Frozen turnpike snap hits Lawton area
Arctic air and freezing rain cripple roads injure two Lawton women and delay traffic as slick conditions spread across southwestern Oklahoma. A Lindsay truck driver died after a propane truck skidded on ice near Anadarko while a car damaged the Oklahoma State Employment office.
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Lindsay
Anadarko
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H. L. Shipman
Arlington
Southwestern Hospital
1000 Ballots Cast By Noon In City Boxes
Lawton and Comanche county voters faced freezing weather to cast ballots in the statewide election on toll roads. Early results show heavy turnout, with over 1,000 votes in Lawton’s 30 precincts by noon and uneven turnout elsewhere due to icy streets and cold conditions. Some rural areas reported lighter voting while others termed turnout average to exceptionally good. Substation turnout efforts aimed to mobilize voters despite rain and ice, with results possibly delayed as outlying precincts may not report until tomorrow.
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Light Rural Turnout Amid Winter Weather in Oklahoma Ballot
Winter sleet and cold kept rural voters from the polls while city turnout rose in Oklahoma on a special election day. Early counts showed light voting in Duncan and Alva with heavier activity in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, and observers warned roads iced over could curb turnout. Local officials reported mixed results across precincts as the day progressed.
Bricker May Compromise on Treaty Powers Clash
Sen Bricker of Ohio signals willingness to concede on altering treaty making powers to keep the GOP united amid a Senate fight. President Eisenhower backs constitutional clarity but opposes Bricker plan, urging compromise while favoring peaceful atomic energy use. The letter to Sen Knowland signals administration resolve to battle the proposal.
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Operation Skyhook Launched by Navy
The Navy announced the launch of Operation Skyhook at Goodfellow Air Force Base San Angelo Texas. Large balloons up to 90 feet in diameter will carry instruments for cosmic ray research and be released frequently from now through February.
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Navy
Goodfellow Air Force Base
San Angelo
Tex
Dulles Rejects Bid For Big Five World Parley
Secretary of State Dulles rejects Moscow's proposal for a Big Five conference on world problems. Molotov demands May or June talks with America France Britain USSR and China to address tensions. Dulles says the U S will not meet with Red China but supports Molotov's agenda focusing on China unity then Austrian peace treaty to avoid delay.
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OU Scientists Dig Up Old Elephant Skeleton
University of Oklahoma anthropologists unearthed a 20 000 year old elephant in a gravel pit near Duncan Oklahoma. They found a tusk two teeth skull fragments and ribs while awaiting clear weather to finish digging. Dr Robert Bell cautioned that evidence of early man is possible but unlikely. Road crews exposed the site while extracting gravel five miles west of Duncan.
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Open House Set At Polio Center
Southwest Oklahoma polio treatment center opens its fourth floor ward for a March of Dimes tour this Saturday. Doctors nurses and therapists will explain equipment including iron lungs hot pack machines rocking bed suction therapy bicycle exercise man whirlpool and diathermy. Public visits are 9 am to noon and 1 to 4 pm with donations invited via giant test tube containers.
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William C. Love
Polio Emergency Volunteer Corps
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Dupler Youth Now No. Five in Service Family
Mr and Mrs Lawton Dupler near Cache prepare for five sons in the armed forces. Daniel Lee Dupler 17 enlisted in the Air Force in Oklahoma City. Brothers James Marsh aided by recruiter at the Federal building. Robert served in Korea and earned a Bronze Star and is now at Fort Sill. Glen Roy and Carl Dupler also serve in the Army.
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Oklahoma City
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Lloyd Dupler
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Army units from Camp Carson to move for training economies
Three Fifth Army units stationed at Camp Carson Colorado will transfer in March. The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 547th Armored Field Artillery Battalion head to Fort Knox Kentucky for training, while the 357th Field Artillery Battalion moves to Fort Sill Oklahoma. The March 25 transfers are part of an Army-wide reshuffle to increase efficiency.
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Beeson Wins Post On NLRB Beeson Wins Post On NLRB
Washington The Senate Labor Committee approved Albert C. Beeson by a straight vote amid sharp exchanges with John L. Lewis denouncing the Eisenhower appointee as a self styled union buster. Republican and Democrat senators traded charges about hearings and delay as Lewis sent a telegram questioning Beeson's pro union bias.
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Hexander Smith
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Major General William F. Dean to visit Fort Bliss
Medal of Honor winner Maj. Gen. William F. Dean leaves Fort Sill for Fort Bliss Texas to continue his orientation tour of army posts. He is honored with the Order of Saint Barbara and updates on radios helicopters airlift of a 105 howitzer and aircraft.
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Sixth Army
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Taejon
Korea
Snow and fog sweep across the United States
A weather front brings snow, drizzle and fog from Nebraska to New Mexico and Washington to Oregon. Cold air pushes south over the Plains, dropping temperatures to freezing as far south as northern Texas.
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Rhee accuses UN of broken promises over Indian troops
Seoul reports President Syngman Rhee charging former UN Commander Gen. Mark Clark with failing to keep two promises on Indian custodian troops in Korea. He said Clark assured 800 to 900 guards for unrepatriated prisoners, but six times that number arrived, and the neutral zone was not militarized. Rhee criticized the incident as harming America's fair name.
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Syngmanad
U. N
Mark Clark
Korea
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America
Congress to Probe Recession Danger
Congress will open hearings Monday to examine the economy for risks of a serious recession. Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott of Michigan announced the Joint Congressional Economic Report committee will lead the investigation.
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Upcongress
Jesse P. Wolcott
Rmich
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Reds Seek Renewal of Korean Peace Talks
Panmunjom reports say Communists sent a sealed letter to U S Envoy renewing stalled talks on Red terms and awaiting Dean's response. They said they would consider another date but did not show readiness to drop charges of perfidy. The Allied side remained silent awaiting delivery to Dean.
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Washington
Fire destroys Walters City Drug Store in Oklahoma
Walters Oklahoma fire wrecked the rear third of the City Drug Store Monday night. Owner Harry Collins estimates damage at 12 000 to 26 000. He and his brother Elmer own the shop and say the drug department is heavily burned with smoke damage.
Americans Will Return Some Time Reds Agree To Take Back Turncoats
The Peiping radio reported that Communists will take back 21 Americans 1 Briton and 325 South Koreans who chose to stay with the Reds Gen Lee Sang Cho announced in a letter to Lt Gen Thimayya The reflagging plan aims to move the group to prison compound neutrality and avoid confusion The Americans expressed a wish to return to the United States when able to fight for world peace without persecution Several defendants criticized U S conditions and McCarthyism voicing hope for peaceful change while insisting they are not communists The group appeared well cared for and cheerful as they await repatriation See POWS Page 2
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Iris R. Wills
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