Eisenhower May Change Tradition of Regular News Conferences
The incoming president may reduce or drop weekly press conferences once Dwight D. Eisenhower takes office. Advisors split on policy views with some favor continuing, others proposing fewer meetings or written Q and A sessions. Hagerty has declined to commit before inauguration on January 20.
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New York
Truman
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Baltimore Sun
Herbert Hoover
Isenhower
Lawton To Add Two Companies For 45th Division
Oklahoma recruitment for the 45th Division kicks off January 15 with Lawton hosting two battalion companies. Headquarters and Headquarters are led by 1st Lt. Benson E. Hargett, and a new Company F under 1st Lt. Wayne C. Hendrix recruits patriotic citizens. Other battalion companies include Walters, Marlow, and Ardmore.
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45Th
Oklahoma
Lawton
Milton C. Worley
Benson E. Hargett
Wayne C. Hendrix
Park
Walters
Terrell Phillips
Marlow
Carl Bateman
Ardmore
Herman Robinson
See 45Th
Split Second Tangles Baby Derby Prizes
Chicago reported a tug of war over 1953 first birth. John Phillip Scheneman born one second after midnight at Bolling AFB contested as first of year. Dr. Eisner claimed Gene Bates born at the stroke of midnight in Washington. Sally Jean Richter born exactly as clocks struck midnight in Denver adds to the tie. at least five others share the one second after midnight arrival.
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Chicago
J. Frederick Barr
John Phillip Scheneman
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington, D.C
William Eisner
Gene Clifford Bates
Washington
Leland Memorial Hospital
Eisner
Sally Jean Richter
Presbyterian Hospital
Denver
Colo
October Sales Gain Revealed in Oklahoma Report
Oklahoma Tax Commission released figures showing October sales tax gains across Comanche and Lawton areas with Comanche county up 642 percent from last year and Lawton similar. November collections totaled 93,477 for Comanche and 88,810 for Lawton, while Enid led Garfield county with 91,194 and Garfield county at 98,695 with 11.15 percent rise. Other city totals included Walters 4,826 Elk City 24,708 Sayre 8,449 Durant 20,646 Anadarko 13,563 El Reno 21,548 Ardmore 52,163 Norman 44,363 Clinton 18,740 Weatherford 5,821 Pauls Valley 21,836 Chickasha 35,206 Mangum 9,034 Hollis 6,098 Altus 27,660 Waurika 3,865 Hobart 12,351 Sulphur 7,911 Ada 35,864 Shawnee 56,959 Comanche 406 Duncan 61,924 Frederick 13,691 Cor dell 7,278 Woodward 17,883.
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Comanche County
Lawton
Enid
Garfield County
Kay County
Muskogee
Walters
Elk City
Sayre
Durant
Anadarko
el Reno
Ardmore
Norman
Clinton
Weatherford
Pauls Valley
Chickasha
Mangum
Hollis
Altus
Waurika
Hobart
Sulphur
Ada
Shawnee
Comanche
Duncan
Flow
Frederick
Cordell
Woodward
Doctors Transplant Kidney To Youth United States?
A 16 year old Paris boy with one kidney received a donor kidney from his mother in a five hour Christmas Day operation at St. Broussais hospital. Surgeons led by Prof Gaudart D Allaines performed simultaneous transplant to save his life after his kidney ruptured in a December fall.
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Paris
Marius Renard
Gaudart D’allaines
St. Broussais Hospital
Coin Containers Distributed Across Comanche County
Lions club distributes 2100 March of Dimes coin containers to Lawton Fort Sill and county towns. T. A. Hamra calls the set of miniature iron lungs the largest ever in the area, noting 1952 2175 emergency respirator requests. State director Ike Hall says polio funding is urgently needed as treatment is costly and lengthy.
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Comanche County
Lions Club
T. A. Hamra
Lawton
Fort Sill
Hamra
National Foundation
Ike Hall
Oklahoma City
Holiday Road Toll Near 200. New Year Deaths Rise
The Associated Press reports the New Year holiday death toll reached 198 with 149 traffic, 18 fires, and 31 other deaths as the 102 hour period runs from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday. Fatalities averaged over seven per hour during Christmas and fell to under five per hour in the New Year start. The National Safety Council forecasts 410 traffic deaths for the holiday period ending Sunday. A state-by-state tally lists deaths by type for Alabama to Wisconsin.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
State Has Holiday From Road Death
Oklahoma highway patrol reports a quiet New Year’s start with no deaths in the first 36 hours of 1953. Dewey and Ellis counties closed 1952 without a traffic death, while the state tallied 584 highway deaths in 1952 versus 577 in 1951.
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Oklahoma
W. D. Hamilton
Hamilton
Dewey
Ellis
Atomic Spies Doomed As Last Court Appeal Fails
New York federal judge Irving Kaufman denied the clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentencing them to death for conspiracy to transmit atom bomb data to Russia. The decision means only a White House stay could halt their execution, with Eisenhower to assume presidency soon.
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Senate
Taft
Bridges
Knowland
New York
Atom
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel
Irving R. Kaufman
Sing Sing
Kaufman
Rosenbergs
White House
Truman
Muror
Russia
U. S. Supreme Court
Jude Kaufman
Johnson Rayburn Selected For Demo Minority Offices
The new Congress begins with Senate Taft chosen as Republican floor leader and Lyndon Johnson named Democratic leader. House Rayburn becomes floor leader as party caucuses set slate, with Martin to be speaker and Halleck floor leader. Morse absent. committee assignments loom as parties plan their control and rules on filibusters. The president pro tempore Bridges will preside in Barkley’s absence. See SENATE, Page 2.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Congress
Senate Democrats
Sen
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
House Democrats
Sam Rayburn
House
Rep
Joseph Martin
Massachusetts
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Taft
New Hampshire
Knowland
California
Millikin
Coronado
Tha Ff
sSow
Rfdaaca Sasckie
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Republican Party
Morse
Bridges
United States
Alben Barkley
Blast Death Toll Rises in Valparaiso Explosion
In Valparaiso Chile at least 47 people were killed and about 350 injured in a dynamite blast believed caused by a New Year firecracker. Rescue teams fear more deaths among 48 seriously injured as authorities search the waterfront where 10 to 14 tons of dynamite stored in a warehouse exploded.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Colder Weather Ahead With Weekend Lows Near Twenty-Four
Colder weather this afternoon and tonight was to linger into the weekend with temperatures staying in the 40s today and tomorrow. A moderate freeze is forecast tonight with a low near 24 in the area. Expect no meaningful precipitation over the next five days as a slight warming trend arrives midweek.
Poisoned mother flees home amid arsenic mystery
In Beaumont Texas on January 2 194? a young mother Mrs D M Morris exhausts calls and visitors after arsenic poisoning over two years. She plans hospital admission to escape strangers while investigators seek the culprit. Mayo Clinic tests show arsenic in nails and hair as her family, including four children, battles illness. Police await clinic reports before continuing.
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Morris
Tommy Grant
Grant
New Orleans
Rochester
Minn
Galveston
Tex
Eight Lawton Veterans Sail Home From Far East Service
Eight Lawton men are among nearly 3,000 Army and Navy veterans of Far East service scheduled to arrive today in Seattle aboard the Navy transport Gen. C. C. Ballou. The group includes Sfe Robert Greer Jr and Sfe Carlton F. Grice along with Sgt Robert L. Mack M-Sgt William C. Radford Sfc Joe E. Smith M-Sgt Wilburn Sullivan M-Set Earl Washington and M-Sgt Leslie Washington, all listed with home addresses in Lawton.
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Lawton
Army
Navy
Seattle
Wash
C. C. Ballou
Robert Greer Jr
N. Railroad
Carlton F. Grice
East Kentucky
Robert L. Mack
East Columbus
William C. Radford
Gore
Joe E. Smith
N. 28Th
Wilburn Sullivan
Earl Washington
Leslie Washington
Garver
Eleven Reds Named on UN Payroll Revealed
Washington State Department named 11 U S citizens on the United Nations payroll as Communists or under Communist discipline. The Senate internal security subcommittee made the list public along with 27 others dropped from UN payrolls on similar charges. Secretary Acheson admitted loyalty checks had not been a great success and noted the nation's prestige suffered a black eye. Names include David Weintraub and Henry S Bloch among others.
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Washington
State Department
U. S
United Nations
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
U. N
Federal
Grand Jury
House
State Acheson
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Youth Who Escaped Oklahoma City Hospital In 'Bad Shape
Granite Okla Warden Joe Harp said 17 year old J E McDonald who escaped from the University Hospital at Oklahoma City and was recaptured hours later is in pretty bad shape at Granite Reformatory hospital He said McDonald lucky to be alive The boy and a gun waving accomplice held up a cab driver then fled They bought tickets to Wichita Falls Texas but McDonald grew weak after major surgery to remove a lung He was later found at Altus and police waited Gerald Pike 17 also held without charge The two youths had served time together at Granite and Stringtown McDonald suffers tuberculosis and diabetes
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Granite
Okla
Joe Harp
J. E. McDonald
University Hospital
Oklahoma City
Granite Reformatory Hospital
Harp
McDonald
Wichita Falls
Tex
Altus
Gerald W. Pike
Pike
Stringtown
Lawton carpenter charged with rape of five year old
A 46 year old Lawton county carpenter was jailed on suspicion of a first degree rape of a five year old Fort Sill sergeant’s daughter. He had been released from state prison on a prior similar assault and faces immediate charges after police linked the attack near Pumpkin Center Lawton.
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Lawton
Manville Redman
Redman
Frank Murphy
N. C. Adair
Pumpkin Center
Fort Sill
1300
South 11
UN Troops Test Red Propaganda On Korean Front
UN patrols probed Communist readiness by striking deep into Red lines along a 155 mile front in pre-dawn raids. The actions aimed to test threats of a major offensive set for January 4 as Reds urged surrender through loudspeakers and appeals to South Korean forces.
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Seoul
United Nations
New Firepower Bolsters Manpower Shortage
Washington reports, a semi annual defense balance shows manpower fixed at 3,600,000 as arms grow in reach. Lovett cites rising costs and strikes as challenges while praising gains in combat readiness and mobilization. Navy aims to expand carrier fleet to at least 12 super carriers with immediate construction. Army lines pursue atomic delivery methods to augment air and naval nuclear support.
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Washington
Defense Establishment
Lovett
Air Force
Finletter
Russia
Pace
Army
Navy
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United Press
GI Choice
Vanessa Brown
Editon
Stars and Stripes
D. M. Morris
Beaumont
Mrs. Morris
Johnson
Rayburn
States
Oklahoma City Hospital
No-Man’s-Land
Western Front
South Korea
Secretary of the Navy
Kimball
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