Reserves Bill Expected To Pass House Today
Washington report notes a near certainty the reserves bill will gain House approval as Congress nears adjournment. The plan offers six months of training for up to 250000 youths, with draft exemptions for those under 18, and tweaks total active reserve obligations to six years. Vinson, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, says the measure lets officials test building a stronger reserve.
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Washington
Rep. Vinson
D-Ga
House
Congress
Sen. Clements
Kentucky
Senate
Knowland
California
White House
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Budget Study Set By Excise Board
County Excise board members will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the courthouse to consider approving 25 percent of the city and county budgets for fiscal 1955 56. City department requests total 1 497 485 but nearly 400 000 will be trimmed before final approval. The budget includes three statutory funds airport streets and alleys and fish and game funds totaling about 100 000 for a city budget near 1 200 000. The excise board members are Jack Brock Lawton Logan Hycer Chattanooga and Bob Collier Fletcher.
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Jack Brock
Lawton
Logan Hycer
Chattanooga
Bob Collier
Fletcher
Charity program set for Comanche County next year
In the county budget a small line item of 24 635.01 dollars funds the charity effort overseen by commissioners as the overseers of the poor. The funds aid dependent children, aged residents, and the disabled, with approval and red tape delaying some aid. For the year ending June 30 1955 the group spent 27 077 58 on charity work, supported by Kiwanis Rotary City Mission and the Salvation Army.
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Excise Board
Comanche County
E. L. Woesner
Central
Bill Kleeman
Pete Wynn
Trict
Cémanche
Woesner
Kiwanis
Rotary
City Mission
Salvation See Charity
Liquor Crackdown Ordered By Gov Gary Oklahoma City
Gov Raymond Gary ordered the state crime bureau to intensify liquor law enforcement. A weekend Ardmore raid by three agents, with Carter County deputies, netted three bootleggers. Gary said raids will be limited by manpower and that cooperation with the public will continue.
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Oklahoma City
State
Crime Bureau
Raymond Gary
Capitol
Ardmore
Carter County
Gary
No Secret Agreements Made At Geneva Report
Eisenhower and Dulles told congressional leaders there were no secret pacts at Geneva. They called the summit briefing very satisfactory and hopeful despite future problems. Nixon and 24 lawmakers met for about 90 minutes to receive the full report in the White House Cabinet room.
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Walter F. George
D-Ga
Democratic Forestairs
William F. Knowland
R-Calif
Senate
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Washington
State Dulles
Geneva
House
Rayburn
D-Tex
Knowland
Calif
Nixon
Dulles
Foreign Relations
Armed Services
Appropriations
Sen. Clements
Kentucky
Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
Bridges
Republican Policy Committee
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pacific
Big Four seek follow up after Geneva talks
Geneva reports say the four powers began planning future negotiations on disarmament German unification and European security. Experts will draft details from proposals while the five nation disarmament subcommittee meets August 29 and foreign ministers plan a October session.
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U.S
Subcommittee On
Geneva
Turncoats Sail Back After Hawaii Visit
Three ex GI turncoats William Cowart Otho Bell and Lewis Griggs left Honolulu aboard the SSS President Cleveland for San Francisco after 14 carefree hours of sightseeing. Clergy friends supported them during their Japan voyage home and they described Hawaii as memorable.
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San Francisco
William Cowart
Dalton
Otho G. Bell
Hillsboro
Mass
Lewis Griggs
Neches
Tex
United States
SSS
Cleveland
Japan
Henry Bruinpoge
Shower Activity For Area Forecast Lawton Oklahoma
A forecast calls for scattered showers in Lawton and vicinity this afternoon with partial cloud cover and little temperature change. Tonight low around 72, highs near 95. Sunday's peak reached 95, and Oklahoma overall saw up to 2.5 inches of rain while Lawton reported only a trace.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Vermont Woman Jailed In Draft Evasion Case
A Vermont woman is jailed and stands trial on charges that she urged young men to avoid the draft. The report notes the case involves allegations of encouraging evasion and related activities, reflecting wartime era tensions and legal action.
City Council to consider curbing bay rummies activity
Forty residents and local firms petition for measures to curb prowlers along east side streets from C to E avenues. They seek alley lighting, a regular police patrol, and removal of trees and brush to reduce concealment, to be acted on at Tuesday night’s meeting.
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Bay
Second
D and E Avenues
D and FE
See Council
Young Gangster Hunted In Woods
In Richmond Indiana police closed in on a wooded area north of town hunting a teenage gang member linked to an $82,000 bakery heist in Dayton Ohio. Another member still at large reportedly took about $30,000 toward California with clues about the stash.
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Richmond
Ind
Here
Dayton
Ohio
Fred Frowein
Jack Peake
Frowein
Frederick Carl
Peake
Dwain Linke
Patricia Gilbert
Thomas Carmichael
Linke
Clarence Cook
Cook
California
Adenauer to Visit Moscow Before Big Four Talks
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced plans to travel to Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders before the October Big Four foreign ministers meeting. He said delaying the trip until after the ministers would be impolite, and noted Soviet invitations were extended weeks earlier. Adenauer already postponed decision pending ambassadorial discussions in Paris and will not go before the summit.
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Geneva
China
Peiping Radio
Sen
George
D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Muerren
Switzerland
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Adenauer
Russia
Paris
Persons Killed In Area Crashes
Southwestern Oklahoma reports two weekend traffic deaths, bringing state total to 305 for the year, one above last year. Miss Elizabeth Arlene Wiles, 16, of Anderson Missouri, was killed near Davidson, Tillman county, when a moving car struck a road sign and she was dragged and run over by a rear wheel. The crash occurred about 1 a.m. Sunday. The vehicle was driven by Herman Kenneth Teague, 16, of Davidson.
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Oklahoma
Elizabeth Arlene Wiles
Anderson
Davidson
Tillman County
Herman Kenneth Teague
Tillman Memorial Hospital
Lerry Rutledge
Duncan
Lee Wrecks
City Gas War Drops Prices in Lawton
Lawton enters its fourth day of a gas price war as Quality service station cuts regular gas to 21.9 cents per gallon and hints the 19.9 cent target may be reached. Most major dealers remain at 21.9 cents with special gas at 22.9 while independents consider matching the lower rate.
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Lawton
Texas Oil Company
Texas Company
J. E. Myers
Quality Service Station
Purcell
Portuguese Asked To Quit New Delhi
Prime Minister Nehru urged Portugal to close its legation in New Delhi by August 8 over Portugal’s persistent refusal to negotiate India’s claim to Portuguese India. Closing the legation would suspend diplomatic relations. India had already closed its legation in Lisbon in July 1953 as there was no advantage in keeping it open.
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New Delhi
Nehru
Portugal
India
Lisbon
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