Snow Falls Amid Bitter Oklahoma Cold Night
Snow slicked northern Oklahoma with Boise City reporting up to several inches as Lawton and surrounding areas endured a frigid night. Record lows set or approached in multiple towns including Guymon and Lawton, while Poteau faced gas shortages and fires from broken lines. Schools closed in Heavener. highway crews logged light totals elsewhere as the cold fronts move through Thursday.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Boise City
Poteau
Guymon
Guge
Lawtin
Morcary
North Wings
Ford Mugg
Consolidated Gas Company
American Todian Oil and Gas Company
Heavener
Wister
Howe
Poteau Hospital
Highway Department
Beaver
Shattuck
Woodward
Fawvhew
Alva
Gage
Fairview
Tulsa
Ponca City
Enid
Oklahoma City
Hobart
McAlester
Fort Sill
Altus
Record Snow Threat Looms In Northeast Weather Crisis
Heavy Arctic air drives a deadly wave across the Northeast with dozens killed nationwide. Snow to 6 to 12 inches in New England, Oswego gas main break leaves 15,000 homes without heat. Fires from overheated stoves claim multiple lives. dormitory fire at Dixon state school leaves women safe in dining hall. nursing home fire in Clay City evacuates patients.
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United Press
Trogen
Lmited
New York
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Michigan
New England
Town
Bookville
N.Y
Maine
Connecticut
Ghio Valley
Great Lakes
Oswego
Saline
Mich
Jeffersonville
Ind
Dixon, d
Clay City
Injured Workers Can't Get Pay in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Industrial Commission faces sharp criticism over workmen compensation practices. Ira J. Banta of the McCurtain Gazette accuses the commission of blocking injured workers from timely treatment and benefits, citing delays after injury and the need for doctors as expert witnesses against insurer doctors. State Sen. June Rinehart supports Banta, arguing the law presumed easier access to benefits and less need for lawyers or expert testimony.
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Idabel
Okla
Oklahoma Industrial Commission
Tdday
Ira J. Banta
McCurtain Gazette
Has
Banta
June Rineharis
el Reno
Air Force Wing Tanks Dropped Near Guthrie
At 2 25 p m the highway patrol said wreckage sighted ten miles southwest of Guthrie consisted of three gasoline wing tanks from an Air Force aircraft not a crashing plane. A landing search began after a farmer reported a distressed craft burning and shedding pieces.
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Guthriest
The
Highway Patrol
Here
Six Will Report To Draft Friday In Lawton Area
Six Lawton area youths are scheduled to report for induction this Friday at 2:30 am Carla Williams secretary Selective Service Board No 16 said today The group includes Robert Martin Wells Elgin Eugene Ienkorn Apache Derrell Gene Andrews 1401 Kingsbury Dearld Hill 1909 E 15th Paul Noble Fields 1272 Sixth and Wesley Americus Callen Mountain Park
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Lawton Area
Carla Williams
Selective Service Board No. 16
Federal Building
Robert Martin Wells
Elgin
Eugene
Ienkorn
Derrell Gene Andrews
Kingsbury
Dearld Hill
Paul Noble Fields
Wesley Americus Callen
Mountain Park
Toscanini Dies At 89 After Stroke At Home
Arturo Toscanini renowned conductor dies at his Riverdale home after suffering a stroke on New Year’s Day. His career spanned seven decades, with leadership at the Metropolitan Opera and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and his retirement announced after his final Carnegie Hall concert in 1954.
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York
Arturo Toscanini
Riverdale
Bronx
Watter
Toscanin
United States
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Caruso
Melba
Scotti
Met
New York Philharmonic Symphony
National Broadcasting of Symphony Orchestra
Toscanini
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
David Sarnoff
Radio Corp. of America
1600 Sillmen To Join March Army Maneuver
Fort Sill will send more than 1,600 men to Fort Polk Louisiana in March to join troops from nearly every post in the United States for Exercise King Cole the largest field maneuver of 1957. Units from Fort Sill include 52d FA Gp 692d FA Bn 86th FA Rocket Bn and 526th FA Missile Bn with about 25,000 participants in a command post and field training exercise designed to train staffs and units in new tactics. The maneuver runs March 27 to April 16, with a second major exercise dubbed Sledge Hammer from April 24 to May 24 at Fort Polk featuring Sky Cav II and aerial resupply of armor. Col Dean Herman and Col C W Matney Jr left for Fort Hood for the first phase and King Cole is directed by Continental Army Command Fort Monroe Virginia with Lt Gen John H. Collier and Maj Gen William N. Gillmore in key roles.
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Fort Sill
Fort Polk
United States
Sill
Fort Bliss
Tex
Dvenance
Obsr
Dean Herman
C. W. Matheney Jr
United States Army Artiery and
Guided Missile School
Fort Hood
King Cole
Col
Herman
Teaneuver
Col. Matheney
Continental Army Command
Fort Monroe
John H. Collier
U.S. Army
William N. Gillmore
Nasser Seizes Foreign Firms In Egypt
Cairo reports that President Nasser’s government ordered all foreign banks insurance firms and trading firms in Egypt converted to Egyptian management and ownership. British and French concerns are declared enemy property while other foreign firms face a five year path to Egyptian joint stock status. The decrees aim to seize control through an octopus like economic organization and threaten future U S cooperation with the regime.
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Cairo
Nasser
Egypt
U.S
United States
Eisenhower seeks 76 million drought relief and 26 million more aid
President Eisenhower, back from touring drought areas, asks Congress for 76 million dollars in emergency drought relief. The plan uses 26 million in new appropriations plus 30 million already authorized. It allocates 36 million for this year and 33 million for next year, with a broader call to reframe credit policies while urging local governments to take greater role.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
MHH
Wichita
Kan
Great Plains
Deputy Revealed As Escaped Lifer
Colorado Springs, Cole, Ph A former sheriff's deputy and town marshal waited in jail to learn if he must return nine Mississippi and a life term. Norveta Randolph Clayton, 64, admitted escaping from a Mississippi prison hospital in 1923 with another prisoner. He was convicted six months earlier of murdering his wife and sentenced to life. Clayton, an ex Marine, denied killing his wife and said he has lived lawfully in El Paso County since 1929. He told Police Chief J B Bruce the trial lasted one day and that he used the name John Henry Adams.
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Colorado Springs
Cole
Mississippi
Norveta Randolph Clayton
Clayton
J. B. Bruce
Bruce
el Paso
Pueblo
Colo
Ramah
Here
Virginia Snell
John Henry Adams
Pipe Dispute Deadline Set in Lawton Case
Judge Marmaduke ordered Lawton to discontinue use of the Selected Investments Center and Lee addition water lines by May 1 or pay about 45000 to Selected Investments Corp. The ruling follows a Supreme Court mandate requiring surrender of pipelines or payment of their value. The city may return the lines but has not authorized plans, while contract talks with the firm have faltered.
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Arthur J. Marmaduke
Lawton
Selected Investments Center
Lee Addition
Selected Investments Corp
Duncan
Luther Eubanks
Marmaduke
Supreme Court
High Court
C. R. Esworth
John Barry
California
Jack Cummins
The
Ciy
D. Henry Jones
Barry
President Eisenhower Proposes 1957 Legislative Program
President Eisenhower submitted his 1957 budget of 71.8 billion and a broad wish list. He urged postal rate increases, new natural gas legislation to regulate prices fairly, and fed aid for schools highways and homes. He called for immigration expansion, wider minimum wage coverage, unemployment insurance, Alaska and Hawaii statehood with safeguards, antitrust tightening, and federal aid to lagging regions. He also endorsed international trade and atomic energy initiatives.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Trent
Alaska
Hawaii
U. S
Organization For Trade Cooperation
International Atomic Energy Agency
Six Die In Apartment Fire Behind Cafe
LORIS SC six persons perished in a rear apartment fire. Joe Blackman 46 a painter died with his wife Carrie May and their four preschool children. The Whittikens escaped as firemen fought the blaze until control and demolition of the building.
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Loris
S.C
Cerplima
Joe Blackman
Carrie May
Wade Whittiken
Official Visits City In Hunt For Grid Coach
Texan to tap Bodenhamer amid three top candidates for vacant Big Spring high school football post. Superintendent Froxp Parsons says he’s in Lawton surveying options with Joe Kerbel Amarillo and a Sul Ross State coach as potential picks. Ada coach Elvan George also under consideration if negotiations with others stall.
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Texan
Badenhamer
LEW Johnson Constitution
Froxp Parsons
Bix Spring
Tex
Laston
Bob Bodenhamer
West Texas City High School
Parsons
Lawton
John Shoemaker
Bodenhamer
Joe Kerbel
Amarillo
Suil Ross State Teachers College
Alpirie
Elvan George
Ada High School
George
Ada
Texas
Big Spring
Faye
Budget Balanced Budget Proposal Seeks Peace Justice
President Eisenhower proposed a next year budget with a 71.8 billion federal outlay, a surplus for a third straight year, and no general tax cuts. He urged strong defense, aiming for peace, justice and freedom, with most spending on national security and aid. Treasury Secretary Humphrey opposed tax reductions and favored balanced cuts after a general review.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
U.S Information Agency
Eisenhewer
Iit
Treasury
Humphrey
Senhower
Maine
U.S. Buys 2 More Tracts in Fort Sill Expansion
The U S government has acquired 225 acres and mineral rights on 185 acres near Cache in the Fort Sill expansion, paying $9 000 to the Parkers for 103 acres and $11 210 to the Yackeyonny couple for 120 acres. Mineral rights were bought from Connahuichnah and Gooday for 160 dollars, with lease rights to the S17NEtS area acquired for 325 dollars.
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United States
Fort Sill
Baldwin Parker
Parker
Quanuh
Own Yackeyonny
C. E. Price
Frank Rush
Russell Relief Workers Talk in Russell Conspiracy Case
Wagoner witnesses testifies they unknowingly signed relief applications and did not know they were aiding Russell’s campaign. Bob Jeffrey, Wagoner merchant, hired them for campaign work and faced conspiracy indictments as the grand jury probes relief payments and absentee ballots in the state Senate race.
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Wagoner
John W. Russell Jr
Russell
Bob Jeffrey
Wagoner Merchant
Senate
Carpaign
Juanita __ Hayner
Hayner
Jeffrey
Bob
Andrew Wilcoxen
Rufus Presley
Spy Krylov Expulsion Tied To Unlicensed Electronics Sales
Washington sources say Americans who sold strategic electronics to Soviet officer Yur P. Krylov face little prospect of prosecution. Krylov, an assistant military attache at the Soviet Embassy, was expelled after being accused of improperly purchasing unlicensed electronics through U.S. intermediaries and of attempting to obtain military secrets.
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Washington
Yur P. Krylov
United States
Krylov
State Department
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Rke
Drouth Area
Lifer
Russell Relief Workers Talk
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