Golden Gloves Tickets Go On Sale In Lawton
Lawton officials announce sale of Golden Gloves tickets at R&S Sporting Goods and Fort Sill Honeycut Gym. Reserved seats cost 1.40, general admission 1, servicemen and students 0.50. Proceeds go to city charity. Eight nights of boxing Feb 5 to Feb 8, 7:30 p.m. start.
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Lawton
R&s Sporting Goods
C. Fort Sit
Honey and
Gxim
Gene Dees
Fort Sill
Post
Lawton Constitution
Lawton Morning Press
R&s
Honeycut
Plas
Honeycutt
Golden Gloves
Page J. Cot
Mare Rice
Fort Sill’s Honeycutt Gym
Mare
Harry Rice Jr
Euclid
Bill Dixon
Sill Man, 36, Kills Self With Carbine
Fort Sill specialist Sp3 Russell C. Aurslanian, 36, missing since 7 pm Friday, was found dead in the arms room Saturday afternoon. Investigators say he killed himself with a 20 caliber carbine, the gun on the floor near the body. Aurslanian, from Newburyport, Mass, had 13 years service and served in the Far East and Korea.
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Fort Sill
Russell C. Aurslanian
Aursianian
South Armored Field Artillery Battalion
Germany
Creighton C. Clark
Aurslanian
Clerk
Robert Kren
Hungarian Rebel Leaders Executed in Budapest Prison
Vienna reports two Hungarian rebel leaders, Josef Didas and Janos Szabo, were executed in a Budapest prison. Didas led an assault on the Foreign Ministry and seized a Communist paper Szabadnep, while Szabo commanded forces at Moscow Square. Both groups had appealed to the U.N. Security Council for armed intervention.
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Vienna
Austria
Josef Didas
Janos Szabo
Budapest
Radio
Dudas
Hungarian Foreign Ministry
Szabadnep
Radiola
U.N. Security Council
Hungary
Mewscas
Szabo
Moscow
Judge Dismisses Hung Jury In Russell Trial
In Wagoner on January 19 a deadlocked jury in the fraud conspiracy trial of former state Sen. John W. Russell Jr. was discharged by District Judge Glen O. Morris, who set a February 11 retrial after the foreman reported 7 to 5 voting and no sign of agreement. Russell objected in court, demanding a speedy trial as he slammed the table and warned against delaying until July.
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Wagoner
John W. Russell Jr
Glen O. Morris
Morris
W. F. Gilmore
Gilmore
County
Max Findley
Findley
Russell
Bussell
USS Paze 4
Col. X
Doctors Correct Barbara's Heart
Five year old Barbara Moore was listed in fair condition after four hours thirteen minutes of delicate surgery to correct a rare heart condition. Doctors stopped and revived her heart during the operation and corrected three leakages. Open Your Heart to Barbara campaign has raised 4047.62 dollars for a Mayo Clinic trip and operation. A special nurse will monitor Barbara for several days as she recovers.
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Barbara Moore
Dennis Moore
Lawton
Barbara
Mayo Clinic
Rachester
Minn
U.N. Orders Israel To Leave Egypt
The General Assembly voted almost unanimously for a resolution calling on Israel to quit Egypt and the Gaza Strip entirely. It asked Secretary General Hammarskjold to report on compliance within five days.
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United Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Israel
Egypt
Gaza Strip
Dug Hammarskjold
Weatherman Tries Again in Oklahoma Forecast
A Saturday forecast shifted from warm and fair to partly cloudy skies with a chance of light rain in parts of southwest Oklahoma. The day brought light snow and temperatures dipping below 40 degrees. statewide, readings ran five to ten degrees colder than Friday. Overnight low around 5 with a high near 50 today.
Woman Injured In 2 Car Crash Near Cyril Oklahoma City Passenger
Irma Vivian Collins les, a 38 year old Oklahoma City resident, suffered a broken leg and arm, internal injuries, and severe head and facial cuts as a passenger in a car driven by David F. Patton. The collision occurred at 1 20 p m three miles south of Cyril on U 277 when Patton’s car hit a pickup driven by 70 year old Charntley Chumbley. Chumbley and his wife were treated for cuts and bruises at Cyril Clinic and released. Trooper Filmore Edgman investigated the crash noting Chumbley was northbound turning left onto a county road as Patton’s southbound car crossed the center line.
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Oklahoma City
Milles
Cyril
Southwestern Hospital
Irma Vivian Collinsles
David F. Patton
Cyril Om U. S
Filmore Edgman
Anadarko
Patton
Joe
Charntley
Rt. 1
Fletcher
Cyril Clinic
Edgman
Chumbley
Safeway Robbery and Capture Near Lawton in Waurika Roadblock
Alvin Roof of Lawton recalls his two week prior encounter with a gunman who hijacked the Safeway store Saturday night and took receipts. Lawton police and highway patrol issued a pickup order. within an hour the suspect was nabbed at Waurika by Jefferson and Cotton counties’ sheriffs after a wide hunt. Roof’s suspicions arose when the man inquired about the assistant manager, cash, closing time, and exits during a Sears casing two weeks earlier.
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Alvin Roof
Lawton
Lawton Safeway
Roof
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Highway Patrol
Alt Waurika
Jefferson
Cotton County
Rost
Lth
Safeway
Ernest Rush
Johnny West
Waurika
Shannon
David Hooper
Phelps
Jack Atile
Bill Blackburn
Humpty Dumpty Grocery
J. D. Rainbow
Rush
Rainbow
Friendly gunman robs Safeway of $3,000 in Oklahoma City area
George Patrick Shannon, 48, of Oklahoma City, robbed the 11th Street Safeway of more than $3,000 in cash. A .22 revolver and a sack of money were found in his car after a 420 mph Cotton County chase. Shannon surrendered after a roadblock and a freight train blocked the road. Witnesses described a calm, friendly approach during the incident.
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Waurika
Llth Street Safeway
George Patrick Shannon
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Wichita Falls
Shammon
W. R. Phelps
Jefferson County
Poles Warned as Election Near in Poland
Warsaw voters faced a stark warning from Wladyslaw Gomulka that crossing Communist candidates would cross Poland off the map of Europe. With 459 parliamentary seats at stake, the election tests the new leadership's policy of communism without tyranny amid fears of Hungarylike unrest. The ruling party chiefs projected victory as polls opened for the crucial vote.
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Warsaw
Poland
Europe
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Polish United Workers (Communist) Party
Gomulka
Hungary
Death of Kiowa Chief Satank Tied to Own Action at Fort Sill
Morton Scott details Satank known as Sitting Bear, feared Kiowa war chief in Indian Territory. His son Young Satank died in 1870, prompting Satank to be bound to die by his own hand. He carried his son's bones, built tepees for him, and left offerings at the entrance for the great spirit. He died in 1871 near Fort Sill.
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Morton Scott
Satank
Old Fort Sill
Apache Geronimo
Sitting Bear
Indian Territory
Texas
Seymour
Tex
Death Eare
Baile
Fort Sil
Satark
Ingrid Bergman Returns To United States Homecoming
Ingrid Bergman arrives at Idlewild Airport to a crowd of reporters and fans marking her return to the United States after almost eight years away. The Swedish actress, enjoying the reception, plans a 34 hour stopover and heads to the Hotel Pierre in Manhattan.
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New York
Ingrid Bergman
United States
Idlewild
Paris
Pierre
Manhattan
Eisenhower Begins Second Term With Private Oath
President Dwight D. Eisenhower will take the constitutional oath for a second term Sunday in the White House East Room, in a private ceremony barred to press. Vice President Nixon will be sworn in publicly Monday at a Capitol ceremony.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
White House
Eisenhower
National Presbyterian Church
Richard M. Nixon
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Earl Warren
Mr. Eisenhower
Senate
William F. Knowland
Nixon
James C. Hagerty
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