Galbraith Tells Tale Of Murder
In a three hour interview at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Dr. Ben Galbraith recounts the plan to kill his wife Kitty and their four children, the botched attempt, and the subsequent killings by poison and arson. He speaks of mental illness, marital strain, and Christmas at home before the New Year’s Day decision to end them all. His confession revises the crime’s lead up with new details from his time at the clinic and the years of therapy.
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Calester
Okla
Ben T. Galbraith
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Galbraith
Kitty
Frank
Jere
Sarah Ann
McAlester
Oklahoma City
Norman
Memphis
Two British Patrols Fight Off Cypriots
In Cyprus, two British security patrols were ambushed by Cypriot extremists resulting in two deaths and at least ten wounded. A British officer died, while several attackers and British soldiers were injured during clashes near Nicosia and in the Troodos mountains. Police evictions and punitive house closures followed as British forces tightened control.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Rizokarpasso
Troodos
Gordon Highlanders
Khandria
Martin Clemson
Lawton Lands 1957 Southwest District OEA Convention
Lawton won the 1957 Southwest District meeting of the Oklahoma Education Association to be staged in Lawton or next year. More than 2,000 educators and admins are expected to attend the two day event at Southwestern State College Weatherford. Dates to be set after the OEA board meeting April 18 at Hobart. See CONVENTION Page 5.
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Lawton
Oklahoma Education Association
OEA
Southwestern State College
Weatherford
Altus
Hobart
John Shoemaker
Chamber of Commerce
Ward McCracken
Roosevelt
C. R. Ellsworth
C. R. Holley
Law
General Council
Oklahoma
Shoemaker
Central Junior High
Pageant Cast Puts Music Through Rehearsals
The 1956 Wichita Mountains Easter Service pageant at Holy City prepares with Sunday afternoon rehearsal adding music as part of a series of practices that began in February. Palm Sunday at 2 30 p m marks the last afternoon session, with a night run under lights planned for March 28. The event draws thousands of Oklahomans and tourists, with several new scenes and the theme Are Ye Able. More than 1 500 participants from Oklahoma and visiting officers are involved, and letters to Jack Batten indicate many will attend the last week of March.
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Wichita Mountains
Holy City
Jack Batten
Wichitas
Judea
Batten
Lawton
Comanches Okayed Break From Council
The Comanche tribe voted 252 to 142 at Fort Sill Indian School to leave the General Council of Kiowa Apache and Comanche Indians, possibly governing themselves. The split must gain approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Lawdis Gandy
Fort Sill
Bureau of Indian Affairs
City primary vote seen likely Tuesday in off year
Heavy campaigning marks a city primary to pick four council members all of whom are Democrats. Registration was strong though no statewide contest exists. Polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in each ward and results come within an hour after closing.
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County Election Board
Pauline Joyner
Lawton Constitution Press
Weather forecast for area cool with sunshine and temps
Partly cloudy and cooler today and tonight with high near 70. Saturday's high 77 and low 29. Weather outlook calls for a drop in temperatures into the weekend with brisk conditions and a chance of evening chill.
Cancer Study Kills Scientist
In Paris on March 17 Irene Joliot Curie, 58, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, died at Hospital Curie after a month there. A famed physicist and chemist, she and husband Frederic Joliot Curie won the 1934 Nobel Prize for chemistry for work on the atomic nucleus and the discovery of the neutron. Her death was attributed to acute leukemia brought on by exposure to dangerous radioactive materials during her research.
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Paris
Irene Joliot-Curie
Hospital Curie
Pierre and
Marie Curie
Frederic Joliot-Curie
Stalin Attacks Roil Kremlin Aides in Britain
London dispatches report Georgia riots and denouncements of Stalin as a murderous buffoon. Khrushchev leads a move to erase Stalin’s myth, while Malenkov’s nervous visibility suggests turmoil in the new Soviet leadership.
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London
Soviet
Georgia
Stalin
Kremlin
Washington
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Georgi Malenkov
Bivins Questions Northwestern Coed Murder Claim
Oklahoma officials weighed the death of Mildred Ann Reynolds, 22, found burned in her car near Alva. Crime Bureau head O K Bivins said he is not convinced a murder occurred, while autopsy found no evidence of rape. The victim was wife of Avard High School coach D R Reynolds.
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Alva
Okla
Dy — O. K. Bivins
State Crime Bureau
Northwestern State College
Mildred Ann Reynolds
D. R. Reynolds
Avard High School
Murder Trial Set Monday for Stevenson in Griffin Slaying
Horace Stevenson 49 of Lawton faces murder charges in the Jan 23 shooting at Frank Griffin Coffee Shop No 10 B. Defense says self defense. Judge Toby Morris will empanel a jury at 9 a.m. Griffin, 54, died from a chest wound. Rosie Bridgewater, a shop cook and mother of Stevenson’s son, testifies.
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Horace Stevenson
Lawton
Frank Griffin
Toby Morris
Douglass
Lewis Derke
Stevenson
Griffin
Frank
Rosie Bridgewater
Bridgewater
Quannah Dewberry
Johnny Rhodes
Fort Sillman
Earnest E. Brown
See Court
Quake toll rises in Lebanon with hundreds dead or missing
Lebanon suffered a second day of tremors with at least 132 dead 30 missing and 200 injured as rescue teams frantically searched ruined villages in the south and Chouf region. Beiruts reports say 20 000 homeless while Jezzine and Chaheem villages tally fatalities and heavy damage.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Chouf
Chaheem
Kfarhetta
$1.6 Million Bond Issue Called Vital
Lawton voters face a March 27 election on a 1.65 million bond to fund a new two story junior high school site at 31st and Ferris in Tomlinson addition. The plan aims to relieve overcrowding at Central Junior high, with capacity 1200 and total district enrollment over 2100.
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Board of Education
Sam Joyner Jr
Lawtonians
31St
Ferris
Tomlinson Addition
Tomlinson
John Shoemaker
Tomlinson Junior High
Lawton
Storm Rips Coast as Ships Ground in Severe Nor'easter
The March storm battered the Northeast with 70 mph winds, killing at least 71 people across states led by Massachusetts New York and Maine. Five ships including three destroyers and a frigate ran aground near Newport and Scituate as snow rain and high waves paralyzed travel and stranded motorists.
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New York
Maine
Virginia
Ohio
Canada
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
New Hampshire
Sturbridge
Auburn
Mass
Newport
R. I
Navy
Etrusco
Scituate
Fred Allen Dies On Sidewalk In New York
Union New York bulletin reports comedian Fred Allen died Saturday night on the sidewalk in front of his Madison Avenue apartment building. Police report details indicate the death occurred in the early hours before Sunday. The famous radio and television comedian was 61.
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New York
Fred Allen
Madison Avenue
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McAlester News
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Col
A. S. Britt Jr
52Nd Field Artillery Group
Carl D. Patterson Jr
246Th Field Artillery Missile Battalion
Lester McKenzie
Euclid
D. L. Shelton
Gore
Malenkov
Britain
Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
Ukraine
Bivins
U.S
Jezzine
Middle East
Israel
Bill Crawford
Bulletin
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