Easter Pageant to Feature Christ Roles at Wichita Mountains
Mild weather forecasts for the Easter Pageant weekend at Wichita Mountains wildlife refuge expect 40 to 82 degree temperatures with little rain. About 1,500 participants, including three men to portray Christ, will perform the Holy City scene as Fort Sill staff and volunteers assist with traffic and security.
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Wichita Mountains
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Oklahoma
Holy City
Christ
Holy City Cross of Calvary
Craig Pierson
Central
John Carter
Fort Sill
Millard Coody
City Bank
Pierson
The
Voice
Carter
Coody
Jim Harris
Jesus
Ronnie Thomas
Northwest Kiwanis Club
Composer Of Famous Hymn To See Service
Dr Earl Marlatt, the 64 year old composer of Are Ye Able, will visit Lawton for Good Friday services as Oklahoma hosts Easter week events. The SMU professor will stay with former student Rev Edward Ditterline, pastor of Lawton Heights Methodist, and participates amid sunrise readings and interdenominational services statewide.
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Audience Hill
Earl Marlatt
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Tex
Lawton
Edward Ditterline
Lawton Heights Methodist Church
Oklahoma
Wilbur Nuckols
Garber Baptist Church
John J. Walde
Corpus Christi Catholic Church
Oklahoma City
Boston University
School of Religious Education
Marcus D. Buell
School of Theology
Marlatt
Saint Girl, 3, Is Found Alive
A mystery body found under a rock pile led police to the alive three year old Shirley Dicus in Neosho Missouri with her father Lloyd A Dicus a convicted bigamist. The earlier murder charge against him was dropped. Shirley's mother Gretta Cornish and her baby Mozelle were located in Baton Rouge Louisiana. The dead child’s clothing matched outfits Shirley wore and physicians said injuries could have caused death. Dicus had been married five times to six women and had served time for bigamy and forgery. He faced a Kansas City check forgery charge after transport from Neosho.
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Kansas City
Shirley Dicus
Neosho
Lloyd A. Dicus
Shirley
Gretta June Cornish
Mozelle
Baton Rouge
Arvid Owsley
Hugh H. Owens
Dicus
Lubbock
Tex
Texas Bureau of Public Safety
Westbrook
Elisabeth Bergmann
Hagler
Germany
U.S
Fire Marshal Links Coeds Car Fire to Murder in Oklahoma
Alva Oklahoma state Fire Marshal Ralph Duroy said he is positive the March 13 car fire that killed Mildred Reynolds was deliberate. He noted inflammables and a secluded road as ideal for arson and said leads point to someone in the area.
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Alva
Okla
Mildred Ann Reynolds
Ralph Duroy
Duroy
Easter Pageant in the Wichitas Began in 1926 in Lawton
Southwest Oklahoma’s Easter Pageant grew from twelve Church members in Lawton and Medicine Park to more than 1500 participants. The first service on Easter morning April 4 1926 on Audience Hill drew about 200 worshippers. Rev A M Wallock founded and directed the pageant inspired by Judean hills.
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Lawton and
Medicine Park
Wichita Range
A. M. Wallock
Hills
Judea
Audience Hill
Wallock
Congregational Church
Blast Wrecks Tanker At Dock In Baytown
An explosion ripped open the side of an oil tanker docked at Baytown Texas injuring two crewmen and sparking fears of a Texas City type disaster. The Esso Paterson loaded with kerosene suffered blasts as two seamen were blown into the water and two others hurt. Donald Ayres 22 of Hillsville Va reported seeing a flash. Humble Oil said the crew returned to the ship and the firm was back in business.
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Baytown
Tex
Texas City
Esso Paterson
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Humble
Donald Ayres
Hillsville
Refuge Fire Warning Issued for Wichita Mountains Refuge
Ernest Greenwalt manager of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge warns against starting fires in unauthorized places this weekend. Low grass and dry conditions make fires extremely hazardous. Use only regular camp areas and extinguish fires upon leaving. The refuge staff of 12 will be on fire duty during the weekend.
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Ernest Greenwalt
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Greenwalt
Identification of Torch Murder Victim Close
Oklahoma officers may be very close to identifying the victim in the case of the charred corpse, an agent told the Fort Worth Press. The victim may be a German-born New York resident, with details originating from West Germany’s police prompting a renewed look at the man’s disappearance.
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Fort Worth
Oklahoma
Steeleessy
Oklahoma Crime Bureau
New York
Westbrook
West Germany
Hagler
Richland Hills
Sulphur
Okla
New Yorker
Argentina
Fort Sill to Take Over Surface Missile Training
The Army designates Fort Sill as the training center for surface-to-surface missile doctrine and instruction. A gradual transfer from Fort Bliss will start in late 1956 or early 1957 with Fort Sill to assume tracking of ten courses by February 1957 and no courses currently moving.
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Fort Sill
Fort Bliss
Tex
Public Information Office
Washington, D. C
Army
Washington
Constitution Press
Jack Cleland
House
Defense Department
Chester Davis
Maxwell D. Taylor
PIO
Honest John
Europe Reds Study Anti Stalin Line
West European Communist leaders gathered in London and Rome to study Moscow's anti Stalin line. Harry Pollitt opened a British party congress in London while Maurice Thorez traveled to Rome for talks with Palmiro Togliatti to avert defections from their ranks.
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London
Europe
Rome
Kremlin
Communist Party
Harry Pollitt
Moscow
Maurice Thorez
Palmiro Togliatti
Wilson Says No Rise in War Danger Yet
Secretary of Defense Wilson testifying before a House subcommittee said there may be a need for stronger forces but warned against assuming war danger has increased. He cited the unlimited arms race that could wipe out both sides and noted nuclear growth in the US and Russia limits war profitability. Secretary Quarles echoed concerns about nuclear power heightening tensions and potential for an unprofitable war.
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Washington
Wilson
U.S
House Appropriations
Force Quarles
United States
Russia
Kiowa Hospital Gets New Name
Kiowa hospital in Lawton founded in 1906 becomes the U S Public Health Service Indian hospital under federal supervision. Dr Sylba Adams says the 80 bed facility remains western Oklahoma s largest Indian hospital with a 400000 annual budget and a 71 member staff. The change follows 1954 congressional action shifting control from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Public Health Service.
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Oklahoma
Kiowa
Lawton
U. S. Public Health Service Indian Hospital
Sylba Adams
Adams
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Department of Interior
U. S. Public Health Service
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Wisconsin
Explosion Rips New Tulsa Clinic
A dynamite bomb exploded at a medical clinic under construction in Tulsa injuring four people in nearby apartments. Contractor A. B. Hawkins estimated $3,000 to $5,000 in damage and blamed labor trouble. Police inspected the scene as pieces of iron pierced walls and windows, with victims including John L. Ward Jr. and the Wrights nearby.
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Tulsa
Okla
A. B. Hawkins
John Henderson
Hawkins
E.ast St
John L. Ward Jr
Anne L. Ward
Ray Wright
Ward
Wrights
FBI Captures Top Criminals In Memphis Motel Arrest
FBI agents surprised fugitives Nick Montes known as The Greek and escapee Robert Lloyd Jones at a Memphis motel. Tear gas driven into the room forced them to surrender with hands up. Montes was linked to a Tampa bank robbery six days earlier, after being on the ten most wanted list twice.
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Memphis
Nick
Tampa
Fla
Montos
Communists offer $2,850 to recover seized New York office equipment
The Communist party and the Daily Worker propose a $2,850 cash deposit to cover the value of seized equipment amid IRS liens. New York internal revenue chief Donald Moysey declined the funds for now, citing an incomplete inventory but welcomed formal submission by Abt and Sacher. The lawyers stated the money was lent by unidentified individuals and would be used to cover the party and Daily Worker property.
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New York
Communist Party
The
Daily Worker
Donald R. Moysey
Internal Revenue
Moysey
John J. Abt
Harry Sacher
Abt
Sacher
Brake Fluid Triggers High Heat In Car Fire Probe
Oklahoma Bureau agent Ivan Gates linked two deliberate vehicle arsons to a past case involving Alva coed Mildred Ann Reynolds who died in a blaze. A 1951 Chevrolet used interior wiring and brakes fluid to drive temperatures from 1,160 to 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, with Reynolds’ fire estimated near 1,709 degrees.
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Dallas
Oklahoma Crime Bureau
Ivan Gates
Alva
Okla
Mildred Ann Reynolds
Reynolds
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