Fort Sill Hosts Large Meeting Of Homemakers From 15 Counties
Over 1,000 women from 15 Oklahoma counties crowded Theater 3 at Fort Sill for a Southwestern district Home Demonstration Council meeting. The 960-seat venue filled to capacity with standing room. luncheon was served, and officials sought extra food in nearby mess halls. Col. William S. Lancey welcomed attendees as Lt. Col. Gordon Cubbison noted the post’s popularity. Grace Lee Spivey spoke on Homemaking as a career alongside other leaders including Mrs. Dean Carter and Nancy Smith of Waurika.
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Artillery Training Center
Clara Kelley
Comanche County
Grace Lee Spivey
State Home
Oklahoma State University Extension Service
State Home Demonstration Council
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Theater
Service Club 6
Post
Gordon Cubbison
Information Office
Usaamc
Dean Carter
Buffalo
The
Home Demonstration Council
Nancy Smith
Waurika
See Women
Governor Predicts Welfare Bill Passage Amid Merit System Fight
Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellman expressed confidence the 11.5 million welfare transfer bill will pass in its present form after a Senate filibuster threat. He and House Speaker J. D. McCarty opposed abolishing the merit system, warning repeal could unleash patronage while stressing orderly attrition of state staff.
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Harry Culver
Oklahoma City
UPI
Henry Bellman
House
J. D. McCarty
Senate
Jose Vot
Bellman
Etata Thais
Maalias
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ray Fine Gore
McCarty
Bellmon Challenges School Activity Regulations
Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellmon supports opponents of rules set by the North Central Association and the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association. A 100-person hearing heard groups from 4-H FFA bands and athletics oppose the limits on excurriculars with Rep. Tate planning a bill to protect activities. Jake Smart of the North Central Association argued the rule caps absences at five per year risking accreditation and questioned athletics contribution to enrichment.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Henry Bellmon
Future Farmers of America
North Central Association
New Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association
Bellman
Tom Tate
Osage County
Jake Smart
Association
Smart
State Committee
Car Train Crash Kills Cyril Man
A Cyril man, Paul Thurman Duncan, 49, died when his stalled car was hit by a Frisco freight train at a crossing near Verden in Grady county. The crash occurred about 2:55 a.m. and left Grady county with five fatalities for the year. Duncan’s body was taken to Brown Funeral Home in Chickasha.
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Cyril
Grady County
Verden
Highway Patrol
Paul Thurman Duncan
Maude Wright
Hinton
W. D. Estill
Howard Russell
O. M. Kizziar
Chickasha
Duncan
Frisco
Lawton Highway Patrol District
Kizziar
Brown Funeral Home
Singer Charged As Dope Peddler
New York police arrested rocker Jimmy Lewis on charges he ran a coast to coast narcotics sideline for entertainers. A raid on his apartment yielded $180000 in narcotics and what may be records of a nationwide operation, encoded with musical notes listing more than 100 entertainment clients.
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New York
UPI
Jimmy
Baby Face
Lewis
Hollywood
Cuban MIGs fired in error near U S ship Floridian says Cuba
Cuba informed the United States that Cuban MIGs probably fired in error near the U S merchant ship Floridian with no intention to shoot. The State Department disclosed the action and sought a full explanation from Fidel Castro's regime after two confusing Havana messages.
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Washington
UPI
Cuba
United States
U. S
State Department
Fidel Castro
Havana
International
White
Soviet Union seeks damages after Cuban exile raid on Baku
Moscow delivered a formal note to the U.S. Embassy demanding compensation for the Soviet freighter Baku damaged in a Cuban exile raid off Cuba. The note also warned of steps to protect Soviet shipping and accused Washington of backing the raiders, citing a broader pattern of provocations. Khrushchev defended Cuban allies and criticized U.S. policy toward Cuba.
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Reinhold Gensz
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Baku
U.S
Havana
Revolucion
Caibarien
Lgov
Tass
Cuba
U.S.S.R
Khruschev
Khrushchev
Caribbean
Cannons Fire On Merchant Ship Off Cuba
The Floridian, a 400 foot merchant vessel, reported two MIG aircraft with Cuban markings fired on her about 20 miles off Cuba. Captain Curtis Olson said 15 to 30 shots were fired during the third pass, prompting a distress call to the Miami Coast Guard.
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Joe McGowan JR
Miami
Fila
Cuba
Coast Guard
U.S. Navy
Key West
Fla
Norman Teeples
Dania
Olson
U.S
Donald Fisher
Fisher
Redlands Road
West Roxbury
Mass
Harold Keane
Philadelphia
Washington
Jote Teitelbaum
Alpha 66
Alpha 6
Fase
Cooler Weather Expected Tonight In Southwest Oklahoma
The U S Weather Bureau reports a cooldown looming after a day of 80s in southwest Oklahoma. Forecasters predict cloudiness and wind today with possible thundershowers then clear and cooler tonight into Saturday with lows near 45 and highs around 72.
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Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lawton
Gage
Oklahoma City
Ponca City
Executed Chinese Refugees Reported in Swatow Looting
AP reports that communist authorities executed more than 20 hungry Chinese who ransacked a food storehouse in Swatow in February. The coastal city is identified as Swatow with the event stemming from a food shortage driven disturbance.
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Macro (Ap
Red China
Swatow
Arlington Street USO to Close Sunday
Arlington Street USO will discontinue its operations after Sunday and all activities will be handled through the USO-YMCA at Fourth and B. The move follows national USO financial difficulties and a local decision to consolidate with the centrally located Fourth and B club to serve more servicemen.
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Lawton
Uso-Ywca
East Arlington
USO
Uso-Ymca
Fourth
Douglas Bailey
Arlington Street
John Sadberry
Joint Committee
Albert Johnson
Arlington Street Club
Johnson
Usoywca
Don Billingstea
George Stein
Sadberry
Reginal C. Brown
Bailey
USC
United Fund
Northside Chamber of Commerce
Wakting
General Services Administration
Fourth and B
Printer Dispute Halts Philadelphia Inquirer Editions
Union printers protested the firing of a composing room worker causing the Philadelphia Inquirer to suspend today’s editions. The International Typographical Union meeting began at 4 p.m. and continued into the morning, with editorial staff sent home after workers were told to report today without a settlement.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Inquirer
International Typographical Union
the Inquirer
British Laborite On Way To US Visit
Harold Wilson, Labour leader and possible British prime minister, travels to Washington for a five day trip to meet President Kennedy and U S officials to discuss U K policy and reassure allies under a Labour government.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Britain
Washington
U. S
Kennedy
Labor
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the Morning Press
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