Sooner Neighbors Watch Toll Road Vote Outcome
Oklahoma City voters prepare for a January 26 referendum on two 1953 toll road measures. The plan would fund three pay-as-you-go highways built with private capital linking Oklahoma City to Wichita Falls, to Wichita, and Tulsa toward the Missouri line. Supporters say tolls spur small-town business. opponents say benefits mainly Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Governor Murray campaigns for passage amid a charged election year.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Wichita Falls
Tex
Wichita
Kan
Tulsa
Missouri Line
Joplin
Smile Turner
Kansas
Texas
Turnpike Authority
Dallas
Fort Worth
Area Men in Service in Korea
Capt Neal W Sanders Jr and Lt John W Baxendale have arrived in Korea for duty as Army aviators. Sanders, a 10 year veteran recently stationed at Fort Sill, serves with the 32nd Engineer Construction Group. Baxendale, a 1952 University of Oklahoma graduate, with the 24th Infantry Division, is overseas while his wife Nancy lives with her parents in Oklahoma.
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Neal W. Sanders Jr
Bettye
Spaulding
Korea
32Nd Engineer Construction Group
Sanders
Fort Sill
John W. Baxendale
Nancy
Deborn
24Th Infantry
University of Oklahoma
Army
Baxendale
Gene L Snider
Disk Jockey Collapses After Marathon Broadcast
Denver radio DJ Gene Amole of KMYR collapsed after a 31 hour 45 minute on air marathon for the March of Dimes. He had aimed for 48 hours to raise funds but ran out of strength, having already collected about $3,131 and later pledges totaling around $4,780.54. He slept briefly at home and said exhaustion prevented completion, forgetting the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis during the moment.
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Denver
Gene Amole
KMYR
March of Dimes
Amole
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Colorful Redecorated Jail Shocks County Officials
American Falls Idaho walls were leaf green the floor maroon and the cell bars silver after a recent redecorating. The jail stood empty for several days before power county commissioners approved the colorful refresh as a cosmetic update to the facility.
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American Falls
Idaho
Power County
Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane Kidnapped in Hollywood Heist
Hollywood bandleader Xavier Cugat and wife Abbe Lane told police they were kidnapped and robbed of nearly $20,000 in jewelry and cash by a masked gunman who loomed from the back seat of Cugat's car after a Pan Pacific Auditorium performance. The thief forced them to a parking area and stole a $9,000 solitaire, a $2,000 wedding band, a $2,600 wristwatch, a $5,000 diamond ring, and $150 in cash.
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Hollywood
Xavier Cugat
Abbe Lane
Cugat
Pan Pacific Auditorium
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Little City
Muskogee
Lyman Beard
Oklahoma Free Roads Associaion
Toll Road
Citizens Turnpike Association
Phil McMullen
Blackwell
Johnston Murray
Murray
R. P
Bob) Matthews
Sapulpa
Neal Sanders JR
John Bax
Lawton
Otto Howard
Howard & Howard
Noxzema
Gulbert-Woods
Lawtons
Lawton’s
Lady Esther
Squibb
Sories
Eeeee
Dorothy Gray
Paes
Pullman
General Electric
Westinghouse
Gilbert-Woods Drug - Lawton
Lotte
Raleigh, P. A
Woodbury
Bromo-Seltzer
Tampax
Schick
Fairmont
Auto Radio
Southwestern Radio & Sound
E Pho
Stiner’s
Sheridan Road
Green Star Telephone
Milton Stiner
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