Billy Graham Breaks Attendance Records in Britain Crusade
American evangelist Billy Graham nears the end of three weeks in London with Harringay Arena crowds surpassing 200 000. He adds auxiliary meetings in Elephant and Castle and plans outdoor Trafalgar Square events from April 3 while considering invitations across Europe.
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Britain
London
Harringay
Greater London
Graham
F. Towley Lord
World Baptist Federation
Billy
Elephant and Castle
Trafalgar Square
Scandinavia
Europe
Olympicium
Berlin
Police to Guard Docks as AFL Back-to-Work Push Aids
New York March 19 AP Mayor Wagner pledged police protection for all workers returning to the port waterfront amid a 14 day wildcat strike. AFL President Meany warned moblike IBU members would resist but said AFL could deploy workers to idle docks with state or federal support if needed.
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New York
AFL
Robert F. Wagner
George Meany
Meany
International Es Shoremen’s Union
Three New Oklahoma State Hospitals Approved
Dr. Grady F. Mathews, state commissioner of public health, approved three hospital projects in Oklahoma. An outpatient department will be added to the children's division at McAlester and an addition to St. John's Hospital in Tulsa plus work at another facility. Federal aid is anticipated and construction could begin soon.
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Oklahoma City
Grady F. Mathews
Sain to return to baseball with Yankees in Florida camp
Walnut Ridge bulletin reports Johnny Sain, former New York Yankee pitcher who retired last year, has left for the Yankee training camp in St Petersburg Florida and will resume his baseball career.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
Johnny Sain
New York Yankee
St. Petersburg
Fila
Man's Leg Mangled By Bone Grinder in Fort Worth
John Lewis Winters, 49, suffered a severe leg injury when his left limb was drawn into a bone grinder at Winters feed manufacturing warehouse in Fort Worth. He was trapped for about ninety minutes before workers dismantled the machine. hospital reports listed his condition as critical.
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Fort Worth
John Lewis Winter
Colors Return To State Parade At State Fair
Oklahoma City officials announced the 45th Infantry Division colors will be returned to the Oklahoma National Guard during a full division review on September 25 at the state fair. Baker, fair manager, and Maj. Sen. Hal Muldrow said the unit will march in review before the grandstand in its colors taken federal service in 1950 after the Korean War began.
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Oklahoma City
45Th Infantry
Oklahoma National Guard
Oklahoma
Boundary extension ordinance faces Legal challenge
State Supreme court declares an ordinance illegal that would extend the city limits to include the flat iron district east of the Rock Island railroad tracks. Other notes recall Rotary invocation, ward nominations, past ward changes, and local civic candidates.
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State Supreme Court
Flat Iron
Rock Island
Henry Langhelm
Raymond Field
First Ward
Jay V. McGee
Fifth Ward
R. C. Teague
Third Ward
Frederick Boy Takes Grand Champion Steer at State Show
Frederick youth Be Gary Longacre, 17, sold his prize Hereford steer for 2500 dollars as grand champion at the state 4 H and FFA junior livestock show in Oklahoma City. The animal fetched 250 dollars per hundredweight, bought by B D Eddie of Superior Feed Mills who will donate it to the Frederick Chamber of Commerce. Longacre plans to use the money as a down payment on 320 acres to start a purebred cattle herd. Gov. Johnston Murray acted as auctioneer as the show closed before 2000 spectators.
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Oklahoma City
Frederick
Gary Longacre
FFA
B. D. Eddie
Superior Feed Mills
Eddie
Frederick Chamber of Eve
Longacre
Gov
Johnston Murray
Barrow
Clara Kelley
Rodney Longacre
Hart to speak at Spartan Club lunch Saturday
Maj. Gen. Charles comm general from The Artillery Center will address Spartan Aircraft Corp members at a noon Saturday lunch. About 50 Spartan executives from Tulsa and Trenton are expected, with Fort Sill officers invited including Brig. Gen. Brittingham and Col. Washburn among others.
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Charles
Artillery Center
Spartan Aircraft Corp
James L. Martin
Spartan
Tulsa
Aviation Service
Fred
Aviation Service Vision
C. R. Hunter
Capt. Balfour
CL. Stratten
Hunter
A. J. Ming
Trenton
N. J. Fort Sill
Thomas M. Watlington
James F. Brittingham
Ape
George D.etby
TAC
Col
I Washburn
Hee Hayes
D. White
Edwin L. Harloff
Jack D. Smith
Thomas S. Rankin
T. R. MacKechnie
Robert J. Koch
William Stack
F. M. Specht
Red War Reporter Loses His Passport
Alan Winnington, British Communist party journalist, faced loss of citizenship after the British consul in Peiping refused to renew and confiscated his passport. He is accused of pressuring U.S. prisoner Col. Walker Mahurin for a germ warfare confession, which he denies.
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London
Alan
Worker
Britain
Communist Party
Peiping
China
Winnington
United States
U.S. Air Force
Walker Mahurin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Former Chattanooga Resident Bob Peeples Dies in California
Word has been received of the death of Bob Peeples, former Chattanooga resident, in Mountain View, California. He is survived by his wife Fern Pace Peeples of Chattanooga, two sons, three daughters, and a sister Flora Peeples, a former Chattanooga schools teacher. Funeral services and burial will be held in California.
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Chattanooga
Bob Peeples
Mountain View
Calif
Fern Pace
Flora Peeples
California
Mrs James Cherry convalesces after Wichita Falls surgery
Chattanooga report notes Mrs James Cherry is recuperating in a Wichita Falls Texas hospital following surgery. Her condition is described as improving as she receives medical care and rest.
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Chattanooga
James Cherry
Wichita Falls
Tex
Muskogee Judge Frees Bootleggers on First Day Back
Muskogee Oklahoma County Judge James Powell freed two liquor dealers on his first day back after grand jury accusations of maladministration. Jack Treadway and W L Mayfield were released on bonds of $500 each with sentencing deferred.
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Muskogee
Okla
James Powell
Powell
Jack Treadway
W. L. Mayfield
Pood Caine
Iion
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