Ouachita Project Heads Highway Construction List
Oklahoma projects received low bids totaling 2 059 170 dollars, 12 percent below estimates, with the federal government funding most of the Ouachita forest work and multiple county and state line contracts across LeFlore Pottawatomie McIntosh Pittsburg Grant Cherokee Payne Caddo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Ouachita National Forest
Highway Commission
LeFlore County
Bi Cedar
W. E. Logan and Sons
Muskogee
Kiamichi River
Cohenour Construction Co
Ardmore
Frix and Foster
Big Cedar
Lyles and
Buckner
Pottawatomie
Little River
Tecumseh
Low Bdder
Ray W. Lynch
McIntosh
Pittsburg
South Canadian River
Eufaula
R. R. Tway, Inc
Grant County
Wakita
Smith Bros. Noble
Cherokee County
Gideon
Public Construction Co
Payne County
6Th
11Th Ave
Stillwater
W. E. Steelman
Cimarron River
Cushing
Moore Bridge Co
Ada
LeFlore
U. S. 271
Spiro
C. and M. Construction Co
N. C Corff
Caddo County
Carnegie
McConnell Construction Co
Kiwanis to Install Wilson as New President
Harold W. Wilson will be installed as president of the Layton Kiwanis club at a ladies night banquet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the First Christian church dining hall. Bennie McElyea of Hobart will conduct the installation with Capt Lonnie Knight as guest speaker. Other new officers include J Olen Connor Hubert Green Everett Neptune T P Brammer Marlin Keathley Urban Spec Sanders P G Waggoner and Doyle Williams. Hold over directors are Reginal Brown Vernon Carmichael Earl McKinney Gale Sadler and James G Knox. Warren Wolverton is program chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Wilson
Lawton Kiwanis Club
First Christian Church
Bennie McElyea
Hobart
Kiwanis Division 18
Lonnie Knight
J. Olen Conner
Hubert Green
Everett Neptune
T. P. Brammer
Marlin Keathley
Urban “Spec” Sanders
P. G. Waggoner
Doyle Williams
Reginal Brown
Vernon Carmichael
Earl McKinney
Gale Sadler
James G. Knox
Warren Wolverton
Stokowski Demands Curtain Removal for NSO Concert
Leopold Stokowski threatens to skip conducting the National Symphony Orchestra at Constitution Hall unless the dark blue curtain behind the stage is drawn aside. He argues the curtains deaden the tone, while DAR and hall officials cite a mounted movie screen that cannot be hidden. If unresolved, he may address the audience from the stage tonight.
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Washington
Leopold Stokowski
Constitution Hall
National Symphony Orchestra
Daughters of the American Revolution
Boston
Philadelphia
Marguerite Schondau
The
DAR
Stokowski
Schondau
Harold Maynard
Topsy Turvy Epiphany Comes Good and Bad Gifts in Italy
Rome reports a festive Epiphany as Befana the witch leaves gifts for good children and coal for bad ones. Traffic cops receive gifts in a humorous tradition while many motorists avoid tickets.
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Rome
Jaly
Befana
Italy
Jesus
Cana
Twelve Oklahoma Counties Exempt From New Registration Law
Oklahoma's state election board exempted twelve counties from voter re registration this year while considering three more. Officials testified the records are up to date in most cases though some Republicans contested four counties Jackson Woodward Texas and Major. Four counties Tulsa Oklahoma Muskogee and Stephens are automatically exempt under separate statutes.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Election Board
County Election Board
Logan
Latimer
Canadian
Lincoln
Pontotoc
Greer
Harper
Woodward
Pottawatomie
Wagoner
Texas
Kingfisher
Seminole
Major
Woods
Jackson
Beckham
Martin M. Cassity
Ardmore
State Board
George D. Key
Tulsa
Muskogee
Stephens
Glenn Twist
Richard James
Stroud
John Wagner
Chandler
Lincoln County
Three Year Old Girl Fatally Burned After Fall on Stove
Alma Louise Lang age three died in hospital after sustaining severe burns from a fall onto an open gas stove at her home in the Mingo community. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Melvin Lang. The incident occurred December 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Mingo
Alma Louise Lang
Melvin Lang
Death Valley Scotty Dies In His Castle
Death Valley Scotty, famed California prospector of Castle era fame, dies at 81 in his desert castle from a gastro intestinal hemorrhage. He leaves a widow, a son stationed in Washington, and two grandchildren. Albert Massey Johnson funded his lifestyle and deeded the castle to a gospel foundation.
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Calif
Death Valley
Scotty
California
Albert Massey Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
E. Vasse Wallace
Las Vegas
Nev
Wallace
Walter Scott
Castle
Mary Liddecoat
The
Gospel Foundation of
Gospel Foundation
Walter Webb
Foundation
Josephine Scott
Long Beach
Navy
Walter P. Scott
Naval Air Station
Oak Harbor
Wash
Walter P. Scott Jr
Kathleen
Scott
Dewey Urges Law to Curb Public Official Graft in 1954
Gov. Dewey opened the 1954 New York Legislature with a demand for strong ethics laws to curb graft by public officials and party leaders. He called for hundreds of millions in social programs, bond issues for mental hospitals and low rent housing, expanded health services, a fair play code for investigations, and hydroelectric development at Niagara Falls. The address referenced recent raceway scandals and the Wicks case as examples of impropriety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
New York
Dewey
Niagara Falls
Yonkers
Roosevelt
Arthur H. Wicks
Kingston
Wicks
Senate
Joseph S. Fay
Sing Sing
Bandsmen At Walters To Get Aid From Minstrel Show Fund
A check for over $1,000 will be presented to Walters high school officials at a Lions club luncheon. The funds from the annual minstrel show will be used to buy band uniforms. Superintendent E B Cawood said uniforms are expected in February.
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Walters
New Battle Seen In State GOP Election
Bailie W. Vinson factions of the state Republican Party faced a split with a second candidate entering the state chairman race. Robert L. Aitken Oklahoma City oilman and party treasurer joined Enid attorney Douglas McKeever in campaigning to replace Carrier. Aitken backed by Carrier group and McKeever supported by Vinson promise restoring party harmony and a two party system to regain a 1952 GOP majority in Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailie W. Vinson
Republican
Robert L. Aitken
Oklahoma City
Douglas McKeever
Enid
Aitken
McKeever
Tulsa
Vinson
Korea
Oklahoma
Howell to Attend Regents Meeting at Oklahoma A&M
Howell will attend the regular monthly meeting of the board of regents for state A M colleges on Thursday at Oklahoma A M college in Stillwater. He will also participate Tuesday in the monthly budget council meeting of the State Regents for Higher Education in Oklahoma City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Regents
State A&m
Oklahoma A&m College
Stillwater
Howell
Budget Council of the
State Regents For Higher Education
Oklahoma Ty
Fireworks Prank Ends in Court Case Involving Musicians
The court sentenced Vasil Vasilenko aged 24 and Frank Zagar aged 23 after a fireworks prank at a hut damaged a worker named John Kusiks 35. Kusiks, who studied piano in Latvia for 16 years, lost his hand in the blast, hindering his plan to resume a music career in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vasil Vasilenko
Frank Zagar
John Kusiks
Kusiks
Latvia
Crea
Canada
Lantern Signal That Sent Paul Revere On Night Ride
A fragment recalls the famous lantern signal used to alert riders on the night of April 18 1775 as colonial forces prepared a warning in Boston Up Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Paul Revere
Adriatic Sea Storm Floods Five Villages
A storm in the Adriatic Sea floods five villages leaving residents rationing supplies and waiting in upper stories for rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adriatic
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Quachita Project
Kiwanis
Wilson
Auto-Lite
Statul
Ron Stephens
White House
Eisenhower
Leslie Arends
Ill
Joseph W. Martin
Mass
Leo Allen
House Rules Committee
Daniel Reed
House
Ways and Means
Martin
Congress
Rep
Reed
Curtin
Southwestern Radio & Sound
E Pho
Jordan Trailer Company
Southwest
WIEST
Phillip Russell
Eugene L. Bowman
Johns-Manville
Law
Politico
Joe Ford
Eal Russell
Ford Delrance Agency
Tna
Kephart
Regents’ Meeting
Tenna
James Aust
Mercury
Buster Wyatt
Unity Bank
Bank
Uea
Lawton, Oklahoma
Rays Finance CO
Okla Tire & Supply
Otto Howard
Lawton Property Owners
Howard & Howard
D Avenue
D Ave
SEARS
TETAS
Sears Catalog
C Ave
Nei Niy Cot
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