Egypt Israel Planes Clash In Gaza Strip
Renewed Gaza frontier fighting with air clashes and ground exchanges leaves multiple dead. Egyptian planes penetrated into Israeli airspace near Rafah. one Egyptian craft reported hit. Beit Hanoun outpost attacked. U N observers engaged. Reports say 7 Egyptians and 13 Israelis killed over the past week, with refugees fleeing and a 10 year old wounded. Israeli officials announce Egyptian aggression and vow self defense while negotiations continue.
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Cairo
Egypt
Gaza Strip
Israel
Jerusalem
Rafa
Sinai Peninsula
Palestine
Beit Hanoun
Gaza
U. N
Gaza City
Beeri
Berri
Kussa
Shell Blast Kills 3 Tots In El Paso Yard
In El Paso Texas a 90 mm shell exploded over a picnic yard killing Velma Morales age 4 George Valdez age 6 and Riccardo Lujan age 10. Ten others were injured including Hector Ramirez who lost both legs and is in critical condition. Police and witnesses describe a horrific scene with shrapnel burns and scattered belongings.
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EL Paso
Tex
Asst
W. E. Wood
Velma Morales
George Valdez
el Paso General Hospital
Riccardo Lujan
Tiny Hector Ramirez
Raymundo Santos
Santos
Carlos Valdez
Valdez
FSIS Opens Doors Adds New Vocational Guidance Program
Fort Sill Indian School enrolls about 200 students today in a new vocational guidance program led by Walter F. Gray. Pearl Kayley and Levi Beavers staff the service to analyze student issues and guide 10th graders toward future fields. The program accompanies a two hour block schedule designed to consolidate study time and is expected to benefit roughly 240 students by week’s end. Local Navajos from New Mexico and Arizona join 92 area students, with 40 more anticipated.
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Fort Sill
FSIS
New Mexico
Arizona
Gray
James B. Wallace
Vocational Guidance Service
Detroit Gunman Dies After FourHour Siege At Lady Smith Home
Detroit police killed a crazed gunman after a four hour siege that wounded two officers and drew a crowd of about five thousand. Charles Rollins 44 fired 40 shots at officers and fled into a burning home, dying as firefighters fought the blaze. Police say Rollins had threatened neighbors and visited the Smiths empty home where he kept guns as a hobby.
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Detroit
Moody Charles Luther Rollins
Rollins
Syble Smith
Bernard
Smith
Tennessee
Smiths
Dearborn
Judy
Memphis
Charles Luther Rollins
Leoma
Tenn
Seven Die In Greek Feud At Village Fiesta
In Vorizia near Mount Ida seven people were killed within a 30 minute span at a village fiesta after a poaching dispute escalated into a feud. A gamekeeper and his cousin were slain, followed by multiple retaliatory deaths as grenades and other weapons were used before police restored order.
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Athens
Greece
Mount Ida
Vorizia
Emanuel Viesakis
John Frangiadakis
Frangiadakis
Viesakis
UN Requests End To Truce Inspection In Korea
The UN Command agreed to cut and seek dissolution of truce inspection teams in Korea after clashes injuring 44 U.S. soldiers and over 100 Koreans. Teams include Czechs and Poles perceived as spies. Maj. Gen. Parks calls it a temporary measure toward ending the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations Command
UNC
U.S
Harlan C. Parks
Joint Military Armistice Commission
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
North Korea
Syngman Rhee
State Dulles
United States
South Korea
Four Injured In Two Weekend Oklahoma Accidents
Four persons were injured, none critically, in two highway crashes in the Lawton area over the weekend. A head on collision 142 miles east of Elgin on U S 277 around 4 50 p m Sunday involved a 1955 Buck sedan driven by Randolph Parkham 23 of Fort Sill and a 1950 Ford sedan driven by Robert Curtis 38 of Rush Springs. Parkham attempted to pass on wet pavement and skidded, crossing into the oncoming lane. A second single car crash occurred at 12 30 a m Sunday on U S 277 near Walters. Investigating officers Norman Carroll and W W Flanagan of the Highway Patrol reported the sequence and outcome.
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Lawton
Elgin
U.S. 277
Walters
Randolph Parkham
Fort Sillman
Robert Curtis
Rush Springs
Norman Carroll
W. W. Flanagan
The
Highway Patrol
Parkham
UN Claims Reds Neglected Flier
UN Command accuses Communists of gross neglect of Lt. Guy H. Bumpass after his plane was shot down near the Korean front. Maj. Gen. Harland C. Parks says Bumpass received no medical care for two nights and was not X-rayed, while North Korean officials call him insane for denying a propaganda statement.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Guy H. Bumpass
Harland C. Parks
Military Armistice Commission
Bumpass
Jackson, Miss
Jung Kook Rok
U. S
Red Guns
Parks
Nixon Lists Five Roadblocks to Peace
Vice President Nixon told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that five roadblocks block peace and only Soviet leaders can lift them. He cited the division of Germany, the arms race, an iron curtain of barriers, colonial status of Eastern European satellites, and Moscow directed subversion and espionage reaching into every free country.
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Boston
Mass
Nixon
Germany
Europe
Showers Forecast For Lawton And Oklahoma Tuesday
A forecast shows scattered showers and partly cloudy skies in Lawton and across Oklahoma today and Tuesday with highs in the mid 90s and a low around 73. Overnight temperature near 68, 11 am reading around 90, and Sunday brought a high of 88 with a few sprinkles locally. Heavy rains from a stray tropical front drenched eastern and southern Oklahoma with as much as four inches.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Zoning Board Talks Postponed to Attend Funeral
A public protest meeting on a Zoning Commission report was moved from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today to allow commission members to attend the funeral services of Frank Rice, Comanche County juvenile officer who died Saturday. The meeting will hear protests on a proposed ordinance to create a Planning Commission and Board of Adjustments replacing the current Planning and Zoning Board. The action still requires city council approval.
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Zoning Commission
Commission
Frank Rice
Comanche County
Proposed Negro Youth Center May Get Land OK'd Tuesday
A local Omaha style council will hear a land request Tuesday night for a Negro Youth Center at a site directly across from Douglass high school. Delegation leaders praised the city owned plot near Larrance and Gore as ideal, with construction costs estimated at 18 000 to 20 000 dollars.
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Negro Youth Center
Bill Crawford
C. R. Ellsworth
Lester McKenzie
Public
Arnold White
E. W. Kirkpatrick
A. L. Mankin
Douglass
Quay Barfield
Youth Center Movement
Douglass High School
Larrance and
Gore
Douglass Usc
McKenzie
Barfield
Lawton Post Office Building Sought by Congress
Lawton's bid for a $1.97 million federal post office and courthouse building advances to Congress as part of 76 Oklahoma projects. The Lawton report notes the 1916 structure and 7,000 population, comparing $23,502 in annual receipts to current needs, with Postmaster Stephens optimistic about improving priority.
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Lawton
Congress
Post Office Department
General Services Administration
Bennie Stephens
Stephens
Washington, D. C
Fire Rates Home Woman Burned In Early Morning Blaze
A pre dawn fire gutted a two room frame house at 1211 Washington while occupants Andrew and Lorena Myers were away on vacation. Leona Young, sister of Mrs Myers, suffered burns when her housecoat caught fire while investigating a light she thought signaled return. She was treated at Southwestern hospital and described as in good condition at noon.
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Washington
Andrew
Lorena Myers
Myers
Leona Young
Lee
New Moroccan Regime Planned by French Government
Paris reports France will negotiate a new Moroccan government with nationalist leaders to quell two weeks of violence in French Morocco. Premier Edgar Faure seeks a representative regime by Sept 12, after Cabinet approval of the five reports from the Moroccan affairs committee. Talks with Istiqlal and other Moroccans continue, with no definite contact date set.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
Morocco
Pierre July
Aix Les Bains
July
Faure
Istiqlal (Independence) Party
Istiqlal
Aidles Bains
Gilbert Grandval
Unhappy Dick Says Rita Has Left Him
Hollywood crooner Dick Haymes announced through a representative that his wife, actress Rita Hayworth, has left him. He said he is distraught and loves her, believes they will reconcile, and noted Rita was not home last night and took the children, with his location unknown.
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Hollywood
Dick Haymes
Rita Hayworth
Rita
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