Branding Roundup Marks 14th Annual Buffalo Calves Tagging
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge begins its 14th annual branding and brucellosis testing of 250 buffalo calves born in March May. Three University of Wisconsin alumni assist as genetics researchers taking blood samples while Dr D C Bostwick vaccinates. Ernest Greenwalt notes two weeks to roundup mothers as 12 men work the chute.
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Wichita Mountains Wildlife
Hand
Wisconsin Genetics
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Ernest Greenwalt
Greenwalt
D. C. Bostwick
Ardmore
Richard J. Hitch
Buffalo
Lawton Board Awards Woodward Firm School Contract
The Lawton board of education awarded a $157,875 low bid to Woodward contractor Lee E. Wilson for Grover Cleveland Elementary at 27th and I. The project is funded by a $180,000 federal grant. Board actions include adding two rooms for $15,500 and using $4,700 local funds to cover costs. Construction on John Adams Elementary at 35th and Ferris is starting, funded by the government.
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Lawton Board of Education
Woodward
Lee E. Wilson
Grover Cleveland
Wilson
John Adams
35Th and
Ferris
Seoul Installs 600 New Street Lights
Seoul to add 600 street lights as a crime prevention drive by the Metropolitan police. The city, with over a million residents, will gain one light for about every 1,700 people after four decades with none.
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Seoul
Generals to Attend Services for McLain in Oklahoma City
Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams and Brig. Gen. John B. Horton plan to attend funeral services for Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain at St. Luke's Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. Lt. Gen. E. D. White is expected to participate. The Artillery Center sent a wreath as a tribute to the former commander.
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Edward T. Williams
John B. Horton
Oklahoma City
Raymond S. McLain
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
E. D. White
Fourth Army
Oklahoma
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
John R. Abernathy
Artillery Center
Armed Forces Cuts Planned in Reducing Military Strength
Washington reports a new plan to cut active armed forces below the 3 047 000 level for the new fiscal year. Defense leaders say the aim is to scale down as the immediate war threat subsides, with further reductions announced but not yet quantified.
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Washington
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Congress
Carter L. Burgess
Wilson
Greek Students Riot Against U S Cyprus Support
Greek students rioted in Athens Salonika and Katerini burning Eisenhower pictures, smashing a U S Information Service office and its film library. The protests target U S backing of Britain over Cyprus, with 5000 students in Salonika and banners waved.
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Athens
Eisenhower
U. S. Information Service
Britain
Cyprus
Salonika
Katerini
Greece
Famagusta
Soviets Warn France on Paris Pacts and Franco Soviet Treaty
Moscow warned that ratification of the Paris agreements to remilitarize Western Germany would annul the 1944 Soviet Franco mutual assistance treaty. Molotov delivered the note to the French ambassador as Tokyo relations and Red China were cited for normalization talks.
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Moscow
Russia
France
Paris
West Germany
V. M. Molotov
Louis Joxe
Foreign Ministry
Molotov
Deonid Tlyichev
Tokyo
Red China
Am. Bate
Germany
Europe
Soviet Union
Sam Sheppard Defense Attacks Police Methods
Cleveland attorney William J. Corrigan in his closing argument accused authorities in the Marilyn Sheppard case of dictatorship style tactics and urged that constitutional rights were being eroded. He derided the autopsy and motive theory while lamenting lost freedoms and public publicity surrounding the case.
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Cleveland
Samuel Sheppard
Amerca
Catis
William J. Corrigan
William Oatis
Associated Press
Czechoslovakia
Corrigan
Sheppard
Sheppards
Marilyn Sheppard
Police Hunt New Robber
Night Chief Pete Fuller reports no arrests after a purse snatching on Columbia Street near 600 block around 8 p m. Mrs Val Frakes was knocked down and had $22 stolen as the youthful suspect followed her from 700 to 600 blocks. About six suspects were questioned Tuesday night.
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Columbia
Val Frakes
Pete Fuller
Fuller
Postmen Bow Under Christmas Card Deluge
Bill Crawford notes Christmas cards became aYuletide tradition with postmen handling vast mail loads. Local postmaster Bennie Stephens urges early mailing as Americans send about 75 cards per family each season.
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Bill Crawford
Lawton
United States
Bennie Stephens
Boston
U S Backing NATO Staff Chiefs Plan
Paris reports say the United States endorses NATO military leaders plan to rely on atomic weapons for Western Europe defense against Communist aggression. The stance opposes strict limits on use of atomic arms, arguing deterrence hinges on broader weapons availability. Dulles Mendes France Eden discussed the issue ahead of NATO ministers session.
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Paris
United States
North Atlantic
NATO
U. S
Dulles
Mendes-France
Eden
NATO Council
Western Europe
Europe
Mindszenty Reportedly Freed by Hungarian Communists
Austrian News Service reports from Budapest that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been freed from prison and allowed to return to his diocese at Esztergom near Budapest. Budapest officials could not confirm the report as calls went unanswered.
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Vienna
Austrian Catholic News Service
Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Austria
Mindszenty
Exztergom
Five Children Die As Fire Engulfs Wallomsac Home
Five Grogan children aged 9 to 1 perished when an oil tank explosion set theirWallomsac New York home ablaze about 6 a m. neighbor Arthur Baldwin, 55, tried to rescue them as flames erupted from a fuel oil shed attached to the kitchen. The two story frame house owned by Columbia Box Board Co. was virtually destroyed.
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Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Wallomsac
Waldo Grogan
Sonja
Lois
Allen
Carol
Annamarie
Arthur Baldwin
Baldwin
Grogan
Real Winter Sets In With Tonight's Hard Freeze
A cold front moved into the state and tonight temperatures will drop below freezing. It will be partly cloudy and windy, turning colder this afternoon with highs in the 60s today and a low around 25 tonight. Friday brings fairer but colder weather with highs in the 40s.
Gary Pledges To Boost Sale Of Turnpike Bonds
Oklahoma's next governor Raymond Gary told Lawton Kiwanis club members he expects bids on the southwest turnpike within days or weeks and pledged every effort to see the toll road completed. He urged support for conservation and flood control programs, citing Beaver Creek projects and drought relief as examples. See GARY, Page 11.
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Raymond Gary
Center
Oklahoma
Lawton
Gary
Harold Wilson
Lawton Kiwanis Club
Bill Logan
State Senate
Beaver Creek
Third Sill Rocket Battery To Leave
A Fort Sill rocket battery will depart the post on a permanent change of station early next year becoming the third battery of its kind to leave the Artillery Center for Europe. The 8 FA Btry, training here in use of the 62mm Honest John Rocket, will join the 1st and 7th FA Btrys which left last month.
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Fort Sill
Europe
8 FA
USO Repair Projects At Lawton Facilities Advance
Extensive repairs and remodeling near completion at Lawton USO clubs. The USO-YMCA at Fourth and B and the USC YMCA at No 4 E Arlington incur costs over 5 000 and more, with work by Fort Sill Post Engineers and USO Building Services. Interior and exterior updates include new draperies, furnishings, and a protective fence.
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Lawton
USO Club
Uso-Ymca
H. W. Hallett
Arlington
Josephine Berry
Post Engineers
Fort Sill
United Service Organizations, Inc
Hallett
United States
Post Engineers At
Sill
USO
Negro Club
Post
Miss Berry
USO Building Services
Usc-Ymca
B. Hallett
Safe Driving Day Success As Sponsors Call It A Model
The Associated Press reports Safe Driving Day showed a successful one day nationwide effort to reduce traffic deaths. AP surveys counted 48 fatalities on S D Day, with NSC figures linking 35 injuries and 225 accidents per fatality, suggesting about 1 680 injuries and 10 800 accidents.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Streamliner Derails Near Miles City Injuring 18
Nine cars of the Northern Pacific Mainstreeter derailed nine miles west of Miles City Montana. The train carried 59 passengers and 18 were injured. An attending doctor said three or four were in serious condition. J F Peterson NP train master said three baggage cars and an diesel engine stayed on the track.
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Miles City
Mont
Northern Pacific Railroad
J. F. Peterson
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