Light Voter Turnout in Oklahoma City Area
Morning balloting shows light turnout as four state questions go to voters. Rural polls close at 6 p.m. Lawton and adjacent precincts stay open until 7 p.m. Proposals seek seven million dollar bond for U Oklahoma Medical Center and term-length increases for county judges commissioners officers and state lawmakers. Comanche County results to be unofficially tabulated.
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Oklahoma
Lawton
University of Oklahoma Medical Center
Comanche County
Constitution Press
Spy Informer Elizabeth Bentley Dies at 55
Elizabeth Bentley 55 a former Communist spy who helped expose Red espionage in the United States died in Grace-New Haven Hospital after abdominal surgery. A Connecticut native and Middletown resident since July she renounced communism 18 years ago and had been an English teacher at Long Lane School for Girls. She testified during late 1940s congressional hearings and FBI investigations naming figures such as Jacob Goles Harry Dexter White and Nathan Silvermaster.
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New Haven, Conn
Elizabeth Bentley
Grace- New Haven Hospital
Miss Bentley
Connecticut
Middletown
United States
Long Lane School For
FBI
Police Court Disposes Cases Before Municipal Judge Oaks
Today the Municipal Court, before Judge J. Merle Oaks, disposed numerous cases. Defendants include M. M. Tahdooahwippoh and Gerald Twohatchet for loitering with bonds forfeited, Ruby Binion and Eleanor Roth for selling flavor or license violations, Ariine Savires for running a stop sign, and many others with fines or bond forfeitures. Public drunkenness carried multiple fines, plus shoplifting, reckless driving, and license violations recorded with varying penalties.
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J. Merle Oaks
Gerald Twohatchet
Clinton
Ruby Binion
Eleanor Ann Roth
Ariine J. Savires
Francis Kine
Corine W. McDonald
San Antonio
Tex
Mary Gage
Lesterine
Jean E. Stoughter
Ellen R. Lester
Aimo Harper
Coperency
Jock Givnn
Garfield
Hermon Lee Stoats
Fred €. Amburoer
Jefferson
Gary W. Smith Jr
Elmhurst
George Reed
James R. Price
Kinvon
Charles F. Benton
Summit
Pomilo Ann Phillips
Santa Fe
Robert Gienn Verver
Lee Shoffer
William Eori Simmons
Ross Michael
Donald Kovtioty
Milford Jones
Washington
Floridan Could Get Agency Post
Florida Wildlife Director Bob Aldridge, a former Oklahoman, was discussed as a possible successor to Roy Stafford as Oklahoma wildlife director in Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Florida
Bob Aldridge
Roy Stafford
Oklahoma
Warren Commission to use FBI report in Oswald case span
FBI findings will shape the Warren commission inquiry into the Kennedy assassination. Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr heads a court of inquiry with Leon Jaworski and Henry Wade to interrogate witnesses in Dallas and Austin. The probe will compare FBI undercover work with federal proceedings and may involve Ruby’s role and the Tippit killing.
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Oswald
Jack Rubinstein
Jack Ruby
Dallas
FBI
Warren Commission
Johnson
Texas
Waggoner Carr
Carr
Gov. Connally
Leon Jaworski
Houston
Nuremburg
Dist
Atty
Henry Wade
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. D. Tippit
Lee Harvey Oswald
Federal
Federal Commission
Austin
Tex
Texas Court of Inquiry
Warren
Ruby
State Court of Inquiry
Presidential Commission
Westinghouse Price Fix Trial Rested In New York
The government rested its case in the price fixing trial of Westinghouse Electric Corp. Judge Cashin delayed ruling on a defense motion to dismiss. Indictments from 1961 accuse five companies and eight individuals of conspiring since 1955 to fix brazing alloy prices. Several co-defendants pleaded guilty or were dismissed. witnesses testified for the government, including Rudolph Bierwagen who said he met with rivals to fix prices. Defense asserts Westinghouse did not participate.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric Corp. US. Dist
John M. Cashin
Westinghouse
Rudolph W. Bierwagen
Miami
Okla
J. Howard Carter
No Rain Recorded in Calama Chile Desert
In Calama in Chile's Atacama Desert no rainfall has ever been recorded, a claim noted in weather summaries highlighting the desert's extreme dryness and unique climate.
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Calama
Chile
Atacama Desert
Civil rights strife stalls Kennedy backed bill in Congress
Johnson faces stalled civil rights legislation as House Rules Committee delays action amid White House pressure. Civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr and Roy Wilkins push for public works to ease Negro unemployment while Defense Department urged to seek manpower and procurement savings. Salinger confirms aides staying on.
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House Judiciary Committee
Kennedy
House Rules Committee
Stoward W. Smith
D-Va
Rules Committee
Johnson
Whitney Young Jr
Young
National Urban League
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
White House
Governors Conference
Miami
P. Kenneth O'Donnell
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Theodore Sorensen
Salinger
Lacy Promoted to Cadet Technical Sergeant in Air Force ROTC
Eugene Lloyd Lacy Jr. of 1811 Williams has been promoted to cadet technical sergeant in the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University of Oklahoma.
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Eugene Lloyd Lacy Jr
Eugene L. Lacy
1811 Williams
Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
University of Oklahoma
Area Seniors To Take Tests Here Saturday
Fifty five Lawton area seniors will take a six hour college board exam at Lawton High School. Six LHS seniors earned National Merit semifinalist honors: Roger Allan Moseley Steve Hintz Randall Eugene Moore Susan Sanders John Oneal and Bill Glover. The SAT starts 8:30 a.m. in the study hall with achievement tests in the afternoon.
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Lawton Area
College Board
Lawton High Schoo
LHS
Roger Allan Moseley
Steve Hintz
Randall Eugene Moore
Susan Sanders
John Oneal
Bill Glover
Mary Sue Silk
Minnie Attaway
College Board Testing Center
Slow local voting noted in several towns
VOTING turnout described as very light with only 16 to 88 votes by midmorning in Altus Duncan Seminole and other areas. Officials report four large boxes below average and overall activity under typical general local election levels.
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Enct
Altus
Duncan
Seminole
Iive
Kennedy family honored as Secret Service praise continues
Mrs. Kennedy, amid private moments with Hill and relatives including Jean Kennedy Smith and Lee Radziwill, receives praise as Hill becomes the second agent commended for actions on the Friday assassination. Congress moves to extend Secret Service protection and fund funeral expenses while Mrs. Kennedy expresses gratitude for global condolence messages.
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Kennedy
Jean Kennedy Smith
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
Lee Radziwill
Hill
Secret Service
Rufus Youngblood
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
City Council weighs light at 15th and D and bids for chlorine
The council authorized the city clerk to solicit bids for chlorine for the Lake Lawtonka filter plant next year and ordered bid openings in two weeks for gasoline needs with a six month alternate. The public property committee asked to withhold action on leasing Lake Ellsworth tracts for oil and gas. Douglas Bailey announced the sewer line repair falls to the Corps of Engineers, not city crews, as the line lies off public property.
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Douglas Bailey
USO
Corps of Engineers
Texas To Duncan Flights On Tap
Five supersonic flights will be made between Fredericksburg Texas and Duncan Oklahoma this week at Carswell Air Force Base. One flight was planned today from 11:55 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. Two flights are set for Wednesday from 4:45 to 5:25 p.m. Two flights are planned Thursday from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. and from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
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Carswell Afb
Tex
Fredricksburg
Duncan
Okla
Carswell Air Force Base
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John A. Anderson Jr
Kansas
Albert D. Rosellini
William W. Barron
West Virginia
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
John A. Love
Colorado
John H. Reed
Maine
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Matthew E. Welsh
Indiana
Mrs. Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Council
Bacy S Eigan
Vegle
J. Unique
Texas-To-Duncan
Tyme
Goodsyear Service
C Avenue
Zale
Cache Road
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