Eisenhower Heart Attack Named Year’s Top News Story
The 1955 Associated Press poll names President Eisenhower’s heart attack as the year’s top story. Editors cite unanimity on the impact of his illness, the nation’s concern, and questions about his 1956 reelection prospects as he recuperated at the White House, Gettysburg farm, and various medical sites.
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Associated Press
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Will Ike
White House
Denver
The Presidents Heart Attack and Major News Shifts
A compact digest lists ten major topics: the President’s heart attack, polio immunization tests and vaccine disputes, severe weather events, Geneva Four talks, Princess Margaret’s romance end, Argentine revolts and Peron ouster, Malenkov’s resignation and Soviet shakeup, Gilbert Graham bomb case, desegregation developments, and Americans freed by Red China.
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Princess Margaret of
Britain
Peter Townsend
Peron
Malenkov
Gilbert Graham
Mother
China
Picture Brightens For Trailer Plant
A tentative deal with Texas businessmen aims to set up a mobile homes manufacturing plant in Lawton. Greater Lawton Inc officials and Mayor Ellsworth’s committee announced optimistic negotiations and a plan for a 10 day drive to raise about $63,000 to build the plant on a new industrial site.
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Lawton
Greater Lawton, Inc
C. R. Ellsworth
Committee For
Texas Group
Fort Worth
Lawton Industrial Developers
Chief Accused of Crude Interference in U S Policy
U S officials were shocked by Nikita Khrushchev's direct attack on President Eisenhower. He called the Christmas message by Eisenhower crude interference and signaled a tougher Soviet line. The episode underscores the fragile satellite front and Moscow's broader disarmament and control aims.
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United States
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Eisenhower
Europe
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Geneva
Radio Free Europe
Rain Blocks Ike's Hunt For Sunshine
In Key West Eisenhower, arrived from Washington, spends morning indoors painting a Colorado mountain scene while brief outdoor golf hits appear. Doctors say activity is limited as he rests after heart attack in Denver. Hagerty notes no urgent government work. a political draft may reach him tonight for possible work tomorrow.
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Eisenhower
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Washington
Naval Base
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White House
Hagerty
Congress
Khrushchev Attacks Eisenhower and H-bomb boasts
In Moscow Khrushchev blasted President Eisenhower as interfering in Communist affairs and dismissed the open skies arms inspection as military intelligence. He asserted the Soviet hydrogen bomb can be strengthened and criticized Dulles and Western policies while addressing 1,400 Supreme Soviet members. He warned against disarming and urged vigilance amid Geneva tensions and Baghdad Pact criticisms.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Dulles
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Supreme Soviet
Geneva
Khrushchev
Averell Harriman
New York
India
Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin
Middle East
Turkey
Baghdad
Downtown firms set New Year holiday hours
Loyd Lowry chairman of the Chamber of Commerce retail committee announced all downtown business firms will close at 5 30 p m Saturday New Year s Eve and reopen at 9 a m Tuesday Monday is a legal holiday since New Year s Day falls on Sunday Lawtonians and area residents are urged to shop early
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Loyd Lowry
Chamber of Commerce
Winter Weather Hits Oklahoma and Area
The first real taste of winter arrives with cloudy skies and threats of snow and freezing rain across Oklahoma. Early drizzle and freezing rain reported in McAlester Tulsa and Gage reduce visibility to under a mile in Tulsa and three miles in McAlester. Lawton experiences darkened skies but only light mist by noon. Forecast calls for occasional freezing drizzle or light snow through Friday with highs in the upper 30s and tonight’s low around 20.
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Oklahoma
McAlester
Tulsa
Gage
Lawton
Unit That Launched Horton's Career To Play Closing Role
Battery C of the 6th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, famed for firing the first shot in World War I, will act as honor battery in a ceremony marking Brig. Gen. John B. Horton’s retirement after 32 years of service. Horton began his career with Battery C in 1923 after West Point and returns for the closing phase as the unit participates in the salute at Fort Sill. The battery’s historic first shot in 1917 helped kick off American involvement in World War I, a moment commemorated alongside the unit’s long lineage from 1798 through World War II and its postwar evolution.
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John B. Horton
Fort Sill
Horton
West Point
Wilson
James Stille
Chancellorsville
Fredericsburgh
Lorraine
Solomons
California Salon Visits Sill Again
California Representative George P. Miller visited Fort Sill to reassess his former post and receive a briefing on land acquisition. He arrived at 11:30 a.m. after traveling from Stillwater to see his daughter Mrs. Donald B. Muir and attended a luncheon hosted by Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams with Brig. Gen. John B. Hor.
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California
Fort Sill
Stillwater
Donald B. Muir
Rep. Miller
Armed Services
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee
Congress
Edward T. Williams
Officer’s Club
John B. Horton
SOLON
Warrant Officer Mendell Dies By Own Action At Fort Sill
Warrant Officer William C. Mendell of Headquarters 617th Field Artillery Battalion was found dead in his car on Harper Road near Building 5455 at Fort Sill. Preliminary military police findings indicate self-inflicted wounds with an autopsy pending. Mendell, 36, lived at 1808 Floyd Lawton with his wife Hattie Elizabeth and had over 14 years of service. He arrived at Fort Sill July 12.
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William C. Mendell
617Th Field Artillery Battalion
Harper Road
Fort Sill
Public Information Office
Mendell
Lawton
Floyd
Hattie Elizabeth
Aggie Gym Work Will Start Soon
Cameron college announces the start of construction for a new physical education plant after the new year. Vernon Howell states the contract was signed in Oklahoma City with W. C. Shelton Construction Co. and architect Paul Harris.
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Cameron College
Vernon Howell
W. C. Shelton
Howell
Oklahoma City
Paul Harris
Shelton Construction Co
Stillwater
Cameron
Aggie
Frederick Air Base
Savage Gales Lash The British Isles
Savage gales with gusts up to 70 miles an hour lashed the British Isles halting ocean liners and forcing small craft to shelter. Winds swept across the York shire moors overturning trucks and uprooting trees as a damaged building collapsed in Bootle narrowly missing a policeman. Torrential rains triggered major traffic jams in Lancashire and surrounding areas.
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British Isles
Yorkshire Moors
Bootle
Lancashier
Missing Omaha Sailor Pederson Parents Arrive
Mrs Van Conett mother of Edward Elbert Pederson 22 who has been missing since Nov 1 arrived in Hobart with her husband and Mrs Carter to aid the search Undersheriff Walter Roland said Pederson may have had a blackout and be wandering. The missing sailor is said to have a service-connected injury and the family seeks help in locating him.
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Hobart
Omaha
Neb
van Conett
Edward Elbert Pederson
Walter Roland
Pederson
Nike Missile Units Slated For Europe
The Nike anti air craft guided missile is the next advanced weapon likely to be sent to Europe to strengthen western defenses. The missile itself probably will not be sent overseas for more than a year. Launching sites including underground storage rooms will be built in the interim. The supersonic missile already protects 18 major U.S. cities and will be assigned to U.S. forces in Europe to guard bases in Germany.
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Washington
Europe
Nike
United States
U.S
Germany
Quints Plan Free Life After Independence
Montreal report says the surviving Dionne quintuplets will live independently and not return home for New Year. Yvonne, Cecile, Annette, and Marie cleared a party scene in their Callander Ontario apartment, showing they intend to control their own lives with boyfriends described as all nice decent fellows. G Harold Edwards, their investment trustee, visited the party rather than chaperon.
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Montreal
Papa Oliva Dionne
Callander
Ont
G. Harold Edwards
Emilie
Edwards
Two Men Die In Private Plane Crash Near Londonderry
Two men were killed when a two engine private plane exploded and crashed in the Guernsey County hills about a mile northwest of Londonderry. The Gulf Refining Co. aircraft was en route from Tulsa to Pittsburgh. Fire crews arrived as two bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
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Ohio
Guernsey County
Londonderry
Highway Patrol
Gulf Refining Co
Tulsa
Pittsburgh
Prisoners Raid Booze Vault Amid Jail Cell Fete
Sheriff reports about 25 inmates staged a pre New Year celebration by sawing through a jail wall to access liquor in solitary confinement. Brisk party afterward yielded only 12 bottles of wine but sparked a jail search that recovered two hacksaw blades hidden in Christmas gift packages.
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Everett Hale
Hale
Bennie Wallis
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