Oklahoma humidity piles on as 99 per cent dawn reading
Fort Sill logged a 99 percent humidity reading between 4 30 and 6 30 a m as weekend rain swelled Lake Lawtonka. Council weighing lifting water restrictions citing 95 percent system effectiveness and ample lake levels. Forecast calls for hot temps with limited breeze and possible further rain to refill the reservoir.
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Dulles Says China Admission Not to Be Raised
Secretary of State Dulles announced the United States will not raise the admission of Communist China at the forthcoming Korean political conference. He said the issue is not appropriate for the conference, which will convene 90 days after an armistice. The plan includes possible Far East topics beyond Korea and measures to prevent truce forces from aiding new aggression in Indochina.
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South Korea
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Ellis O. Briggs
County Continues Feed Aid Program
The Comanche county emergency feed relief program stays on schedule amid state and federal rule mixups. A telegram from Acting Secretary J Earle Coke set new rules, with a Saturday committee meeting deciding to continue current operations until state details arrive. An applicant must have under a 30 day feed supply to maintain a foundation herd and show not being financially able to continue without federal aid. Elbert Wolf chaired the committee and noted the decision.
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Elbert Wolf
Burglary Probed After $701 Stolen From Lawton Home
Police investigate a Monday night break in at 1134 Sycamore as two money sacks containing 701 dollars disappear. Owner Margie Malone, operator of Riddle's Drive In at 1116 Sycamore, reported the 11:55 p.m. theft after returning from Pampa. Entry was via torn back door screen and window lift. Bags held 605 dollars in 2010 and 96 in nickels. The scene showed ransacking with beds and a chest disturbed. Malone and Mildred Reynolds, a drive in employee, left Lawton around 5 p.m. for See BURGLARY, Page 2.
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Margie Malone
Riddle’s Drive In
Pete Fuller
Pampa
Tex
Fuller
Fred Mitchell
City National Bank
Malone
Mildred Reynolds
Lawton
Gas Rate Hike Fight Resumes in Lawton
A coalition of Lawton commercial gas users restarts a legal challenge to Consolidated Gas Utilities rate increases before the Corporation Commission. Attorney Charles Bledsoe of Lawton represents the group as they plan funding and oversight, with about $1,000 already raised and $700 pledged toward a $3,000 indebtedness, the hearing having stretched 29 days since March.
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New German Crackdown Bans Strikes
East Germany outlawed strikes as Red Hilde Benjamin labeled them fascist acts and pledged jail for workers. Former justice minister Max Fechner, now jailed, criticized as weak. Moscow meanwhile granted credits of 231 million rubles for food and raw materials, after Eisenhower offered aid was rejected.
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Afton Man Named As Marshal By Ike
President Eisenhower nominated James Y. Victor of Afton and Paul Johnson of Durant to be U S marshals for Northern and Eastern Oklahoma respectively. Victor, 57, jur y commissioner at Tulsa, would replace Virgil B. Stanley. Johnson, 47, in Durant's auto business, would replace Herbert I. Hinds. Both are Republicans.
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Jesse James Honor Day Acknowledges Train Robbery Tale
In Adair Iowa sixty years ago a special postmark honored Jesse James and his gang for a 1880 train robbery near town. The July 21 account describes the heist on a Rock Island train, the wreck that killed engineer John Rafferty, and the gang’s escape without arrests.
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Jesse
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John Refferty
Rafferty
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Fire causes blaze in six room stucco house at 1001 GM
A noon fire gutted four rooms of a six room stucco residence at 1001 GM after gasoline vapors from cleaning caused an ignition by a hot water tank in a bathroom. Mrs. Anna Hennessee sustained burns. damage estimated at $3,500. Owner S N Hennessee is away, cousin Raymond Hennessee occupying the house.
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U.S. tries to ease Rhee over Korea truce issues
Reacting to Rhee's threats to veto an armistice, Washington sent a new note to Seoul as Pyongyang and Peiping hailed a near end to fighting. Pyun cited two conditions, including security guarantees, before Rhee would back the truce. See TRUCE, Page 2.
Baby Is Stricken With Meningitis in Comanche County
Comanche county reports its first meningitis case of 1953 with seven month old Donald James Martin of Lawton admitted to Memorial hospital in serious condition. The infant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Martin, is isolated and showing limited improvement. Four siblings are on sulfa drugs. county saw one meningitis death in 1952 and two cases the prior year.
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Threat On Life Of City Man Brings Charge
An eluding 24 year old Lawton ex convict named George Edward Fleeks faced federal extortion charges after allegedly threatening Penny Wise Food Market operator Daniel A Becker with death if a forgery case was not dismissed by July 16. Fleeks handed a co prisoner the obscene letter and admitted writing it while jailed. He was arraigned as FBI officials noted the letter was received by Becker the day of the threat.
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FBI
George Edward Fleeks
Daniel A. Becker
Fleeks
Lawton City
U. S
C. D. Campbell
J. C. Ellsworth
Oklahoma City
U. S. District Attorney’s Office
Everett Hale
Becker
Mercy Teams Rush Flood Help in Japan Disaster
Tokyo reports flood disaster across central Japan leaves 731 dead and 1,262 missing. Mercy teams from the United States and Japan rush food and supplies as prefectures like Wakayama record heavy casualties and widespread landslides.
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Methodist Bishop Urges Probe Group to Apologize
Washington Methodist Bishop G Bromley Oxnam urged the House Un American Activities Committee to admit inaccuracies and halt releasing unverified material. He said the committee's operation fuels distrust and communist infiltration while stressing his lifelong opposition to communism and non membership in the Communist Party. He read a 15 minute opening statement, seeking redress for damage from files released by the committee.
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G. Bromley Oxnam
House Un-American Activities Committee
Oxnam
Communist Party
Bishop
Moist Weather Covers Nation From Coast to Coast
Moist tropical air blankets the nation from the Rockies to the Atlantic with widespread showers and thunderstorms as the main relief from heat. More than an inch of rain falls in scattered areas Monday, Cape Hatteras North Carolina records 6.37 inches, two tornado clouds spotted near Scottsbluff Nebraska and near Veteran and Yoder Wyoming, causing only a damaged cattle shed roof. Cool air pushes into the west behind a Canadian front, temperatures drop up to 15 degrees in the Northwest while the Southwest stays hot.
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Yoder
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Vacation Pac offered for travelers with or without address
The Circulation Department advertises two services for travelers: a permanent vacation address with mail kept for you and a vacation package for those with no fixed address. Both services incur no extra cost and can be ordered by phone at 620.
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