Guatemala Rebels Warn of General Air Attack Over Junta
Guatemala rebels refuse to recognize Col Diaz’s junta and vow a general air assault on Guatemala City targets if their seven peace conditions are not met. Arbenz Guzman resigned, Diaz heads the ruling junta amid insurgent threats and fighting with the Companions.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Guatemala
Communist Party
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Carlos Enrique Diaz
Army
Buenos Aires
U. S
Whiting Willauer
Esquipulas
Willauer
Guatemala City
Col. Diaz
Arbenz
Diaz
Logan Campaign Hits Southwest Oklahoma For Governor Bid
State Sen Bill Logan intensified his bid for the Democratic nomination touring southwest Oklahoma. He invited supporters to an open house at the Skirvin and spoke in Chickasha Anadarko Carnegie Hobart Granite Mangum Hollis Altus Lawton Elk City Sulphur Ada Seminole Okmulgee Henryetta and other towns with radio coverage planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Logan
Oklahoma
Logan
Skirvin
Chickasha
Anadarko
Carnegie
Hobart
Granite
Mangum
Hollis
Altus
Lawton
Elk City
Tus
Ada
Seminole
Okmulgee
Henryetta
Berry Presses For Patrol Car To Attend Funeral
Oklahoma City June 29 up Lt Gov James E Berry sought another patrol car and trooper to attend the Chickasha funeral of Reford Bond. Safety Commissioner Bellatti ordered no off duty cars used for non patrol work and noted 136 of 168 patrol cars in service. Berry, seeking re election, had taken a patrol car and trooper to a bridge dedication earlier. He failed to obtain a car and the governor’s office was told none were available. He was in Stillwater court and could not be reached.
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Oklahoma City
James E. Berry
Highway Patrol
Berry
Lawrence F. Bellatti
Panhandle
Murray
Bellatti
Stillwater
New Peak in Traffic Crackdown Forty Two Arrests
Oklahoma highway patrols under Gov. Murray’s order report a peak with 42 traffic complaints filed by County Attorney Manville Redman. Radar patrols on major routes, including an unmarked car, dominated Saturday and Sunday as 24 speeding charges emerged and 13 arrests came from the unmarked unit.
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Oklahoma
Murray
Manville Redman
C. T. Raley
Raley
Ryan
Jefferson County
Roadhouse
Waurika
McMahon Gift Secures Lawton Youth Center Fund
A McMahon Foundation donation of 1500 dollars completed the Lawton Youth Center fund raising task. Rev. Elbert Whitwell announced bids from Ike Williams and preparations for construction at Harmon Park with a planned early fall completion pending weather and approvals.
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Lawton
McMahon Foundation
Elbert Whitwell
Lawton-Fort Sill
Harmon Park
14Th and Bell
Comanche County Names New Assistant Home Demonstration Agent
Louise Kennedy, 21, a longtime farm resident and 4-H member from Davis, was named Comanche county’s new assistant home demonstration agent effective June 1. A May 1951 Oklahoma A&M graduate, she has won state and national awards in cherry pie baking and food preparation, and previously led in 4-H activities in Murray County.
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Comanche County
Louise Kennedy
H. L. Kennedy
Davis
Oklahoma A&m
A&m
Kennedy
Murray County
Sigma Delta Alpha
Stillwater
Iy. Hes
Oklahoma
Chicago
Davis High School
Blind Veteran Rescues Girls From Pascagoula River
Charles Vines a 22 year old blind Korean War veteran and former Marine rescued three teens from the Pascagoula River near Lucedale Mississippi. He dove in after Anne Louise Ball 18 Barbara Wood 15 and James Peacock aided but weakened by illness. Vines reached Anne Louise then Barbara and saved them, twice braving the swift current to pull Peacock from the river.
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Lucedale
Pascagoula
Charles Vines
1St Marine Division
Korea
James Peacock
Aene
Anne Telee Ball
Barbara Wood
Barbara
Anne Louise
British Plan to Quit Suez Zone Backed by US and Britain
The New York Times reports an agreed method for full withdrawal of about 80,000 British troops from the Suez Canal zone. Sources say Sir Winston Churchill and President Eisenhower would back evacuating over two years.
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New York
New York Times
United States
Britain
Suez Canal Zone
Washington
Dana Adams Schmidt
the Times
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
Russell
Rio flood in Texas kills four towns evacuated by 1500
A Rio Grande flood inundated at least seven towns including Ozona Texas killing four people and forcing 1000 to 1500 from homes. Civil defense reports damage at least two million dollars as troops and Red Cross respond and highway bridges face risk while a 60 foot crest is forecast.
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Langtry
Tex
Rio Grande
Ozona
State Civil Defense
Civil Defense Headquarters
Department of Public Safety
San Angelo
Abilene
Lubbock
Rio
Southern Pacific
Sunset Limited
H. A. Tenney
State Highway Department
West Texas
Holding Institute
Mathodist
Laredo
Andrew M. Gault
U. S
International Highway Bridge
Gault
Missouri Pacific National of Mexico
Willie's Copter Quits At Norman In Gov Race Tour
Mrs. Willie E. Murray opened her gubernatorial campaign with a helicopter takeoff from the governor’s mansion lawn in Oklahoma City. The craft stalled after a 20 mile hop and had to land at Norman due to mechanical trouble. She continued by car to Purcell, Pauls Valley, Durant, Coalgate, and Ada, with plans for more stops and a rally in Oklahoma City.
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Associated Press
Willie E. Murray
Norman
Murray
Teiaheeest City
Johnston Murray
William H. Murray
Jack Langley
Tulsa
Tt Center
Oklahoma
James E. Berry
Ike and Churchill Press Asia Defense Regardless of Indo China Talks
The leaders pledged to press forward with collective defense plans for southeast Asia despite Indo-China negotiations. They urged prompt European Defense Community ratification, support for US-France atomic cooperation, and warned the Communists to offer honorable terms to end the seven year Indo-China war.
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Ike
Churchill
Asia
Washington
Eisenhower
Southeast Asia
Indo-China
West
France
United States
Britain
Geneva
Pre
Ottawa
Canada
Area Boy and Girl Missing Six Days In Comanche County
A state wide alert failed to locate Charles Duncan Jr. 16 and Marie Lytle 18 who disappeared Wednesday from Sterling and Porter Hill. They were last seen in Duncan’s 1949 Mercury near Fletcher with little cash and minimal clothing. Authorities suspect foul play though no theory is given.
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Comanche County
Everett Hale
Hale
Charles Duncan Jr
Charles Duncan
Sterling
Marie Lytle
John Lytle
Porter Hill
Duncan
Fletcher
Lytle
Young Duncan
Rain Eases Heat With Scattered Thunderstorms
Weather update shows a cooler trend with partly cloudy skies today and tomorrow. Highs in the 90s western areas and near 100 in the east, with lows around 65 to 75, and a chance of scattered thunderstorms tonight across the western portion.
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Panhandle
Antenna Theft Reported From Cityan Home
An irate Lawtonian reported to police the theft of a 10 bar television antenna from his home while he was away last week. Neighbors saw two men in a green pickup leaving 810 Summit last Thursday. William Willetts, Fort Sill, said someone entered his car at the Jamboree club Saturday night and took his military and civilian clothes.
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Lawtonian
C. H. Davis
William Willetts
Fort Sill
Two Plane Crashes Kill 16 Persons and 36 Escape
Two crashes near Columbus Ohio and Riverside killed sixteen people and left thirty six others with minor injuries. A Navy plane collided with a Convair during approaches to Columbus airport killing two aboard the Navy craft. The Convair carried 31 passengers and three crew members with fourteen uninjured and about twenty treated for minor injuries. In Riverside a fuel tanker aircraft crashed into a mountain in fog, fourte en fatalities were reported and debris set brush on fire. The New York incident involved a Colonial Airlines plane whose nose landing gear locked on takeoff but landed safely at LaGuardia with passengers moved to the rear.
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United Press
Columbus
Ohio
Riverside
Air Force
New York
Colonial Airlines
LaGuardia
John R. Hoerath
Westerville
Donald Gavin Edgar
Convair
Altus Offers Aid To Airmen Kin After Tanker Crash
Altus civic and church groups mobilize to help families of eight of the 14 airmen who died in yesterday’s tanker crash near March Air Force Base California. The eight families are at Altus Air Force Base and include Capt John Phillips aircraft commander Ist Lt Robert Cincatta and others.
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Altus
Okla
Air Force
March Air Force Base
Calif
Altus Air Force Base
Mattie Williams
Associated Press
John Phillips
Ist
Robert P. Cincatta
Bernie Middaugh
James R
C. Edward Ck
Hospital Reports Truman Improved
Kansas City hospital updates former President Truman’s condition as improved to somewhat less serious. A spokesman says antibiotic experts from New York and California assist doctors. vital signs stabilize with temperature at 99 and no hemorrhage. Enteritis shows marked improvement and he is more alert and in better spirits.
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Kansas City
Truman
New York
California
Robert E. Adams
Research Hospital
George Lewis to Be Installed as Lions President Tonight
George Lewis manager of Cache Road Furniture company will be installed tonight as senerbenete of the Lawton Lions club. Installation ceremonies will be by Leslie Pain district governor at a ladies night banquet at 7 30 p m in the Old South cafeteria. Other 1954 55 officers to be installed include Hugh Bish first vice president Gafford second vice president Volney Erram fourth vice president Floydey secretary treas uaery Fratlife tail twister 4 Face Yala and Warren Chris Hold over J H Crosby in charge of lan arrangements and Warren Paul King new pastor of Wesley Methodist church. Musical entertainment.
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George Lewis
Cache Road Furniture Company
Senerbenete
Lawton Lions Club
Leslie Pain
Lawton
Old South
Hugh Bish
Gafford
Volney Eramm
Floydey
Treasuaery Fratlife
Face Yala
Warren Chris
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Fred Litsey
Jack F. Walker
William John Greet
McMahon
Whiz
Suez Zone
Willie
Call
Russia
Rose Garden
White House
Eee
Winston Churc
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Anthony Eden
Eden
Texas
Loren E Thompson
Irvin E. Gebhardtr
Black
Andy Black
Joseph C. Zemaitis Jr
Worcester
Mass
Eugene R. Johnson
Lions
J. H. Crosby
Warren Paul King
Wesley Methodist Church
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