FHA Loans Aid Water Systems For Comanche Farmers
Comanche county farmers may obtain Farmers Home Administration loans to finance modern farm water facilities. Leonard Wiley, county FHA supervisor, said loans exist for 17 western states including Oklahoma with 3 percent interest up to 20 years. Eligible farmers on self owned farms or tenants with long leases can apply, with funds already in use locally and more available.
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Comanche County
Farmers Home Administration
Leonard Wiley
FHA
Oklahoma
Wiley
Extension Division
Ving
Faxon
Postal Clerk Is Theft Suspect
Tulsa authorities arrest Thomas Kinman a 19 year old postal clerk after a suspected baby theft ring ties him to about 15 to 20 stolen checks over three weeks. Kinman is to be arraigned before Judge Bragg as officials review charges and possible actions against two other youths.
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Tulsa
Okla
Thomas A Kinman
E. Lawton Bragg
W. W. Haynes
Kinman
Robert Kinman
James Vassar
Atlas Life Insurance Co
Federal
Haynes
Hinman
Webb Wins National Honor for Insurance Sales Record
R. C. Webb of Des Moines and the LL. C. Waring agency at Bankers Life Co. has been named to the $300,000 honor volume club for 1947. Officials announced he earned nationwide recognition for an excellent sales record last year.
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RO. Webb
Gore
LL. C. Waring Agency
Bankers Life Co
Des Moines
Tews
Webb
State Gets Big Oil Well Profit
Oklahoma City reports total oil well profits on capitol grounds amounting to 5 619 945 since 1935. Revenue peaked in 1937 with 836 480 in royalties. Since last July 1 receipts reached 175 947. Funds financed the capitol office building, public building, general, and maintenance accounts.
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Oklahoma City
State Capitol
Orval Hurst
Hurst
Prisoner Quizzed In State Killings
Sheriff J W Kennedy of Okfuskee county questioned a prisoner in the county jail in Okemah in connection with several Oklahoma killings. The man identified as Harlon Williams 43 an escaped insane murderer from Sebastian county Arkansas admitted he was Williams and said he was committed to an Arkansas hospital in 1936 and escaped in 1943. Arkansas records show a Harlon Williams committed to a state hospital in 1940 on murder charges and escaped in 1945. Arkansas officials described him as suffering from paranoid dementia praecox at the time. Kennedy planned to contact Arkansas authorities for further ID.
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Okemah
Okla
J. W. Kennedy
Okfuskee County
Oklahoma
Kennedy
Harlon Williams
Sebastian County
Arkansas
Williama
Train wrecks injure fourteen near Mitchellville on border
Fourteen people were injured early today when the Louisville and Nashville Hummingbird crashed with a standing freight on a side track near Mitchellville on the Tennessee Kentucky border. The diesel passenger train was headed from New Orleans to Cincinnati when it struck the freight, derailing two cars and sending a third into the air. Injured passengers were taken to Franklin, Kentucky for treatment.
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Mitchellville
Tenn
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Tennessee-Kentucky
New Orleans
Cincinnati
L. and
Louisville
Nashville
Franklin
Train derailment disrupts three-section service in Nebraska
A broken wheel in the middle unit caused a derailment. Ambulances from North Platte treated the injured. Passengers were transported by bus to a nearby location. Officials could not estimate track clearance. A special train from Omaha to North Platte was sent to pick up passengers, likely continuing to Chicago per road officials.
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Nebraska
North Platte
Neb
Wi—Eigteen
Union Pacific
San Francisco
Here
Chicago
Koorty
Ogallala
Omaha
Worth Platte
Conspiracy Sentence for Former McGill Scientist
Prof Raymond Boyer, once a McGill University chemist, was sentenced in Montreal to two years in prison for conspiracy to supply secret information to Soviet Russia. He remained free on bail pending appeal. The judge noted his wartime service to the federal government in explosives research while stressing the offense was serious and detestable.
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Montreal
Jan
Raymond Boyer
McGill University
Soviet
Russia
Boyer
Wilfrid Lazure
Canada
Justice Lazure
Heavy snows hit mountains in State of Mexico
January 30 heavy snow covered the mountains of Mexico state as a cold wave moved inland from the gulf coast. Freezing temperatures led to closures of business offices in Tampico and Vera Cruz.
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Mexico
Mexico City
State of Mexico
Gulf Coast
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Geronimo News Items Run Gather Local Updates
Mr and Mrs Jack Crow formerly of Geronimo now in Okmulgee announce the arrival of a daughter Linda Gail. Bobby Littlefield is ill at home with a kidney ailment and expected to be bedfast about four months. Sam Green now in Plainview Texas spent the weekend with relatives here. Mr and Mrs Ruben Baughman and children, recently home from overseas, are visiting. Move To Binger Mr Mitchell Green moves to Binger Okla where he becomes pastor. Myron Thomason enrolls at the University of Oklahoma.
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Geronimo
Jack Crow
Okmulgee
Linda Gail
Bobby Littlefield
Sam Green
Plainview
Texas
Ruben Baughman
Baughman
Archie Baughman
Binger
Mitchell Green
Okla
Green
Myron Thomason
University of Oklahoma
Nor
Local Notices From Around Town This Spring
For the spring term Mrs Mack Murphy is reported seriously ill with no threat. Ernest Green will attend Cameron College. Mrs Mac Tomps rented the Elwood Mallow house vacated by the Nollner family. Lawton visits include Mr and Mrs Doc Wallace visiting their daughter Mrs Turner Frost who stayed while Mr Frost studies in Texas. King Latham has moved to Lindsay for work. Mrs Archie Baughman assists in the school cafeteria filling the vacancy left by Mrs Odell Riggs. Granddad James, recently ill, shows some improvement though still weak.
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Mack Murphy
Ernest Green
Cameron College
Mac Tomps
Elwood Mallow
John F. Nollner
Lawton
Doc Wallace
Turner Frost
Richard Wagner German dramatic composer biography note
Richard Wagner, noted German dramatic composer, trained in composition under the guidance of a cantor. The passage discusses his studies and influences shaping his early musical career.
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Richard Wagner
Ander W Cantor
Dheodor Welnilg
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