Sooner Solons Move To Force Sill Land Transfer
Oklahoma lawmakers push to transfer 10,700 acres of Wichita Wildlife Refuge to Fort Sill to expand firing ranges. House and Senate bills require Interior to transfer property, with Army搬 buildings moved from Camp Boulder and land returned if military use ends.
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Solons
Washington
Oklahoma
House
Senate
Wichita Wildlife Refuge
Fort Sill
Okla
Congress
Army
Interior Department
Secretary of the Interior
Douglas McKay
Victor Wickersham
Dokla
Mike Monroney
Robert S. Kerr
Camp Boulder
Fish and Wildlife Service
Wickersham
Charles R Davis
Cache
Ft. Sill
Northwest Kiwanis Plan Souvenir Pageant Program
Lawton's Northwest Kiwanis club announced plans to print a free 30 page two color souvenir program for the 1956 Wichita Mountains Easter Service. The booklet will include the Eastern service program, a Kiwanis history of Lawton, and stories and pictures of the Artillery and Guided Missile Center.
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Lawton
Northwest Kiwanis Club
Wichita Mountains
Jack Batten
Refuge
Walt Hutchins
Northwest Kiwanis
Holy City
Easter Service Association Board
Chamber of Commerce
Ernest Greenwalt
Hutchings
Kiwanis
23 Arrested By City Officers In Crackdown
Police detained 23 individuals on Wednesday for charges from carrying a concealed weapon to occupying a room for immoral purposes. Eight were held for public drunkenness, with two Fort Sill men turned to military authorities. Names include Jerry Wright and Mary Pekah among others, with various disorderly conduct, speeding, and following too closely charges. Three arrests were for investigation.
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Fort Sill
Jerry Wright
Arlington
Carlos E. Cabrera Munoz
Mary Pekah
Rt. 3
Prison AA Leader Falls at McAlester Penitentiary
J S Fast, serving a life term for a 1937 murder, is reported in bad repute after being seen drinking while a trusty at McAlester State Penitentiary. He worked at Stringtown Boys Training School handling livestock and leather craft. Assistant Warden Clint Gladden moved him from his duties after an investigation. punishment will be decided later.
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Mcalester
Okla
Alcoholics Anonymous
State Penitentiary
J. S. Fast
Muskogee
L. M. McLean
Fast
Stringtown
U. S. Highway 69
Clint Gladden
SILL BATTALION HISTORY TOLD BY FORT SILL UNIT
Osceola chief and Seminole braves are recalled as more than 30 men died in scalping battles. The Second First motto guides raw recruits at Fort Sill, with a mule on the coat of arms and stories of airlifted history. From Vera Cruz to Gettysburg and Korea, the battalion’s long service is traced through battles, trials, and a lasting defense role. Colonel Gordon R. Cubbison notes the unit's famed past and its influence on American heritage.
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Osceola
Worth
Vera Cruz
Buena Vista
City of
Mexico
Bull Run
Williamsburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Fort Sill
Panama
Gordon R. Cubbison
Oklahoma
France
Europe
Rhineland
Korea
White Horse Mountain
2Nd Field Artillery
America
Col. Cubbison
Donald Cubbison
Rape Suspect Wins Arraignment Delay
Arraignment of Billie Burke, 25 year old bartender, on a first degree rape charge was not held by noon as her delay request got approval from Peace Justice Marvin E. Cameronton. Burke is accused of criminally assaulting an 18 year old girl early Wednesday on a country road near Lawton.
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Billie Burke
Marvin E. Cameron
Burke
Charles Ozman
Lawton
County considers 40-bed hospital expansion plan
Hospital officials said matching federal funds would support a 40-bed facility rather than a smaller one. A hospital annex election resolution will be presented at Monday's county commissioners meeting in the courthouse. If approved, a $150,000 bond election would be held April 10 after publication. Preliminary design received tentative approval and Love will travel to Oklahoma City for further discussions with Snelson on project programming.
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Snelson
Woesner
Board of County Commissioners
Love
Oklahoma City
City Hears Appeal Against Core Test Work Plan
In Apa che a hearing urged resisting city core tests. Officials seek three appraisers to assess land damage to owners from engineering work. Land is the northwest quarter of Section 28, Township 4N, Range 11W. Survey aims to judge site suitability for a municipal water supply.
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Apache
City Man Accused Of Hitting Domino Player With Pipe
A 59 year old man faces assault charges after officials say Granville Latimer struck domino player B. F. Kaufman with a steel pipe in a local domino parlor. Peace Justice Woodrow Giles accepted the complaint. Latimer was jailed after city police arrest and detectives seized the pipe as evidence.
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Manville
Redman
Granville Latimer
Lawton Hotel
B. F. Kaufman
Peace
Woodrow Giles
Kaufman
Latimer
City
Otis Waldron
Eisenhower to Run Again but Campaign Plan Limits Travel
President Eisenhower said he would seek the GOP nomination in San Francisco but avoid an active campaign craft. He outlined a regime of work, rest, and mass communication, aiming to finish a full term and not be a personal candidate. Senators and governors weighed the health issue against party prospects and the speed of a nationwide effort.
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Voice of America
Eisenhower
GOP
San Francisco
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Robert Montgomery
Sen. Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Sen. Sparkman
Alabama
Sparkman
Paul M. Butler
Butler
Rep
Udall
D-Ariz
Carlson
R-Kan
Kansas
Nixon
White House
Russell
D-Ga
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Knowland
California
Showalter Named Assistant Director of Gunnery at Fort Sill
Col Wilbur E Showalter is appointed assistant director for gunnery at The Artillery and Guided Missile School Fort Sill He previously commanded the 703rd Tank Destroyer Battalion served in five campaigns in Europe and earned the Bronze Star and Belgian Fourragere He is a USMA 1939 graduate and has taught in the gunnery department at Fort Sill from 1946 to 1948.
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Wilbur E. Showalter
Fort Sill
703Rd
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Showalter
Lucille
Ned
Lindsay
Red Cross appoints district lieutenants in several areas
Mrs. John Duke and Mrs. Arch Parmenter Jr. head the Red Cross in the Garfield and Andrew Jackson districts with numerous lieutenants named. District captains include Mrs. C. A. Prestage and Mrs. Bob Booth, while Garfield area lieutenants include Kathryn Nims and Er NES t Winters. In Emerson school area, Captain Mrs. Roland Croft lists many assistants.
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Howard G. Mueller
Kermit D. Reel
Carl J. Riley
James E. Wells
Roland Croft
Emerson School
George Whitten
Joe Stowe
James Black
Leslie Meeks
Fred Larrance Jr
Harold Olin
Joe Howenstine Sr
Walter Brown
Harry Hailey
Gordon Dayton
Guy Hammond
Sigmund Chimielewski
Henry Welker
Jack Wolf
Austin Parker
Schubert
Ruth Coley
Cache Seeks Land for School on Indian Property
The city of Cache Oklahoma and its school district filed separate condemnation suits in federal court on Thursday against owners of 20 acres of Indian land sought for a school site and playgrounds, aiming to secure the property for public use.
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Oklahoma City
Cache
Okla
Federal District Court
Legal institute to host three head line speakers
Delegates will hear Fred Mack U S district attorney Paul Dun can Oklahoma City attorney and Winfrey Houston Stillwater chair man of the public relations committee of the Oklahoma Bar Assn. Howard Tumilty Oklahoma City chairman of the continuing education committee will assist. All federal judges Supreme Court justices and Criminal Court of Appeals justices invited. Wives of visiting attorneys feted at an afternoon tea and may tour The Artillery and Guided Missile Center. Brock said Stewart Harral director of the institute of public relations at the University of Oklahoma will attend and speak at the banquet.
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Legal Institute
Fred Mack
U.S
Paul Duncan
Oklahoma City
Winfrey Houston
Stillwater
Oklahoma Bar Assn
Howard Tumilty
Oklahoma Bar
Supreme Court
Criminal Court of Appeals
Brock
Stewart Harral
Institute of Public Relations
University of Oklahoma
Lucy's Return to University Sparks Violence Fears
Alabama judge warned the return of the Negro coed could be disastrous and deadly, predicting she would be killed if she came back. Thurgood Marshall objected to that remark, which was later stricken. Miss Lucy, victorious, thanked the court and said she hopes to be a credit to the university.
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Grooms
Alabama Circuit Court
Reuben Wright
Tuscaloosa
Wright
Oliver C. Carmichael
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP
Miss Lucy
Wanderer of the Skies: The Wandering Albatross Soars
A giant seabird, the wandering albatross, is noted as the largest flying bird. Report cites a specimen with a wingspan of eleven feet four inches, highlighting its remarkable flight power and reach across oceans.
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