Assaulted Air Survives Freezing in Marshalltown
Two year old Vickie Davis survived a freezing attack after her temperature dropped 38 degrees below normal in a vandalized grandmother's home. Her 74 degree guardian, grandmother Mrs Fred Davis, remained in shock while doctors treated frostbite and sought clues from her memory. Parents from Milwaukee joined hospital staff as Vickie showed signs of recovery and doctors prayed no toes would require amputation.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Vickie Davis
Fred Davis
Vickie
Milwaukee
Vicki
Monroney Calls Wiley Uninformed Over Gas Bill
Senator Mike Monroney accuses Senator Wiley of being uninformed or alleging a sham in the Harris Fulbright Natural Gas bill. Wiley says the measure must be amended to protect the public, calling it a sham otherwise. Monroney defends the bill as offering effective consumer protection and boosting gas shipments.
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Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Sen
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R-Wis
House
Senate
Monroney
Senate Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Federal Power Commission
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Supreme Court
Funeral Rites for Peffer and Woodard in Local Notices
Charles Edward Peffer born October 31 1955 Lawton was found dead at six this morning son of Benjamin and Mrs Peffer 1410 Williams Funeral services to be announced by Becker Funeral Home Survives include brother Benny Gene 3 maternal grandparents Hal Falk 1801 Baldwin and George Wickwire Rt 1 plus Elva Falk Pomona California Elizabeth Ragland Woodard 83 of Wills Point Texas died at 6 40 p m Sunday in a local hospital Born February 25 1872 in Hopkinsville Ky married to Jesse Woodard Services set for Tuesday at First Christian Church in Wills Point Ritter Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements
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Lawton
Benjamin Peffer
Williams
Bennie Gene
Hal Falk
Baldwin
George Wickwire
Rt. 1
Elva Falk
Pomona
Calif
Becker Funeral Home
Elizabeth Ragland Woodard
Wills Point
Tex
Hopkinsville
Jesse Woodard
First Christian Church
Nancy Rogers
Robert K. Crow
Ritter Funeral Home
Oklahoma City YMCA Youth Legislature Opens Weekend Study
275 high school students from 19 Oklahoma cities travel to the state capitol for the fifth annual YMCA Youth Legislature January 27 to 29. Lawton’s Den Kouri serves as governor with Jo Anne Cowen of Shawnee as lieutenant governor and a slate of student officers guiding the mock government. The session, led by chairman William Gill Sr and co chairman William Doenges, features debates on capital punishment traffic safety desegregation and juvenile delinquency with Gov Gary as honorary chair and Chief Justice Johnson administering the oath.
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House of Representatives
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Bill Tiffany
Shawnee
University of Oklahoma
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Steve LeValley
Blackwell
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Bartlesville
Roy Adams
Wewoka
Bill Edwards
Ponca City
Jim Sjoberg
Mike Rhea
Dewey
Linda Jolly
McAlester
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Carver
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Ardmore
House
del City
Okmulgee
Sapulpa
Sand Springs
Tulsa
William Gill Sr
American First Title & Trust Co
William C. Doenges
Gov
Gary
Supreme Court
N. B. Johnson
Oklahoma graduate education course starts Thursday
The University of Oklahoma offers Education 348 Curriclum Studies for teachers in Lawton with an organizational meeting Thursday at Lawton High School. The class, taught by an OU instructor, focuses on curriculum problems and community living, with 3 or 4 credits and a $12.50 per credit hour fee. Veterans benefits apply.
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Lawton
Lawton High School
Department of School and Community Services
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Minelayer Nears Ice Trapped Antarctic Ship
The British minelayer Protector reports it has reached within 50 miles of the ice bound Theron in the Weddell Sea. Theron crew of 30 fights two foot ice to clear water as Dr. Vivian Fuchs leads the expedition toward Vahsel Bay for next year’s main arrival.
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Protector
Britain
Theron
Weddell Sea
Vivian Fuchs
Vahsel Bay
Apache Teachers Vote Tuesday On Social Security
Apache school system faculty will vote Tuesday on adopting a social security system. The local board of education will match the deduction from salaries with district funds, as announced by the board.
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Apache
Board of Education
Laing Students Win U S Trip With Speeches
TIPTON Special Andrea Suiter and Robert Earl Warrick of Laing high school won a 15 state trip in a Farmers Union contest in Oklahoma City. Suiter scored 451 of 500 with the speech My Organization The REA And the Contribution it Has Made in Tying the Farm Family to the Land. Warrick, a junior, delivered My Organization Soil Conservation And the Contribution it Has Made in Ty ing the Farm Family to the Land. They will depart late March for Washington D C and New York City, among other cities.
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Andrea Suiter
Robert Earl Warrick
Laing High School
Farmers Union
Oklahoma
Miss Suiter
Gearldine Suiter
REA
Warrick
Robert L. Warrick
Soil Conservation
Washington, D.C
New York City
First Units Of 11th Airborne Arrive In Germany
Bremerhaven reports the arrival of nearly 2,000 officers and enlisted men along with 379 wives and children aboard the transport General Maurice Rose. The 11th Airborne Division, nicknamed The Angels, arrives for three years of duty in Germany to replace the 5th Infantry Division reassigned to Fort Ord California.
Pastor and congregation foil church robbery at Good Faith Baptist
In New Orleans two men robbed the Good Faith Baptist church during evening services. They ordered six congregants to the floor and fled after firing two shots, taking a purse with about 15 dollars. No injuries were reported and Pastor Rev. Charles Dillard confronted the bandits with a chair.
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New Orleans
Good Faith Baptist Church
Charles Dillard
Baptist Pastor Denounces Twain Frog Tale in San Antonio
Rev Claud J Bonam of Huisache Baptist Church attacked a San Antonio Symphony adaptation of Mark Twain's The Jumping Frog for allegedly corrupting youths. He criticized changes removing the dice game and liquor ending, saying the frogs of drink invade schools and stage in Municipal Auditorium. Victor Alessandro, the conductor, declined to comment.
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Calaveras County
Claud J. Bonam
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Bonam
Victor Alessandro
Symphony
Alessandro
Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra
Dairy Meeting Slated Feb 16 in Cameron College Audi
One of five southwest district meetings of the American Dairy Association of Oklahoma will be held at the Cameron College auditorium on Feb 16. Former Minnesota agriculture commissioner Myron Clark, now with ADA in Chicago, will be featured speaker. The program runs from 10 a.m. with talks on district by laws dairy outlook and cost of producing milk, followed by Clark at 12:50 p.m. and election of seven board members at 1:20 p.m.
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Myron Clark
Agriculture
Minnesota
Association
Chicago
Bill Lott
Mangum
ADA Board of Directors
Oklahoma
ADA
Sandy Saunders
Elbrege D. Sullivan
Lawton
A. W. Jacob
Floyd L. Underwood
Ed Chambers
Southwest Extension
Ralph R. Dreessen
Southwest District
Vocational Agriculture
Clark
Jack Sharp
Lawton Dairyman
Washington Reporter Dies After Heart Attack
William P. Flythe, 65, longtime Hearst Washington correspondent, died Sunday at his home after a heart attack while preparing to attend Mass at St Matthews Cathedral. A Conway, North Carolina native, he served Hearst papers in Washington since World War I with brief breaks in Mexico and as an industrial relations consultant during World War II.
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Hearst
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Conway
N.C
Mexico
Sark Islanders Find Dogs Not Limited
Sark islanders discover the 136 year old dog cap law was repealed in 1820, leaving no general limit on dogs for its 500 residents. Only one female dog may be owned by a single person, a privilege held by Dame Sibyl Hathaway, who plans to breed poodles after the revelation.
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Hilary Carre
Greiffer
Carre
Sibyl Hathaway
Scot Infantrymen Head to Middle East Amid Tense Militanc
Highland infantrymen in tartan uniforms left Britain for the Middle East joining paratroopers flown out last week as fire brigade battalions. About 600 troops will reinforce Cyprus as part of a three day airlift to protect British lives and interests. The draftees average 20 years old and will be deployed where needed in the region.
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Middle East
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Highland
REA Delegates Blast Ihe Policy
At the NRECA convention in St Louis Clyde T Ellis criticized the presidents water resources report to Congress calling it a little Hoover report He said the advisory committee on water resources policy endorses Hoover era ideas and urged ending federal lending agencies and the federal preference laws and transferring power projects to private interests.
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National Rural Electric Co-operative Association
Eisenhower
Congress
Clyde T. Ellis
NRECA
Little Hoover
Agriculture, Defense
Interior
Ellis Saidy
Hoover
Commission
Rural Electrification Administration
Japanese diplomat cites Chinese executions over ten million
Shinkichi Yoshizawa a veteran diplomat told the Japan People’s Diplomatic Assn that reports he has heard claim the Chinese Communists have executed more than 10 million anti revolutionaries since taking mainland China six years ago Yoshizawa 84 retired after 56 years in service and former foreign minister and ambassador to Nationalist China said he believes the figure reflects a large toll of executions under Maoist rule in a prewar and postwar career context
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Tokyo
China
Shinkichi Yoshizawa
Japan People’s Diplomatic Assn
Couples Celebrate New Year Bit Late
Wakefield Massachusetts residents recount a belated New Year gathering as 32 guests including four Rhode Island couples and 24 children visit Mr and Mrs Frank Pollard. Weather had blocked the yearly reunion for ten years until yesterday when a chartered bus brought everyone together for about three hours.
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Mass
Frank Pollard
Pollards
Rhode Island
Mrs. Pollard
Pollard
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