Manhunt Failure Prompts Citizens Alert in Oklahoma
In FITTSTOWN Oklahoma residents and officers searched for ex convict Harold Willie Beck of McKinney Texas after he tried to run down an elderly man and fled from Constable Roy Smith. Beck eluded a night manhunt due to darkness and was tied to a stolen car and a Farmersville Texas post office robbery. Blood smears marked the confrontation and Beck had a lengthy record including penitentiary terms in Oklahoma Kansas and Texas institutions.
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Roy Smith
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Three Applications For Peanut Allotments Here
The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation office received three applications for new peanut allotments for 1954. Manager Bill Sieg said that ten cotton allotment applications were also filed and the deadline was Monday. Allotments will be reviewed by the county ASC committee and set at Stillwater from a state reserve to establish new grower allotments.
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Bill Sieg
Monay
Sieg
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Stillwater
Injured Cab Driver Transferred to Oklahoma City VA Hospital
Dick Douglas Davidson a 29 year old cab driver from Lawton was critically injured when his taxi collided with a diesel locomotive. He was moved to a VA hospital in Oklahoma City on Sunday afternoon for neuro surgical treatment after his condition improved and he was conscious at transfer.
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Dick Douglas Davidson
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Davidson
Mother Who Risked All To Save Son Has New Baby
Philadelphia report states a 31 year old mother Betty Mitchell who nearly drowned five days ago while rescuing her 4 year old son Michael and friend Michael Collins from an ice covered quarry gave birth to a son yesterday. She survived shock and exposure after being rescued.
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Senior Play Tickets On Sale For George Washington Slept Here
Tickets for Lawton high school senior play George Washington Slept Here went on sale in the LHS office. The comedy runs February 22 and 23 in the high school auditorium with student night opening and an adult audience finale. Directed by Opal Ford assisted by Mary Sue Silk and Gene Hancock, the senior sponsors.
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Legger Is Fined and Faces Jail in Postwar Liquor Case
The county court jury began a term with Melvin Claude Depew of Elgin sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined 250 dollars for liquor possession. He faces three additional liquor possession trials as officers seized 119 half pints and 24 pints of whisky and 37 half pints of gin from him on October 17, 1953. Other defendants include Ralph Hudson of Lawton with 650 dollars fine and 45 days jail, R E Atkins 250 with 40 days, Joe Bass 175 with 30 days, Omar Ray Allison 150 for drunken driving, Lonnie Mae Keely 100 and Thestal Floyd Smiley 100 for drunken driving. All face court costs.
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Slats) Depew
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Lawton
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Snake) Atkins
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Lonnie Mae Keely
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Comanche County Cotton Crop Gains From 1952
The Feb 12 census report shows Comanche County ginned 5,061 bales from the 1953 cotton crop before Jan 16, up 1,893 bales from 1952 when 3,168 bales were ginned.
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United States Department of Commerce
Comanche County
Film Leaders Back Morality Code as Living Guideline
New York produceds and studio heads say voluntary code remains sound and adaptable. They endorse the current code while noting occasional revisions to rules and conventions, and insist the code guiding decency and morality remains essential for artistic film content.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Goldwyn
Howard Hughes
RKO Film
Motion Picture Assn. of America
Weyland Orders More B-26 Bombers Flown to Indo China
General O P Weyland in Tokyo said additional B 26 light bombers are being flown to Indo China to bolster the French air force. He also announced a U S airlift is delivering supplies to 250 U S Air Force technicians serving in Indo China on an aircraft maintenance assignment.
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President Eisenhower Considers Palm Springs Vacation
President Eisenhower may travel to California for a brief Palm Springs vacation after a Georgia quail trip. Reports say arrangements for a plane trip are nearly complete and Hoffman's ranch could host him, with timing uncertain amid Bricker Amendment debate in the Senate.
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Los Angeles Examiner
Los Angeles Times
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Studebaker Corp
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President returns to Capitol after quail shoot weekend
The President left Washington to reconcile a legal matter, then returned last night after a weekend at Secretary of the Treasury Umphrey's plantation. He reportedly shot quail with aides, claiming the daily limit on Friday and Saturday and even cooking the birds for lunch.
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Capitol
Secretary of the Treasury
Albanians Fire on Greek Cargo Plane Over Albania
Greek Air Force reports its C47 was forced over Albanian territory by bad weather two days earlier. Anti-aircraft fire wounded the co pilot slightly but caused little damage. The aircraft returned safely to its base in Greece.
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