Auditions Set For Twirlers At Local Schools
Girls may audition for junior and senior high school bands at 9 a.m. Saturday. Junior high plans eight twirlers, senior high four. eligibility includes nonmembers who will take up an instrument this fall. Junior band rehearses 9 to 11 daily, with a Sept. 23 home football game and an out-of-town trip plus Midwestern University homecoming in Wichita Falls. Senior high rehearsals run 9 to 11 daily under James Matthews.
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George Walters
Oklahoma tax receipts show county gains and city totals
July tax data reveals rising receipts with Comanche county up 12.8 percent and Washita 28.13 percent from last year. Lawton trails Oklahoma City Tulsa and Enid in monthly rankings while county ratings place Comanche behind leading counties. City tax figures list Oklahoma City 852,632.91 and Tulsa 693,642.03 among others.
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Kiowa
Washita
Jackson
Tillman
Caddo
Grady
Stephens
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Enid
Oklahoma
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Food Poisoning Hits Airline Passengers
Anchorage Alaska report says twenty one people on a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Manila fell ill including nineteen exchange students from the Orient. The plane returned to Anchorage after some crewmen became ill. Providence Hospital doctors preliminarily diagnosed food poisoning.
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Alaska
Orient
Manila
Northwest Orient Airlines
Seattle
Providence
New Tax Law Extends Deductions for Real Estate Expenditures
The act signed by the president adds home sale expense deductions for broker commissions and pre sale improvements within 90 days of sale and paid within 30 days after. It also authorizes depreciation methods allowing accelerated rates, boosting deductions over shorter lives. It resolves who may deduct local property taxes in sales where tax liens attach to property.
Fospital News Items Admitted and Dismissed Notes
Admitted: Josephine Armitage, 1715 Maple. Mrs. Howard K. Ross, 1729 13th. Mrs. Sammy Strange, 2316 Cornell. Mrs. Manuel Ybarra, Fort Sill. Dismissed: Mrs. Win, and daughter. Mrs. Louis Tyler and son born Aug 23. Mrs. Howell Scruggs and twins born Aug 20. Mrs. Leslie Welch and daughter Aug 22. Mrs. B. J. Neal and daughter Aug 22. Births: Son to Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Yackeschi, Walters, Aug 26 12:18 a.m. Weight 8 lb 14 oz. Other notes: births and medical mentions include several names and locations with surgery or medical status.
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Cornell
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Fort Sill
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Leslie Welch
Sill
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Williams
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Elgin
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Walters
Amen Pewewardy
Sinoeal Simmons
Cousine Komahcheet
Innes
David Ccialaetaian
Reds Vow to Resist Outlawing Act Despite Court Challenge
A Communist Party spokesman in New York says the party will not bow to the new law outlawing it. He notes forthcoming court tests by President Eisenhower and asserts Communist candidates will campaign, Daily Worker will publish, and leaders will speak publicly. Three top members call the law the most extreme attack on liberties, naming William Foster Pettie Perry and Elizabeth Flynn, Flynn free on bail appealing a Smith Act conviction.
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Pettie Perry
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Miss Flynn
Congress
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Eisenhower Signs Large Foreign Aid and Related Bills
President Eisenhower in Denver signed legislation authorizing 3.25 billion dollars in foreign aid to bolster the free world against Communist aggression. He also signed a supplemental appropriation of about 1.66 billion for unemployment compensation grants hospital construction and military works and housing. The day included a measure to ensure substantial waterborne cargoes ship in U S flag vessels. In total he signed 69 bills and vetoed 2 all related to relief. 66 private relief acts and two disapprovals.
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Free World
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Guatemala Junta Advances Registration of Communists
Guatemala City reports that the military government has ordered the registration of all known Communist sympathizers as dangerous persons and decreed death for Communist terrorists. The August 26 UP dispatch notes the crackdown as part of wartime measures.
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Guatemala City
Turkish Leader Begins Eight Day Visit to Yugoslavia
Belgrade confirms Turkish President Celal Bayar will make an eight day state visit to Yugoslavia starting Wednesday. The trip aims to strengthen fraternal ties between the two nations and discuss regional cooperation.
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Belgrade
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George Washington Carver Born on Missouri Farm
George Washington Carver, a noted Black scientist, was born as a slave on a farm near Diamond Grove in Missouri. This key biographical fact highlights his origins before his rise as a prominent agricultural chemist and educator.
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George Washington Carver
Diamond Grove, Mo
Hunters Urged To Avoid Wires Across Fields
William N. Yerham of the telephone company warned hunters as bird season nears to avoid shooting toward telephone wires and insulators. He cited 168 wire and cable damage cases in Oklahoma last year from gunfire and urged careful shooting, especially near poles, crossarms, and low-flying birds.
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William N. Yerham
Redham
Oklahoma
Mr Z Bares Red Horror In Hungary Witnesses Testify
Cleveland witnesses told a House subcommittee of rape and looting after Hungary fell under Soviet control post World War I. A man called Mr Z described his daughter’s rape and suicide, while Dr Nicholas Nyaradi cited looting by alleged Communist boot y commissions and bank heists totaling hundreds of millions of dinars.
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House
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Weather update from Panhandle to Ponca City highs
Weather notes show Panhandle highs 85 to 90 with overnight lows near. Ponca City reached an official Oklahoma high of 100. Southwest top temperature hit 104 at Yuma Arizona.
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Ponca City
Oklahoma
Yuma
Ariz
Relief food program expands with county registrations
Relief officials described indefinite distribution of emergency rations for destitute families in several counties. Woesner said registrations will begin in the courthouse within days, with central planning at a Lawton location. Officials warned counties not to overstate needs and pledged follow up investigations after the rush to furnish supplies subsides.
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Relief Board
Wynn
Comanche County
Oscar V. Stone
Stone
Chest Session On Tap Today
Consideration of a tentative agreement for a United Drive in Lawton for 1954 55 is expected to top the agenda for today’s monthly meeting of the Lawton Fort Sill Community Chest. Bill Ritzweiler, president of the organization, will preside over the meeting, which is slated at 3 p.m. in the Chest office, 430% C. The agreement drafted recently by committees representing the Chest, the county Red Cross chapter and Fort Sill must be approved by each organization before arrangements for the drive can be made.
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Lawton
Lawton-Fort Sill
Nationalist warships sink Communist transport Nanhai 105
The Central News Agency reported that on August 11 a Communist transport vessel named Nanhai 105 was sunk by Chinese Nationalist warships as it moved along the Red coast toward Hainan island. The sinking occurred Aug. 11 near Formosa.
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China
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Oklahoma City Livestock Market Report
Oklahoma City stock market notes for Aug 26 show cattle 1800 head, calves 200. Beef steers and heifers two loads, mercials around 12.00, young heiferettes to 13.00. Bulls 10.00-12.00, slaughter calves 15.00-00, stocker steers and yearlings 17.00-19.00, medium grades 11.00. Early sales steady but market closed about 1.00 lower. best lots 23.50 and up, late 22.75 and down. Packers at 22.50. sows about 20.50 and down. Sheep 200 lambs steady top 18.50, natives 16.00-18.00, others nominal.
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USDA
Airman in Critical Condition After Wrist Slitting incident
A 27 year old Enid airman A1C Jack D Shaefer AWOL from Vance Air Force Base was found in a bathroom at his father's home in the 1700 block of S 12th with wrist wounds. He was hospitalized at Fort Sill station hospital after loss of blood. Police said he recently faced charges for bogus checks in Lawton and that a warrant was out for his arrest.
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Vance Air Force Base
Fort Sill Station
Jack D. Shaefer
S. 12Th
Shaefer
Lawton
Manville Redman
Post Hospital
Shhaefer
Otis Waldron
R. A. Davis
John McCaig
Waldron
Four Teenagers Injured in City Traffic Crash
Four Lawton teenage girls escaped serious harm when their convertible collided with a freight truck at 11th Street and Park Avenue. Buzbee, 16, was driving the car westbound on Park when it crossed 11th. Jewel Glen Ryan, 2609 H, drove the southbound freight truck. The 3:56 p.m. crash sent Buzbee and other occupants to Southwestern Hospital for bruises and scratches. Police Frank M. and John Moore investigated.
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Ilth and Park
Southwestern Hospital
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Buzbee
Jewel Glen Ryan
Park
Frank M
John Moore
Gasoline Price War Opens In Frederick Oklahoma
Motorists in Frederick Oklahoma see a price war as competing stations cut regular gasoline to 27 1/2 cents to 22 1/2 cents a gallon. The move follows aggressive price slashes by rival outlets aiming to attract customers this week.
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Frederick
Frederick Okla
Water Theft Case Ends With $20 Fine In Court
Judge Don Fisher found Winham guilty of theft of water after a 20 minute hearing. City officials accused him of altering water service for three years. He tapped a new line, claimed the faucet fed only street watering. McKenzie and Arnold described city attempts to cut service and re route lines. The city offered a June 15 deadline to settle, which Winham did not accept.
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Winham
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Lawton
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Arnold
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Wintry
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Comics in schools draw line on what kids read
A Texas suburban committee weighs comic book types amid PTA pressure and newspaper actions. They study ratings from Parents magazine and list 384 titles, deeming 59 suitable for teens while 54 percent were suitable last year. The panel labels Objectionable and Very Objectionable criteria including prejudice, violence, or black magic.
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Clements Town
Keathley
Hamilton
PTA
Texas
Walt Disney Creations
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Nancy
Parents Magazine
Citizens Council
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Sill Swimming Meet Finals Scheduled Friday Afternoon
Fort Sill Youth Activities Council finals set for 2 p.m. Friday at the pool. Over 100 children from beginner and advanced classes are expected to compete in the meet.
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Fort Sill
Youth Activities Council
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