April Deluge Lifts Lawton Rainfall Above Long Averages
Lawton area saw a late April deluge that boosted April totals to 4.27 inches and pushed 1963 rainfall to 7.23 inches for the first four months, the first time this year moisture exceeded normal. Friday brought 3.55 inches, with 0.55 inch Saturday and 0.065 inch Sunday, signaling improved soil and crop prospects and potential further rain over the next 30 days.
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Lawton
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Showers Likely in Southwest Oklahoma Weather Outlook
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts scattered showers and thundershowers in the Lawton area this afternoon with temperatures rising to 74 degrees. A warming trend continues with a 77 degree high expected tomorrow and a 53 degree low tonight. Overnight lows statewide ranged from 36 at McAlester to 48 at Guymon.
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McAlester
Guymon
Canton
Pioneering Slip-Form Paving Opens Oklahoma Turnpike Section
The Hallett Construction Co. began the first paving on the Southwestern Turnpike near Randlett Cotton County using slip-form machinery. The project engineers Hendrick and Hendrick plan 7.3 miles of paving with nine bridges and await further sections, with completion anticipated by early 1964.
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Southwestern Turnpike
Randlett
Oklahoma
Strip
Raidlett
Cotton County
Hallett Construc
State Highway Department
Hendrick and
Hendrick
U.S. 70
Hallett Construction Co
Kennedy Skips Rome on Europe Trip Plans Milan start
President Kennedy will bypass Rome on his European tour and fly from Washington to Milan for a working visit with the Italian premier near the Swiss border. He will later visit Bonn Frankfurt Berlin and Dublin before returning to Washington around June 29.
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Washington
Kennedy
Rome
Italy
Mrs. Kennedy
Milan
White House
John XXIII
United States
Andrews Air Force Base
Cologne
Bonn
Frankfort
West Berlin
Berlin
Dublin
Ireland
New Ross
Wexford
Cty
Duvalier asserts power as OAS mission surveys Haiti
Haitian President Francois Duvalier defied outsiders and vowed to keep power during a tense moment in Port au Prince. An inter American Peace Mission from the OAS studied the situation after reports of a military base offer to Communist Cuba surfaced in Santo Domingo.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Peace Mission
Organization of American States
Santo Domingo
Andres Freites
Cuba
Washington
State Department
Lincoln White
Fidel Castro
Ousted Medal of Honor Recipient Foregoes White House Visit
Arthur J. Jackson, stripped Marine Corps captain and Medal of Honor winner, will not attend a White House reception for living honorees. President Kennedy invited 293 recipients. 234 will attend with 196 wives. Jackson now a California mailman sent telegrams to decline. The White House noted no comment on the Guan tanamo case.
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Ashington
Arthur J. Jackson
Marine Corps
Kennedy
White House
Jackson
Pierre Salinger
California
Salinger
Ruben Lopez
U. S. Naval Base
Guantanamo
San Jose
Calif
White House Rose Garden
General Taylor Leaves Greece for Riviera and Washington
Gen Maxwell D. Taylor chairman of the U S Joint Chiefs of Staff departs Athens after a two day Greek visit en route to the French Riviera and Washington.
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Athens
Greece
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
French Riviera
Washington
Governor Silent On Teacher Pay Raise In Oklahoma
Gov. Henry Bellmon indicated he probably will sign the state employment retirement act but would not commit on the teacher pay raise bill. Leaders in both houses predicted a veto override if he vetoes it, while talks of funding and if passed would cost millions in the next biennium.
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Jim Belcher
Oklahoma City
UPI
Henry Bellmon
Méasif Vernor
House
J. D. McCarty
Senate
Glen Ham
Marchers Start Tracing Path Of Slain Crusader
Ten white and Negro men begin a memorial hike through the South to Jackson Mississippi to push for equal rights. The group, linked to CORE and SNCC, travels with an NAACP escort and faces arrest risk in Alabama amid taunts from motorists. Floyd L Simpson stands charged with the slaying of the slain postman whose death sparked the trek.
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Chattanooga
South
Jackson
Miss
Alabama
Greyhound
Lovett Barkley
Fourth Avenue Church
Mississippi
Georgia Line
Congress of Racial Equality
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Moore
Freedom
Ross Barnett
Floyd L. Simpson
America
U S Envoys Boycott Red May Day Parade
U S diplomats skip Moscow May Day ceremonies as Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev observe a lengthy parade of armored units and missiles. Marshal Malinovsky warns imperialist nations against aggression while Castro appears at Lenin's tomb with the Soviet leadership.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPI
Russia
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
Rodion Malinovsky
U. Sed
Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Lenin
Red Square
U. S
Foy D. Kohler
Washington
Communist Party
Frol Kozlov
Khrushchev
Kozlov
Malinovsky
Soviet Union
Lenin Mausoleum
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Elgin
Riviera
Bellmon
By Jack Stillman
U.S
Emilio Aragones Navarro
A. Y. Malinovsky
Leonid Brezhnev
A. I. Mikoyan
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