Explosives Found Near County Barn Prompt Widespread Digs
Demolitions experts recovered 91 pounds of TNT and 300 blasting caps near a county barn at Elgin, with 30 more pounds found along Cache Creek in a military reserve. This week totals 247 pounds of TNT, including 125% pounds from Lawton shed. Safer handling emphasized as blasting caps pose severe injury risks.
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Fort Sill
Bill Kleeman
Elgin
Cache Creek
Lawton
W. D. Horn
61St Ordnance Detachment
Duain Hogue
Sillmen Plan Saint Barbara Fete at Fort Sill
Fort Sill officers and men plan Saint Barbara’s Day observances with decorations in the Sunday mess and special notices in libraries. At noon Saturday a proclamation will declare Sunday Saint Barbara’s Day and road marches will be lifted at 8 a.m. Sunday. An open house is set for 3:30 p.m. with a museum visit and a 5 p.m. supper in the OCS Mess Hall where Saint Barbara’s origin will be explained.
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Sill
Saint Barbara
Public Information Office
OCS
St. Barbara
Ar- See
Snow and Rain Soak Oklahoma Roads in State Wide Weather
Snow and rain, starting yesterday afternoon, covered Oklahoma except the northwest, leaving roads wet and slick. Enid saw up to two inches, while Ponca City Altus and Oklahoma City had about an inch with Tulsa reporting a trace. Light drizzle fog and mist affected various areas as Highway Patrol warned of slick bridges and curves, with crews sanding roads statewide except the Panhandle.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Enid
Ponca City
Altus
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Ft. Sill
Ardmore
Lawton
Durant
Atoka
Highway Patrol
Clinton
Panhandle
Highway Department
Last City Snow Melts As Rain Returns
Light snow that dusted Lawton Wednesday evening yielded to rain by 10:30 p.m. as warmer air moves in. Forecasters expect drizzle fog and appreciable warming with high in the 40s today and 50s tomorrow, with additional rain on Saturday and a drop in temperature late Saturday.
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Lawton
State Weather Bureau
Pilot Struggled To Miss Houses In Base Crash
At Eielson Air Force Base Alaska Lt Alfred Pounders Monticello Mississippi piloted an F84 jet trying to avoid six multihouse buildings and the base housing area. He died with 12 others in the fiery wreckage Tuesday noon with one more succumbing to burns later. An Air Force sergeant recounted seeing the desperate maneuver as the jet roared overhead and then plunged.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Alfred M. Pounders
Eielson Air Force Base
Monticello
Miss
Air Force
Hagler Cannot Recall Events in Torch Death Case
Hagler testified he was drunk and could not recall events leading to the torch death of a Fort Worth man found in a station wagon. The 36-year-old man faces murder charges in the Oct 10 1954 slaying and asked Judge Monroe to set bond.
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Okla
David Fred Hagler Jr
Fort Worth
Hagler
W. J. Monroe
John Smith
Oklahoma
Joe Nwonkwu
Hagier
Gainesville
Tex
Faure Expelled by Angered Radical Socialist Party
Paris report says the Radical Socialist executive committee expelled Premier Edgar Faure after his decision to disband the national assembly and call a general election. The ouster, pushed by former Premier Pierre Mendes France, followed a party discipline vote 19 to 8.
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Paris
Radical Socialist Party
Edgar Faure
National Assembly
Pierre Mendes- France
Faure
Mendes- France
Radical Party
Patrol Dispatcher Policeman Crash Cars On S D Day
A Safe Driving Day mishap in Lawton involved a highway patrol dispatcher Alfred Thomas and a local policeman Grady Crabtree rear ending in the 200 block of South Fourth. Both were in personal cars off duty, and the incident jeopardized Mayor Ellsworth’s bid to become a Kentucky colonel.
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Lawton
C. R. Ellsworth
Kentucky
Police Department
Highway Patrol
Ellsworth
Alfred Thomas
Grady Crabtree
Swindle Case Nets Two Con Men In Oklahoma City
FBI reported the arrest of Raymond G. Moore and Winnett Dean McCafferty in Oklahoma City on charges of swindling Shawnee widow Mrs. Allie Crossland out of 20000 in a horse race betting scheme. A third suspect was sought as losses reportedly total 120000 across the scheme.
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Oklahoma City
FBI
N. R. Johnson
Raymond G. Moore
Topeka
Kan
Winnett Dean McCafferty
John Cash
Johnson
Moore
McCafferty
Allie Crossland
Shawnee
Tulsa
Kansas City
California
Henryetta
Crossland
Bill Holt
Ellis Holly
Okmulgee
Holt
S-D Day Toll Hits 14 8 States Report Traffic Deaths
Traffic deaths reached 14 by noon EST with Ohio four fatalities and Indiana Louisiana Michigan Illinois Kansas Minnesota and New York each one. The AP tallied 69 highway fatalities for Thursday across 24 hours. Illinois warned of hazardous driving from snow and freezing rain. Key fatalities included Robert M. Johnson 44 of Centerville Indiana Gerald La Grow 27 from the Navy near Richwood Michigan driver L T Ball 22 Plymouth and Donald Mosher 23 Glens Falls New York. This marked a second national attempt to pass 24 hours without a traffic death.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Indiana
Louisiana
Michigan
Illinois
Kansas
Minnesota
New York
Richmond
Robert M. Johnson
Centerville
Ind
Gerald la Grow
L. T. Ball
Plymouth
Mich
Canton Township
Detroit
Donald Mosher
Glens Falls
N. Y
Safe Driving Day record spoiled by rear end crash
Lawton motorists and pedestrians endured eight hours eleven minutes of Safe Driving Day with only two minor city accidents by noon. The first rear end collision occurred at 8:11 a.m. in the 100 block Ferris, with a second minor mishap at 10:45 a.m. Police and highway patrol urged extreme caution amid drizzle and hazardous weather as the day continued.
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Lawton
Ferris
Kettle Open For Business Salvation Army Kickoff
Salvation Army volunteers start the annual Christmas Kettle appeal ringing at Fourth on D Street to aid the needy. Civic clubs will staff the kettle house later this month with Shriners beginning December 10, coordinated by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and chaired by Newt Burrow Jr. Coins dropped in the pots aid the Yule season, tracing to 1894 in Northern California.
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Salvation Army
Shriners
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Newt Burrow Jr
Jaycee
California
Jo- See Kettle
Navy Diver Trapped 130 Feet Down In Patuxent River
Solomon’s Md. A Navy diver was trapped 130 feet below the river surface as five divers raced from Washington to attempt a rescue. Navy officials said he became trapped about 10 a.m. est Thursday and local divers labored for over an hour without success.
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Solomons
Navy
Patuxent River
Here
Washington
Robber To Get Another Trial Freddie O'Neal
Freddie O Neal a 21 year old Law ton Negro who was among four sentenced to the state penitentiary for beatings and robberies last year will receive a new trial in Superior court The court remanded the case citing testimony by a state witness on other beatings as possibly swaying the jury in the original verdict
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Freddie O'Neal
Lawton
O'Neal
Pvt
Rudolph Prohaska
Fort Sill
State Criminal Court of Appeals
Manville
Red
City Holds Fourth In Tax Collection
Lawton and Comanche county ranked fourth in the state's retail tax output for September with October collections totaling 88,537.78 dollars, a decline of 4.03 percent from 1954. Oklahoma, Tulsa and Garfield counties posted larger totals, while Kay, Muskogee and Stephens counties followed in fifth to seventh.
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Lawton
Comanche County
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Garfield
Garfield County
Kay
Muskogee
Stephens
Educators Call for More Teachers Amid Shortage
Washington report from a White House education conference notes a tremendous shortage of teachers who work with children. The event pressed for more teachers and appeared likely to back federal aid to schools, especially for buildings.
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Washington
White House
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