Solons Say U S Cannot Abandon NATO For Pact
U S Senators say the United States cannot abandon NATO in exchange for any German unification plan. Eisenhower urged Soviet leaders at Geneva to accept NATO as defensive. Bulganin conditionally rejected. Senators Barkley George Hickenlooper Wiley voiced support for NATO’s defensive role and skepticism that dissolution will be demanded.
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Eisenhower
Geneva
NATO
Bulganin
East
West Germany
Sen. Barkley
D-Ky
Ice
Barkley
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Sen. Wiley
Wisconsin
Zhukov
Wiley
City Girls Prep For Pep Rallies At OU Short Course
Five Lawton junior high girls head to the University of Oklahoma for a pep course to boost school spirit before the first Wolverines football game of 1955. Instructors include L R Herkimer, a six year OU course director and AAU tumbling champion, guiding demonstrations of school yell routines with students Stephanie Lester Johanna Cargill Marilyn Thompson Shirley Hester and Kay Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
University of Oklahoma
Stephanie Lester
Ben Hutchins Jr
Johanna Cargill
J. W. Cargill
Marilyn Thompson
Dale Thompson
Shirley Hester
Frank White
Kay Thomas
Sam Thomas
L. R. Herkimer
Senators Restore Foreign Aid Cuts
Senate Appropriations Committee chaired by Sen. Hayden voted to restore 565.6 million of the 627.9 million cut from the White House foreign aid request totaling 3.266 billion. The panel increased European defense, Near East and Africa aid, and added funds for Spain and Greece, despite ongoing Senate floor battles.
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Washington
Sen
Hayden
D-Ariz
Eisenhower
Geneva
Senate
House
Appropriations Committee
Ellender
D-La
South Korea
China
Spain
Near East
Africa
Greece
Altus Rape Trial: Airman Kenneth Brown Identified
Iowa? Wait, the report places Altus Oklahoma. Ivan Gates of the state crime bureau testified as the rape trial of 18 year old airman Kenneth Wayne Brown opened its third day. Mrs. J Todd Little identified Brown in court, with additional identifications from her husband. The state alleges Brown threatened to harm the couple’s 18 month old grandson before taking Mrs Little to their home bedroom. Brown pleads not guilty to criminal assault. another charge involves an assault at an Altus motel on Feb 6. Mack Jones testified he drove Brown to Brown's home after the attack. Brown and Jones once served in the National Guard.
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Gates
Kenneth Wayne Brown
J. Todd Little
Altus
National Guard
Brown
Air Force
Clues Sought in Elgin Grocery Safe Burglary
Sheriff Everett Ray Hale said no new leads have turned up in the Elgin burglary at the P. J. Neal grocery. About $391 was taken after burglars chiseled the safe. Deputies have no further information while several clues are still being checked.
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Everett Ray Hale
Elgin
P. J. Neal
Youth Strangled As Belt Tightens Around His Neck
In Birdsboro Pennsylvania a 17 year old high school senior John Mattson hanged himself by looping a belt around a tree branch and under his chin while reading comics on a washing machine. State police report the washer lid caused the belt to tighten and strangle him. His stepfather Charles Moore found the body.
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Birdsboro
James Woods
John Mattson
Charles Moore
Woods
Mattson
Duke of Kent Recovering From Auto Accident Injury
London reports Duke of Kent, 20, cousin of Queen Elizabeth, hospitalized with injuries from an auto accident. The Daily Mail says he has a concussion and that remarkable security precautions shielded details, with the accident occurring last Thursday.
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Duke of Kent
London
Queen Elizabeth
Daily Mail
Mysterious Oil Magnate Gulbenkian Dies in Lisbon
LISBON, Portugal Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian died today at 86 after a kidney ailment. The Armenian born tycoon, famed as Mr. G and Mr. Five Per Cent, hid from publicity, amassed wealth and an art collection, and long lived at the Hotel Aviz. He had been ill since January.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian
Gulbenkian
Aviz
Iraq Petroleum Co
Constantinople
Istanbul
Lawton School Board Awards Contracts for Furnishings and Blinds
Lawton board awarded Venetian blinds to Southwest Venetian Blind Co for 7194 to outfit three new elementary schools and replacements. Lawton-Fort Sill Appliance Co won 273.95 for an upright deep-freeze at Lawton Senior High homemaking. McCord's Office Supply secured 3375.98 for office equipment and furniture. Cincinnati Subscription Agency bid 747.47 for city school magazine subscriptions.
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Lawton
Board of Education
Lawton Junior High
Sam Joyner Jr
Southwest Venetian Blind Co
Agee Corp
Tulsa
Lawton-Fort Sill Appliance Co
Lawton Senior High
McCord’s Office Supply
Southwestern Stationer & Bank Supply
Lawton Typewriter Exchange
Nelson’s Agency
Cincinnati
Notable bidders in Oklahoma sale listed
Successful bidders included I. C. Gaumer Magazine Specialists of Oklahoma City American News of Lawton and Glenn Stark representative of Curtis Publishing Co.
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I. C. Gaumer Magazine Specialists
Oklahoma City
American News of Lawton
Glenn Stark
Curtis Publishing Co
Navy Plane Falls Three Men Perish in Naples Crash
A two engine U S Navy plane crashed and burned in a Naples glass factory yard killing the three sailors aboard. Three Italian workers who tried to aid the crew were injured. The aircraft, en route from Port Lyautey Morocco to a point north of Rome, developed engine trouble over Naples and signaled a landing.
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Naples
Italy
Port Lyautey
Morocco
Rome
Grand Jury Called In Rogers County
A Rogers County grand jury is scheduled for August 1 to review the Chelsea Board of Trustees. District Judge Josh Evans received a petition with 180 signatures from Chelsea Mayor O. E. Whitenack. The probe includes a prior fund shortage and embesslement charges against former town clerk Helen Land who is free on $2,000 bond awaiting a July 29 preliminary hearing.
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Justice of the Peace
Joe H. Knox
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Free World
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Russia
City Girls
Katherine Ann Hayes
Nancy Penton
Willis
Phil Gafford
Administration
Appropriations Group
Radio
3Rd & A Avenue
Calouste Gulbenkian Oil
Southwestern Radio & Sound
4Th & E
Southwest
Harry
WIEST
Rogers County
Pabst
Oklahoma Tire & Supply
Coca
Philco
Atlas - Aire
Arctic Circle
Robbins & Myers
Ween
Fen
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