Look Before Backing Up Army Warns
Army Ordnance Corps notes 36 percent of its vehicle accidents in early 1955 occurred while backing. The period includes 135 backing crashes out of 370 total, with 67 percent due to inattention and 11 percent from obscured vision. collisions with other vehicles and fixed objects are common, yet overall damage and injuries were low.
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Washington
U.S. Army Ordnance Corps
Ordnance Corps
Ordnance
United States
Ordnance Vehicles
Ordnance Field Safety Office
Corps
Army
Federal aid boosts flood wrecked Northeast states
President Eisenhower authorized up to 900 million dollars in defense industry loans for flood ravaged Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Army engineers assessed 1.6 billion dollars in damage and Lt General Samuel D. Sturgis warned of a massive rehabilitation task. Federal relief expands with tax writeoffs and accelerated investments while disaster efforts focus on debris removal and health safety. Private groups and foreign aid also rally with manufacturers offering support and Laconia Claremont pledging aid. Governor Herter declared a statewide emergency in Massachusetts to speed relief funds and supplies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Army Engineers
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Samuel D. Sturgis
Office of Defense Mobilization
Sturgis
Seaboard
National Assn. of
New Hampshire
Laconia
Claremont
Putnam
Winsted
Herter
Commonwealth
Second Greenlease ransom bill found in St Louis
FBI reports a second $20 Greenlease ransom bill surfaced in St Louis at the Federal Reserve Bank, part of a two year old kidnapping case. Agent in charge James Milnes gave few details on progress or total recovery, noting prior discoveries tied to Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady.
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St. Louis
FBI
James Milnes
Federal Reserve Bank of
Minot
N.D
Ures
Greenlease
Carl Austin Hall
Bobby Greenlease
Kansas City
Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Louis Shoulders
Elmer Dolan
Crude Oil Stocks Fall After Week Ending August 20
Washington reports total oil stocks at 262.369 million barrels for the week ended Aug 20, down 2.048 million from the prior week. Texas holds 123.551 million barrels, Arkansas 8.292 million, Louisiana 16.114 million, Oklahoma 21.560 million, California 30.456 million, with several state changes in stock levels.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
California
Louisiana Vice Lifts as Campaign Rises in Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge, a governor race stirs tension as Louisiana’s wart on vice resurfaces. The Kennon era’s crime busts and Grevemberg’s crackdown are central, with Frank Costello named as a looming issue. Long, Barham, and McLemore position on gambling policy fuels the campaign.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Frank Costello
Robert Kennon
Riviera
Kennon
Col
Francis X. Grevemberg
Margaret
Opelousas
Grevemberg
Long
Parish
Oil completions rise to four week peak in Oklahoma
Oklahoma oil operators completed 189 drilling ventures, up 24 from the prior week, with 26 more oilers and 55 dry holes. Superior Oil expanded deep promide output in Grady County’s Northeast Bradley pool, while First Bromide Land at Toklan Royalty No 1 flowed 280 barrels in 19 hours. Continental Oil completed its 26th producer at West Short Junction in Cleveland County No 2 Butler, flowing 110 barrels in 3 hours after perforation and acidizing.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Research Oil Reports
Superior Oil
Bradley Pool
Grady County
Toklan Royalty
Continental Oil
Short Junction Pool
Hunton
Cleveland County
Butler
Cne
Striking Austrian Doctors Clash With Clinic Workers
Fist fights broke out today between striking Vienna doctors and employees of several nonstriking clinics in Austria on the final day of a nationwide medical strike. Two doctors were hurt as protesters blocked access to clinics while most medics oppose a government plan to extend national health insurance to all residents. Emergency calls would still be answered, but several hundred nonstriking doctors disregarded the strike order.
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Vienna
Austrian Medical Association
Austria
West German Red Cross Offers Aid To Flood Victims
The West German Red Cross offered help to flood victims in the American Northeast. In a telegram to the American Red Cross, it asked to be advised what assistance could be provided.
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Red Cross
Bonn
Germany
America
Dynamiting Bridge Abutment Fatal for 16YearOld in Stroudsburg
Flying debris from a dynamited bridge abutment fatally injured Jon Keifer, 16, and injured five others, four of them children, as workers prepared to replace West Main Street bridge over Pocono Creek damaged by floods. Police said fragments escaped a protective net.
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Stroudsburg
Jon Keifer
West Main Street
Pocono Creek
Indian School expects 200 students for fall term
Sena Ca Indian School superintendent J N Kagey, in his 27th year at the school near Wyandotte Oklahoma, forecasts about 200 Indian boys and girls will enroll when the fall term starts on September 1.
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Wyandotte
Okla
J. N. Kagey
Senaca
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James H. Jackson
Zwaan
Lawton Iron and
E. Lee
James R. Carberry
Ear K. Long
Huey
C. E
Cap) Barham
James McLemore
Costello
Southwestern Radio & Sound
4Th & E
Scott's Air Conditioning Inc
Frigidaire
Ratcliffe‘’S Book Store
Lawton’s
Capitol Records
Bobby Hackett
Arthur Murray
Big Dave
Orchestra
June Christy
Rachmaninoff Laur
the Record Shop
Tn‘ Hardy Suggs Music Shop
C Ave
Hamilton-Bryan
D Avenue
Shelton
Saw
SEARS
Oldsmobile
Chevrolet
Ford
Buick
Bill Stimpson
Roy McGosh
Barney Kell
Irv Henderson
C.F.M
A & M Air Conditioning
Harry Routh
C Avenue
Lawton, Okla
Fred Melton
Southwest
Harry
Wiest
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