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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1954
Page
15
Senate Republicans debated offering a substitute if they lack votes to defeat a Democratic sponsored income tax cut. A key vote on the Democratic plan, boosting the $600 personal exemption by 100 dollars, was expected later in the afternoon.
Frank Grove, 69, a veteran of the Spanish American War and World War I, died in a Washington soldiers home. His unusual 45 degree angled tomb in Onarga will be opened and the body moved to be recased in fresh cement. Mortician Elmer Natterstad will remove, wrap, and reseal the body as instructed. The tomb bears the inscription He was well born and is sealed in cement beneath.
The Navy will modify catapults on all but two carriers after the May 26 Bennington explosion that killed over 100. Most ships use hydraulic catapults. the Intrepid and Hancock use steam. Navy cites suspected catapult ignition as the probable disaster cause.
Senator Mundt prepares a closed door session to receive Pentagon findings on two Senate Investigations staffers who have not been cleared to access secret Defense documents. The panel also weighs Army case materials on former Maj. Irving Peress as McCarthy pins blame on Army officials for his discharge.
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill said unity of English speaking peoples is unbroken and unbreakable and pledged to press forward with plans for a free nation alliance in Southeast Asia. Senators noted only cautious progress and stressed no formal steps before French-Communist talks on Indo China. The ANZUS Council meeting in Canberra expected to discuss a Southeast Asia anti-Communist alliance with Secretary Dulles and New Zealand’s Leslie Knox Munro attending.
A Chinese trade delegation opened discussions with the Sino British trade committee at the London Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. A committee spokesman said the talks would cover a number of general questions in Anglo Chinese trade relations.
Alva Oklahoma officials request residents to limit yard sprinkling and general water use until a new booster and three wells are completed. Demand has risen by about a half million gallons above prior peak summer loads.
Norman Okla The University of Oklahoma reports summer enrollment at 3269, up from 3004 a year earlier. Dean J E Fellows notes 107 more students in the School of Medicine in Oklahoma City.
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