Signal Corps Films Airlift Demonstration At Fort Sill
Fourth Army Signal Corps camera crew filmed an Artillery airlift demo at Fort Sill using the H-34 Sikorsky helicopter. Crew included Sp. Bruce Heathcote and Pvt. Roger Orr from Fort Sam Houston. Coordinated by Capt. Robert Kren with supervision by Capt. William Crichton. Troops from 2nd FABn Cubbison’s unit provided the demonstration. Sikorsky reps Lambert and McBride observed filming.
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Fourth Army Signal Corps
Fort Sill
Army Aviation Unit Training Command
Department of the Army
Signal Corps
Bruce G. Heathcote
Roger A. Orr
Fourth Army
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Robert E. Kren
Sill Public Information
William G. Crichton
Department of Tactics and Combined Arms
Sill
2Nd FA Bn
Gordon R. Cubbison
John Mastervich
Sikorsky Helicopter Corporation
U.S. Army
Police Seek blond theft suspect in Fort Sill incident
Detectives search for a young blond haired man in his early 20s after a Fort Sill man lost 30 dollars in a theft that followed a night of drinking in Lawton. Victim Sp2 Leon Brown described the suspect as 5 ft 2 in wearing a blue shirt and athletic jacket with yellow stripes. Police also report a bicycle stolen from a junior high and a battery taken from a 1954 Chevrolet in a residential theater lot Thursday night.
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Fort Sill
Leon Brown
Lawton
Brown
Dale Pollock
Bell
Leon Macek
Christmas Window Displays Prepared Seventeen Churches Join Jaycee Project
Seventeen city churches will decorate Christmas window displays as part of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Christ In Christmas effort. Lawton merchants donated display spaces and Thursday through Christmas Day will feature the windows. Contacts for decor and parade entries include David Corley and Newt Burrow Jr. Santa visits and a downtown parade with a lawn party at the Comanche County Court House are planned with candy and fruit distributed to children.
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Chamber of Commerce
David Corley
Lawton
Jaycee
Corley
Chamber of Commerce Office
Bethel Assembly of God
Cameron Baptist
Calvary Baptist
Central Baptist
Alimony Ban Enacted by East German Government
The Communist East German regime Friday banned alimony payments except in special hardship cases. A new law states alimony will not be paid to women who can work and support themselves regardless of divorce grounds.
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Berlin
Canada Dominates Nickel Output Since 1900s
For over 50 years Canada has led nickel production and in 1954 its output exceeded four times that of the rest of the free world combined, underscoring its dominant role in global nickel supply.
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Canada
Free World
Tear Gas Used to Halt Rioting in Nicosia
British troops and colonial police dispersed pro Greek student demonstrations in Nicosia on Saturday using tear gas and batons. About 300 protesters gathered as pupils from two schools demanded union with Greece. Nineteen students were arrested and ten more detained as police moved in.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Greece
Eisenhower reconsideration urged by NH senator
Senator Syles Bridges of New Hampshire urged President Eisenhower to announce next month whether he will seek re election. Bridges, chair of the Senate Republican policy committee, said an early decision is needed because New Hampshire filing period runs January 13 to February 1.
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Concord
N.H
Syles Bridges
Papa's Wife and The Long Ride Home book notes
A 1955 pairing review of Thyra Terre Bjorn's Papa's Wife from Rinehard and Co. and Bonner McMillion's The Long Ride Home from J. B. Lippincott. The first explores a Swedish Lapland to New England pastoral, focusing on Maria Franzon and family dynamics under a minister, with humor, faith, and maternal influence. The second follows coach Paul Watson in Coulton facing ethical tensions, a key playoff, personal blackmail, and unlikely alliances, concluding with reflections on football's size and impact.
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Rev. J. J. Stowe JR
Papa
Thyra Terre Bjorn
Rinehard, and Co
New York
Swedish
Lapland
New England States
Pontius Franzon
Maria
America
Franzon
Mama
Mara Franzon
Sweden
Hartzell Spence
Heaven
Bonner McMillion
Paul Watson
Texas
Coulton
Woofie
Donnie Quillen
Mitch Mitchell
Canyon City
Ringling Family Member Henry E Ringling Dies in Wisconsin
Henry E Ringling, son of one Ringling brother, dies at 49 in Wisconsin after a career shift from circus to politics. He held multiple Republican posts including national committeemanship from Wisconsin.
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Henry E. Ringling
Wisconsin
Baraboo
Wis
Big Top
Ringling
Ringling Brothers
Bond Forfeiture Ordered In Drunken Driving Case
Judge S R Harper ordered forfeiture of a $500 property bond for Jackson Franklin Lemons and two sureties for failure to appear to start a 10 day jail term and pay a $100 fine. A separate $500 bond for Noel Jay Toler also forfeited after his plea changes and pending payment.
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S. R. Harper
Manville Redman
Jackson Franklin Lemons
Lemons
Loyd R. Lemons
A. R. Adkins
Redman
Noel Jay Toler
Toler
Roe Garten
Harper
Attlee to be known as plain Earl Attlee
London report states Clement Attlee will be known simply as Earl Attlee with no place name. Burke's Peerage expert L G Pine warns the change could confuse peers with American bandleaders and notes peers usually carry a place name.
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London
Clement Attlee
Earl Attlee
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
L. G. Pine
Burke’s Peerage
Attlee
Labor Party
Dorking
Senior Citizens Club Meeting Set at Recreation Center
A. W. Puttkamer, president, announces the Senior Citizens club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Recreation center at 14th and Bell. Attendance is open to anyone over 60, with transport help available by calling 218.
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A. W. Puttkamer
Senior Citizens Club
14Th and
Bell
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Sikorsky
William A. McBride
Burrow
Chamber Office
Old Saint Nick
Denison
Sheridan Road
Cotton Electric
Cotton Electric Cooperative
Walters
Oklahoma
J. B. Lippincott
Farmers Lumber Company
Earl
Eugene L. Bowman
Business College
Comanche
Gaylord E. Giles
Draughon School of Business
North Broadway
Oklahoma City
Cache Road Furniture Co
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Wilson Irons
Jack Kramer
Sedgman
Wilson
Lionel
Sunbeam
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