Fair officials seek 200000 bond for county fair improvements
Comanche county fair board asks commissioners to call a 200000 bond election next spring to fund needed additions and new buildings. County Agent Haydock backs the plan saying more space is required for farm women projects while the county seeks parity with neighboring counties. Commissioners suggest the board gather signatures on a petition to demonstrate widespread interest and consult the county attorney on circulating such a measure.
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County Fair Board
Comanche County
County Fair
C. E. Wilson
The
Fair Board
Central District
Emil Woesner
Lewis Haydock
Woesner
Job Rolls Boost During Fifty Three Seen
A year end report from the Lawton Oklahoma State Employment office foresees higher employment in 1953 with gains in construction and public works. Non agricultural placements rose to 10 841 in 1952 while agricultural placements dropped to 558. New workers entering the market reached 1 477 more in 1952 and new applications totaled 4 050. Weather factors reduced agricultural placements. See JOB ROLLS, Page 2.
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Lawton
Oklahoma State Employment Service
Virginia Kidson
Southwest
Oklahoma
Officials Discount Air Crash Sabotage
Washington Jan 6 the Air Force told the House Armed Services committee sabotage was not a factor in several recent crashes that killed at least 284 people Maj Gen Victor E Bertrandias said investigators found no evidence of sabotage and counter intelligence also showed negative results Secretary Finletter cited pilot error as the leading factor with mechanical failure and maintenance issues following.
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Washington
Air Force
Victor E Bertrandias
House Armed Services Committee
Bertrandias
Thomas K. Finletter
Lawton Plans $2% Million High School Building
Final plans for Lawton's proposed 2. million senior high school main section will be finished by Feb 3. Bids for two project phases go out Mar 2. Main classrooms offices cafeteria shop and gym are set to start Mar 23 with occupancy expected for fall 1954. The auditorium and one classroom block may be delayed pending a new bond issue and additional levies. Financing includes a $1,083,000 federal aid allotment a $275,000 bond issue a $300,000 gym bond and fund transfers. Government rules halted considering the two projects together.
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Lawton
Nossger and
Lawrence
Board of Education
General Fund
City Parking Meters Join Polio Battle
Lawton Lions launch March of Dimes drive urging dimes dropped into meters along Second to Sixth streets on B through E avenues. Police will separate dimes for campaign HQs while meters keep normal time rules with a nickel or penny required to avoid a fine. School card campaign starts, chain coffees planned, Ugly Man contest planned.
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Lawton Lions Club
Comanche County
Lawton
Dimes
T. A. Hamra
J. R. Montgomery
Ike and Columbia Chief Hold Parley in New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower, retiring Columbia University president, visited in New York to congratulate Dr Grayson L Kirk on his elevation to acting president. The meeting marked Ike's return to campus to salute the university leader.
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Ike
New Columbia
New York
United States
Columbia University
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia
Grayson L. Kirk
Desertions surge as army records alarming says Times
Louisville Times reports desertions from the U S armed forces hit alarming proportions. Army officers call it a national disgrace as large numbers seek dishonorable discharges to avoid Korea. In Kentucky 3000 to 4000 deserters tracked yearly. Ft. Knox stockade houses 400 to 600 prisoners. By fall 1950 at least 700 soldiers and sailors were hiding in Kentucky communities.
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Louisville
Louisville Times
United States
Korea
Kentucky
Defense Department
The
Times
Ft. Knox Stockade
Richard Harwood
Harwood
Eisenhower Churchill Meeting Details Unfold In New York
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Winston Churchill declined to reveal the topic of their talks at Bernard Baruch's residence. Churchill departs for Washington for a Truman meeting, with informal conversations expected to resume in the next day. Eisenhower plans multiple morning visits and a session with Hugh Baillie before noon, then meetings with John Foster Dulles and Sinclair Weeks. Churchill and Eisenhower recently dined with other guests as Hagerty hinted no formal statement would be issued on their discussions.
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New York
Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Bernard Baruch
Churchill
Washington
Truman
Milton G. Baker
Valley Forge
Military Academy
Commodore Hotel
A. Lingan Warren
Safeway Stores
Hugh Baillie
United Press Associations
London
Anthony Eden
Josef Stalin
Korea
Eden
Soviet Union
Cold Front Brings Cold Weather to Area Tonight
Weather forecast warns of light snow or freezing drizzle with temperatures around 22 and a deepening cold front driven by strong northwest winds. Panhandle expected to drop to five degrees while Lawton sees 30s Wednesday. Temperatures remain 8 to 12 degrees below normal through Sunday as noon reading hits 44.
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Oklahoma
Panhandle
Oklahoma Leaders Enter Budget Push and Grunewald Letter
Oklahoma House elected James C. Nance speaker and Raymond Gary Senate president pro tem pledging a constructive, new order of procedure while McCarthy released a Truman letter from 1948 praising Grunewald amid a probe into political contributions. Gov Johnston Murray urged economy and county consolidation, signaling a constitutional amendment to reduce counties and curb statewide spending while promising tax relief.
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Oklahoma City
James C. Nance
Purcell
House of Representatives
V. Johnston Murray
Senate
Raymond Gary
Madill
Murray
Paul Harkey
Idabel
Guy Horton
Glen Ham
Pauls Valley
House
Gary
Senate Appropriations Committee
Floyd Carrier
Carrier
Nance
Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Truman
Henry W
the Dutchman
Grunewald
Senate Rules Committee
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Congress
Johnston Murray
Oklahoma
Hastings Named To Council Post
H D Hastings retired farmer of 1405 D will take office tonight as city councilman from the third ward to succeed E D Parnell who resigned to move within the city. Parnell explained his reason for resigning saying he didn t want to jeopardize the legality of the water expansion program. Hastings does light contracting with a tractor and was away yesterday and today but plans to return for the meeting tonight to take the oath. Parnell recommended his appointment. The council adopted water expansion plans after an engineer explained three projects including a Lake Lawtonka to Lawton pipeline, doubling the filter plant capacity, and raising the dam 10 feet.
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H. D. Hastings
E. D. Parnell
Hastings
Lawton
Pannell
Wyatt Hendrick
Grand jury indicts Kansas City Star Co and executives
A federal grand jury indicted the Kansas City Star Co and two executives on antitrust charges accusing them of monopolizing news and advertising in the Kansas City area. Separately London sees Eden accuse Stalin of insincerity and call Soviet satellites butchers of their own comrades amid wartime tension.
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Washington
Kansas City Star Co
Kansas City
Radium Found After 27 Die In Air Crash
BEA plane crash at Belfast airport kills 27, including two Kansas teachers Miss Dolores Griffin and Miss Elda Duerken. Seven passengers injured. Salvage teams recover 70 pounds of radon seeds packed in a lead box, value about $40, from cargo after 12 hours of searching.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Kansas
British European Airways
Dolores Griffin
Smith Center Kas
Elda Duerken
Inman, Kas
Ministry of Supply
British European Airway
BEA
Con Copies Famed Book Collects Fee
A Boston publisher faced a six hundred dollar advance recovery after discovering a manuscript by Robert E. Preyer Jr titled Position Unknown. The work bore striking similarities to Ernest K. Gann Island in the Sky, leading to a dramatic plagiarism clash as Little, Brown & Co halted presses after a reviewer flagged the overlap.
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Boston
Mass
O. Henry
Little, Brown & Co
Robert E. Preyer Jr
Virginia Kirkus
New York
Island In the Sky
Little, Brown
Public Library
Ernest K. Gann
Stork Flights Hit New High in 1952 Month
Mollie Randolph, local registrar, reports 2,706 births in 1952 with a record 250 births in December. Girls totaled 131 and boys 119 for the month, while the year saw 479 deaths up from 326 in 1951, and the annual birth total rose from 2,090 to a record.
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Mollie Randolph
Bolivia crushes rightist revolution at dawn
The Bolivian government reports it suppressed an attempted revolution by military and right wing civilian forces. President Victor Paz Estenssoro had returned from exile last April to lead the government after a year of military rule.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Famous Woman Jurist To Launch Salvation Army Building Campaign
Judge Camille Kelley, longtime Memphis juvenile court judge, will keynote the January 12 kickoff for a seven-county Salvation Army fund drive in Lawton. The campaign seeks 125000 for a new city facility including a youth center, welfare office, chapel, gym, and shelter.
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Salvation Army
Camille Kelley
Juvenile Court
Memphis, Tenn
Lawton
Tennessee
First Christian
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Kenyon
P.S
Baruch
James Hagerty
M'Carthy Bates
Democratic Party
Harry S. Truman
Henry William Grunewald
Post Office
Washington, D. C
White House
Morroney
Council
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