Uranium Discovery Brings Hope to Navajo Nation
The Navajo tribe gains potential wealth from new uranium pockets with a $2.75 million ore plant near Shiprock New Mexico and uranium royalties flowing to the Tribal Council. Oil profits also rise while health and living conditions remain dire and long term independence remains elusive.
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Shiprock
N.M
Arizona
Atomic Energy Commission
Navajo Tribal Council
Allen G. Harper
Navajo Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
House Appropriations Committee
Methodists Report Progress For Year Oklahoma Conference
The Oklahoma Conference of the Methodist Church reports 613 churches and 602 Sunday schools with 137 673 enrolled. Baptisms numbered 8 545 as the four day meeting nears its Friday adjournment. Dr W C Mathis was elected assistant supervisor for the Oklahoma Methodist Home and Bishop Smith to announce a successor Friday.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma Conference of the Methodist Church
Oklahoma Methodist Home
W. C. Mathis
Woodward
Bishop Smith
Oe Bain
E. C. Webb
Lawton Municipal Band Rehearsals Begin 1954 Season
The Lawton Municipal Band opens its 1954 rehearsal schedule with a 7 30 p m session Tuesday in the Lawton High School band room. Musicians in the Lawton Fort Sill area are invited to join the ensemble led by James T Matthews and George Walters. Lee Ly barger moves from Fort Sill to assist again this year.
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Lawton
Lawton High School
Lawton-Fort Sill
Municipal Band
Court House
James T. Matthews
George Walters
Lee Lybarger
Fort Sill
Douglass High School Class Prepares Skit for Commencement
The senior class at Douglass High School will present a skit The Train of Tomor row at the 8 p m commencement in the Douglass auditorium. The program includes the band processional God of Our Fathers and Royal Gorge as a special number. The chorus will sing Anyhow and Rev. C C Reed will give the invocation followed by benediction by Rev. S V Ivy. Diplomas will be distributed by a board of education representative.
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Douglass High School
Douglass
Warren
Radio Director Bob Chapman Dies in Oklahoma City
Robert E. Chapman 49, operations director at WKY in Oklahoma City, died in a local hospital after being admitted a week earlier. Death attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Oklahoma City
Robert E
Bob) Chapman
WKY Here
Torture Robber Must Pay Own Bill If He Appeals Case
Oklahoma City May 27 UP Convicted torture robber Charles Edwin York must pay his own legal costs if he appeals to the State Criminal Court of Appeals. York was sentenced in March by a district court jury to 45 years for a $5000 torture robbery of Mr and Mrs Gary B Lenn or k of Atoka Oklahoma and Tulare California.
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Oklahoma City
Charles Edwin York
State Criminal Coue of Appeals
York
Oklahoma County
Gary B. Lennork
Atoka
Okla
Tulare
Calif
Faxon Cemetery Work Day Rescheduled for Friday
A cemetery work day postponed from Monday due to rain has been moved to Friday. Local residents are invited to participate ahead of Memorial Day and lunch will be served at noon.
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Faxon Cemetery
Sailor Jailed For Drunken Driving Escapes Carrier Fire
Robert Rakosky a 22 year old naval airman from Venice Ohio was jailed for drunken driving in Delaware Ohio and released after serving a three day sentence. He was due aboard the aircraft carrier Bennington Tuesday but did not report for duty.
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Delaware
Ohio
Robert Rakosky
Venice
Bennington
Naval Airman
Elief Too La San Diego Commander's Report
Cmdr Paul E Fournier 42 of San Diego is identified in the report from San Diego California. The fragment notes an individual linked to a naval or military context with a partial city and name.
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Elief Too
LA San Diego
Calif
Cmdr
Paul E. Fournier
San Diego
Sailor killed in Bennington blast tied to transfer orders
The widow confirms the fallen sailor aboard the carrier Bennington received transfer orders to join the ship before the blaze, though he had not yet been relieved from his prior assignment. The report emphasizes the ongoing investigation into the explosion and the sailor’s undetermined status at the time of death.
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Bennington
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