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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1955
Page
12
A year’s roundup by H. D. Quigg with quirky vignettes across places and events. From a skunk in an Ontario cellar to a TV-tube vanished with a fearless boy in Ventura, the oddities parade through cities like Chicago Detroit Los Angeles and Philadelphia, with tax angst, a Davy Crockett claim, a vacuum neck trim, cosmic chatter and election eve riffs.
Oklahoma City Crim inal attorney Dave Tant seeks a hearing on his motion for a new trial for convicted torture robber Robert O Hurt. Tant cites a new statement from Charles Edwin York denying Hurt’s involvement. York testified against Hurt in the earlier trial and claimed Hurt planned the robbery.
Tulsa preacher Clem Titus Foster 42 of Beams of Light Tabernacle was arrested for speeding after a chase on SH 33 near Drumright. Troopers said he reached 95 mph while en route to lecture on citizenship. Four teenagers accompanied him to a Yale meeting. Foster claimed the pace was due to too many commitments.
Police board cites a Tokyo survey showing 252 vehicle accidents per day in Japan with 17 deaths and 207 injuries. The report ranks Japan third globally in fatalities per vehicle, trailing Egypt and Colombia.
WALLA WALLA Wash. A new plot by Washington State Prison inmates to join outsiders for a happy New Year was stopped in an early tunneling stage. Officials found a two foot deep hole under the auditorium orchestra pit while inmates rehearsed for a show. The plan would have required about 50 feet more digging to reach the exterior wall and followed an earlier abortive escape attempt on Nov 3.
Sheriff reports no clues in the strangling of Joe Leonard King a 14 year old found face down in a briar patch near Little Rock Air Force Base The boy had been missing since Friday after leaving home with a friend for a movie His jacket was found nearby and coroner Dr Howard Dishong ruled the youth strangled Authorities do not believe it was a sex crime The family recently moved from Wichita Falls Texas to the Air Force Base area
An Army tug towed a large barge up the Sacramento River last night to rescue between 1,500 and 2,000 cows stranded on levees in the Nicolaus area, 17 miles north of the city. The State Office of Civil Defense said the tug would reach the marooned animals today and move them to feedings sites.
In Loma Linda California four youngsters dug with their hands to free 12 year old Darrell Rogers trapped beneath three tons of dirt after a cave in Santa Ana River wash collapsed. His brother Clyde 15 Irving Clark 14 Robert Sells 12 and Clyde 9 helped uncover his head and he was rushed to county hospital in critical condition with a fractured rib and punctured lung.
Chicago based United Air Lines announced a program to raise 150 million dollars in new capital over five years to fund expansion into the jet age.
Troops and police in Caldas province report a new upsurge in anti government activity. They say 14 bandits were killed this week as part of the crackdown, with officials announcing the operation on Wednesday.
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