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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1953
Page
4
Paris reports a new year crisis as Rene Mayer attempts to assemble a coalition government amid continued cabinet instability. Pinay’s resignation lingers, while France faces economic strains with rising food costs and fragile demand, unsettling big business.
A Dallas man returned a $12,500 six point seven six carat diamond ring to the Railway Express office after finding a Wells Fargo stamped package in a street gutter from Rockdale Texas. The Rockdale office had not updated its Wells Fargo stamps after the company was absorbed.
The Transport Gen. A. W. Brewster arrives in San Francisco today carrying 1,027 Army and 950 Air Force personnel from Korea. The Transport Gen. W. A. Mann arrived yesterday with 1,928 military personnel from the Far East, many of them Korean veterans.
A quiet New Year's Eve at Wilbur and Trellis Mae's becomes wild when Homer McFudge Hercules and friends arrive with burly wrestlers. The party ends with broken furniture, a smashed television set and a police call. Moral: spend New Year’s elsewhere for peace.
Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr commends Dwight Eisenhower for his Korea visit, saying the trip highlights the crisis there and that Ike will better grasp the situation. Kerr criticizes Truman as political demagoguery and urges cooperation with the Republican administration, plus tax cuts and farm parity reforms.
Britain and Argentina reached a trade agreement in Buenos Aires. London will receive over 250,000 tons of meat in return for supplying about four million tons of petroleum and 800,000 tons of coal.
Two Tulsa men Dr. Richard Oliver and John P. Delamore face conspiracy charges over alleged plans to alter Tulsa County tax rolls. Oliver was arraigned and released on 2000 dollars bond. Delamore is at large after being charged with contacting Dale Carter to cut taxes for a 50 percent fee. Deputy Elmer Fred Haynie, shot Dec. 8, is named as the writer of changes.
In San Francisco a 34 year old mother of four killed state highway patrol husband John T. O Malley after a New Year’s Eve dispute over chinchillas. She told homicide inspector Al Nelder she shot him with his service revolver on the cellar steps after he threatened to kill her. The four daughters aged 11, 9, 8 and 3 were upstairs. She was booked for investigation of murder.
In Boswell Oklahoma 102-year-old Kendrick L Miller and his 92-year-old wife mark their 75th anniversary. Miller who lost sight in a sandstorm 17 years ago says he fears nothing in the new year and relies on faith. The couple live in a small $15 monthly three room house with support from Miller’s and his wife’s pensions. They have a devoted son, Wiley Eli Miller, who handles chores and garden work as they recall their hopes, hardships, and a life begun in Arkansas before migrating to Oklahoma for care.
The soil of Eniwetok in the Pacific is described as too sandy to support farming, limiting agricultural viability on the atoll.
Texas editors named the 1952 political shifts as the state's biggest news in a United Press survey. Other top votes went to a $300 million Texas heat wave and notable events including a fatal Waco bus crash, the Carswell Base storm damage, the Floyd Jr murder case, and the beating of four year old Tommy Yates.
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