Salk Vaccine Safety Doubts Remain in Testing
Washington reports the government is doubling testing of Salk polio vaccine after the Cutter incident. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele says rigorous checks by manufacturers and government will assure safety as mass inoculation nears. The Public Health Service stands behind the vaccine despite Cutter findings, noting limited, inconclusive cause but no action against Cutter.
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Washington
Cutter
Leonard A. Scheele
Public Health Service
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Funeral Rites for H C Atchison Held in Ft Worth
Homer C Atchison 58 died at his Ft Worth home from a heart attack. WWI veteran and former auto salesman, he left Lawton roots and moved to Wichita Falls then Ft Worth. Survived by wife Leon Bartlett four children seven grandchildren two brothers an uncle and aunt. The Simpsons and Mrs Meier travel to Ft Worth for services.
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H. C
Homer) Atchison
Ft. Worth
C. W. Atchison
Lawton
Atchison
Leon Bartlett
Wichita Falls
Hope Ward
Odessa
Tex
Betty Davis
Joyce Atchison
Eugene
Ventura
Calif
Raymond
Clifton W. Simpson
E.N.J. Meier
Simpsons
Man Named After Illness Enlists After Tonsil Surgery
In San Diego a Navy recruit named Tonsillitis Jackson from Ardmore Oklahoma offers for a six year hitch. Doctors decide his tonsils must come out at Balboa Naval Hospital before he can rejoin the amphibious base. He will return to the USS Russell County after surgery. The family humorously bears illness names including Meningitis and Appendicitis.
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San Diego
Calif
U.S. Navy
Jackson
Ardmore
Okla
San Diego Amphibious Base
Balboa
Calif.) Naval Hospital
Russell County
Shawnee Woman Wins Unemployment Benefits Ruling
District Judge J Knox Byrum ordered unemployment benefits for Oleta Jean Zurmehly a Shawnee former telephone operator who took maternity leave and was denied recall Southwestern Bell Telephone Co appealed to the state Supreme Court The case marked the first of its kind in Oklahoma and followed a sequence of agency reversals before Byrum affirmed the award and compensation obligations.
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Shawnee
Okla
J. Knox Byrum
Byrum
Oleta Jean Zurmehly
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Supreme Court
Zurmehly
Oklahoma Employment Security Commission
Commission
Board of Review
Bell
Wife Clouts 'Other Woman' Triggers Brooklyn Court Case
New York report details Katherine Luther clouting the grandmother Florence Davis with a shoe after finding her husband with the elder woman. Luther faces felonious assault charges, pleads for release, while the husband Eddie is held on $500 bail in a separate Coney Island assault case. Magistrate Maglie scolds Luther, noting the couple’s unstable living situation and advising relocation.
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Triangle
Katherine Luther
Florence Davis
Edward
Luther
New York
Brooklyn
Anthony
FE. Maglie
Coney Island
Eddie
Traffic Court Fines Hit 119 Total In Thursday Session
Judge J Merle Oaks presided over Municipal Court where traffic violations dominated the docket. Fines ranged up to 20 for speeding and 11 for running a stop sign or red light. Individuals named include Bobby Mansell Quay Barfield Dannie Livingston Jett Levine Ellis Henry Billy Johnson Raymond Ellis and Thomas McElivee with various bond forfeitures and charges.
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J. Merle Oaks
Bobby Mansell
Quay Barfield
E. Bell
Dannie Livingston
S. 10Th
Jett D. Levine
Altus Afb
Ellis J. Henry
Billy Johnson
Fort Sill
Raymond Ellis
Thomas W. McElivee
Garfield
Osage Headrights Pay $1210 Each In Sept Payment
Osage Indian headrights owners will receive $1210 each in the September 15 payment announced by Osage Agency official R G. Fister. The boost follows rising Osage oil production, with March and June payments at $715 and $885. July lease sale proceeds near $3 million will show in the December payment.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Osage
G. Fister
Fister
Hurricane prompts quick insurance premium payments
Crescent Beach South Carolina residents rush to settle policies as hurricane Connie nears. Insurance salesman Elbert Jordan notes about 150 beachfront homeowners paid up to date two days before the year’s second hurricane, including a North Carolina man who sent two checks for the same premium.
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Crescent Beach
S.C
Elbert Jordan
Connie
Jordan
Beach Front
North Carolina
Lawton Cotton Market Holds Steady as New Crop Opens
Lawton Friday cotton prices steady with middling 7-8 at 30.25 and middling 15-16 at 32.00. Market just beginning to move for the new crop. Slow start and other grades and staples anticipated soon.
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Lawton
Angus Herd Sells For Million Dollars
Kansas City lumberman Ralph L. Smith has agreed to pay one million dollars for the Aberdeen Angus herd of Sunbeam Farms in Miami Ohio. The purchase adds to his holdings to about 1,600 cattle with more than 500 breeding cows and over 50 bulls. Most of the herd will go to his 780 acre Angus farm near Chillicothe Missouri, with 400 to 500 head to be sold next spring.
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Kansas City
Ralph L. Smith
Sunbeam Farms
Miami
Ohlo
Smith
Chillicothe
Federal Agents Raid First Still In Iowa Since 1952
Federal agents raided a Muscatine still and seized over 100 gallons of moonshine whisky. Herbert Hume, 40, operator of Muscatine Auto Salvage Co., was arrested and charged with illegal possession of distilled spirits in what was described as Iowa’s first such raid since 1942.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Herbert Hume
Muscatine Auto Salvage Co
Polio Cases Rise in Oklahoma Statewide Totals Up
Oklahoma health officials report 22 more polio cases last week raising the year total to 154. Fourteen counties reported cases including four in Oklahoma and three in Beckham county, with three cases at military installations.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Health Department
Ported
Beckham County
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Everest & Jennings
W. F
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Glasgow
Wife Clouts
John McHenry
Danny Preston
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Arkansas, White
Red River
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Congress
Illinois River
Union
Canadian River
Copan
Avant
Skintook
Beaver Creek
Red Rock Creek
Englewood
Cimarron
Crescent
Norman
Little River
Shidler
Salt Creek
Pryor Creek
Brazil Reservoir
Brazil Creek
Bixby
Arkansas River
Keystone
Fort Gibson
Webbers Falls
Moffett
Kingfisher
Johns Creeks
Squirrel Creek
Okmulgee Creek
Chkaskia
FOX
GZ Business College
Iea
Fence Company
South Second
Goodflyear
Price
Goodyear
GS Long
Bia Savin
Goodyear Service Store
C Avenue
Hoskin’s
Cache Road
C. H. Malone
Aaron
Regal Oil CO
Savmore Oil Company 2Nd and
Gore
Wayne’s
11Th and
D Avenue
Pug
Homer
Ir Tire Service
6Th & E
Roaches
Scorpions
Virgil Laird
Railourn
Chester McCord
Denison
Sheridan Road
Pittsburgh Paints
Farmers Lumber Company
Southwest Chemical Company
E Avenue
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