Soldiers return from Hanau to Fort Sill after airlift
Tired Fort Sill troops arrive at Sheppard Air Force Base Texas after more than 37 hours aboard transport planes from NATO maneuvers in Germany. The first C 124 Globemaster touched down carrying 80 soldiers as Capt Robert T Smith led a welcome parade and spoke of the cold welcome back.
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Sheppard Afb
Tex
Fort Sills
NATO
Hanau
Germany
31St Artillery
Sill
Robert T. Smith
Sheppard
Fort Sill
2Nd Armored
Fort Hood
Smith
Embezzler Links State Agency Books to Tulsa Elections
Convicted embezzler R H H Bewley testified before a Senate committee that invoices at the state surplus property agency were altered to show greater inventory. He said surplus funds may have been spent in Tulsa school board elections and that details would be pursued in a civil suit. Other names were cited in related charges from a grand jury probe.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Tulsa
R. H H
Pete) Bewley
Tulsa School System
State Board of Affairs
Bewley
Tulsa County Grand Jury
Gibson Lipscomb
Durant
Lipscomb
Edmondson
Charles Black
Hall
Oklahoma Court OKs Right-To-Work Petition For Election
Supreme Court Referee Marian Opala ruled the right to work petition valid with enough signatures to trigger a statewide election on a constitutional amendment banning union shop. Labor challenges, including signature misidentifications, were largely rejected. final court decision expected within weeks.
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Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Marian Opala
Opala
Labor
Opelas
Ameniment
Oklahoma
Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
Millionth Visitor Celebrated at Wichita Mountains Refuge
Joe Holt and Mrs. Holt of Lawton drove through the Cache entrance at 10 am to become the millionth visitors to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in 1963. Refuge Manager Julian A Howard greeted them and presented a large photo and a commemorative letter noting the one millionth attendance this year.
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Mountains Wildlife Regese
Joe Holt
Oak, Lawton
Julian A Howard
Holt
Holts
Cache
Howard
Wildlife Refuge
Mount Scott
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Wichita Refuge
Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge
Julian Howard
Cache Gate
1922
Kennedy cites Senate aid cuts hindering national interests
President Kennedy urged passage of foreign aid arguing Senate foes led by Wayne Morse are severely limiting U S interests. He warned of bleak prospects for civil rights and tax cut bills but hoped the 11 billion tax plan could still pass. He warned more U S Soviet tensions may follow the Barghoorn case and stressed aid remains a vital foreign policy tool.
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Washington
UPT
Kennedy
Congress
Hussia
House
Senate
Wayne Morse
United States
U S Cancels Planned Cultural Exchange Talks With Moscow
President Kennedy denounces Yale professor Barghoorn arrest as unfounded spying claims and orders suspension of new U S Soviet cultural exchange negotiations. US protests with Moscow continue while a goodwill delegation travels to Washington.
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Washington
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Frederick C. Barghoorn
Yale
Barghoorn
United States
Moscow
Foy D. Kohler
U.S
Russia
Kohler
Kohier
State Department
U. S
Yale University
Department of
Soviet Foreign Ministry
New York
House Group Rejects Part Of Sill Funds
The House Appropriations Committee rejected a 508000 request by the Army for an enlisted men's barracks at Fort Sill saying current permanent facilities are adequate. It approved a 33000 request to build bachelor officers quarters for women and noted the barracks was intended for medical personnel. An annual saving of about 64984 in transportation costs was projected with the new facility.
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Go Savicron
House Appropriations Committee
Army
Fort Sill
WAC
Ships Collide Off Cape Cod Diversions Save Six
In Buzzards Bay Massachusetts the freighter Fernview from Oslo and the tanker Dynafuel collided ten miles from Cape Cod Canal. Six crewmen were saved after Dynafuel burned for four hours. Firefighters battled engine room flames until foam suppressed the blaze around 11 a.m. Both vessels were evacuated. Fernview carried forty and Dynafuel twenty aboard.
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Buzzards Bay
Mass
Fernview
Oslo
Norway
Cape Cod Canal
K.A. Olson
Canal
Coast Guard
Dynafel
Area Man Dies From Car Crash Burns Near Waurika
Claude Gass 62 of Hastings died at 10 last night from third degree burns after his car crashed on a county road seven miles west of Waurika and exploded in high grass. A Hastings carrier found him and took him to a hospital. services set for Friday in Waurika. The death raises Oklahoma 1963 traffic toll to 643.
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Waurika
Hastings
Claude Gass
Sheriff's Office
Here
Gass
Ralph Martens
E — Church
Oklahoma
Sun Warmth Expected Across Oklahoma With 64 in Lawton
The weather forecast predicts a warming trend across Oklahoma with Lawton reaching 64 degrees after an overnight low of 33. No rain is expected and records show McAlester's low at 19 and Altus Fort Sill high at 35. statewide highs will range from the low 50s in the northeast to the low 60s in the west.
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Lawton
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
McAlester
Altus
Fort Sill
City
Governor orders stay of congressional districts
Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellman said districts are inequitable in population and tasked his attorney to study redistricting options after a federal suit sought six districts redrawn on a population basis. Attorney General Nesbitt and Secretary of State Bullard were named defendants. Dale Cook defended the governor’s lack of power. Bellman noted Republican candidates for U S Senate, including Forest Beall, and said he would not endorse any candidate.
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Oklahoma City
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Bellman
Charles Nesbitt
Jim Bullard
Dale Cook
Atto
Cook
U. S. Senate
Forest Beall
GOP
Beall
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