Massad Happy To Spend Holiday Safely In Jail
Oklahoma City attorney Frank Massad the state’s chief witness in the torture robbery case against Robert O Hurt said he is content to spend the holidays in jail to stay alive to testify He was held as a material witness in the $5000 Lenn robbery and noted he was shot in the chest by two men hired as assassins from Dallas Massad described his decision to testify as one of the most tremendous in his life and said he will continue to cooperate with authorities while noting new evidence he expects will prove someone paid to dynamite his ex wife Jeannie Brakebill’s beauty shop He praised Wayne Harbolt chief of detectives for continuing the case despite offers of money to lay off
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Oklahoma City
Frank Massad
Robert O. Hurt
Oklahoma County
Hurt
Mr. and
Ay Gurley Lenn
Massad
Dallas
Tex
Oklahoma
Art
Mossad
Lenn
Jeannie Brakebill
Bob Galloway
Joe ©. Rosenbaum
Warren Pennick
Wayne Harbolt
Seven Children and Mother Die in Ohio Fires
In western Ohio two adjacent counties saw fatal fires. In Urbana Norman Sivets Jr two stepsisters Willa Dean Adams and Ruby Adams died. Mrs Sivets died later at Mercy Hospital. Simon Adams age seven died later. Kenneth three months survived in fair condition. An oil stove explosion started the blaze. In Springfield Bruce Huffman three and his sisters Valerie two and Sherry eleven months died from a kitchen stove fire.
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Columbus
Ohio
Urbana
Norman Sivets Jr
Norman Sivets
Willa Dean Adams
Ruby Adams
Sivets
Mercy Hospital
Simon Adams
Kenneth
Springfield
Bruce Huffman
Valerie
Sherry
Farm Wife and Girl Receive Ike Mamie Christmas Gifts
In Memphis, Mrs Lonzo Bowman of near Clarksdale Mississippi and Alice Francis Ward of near Lake City Arkansas each received Christmas gifts from Presidents Eisenhower and his wife. Bowman delayed opening the packages after writing Mrs Eisenhower about family hardship. Ward’s father Eddie Ward said he wrote for a holiday for his children, including Eddie, 10, and Johnny, 9.
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Memphis
Tenn.p
Mississippi
Arkansas
Eisenhower
Lonzo Bowman
Clarksdale
Miss
White House
Ward
Alice
Eddie
Johnny
Indianapolis Editor Stabbed To Death In Family Argument
Indianapolis editor Julian Sullivan, 36, Sunday editor of the Indianapolis Star, was stabbed to death in his home during a pre Christmas argument with his wife Betty Sullivan. The couple struggled over a kitchen paring knife in the struggle. Police investigation ongoing.
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Indianapolis
Julian Sullivan
The
Indianapolis Star
Betty
Sullivan
Bellatti Opposes Immediate Shakeup of Oklahoma Safety Dept
Oklahoma state commissioner of public safety Bellatti argues against a five member governor appointed commission to run the department saying current leadership is strong and operates without political interference. He supports eventual debate but wants a solid existing core to remain. Lookabaugh, the coming replacement, emphasizes a businesslike government.
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Lawrence F. Bellatti
Public Safety
Oklahoma Safety Council
Safety Department
Council
Bellati
Oklahoma
Bellatti
Commission
Rtment of Public Safety
A&m
Jim Lookabaugh
Raymond Gary
Lookabaugh
Gary
Legislative Council
Week After S-D Day Deaths Rise
AP survey shows 59 traffic fatalities in the 24 hours ending midnight, up from 51 on S-D Day and 64 on Dec 1. Ten month daily average is 97. weather, holiday shopping blamed. Texas led with eight deaths. numerous states reported multiple fatalities.
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United States
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
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Maryland
Virginia
Arkansas
Illinois
New Jersey
Oregon
Pennsylvania
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Ohio
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Delaware
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Georgia
Idaho
Iowa
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Children to Give Annual Christmas Program at Church
The St. John’s Lutheran Sunday school will present its annual Christmas Eve program at 7 p.m. Friday titled Gather Round the Christmas Tree under Mrs. Lowell Lindenland. A Christmas Day service follows at 10 a.m. Saturday with Rev. Donald V. Hafemann speaking on No Room in the Heart. Jerry Harloff will conduct the morning worship Sunday. services on Dec 26 and Jan 2 omit the 9 a.m. service, with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. worship.
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St. John's Lutheran Sunday School
Lowell Lindenland
Donald V. Hafemann
Jerry Harloff
Concordia Theological Seminary
Springfield
Ill
Edwin Harloff
Hafemann
Boy Leaves Lung After Three Years in Iron Lung
Tulsa report from the Hillcrest Medical Center describes 18 year old James Woodward returning home to Broken Arrow after nearly three years in a polio ward. He spent most of that time in an iron lung and now can be outside the device by day though he still requires it at night. His sister Farie also contracted polio but recovered. The Woodward family celebrates two milestones with James’ homecoming and Dwane Woodward turning 12.
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Tulsa
Okla
James Woodward
Broken Arrow
James Jr
Hillcrest Medical Center
James
Farie
Woodwards
Duane Woodward
Bandit's Farmer Friends Arrested
SALLISAW Okla Two farmers at whose home one of the FBI s 10 most wanted men was beloved hiding before his capture Tuesday were held in Sequoyah County jail today on charges of receiving stolen property after officers confiscated 1500 in the farmhouse Leonard Farris state crime bureau agent said the money was discovered yesterday in a search of Wilford Catos home near the Tenkiller Dam Wilford Cato was jailed along with his brother Floyd Wilfords wife charged with them on the stolen property count was permitted to remain at home with her six children Farris said the money believed to be part of some 25000 reported taken by John Harry Allen in supermarket robberies since his escape from Kansas state prison last summer Allen who had been hiding out in the Cookson Hills around Tenkiller was arrested in Ft Smith Farris said Allen had emerged from hiding to take two of the Cato children to town and buy Christmas presents for them
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Sallisaw
Okla
FBI
Sequoyah County
Leonard Farris
State Crime Bureau
Wilford Cato
Tenkiller Dam
Floyd
Wilford
Farris
John Harry Allen
Kansas State Prison
Allen
Cookson Hills
Tenkiller
Ft. Smith
Cato
Four Tulsa Children Brushed By Death
Four Tulsa children narrowly escaped deadly gas fumes from a defective water heater last night. Attendants at Hillcrest Hospital said another ten minutes could have proven fatal. Charles Thurston and family from Bartlesville, visiting the Snooks, found the children nearly unconscious. Opal thirteen Mary twelve Wilma Faye eight Linda Snook eleven, the cousin, were affected. All are expected to recover.
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Tulsa
Okla
Hillcrest Hospital
Charles Thurston
Bartlesville
Leroy Snook
Thurstons
Opal
Mary
Wilma Faye
State Solon Seeks Clinton Altus Air Base Expansion
Rep Victor Wickersham seeks a December 27 conference with Air Force Army Engineers Navy Engineers Public Roads Administration and Federal Housing Administration officials to press for expanding Clinton and Altus bases. He urges on and off base housing increases of 25 percent and at least 140 more on base houses at Altus, plus off base housing for service members and families.
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Victor Wickersham
D-Okla
Clinton
Altus
Okla
Air Force
Wickersham
Army Engineers
Navy Engineers
Public Roads Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Congress
Coca-Cola workers receive year pins and holiday bonus
About 167 Coca-Cola Bottling employees from Lawton Altus Frederick Duncan and Anadarko were honored at a banquet in the Old South Cafeteria. 25 year pins went to W A Howard Altus 20 year pins to Ross H Porter and Lester Slagle Lawton 10 year to Bertha Austin Altus and Elbert Smith Lawton 5 year to Doys Montgomery Duncan plus others. A portable barbecue pit was presented to Mr and Mrs Ross H Porter.
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Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Lawton
Altus
Frederick
Duncan
Anadarko
Old South
W. A. Howard
Ross H. Porter
Lester Slagle
Shine Depew
Alvin Roof
Bertha Austin
Kenneth Black
Shirley Coffman
Billy Cullins
Floyd Roof
Karen Sue
Deanna Kaye Roof
Maxine Roof
David Fortney
Johrea Friedman
Dan
Wire saws speed granite cutting in New England quarries
New York reports that high speed wire saws using silicon carbide abrasive grit cut granite blocks in quarries. The Elecro Refractories & Abrasives Corp spokesman says 40 ton blocks are sliced twice as fast as the old circular saw method.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New England
Electro Refractories & Abrasives Corp
Peace Bridge in Buffalo Unique World Structure
The International Peace Bridge spanning the Niagara River connects the United States and Canada. It is described as the only bridge of its type in the world, featuring three distinct forms: the truss span, the gi type, and the arch type.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Canada
Niagara River
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