Arkansas Dems Name Senate Candidate In Primary
Arkansas voters faced a competitive Democratic primary as veteran Sen. John L. McClellan and former Gov. Sid McMath vie for the nomination in a race seen as pivotal in a heavily Democratic state. Paul Chambers also runs as a national committeeman candidate aiming for a strong showing.
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Little Rock
Ark
John L. McClellan
Sid McMath
Arkansas
McClellan
Senate
House
Hattie Caraway
McMath
Francis Cherry
Cherry
Yernor
Guy Ones
Conway
Orval Faubus
Huntsville
Paul Chambers
Chambers
Gas Pipeline Firm Seeks Petroleum Business
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. filed with the Federal Power Commission to convert a 1 168 mile gas line from Baytown Texas to Moundsville West Virginia to transport 235 000 barrels of petroleum products daily. The plan includes building 382 miles of new 24 inch line and costed substitutes totaling 71 814 000 to preserve capacity.
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Shreveport
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp
Federal Power Commission
Baytown
Tex
Moundsville
W. Va
Beaumont
Louisiana
Kosciusko
Miss
George T. Naff
Fire Burns 30 Acre Field Near Gore
A southeast wind fed a blaze through a brush filled 30 acre field in the 500 block on Gore just before noon. Two engines arrived, extinguishing the fire after about an hour and forty five minutes as firemen fought from No 3 and Central stations. The field belonged to Fort Sill Indian School and locals reported a nearby gas tank in Council Heights.
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Gore
No. 3
Central
Fort Sill
Council Heights
Kidnapper Slain By Detectives In Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a gunman who kidnapped physician Dr. Albert N. Anton and his wife Mrs. Pauline Anton demanded 200 dollars and threatened death. Detectives, summoned as Mrs. Anton spoke with the suspect for a half hour, shot and killed the kidnapper while the wife remained with him in the car. The physician went to a Beverly Hills drug store to cash the ransom check during the standoff.
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Los Angeles
Pauline Anton
Albert N. Anton
Beverly Hills
Teachers Attend English Workshop at University of Oklahoma
Lawton and area teachers attend an English workshop at the University of Oklahoma. Mrs Velma Hoffman from Lawton leads the group alongside Roxie Plumlee of Cache and Mrs E L Lanmann of Geronimo. Four daily hours of classwork may yield two semester graduate hours.
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Lawton
Cache
Geronimo
University of Oklahoma
Lawton High School
Velma Hoffman
Baltimore Circle
Roxie Plumlee
E. L. Lanmann
Two Return From Credit Meeting
Mrs. Perman Henderson and Mrs. Dan Butler returned from San Francisco where they attended the 40th National Retail Credit Conference July 18 to 22 as delegates of the Layton Credit Women's Breakfast Club. Men on the meeting are ng submitted to the organization by each delegate.
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Perman Henderson
Dan Butler
San Francisco
National Retail Credit Conference
Lawton Credit Women’s Breakfast Club
Areng
Ada franchise put up for sale in Sooner State Baseball League
The Ada franchise in the Sooner State Baseball League is offered for sale by the Hereford Baseball Association. President Lawrence Sanford cites an asking price of 10060 dollars with a selling price of 5060 dollars after a board meeting. Sanford says he paid the payroll the last three times and will not again. Ada helped found the league in 1947.
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Ada
Okla
Sooner State
Hereford Baseball Association
Lawrence Sanford
Sanford
Gafford Nominated For Jaycee Presidency
Ewing Gafford a Lawton business man is nominated for president of the Oklahoma Junior Chamber of Commerce for 1955 56. Election set for next May. He has held multiple Jaycee offices and was named the states outstanding young man of the year last year with the Distinguished Service award. Local Jaycees submitted his name at a state board meeting in Enid with the Lawton delegation present.
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Ewing Gafford
Lawton
Oklahoma Junior Chamber of Commerce
Gafford
Jaycee
Jaycees
Enid
Gaf Ford
Marlin Keathley
J. W. Spencer
Cuffie Waid
Receiving Stolen Property Charged To City Pawn Man
Lawton pawn shop operator Kenneth Watters was charged with receiving a typewriter and adding machine taken during a burglary of Quality Beverage Co. Two Lawton men Milton Dale Perkins and Charles H. Meyers were charged with second degree burglary. an unnamed fourth man acted as go between and will not be charged. County Attorney Manville Redman presented the case and arraignments were held.
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Lawton
Quality Beverage Co
Kenneth Watters
Manville Redman
Milton Dale Perkins
Charles H. Meyers
Peace
Woodrow Giles
Redman
Wat
Army Announces Promos and Transfers Across Artillery Units
A military release from Washington lists numerous officers receiving promotions from 2d Lt to 1st Lt with dates of rank and names including Edward B. Vogel John D. Horner and many others. It notes transfers from Fort Bragg to Fort Sill and other assignments such as Raleigh to Fort Lewis and Washington to Kilmer.
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James E. Ramsey
David H. Souser
John H. Schnibben Jr
James P. Flood
Robert F. Hume
Daniel L. Criswell
Horace L. Hunter Jr
Mayle D. Mitzner
John P. Cooper
Robert H. Forman
Ernest J. Schultz Jr
Kenneth L. Myers
John H. Hesterly
Paul L. Redden Jr
Francis M. Rothwell
Francis R. Cipolla
Charles R. Rubie
Alfred D. Martin Jr
Robert F. Baisley
James H. Pierce
Andrew Mansinner Jr
Charles B. Guest Jr
Joseph E. Cartan Jr
Thomas N. Duffy
Roy J. Dittamo
William T. Comisky
James C. McCraw
Chesley Schart
Kenneth L. Chesak
Legrand W. Randall
Roger Gohrband
Harry G. Goode Jr
William E. Cooper Jr
William S. Grover
George G. Tucker Jr
Don W. Shaffer
Richard S. Frndy
James E. Rice
St. Julie
R. Marshall Jr
Richard A. Manion
Charles W. Mays Jr
Robert L. Holderman
Clifford G. Houchin
Matthew B. Lamer Jr
Daniel J. Walsh
Lloyd R. Kelly
Lawrence Means
Louis N. Levinson
William J. Rigby
Thomas E. Weber
Edward L. Williams Jr
Albert W. McDaniel
William F. Byron
Sylvester L. Wilhelmi
Jack G. Callaway
Frank M. Kulik Jr
Edward J. Kirby
Harry W. Brown
Hugh A. Leach
John W Lowden Jr
Frank R. Olcott
Leonard J. D'Eon
Edward A. Fraser
Wesley R. Bozone
Donald K. Blumenthal
Woodrow Kerce
Arty
Raleigh, NC
Ft Lewis
William Albergotti
Washington, DC
Kilmer
Paul de Wey
Ft Wiley
Ft Sill
William H. Bertsch Jr
Asg
William B. Rose
OAC
Sil
Murray Urnes Seeks Tax Relief for Industry
Oklahoma Governor Johnston Murray announced he will urge the 1955 Legislature to ask Congress to amend the Unemployment Compensation Law to allow transfer of merit ratings between states. He said moving firms into Oklahoma lose their low tax rate and face a 2.7 percent payroll tax for four years, delaying potential relief.
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Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
Congress
Murray
Jack Rhodes
The
Legislative Council
Oklahoma
Texan Amazed by Actor's $205000 Damage Suit
Dallas based insurance executive Bo Howard faced a $205000 damage suit filed by actor John Carroll in District Court. Carroll says he was punched by Howard at the Shamrock Hotel in Houston on April 8 and has been unable to work since.
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Dallas
Bo Howard
John Carroll
Carroll
Howard
Houston
Swank Shamrock Hotel
American Investors’ Life Insurance Co
Rubber Workers Still Seek Raise
In Cincinnati on July 27 195? CIO United Rubber Workers said at nine B F Goodrich Co plants they will continue working for substantial wage increases after voting not to strike. They stay on the job day to day, signaling support from Goodyear and B F Goodrich talks in Cleveland.
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Cincinnati
CIO United Rubber
B. F. Goodrich Co
Statehood for Hawaii and Alaska Fails in House Rules
Congress drops plan to send separate Hawaii and Alaska statehood bills to conference after Rules Committee rejects the move. The House had approved Hawaii statehood, while the Senate had voted to grant statehood to both territories, ending any immediate path to statehood this session.
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Washington
Congress
Hawaii
Alaska
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Indian Woman 105 Shares Life Philosophy For Longevity
Los Angeles reports Mrs. Tatcumbie DuPee a 105 year old Piute Indian offered her daily creed on her birthday. She says she lives each day for itself, believes in doing right, avoids worry, and relies on fresh food as her medicine.
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Los Angeles
Tatcumbie DuPee
Jet Transport Reaches 550 MPH In Test Flight
In Seattle Boeing reports its four jet 707 tanker hit 550 miles per hour, four fifths the speed of sound, during its third flight on July 19. The 15 million dollar aircraft climbed to 42,000 feet and is progressing ahead of schedule.
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Seattle
America
Boeing
Tillman Patrol Unit Announced in Oklahoma
In Frederick a permanent Oklahoma Highway Patrol unit of two troopers will serve Tillman county and part of Cotton county with headquarters in Frederick. Trooper Lindon L. Lovett, formerly at Waurika, joins the new local unit after four years there.
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Frederick
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Tillman County
Cotton County
Lindon L. Lovett
Waurika
Gunmen Rob Trail Drive-In Theater Near Enid
Two armed men wearing red bandanas held up the Trail Drive-In theater south of Enid Oklahoma on Monday night escaping with about 255 dollars. Cashier Louise Rinehart was uninjured and uncertain if the robbers fled on foot or by car. The film shown was Everything I Have is Yours.
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Enid
Okla
Trail Drive-In
Louise Rinehart
Trackless trolley ends up trolleyless in Baltimore mishap
Operator Willard Brannan drove trolley No. 10 into Bank Street and had passengers exit after a left turn miscue left the vehicle stalled. The incident left the trolley both trackless and trolleyless, with delays as vehicles queued behind.
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Baltimore
Willard Brannan
Broadway
Bank Street
Brannan
Severe storm toll in Kyushu floods and landslides
A violent rainstorm in Kyushu, Japan killed eleven people and injured three as floods swamped homes and rice paddies and triggered landslides. Kyodo News Service reported the toll last night.
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Kagoshima
Japan
Kyushu
Kyodo News Service
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