Polling Places Listed for Lawton School Bond Vote
Polling places for Tuesday's 500000 school bond election were announced by Justin Kuntz, board clerk. The vote will be in 14 elementary buildings except Post Children's School at Fort Sill, from 6 am to 7 pm. PTA members mobilized a last minute drive to support the measure for a new elementary school and a high school auditorium.
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Jeanne Howell
Justin Kuntz
Board of Education
Post Children’s School
Fort Sill
PTA
Lawtonians
McCarthy Bunch Blasted By Kayser
Oklahoma Republicans seek to rebuild the party after Eisenhower supporters claim McCarthy allies harmed the ticket. J W Kayser proposes a grassroots meeting post January 1 with endorsements from Mrs H H Sayre and Floyd Carrier. Raymond Fields also shows interest as leaders criticize campaign tactics that aided Democratic victories.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Chickasha
Eisenhower
Rly
Oo McKeever
Enid
Bailie W. Vinson
Tulsa
J. W. Kayser
Kayser
H. H. Sayre
Ardmore
GOP
Floyd Carrier
Carrier
City Banks 3rd In Tax Receipts
Comanche county show October sales lift Lawton to second in the state behind Oklahoma City and Tulsa with Lawton merchants paying 88 142.61 of 92 252 22 county total. County remains fourth after Oklahoma City Tulsa and Garfield counties amid statewide 3.72 percent October rise. Tax data from Oklahoma Tax Commission. See TAXES, Page 2
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Comanche County
Lawton
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Enid
Garfield
Woman Hater Admits Slaying
TOLEDO Ohio Thomas P Leonard confessed to fatally slashing the throat of Virginia Thayer a 36 year old mother of two as she entered her car after a lodge meeting He described women as laughing at him and feared because of his looks Police say the suspect is hook nosed and sallow and short and the attack occurred Thursday night
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Toledo
Ohio
Thomas P. Leonard
Virginia Thayer
Attorney says board upholds Dickenson court martial
Washington attorney Guy Emery said an army board of review affirmed Corporal Edward S. Dickenson’s court martial conviction for collaborating with Chinese Communists and sustained the 10 year prison term.
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Washington
Cpl
Edward 5S
Dickenson
Army Board of Review
Guy Emery
Board of Review
Parole Recommended for Oklahoma Murder Convict Maudine Riddle
Maudine Riddle, life term for murder reduced to 15 years for manslaughter, was recommended for parole by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board in Oklahoma City. Riddle, on leave to care for her mother, allegedly aided her brother in the July 12, 1949 slaying of Robert W. Henry in Lawton.
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Maudine Riddle
Lawton
Criminal Court of Appeals
State Pardon and Parole Board
Oklahoma City
Miss Riddle
Robert W. Henry
Bert
Glen Wesley Hodge
Hodge
H. H. Donahue
Lattimore Case Moves to Court Over Indictment
Attorneys for Owen Lattimore challenged a new two count indictment in court arguing the dispute centers on Lattimore’s opinions while U S Attorney Leo A Rover said the issue is whether he was properly indicted.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
U. S
Leo A. Rover
Class Imports French Voices For Its Lesson
Native French voices are imported for daily practice at Lawton high school as Mrs Mildred Dosser leads beginners in listening and repeating with text on the board. The program blends ear eye tongue and memory training with grammar and vocabulary. Students learn Christmas phrases and songs in French and will enroll on December 9 to perform them.
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France
Richard Glenn
Judy Luther
Mildred Dosser
Lawton High School
LHS
Israel to Free Five Seized With Airliner
Israel said it would release the Greek pilot and four of nine Arabs held after a Syrian airliner was forced down at Lydda Airport near Tel Aviv. The five still detained were not explained. An earlier army statement sought the release of five Israeli soldiers missing on a patrol along the Syrian frontier.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Lydda
Tel Aviv
Israel Army
Damascus
Syria
Burglary Suspect Faces Arson and Robbery Charges
Fort Sill soldier Harry H. Hart, 19, already charged with first degree burglary, faced two additional felonies arson and robbery with a dangerous weapon. He allegedly set the Seydell home fire on December 3 and attacked Mrs. Elwood Cripe in a Sears Roebuck parking lot on October 23, waiving preliminary hearing and remaining jailed on a $3,000 bond as defense counsel prepared. He admitted to others but said he did not know why and more charges may follow as evidence is reviewed.
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Harry H. Hart
Fort Sill
Manville Redman
Hart
Eva Seydell
Oak
Elwood Cripe
Sears Roebuck and Co
Woodrow Giles
Seydell
Giles
Superior Court
Robert S. Landers
Ralph Cline
Landers
Giles Court
Cline
Council Lodge Action In Mill Secrecy Tarnishes Public Debate
City council contemplates constructing a lake lodge near Lake Lawtonka with a trustees board and bonding firms. A committee led by Joyce Pursley is to select trustees while an ordinance is not yet ready. Rump sessions with bonding and construction firms have aired some details despite a push for secrecy.
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Lake Lawtonka
Joyce Pursley
Buck Kinsey
Lester McKenzie
Oklahoma City
Charles Jennings
Pursley
Five Sisters Die in Baltimore Fire Trapped in Bedroom
In Baltimore a flash fire in a second floor apartment left five sisters aged 10, 4, 2, 15 months, and 5 months dead. The father, a longshoreman, was away at a restaurant. the mother Ruth 26 was at a movie. George Davis Jr. suffered severe burns and suffocation and was hospitalized after attempts to rescue his sisters failed. Fire officials cited a stove pipe fire in the grocery below as the blaze source.
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Baltimore
George Davis Jr
South Baltimore General Hospital
Ruth
Davis
Mildred
Rosetta
Wilhelmina
Palestina
Grandparents Seek Custody Of Tot In County Court
Grandparents E D Sullivan seek custody of the three year old boy in county court after the mother Jeanette Zumwalt was killed two years ago in an accidental shooting by her husband Darrell Zumwalt who lives near Porter Hill. The Sullivans claim Zumwalt has barred access to relatives and ask for visitation if custody is denied.
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Jeanette Zumwalt
Darrell Zumwalt
Porter Hill
Sullivans
S. R. Harper
Zumwalt
Eisenhower GOP Tax Delay Plan Dominates White House Meet
A Republican leader says the administration will seek postponement of corporation and excise tax cuts set to start next April 1. The all day session with President Eisenhower and GOP leaders focused on taxes and the fiscal outlook, with Dulles briefing on foreign affairs and Knowland attending.
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Washington
Eisenfer
Treasury
Dulles
White House
Secretary of
Millikin
Colorado
Eisenhower
Senate
Knowland
California
GOP
Sheraton-Carlton
Leonard W. Hall
Republican National Committee
Husband Cleared In Brutal Murder Brinks Ark Story
BrinKley Arkansas police cleared Milton Fuller a prominent auto dealer of any link to his wife Milton Fuller 25 mother of two killed in their bedroom while he dozed on a couch Bloodhounds searched for a tall man wearing one shoe Police chief Frank Henderson said Fuller was never a suspect and that he awoke to a thudding noise before finding his wife dying on the bed
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Brinkley
Ark
Milton Fuller
Frank Henderson
Fuller
Girl Injured Falling From Car In Lawton
Kay Young a 14 year old Lawton girl suffered knee abrasions and a facial cut when she fell from a car at Seventh and C while riding with Gerald Vowell 17. Police said the door opened and she was treated at Memorial hospital and released.
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Kay Young
Lawton
Seventh
Henry Riels
Frank Murphy
Miss Young
Walter Young
Andrews
Gerald Vowell
Memorial Hospital
Bartels
Sam Denies Writing Letter to Wife in Divorce Case
Dr. Samuel Sheppard denied under cross examination that he wrote a 1950 divorce letter to his wife Marilyn. He testified the letter merely said he had taken a girl to a dance as the ninth week of his murder trial began with the state accusing him of beating his wife to death on July 4.
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Cleveland
Samuel Sheppard
Sheppard
Marilyn
William J. Corrigan
Weather and snow melt cover Oklahoma after weekend storm
Cold morning temperatures dipped to 23 with eight degrees above zero in Gage and light pre Christmas snow across parts of Oklahoma. A storm moving from New Mexico brought rain sleet and one inch of snow in Oklahoma City and Lawton with partial melting later. Rain disrupted 200 Norman telephone services as water seeped through a cable jacket.
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Gage
Oklahoma
Tema
New Mexico
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Norman
Radio Peiping Blast Indicates Bid Will Fail
Red China accuses the United Nations of interfering as Dag Hammarskjold seeks release for 11 American airmen jailed as spies. Radio Peiping says Beijing will reject any overtures and denounces UN action as illegal and unjust.
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United Nations
N.Y
Red China
Dag Hammarskjold
United States
Peiping
Peiping Peoples Daily
UN General Assembly
China
Radio
Tuesday Parade Marks Safe Driving Day Observance
A downtown parade at 4 p.m. Tuesday will precede Wednesday's Safe Driving Day observance in Lawton and Fort Sill. Lawton junior high and Doug Lass bands join city firms, organizations, law enforcement, and military units in a march to stress roadway safety nationwide.
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Lawton
Fort Sill
Douglass
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