Long Range Fort Sill Sill Plan Revealed as Disaster Hay Program
Oklahoma delegates pressed for an emergency disaster program as Army plans for Fort Sill long range construction valued near 5 million dollars surfaced. The tentative list includes NCO housing and various barracks and admin buildings, pending congressional authorization and higher-budget approval.
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Solons
Charle Hasset
Special
Washington Service
Washington
Army
Fort Sill Okla
Rep
Wickersham
D-Okla
Department of the Army
Congress
ROTC Camp Ends At Fort Sill After Six Weeks
A final review at Fort Sill ends a six week ROTC summer camp with 1 562 Reserve Officers Training Corps students from 63 colleges and universities earning commissions as second lieutenants. The Jacksonville State Teachers College student corps commander of the day leads, with Lt Col Neal W Harris and Lt Col Hayden Gill present. The camp band also performs as the officers receive their gold bars and orders to report to duty.
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College
Fort Sill Pass
Edward 7. Wiliams
Artillery Center
Hayden Y. Grubbs
Norman C. Propes
Jacksonville State Teachers College
Jacksonville
Ala
Bill Dixon
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Fort Sill
United States
U. S. Army Reserve
Sill
Lucas Field
Army
Billy Ray Boul Ton
Ray E
Boulton
Maple
Lawton
Boul Ton
Ton High School
Oklahoma University
Neal W. Harri
Pms&t
Col
Hayden Y. Gi I
Jacksonville State College
U.S
Little Jacksonville State
Teachers College
Alb
ROTC
97Th
Gary Picks Harkey For House Speaker If He Wins Election
Oklahoma City representative B E Bill Harkey is named as next House speaker if Raymond Gary wins the gubernatorial race. Harkey to serve his third term, with Jim Ballard as floor leader and Lou Allard as assistant. Senate leaders are Don Baldwin or Ray Fine. The move follows Gary's bid to unify the Democratic Party for the general election against Reuben Sparks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
B. E
Bill) Harkey
House
Raymond Gary
Madill
Harkey
Jim Ballard
Duncan
Lou Allard
Drumright
Ballard
Senate
Gary
Don Baldwin
Anadarko
Ray Fine
Gore
Govenor
William ©. Coe
Atorney
Legislative Council
Reuben Sparks
Woodward
Coe
Lly. Coe
Johnston Murray
Coe Considers Opposition After Runoff to Gary Nomination
In a statement after losing the Democratic runoff by 17,000 votes, Coe left open opposing Raymond Gary in the November general election. He urged Democrats to unite but did not commit, saying he would wait for full facts before deciding and urged party workers to hold the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain Gary
Raymond Gary
Gary
Coe
Lawton ends 23 day 100 degree heat streak with 99 high
Lawton's 23 straight days of 100 degree maxima ended as the day’s high failed to top 99. Forecasts predict near 100 today and Friday with partly cloudy skies and a cooling Southeast. Night lows around 75 and a 92 at 11 am mark, while regionwide rain is possible in extreme southeast and south-central Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Mercury
Tomorry
Youthful Brookline killer confesses to “perfect crime”
An 18 year old Brookline student confessed to killing dressmaker Mrs. Schonarth with a rolling pin in a bid for the perfect crime. He pleaded not guilty and was held without bail for an August 5 hearing. Police say he acted after an overwhelming impulse to kill while paying for a raincoat repair.
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Brookline
Mass
Orahonarth
Dist
Myron Lane
Prond
Joseph Mahoney
Blumenthal
Koreans To Start August Sill Class
A class of officers from the Republic of Korea will begin studies August 2 in the Special Allied Offfi ced Course No. 3 at Fort Sill. Forty-seven ROK officers including four brigadier generals will take the course lasting to mid November. Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Watlington welcomed the men at McNash Hall. Generals in the class are Lee Blak Woo Kim Dong Kon Lee Kee Kon and Kang Tae Min.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic of Korea
Brigadier Generis
Thomas M. Watlington
Welcom
Fort Sill
McNas Hall
Lee Blak Woo
Kim Dong Kon
Lee Kee Kon
Kang Tae Min
Parade To Honor Gen Brittingham At Lawton Retret Review
Lawton guests attend a 5 15 p m parade and ceremonial retreat review at Lucas Field honoring Brig Gen James F Brittingham retired after 38 years service as commanding general of the Artillery Center Col Stewart Yeo leads about 2000 officers and men past the reviewing stand with The Sith and 97th Army Bands and drum and basle corps from 17th and 77th FA Gps in attendance Distinguished guests include Gen and Mrs Brittingham Maj Gen and Mrs Edward Williams Brig Gen and Mrs Watlington Brig Gen and Mrs Hutton Maj Gen Ret and Mrs Pennell Mayor and Mrs McCain plus other officials and families A daughter and son in law of Gen and Mrs Brittingham will be in the stand See BRITTINGHAM Page 2
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Lawton
Artillery Center
James F. Brittingham
Lucas Field
Brittingham
Fort Sill
Lawtoniang
Stewart Yeo
Sith
97Th Army
77Th FA
Edward ‘T
Carl I Hutton
Ralph McT. Pennell
Joseph McCain
Frank Kitchens
James G. Knox
Artllery Center
John Lee
Artillers Page
Smith Proposes Senate Committee to Probe McCarthyism
Senator H Alexander Smith proposes a six member Senate committee with Vice President Nixon to investigate and report on McCarthyism and suggests replacing a censure motion with his plan. Key leaders like Knowland and Flanders discuss timing and strategy as McCarthy faces Senate action and a potential new chief counsel is named for the Government Operations Committee.
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Washington
H. Alexander Smith
Nixon
McCar- Smith
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
Sen. Flanders
Flanders
Knowland
Calif
Smith
Republican Policy Committee
Democratic Policy Committee
Knowland Calif
Lehman
Senate Ligations
Government Operations Committee
Owen Brewster
Maine
Brewster
Subcommittee
Roy M. Cohn
Assistant Postmaster Retires Saturday Grover Ralston
Grover C. Ralston, longtime Lawton postmaster aide, ends nearly 50 years of federal service this weekend. His career began in 1906 as a Guthrie substitute city carrier and progressed through clerk, assistant superintendent at Fort Sill Camp Doniphan, and other posts.
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Grover Ralston
Grover C. Ralston
Lawton
Wat
Bennie Stens
Ralston
Guthrie
Combined Postal Service
Fort Sil
Doniphan
Eet
Sill
Winnie Faces Confidence Vote On Suez Zone Pact
In London a Tory split threatens Churchill as 40 rebels ready to vote against the Suez Canal Zone pact. The House of Commons faces a key vote on approval to withdraw Britain's 83,000 troops, with Labour and some peers unsettled by the plan. Prime Minister Churchill relies on Socialists for majority support.
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Winnie
Suez Zone
London
Britain
Suez Canal Zone
Egypt
Churchill
House of ‘Commons
Church
Ils
Parlia ‘Ment
Canal
Commons
House of Lords
Lord Reading
House
Lord Salisbury
of Commons
Dr Joe Lansden Dies in Lawton at 45
Dr Joe Lansden prominent Lawton oral surgeon died at 9 20 p m Wednesday at Memorial Hospital from a coronary occlusion He had been hospitalized since Tuesday after suffering a heart attack en route to perform dental surgery Services are set for 2 30 p m Saturday at Centenary Methodist Church with burial in Highland Cemetery His career tied to Lansden Dental Clinic obituary notes civic church and fraternal memberships born 1908 in Willow Grove Tennessee moved to Oklahoma in 1913 married Lucille Gooch in 194? The Lansdens moved to Lawton See LANSDEN Page 2
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Price Lansden
Memorial Hospital
Lawton
Memorial
Rotary Club
Centenary Methodist Church
J. Walter Browers Jr
Strange Check Fools City JP in Lawton
Justice of the Peace Woodrow Giles hunted an elderly Lawton man after a $40 check fooled him. Burr Richards, 60, jailed on a drunken charge, expected to pay his fine, but a stranger handed Richards a forged check. The JP assessed 35 dollars and 15 dollars in costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the
Woodrow Giles
Lawton
Burr Richards
Richards
U S Won t Back Rhee In Asian War Stance Fluctuates
Washington July 29 United States lawmakers signaled opposition to fully supporting South Korean President Syngman Rhee in his planned war of liberation in Asia. They praised his resolve to defeat communism but criticized using terror and wholesale destruction as tactics.
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Washington
Syngman Rhee
Asia
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Wickesham
Tion Hospital
Transportation Corps and Finance Office
Oklahoma
Senee
S. Kerr
Department of Agriculture
Kerr
Victor Wickersham
Ed Edmondson
Carl Albert
Kenneth L. Scott
Agriculture Credit Service
HE. Reed
Isda Livestock Division
Mike Monroney
Scott
Reed
Drou
Gen. Brittingham
Solon
Mae West
Sahara Hotel
Las Vegas
Nev
Miss West
Joe Lansden
Lansden
Granite High School
Kansas City University Dental College
University of Tennessee
Lansdens
Fools City
Rhee
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