Leaving Mishap Scene Charged in Three Vehicle Crash
Floyd Mulkey, 1112 S. 10th, was charged with leaving the scene after a three car crash at 920 S. Second about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Lena Shelton, 1508 Washington, was injured and treated at Southwestern hospital then released. Cars owned by MSgt. Howard L. Griffee and Harold Barclay suffered $300, $100, and $60 damage respectively. Police chased the fleeing vehicle but couldn’t immediately locate it.
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Floyd William Mulkey
Marvin Cameron
Lena ‘May Shelton
Washington
Southwestern Hospital
Mulkey
Msgt
Howard L. Griffee
Glenn
Harold Barclay
Arlington
Shelton
Griffee
Bonnie McCarley
Burglars Hit Two Cafes and Donut Shop At Night
Weekend police reports detail two cafe burglaries at Pat's and Jack's on Cache Road and a Dennis Donut Company break in. Entry came via a pried rear door, with limited cash taken from Jack Pierce's cafe pinball machines and no obvious losses at Dennis Donut. Separate auto theft notes include a stolen car battery from Joe Langley and a grey painted tool box with the initials I K missing from Ira Kirkes.
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Pat's
Cache Road
Dennis Donut Company
Melvin Kelley
Junior Hawkins
Jack Pierce
Joe Langley
Ira Kirkes
Summit
Kirkes
R. A. Davis
I. K
Pioneer Woman Contest Committee To Meet In Courthouse
The Comanche County Home Demonstration council will meet Tuesday at 9 30 in the courthouse basement ladies lounge. They will select a nominee for Pioneer Woman of Oklahoma to compete in state finals judged by a panel. Committee chair Mrs Nick Carras is joined by Mrs Harry Hammond Mrs W J Reinwand Mrs Fed Dove and Mrs R B Allen.
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Comanche County Home Demonstration Council
Clara Kelley
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Nick Carras
Progressive Club
Harry Hammond
Rosend
W. J. Reinwand
Utility
Fed Dove
H Home Economic
R. B. Alien
Triangle
Michigan Parks Lead Nation With 54 State Parks
Michigan has 54 state parks the most in the United States. The largest is Porcupine Mountains State Park covering 47,006 acres.
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Michigan
State
Porcupine Mountains
Optimists Close Convention in Lawton Oklahoma
The Lawton Optimists host club led a two day district board of governors meeting ending Sunday with about 250 delegates and guests. Dallas Texas will host the next meeting in January as expansion plans aim to form four new Optimist clubs in 1955 56. Charles T Boyle of Dallas spoke at the Sunday luncheon as 66 Optimist clubs from Arkansas Louisiana Texas and Oklahoma attended.
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District Seven Board of Governors
Aubrey
Charles T. Boyle
Dallas
Optimist International
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Associate County Agent Opens Courthouse Office
George Choate, associate county agent for Comanche county, is now located in the county agents office in the courthouse basement. Around March 1, extension work among the Indian people transferred from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Oklahoma State Extension Service, headquarters in Stillwater. Choate has served since 1936 and will devote his time to extension work among the Indians.
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George Choate
Comanche County
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Department of the Interior
Oklahoma State Extension Service
Stillwater
Choate
Experiment Station
Activities Planned For City Delegation Going To St. Louis
Lawton civic leaders travel on Frisco Meteor to St. Louis for a packed itinerary. They will tour Anheuser-Busch Brewery and the city, attend a reception at the University club hosted by Security Bank & Trust Co, and depart St. Louis at 7 15 p m arriving back in Lawton Wednesday morning.
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Lawton
Frisco
St. Louis
Anheuser-Busch Brewery
City of
University Club
Security Bank & Trust Co
Snake Bites Attendant At Parkway Zoo In Asheville
Kenneth Sexton, an attendant at Parkway Zoo in Asheville, was bitten three times yesterday by a nonpoisonous constrictor he was handling. He said a boy squeezed the snake’s tail, angering it. The bites were not serious.
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Asheville
N. C
Kenneth Sexton
Parkway Zoo
Yankee Farmers See Russia in Quiet View of Life
A 12 member group of American farmers tours Russia visiting Moscow sights and an agricultural exhibition. Ralph Olson of Ellsworth Iowa notes orange prices at 80 to 90 cents each and wine at 9.50 per bottle, and observes Russians drink bottled soda water, avoid smiles, and live in a city of seven to eight million with sober fashion.
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Russia
Moscow
Ralph Olson
Ellsworth
Iowa
Des Moines
New York
Paris
Farm visitors contrast meals at Moscow fair
Ralph Olson reports from Moscow for United Press that 12 farm people note plentiful, but not home-like, food at the mammoth agricultural fair. They praise fresh fruit and tea, contrasting with hotel meals offering only canned fruits.
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Ralph Olson
United Press
Moscow
Hotel National
Freed Cardinal Mindszenty Still Missing in Hungary
Vienna reports continued secrecy around Josef Mindszenty amid claims of his release. Hungarian justice officials decline to reveal his location, while interior ministry channels deflect inquiries and imply he remains under police surveillance. A palace staffer said they do not know his whereabouts.
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Vienna
Josef Cardinal Midszenty
Red Hungary
Justice Ministry
Mindszenty
Budapest
United Press
Services Set For Former State Senator At McAlester
Funeral services were scheduled in McAlester for Guy L. Andrews 83 a former state senator and prominent resident who died Saturday Andrews served in 1929 He was born in Texas and moved to Wilburton where he worked as a coal miner while attending night school
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Mcalester
Okla
Guy L. Andrews
Andrews
Texas
Wilburton
Fire Insurance Rate Cut Starts in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma policy holders will save about 1 million dollars a year under new fire insurance rate schedules that took effect Monday. The board approved changes boosting relief for frame homes with shingle roofs and certain mercantile and manufacturing buildings, while storms caused wind and hail rate hikes. A new fifty dollar deductible option may be cheaper for homeowners but not for other property. Wind and hail losses over five years reached nearly 50 million while premiums stood at 39 million, excluding 1954 55 storms. Farm property remains excluded as a special class.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Insurance Board
Joe B. Hunt
Hunt
Inspection Bureau
Two Men Questioned Over Oklahoma City Grocery Fire
Two men were questioned Monday in connection with a fire at a Oklahoma City grocery. Investigators considered arson after the blaze burned a building owned by J. W. Hearon between midnight and 3 a.m. Lessee Ben F. Coleman, 70, suffered second and third degree burns, and the trailer home where the fire began was destroyed. Coleman was asleep in the store's rear.
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Oklahoma City
J. W. Hearon
Ben F. Coleman
Coleman
Graham 25000 Pray For Geneva Talks
Billy Graham led nearly twenty five thousand worshippers in Geneva praying for the summit between the Big Four. He urged leaders to lay aside greeds and seek peace while noting the next six days could be history making. The crowd listened as his words were translated into French.
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Eddy Gilmore
Geneva
Billy Graham
Lake Leman
Palace of Nations
Graham
Notre Dame Cathedral
Msgr
Francois Charriere
Charriere
Faure
Pinay
Churchill Seeks Peace Prize At Geneva Conference
Sir Winston Churchill, resting at Chartwell, reflects on the Geneva conference opening amid memories from the House of Commons. He recalls his 1953 call for a high level summit to avert catastrophe, noting the chance for peace and closer ties among leading powers as history weighs the last prize he seeks.
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James F. King
Westerham
England
Chartwell
Kent
Sir Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Effective Reserve Bill To Be Okayed By Solons-Russell
Okan Pipeline Co subsidiary of Warren Petroleum reports a 353 mile natural gas products pipeline from Hugoton Kansas to Tulsa will be completed by August 1 with initial capacity of 10000 barrels daily and potential 20000 barrels daily after more stations are added. Ernest A Slade, president, notes line filling will begin upon completion.
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Tulsa
Kansas
Okan Pipeline Co
Warren Petroleum Corp
Hugoton
Ernest A. Slade
Okan
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Ministry of Justice
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C Avenue
S&h
Best Cleaners & Fur Storage
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Scorpions
Virgil Laird
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Southwest Chemical Company
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Will Churchill
Solons—Russell
E. J. Leverett
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Radio & Sound
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