Fire Claims Three Children As Man Saves One Life
A house fire killed Victoria 12, and Craig 4, while Patrick survived after rescuers performed repeated mouth to mouth resuscitation. Miseles, a 16 year Army veteran, helped pull the victims from the burning home as neighbors organized relief for the Greeley family.
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Miseles
Young Patrick
Bennett
Patrick
Delbert
Sheridan School
Becker Funeral Home
Fort Sill Nco Wives’ Club
Greeley
Stott
Sfc
Patrick Greeley Sr
Artillery Village
Wheat and Rice Sale Licenses Approved for Soviet Bloc
The Commerce Department issued licenses totaling 286.3 million dollars for surplus wheat and rice to the Soviet bloc. Licenses cover 162000 tons of wheat to Russia and 30000 tons to Czechoslovakia, plus 50900 tons of rice to Russia. Names of American firms were not disclosed.
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Washington
UPI
Soviet Bloc
Commerce Department
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Nevada Nuclear Test Set Off At Nevada Test Site
Washington AP reports an underground nuclear test, the first for 1964, exploded 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas at the Atomic Energy Commission site. The AEC anticipated a slight tremor and described the yield as low to intermediate, between 20 and 200 kilotons, following 22 tests announced in 1963.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
AEC
Las Vegas
Nev
Pieta to travel to New York World's Fair in three crates
Michelangelo's Pieta will be insured for at least $10 million for its 4,000 mile journey from the Vatican to the New York World's Fair. The statue travels boxed in three cases, two wooden and one steel, to absorb shocks and protect the Mary holding Christ sculpture on its first trip outside Italy.
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Rome
Michelangelo
Mary
Christ
Vatican
North Korea Says It Will Return Downed South Korean Pilot
North Korea announced it will return the body of a South Korean F86D Sabre Jet pilot shot down 30 miles northwest of Seoul in Red territory last Tuesday. The incident escalates tensions as the two Koreas remain technically at war.
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Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
Seoul
Red Territory
Funeral Rites for C A Sutherland to Be Held Friday
Funeral services for 68 year old C A Sutherland of 1808 Andrews will be at 2 30 p m Friday at Northside Baptist Church with Rev H M Rick officiating and Dr Donald Potts assisting. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under Becker Funeral Home direction.
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C. A. Sutherland
Andrews
Northside Baptist Church
H. M. Rick
Donald Potts
Central Baptist Church
Buria
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Becker Funeral Home
Opposition to consolidation cited in state retirement hearing
Secretary of State Bullard explained the Public Employee Retirement System has not considered merger moves and would not initiate consolidation. He noted 60 percent petition requirements and said no petitions had been received. State Senator Cleeta Rogers joined Speaker McCarty in opposing consolidation, citing the 1963 act that created the retirement program serving about 14 000 workers and the separate systems for highway patrol teachers and wildlife workers.
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Jim Bullard
Public Employer Retirement System Board of Trustees
Bullard
Cleeta John Rogers
Oklahoma City
J. D. McCarty
Rogers
Highway Patrol
Wildlife Department
Hoffa Trial Delay Motion Rejected In Chattanooga
Federal Judge Frank Wilson overruled another bid to delay the January 20 Hoffa jury tampering trial in Chattanooga Tennessee. Hoffa lawyers sought two months due to intense publicity. Last week another defendant Thom as Ewing Parks had a delay motion denied.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
UPI
Frank Wilson
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Wilson
Thomas Ewing Parks
Canal Zone shifts control as riots flare after canal dispute
The Army returns security power to civilian authorities in the Canal Zone as violence erupts costing four American soldiers and 19 Panamanians their lives. U.S. Panamanian talks pursue a return to normal relations with a 30 day framework for negotiation.
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Defense Department
Canal Zone
Robert J. Flemming Jr
Andrew J. O'Meara
U.S
Inter - American Peace Commission
United States
Panama
Chiari
Panama City
Panama Canal Zone
Martin
Pentagon
O’meara
Flemming
Blast Destroys Abandoned Jail in Pryor
A gas explosion destroyed an abandoned city jail in Pryor on Wednesday. One man, Tom Still, 29, was hospitalized in satisfactory condition with burns to face and hands. The blast started a fire quickly controlled and shattered nearby windows. the building had not served as a jail for almost three years, and Mrs. Still was away at the time.
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PRYOR
APJ
Tom Still
Contol
Si Ethridge
Still
Helen
Governor recommends abolishing full time council secretary
Oklahoma City Gov. Henry Bellman said he found no justification for a full time executive secretary to the Governor's Council on Children and Youth and proposed eliminating the $585 per month post. He said welfare department social workers should handle the work on a part time basis.
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Oklahoma City
Henry Bellman
Governor’s Council On Children and Youth
Welfare Department
Weather outlook mild with warmer trend into Friday
The area should see clear to partly cloudy skies this afternoon through Friday. High today near 45 with a low around 19 tonight. Tomorrow’s high about 56 and Wednesday’s near 45 with a low near 20.
RCAF Retires Lancaster Bombers After Heavy WWII Use
The Royal Canadian Air Force says it is retiring its Lancaster bombers once used in 156000 sorties dropping 608612 tons of bombs. A present day nuclear bomber could deliver the same impact in about thirty minutes.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Snow Closes Schools and Strands Passengers in Wide Snow Belt
Snow stretched from the southeast corner of the state to Jefferson and Love counties with heavy travel disruption. About 300 passengers were stranded at Tulsa International Airport and Love Field was closed as Braniff and American rerouted flights. Roads were closed and airlines canceled operations while forecasts predicted colder weather south and sleet south of the snow belt.
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Jefferson
Love
Oklahoma
Hobart
Tulsa
Ardmore
Soper
Hugo
Speer
Tulsa International
Love Field
Dallas
Braniff Airways
American Airlines
American
Mexico City
San Francisco
Braniff
Weather Bureau
Texas
Tennessee
Alabama
Snow
Sherman
Denison
Atlantic Coast
Midwest
Pacific
FBI Seizes Man In Alleged Plot To Kill Johnson
In Rochester New York Phillip A Booker Jr 28 also known as Alfred John Layton called the FBI saying President Johnson would be assassinated. He admitted making the call and provided details of the plot implicating Black Muslims in Rochester.
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FBI
Johnson
Rochester
N.Y
UPI
Joseph K. Ponder
Buffalo
Phillip A. Booker, Jr
Alfred John Layton
Layton
Russians Silent On Castro Visit
Moscow authorities offered no comment on Fidel Castro’s visit as Soviet press largely ignored the event, with only a brief Havana item in Moscow Pravda noting Cuban interest.
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Moscow
Fidel Castro
Moscow Pravda
Havana
Bus charter to World’s Fair sold by OTC in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Transportation Company promotes charter buses for the New York World’s Fair with rest room equipped air conditioned coaches. Groups decide travel dates and book through OTC agents. The notice argues buses cost less than cars and jokes about winter and bachelors.
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New York City
Oklahom
OTC
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