Sill ROTC Camp Ends In Review
Maj. Gen. James C. Styron, a former 45th Infantry Division commander, addressed 2,300 Fort Sill ROTC cadets urging them to uphold national strength against a godless despotism. He recalled his 1916 start in the regulars and noted his postwar civilian career as a Hobart businessman.
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James C. Styron
Hobart
45Th Infantry Division
ROTC
Fort Sill
A. M. Harper
Artillery Center
James Styron
Comna Rding
Alexander L. Avallon
LaSalle College
Artillery
Reorganization Set For Artillery School
Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Watlington arrives to assume assistant commandant duties at the Artillery School as Brig. Gen. James F. Brittingham moves to deputy commanding general at the Artillery Center. The center at Fort Sill will have three generals, with Maj. Gen. A. M. Harper announcing Aug. changes. The reorganization creates new command scopes, shifts executive roles, and transfers training duties to the Deputy Assistant Commandant, Col. George D. Crosby, as offices are realigned.
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Thomas M. Watlington
Korea
X Corps Artillery
James F. Brittingham
Watlington
Fort Sill
A. M. Harper
Brittingham
Hs Command
Fortill
Stewart Yeo
I Corps Artillery
Yeo
45Th
van Fleet
Col
George D. Crosby
Army Field Printing
Secre- See Artillery School
Wheat Allotment Vote Set August 14
Comanche county farmers and wheat growers nationwide will vote on August 14 to decide whether to keep the current acreage allotment or add a marketing quota system. The 1954 Comanche county allotment is set at 61,546 acres, down from last year, based on a two year average and weather factors.
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Comanche County
Bill Sieg
PMA
Drouth
Sieg
Four Given GG Shots In County
Comanche county reports only four residents qualified for gamma globulin shots as the first shipment of 80 cubic centimeters of blood antibodies was issued. Dr. Royce B. Means says serum is limited to household contacts of polio patients and one expectant mother. He notes GG slightly reduces paralysis risk but is not a true polio preventive.
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Comanche County
Royce B. Means
County City Health Department
Means
FBI Cracks Down On Top U. S. Reds
In Philadelphia on July 30 the FBI seized six Communist party leaders, catching the city’s top official as he emerged from underground meetings. They face charges of teaching and advocating overthrow by force and violence, part of a nationwide crackdown that brings total arrests to 87 party officials nationwide for conspiracy to violate the Smith Act.
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Philadelphia
FBI
Communist Party
Eisenhower Seeks Rise In National Debt Limit
President Eisenhower urged congressional leaders to raise the national debt limit with talks ongoing. The current legal limit is 275000 billion while the debt topped 272 billion. lawmakers weighed timing and amount, mindful that early action could delay adjournment. The two-hour session included Democrats and Republicans and set the stage for further consultations before any decision.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Eugene D. Millikin
R-Colo
Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of Treasury
Congress
Senate
Dying Tulsa Mother Delivers Baby by Caesarean
In Tulsa a young woman with incurable cancer gave birth to a healthy five-pound girl via cesarean on Thursday. Doctors reported both mother Mrs. Huey C. Alford and the baby were doing well though she remained unconscious from anesthesia. The mother, who turns 20 next Sunday, said she wished to love her child as much as possible, and physicians arranged the delivery to fulfill that wish. Her prognosis remains poor with limited remaining days.
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Tulsa
Huey C. Alford
Alford
Baltimore
New York
Chicago
Boston
State Slams Door On Welfare Rolls
Oklahoma City July 30 public welfare rolls sealed again after State Welfare Director L. E. Rader ordered all 77 county directors to hide lists. He said opening them would cost the state three million dollars a month in federal matching funds as the law failed to meet federal requirements for funds.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
L. E. Rader
Rader
Washington
Britons Attack Dulles Over Red China Seat Clash
London and New Delhi condemn Secretary Dulles for a unilateral policy line on Korean peace talks. Attlee and Nehru press for Red China representation at the United Nations, urging a broad, united approach within the U.N. framework.
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London
United States
China
United Nations
New Delhi
Dulles
House of Commons
U. S
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Washington
Attlee
Churchill
U.N
U. N
Butler
Britain
France
Soviet Russia
People’s Republic of China
Australia
India
Turkey
Nehru
Mao Tze-Tung
U. N. Assembly
Taft In Rapid Decline Rumors Of Cancer Spread
New York hospital reports Senator Robert A. Taft worsened with marked breathing difficulty after a day of alertness. Eisenhower aide Maj. Gen. Snyder visited Taft and confirmed his decline. Arizona Daily Star correspondent William R. Mathews cites dying-of-cancer rumors from Washington, predicting weeks or days left, with undisclosed sources.
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New York
New York Hospital
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
M. C. Snyder
Taft
Snyder
Tucson, Ariz
William R. Mathews
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson
Washington
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Mathews
Dispatch
Booster Trip Heads Toward West Friday
A 30 car caravan departs Lawton Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 a.m. Friday to advertise an upcoming rodeo and pioneer celebration. The group will visit 13 towns, seek local talent, and decorate with posters before the August 3 parade and rodeo queen coronation.
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Marlow
Lawton
Booster Trip
Chamber of Commerce
Southernaires
Chattanooga
Frederick, Snyder
Altus
Mangum
Granite
Lone Wolf
Hobart
Gozebo
Mountain View Carnegie
Ft. Cobb
Anadarko
Lawton Rangers
Lawton Ranger
Pioneer Club
All UN POWs Ask For Home
Panmunjom reports that 12 763 Allied prisoners in North Korea seek repatriation in Operation Big Switch. Peiping Radio claims none of the Reds captives, including 3313 Americans, accepted propaganda. The first 600 Chinese prisoners reached Munson stockade before the exchange begins August 5.
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Panmunjom
Radio Voice of Red China
North Korea
Peiping Radio
United Nations
Red Planes Ignore Truce Deadline in Korea
Allied radar on Cho Island tracked large numbers of Communist warplanes after the cease-fire deadline, with planes reportedly taking off from Manchuria and landing in North Korea. The joint Military Armistice Commission eyed a face-to-face meeting of officers from Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia to police flows of personnel and arms. Red Cross workers from six nations outlined roles for repatriation of about 90,000 prisoners as plans for the exchange centered on Inchon. The U N and Allies traded accusations of violations, while air bases continued to be bombed and radar confirmed continuing activity after the deadline.
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Munsan
Manchuria
U. N
U. S. Air Force
Cho Island
North Korea
Korea
Joint Military Armistice Commission
Red Cross
Panmunjom
Panmunjo
Demilitarized Zone
Bryant
Bryan
Air Force
Violence at Enid taxi strike turns violent
Enid Oklahoma last night saw violence in the two month old taxi strike as a non striking cabby was abducted and beaten. Two Oklahoma City drivers were jailed for questioning in the attack. Sheriff Lelon Coyle condemned the tactic calling it near communism and vowed arrests to stop the violence.
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Enid
Oklah
Oklahoma City
Lelon Coyle
Coyle
Turnpike Backers Name Area Leaders in Southwest Oklahoma
Ron Stephens announces southwest Oklahoma county chairmen who will lead early turnpike campaigns in their areas. Charley Wade heads Comanche county with others including Oscar Brittain Tillman Vernon Davis Cotton Lee Frye Jackson Tom Armstrong Washita Gordon Stephens. They vow to organize against a statewide tax roads election while the Turner Turnpike model guides plans for three additional strips financed by private capital.
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Ron Stephens
Lawton
Oklahoma
Stephens
Southwest District
Charley Wade
Comanche County
Oscar Brittain
Tillman County
Vernon Davis
Cotton County
Lee Frye
Jackson County
Tom Armstrong
Washita
Gordon Stephens
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Turner
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Vacation Pac offers paper storage for travelers
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Red China
Heiping
NATO
West German
Free World
Mr. Dulles
Rhee
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
America
Janie Bardsher
Lydia McDuffie
Harold Wilson
Appar
Ing
Turnpike
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