Hoopert Named Assistant Provost Marshal At Post
Maj. Joseph D Hoopert appointed assistant provost marshal at Fort Sill to succeed Lt. Col. Dale L Barrick who is retiring. He previously served at Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation and in the Southwest Pacific during World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoopert
Joseph D. Koopert
Fort Sill
Dale L. Barrick
Maj
Bremerhaven
Germany
Hoppert
Army
Ohio National Guard
Southwest Pacific
Lawton
Tissue
Ray
82Nd Military Police Detachment
Europe
Carl B. Boyce
540Th Military Police
Frankfort
Clues Sought In Six Baffling Midwest Slayings
Michigan and Illinois police coordinated in Muskegon to review clues from about 3000 tourists in six sex slayings. The Gorham case of a 12 year old Dallas Boy Scout vanished July 9 and was found Aug 14, shot. Investigators aim to find links to five other killings including Barbara Gaca in Detroit and Jeanie Singleton near Kalamazoo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskegon
Mich
Michigan
Midwest
Leroy Hunt
Peter Gorham
Dallas, Tex
Gorham
Here
Hunt
Barbara Gaca
Detroit
Jeanie Singleton
Kalamazoo
Chicago
Cook County
Ill
Jim Hardesty Enters Prison for 18 Month Term
Jim Hardesty 42, former Tulsa County commissioner, began an 18 month sentence in the Oklahoma state penitentiary for accepting kickbacks on road oil purchases. Convicted March 5, 1954 by a district court jury, upheld by the Criminal Court of Appeals, sentence includes behavior-time toward release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcalester
Okla
Jim Hardesty
Tulsa
Mark Anderson
Hardesty
Elmer Adams
Criminal Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court
Hoffman Man Wins Pecan Seeding Test
Daniel Anderson of Hoffman won the grand championship in the seedling pecan contest at the annual Oklahoma Pecan Growers Association meeting. Mary Gaines of Ardmore took the reserve championship as 312 exhibits of 49 varieties were entered by 90 growers, with 122 exhibits in the seedling category at Oklahoma A&M Technical College in Okmulgee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okmulgee
Okla
Daniel Anderson
Hoffman
Oklahoma Pecan Growers Association
Mary Gaines
Ardmore
Oklahoma A&m Technical College
Phone Hearings Delayed on Southwestern State Rate Increase
The State Corporation Commission postponed public hearings on a proposed rate increase by Southwestern State Telephone Co serving 51 state cities. The hearings were originally set to begin Wednesday and are now rescheduled for February 7.
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Oklahoma
State Corporation Commission
Southwestern State Telephone Co
Hospital Births and Admissions Across Southwest Districts
Births include a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Allen Carson at Lawton Rt 3 born 2:25 a.m. Dec 7 weighing 7 lb 2 oz. Southwestern: daughter born 8:02 p.m. Dec 6 weighing 7 lb 9 1/2 oz to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hittler of 413 Park. Multiple admissions and discharges listed for Fletcher, Chattanooga, Cyril, Marlow, Lawton, Walters, Medicine Park, Apache, Anadarko, El Reno, Duncan, Fort Sill Indian School, Mountain View and other locales with names and homes. Clinics report surgeries, medical admissions, and discharges for patients including Charles D. Puckett, Clifford W. Kelley, Charles Higginbotham, James Ensey, Maxine Hurst, and Linda Miller among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Carson
Lawton
Charles D. Puckett
Fletcher
Clifford W. Kelley
Chattanooga
Alice M. Aishman
Lee
Charles C. Higginbotham
Cyril
William B. Gray
Indiahoma
Bettye To Phillips
Williams
Charles T. Waters
Marlow
James Roy Ensey
James T. Ensey
Maxine Hurst
Faxon
Jerry Hittler
Park
Hollis Powers
Walters
C. W. Swanson
S. 11Th
Robert L. Knox
S. 10Th
W. A. Hendricks
Medicine Park
Raymond Franklin
Columbia
Jean Harrison
Cache Road
Mary Pocowatchit
Star Rt. Lawton
Michael Pecafpybitty
N. 12Th
Julia Ahbeah
Apache
Marcie Lee Davilla
Anadarko
Sara Big Eagle
el Reno
Linda Sue Miller
Bob Daws Miller
Gary Evans
Fern Mihesuah
Duncan
Sur
Pearl Harbor Vets Organize Oklahoma City Meeting
A new group named Veterans of Pearl Harbor Association forms in Oklahoma City with about 50 expected attendees for its first organizational meeting. Members recount experiences from December 7 1941 including Neal Day then a 26 year old fighter pilot who avoided harm after circling Hickam Field and witnessing strafing and a hurried will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Pearl Harbor
Veterans of
Hickam Field
Day
Hickam
Day’s
City Police Record Light Day With Few Arrests and Fines
City police reported a light day with three arrests by noon two women cited for public profanity and another for a clinical health check. Two minor thefts and a stolen light blue 1952 Chevrolet were logged, plus a vandalism case at a chicken house. Municipal court fines totaled 47 dollars with 112 dollars in bonds. Four people were convicted of public drunkenness and one traffic violator handed to the military.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Kilgore
Jeanie Briscoe
Stimpson Motor Co
Bob Reeder Jr
Charlie Tryer
1914 B
E. S. Groff
Gaines
Military
Tenneson Release Seen Next Week
Richard R. Tenneson, a 22 year old American GI who stayed in Red China after Korea and later left, is expected to reach the Hong Kong border next week. The Chinese Red Cross informed on Nov 30 that he had been released and was free to depart. Tenneson, from Alden Minnesota, was one of 21 turncoats who denounced U.S. conditions and remained in China after being captured in May 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Richard R. Tenneson
Red China
British
Red Cross
Tenneson
Alden
Minn
United States
Korea
Divorce suit filed in Hollywood against Sam Katzman
Movie producer Sam Katzman, 54, is sued for separate maintenance by his wife Hortense, 50, alleging cruelty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Sam Katzman
Hortense
Indian Mission Board To Meet In Lawton Oklahoma
First annual meeting of the Oklahoma Indian Mission club board of control will be held at the Hotel Lawtonian with an executive session on Saturday and a 6:30 p.m. dinner. Delegates attend Ptarsay Comanche Mission services Sunday morning and a church luncheon, then visit other area mission churches. Agenda includes membership drive programs policies and adoption of projects with reports from district superintendents and Pr. D. D. Etchieson. Open meeting sponsored by Methodist churches in the state. Lawton residents invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Control of the
Oklahoma Indian Mission Club
Lawtonian
Board of Control
Ptarsay Comanche Mission
The
Indian Mission Conference
D. D. Etchieson
Oklahoma City
Fuzz Barnes
Chicago
Three Men Rob Miami Grocery in Oklahoma
Police issue an alert for three men who robbed Safeway Grocery in Miami Oklahoma last night. Cash amount not disclosed. Employees forced to empty three registers and bag money in a sack with four beers. A suspected cop in custody. Unknown if getaway involved a car. The store had been robbed over a year ago by FBI fugitive John Harry Allen, now imprisoned for about $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Okla
Safeway
A. C. Masterson
FBI
John Harry Allen
Allen
Named to Compact Post OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
Walker Ted Pound of Oklahoma City, a former conservation officer for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, was named by Governor Raymond Gary as Oklahoma's technical adviser to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Compact Post
Oklahoma City
Op— Walker
Ted Pound
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Raymont Gary
Oklahoma
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Oklahoma Alcoholism Association Formed in City
Dr Waldo Stephens Oklahoma City oil man announced the formation of the Oklahoma Alcoholism Association to study the disease and seek its cure. The group will operate from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation building and sponsor integrated research across psychological sociological chemical and spiritual aspects. Stephens is president and says the organization is non political and non sectarian and neither wet nor dry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Waldo Stephens
Oklahoma Alcoholism Association
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Stephens
Rev Evans to Aid Moderator Meeting Program in Oklahoma City
Rev John J. Evans, superintendent of missions in the Comanche Cotton Baptist association, will assist in the annual state Baptist Missionaries and Moderators meeting in the Baptist Building chapel Oklahoma City. Evans will discuss associational budgets during Thursday morning sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Evans
Comanche- Cotton Baptist Association
State Baptist Missionaries
Baptist Building
Oklahoma City
Evans
Tulsa Engineer Named Resident for Pryor Nitro Plant
Ray Broyles of the Tulsa U. S. Army Engineers district is named resident engineer for a $20 million nitro guanidine plant near Pryor Oklahoma Col. Stanley G. Reiff announces the appointment. Ben Davis will run the project office at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Ray Broyles
U. S. Army Engineers District
Pryor
Oklo
Stanley G. Reiff
Ben Davis
Shawnee Approves Gas Franchise Renewal
Shawnee residents approve a 25 year renewal of Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. franchise with a vote of 2088 to 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee
Okla
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co
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Sam Barber
Allan Shelton
L. V. Shelton
William Hodges
W. O. Hodges
Gery
Margaret Sloan
Ruby Nauni
Michael Queetone
Mountain View
Sherry Hokeah
Fort Cobb
J. Merle Oaks
Bile Ray Bailey
Frederick
Judge Oaks
Dale Hoffman
Joy Niedo
Rt. 1
Roosevelt Wakley
Leslie V. Ray
John L. Overby
Oak
Billy W. Binning
S. 6Th
George Fullerton
Arlington
Maurice Howard
Howard
Bobby Charles Collier
Wichita Falls
Taft Gaines
Washington
Indian Mission Board
Oklahoma Tire & Supply
Roy Rogers
Dick Tracy
Dragnet
Davy Crockett
Alamo Fort
Superman
Susan
Schick
Eureka
State Alcoholism Group
Dean A. McGee
Research Foundation
San
Tee
Lionel Diesel Freight
Marx Electric
White House
E Mechanical
PLATO
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