Plan to Build Foreign Aid Backlog Faces Congress
Washington reports the Eisenhower administration seeks about five billion dollars next fiscal year for foreign and military aid to supplement current spending levels of just over four billion. The plan aims to reserve roughly seven billion in spending authority, prompting curiosity from lawmakers about faith and feasibility amid earlier pledges.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
James C. Hagerty
White House
Gettysburg
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Sen
Potter
R-Mich
Senate
Mansfield
D-Mont
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Capitol Hill
State
Defense Departments
Budget Bureau
Nude Women In Trees Art Show Opens In London
Marguit Dalmasa descendant of Bach opens a one woman show in London featuring nude women in trees. She says the term Rabelaisian does not fit her work which she calls reveal a sing a word she coined. Dalmas says many ideas come from nudist camps and notes a nude man would look silly in a tree. She has shown in Paris and Monte Carlo venues and was born in Hungary now French by marriage. She adds spectators should eat salted peanuts while viewing the art, joking about Picasso.
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London
Marguit Dalmas
Johann Sebastian Bach
Miss Dalmas
France
Judge Just Kind Santa in Toledo Courthouse
In Toledo Common Pleas Court Carl C. Martin, 22, was convicted of purse snatching and given five years probation after hearing Silent Night. Moses Hinton, 41, of Detroit, convicted of car theft, received three years probation. he tried on the judge’s coat in court and was released.
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Toledo
Ohio
Common Pleas
Carl C. Martin
Harvey Straub
Martin
Moses Hinton
Detroit
Hinton
VFW to Announce Safety Essay Winners
The sixth district VFW safety essay contest results will be announced late today for three junior and senior high students. Twelve more essays arrived over the weekend postmarked December 9, delaying judging. Judges include Wes Miller Ray Johnson and Miss Benne Daniel with James Ziverk presenting checks and certificates before holiday dismissal.
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John White
White
Wes Miller
Fourth District
Highway Patrol
Benne Daniel
Cameron College
Burley Tobacco Output Declines in 1955 Crop
The Agriculture Department estimates the 1955 U.S. burley tobacco crop at 509.835 million pounds, with Kentucky producing 339.45 million pounds. This marks a drop from 452.98 million pounds in 1954 and reflects generally lower yields across the burley belt.
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Agriculture Department
U.S
Kentucky
Chatty Masons Hear Ozman Speak in Chattanooga
Charles Ozman state representative from Lawton spoke on The Good Deeds of Masonry at a district Masonic meeting in Chattanooga. Ira Neal gave the welcome, Howard Taylor presided, Rev. Faris Weaver gave the invocation. Musical numbers featured Judy Capshaw, Karen Harvey, Eleanor Strecker with pianist Mrs. Jim Morrison. Dinner was by Chattanooga chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Delegates from Alford Texas lodge and Oklahoma lodges Lawton Mount Scott Lawton 183 Frederick Grandfield Loveland Stonewall attended.
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Chattanooga
Charles Ozman
Lawton
Ira Neal
Howard Taylor
Faris Weaver
Grandfield
Judy Capshaw
Karen Harvey
Eleanor Strecker
Jim Morrison
Ed Meece
Order of Eastern Star
Alford, Tex
Oklahoma
Lawton Mount Scott
Lawton Lodge 183
Frederick, Grandfield
Loveland
Stonewall
Theater Meeting Cancelled by Lawton Little Theater
Lawton Little Theater cancels its December meeting, announced by president Craig Pierson. The group will reschedule for January 5 at 1410 North 15th Street.
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Lawton Little Theater
Craig Pierson
N. 15Th
Otasco announces 37th annual Christmas bonus
Maurice Sandi ten, president of Otasco, Tulsa, says the Oklahoma Tire and Supply Co will pay a total 58000 in holiday bonuses to 890 employees across 63 stores in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Bonuses depend on length of service and reach up to 30 percent of base monthly salary.
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Maurice Sanditen
Otasco
Tulsa
Sanditen
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Phoenix Sets Mild Record as 78 Delights Residents
In Phoenix the temperature reached 78 degrees yesterday, one degree below the 1917 record for the day. Residents stayed in shirtsleeves as cold waves gripped the East and Midwest, prompting local gloating headlines.
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Forensic League Members Gather Honors At Meet
Six Lawton high school students earned top honors as Lawton High School placed third at the first youth Congress meet held last weekend at Northeast high school in Oklahoma City. Ten state schools competed with Kinley McClure noting Kouri and Watson chaired Lawton committees. Northwest Classen and Edmond scored higher. The next Lawton activity is a debate tournament January 5-6 at Durant.
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National Forensic League
Northeast High School
Oklahoma City
Kinley McClure
LHS
Don Kouri
Brad Agnew
Joe Crosby
Roy Watson
Kenneth Hamburger
Lance Carden
Lawton
Northwest Classen
Edmond
Kouri
Watson
Durant
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