1958 Mercury Park Lane debuts with major styling changes
Mercury’s 1958 line introduces Park Lane with Unrec models, 125 inch wheelbase and 220 inch length, plus four Marauder V eight engines up to 400 hp. New front end, quadri beam headlights, and low fast silhouette accompany optional air cushion suspension and four transmissions including Merc O Matic MultiDrive.
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Mercury
Park Lane
Buster Wyatt Motor Co
James J. Nance
Lincoln and
Ford Motor Company
Mullti
Montclair
Owner amused by ruckus over Lincoln portrait
The Stillwater owner of a controversial Abraham Lincoln portrait says he is amused by the dispute among Lincoln experts. Robert E. Cunningham says he is not claiming a rare photograph, just the plate as holder, while Ralph Newman and Stefan Lorant dispute authenticity and note a possible doctored or fake image linked to Elijah Middleton.
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Stillwater
Okio
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Robert E. Cunningham
Lincoln Pictures
Lorant
Mathew Brady
Newman
Cleveland
Ohio
Elijah C. Middleton
Cunningham
Sputnik
New Road Safety Code Advances Toward Legislature
Oklahoma City report says a proposed highway safety code, prepared by the Legislative Council Committee on Roads and Highways, is one step from submission. State Rep. Ralph Vandiver from Heavener is expected to present the code to the Executive Committee at the Capitol Monday. The draft omits mandatory vehicle checks and chemical test requirements despite earlier debate.
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Oklahoma City
Legislative Council
Ralph Vandiver
Heavener
Capitol
Rites Set Thursday for OCU Dean Clinton Allen
Funeral services are planned for Dr. Clinton M. Allen, retired dean emeritus of Oklahoma City University. Allen, who died yesterday after a short illness, joined the OCU faculty in 1921 and retired in 1953 after previously serving as state education director for the YMCA.
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Oklahoma City Ut
Clinton M. Allen
Oklahoma City University
Allen
OCU
YMCA
Library of Congress to unveil Oklahoma exhibit
The Library of Congress will unveil a 30th anniversary Oklahoma exhibit with remarks by Librarian Quincy Mumford and Walter S. Campbell. It features books, maps, pictures, and documents from the 16th century to today including Fort Sill and Fort Gibson history, Choctaw and Cherokee treaties, Will Rogers works, and the Roosevelt statehood document. The exhibit runs through February 25, 1958 and was prompted by Senator Mike Monroney. A booklet of pictures is sold for 53 cents.
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Jack Deeland
Washington Bureau
Washington
Library of Congress
Oklahoma
Librarian of Congress
Quincy L. Mumford
Walter S. Campbell
University of Oklahoma
Campbell
Stanley Vestal
Merton College
Oxford
England
Coronado
New Mexico
Kansas
United States Archives
U.S
Calvary
Oklahoma Indian Territory
Fort Sill
Fort Gibson
Fort Towson
Doak
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
Sequoyah
George Guess
Geronimo
Anadarko
Will Rogers
Rogers and Hammerstein
Mike Monrdney
Armed kidnapping sparks statewide search in Nebraska
Police hunt a grandmother Mrs J O Huddleston of Little Rock and a male companion who abducted Marilyn Sue Henry a five year old from the Cedars Home for Children at gunpoint. The girl involved in a custody dispute with her mother Mrs Henry Martin. State police issued a statewide alert for the fugitives and child and extradition papers await action.
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Lincoln
Neh
Gun‘point
Cedars Home
J. O. Huddleston
Little Rock
Ark
Alberta
Henry Martin
Arkansas
Orvald. Faubus
Nebraska
Victor E. Anderson
Quanah Parker Heir Begins Army Career in Dallas
Tahamahkera, great grandson of Quanah Parker, joined the Army Tuesday in Dallas and is assigned to a finance school. A former Indiahoma resident, he is 2% and whose parents now reside in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texan left Tuesday for Fort Carson to start basic training and will later attend the finance school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
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Benny
Tahamahkera
Comeémede
Quanah Parker
Army
Dallas
Indiahoma
Fort Worth
Tex
Fort Carson
Colo
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
FSIS Yearbook Planning On Tap
The Fort Sill Indian School Letterman's club will discuss a 1957-58 yearbook at 7:30 p.m. in the school gym. Freddie Hall, club president, notes no yearbook in two years and outlines plans for a photography class and continued sponsorship by the Letterman's club with Reeves Nahwooksy as sponsor.
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Fort Sill
Legion To Discuss Membership Drive At Post Meeting
Bateman Zarling Post 193 of the American Legion will meet at 7 p m today to discuss a membership drive for the coming year. Al Hulfine publicity chairman notes 239 members compose the group presently, with a goal of 316 members.
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Bateman-Zarling Post
American Legion
At & P.m
Photographer Curtis Wins National Photo Contest
Photographer Dacwin Curtis, unhappy with his light meter, captured a Hyde Park image that won a nationwide contest and earned him a light meter as the prize.
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Winnetka
Dacwin’ Curtis
London
Hyde Park
Area Men In The Services In Korea And Navy
Capt Jode R Wilson commander of Company C 728th Military Police Battalion in Korea. his wife Peggy lives at 106 N 34th Place. Wilson entered the Marine Corps in 1946 and graduated from Southwestern Institute of Technology in 1948. Lokoe Samuel Madison, 26, a former Laotonian, completed nine years of continuous U S Navy service as a heavy vehicle operator and is assigned to Ream Field Transportation Division Imperial Beach California. he has reenlisted for six more years.
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Jode R. Wilson
Peggy
N. 34Th Place
728Th
Korea
Wilson
Leta Bannister
Cordell
Marine Corps
Southwestern Institue of Technology
Beta Tau Beta
Army
Samuel Madison Lokoe
U.S. Navy
Ream Field
Imperial Beach
Calif
Lokoe
Britain cuts gasoline prices for sixth time in year
Gasoline prices in London are cut by major petroleum firms for the sixth time in a year. The reduction is only three farthings per gallon, leaving prices above pre Suez blockade levels. Standard car fuel now costs 66 cents a gallon.
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London
Britain
Suez
Dream Bequest Shapes Kentucky Estate Plan
In Lexington a 12 year old woman described as having a fine sense of humor wills 1000 dollars to her son in law to spend. He is named executor of the estate. He questions why Mrs. Sera Cecil Taylor makes such a bequest. The remainder of the 190000 dollar estate goes mainly to Taylor's daughter.
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Lexington
Tate
Sera Cecil Taylor
Mia
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Garber's Jewelers
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Dra
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Samuel M. Lokoe
Aia Ue
Zac
Allen’s Home Lumber Co
Street Dial
Sneed
J.N. Logan
County Election Board
Etta Gartrell
Robert” J
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E. W. Young
Euclid
San Antonio
Harlandate High School
Diller - McCollum
McCollum
Bernell
Gore
Dream Bequest
Silver Service
Lane
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Lewes
Regal
Lane Hope
Lange
Goss
R.A. Inbell
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