World Greets '53 With New Cheers and Hopes
A war jittery globe rang in 1953 with toasts for peace and prayers for an end to Korea and other conflicts. Leaders including Truman, Eisenhower, and Churchill voiced optimism as crowds gathered in Times Square and cities nationwide. Weather limited turnout in places, but churches and venues welcomed the new year.
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New York
Times Square
Globe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
Truman
England
Republic
United States
Manhattan
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
St. John the Divine
State Opens New Year With No Early Traffic Deaths
Oklahoma began the new year with no traffic deaths in the first hours as patrols recall Christmas fatalities. The year ended with 584 deaths, the highest in 15 years, including 18 during the Christmas weekend. Safety Commissioner Dixie Gilmer blamed speeding and drunken driving for about 75 percent of mishaps.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Dixie Gilmer
Graveyard Holds Stricken Freighter Off Hatteras Coast
Off Cape Hatteras, winds 50 to 55 mph hindered a Coast Guard cutter from reaching the crippled Dutch freighter Hydra. The Hydra, with about 35 to 40 crew aboard, was not in immediate danger though rescue lines could not be boarded.
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Norfolk
U.S. Coast Guard
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Hydra
Uncle Sam Beckon Many In ’53 From Comanche County
Draft officials anticipate higher induction calls in 1953 as the county counts 180 inductees and 377 volunteers since June 1950. Seventeen to nineteen year olds may enter Army service this year while quotas arrive. A surge in 1952 swelled totals to 119 sworn into uniform, far above 1951’s 34. Draft request hints at heavier calls for 1953.
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Uncle Sam
Comanche County
Selective Service Board
Collier Jailed for 30 Year Manslaughter Term
James Albert Collier Jr a 40 year old convicted shotgun slayer awaits transfer to the state penitentiary. Sheriff Otis Waldron and Deputy George Tahbonemanh head toward Oklahoma City to escort Collier to McAlester where he will begin a 30 year sentence for first degree manslaughter. Collier was treated for a nosebleed at Wesley hospital and had collapsed from a nose hemorrhage before surrendering to police. His attorney David Tant sought to delay the term but failed. county officials plan to seek forfeiture of his $25000 appeal bond.
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James Albert Collier Jr
Oklahoma City
Comanche County
Otis Waldron
Collier
Oral Ridgeway
Waldron
George Tahbonemanh
McAlester
Fletcher
Ridgeway
Wesley Hospital
Lawtonian
David Tant
Githen Rhoads
Clayton Dale Elkins
Lee Collier
Holiday Death Toll Climbing to 410 in Holiday Nigh
United Press reports New Year traffic toll rising toward 410 with 33 deaths so far. Ohio leads with 11 fatalities in a Fay ette two car crash killing five. Bus fire and oil truck crash add to counts. Police crack down on drunk driving as UN shells mark midnight in Korea. Safety Council projects 410 traffic deaths weekend, with totals over 1,200 for Christmas and New Year combined. 35,000 injured expected.
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United Press
Ohio
Fayette
Susquehanna Trail
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Washington
York
Times Square
Fisherman’s Wharf
Eighth Army
Korea
National Safety Council
Bus Strike Paralyzes New York Transit System
Eight thousand workers across eight bus lines began a strike in New York at midnight threatening the city with a historic traffic jam. The Transport Workers Union president warned of subway and elevated line shutdowns if overtime penalties were imposed. Waterfront workers also began a separate strike, worsening the transit crisis.
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New York
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers Union
CIO
International Longshoremens Association
AF1
Aly Khan and Gene Tierney Kissing at Cannes New Year
Prince Aly Khan and actress Gene Tierney shared a kiss at midnight and danced through New Year celebrations in a Parisian style nightclub in Cannes. They were among a 14 person table led by Aly Khan’s father Aga Khan and his wife. Tierney recently divorced Count Oleg Cassini. Lawyers reported a Reno divorce settlement between Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth last autumn.
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Cannes
France
Prince Aly Khan
Gene Tierney
Prince Aly
the Aga Khan
Miss Tierney
Oleg Cassini
Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Reno
Nev
Outlook Bright For $20 Million Building Program In 1953
Dawn of 1953 brings Lawton and area to a new building era with investments near $20 million. Public projects in Lawton and Fort Sill total about $13 million, including a $2.5 million high school and a $1.728 million water expansion. Private developments and housing growth also loom, with Morford adding a west Cameron College district and a new high end home plan. The Lawton Country club will add a modern $20,000 swimming pool as part of local improvements.
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Lawton
Fort Sill
Morford
Cameron College
Cameron
Lawton Golf and Country Club
Downtown Lawton to Welcome 10 Story Hotel
A new 10 story hotel will rise immediately east of the club house in Lawton, starting within weeks at Fourth and E. The project, costing about 114 million dollars, is private yet reflects broad citizen interests and aims to spur downtown redevelopment. Leaders say it will drive growth while the city prepares a cultural boost led by Mrs. E P McMahon who, with her son, established the McMahon Foundation to support arts development.
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Lawton
Fourth and E
E. P. McMahon
McMahon Foundation
Memo
Lawton couple's son tops Manche Derby in stork race
A Lawton View couple welcomed Johnny Green weighing 7 pounds 15 ounces at Memorial hospital at 5 38 am. He appears to be the leading contender for Manche county Stork Derby New Year Baby of 1953. The newborn may be the only entry as checks continue across Lawton and Fort Sill facilities to verify births after midnight. A physician and witness must certify the birth time for official derby status.
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Memorial Hospital
Lawton View
Comanche County
Ee Ee
WVSSS
Sault Avi Lilwe
Johnny Green
Pank G. Green
McKinley
Lawton Constitution
Derby
Shooting and Beating Injure Six as City Welcomes New Year
A New Year rush of violence in Lawton left six injured and one deer dead. Sam Devinney was shot accidentally outside Redwood Lounge after a dispute. Juanita Cox, 30, was jailed then released on condition she report to the county attorney. Bill Sizemore was beaten near Sleepy’s Bar, and Mrs. Glen Fuqua suffered a possible fractured shoulder in a two car crash on Buc k Three. Fort Sill soldiers sustained minor injuries in a single vehicle wreck near Walters Y. A California driver struck a deer north of Lawton near Medicine Park. Five drunks were jailed by 8 a.m. on drunken driving and related charges.
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Southwest Sooners
Sam Devinney
Lawton
Redwood Lounge
South 11Th Street
Bill H. Sizemore
Sleepy’s Bar
S. Third
Glen Fuqua
Buck Three
Fort Sill
Walters Y
U. S
California
Medicine Park Y
U. S. 277
Devinney
Juanita Cox
Jefferson
M. T. McCracken
Roy Wood
N. C. Adair
Wood
Cal Sims
James Faulkner
Devinne
Cox
McCracken
Comanche County Gears For 1953 March of Dimes
Comanche county volunteers join millions in the 1953 March of Dimes drive to fight infantile paralysis. The kickoff is a Dimes broadcast on KSWO at 9 15 p m with Basil O Connor discussing Polio 1953. The drive funds stay partly in Lawton area to bolster the local Polio foundation and partly go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for research and aid.
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Comanche
T. A. Hamra
Lawton Lions Club
Hamra
Comanche County
County Polio Foundation Treasury
National Foundation For
Oklahoma
National
Lawton
Johnston Murray
J. R. Montgomery
Soviets Grant Red China Control of Changchun Rail
The Soviet press reports Russia has turned over the Changchun railway in Manchuria to Communist China under treaty terms. The ceremony occurred in Harbin with Soviet ambassador A. S. Panyushkin and Premier Chou En Lai attending, marking a transfer that follows the February 14, 195 agreement.
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Moscow
Russia
Changchun
Manchuria
China
Harbin
A. S. Panyushkir
Yellow Sea
Tenor Swallows Mustache During Rigoletto Performance
London notes report tenor Walter Midgley in the Duke of Mantua role at Covent Garden as he accidentally inhaled his mustache while starting an aria. He paused a moment to recover and removed the horsehair from his throat, finishing the opera with medical help afterward.
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London
Walter Midgley
Duke of Mantua
Covent Garden Opera House
Midgley
Death and Births Mark Holiday Across Cities
A farmhand killed a bartender and seriously wounded a patron in Mohawk New York during New Year celebrations. In Denver Sally Jean Richter was born at midnight to Anthony and his wife of Louisville Colorado. An explosion in Valparaiso Chile’s oxygen factory killed about 30 or more. Oklahoma County deputies seized 1236 pints of taxpaid liquor in New Year raids. In Dallas Texas a well dressed man was found shot to death in a gasoline soaked car on a residential street.
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Mohawk
N. Y
Theodore Bouten
Lester Sanders
Ross Caruso
Denver
Presbyterian Hospital
Sally Jean Richter
Anthony Richter
Louisville
Colo
Valparaiso
Mons
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
Dallas
Tex.p
Joe Campbell
Tex
Chief Delayed UN Cleanup Sparks Senate Charge
Senator Herbert R. OConor accused President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson of delaying action against subversives at the United Nations to avoid UN session controversy. He warned the move may have temporarily averted a crisis but damaged U S trust in the UN. House investigators also said former Secretary Byrnes will be asked to testify about Alger Hiss in a 1946 decision regarding Americans involved after Hearings.
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Washington
Herbert R. O’conor
Truman
Dean Acheson
United Nations
Maryland
Alger Hiss
United States
Cold Front Brings Snow and Rain Across Oklahoma
A cold front moved into Oklahoma from the west bringing light rain to western areas and forecast snow flurries in the west. Temperatures are set to drop statewide with a low near 15 to 40 degrees across regions and skies to clear by Friday. Tulsa posted a low of 29 last night while Ardmore reached 56 yesterday.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Gage
Tulsa
Ardmore
Eisenhower Eyes Military Spending Cuts After Inauguration
President elect Eisenhower plans weekly White House strategy meetings with GOP leaders to steer the new administration through Congress. He intends to address Congress shortly after inauguration with ideas to trim federal spending, targeting military outlays estimated at about 46 billion of the Truman budget.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Eisenhower
White House
GOP
Congressional High Command
Congress
Taft
Truman
Joseph M. Dodge
Allied Guns Salute Reds On Holiday
UN artillery roared at midnight greeting the new year toward Chinese and North Korean troops. Despite a 155 mile front truce, minor probing attacks marked the war as two Chinese platoons near Sniper Ridge were driven back after a two and half hour skirmish. Twenty Communist soldiers died in close fighting with grenades and rifles on the western front. Three Chinese platoons fell back in the Kelly Hill area northwest of Yondon as Allied forces retook an advanced position after heavy shelling.
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Seoul
United Nations
Korea
South Korea
Sniper Ridge
West Central
Kelly Hill
Yondon
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Aly
Artillery Village
Wherry Hill
Clare Morford
R. E. Glenn
Red China
House Judiciary Subcommittee
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