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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1956
Page
3
CAIRO reports 60,000 Egyptians and Sudanese families will lose homes to the new Aswan Dam reservoir with compensation and relocation to irrigated land. Nubian villages along the Nile face submergence, raising promises of new houses, work animals, and land enabling three to four crops yearly versus current subsistence farming.
Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey of West Virginia assails the Atomic Energy Commission for a "rapacious penchant" to push atomic powered plants. He says as coal state representative he resents implying plants must be built at all costs due to fuel shortages.
Plymouth mass jurors deliberated 1 hour 20 minutes before convicting 34 year old contractor Domenic Bonomi of bludgeon strangling his wife Mildred Bonomi 31 mother of two. Judge Frank E Smith sentenced him to death pending appeal. The victim vanished Aug 31 and was found buried under gravel at a construction site. Prosecutor described the crime as an almost perfect murder driven by jealousy over a lover and court-ordered alimony.
Ford Motor Co announces its board approved listing of its stocks on seven exchanges including New York Detroit Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Los Angeles Midwest and San Francisco. A spokesman said the move was approved at a directors meeting.
The Defense Department asked Congress to authorize a $300,000 housing development in Washington for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and four personal assistants. The plan includes homes and emergency communication facilities as part of the 1956 military public works bill.
Bob Hawk, the Oklahoma born radio star who created The $64 Question, will keynote a banquet of Oklahoma A&M School of Arts and Sciences in Stillwater. A former Weatherford native and first master of ceremonies for the program, he retired from radio three years ago and now resides in Santa Barbara, California.
William Dobbie Kuhre will be 93 tomorrow. He plans to take the day off from his job to celebrate. Kuhre has been bookkeeper for a local lumber company for the past 55 years.
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