Army to Seek Early Release of Land Funds
The Defense Department plans formal request for 2 216 000 to buy 20 320 acres of private land to expand Fort Sill. Senate Armed Services subcommittee backed the private land purchase and a 10 700 acre Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge deal. Official talks at the Pentagon aim to settle use of the refuge while engineers begin appraisals and landowner notices in Tulsa district.
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Washington
Bureau of the Budget
Army
Fort Sill
Department of Defense
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Congress
House
Chester R. Davis
Interior
Wesley A. D’ewart
Pentagon
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Douglas McKay
Senate
John Stennis
D-Miss
Engineers
U. S. Corps of Engineers
District Engineers
Tulsa
Corps of Engineers
Port Houston Raked By Fire
A major Port Houston fire destroyed a 1080 foot pier and a 12500 ton drydock, causing about three million dollars in damage. Firefighters from nine cities and the Coast Guard battled the blaze for three hours, rescuing three workers from dense smoke as the drydock burned out. The cause was under investigation, with acetylene torches on the pier cited as a possible source.
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Houston
Port Houston
Houston Channel
Coast Guard
Phillips Lemler
Alice Pratt
Atlantic Storm Ravages Jersey and Flattens Crops
A giant Atlantic storm battered the New Jersey coast with road blocking tides while Florida warmed. The storm center lingered off Virginia for days, spawning extreme weather as far west as the Mississippi River and reversing normal weather patterns. Gale winds and high tides hit the east, Midwest highways iced over, and Florida farmers faced over ten million dollars in frost damaged crops amid a record drought in Texas.
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United Press
New Jersey
Florida
Virginia
Mississippi River
Seaboard
Midwest
Texas
Fort Sill honored by Polio Foundation for 1955 drive
Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams received an outstanding service certificate from the Infantile Paralysis Foundation for Fort Sill’s role in the 1955 drive. George M. Lewis cited the post’s generosity as Col. William C. Knott and Eugene L. Bowman attended the ceremony. Williams thanked the foundation and county campaign supporters.
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Edward T. Williams
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Fort Sill
The
Infantile Paralysis Foundation
George M. Lewis
Comanche County
Post
Williams
Basil O’connor
Foundation
William C. Knott
U.S. Army Hospital
Eugene L. Bowman
Atomic Tests Must Go On Warns Dulles in News Conference
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States leads in atomic knowledge but cannot suspend tests until a reliable disarmament plan with inspection is agreed. He addressed India’s call to end tests, noted possible new H-bomb tests, and urged wakefulness to Cold War implications.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Eisenhower
India
Pacific
Soviet Union
U. S
United Nations General Assembly
China
Red China
Geneva
Life Magazine
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Britain
Middle East
McClung Elected Chairman of Comanche County Memorial Hospital Board
Lloyd McClung of Medicine Park is chosen to succeed Mrs. Margaret Day as chairman of the Comanche County Memorial Hospital board. Other officers are E. D. Sullivan as treasurer and Mrs. Helen Carney as secretary. Mrs. Day and Harry Miller remain board members. The board praised Mrs. Day for her long service since the hospital’s 1951 opening and its 1949 organization.
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Lloyd McClung
Medicine Park
Margaret Day
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
William Love
E. D
Ras) Sullivan
Helen Carney
Day
Harry Miller
Lawton
Memorial
Eisenhower Proposes Long Range Plan for Plains Drouth
President Eisenhower urged Congress to act this year on a 10 state Great Plains plan to combat drought and wind erosion. He asked for new funding and two bills to extend cropland diversion to trees and relax historic base acreage rules while detailing steps already underway by the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Great Plains
Agriculture Department
Soil Conservation Service
The
Farmers Home Administration
Drouth Area
Williams Nominated for Lieutenant General Williams Nominated for Lieutenant General
President Eisenhower nominates Maj. Gen. Edward T Williams commanding general at Fort Sill for lieutenant general after a Senate submission. Williams to report Feb 29 for assignment to Headquarters Continental United Command at Fort Monroe. Fort Sill to see Maj. Gen. Thomas E de Sharp succeed Williams March 5. Williams a 1920 West Point graduate, previously led the Artillery Center.
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Eisenhower
Edward T. Williams
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Senate
Public Information Office
Fort Sill
Williams
Sill
Continental Sign Command
Fort Monroe
Army
Thomas E. de Sharp
Artillery
Military Assistance Advisory Group
France
de Shazo
Paris
Charles E. Hart
United States Military Academy
West Point
Health report says Eisenhower in excellent condition
Three physicians examined President Eisenhower and reported his physical condition is excellent. The convalescent president has said his health will influence his decision on seeking re election. The White House exam was conducted without advance notice and supported the President’s own statements that he is feeling fine.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Howard M. Snyder
Thomas W. Mattingly
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Byron E. Pollack
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Denver
Congress
Miss USA Runner-Up Hurt in Santa Ana Incident
Miss Donna May Schurr 18, Miss California and 1955 Miss USA runner-up, was held against her will and assaulted. Police say James Jack Walker 25, Santa Ana upholsterer, fled at speeds up to 110 mph before being captured after a five mile chase and later confessed to Tuesday night assault and a prior attack last March.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Donna May Schurr
Geiger Counter Finds Deadly Device In Workman Auto
In Milford Connecticut a Geiger counter found a cobalt cylinder in the glove compartment of electrician Benjamin Zowacki's car at a work site for United Engineers and Constructors. The device had been in a paper bag inside a cloth cap and was left there overnight. Officials warned the public and noted the rays are not instantly lethal but can cause deadly illness by destroying white blood cells.
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Milford
Conn
Benjamin Zowacki
Zowacki
United Engineers Con Co
Connecticut Light & Power Co
Dallas Call Girl Testimony Fails to Save Oklahoma Murder Case
In McAlester Oklahoma the fate of 22 year old Harbie Franklin Fairris Jr hangs on the testimony of Rita Davis a Dallas call girl and a convict at an Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board hearing to commute his death sentence for slaying Oklahoma City Detective Bennie F Cravatt. Board action will be sent to Gov. Raymond Gary with a likely Friday announcement.
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Mcalester
Okla
Dallas
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board
Harbie Franklin Fairris Jr
Bennie F. Cravatt
Campbell LeFlore
City Dallas Flight Wins Final Okay From CAB
Central Airlines gains approval to serve Love Field Dallas from Fort Worth with stops at Dallas Duncan Lawton Fort Sill and Oklahoma City beginning Feb 1. Lawton officials and Chamber backed the Dallas service and a Fort Smith extension via Tulsa Fort Worth Dallas was also approved on a one year trial basis.
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Central Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Dallas
Love Field
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Keith Keihle
Central
Lawton Central
Arnold Winham
Lawton
Lawton City
Chamber of Commerce
Duncan
Lawton-Fort Sill
Lawton Air
Lovefield
Associated Press
Washington
CAB
Fort Smith
Ark
Tulsa
Fort Worth-Dallas
Susan the Swan That Could Not Learn to Fly
A swan named Susan in Hauling Island, Eng. remained flightless for years, stranded in a reservoir while her family migrated each spring. Despite seven new cygnets hatching in spring 1954 and others learning to fly, Susan stayed paddling and grounded, with her parents failing to coax or drive her away.
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Hauling Island
Eng
Susan
Pop
Mom
SWAN
Planes comb jungle for five missionaries in Amazon search
In Quito Ecuador planes scoured the Amazon for five Protestant U S missionaries reported missing after contact withsavages Indians The missing men Nat Saint Edward McCully Peter Fleming James Elliot and Roger Youderian had flown a Piper Cub into a remote northeastern Ecuador jungle last week A U S helicopter joined the search and a report said a body pierced by a lance was found beside the stripped plane as radio messages detailed the ongoing hunt with a potential Page 2 continuation
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Quito
Ecuador
Amazon Jungle
U.S
Air Force
Canal Zone
Nat Saint
Huntingdon Valley
Philadelphia
Edward McCully
Milwaukee
Peter Fleming
Seattle
Wash
James Elliot
Portland
Ore
Roger Youderian
Billings
Mont
John Keenan
Keenan
U. S
City To Keep Mild Weather
Fair and mild weather holds in Lawton with no change expected into the weekend. Highs near 55 to 60 today and tomorrow, tonight's low around 24. Rain or snow prospects slim statewide as a cold front could bring much colder readings late Friday night or Saturday. Northeastern Oklahoma sees a warming trend this afternoon.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Peggy King to Appear at Fort Sill January 22 24
Pegy King the TV star guest will appear at Fort Sill January 22 23 sponsored by the Music and Entertainment section of special services. The red haired singer known for George Gobel show has sung with Charlie Spivak and Ralph Flanagan and recorded Hottentot and Make Yourself Comfortable. Results of Fame Magazine poll name Miss King Jeannie Carson and Nanette Fabray as top new feminine TV stars.
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Peggy King
George Gobel
Fort Sill
Special Services
Miss King
Charlie Spivak
Ralph Flanagan
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Granny) Burks
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Jersey
Polio Foundation
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Allan Shivers
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Fla
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Knoxville
Tenn
Southland
Ike
Richard M. Nixon
Sam Rayburn
Prairie Lands
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Wyoming
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Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
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Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Benson
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Mattingly
Snyder
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