Argentina Seizes Churches as National Shrines
Buenos Aires reports the government, despite church protests, took possession of two damaged Roman Catholic churches to be rebuilt and kept as national shrines. Officials say leaders of Sunday's Plaza de Mayo riot will be charged with state security violations after about 60 arrests. Police used hoses clubs and chemical dye to disperse demonstrators after mass.
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Buenos Aires
Plaza de Mayo
Government House
Santiago Luis Cardinal Coepito
Juan D. Peron
Naval Club
Peron
Tot Kidnapped From Home Hunted In Sioux City
Two year old Donna Sue Davis was abducted from her bed as parents watched TV. A neighbor reported seeing a man carrying a bundle in an alley near the Davis home. The suspect, about 29, in a white shirt and khaki trousers, was described after a window screen was found missing. Police and neighbors conducted a rapid search with no immediate results.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Donna Sue Davis
Davis
James Davis
Chicago Northwestern Railroad
Chased Lawton Woman Run Down by Car Driver Held
A 52-year-old Lawton woman, Daisey Mae Johnson, was critically injured when chased and struck by a 1950 Buick in the 1500 block of Texas. The 56-year-old Lawton man driver is detained for investigation as detectives pursue details of the assault and condition of the victim.
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Lawton
Texas
Daisey Mae Johnson
Memorial Hospital
Otis Waldron
Cleo Stout
Melvin Simmons
Waldron
Johnson
Grandfield
Burkburnett
Tex
Reserve Officers Arrive For School
The largest United States Army Reserve Schools opened today at Fort Sill with about 800 reserve officers. Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams addressed the opening in theater No 1. The two week session serves Fourth Army area officers with classes in command and general staff, adjutant general, finance and artillery. Oklahoma City school and Col. Stewart E. Meyers commandant lead the first week. Tulsa reserve school will follow.
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United States Army Reserve
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Fort Sill
Edward T. Williams
Fourth Army
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louiana
Texas
New Mexico
Command and General Staff
Adjutant General
Artillery
Oklahoma City Reserve Officers School
Stewart E. Meyers
Tulsa Reserve School
No Plans Set or Dispersal Of Army Posts
Washington says no plan to scatter posts nationwide as atomic defense. Secretary Stevens testifies privately before a House subcommittee that Army planning favors dispersal in combat but not major changes to installations. Critics warn dispersal could avert a disaster, citing cost and training difficulties.
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Washington
Riley
D-Sc
Mahon
D-Tex
Stevens
Rep
Sikes
D-Fla
W. R. Shuler
Peacetime Army Sets Permanent Strength Target
Retired Secretary Robert T. Levens told a House subcommittee that the Army aims for a permanent peacetime strength of 578,000 men, within a two billion dollar military public works budget. The Army plans no timeline for reaching that level, despite Eisenhower era cuts that would drop strength to 1,047,000 by mid-1956.
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Washington
Congress
Army
Robert T. Levens
House Appropriations
Eisenhower
Stevens
Negro School Term Opens At Temple
TEMPLE Okla UP School began for grade pupils at Temple s Negro elementary school Monday as the school board met to decide on high school integration. Supt Laverne W Westfall said the board decided to operate the Negro grade school due to crowded conditions in the white school and cotton harvest. The Dunbar school will be dismissed for seven weeks during cotton season and the system would lose one teacher if immediate full integration occurred.
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Temple
Okla
Laverne W. Westfall
Dunbar
Westfall
Life with Reds was hell says three turncoats ready for trial
Three former American POWs William Cowart Otho Bell and Lewis Griggs who defected to Red China after Korea sailed for home from Hong Kong. They expect prosecution but are prepared to face consequences to tell what happened. State Department ordered strict travel on President Cleveland to California with possible later action.
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Forrest Edwards
Hong Kong
China
William A.cowart
Dalton
Otho G. Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
Reds
Korea
Cowart
U.S
U. S
United States
President Cleveland
San Francisco
Japan
State Department
California
Air Academy Opens Doors To First Class
Nervous cadets registered at Lowry Air Force Base for the dedication of the third service Academy. The first cadet signed in at 6 am. Valmore Bourque 18 will be fighter pilot material. Cadets from every state and several territories will be sworn in as they begin training ahead of the permanent academy planned for north of Colorado Springs by 1957.
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Denver
Lowry Air Force Base
Third Service Academy
Valmore Wiliam Bourque
Sam St
South Hadley Falls
Mass
Bourque
Air Force Academy
Lee Roy Dorey
Route 6
Henrico County
Zachary Anderson Coles Jr
Dear Park Drive
Nashville, Tenn
Air
Harold Talbott
Nathan Twining
Air Force Chief of Staff
U.S. Territories
Robert M. Stillman
Hubert R. Harmon
Lowry
Colorado Springs
AIR Academy
Air Force
Coleraai Aoe
Italian Reds praise Oklahoma musical as oasis of normal life
L Unita lauds the touring production in Rome describing Oklahoma as an oasis of tranquility and candor amid a distorted world. The Rome audience included nobility and diplomats with eight curtain calls and critics giving favorable notes.
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Rome
Oklahoma
L’unita
Brucker Confirmed as Army Secretary by Senate Vote
The Senate confirmed Wilber M. Brucker for secretary of the Army by voice vote. President Eisenhower had nominated him on June 22 to succeed the resigned Robert T. Stevens. Brucker, 61, is a former governor of Michigan.
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Washington
Senate
Wilber M. Brucker
Eisenhower
Brucker
Robert T. Stevens
Michigan
Deadline fixed on Meteor ride to Lawton July 18
Deadline fixed on reservations for the Frisco Railroad Meteor first trip to Lawton on July 18. The Meteor will depart Oklahoma City at 8 45 a.m. and arrive Lawton at 11 50 a.m. A group of 20 Lawton civic leaders will ride back to St Louis. Chair fare for the OKC-Lawton trip is 2.53 including tax. First class 3.51 plus seat fare up to 1.10. Children under five travel free. five to twelve half-price. Names include Mrs Raymond Fields Security Bank and Trust, Emmett Keough Chamber of Commerce president.
County School Attendance Report Reveals 10893 Reach
Clarence Scott, county superintendent, announced that Comanche County public schools averaged 10,893 in daily attendance last year. Excluding Lawton, county schools averaged 2,458 daily, with Lawton totaling 8,434. No separate Negro schools exist outside Lawton. four Negro students were in the Cache area.
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Comanche County
Clarence Scott
Lawton
Cache
Scott
Blonde Ex-Model Ruth Ellis Loses Last Appeal
London reports Ruth Ellis the 28 year old ex model and divorced mother of two lost final clemency pleas for the murder of David Blakely. Home Secretary Lloyd George refused mercy and her execution at Holloway Prison was set for 9 am Wednesday.
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London
Ruth Ellis
Holloway
Britain
David Lloyd-George
Ellis
Ike Gratefully Receives GOP Backing But Silent on Run
Fifty four House Republicans praised President Eisenhower and urged re election as he marked the third anniversary of his nomination. The group sent a petition praising his leadership on defense and the economy while offering a cautious, non committal response to a 1960 re election bid.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sillic
GOP
Armory Highway Rites Set Sept 5
Lawton to dedicate new National Guard armory and US 2277 highway project Labor Day Sept 5 with ceremonies planned by Chamber of Commerce committee chaired by Ron Stephens and Milton Worley. The plan calls for a three level interchange and a three unit armory costing about unknown dollars, with completion due in late August.
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Lawton
National Guard
Chamber of Commerce
Ron Stephens
Milton Worley
Ralph Hennessee
Walter Lattimore
Exall English
Emmett Keough
C. R.holley
J. C. Kennedy
Ted Warketin
Ted Ralston
Bill Logan
Gilhen Rhoads
Jim Taliaferro
Charles Ozman
Verdict Awaited in Case Against Local Trooper Bud Williamson
A decision on suspending Highway Patrol Trooper Bud Williamson near Lawton Oklahoma may not come until Wednesday officials said in Oklahoma City. Safety Commissioner Jim Lookabaugh will be tied up at a troop meeting today and cannot join deliberations. Williamson is charged with filing an improper accident report after an inquiry into a crash near Lawton involving a Faxon farmer and a Lawton bootlegger. A public hearing was held in the capital last week and witnesses from Faxon testified.
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Highway Patrol
Bud Williamson
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Jim Lookabaugh
Williamson
Faxon
Showers Forecast For State Areas
Fair and hot weather with highs near 100 degrees expected today and Tuesday for Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma. The low tonight will be 74 degrees, versus 70 today. A 11 a.m. reading today was 91 degrees and Sunday's high reached 98.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Try Vacation Pak Service for returns and delivery
Circulation Department at 620 offers Vacation Pak for travelers. Carrier saves papers, delivers them all on return with no extra charge. Contact the Constitution-Press circulation desk before leaving.
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Circulation Department
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