Military Aircraft Swarm To Capital
Oklahoma City opens a three day National Air Show with Bendix air race on Saturday morning. Air Force and Navy jets perform practice rolls while Thunderbirds and Brie An-Beis teams display formation stunts. Ground exhibits stretch over a mile as about 300 aircraft from Army Navy and Marines participate.
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Oklahoma City
Air Force
Navy
George Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force Thunderbirds
Brie
Army
Marine Corps
Raving Killer Sits In Booth In Mental Trial
In a Los Angeles courtroom James Merkouris, 40, sits shackled in an isolation booth as twelve jurors observe. He faces a sanity hearing on murder charges including the deaths of Mrs Despine Forbes, 35, and Robert Forbes, 48, with a retrial after a prior death sentence was overturned.
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Los Angeles
James Merkouris
Superior Court
Clement P. Nye
Merkouris
Despine Forbes
Supreme Court
Robert Forbes
Nye
Air Force Readies Spectacular Show in Oklahoma City
Air Force plans a seventy five minute aerial review at the National Aircraft Show in Oklahoma City with four special events and more than a mile of static displays. Three noted personalities will narrate the Air Force portion and Reserve Col. James Stewart, Douglas Edwards, and Robert Cummings will host over four days. Senior officers including Gen. Edwin W. Rawlings and Gen. Nathan F. Twining are slated to attend, along with Lt. Gen. C. S. Irvine who will speak at an aviation dinner before remaining in the city.
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Oklanoma City
LS. Air Force
Usaf Today
America
Air Force
James Stewart
Douglas Edwards
Robert Cummings
Edwin W. Rawlings
Air Materiel Command
Department of Defense
Nathan F. Twining
C. P. _ Weyland
Tactical Air ,Command
C. S. Irvine
Westinghouse Aviation Industries Association
Skirvin Hotel
Oklahoma City
Page
Guard Chief to Inspect Fort Sill Armory and Address OCS
Maj. Gen. Edgar C. Erickson chief of the National Guard Bureau will inspect Lawton’s armory layout at Fort Sill this afternoon. He will address the National Guard Officer Candidate class graduation at 3 30 a m in Snow Hall and review during the parade at Lucas Field at 5 20 p m. He will attend receptions at the Polo Club and Officers Club Patio and meet Maj. Gen. de Shazo in McNair Hall. The class includes 85 officer candidates from 35 states and Puerto Rico.
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Edgar C. Erickson
National Guard Bureau
Washington, D.C
Lawton
Fort Sill
Gen
Erickson
National Guard
Sill
Snow Hall
Gen. Erickson
Lucas Field
Polo Club
Thomas E. de Shazo
Artillery and
General de Shazo
McNair Hall
Col. J. W. Dean Jr
Puerto Rico
Typhoid Victims Refuse Doctors in Guthrie Case
In Guthrie Oklahoma three typhoid fever sufferers from a Church of God camp meeting at Monark Springs Missouri refused medical treatment. The victims Vernon Miles 18 Linda Taylor 12 and Pearl Johnson a visitor in Oklahoma City were clinically diagnosed with typhoid. Blood tests supported the diagnosis for at least one patient. The illness stems from a rally attended by about 500 people from 14 states amid warnings four or more deaths may follow from contaminated well water. Families oppose medical treatment citing religious beliefs.
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Guthrie
Okla
Monark Springs
U.S. Health Department
J. E. Souter
Logan County
Vernon Miles
Anna Marie Miles
Linda Taylor
Sam Taylor
Pearl Johnson
Oklahoma City
H. R. Holdcradt
Texas governor orders rangers to Mansfield again
In Mansfield Texas a white mob shoves and curses Grady Haight assistant D A as fears of integrating Mansfield High School escalate. Federal judge Estes refused delay while the crowd vows no Negroes will register. An effigy of a Negro is displayed at the entrance and a mob leader denies directing the actions.
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Mansfield
Tex
Mansfield High School
Grady Haight
Tarrant County
D. A
Haight
Joe E. Estes
R. L. Huffman
Huffman
Owen Metcalf
Metcalf
Hullman
New Enrollment Record On Tap
City school officials report 1956 57 enrollment rising with 8179 pupils enrolled by noon. Exact totals await late enrollments next week. Central Junior High led with 1910, including 600 ninth, 650 eighth, 657 seventh. Lawton High reported 341 seniors and about 325 juniors enrolled. Douglass school counted about 480 pupils.
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John Shoemaker
Central Junior High
A. Richardson
Lawton High School
Hugh Bish
Douglass
John R. Sadberry
Altus AFB airman breaks back in Cache area crash
Ale Jack E. Knight of the 96th AME Squadron at Altus AFB suffered a broken back and severe facial cuts when his car left a curve and overturned in a bar ditch four miles west of Cache on U.S. 62. Passenger Rice Couche, 22, also of the unit, was treated for minor injuries and released at Fort Sill post hospital. The 11:30 p.m. Thursday wreck near Cache sent both men to hospital after being ejected about 28 feet.
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Altus Air Force Base
Cache
Jack E. Knight
96Th Ame
Altus Afb
U.S. 62
Knight
Rice Couche
Fort Sill Post Hospital
Couche
W. W. Flanagan
Dan Combs
Ike Bates New Soviet Atomic Blast Secrecy Attacked
A planned four lane upgrade on U S 277 from the Fort Sill interchange to Medicine Creek is slated for spring construction with a proposed $2 million budget. Officials report design agreements for Gate No 1 and 2 are in place, right of way needs vary, and plans for a phase from the interchange to Rogers Lane are complete pending Sept 1 submission.
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U.S
J. D. Hoopert
Kenneth Paul
Duncan Division
State Highway Department
Wyatt
Finis Hendrick
Rogers Lane
Medicine Creek Bridge
Fort Sill Reservation
Highway Department
Memorial Hospital marks fifth year of operation
Comanche County Memorial hospital celebrates its fifth year with 14 030 patients treated and 3 023 babies born since opening. Administrator William Love notes gains as two more floors added and a planned 300 000 chronic disease hospital adjacent to the facility. Per diem costs average 17 67 and total operating expenses over five years amount to 1 374 609 73.
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Bill Crawford
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Memorial
William Love
Hill -& Burton
Memorial Hospital
Love
Fort Sill
Lawton
Oklahoma
Itill
Eaderly
Tension Eases In Tennessee
Clinton Tennessee reports show racial tension easing as Clintor High completes its first week of integrated classes. Negro pupils arrive in cars under quiet guard. one pupil absent due to illness. Kasper, a segregationist, faces contempt citation in federal court in Knoxville.
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Clinton
Tenn
Clintor High
Knoxville
John Kasper
Kasper
Egypt to Seek Death Penalty for Britons on Spying Charges
Cairo dispatch reports chief prosecutor will seek the death penalty for three Britons James Swinburn Charles Fittuck and James Zarb held on espionage charges tied to alleged plots to topple President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Two British diplomats implicated were expelled. Britain expelled two Egyptian diplomats. The arrests worsened Anglo Egyptian tensions as Nasser weighed Suez talks with a five nation committee.
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Cairo
Egypt
Chicf
A Akhbar
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Britain
Nasser
Suez’ Committee
James Swinburn
Charles Fittuck
Marconi Telegraph and Radio Company
James Zarb
Tillman Man Dies From Storm Injury
Frederick special report: Willis Burk 63 died at Tillman County Memorial Hospital from a windstorm accident Tuesday night after a garage door slammed on his head. He suffered a brain concussion and had 31 years with the Frederick sanitation department. A 39-year resident of Tillman county, he will be buried Sunday at Memorial cemetery after services at McLellan Funeral home. He leaves his wife and three daughters Mrs. Ralph Keith of Frederick Mrs. Boyd Brooks of Mineral Wells Texas and See Victim Page 4.
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Frederick
Tillman County Memorial Hospital
Willis Burk
Burk
Frederick Sanitation Department
Tillman County
McLellan Funeral Home
Memorial Cemetery
First Baptist Church
Ralph Keith
Boyd Brooks
Mineral Wells
Tex
Eisenhower cites new Soviet atomic blast at megaton scale
President Eisenhower said in a Washington news conference that the Soviet Union exploded a new atomic test, likely more powerful than the Aug. 30 blast. Moscow radio said Aug. 24 and 30 tests targeted at arming troops and reducing fallout by high altitude detonations. The President noted secrecy in Soviet testing and declined to specify the exact yield, hinting the latest blast exceeded a megaton. See IKE, Page 4.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Soviet Russia
Moscow Radio
U.S
Blowing Dust To Diminish With Cold Front Tonight
Strong northerly winds will ease tonight ending the red dust that swirled into Lawton. Gusts reached 30 mph, as a cold front keeps temperatures low through Saturday with no moisture forecast. Fort Sill Hobart and Lawton reported 109 109 and 108 highs while dust disrupted travel near Jet on U S 64 and darkened skies at Enid and Ponca City.
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Lawton
Constitution Press Instruments
Fort Sill
Hobart
Jet
U.S. 64
Oklahoma
Ponca City
Gagé
Enid
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Broadway
Jayne Mansfield
Oklahoma City National
Cyprus
Nicosia
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EOKA
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Allan Shivers
Texas Rangers
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Ike Bates
Tennessee
Tillman
Paul Harris
J. J. Bollinger Construction Co
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