Roads Open After Blizzard In Oklahoma Northwest
The Associated Press reports Oklahoma's snowbound Panhandle region eases as highways reopen overnight. Five deaths confirmed. Temperatures in the 30s melt 20 foot drifts, but power and telecom lines remain down. Beaver Boise City Shattuck Guyman Woodward affected. trains limited. schools closed. Weather forecasts call for warmer conditions with light precipitation possible tonight and tomorrow.
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Solons Like New Gary School Plan
Oklahoma City Gov. Raymond Gary reports House floor leaders support a state per child spending limit for schools. The proposal would cap state aid to a level between 250 and 275 dollars with excess costs funded locally. Supporters see it as a path to eliminate small districts without mandatory reorganization. A conflicting voice says the delay may push talks back a week or two.
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France May Get U S Missiles
Washington report says the administration is considering supplying guided missiles to France and Britain in the future but no decision has been made. France has requested missiles. White House says the question is not under study now though action could come later. Atomic warheads would stay under U S control and no legal change sought. President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles briefed lawmakers after Bermuda talks with Macmillan.
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Bermuda
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Helicopters Aid Stranded Texans
Two U S Army helicopter squads based at Fort Sill delivered food fuel and medical supplies to snowbound farm families in the Texas Panhandle on Tuesday. A third helicopter covered Higgins area about 65 miles southeast aiding the four county rescue effort.
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Higgins
Here
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Warming Trend Spreads To City
A warming trend developed in southwest Oklahoma as a blizzard eased. Fair skies and warmer temperatures are forecast for Lawton this afternoon and Wednesday with highs in the 50s. Morning 27 degrees, 11 a.m. 47, Monday 45, tonight's low near 25. Lake Lawtonka level rose 2 1/ [sic] 2 inches Monday to 31.35 feet below flood gates. creeks entering the lake still running.
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Beck invokes Fifth Amendment in Teamsters probe
Senate investigators pressed Beck on whether he diverted union funds to his Seattle house and declined to turn over financial records. He invoked the Fifth Amendment and challenged the constitutionality of the probe while denying resignation intentions. AFL CIO leader Meany eyed possible ouster action against the Teamsters affiliate.
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D-Mass
Wie Cilelan
D-Ark
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Plains Area Digging Out After Deadly Blizzard Toll 33
The Great Plains still clears snow as the weekend blizzard death toll rises to 33 across nine states Texas Illinois Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska Indiana Missouri New Mexico and Town. Sixty percent due to traffic accidents exposure carbon monoxide and heart attack from exertion. Rescue teams mobilize with food water and shelter airlifted aid and snowbound motorists ferried to towns and hospitals. Ground transports free roads and stranded streamliners resupplied as Red Cross volunteers aid victims.
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Chattanooga Girl Wins Career Scholarship
Karen Harvey a 17 year old Chattanooga high school senior was named winner of a 25 scholarship this morning at the fifth annual Career Conference held on the Cameron college campus. The event sponsored by the Lawton branch of the AAUW drew about 200 Lawton and Comanche county seniors.
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Elgin
Jeneanne Lee
Boy Admits Senseless Rifle Killing in Rapid City
In Rapid City a 12 year old boy admitted shooting his music teacher, 41 year old June Hammon, through a car window as she drove away after a music lesson. The shooter William J. Willard of Rockerville told state’s attorney Tom Parker there was no motive. The post mortem found rifle bullet fragments caused Hammon’s death. After the shooting the boy’s associate Ely pushed the body forward, and the two men drove the car to a remote road where it stalled and was left.
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Tom Parker
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Billy) Willard
Rockerville
S.C
June Hammon
Parker
Billy
Willard
Wealthy Indian's Trial Under Way
William Cecil Robedeaux, a wealthy Oklahoma City Indian man, goes on trial for driving while intoxicated in Superior court after appealing a prior conviction in city court. Superior Judge Robert S. Landers presided as testimony began about 9:20 a.m. A morning recess followed delays in out-of-town witnesses arrival. Prosecution witness Lt. F A Mussen testified.
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Lawton Highway Patrol
Twining Named New Chief of JCS in Eisenhower Shuffle
President Eisenhower announced a major defense reshuffle naming Gen. Nathan F. Twining to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff replacing Adm. Arthur W. Radford on August 13. The White House also named Donald A. Quarles as deputy secretary of defense and James H. Douglas to succeed him as secretary of the Air Force.
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Reuben B. Robertson Jr
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James H. Douglas
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Twining
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Naval Operations
Maxwell D. Taylor
Army
Radford
Stolen 70 Million-Year Egg Recovered at Church Steps
Hamilton Ontario reports a 70 million year old dinosaur egg stolen from Colgate University was located Monday night beneath a church steps. Dean Dr Carl A Kallgren identified the petrified egg after an anonymous tip directed him to the site.
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Three Time French Premier Herriot Dies at 84
Lyon France WH Feonard Herriot three times premier of France and honorary president of the National Assembly died today after a long illness. He was a leading figure in the Radical Socialist party. His wife Pierre Cardinal Gerlier and others were with him. He supported Mendes France and Europe, was imprisoned in 1942 by Vichy, later moved to Germany and liberated by Russian troops.
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Sill To Launch New Packet Trainee Plan With 300 Men
Fort Sill will launch a new packet trainee plan moving 300 soldiers to the 597th Armored Field Artillery Battalion for two months of basic training. They will then head to the 267th Field Artillery Battalion in Germany. The program includes gyroscope battalions at Fort Sill such as the 18th and 529th and adds to 4,099 soldiers to undergo second eight weeks of basic training.
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Tex
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Wash
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