AWOL airman captured after 90 minute city chase
An AWOL Lawton airman led a high speed pursuit through Lawton, eluding 30 officers and wrecking two cars on U S 62. He was tracked to the Pecan Grove area and captured without a fight at 3805 Lake. The 18 year old had faced multiple charges including AWOL, guardhouse break at Lackland, church burglary, and Oldsmobile theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Greenberg
Lawton
U.S. 62
Lake
Memorial Hospital
Albert Eugene Walker
Cherry
Lackland Air Force Base
Tex
First Baptist Church
Texas
Walker
Boys Town
Amarillo
Austin Drive-In
Otis Waldron
Sonny Simmons
City rocked by fast police chase across Cache road
Harold Wilson, a Lawton businessman, described the morning gun chase as terrifying after a stolen car wrecked and a police car was wrecked in the pursuit. Eugene Walker was later captured nearly a mile away, while Mrs. F. Jack Allen recounted the suspect’s brief freedom at her Lake 3805 address before capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
George Colias
Eugene Walker
Cache Road
Austin Drive-In
HGW
Harold Wilson
Lawton
Jack Allen
Lake
Mrs. Allen
Peron Resignation Offer Amid Gaza Ceasefire Stalemate
Israeli officials rejected joining Egypt in a ceasefire proposed by the UN as Cairo pressed Egypt to bear responsibility for border violence. Reports from Cairo claimed Egyptian commandos crossed into Israel, damaging targets near Tel Aviv and Magdal, with casualty figures cited on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peron
Gaza
Israel
Jerusalem
Egypt
Cairo
Tel Aviv
Magdal
Falujah
Peron Offers Resignation Triggering Mass Protests in Argentina
President Juan D. Peron proposed to resign, prompting large demonstrations by CGT and Peronista supporters who urged he continue. CGT secretary Hugo di Pietro called a 15 minute nationwide stoppage starting at 5 pm and mobilized crowds to Plaza de Mayo. Peron waited at the Pink House for a public address that did not materialize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Central Confederation of Labor
CGT
Peronista
Hugo di Pietro
Plaza de Mayo
di Pietro
Crowd Peron
Casa Rosada
Pink House
Peron
CGO
Gill Fires 25 In Union Fight
Oklahoma City city layoffs target municipal workers amid a clash with AFL Teamsters trying to organize city employees. City Manager William Gill Jr. said the firings reflect concerns about workers activities as city employees and not union membership, citing public welfare and municipal service continuity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
AFL
William Gill Jr
Arms Race Seen In Middle East Worries Grow
Washington officials fear a Soviet arms offer to Egypt and Saudi Arabia could spark a regional arms race. Reports say Moscow proposed arms aid after Geneva talks, aiming to undercut U.S. influence and bolster oil access. Egypt and Iran linked talks, with Saudi King Saud approached during a Tehran visit. Egypt’s bloc trade rose from 47.5 million to 50.7 million, then 18.5 million in early 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
Geneva
Moscow
John Foster Dulles
Israel
Dulles
Teheran
Iran
King Saud
Lavrentov
Saud
Cairo
Russia
China
Lawton Public Schools assigns 355 teachers for 1955 56
John Shoemaker announces 355 instructional staff for Lawton's 19 schools at back to school. Of the total, 55 are new teachers with potential roster changes as enrollment fluctuates. Last year started with 302 teachers. fifty eight were new hires. Names of many faculty are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
John Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Insight Tents Inc
E— Bish
Council Delays Zoning Decision
City council on Tuesday night postponed a vote on a proposed zoning ordinance shifting final zoning authority from the council to a Board of Adjustments subject to court appeal. The measure, approved by the zoning commission, would allow appeal to district or superior court. The council also enacted a civil defense ordinance expanding mayoral and director powers during emergencies and approved dedicating a city block for a Negro youth center near Douglas School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoning Commission
Douglass Youth Center Council
Douglass School
See
Bulbar Polio Case At Loveland School
A 12-year-old Loveland youth George Lindel Capps was diagnosed as the area's first bulbar polio case of the year. He was admitted to Memorial hospital in a satisfactory condition. Authorities planned gamma globulin inoculations for 65 Loveland students and polio vaccine shots for the rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loveland
George Lindel Capps
O. L. Capps
Tillman County
Memorial Hospital
Charles Miller
Comanche
Tillman
Jackson
Loveland School
Miller
Cool Spell Ends With Mild Temps Across Lawton
Lawton area forecasts call for cooler weather as August ends. Lake Lawtonka remains low, down 23 feet from full due to dry creeks absorbing rainfall. Medicine Park reports 1.30 inches, Saddle Mountain 2.3 inches of rain in the watershed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Lake Lawtonka
John Frampton
Medicine Park
Saddle Mountain
Four-State Alarm For Dangerous Fugitive Trio
CARTHAGE Missouri four state alert issued for three dangerous felons after escape from the Carthage jail. Walter E. Rice 21 Carthage Roy L. Reynolds 34 alias James V. Ross Jr Malvern Arkansas Joe S. Haycraft 19 Louisville Kentucky. They overpowered a trustee and assaulted Jailer Henry Blanton who was struck with an iron bar. Reynolds obtained a .38 revolver from a desk. Blanton and three trustees were locked in a cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
George Hickan
Walter E. Rice
Roy L. Reynolds
James V. Ross Jr
Malvern
Ark
Joe S. Haycraft
Louisville
Hickan
Rice
Missouri
Bank's Members Hold City Parley
Approximately 175 delegates attend a stockholders meeting of the Wichita Bank for Cooperatives in Wichita Kansas with a 6:30 p.m. dinner at the Hotel Lyttonian. Vernon Howell of Cameron College is principal speaker and Adlene Larson of Oklahoma A&M is master of ceremonies as J. A. Carnes of Duncan chairs the Farm Credit district board. The one day convention began at 10:30 a.m. for stockholders and customers in Southwest Oklahoma. a panel on the responsibility of Wichita Bank for Cooperatives and its stockholders under the Farm See BANK Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Howell
Cameron College
Adlene Larson
Department of Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma A&m College
Stillwater
J. A. Carnes
Duncan
Farm Credit District Board
Fred R. Merrifield
Oklahoma
Wichita Bank For Cooperatives
Farm See Bank
St Mary's Starts Classes With 400 Students
More than 400 students returned to St. Mary's as classes opened this morning. Eighty students are in high school and about 330 in elementary and junior high. High school pupils began in the former McKinley public school building at Third and Columbia. Classes will continue there until the new high school on Seventh is ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's
M. Macaria
McKinley Public School
Third
Columbia
St. Mary's New High School
Nne
County Flood Relief Fund Reaches New Goal
Comanche county's Red Cross flood disaster relief drive quickly surpassed its initial goal of 1850 with 1991 raised, then set a new target of 3000 after national Red Cross funds tripled from 5 million to 10 million. Contributions to flood victims across six eastern states range from a boy's piggy bank gift to two 500 dollar gifts from Fort Sill Welfare and United Fund Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche County
Red Cross
Lydia Blount
Rotary
Fort Sill
Miss Blount
Lawton
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Aga Pet
Walter Asbery
M. T. McCracken
Wolf Creek
Bill Dixon
Pecan Grove
40Th Street
14 N. 40Th
F. Jack Allen
M.T. McCracken
Waldron
Simmons
Cleo Stout
Otis
Otis, There He Goes.” Walker
Tlthe Street
Ferris
Ferris Walker
Vaska Theater
Sheridan Road
Wolverton Electrical Company
Raymond Fouts
Peoria
Ill
Stout
Fouts
Illinois
F. Jack Allen Walker
Ray Atteberry
Gill
Minnie Attaway
Evlyn Barkholz
Bob Bodenhamer
W. C. Burris
Jim Davis
Mildred Dosser
Carrie Fisher
Margaret Fox
Jack Greear
Gene Hamcock
Ada Knight
Vanita Lee
Kinsey McClure
Helen McCrory
Dorothea Meyer
Donald O'eil
James Phillips
Bonnie Rayner
Leo Shipley
Bernice Smith
Ira Jean Snow
C. A. Sutherland
Lizzie Swinney
George Walters
Bob Williams
Milton Worley
Nancy Arns
Velma Bailey
Marvin Bicket
Orval Bowman
Donald Collier
Glenn Dosser
Lauren Ellis
Opal Ford
Dorothy Goode
Earl Hamburger
Charles Johnson
Margaret Leard
Ralph McCarty
J. A. McCraw
Charles Maupin
Donald Newcomb
Rob- Lee
Bulbar
Capps
Bank
Wichita, Kan
Bank For Cooperatives
Lawtonian
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