 99. La Junta and New Mexico saw highs near 89 to 93. See WEATHER, Page 2.
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Lawton
Ponca City
Wichita Falls
Texas
New Brazil Chief Seeks Crisis End
Rio de Janeiro August 26 UP President Joao Cafe Jr pressed efforts to ban a reconciliation cabinet in a city turned into an armed camp by military security measures. He aimed to form a coalition government to end the crises that led President Getulio Vargas to die by his own hand two days earlier.
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Rio DE
Joao Cafe Jr
Cafe Oumad
Getulio Vargas
Lawton Retail Sales Hit All Time June High
June retail sales in Lawton reached an all time monthly peak, topping 4.7 million in city sales and 4,989,706 for the county. Tax receipts show June performance was 4.6 percent above 1953 and fourth in state rankings, with statewide gains noted in 47 of 77 counties. Southwest Oklahoma counties posted strong increases except Cotton and Jefferson.
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Lawton
Comanche County
Ahoma
Oklahoma
Southwest
Cotton
Jefferson
French Oppose Any German Rearming in Any Form
Paris Aug 26 French opposition to German rearmament in any form grew and the national assembly likely will delay granting sovereignty to the West German government. Premier Mendes France pledged to deputies he would not restore sovereignty to Bonn until the chamber grants permission.
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Paris
National Assembly
Pierre Mendes- France
Bonn Republic
Chamber
Oklahoma and Arizona coordinate to ease Oklahoma cotton unemployment
The Oklahoma Employment Service offers 3,000 cotton harvest jobs in Arizona to address severe unemployment in southeastern and eastern Oklahoma where about 15,000 workers cannot find work across 18 counties. Arizona recruits include families, while Arkansas may gain 3,000 eastern Oklahoma workers. Washington officials promise a survey but no immediate aid or public works funds are planned.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Employment Service
Arizona
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Dave Vandivier
State Employment Commission
Vandivier
Mississippi River Delta
Poteau
Washington
Carl Albert
McAlester
Ed Edmondson
Muskogee
Commerce Department
Horror Crime Comics To Fade Away In City
Lawton distributors say horror crime and sex funny books will vanish from shelves after a Citizens Council on Education meeting. W L Wade and Howard Hamilton were named ex officio members, as the council reviews titles classed as very objectionable, with revisions or discontinuations likely. The issue stems from a nationwide cleanup push amid concerns over lewd content impacting readers.
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Lawton
Marlin Keathley
Citizens Council On Education
W. L. Wade
Howard Hamilton
Frank Crawford
Wade
Hamilton
Parents Magazine
Jesse L. Murrell
Cincinna Committee
Citizens Council
Crawford
Walter Clements
United States
Tele Esee
On al
Defector Hits U S Policies Shifts West German deputy
A West German parliament deputy who defected to the Communists accused the Adenauer government of driving Germany toward war and ruin in an East Berlin press conference. The East German state press presented Karl Schmidt Wittmack, ex CDU deputy from Hamburg, as he fled with his wife a week earlier, warning about American backing and anti-Communist policies. He echoed prior criticisms by Otto John and described emptying his office files before fleeing. Meanwhile Oklahoma relief workers plan food aid for Lawton and Comanche county with a districted distribution system and a list-certified approach expected within a week. Approximately 600 unemployed noted in the county, with certification to be handled by commissioners. distribution to begin soon, via warehouses and transportation from Oklahoma City.
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Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
East Berlin
Adenauer
Germany
Karl Schmidt-Wittmack
West Germany
Otto John
Schmidt-Wittmack
CDU
Hamburg
East
Schmidt - Wittmack
John
Lawton
Emil Woesner
Ryan
Elie
Tillman County
Woesner
Comanche County
Oklahoma Emergency Relief Board
Welfare Department
Dhon
Frederick
Relief Board
Oklahoma City
Navy scraps plan to cut the 7th Fleet
Washington Aug 26 The Navy halted plans to reduce the Seventh Fleet size due to Red China threaten Formosa and the need to guard the area. Adm Robert B Carney said no cuts while the threat persists and the fleet remains to defend Formosa and the Pescadores Islands.
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Washington
China
Formosa
Robert B. Carney
Pacific
Pescadores Islands
U.S
Palmer and Martin Upset International Golf Stars in Fifth Round
Detroit based Arnold Palmer, a sharp shooting Cleveland salesman, and Ed Martin of Winchester Massachusetts, a 39 year old probation officer, scored major upsets in the fifth round of the National Amateur Golf Championship by eliminating international stars Frank Stranahan and Bill Campbell. Palmer closed out Stranahan with a birdie on the 17th after bogeying 16.
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Detroit
Arnold Palmer
Cleveland
Ed Martin
Winchester
Mass
Frank Stranahan
Bill Campbell
Palmer
Stranahan
Air Force Bomber Missing with Eight Aboard
A B-25 bomber from Mather Air Force Base disappeared with eight aboard during a routine training flight. Capt. Arthur Clinchy said the craft departed at 7:04 p.m. last Wednesday, carried fuel for about six and a half hours, and last reported near midnight south of Modesto. The next expected check point was Winters in Yolo County, about 80 miles north.
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Sacramento
Calif
Miss. A
Mather Air Force Base
Arthur Clinchy
Mather
Sacramento Valley
Clinchy
Modesto
Aera
Yolo County
Weeks Eases Bans on U. S. Russian trade
Washington Secretary of Commerce Weeks eased restrictions on U S trade with the Soviet Union and other Communist Europe nations while doubting a quick rise in cross bloc commerce. The policy shortens the embargoed list from about 1 500 items to 750 1 000 and excludes military materials.
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Washington
U. S
Soviet Union
Europe
United States
Commerce Department
Harold E. Stassen
China
North Korea
Viet Nam
Weeks
Six Traffic Deaths Jump State Toll
Six people died in Oklahoma traffic crashes raising the state toll for 1954 to 336 from 323 last year. Victims included T. W. Flesher 42 of Sayre Morris Clark 29 of Ponca City Edna Stella Matthews 78 of Sallisaw Minnie Jeanneatte White 83 of Okeene Billy D. Shaw 19 of Marlow and Edward Lafayette English 19 of Marlow. Flesher died after a two car turnpike collision west of Sapulpa. White died in a Major County two car crash southeast of Okeene. The Marlow youths died when their car went out of control and plunged down an embankment.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
T. W. Flesher
Sayre
Minnie Jeanneatte White
Okeenea Morris Clark
Poncaty
Edna Stella Matthews
Sallisaw
Billy D. Shaw
Marlow
Edward Lafayette English
Flesher
Sapulpa
Turner Turnpike
White
Okeene
Untouchable Leader Attacks Nehru in Parliament
In New Delhi B R Ambedkar chair of India's untouchables denounces Prime Minister Nehru for promoting coexistence with Communists and hostility to the United States. He says foreign policy ignores India’s own problems while defending the US against Communist questions in Parliament.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
United States
B. R Ambedkar
Iple
Principala
Ambedkar
P. Sundarayya
Communist Party
Goa
United State
Nehru Dence
Ehru
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