Terp Empire Crumbles 20-6 as Sooners dominate Maryland
Oklahoma, led by Bud Wilkinson, defeated Maryland 20-6 in the Orange Bowl before 76,561 in Miami, securing a No. 1 ranking and symbolically ending Maryland’s bid for glory. Michigan State beat UCLA 17-14 in the Rose Bowl, Georgia Tech topped Pitt 7-0 in the Sugar Bowl, while Mississippi upset Texas Christian 14-13 in Dallas.
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ED Corrigan
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Bud Wilkinson
Sooners
Maryland
Miami
Michigan State
UCLA
Pasadena
Calif
Georgia Tech
Pitt
New Orleans
Mississippi
Texas Christian
Dallas
Missouri Valley
Juniata
Orlando
Fla
Wyoming
Texas Tech
el Paso
Tex
Prairie View State
Fisk
Houston
Oklahoma Triumphs Over Maryland In Orange Bowl Victory
Oklahoma defeated Maryland 20 to 6 in the Orange Bowl as players, coaches, and fans relaxed after the game. Governor Raymond Gary and Senators Kerr and Monroney led departures, while onlookers planned beaches, racing, and deep sea fishing. McDonald scored the Sooners first TD, with O Neal and Dodd sealing the win. Maryland praised Oklahoma’s speed and execution, and Beightol’s passes were stifled.
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Miami
Oklahoma
Mike Monroney
Washington
Ken Farris
University Athletic
Swank
Indian Creek Country Club
See Sooners
Tommy McDonald
Billy Pricer
Wilkinson
Jay O’neal
Carl Dodd
Lynn Beightol
Maryland
Jim Tatum
Sooners
Terps
Bob Pellegrini
Dave Kaiser
Michigan State
UCLA
Kaiser
Bedlam
Doug Peters
Ronnie Knox
Sooner
Ann Campbell
Indian Creek
Miss Campbell
McDonald
Newborn Baby Found In Dump In Oklahoma City
A newborn baby boy with a deep head wound was found dead at the Oklahoma City dump yard by city employee J. W. Pearson around 9 a.m. He was wrapped in a blanket and towel west of May Avenue north of the North Canadian River. Deputies B. J. Shearon and Charlie Scott said the infant appeared warm and freshly dead, believed born Monday night or early Tuesday.
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Oklahoma City
J. W. Pearson
May Avenue
Oklahoma County
B. J. Shearon
Charlie Scott
Pearson
French Ballot Shifts Power as Poujadists and Communists Score
In Paris the Poujadists and Communists won pivotal votes in the National Assembly elections, threatening stable governance. Center Front led by Edgar Faure trailed Mendes-France’s Republican Front, as 542 of 594 seats showed Communists 145, Republican Front 148, Center-Right 179, Poujadists 50, and extreme right 4, signaling potential new elections and prolonged instability.
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Paris
Pierre Poujade
National Assembly
Edgar Faure
Pierre Mendes-France
Republican Front
France
Mendes- France
Faure
Assembly
Mendes-France and
City To Bask In Sunshine Continues Mild New Year Weather
Forecasters predict fair and mild conditions with highs in the 60s through the first week of the New Year. No major temperature changes expected through Wednesday. Tonight's low near 30, today's 34. Five day outlook across the state shows 8 to 10 degrees above normal with little rain and small daily shifts. Lawton's 11 am reading today was 54, Monday's high 65.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Lawton
Constitution To Start Famed 'Worry Clinic' Wednesday
The Lawton Constitution adds the Worry Clinic feature by Dr. George Washington Crane, a famed psychologist and columnist. Crane, a Chicago native with five degrees, writes weekly on love, child cases, business strategy, marriage, nervous ills and personality cases for papers with millions of readers. He receives about 1000 reader letters daily and has taught, practiced medicine and psychiatry across the country. His book Psychology Applied is in official adoption.
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Lawton Constitution
George Washington Crane
Crane
Henryetta band cut from Roses parade telecast angers locals
Henryetta Oklahoma residents protested after their high school band was reportedly blotted out from a national Tournament of Roses parade telecast via ill timed sponsor ads. State Rep Tom Payne urged Governor Raymond Gary to file an official protest to Rose Parade officials sponsors and NBC. Governor Gary sought more detail, saying he would act if Oklahoma was insulted. ABC reportedly carried the band while noting the governor’s designation of the state band.
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Henryetta
Okla
Pasadena
Calif
Tom Payne Jr
D-Okmulgee
Raymond Gary
NBC
Payne
Oklahoma
Gary
Oklahoma City
Miami
Fla
Silly Copter Unit Going Overseas
The 587th Transportation Company Light Helicopter departs for a European Theatre station. Personnel report January 15 to Brookley Ocean Terminal at Brookley Air Force Base Alabama. Maj. C. F. Stumpff reports January 10 to McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey for transport. Activated January 5 1955 after 16 weeks training. Primary mission is supply rescue combat support and transportation. Equipment arrives at Brookley January 10.
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587Th Transportation Company
Brookley Ocean Terminal
Brookley Air Force Base
Ala
C. F. Stumpff
MccGuire Air Force Base
New Jersey
Riots at Westinghouse Plant End in Death and Arrests
About 100 police moved in to break up mass picketing at the Columbus Westinghouse plant as violence erupted at 5 30 am. One man Troy Tadlock 34 died after a beating police said possibly a heart attack. Eighty six people were arrested for violating a court order and rioting. Autos were overturned at five gates and cars stoned. Union officials claim Tadlock was beaten. investigation continues.
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Columbus
Ohio
Troy Tadlock
Robert Evans
Earl Webb
Striking Union
Tadlock
Webb
William Carney
West Broad St
Cincinnati
Mansfield
Charles Clark
Westinghouse
Congress reconvenes amid 1956 election year焦
The 84th Congress opened its second session amid hopes and jockeying over farm policy tax cuts foreign aid and highway funding. House Democrats push for investigations into big business control while President Eisenhower, recovering from a heart attack, plans to deliver the State of the Union soon. Vice President Nixon presides in the Senate as Kefauver runs for the Democratic presidential nomination in Florida.
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Washington
House
Democratic
McCormack
Mass
Congress
Eisenhower
Key West
Fla
Capitol
Nixon
Senate
Sens
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Smathers
D-Fla
Jacksonville
Rayburn
D - Tex
Council Recommends Sale of Land for Mobile Home Plant
A recommendation to Mayor C. R. Ellsworth and the council proposes selling airport area land to Greater Lawton Inc for four buildings to house a new mobile homes factory. D L Wigington of the Chamber of Commerce industrial committee led the plan as Greater Lawton signed a contract Saturday for Town and Country Manufacturing Co. a stock drive aims for 100000 with Fred Larrance Jr as drive chairman.
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C. R. Ellsworth
Airport
Greater Lawton, Inc
D. L. Wigington
Chamber of Commerce
Town and Country Manufacturing Co
Fred Larrance Jr
Fort Sill resumes one way traffic plan
Fort Sill Blvd on the military reservation resumed one way traffic today during 7 to 8 a.m. and 4 30 to 5 30 p m. The rush hour plan had been halted for the Christmas New Year holiday period and normal duty resumed.
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Fort Sill Blvd
Gate 3
Sheridan Road
Military Reservation
Fort Sill
Bank Robbers Get 20 Years
Howard Shaw a 30 year old former Lawton bootlegger and two Caddo county men received maximum 20 year federal sentences for the daylight November 4 bank robbery of First State Bank of Cement. Lewis Brewer 55 and his stepson Jimmy Spann 21 were named co defendants with Shaw. Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught noted a probation report showing Brewer planned the holdup then drew Spann into the scheme.
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Howard Shaw
Lawton
Caddo County
First State Bank of Cement
Shaw
Lewis Brewer
Cement
Jimmy Franklin Spann
Edgar S. Vaught
Oklahoma City
Brewer
Drew Spann
Former U S Treasurer Robber Held at Bank in Richland
Georgia Neese Clark Gray, former U S treasurer and bank president, was held for about an hour by three armed men who forced her to open the Richland State Bank vault and stole roughly $2,767 from the bank and Gray’s general store. She was unharmed. Suspects, described as in the robbery, were later arrested near El Dorado, Kansas.
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Richland
Kan
Georgia Neese Clark Gray
United States
Richland State Bank
Here
Area Weather Forecast for Fair and Mild Days
Area forecast calls for fair and mild conditions today and tomorrow. Highs in the 60s, low tonight near 30. Today's low 34. An 11 reading shows 54. Monday's high remains in the 60s with similar temps.
New Year Weekend Traffic Deaths Set Record Across States
The Associated Press reports a three day New Year period ending January 1 with 356 traffic deaths, 72 in fires, and 72 in miscellaneous areas. The toll surpassed the prior three day New Year record but fell short of Christmas holiday highs and did not match nonholiday weekend totals. State tallies include Alabama to District of Columbia with varied fatalities across categories.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
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Kentucky
Louisiana
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District of Columbia
Bank deposits rise across four local banks in 1955
Deposits at four local banks totaled 28.484 million on Dec 31 1955 up from 28.144 million a year earlier. Loans increased to 11.770 million from 9.704 million in 1954. American National and City National led gains with 673k and 90k rises respectively.
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American National Bank
City National Bank
American
City National
American National
Security Bank & Trust Co
Fort Sill National
Emergency FHA Loans Extension For Comanche County
Washington January 3 Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson extended emergency Farmers Home Administration loans for Comanche County allowing another year of eligibility. The move follows a prior extension that expired December 31, 1955. Nearby counties Blaine Caddo Cotton Grady Jackson Jefferson Kingfisher Kiowa Stephens Tillman and Washita also received one year extensions.
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Constitution
Washington Bureau
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Benson
Comanche County
Farmers Home Administration
Victor Wickersham
Blaine
Caddo
Cotton
Grady
Jackson
Jefferson
Kingfisher
Kiowa
Stephens
Tillman
Washita
Council To Hear Channel Survey At Tonight's Meeting
City Engineer Douglas L. Smith will report to the council on a survey and preliminary plans for a channel from Lake Elmer Thomas to Lake Lawtonka to add to the municipal water supply. The plan requires approval from Fort Sill and U S Fish and Wildlife authorities due to wildlife refuge and military reserve areas. City Attorney Warren Chrisman is negotiating for a channel easement as officials weigh whether the city can adopt its own construction plan or must follow wildlife engineers plans.
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Douglas L. Smith
Lake Elmer Thomas
Lake Lawtonka
Lake Thomas
Fort Sill
U. S
Fish and Wildlife Authorities
Wildlife Refuge
Warren Chrisman
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Ed Vereb
Akes
ABC
Stone Police
Council
Spann
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Justice of Peace
Charlie Ozman
Pete Fuller
U.S
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