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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1954
Page
9
The French high command said cease-fire talks with the Vietminh would be postponed until Tuesday. Officials noted the first discussions on armistice terms would involve six Vietminh officers and three French plus three Vietnamese officers meeting 25 miles north of Hanoi to discuss technical details.
The National Geographic Society reports Arizona farms yield higher revenue per acre than its mines and cattle country combined. Last year cotton averaged the state’s highest per acre yield.
Marked as a two day missing child Kathy Crandall was found near Kit Carson Pass by Alvin Van Dell a Pine Grove logger after he searched with a hunch. The girl had fallen and suffered minor injuries but was in good spirits after two cold nights. An ambulance took her to a Carson City home for care.
Hobart College players man the hotdog stand at all Hobart football games to fund a spring lacrosse junket. For three years proceeds cover travel and expenses for 24 players during a week-long tour in the south.
Dallas June 28 The NAACP opens its 45th annual convention and aims to expand the Supreme Court May 17 ruling against segregation beyond public schools to housing health facilities and all publicly supported areas. Thurgood Marshall and Dr Ralph Bunche headline speakers as delegates gather in Dallas for sessions at local Baptist churches.
Senate campaign manager Bob Jeffery claims Roy Turner’s Senate bid collapsed and accuses Tulsa World of news blackout denying Kerr rally coverage. He cites 16 500 attendees in Tulsa county and predicts Kerr will win statewide on July 6.
The Emperor and Empress hosted outgoing and newly accredited envoys at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Attending were Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki and Mrs. Okazaki. Guests included Canadian envoy Robert Wachew and wife, Yugoslav Minister Makso Bace and wife, Thailand Ambassador Luaga Phini-Akson and wife, and Cambodian Prince Norodom.
An east wind carried oil mixed with mud from a wild gas well near Jal New Mexico. The brown spray stained houses and cars as the well, one mile southeast of Jal, blew last Tuesday and now vents 50 to 60 million cubic feet of gas daily amid fears of a possible blaze.
Lionel Adams of Southbury was paged at a Shelton Connecticut theater. He left his seat and was confronted in the lobby by state trooper Glen Thomas who booked him on a charge of stealing a rowboat. He posted $100 bail and was released.
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