GM Progress Parade Opens Doors Tonight
GM Progress Parade opens at McMahon auditorium grounds with a tented Aerodome and twelve Futurlixers powered by 145 horsepower engines. The premiere show runs 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. tonight and 2–10 p.m. Friday through Monday with free admission. Lawton high students attend Friday. twenty six major exhibits highlight progress and future industry, plus a 40 minute science presentation and dramatic demonstrations.
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McMahon Memorial Auditorium
Lawton
Mcmahon Auditorium
General Motors
Lawton High School
America
Warm Spell To End Fast
Oklahoma enjoys brief mild spell but forecasters warn of an approaching cold front. The blast could bring the season’s coldest temperatures with rain and snow, spreading across the state tonight and tomorrow with strong northerly winds Friday night and Saturday.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Polar bear kills boy at Mendoza zoo after fall into moat
A six-year-old boy fell into the polar bears’ moat at a Mendoza Argentina zoo. A huge white bear charged and devoured him before police shot the animal dead.
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Argentine
Mendoza
Argentina
Bitter Cold Front To Hit Lawton Area Friday
Moderate, fall-tinged temperatures hold today and tomorrow with highs near 70 and a low around 40. A strong cold front arrives Friday afternoon into Friday night, with possible rain and snow, bringing much colder, windy conditions. The day’s low tonight is expected near 40 after a 31 degree low earlier. 11 am was 63 and Wednesday’s high reached 55.
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Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Lawton
Area Employment Reaches New Peak in Lawton Oklahoma
Area employment hit a 1955 peak due to a bumper cotton crop and fall harvests in October. Total workers in Lawton rose to 17 325, up 425 from September, with agricultural gains driven by boll pullers and harvest work. Non agricultural trade declined slightly, while unemployment claims eased as job openings rose with 837 positions filled, including 97 handicapped applicants and 309 veterans.
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John Looney
Lawton
Looney
Arraignments Set In Cement Bank Robbery Case
In Anadarko two men were arraigned on armed robbery charges in the First State Bank of Cement. Sheriff Ray Larsson then arrested the step father of one suspect as a third person tied to the daring raid last Friday. The third suspect was identified.
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Anadarko
First State Bank of Cement
Ray Larsson
Lewis Brewer
Jimmy Spann
Spann
Howard Shaw
Lawton
W. K. Fair
Charles Ozman
Larsson
Insurance Company
Brewer
Shaw
Golden Kennedy
State Crime Bureau
Fall
Frank Limrick
Caddo County
Chickasha
City Veterans Day Parade Limited Observance
Lawton will observe a quiet Veterans Day with a 10 a.m. downtown parade as the sole planned activity. Fort Sill and Lawton Veterans of Foreign Wars posts co sponsor the event. banks, offices, and post offices will close, while city businesses stay open. Mayor Ellsworth proclaims Friday a day of commemoration and directs flag display from City Hall. Friday holiday affects Artillery and Guided Missile Center personnel with an official hosi- See HOLIDAY, Page 2.
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C. R. Ellsworth
United States
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Youth Will Face Chickasha Judge
A 15 year old Chickasha boy named Larry Rollins faced transfer to Grady county over an armed robbery case at Porter Hill service station. No charge filed due to juvenile status. The youth, who held up Panhandle Gas attendant Jim Holder for $1.50, was captured two hours later after leaving Anadarko in a 1955 Cadillac with two guns.
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Porter Hill
Grady County
S. R. Harper
Comanche County Court
Larry Rollins
Jim Holder
Panhandle Gas Co
Lawton
Holder
Ray Larsson
Troy Massey
Caddo County
Anadarko
State Auto Death Toll Rises To 499
A 30 year old Sulphur man Ray Ralph Redmond died when his semi trailer jackknifed and threw him from the vehicle. The Oklahoma annual death toll reached 499, up from 494 the previous year.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Ray Ralph Redmond
Sagebrush Death Toll Rises to Nineteen at Fort Polk
Nine teen soldiers and airmen have died in Exercise Sagebrush since it began, the largest peacetime maneuver since World War II. Twelve fatalities were from motor vehicle accidents, including seven soldiers killed while on leave in various parts of Louisiana. Two helicopter crashes on power lines, two drownings, and one fatal lightning strike are also noted.
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Fort Polk
Public Information Office
Russia Seeks Arms Cut and Open Skies Probe
Geneva AP Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov submitted a new disarmament plan at the Big Four conference proposing a reduction of armed forces and a ban on nuclear weapons and suggesting the open skies aerial inspection idea be considered along with Western disarmament proposals. The Western ministers planned to press for a Soviet reply, avoid new offers, and push to return disarmament to the UN subcommittee, while fearing a filibuster to prolong debate.
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Geneva
Russia
Eisenhower
V. M. Molotov
Nikolai Bulganin
Great Britain
France
Two Airmen Rescued From Stricken C-119 Near Honolulu
Five man crew bailed from a crippled C-119 as rescue efforts continued. Floyds Bay seaplane recovered two more crew members at 6 18 a m est, identifying pilot First Lt D O Nelson and co pilot First Lt D N Hubbard of the 1739th Ferry Squadron Amarillo AFB Texas. Whitney and Berinegar had been rescued earlier, leaving one crewman unaccounted for as search efforts persisted in the Pacific.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Floyds Bay
Hickam Air Force
D. O. Nelson
D. N. Hubbard
Amarillo
Tex
Air Force Base
Kenneth E. Whitney
1708Th Ferry Group
McClellan Air Force Base
Sacramento
AIC
Harry W. Berinegar
Amarillo Afb
Whitney
Berinegar
Air Force
9 Grid Team To Be Honored At LHS Homecoming
Lawton high school plans a 9:30 a.m. pep rally for the 1909 championship football group, four former athletes from Lawton to attend, with Charles Hobbs possibly joining. A 4 p.m. downtown Lawton homecoming parade, football queen Rosa Mae Davis and attendants will ride, followed by a dance at the Youth Center after the game.
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Lawton High School
LHS
Enid
Practical Nurses Begin City Meeting
Oklahoma State Association of Licensed Practical Nurses opens its fourth annual convention with a 1 p.m. luncheon at the Hotel Lawtonian. About 275 delegates are expected through Saturday night with tours of city hospitals and a 6 p.m. dinner for a presidents conference led by J. Kelly Mudd. An 7:30 p.m. get acquainted party follows in the Geronimo room. Local hosts are the Comanche Cotton counties division.
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Bill Crawford
Oklahoma State Association of Licensed Practical Nurses
Lawtonian
J. Kelly Mudd
Geronimo
Irene Heater
Vinita
Marie Baker
Tulsa
Pauline Reynolds
Bertha Wedlin
Cushing
Lile Mae Shoultz
Mary Sue DeMers
Miami
Okla
Verna Maye Brady
Gary Rejects Sears Building Plan in Oklahoma City
Gov. Raymond Gary halted a plan to take over the old Sears building in downtown Oklahoma City and backed a new state office complex near the Capitol. Merchants urged adoption to boost business. debates over trustees, self liquidating bonds, and master plan for a Capitol area development followed.
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Oklahoma City
Raymond Gary
Sears
State Capitol
Gary
Oklahoma
B. E
Bill Harkey
Capitol
Harkey
Turncoats Eye Damage Suit Against Army
Three ex G I turncoats plan to sue the Army over jail time for alleged collaboration with Communists while prisoners of war in Korea. Otho Bell William Cowart and Lewis Griggs want discharge reclassified to better status back pay prisoner of war benefits and pay for 104 days jailed after returning from China last July.
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San Francisco
Army
Korea
Otho Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
William Cowart
Dalton
Lewis Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
U. S. Supreme Court
George T. Davis
Cowart
Portland
Ore
Wings of Healing
Evangelist Thomas A. Wyatt
China
Adlai Stevenson to Announce Candidacy on Tuesday
Chicago report states Adlai Stevenson will seek the Democratic presidential nomination next year with a press statement set for 3 p.m. EST Tuesday and release at 6:30 p.m. EST, according to his aide Roger Tubby.
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Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Roger Tubby
Stevenson
Russians Fire Top Architects
Moscow reports say four leading Soviet architects faced punishment for overemphasis on ornament and skyscrapers. Chief architects Vlasov and Chechulin were stripped of government honors and fired, while Polykov and Boretsky lost Stalin prize laureates. The Leningrad Hotel project by Polykov and Boretsky illustrated the stakes in the housing drive.
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Moscow
Vlasov
Chechulin
Polykov
Boretsky
Leningrad
Stalin
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Canada
Ponca City
Gage
Sagebrush
Stormy Pacific
Adlai
U. S
New York
A. V. Vlasov
Academy of Architects
New York Times
The
Herald Tribune
Alexander V. Vaslov
Times
the Herald Tribune
Victor Zegal
Washington
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