Glubb Fired as Jordan Commander Escorts Leave Amman
Lt General John Bagot Glubb was dismissed as Jordan army commander and escorted out of Amman under 16 tanks. King Hussein and PM Samir el Rifai ordered his removal to place the Arab Legion under Arab control amid anti Western sentiment. Glubb leaves for London with his family. his successor is Maj. Gen. Radi Ounabb.
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Amman
Jordan
John Bagot Glubb
Hussein
Middle East
Arab Legion
Foreign Office
London
Glubb
Israel
Britain
Syria
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Baghdad
Samir el Rifai
Radi Ounabb
Judge Delays Casement Suit In Lawton Dam Site Case
A 10 day continuance was granted at the request of defendants in a land easement suit by the City of Lawton to test property near Elgin for dam site feasibility. Judge Robert S. Landers reset the case for 10 a.m. March 12. The city sues Earl F. Ingram and Lillian Ingram who own the land eyed for a municipal reservoir. Defense counsel said they had only three days to prepare.
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Lawton
Elgin
Robert S. Landers
Earl F. Ingram
Lillian
Lawton High to Dedicate Modern Auditorium March 22
Lawton High School schedules formal dedication of its ultra modern 1,400 seat auditorium at 7:30 p.m. March 22 before the school play Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. Principal Hugh Bish announced the event with Jerry Brammer as dedicatory speaker and Superintendent John Shoemaker attending with board members.
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Lawton High School
Hugh Bish
LHS
Jerry Brammer
John Shoemaker
Board of Education
Coal Ford
Ginger
Louisiana moves to outlaw NAACP
Baton Rouge Louisiana moves to dissolve the NAACP under an anti Klans law seeking to block the civil rights group efforts. Attorney General Fred S Leblanc seeks injunctions and aims to force NAACP to file annual membership lists with the secretary of state. Dist Judge Coleman Lindsey ordered the group and 12 defendants to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not be issued by March 19.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
NAACP
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Fred S. Leblanc
Klu Klux Klan
Dist
Coleman Lindsey
Lucy Case Near Total Confusion
Autherine Lucy, a Black student, seeks readmission to the all white University of Alabama as trustees act amid confusion hours after a federal judge orders her readmission. She was suspended February 6 after campus riots. her attorney vows possible further legal action while Lucy travels in New York for medical rest.
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Birmingham
Ala
Autherine Lucy
University of Alabama
H. Hobart Grooms
University
Arthur D. Shores
Lucy
New York
Married plea ends criminal case after wedding
A criminal case was settled in a civil ceremony when Billie Burke and an 18 year old girl who accused him of harming her on a country road married Thursday afternoon. County Attorney Manville Redman moved to dismiss the incident count after the wedding.
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Manville Redman
Billie Burke
Burke
Marvin E. Cameron
Chester Burke
E. B. Wallis
Warm, dry weather persists across Oklahoma today
Lawton and the state enjoyed warm dry conditions with 11 am Lawton reading at 59 and a yesterday high of 70. The U.S. Weather Bureau forecast little prospect of general moisture for the next five days with daytime highs in the 60s and a 33-degree low noted last night.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Plane Crash Kills Sisters and Two Others
Four people died in a twin engined crash northeast of Okmulgee Oklahoma. Victims were Jerry Jarboe 20 Tulsa and his sister Mrs James Henry Patterson Rex O Gibson Tulsa a Ross Aviation flight instructor and William Christian Tulsa. All bodies severely burned. Jerry recently passed a commercial check ride and was practicing multi engine flight. Gibson a Tulsa Fire Department driver and instructor.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Here
Jerry Jarboe
Joe Jarboe
Tulsa
James Henry Patterson
Rex O. Gibson
Ross Aviation Co
William Christian
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Livestock Commission
Jarboe
West Indies
Howard Treat
Natura
Treat
Randy McCarrell
KHBG
Jerry
Christian
Ross School
Pan-American Airways
Missouri
Gibson
Tulsa Fire Department
G. N. Paris
Security Chief To Visit Center
Lt Gen Ralph J Canine director of the National Security Agency will arrive for a four day visit. He will address Officer Candidate School and attend the graduation in Snow Hall auditorium. He plans meetings with Brig Gen J E Theimer and will tour Snow Hall McLain Hall and the post including the post exchange golf club officer’s mess and barracks. He commanded XII Corps in Europe during World War II and became head of the Armed Forces Security Agency in 1951.
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Ralph J. Canine
National Security Agency
Department of Defense
Canine
Snow Hall
Ralph J. Canine Jr
J. E. Theimer
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
OCS
New Barracks
Gaffey Hall
McLain Hall
Post Museum
XII Corps
Europe
Armed Forces Security Agency
Four Jets Collide In France Air Clash
STRASBOURG France UP Four Royal Canadian Air Force jet fighters collided in a close formation dive and crashed near Strasbourg on Friday. Three pilots were killed and one is missing as rescue efforts continued.
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Strasbourg
France
Royal Canadian Air Force
Here
Government Rejects Boy Offer Of Dog For Blind
12 year old Edwin Lutcher of Lake Geneva Wisconsin offered his six month old German shepherd Smokie Boy to a blind veteran. VA official Harvey Higley publicly thanked him but explained the VA no longer advises dogs for the blind. He urged Edwin to keep the dog and described training blind veterans to use a long cane instead.
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Washington
Edwin Lutener
Lake Geneva
Wis
Harvey V. Higley
Edwin
Edwin Lutcher
Blina
Smokie Boy
Milwaukee Veterans Administration Office
Higley
Bandits Learn Bank Routine Then Robbed Port Chester Bank
Two pistol wielding robbers kidnapped teller Mary Kostolos in Port Chester New York held her for 10 hours and stole 188000 from a drive in bank The pair studied bank routine questioned the teller about signals and opening times then entered the front door with her key and fled as police watched nearby on patrol
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Port Chester
N.Y.P
The
County Trust Co
Long Island Sound
New York City
Mary Kostolos
White Plains
Ernest Marino
Lee
Fine Dogs Vie For Honors Sunday At Fort Sill Show
About 350 top bred dogs from the Lawton Fort Sill area will be shown Sunday in Honeycutt gym Fort Sill. Nelda Stephens a Lawton veterinary hospital sponsor notes the event offers a view of all breeds and a chance to visit the grooming room with breeders. The Lawton Fort Sill Kennel Club sponsors the show which starts at 9 a.m. and runs through the day with a final event at 7 p.m. Exhibits include sporting hounds terriers working dogs toy and nonsporting breeds all at least six months old and pure bred in breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club. Dogs shown in conformation must be healthy and able to reproduce. no altered blind deaf or permanently lame dogs, and faking is penalized. Except for trimming the dogs will appear in natural state. The AKC backs shows nationally and licenses judges show superintendents professional handlers and keeps records of championship points. See DOGS Page 2.
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Lawton-Fort Sill
Honeycutt
Fort Sill
Nelda Stephens
Lawton
United States
American Kennel Club
AKC
Harolds Club Sells for 14 Million to San Francisco Firm
Harolds Club, Nevada’s biggest gambling enterprise with 70 games and 800 slot machines, sold for about 14 million dollars to Morgan-Agostini Properties Co. of San Francisco led by Jules J. Agostini Jr. The deal includes the club, its parking garage, a million-dollar motel, a trap shooting country club, warehouses, ranchland near Reno, and over 2,500 Harolds Club highway billboards in 41 states.
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Renop-Harolds Club
Nevada
San Francisco
Jules J. Agostini Jr
Agostini
Morgan-Agostini Properties Co
San Francisco Bay Area
Harolds Club
Reno
Cocky GOP Hopes To Win Congress
Republicans confident of winning with President Eisenhower focused their strategy for 1956 today on sweeping congressional candidates to victory with him. The plan looks ahead beyond the vice presidency and health questions, crystallizing at a party powwow of national committee members state chairmen and Republican lawmakers.
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Washington
Eisenhower
National Committee
Senate
House
Mud Slide Kills Idaho Boy Buries Another Alive
Heavy rains and March winds drove a quarter mile wide earth slide north of Wal lace Idaho, killing a 10 year old Tim Spencer and trapping another boy Leroy Bell for about three hours. Rescue crews extracted Bell and treated a shocked survivor while thirteen others were rescued from wrecked homes. Farther east, strong winds up to 75 mph battered Ohio and nearby states as a cold front moved in.
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United Press
Idaho
Wallace
Tim Spencer
Davenport
Leroy Bell
Mississippi
Ohio
Appalachians
Columbus, Ohio
Federal
Columbus
Ind
Kansas
103 Koreans Killed In Slide At Korean War Battle Site
A massive snow slide roared down Punchbowl battleground near Seoul, crushing 83 army barracks and leaving 78 known dead, 25 missing believed dead, and 54 injured. Helicopters aided rescue as authorities expected the toll to rise with clearer communications. Snow reached 19 feet after a heavy storm.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Army
Two More Seek Council Posts
Six candidates are officially seeking city council seats. Ed Pannell, a former councilman, filed for Ward 3 against E. W. Kirkpatrick who plans to run again. Buck Kinsey and Marshall Looney filed for Ward 2, joining Stitt Pair, W. R. Morris, and D. L. Shelton already in the race.
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Ed Pannell
E. W. Kirkpatrick
Buck Kinsey
Marshall Looney
City Bottling Company
Stitt Pair
W. R
Bob) Morris
D. L. Shelton
Pineau Criticizes Western Policy Emphasis on Security
French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau challenged Western policy focus on military security in a luncheon address to American and British reporters. He urged more peaceful proposals, arguing public sentiment favors peace over coercive displays, and criticized SEATO naval maneuvers off Thailand and the Bulganin Khrushchev India tour as less significant than genuine peace efforts. Pineau called his remarks friendly criticism and hoped for no misunderstandings.
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Paris
Christian Pineau
Wester
Pineau
United States
SEATO
Coas
Thailand
India
Blast Opens New Etna Lava Mouth Near Zafferani
A powerful eruption on Mt Etna has ripped open a fresh lava mouth, sending a 500 foot wide flow toward orchards and houses. Anxiety rose in Zafferani as several nearby villages faced advancing molten lava threatening the volcano’s sloped settlements.
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Zafferani
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Zafferin
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Sen
Walter Allen
Sam Williams
Chickasha
Williams
Lucy Case
Boy
Lake Iveanhoe
Johannah Cargill
Kennel Club
Cocky Gop
Congress
Idaho Boy
Etna
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