Victorian Coronation Sparks American Valentine Revival
The coronation fuels a Victorian style revival in American valentines with lavish ready made cards selling for one to three dollars, featuring gifts like lapel pins and corsages. Mechanical valentines date to the 1840s and 1850s, while Civil War era tokens introduced prank verses. today most buyers are women, and cards target friends and family as well as lovers.
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America
Charles Lamb
England
Capital Police Report Series of 12 Burglaries
Oklahoma City police reported at least 10 businesses and two residences broken into overnight. Extra detectives were assigned to investigate the burglaries. So far this year, there have been 142 break-ins in Oklahoma City, double the average.
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Oklahoma City
Chinese Plane Strafes Armistice Group in Korea
SAN FRANCISCO Chinese Communist radio alleged a U S plane strafed a Red armistice delegation convoy south of Hwangju about 24 miles southwest of the gang damaging a jeep and wounding three, two seriously. No U N Command word yet. The U N Command cuts immunity for Red convoys supplying the Kaesong truce headquarters amid claims of misuse by Red forces.
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San Francisco
U. S
Korea
Hwangju
U. N
Munsan
Kaesong
Allen Dulles to Head CIA Later Deputy Also Named
President Eisenhower selected Allen W. Dulles as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and to designate Lt. Gen. Charles P. Cabell as deputy director after Senate confirmation of Dulles. Dulles is brother to Secretary of State-designate John Foster Dulles. George A. Morgan becomes acting director after Adm. Alan G. Kirk’s resignation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Charles P. Cabell
Joint Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff
CIA
Dulles
White House
Senate
Walter Bedell Smith
Gen
Cabell
John Foster Dulles
Adm
Alan G. Kirk
Psychological Strategy Board
George A. Morgan
Home Aid Club Meets For Lesson
Snyder Special Eva Stokes home demonstration agent presented new fabrics and assisted Mrs. O D Terry with the lesson at the Home Aid Demonstration club meeting at Mrs. Fay Willis home. Refreshments were served. Attending were new member Mrs. Lucy Downs and other members Mesdames Bronze Brewer Charley Gray F M Jacks Jackie Myers Tommy Rogers and Lonzo Walker.
Lawton VFW marks 54th anniversary with National Week
Lawton VFW Post No. 1193 begins National VFW Week January 25 31 alongside lawton city and state observances. Mayor R E Glenn applauds the VFW for service and security. The post chartered May 6 1934 has supported Washington school Peewee and Midget teams and donated to the Community Chest and Pryor Orphanage.
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Organization of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lawton
States
Lawton-Fort Sill
VFW
Washington School
Veterans
Ardmore
FFA
Lawton High School
Post
Pryor
Jimmie Mays
Miami
Fla
VFW Post
Hungary Rejects U S Demand for Plane Compensation
Vienna reports Hungary refused the United States demand for compensation for an American Air Force transport plane that was forced down in 1951. The rejection was announced on Saturday, January 24, reflecting ongoing postwar tensions between the two nations.
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Vienna
Hungary
U. S
Christmas Seal drive tops $5,000 in Lawton area
Comancher county reports state wide success in Christmas Seal sales led by Fort Sill and Lawton with $5,783.45 and $3,961.86 respectively. Campaign heads Col L L Manly Fred Burch and others coordinated efforts as Jimmie Louise White noted strong school support and a planned chest X-ray survey to follow.
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Comancher County
Henry Howell
Lawton
Fort Sill
Fletcher
Elgin
Cache
Chattanooga
Indiahoma
Faxon
Geronimo
Sterling
Medicine Park
Col. L. L. Manly
Fred Burch
T. W
Oklahoma City Livestock Prices Week Focused on Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Weekly USDA report from Oklahoma City shows beef steers unevenly lower by 50 cents to 1.50, yearlings and heifers down, slaughter cows and bulls weaker. Hogs mostly higher with top at 20.25, bulk 19.50 to 20.50. Fat lambs steady to slightly lower, feeder lambs 17 to 19, ewes 5.50 to 7.00.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Teeth Tossed Away In Sack Of Garbage
KINGSPORT Tenn Mrs Robert Shouds of New Albany Miss wrote to the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce that she threw a paper bag of trash from her car past a city park. She fears her false teeth may be inside the bag and offered a 25 dollar reward for return of the dentures.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Robert Shouds
New Albany
Miss
Youth Held For Dad's Death In Centerville
In Centerville Iowa 15 year old Richard King a Centerville High School freshman was held on an open charge in the fatal shooting of his father Hubert King 45 with a .22 caliber single shot rifle given by his parents. The boy said he fired after finding his father shouting at his mother Mil dred King and after a quarrel at home. Investigators said the mother had called police over past quarrels. The youth said he returned from work at a grocery store to find the dispute ongoing and fired from behind as the father stood in a doorway. Investigation continues.
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Centerville
Appanoose County
Charles L. Johnston
Richard King
Hubert King
Johnston
Mildred King
Richard
Americans among fifteen tried in absentia for smuggling cigarets into France
In Toulon France a French court tried in absentia fifteen men including two Americans Sydney Paley of Jersey City New Jersey and Elliot Forrest of New York on charges of smuggling five tons of American cigarets seized from a private Cap Brun beach near Toulon last October Paley nicknamed Nylon Sid was already sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Tangier consular court after a high seas robbery case involving the Dutch ship Combinatie Forrest is being sought by police in connection with both the high seas robbery and the Toulon case former Tangier resident Forrest remains at large
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Toulon
France
Cap Brun
Sydney Paley
Jersey City, N. J
Elliot Forrest
New York
Paley
Tangier
U. S
Combinatie
Mediterranean
Forrest
Finnish Freighter Tirrenia Explodes at Sea Near Port Sudan
The 3957 ton Finnish freighter Tirrenia blew up in the Red Sea off Port Sudan early Saturday. All 37 crew members were rescued to the Norwegian tanker Olav Ringdal Jr who is en route to Aden. Port Sudan authorities reported a midnight blast 110 miles offshore that woke residents and rattled windows.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Tirrenia
Red Sea
Port Sudan
Olav Ringdal, Jr
Aden
Acheson Celebrates Private Life After Retirement
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson says he enjoys life after public service, far more than he expected. In a private Yale Scroll and Key Society dinner chat, he spoke as guest of honor about his days in retirement.
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New York
Dean Acheson
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