Cop Killer Seeks Life for Eyes Before Execution
Oklahoma City state senator seeks postponement of the 12:01 a.m. Friday electric chair death of Hurbie Franklin Fairris Jr. after new disclosures. Fairris485 requests to donate his eyes to a blind man, while relatives dispute responsibility for the fatal detective shooting during a 1954 supermarket robbery.
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Oklahoma City
George Miskovsky
Raymond Gary
Hurbie Franklin Fairris Jr
Mcalester
Okla
Harbie Franklin Fairis Jr
Dallas
Bennie Cravatt
State Penitentiary
Fairis
Howard Cowan
McAlester News-Capital
McLeod
Fairris
Woman's claim of husband killing on Padre Island proven by lie test
Kieberg County Sheriff J. S. Scarborough Jr. announced that Mrs. Violet Cenales Worden's account of killing her "Syengali" husband on Padre Island last month has been confirmed by a lie detector test.
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Kingsville
Tex
Violet Cenales Worden
Syengali
Padre Island
Kieberg County
J. S. Scarborough Jr
City pushes plan for Lake Elmer Thomas to Lake Lawtonka channel
City Attorney says federal agencies show general agreement on the need for a canal to increase Lawtonka storage though no formal memorandum exchange yet. A proposed arc channel would draw only spillover water, with Lake Lawtonka receiving excess flow rather than the full lake supply, and a spillway raise of 18 to 24 inches. Construction faces hard rock and requires federal approval.
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Lake Elmer Thomas
Lake Lawtonka
Lawtonka
Warren Chrisman
Army Land
Elmer Thomas
Reds To Free Three Yanks In Peiping Radio Report
Peiping radio said Communist China’s people’s court will release three American civilians. The garbled names were H. Aid, Zway Donic and Charway, possibly Rev. Martin Garvey and John Thomas Downey, long believed U.S. Army civilians captured in 1952 after a US military flight vanished over Korea.
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Tokyo
China
Peiping
People's Court
H. Aid
Zway Donic
Charway
Martin Vincent Garvey
Justin
Union City
New Jersey
Zwoy Donic
John Thomas Downey
New Britain
Conn
U.S. Army
South Korea
Red China
Cold Wave Lashes Midwest and Southland
A vast cold wave battered the Midwest and southland with gale winds and heavy snowfall. Michigan saw 70 mph winds killing two Detroit men, while Chicago suffered injuries and Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana faced missing hunters, floods, and evacuations as rivers rose and highways flooded. Lake Erie freighters halted and forecasters warned of another storm bringing rain or snow by weekend.
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United Press
Midwest
Southland
Michigan
Detroit
Lansing
Lake Erie
Great Lakes
Doenges Wins Battle Retains State Party Committeeman Post
The credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee unanimously approved William C. Doenges as Oklahoma's national committeeman. An unofficial 9-6 vote favored Doenges over James H. Arrington, who challenged Doenges' 1954 resignation matter. Doenges pledged to work with Gov. Raymond Gary in the next campaign. The committee will submit a majority report to the national body.
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Chicago
Democratic National Committee
William C. Doenges
Oklahoma
Doenges
Raymond Gary
United Press
James H. Arrington
Gary
Arrington
Credentials Committee
Calvin W. Rawlings
Credentials Group
National Committee
State Party
Arrincton
Labor Meeting Bars Press At Oklahoma Convention
Delegates at the Oklahoma Federation of Labor 50th annual convention barred reporters from the Oklahoma Publishing Co. papers. The measure, pushed by union officials, passed amid tensions with the publisher and a dispute over a labor paper. Wayne Mackey of the Times left after passage. councilman Walter Harrison criticized the ban as harmful to public knowledge.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Federation of Labor
Oklahoma Publishing Co
Maurice Nagle
Mailers Union Local 30
John Gosford
International Typographical Union Local 283
The
Oklahoman
the Times
WKY
Wky-Tv
Farmer- Stockman
Nagle
Oklahoman- Times
Wayne Mackey
Oklahoma City Times
Walter Harrison
Harrison
LABOR
Aircraft Show Set At Post Saturday
A demonstration of Army aircraft capabilities will be performed at 9 a.m. Saturday at a landing strip 15 for over 1,500 students of The Artillery and Guided Missile School. Cecil the helicopter clown will entertain as four H-34s move two 105mm howitzers into emplacement for firing. The 50 minute show is closed to the public except for car passes through the Lawton Chamber of Commerce.
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Artillery and Guided Missile School
Army
Cecil
Lawton
Area Weather Forecast Namely Fair and Warmer
The forecast calls for fair skies and rising temperatures this afternoon and tonight with warmer conditions. Friday will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs near 60 and a low around 32, while today’s high is expected 50 to 55 and the low 22. A 11 a.m. reading shows 40 and Wednesday’s high reached 38.
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Lawton
Sill Prepares Turkey Feast for Thanksgiving Day
Sill at the Artillery and Guided Missile Center hosts a Thanksgiving meal next Thursday with a full menu including chilled fruit cup or shrimp cocktail, roast turkey, sage dressing, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, vegetables, various desserts, and beverages. Adults pay 85 cents for the noon meal.
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Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Brother Sister Baby Die In Fire Tragedy Hits Kilips Family
A blaze consumed a Chicago home early Thursday killing Louis Kohler 19, Betty Ann 15, and four month old Catherine Eileen Kil lips. Stepfather Jack Killips 46 suffered severe burns and remained in critical condition as the mother worked as a nurse at Little Company of Mary Hospital.
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Hicago
Louis Kohler
Betty Ann
Catherine Eileen Killips
Jack Killips
Little Company of Mary
Aggies Still Top Junior Rose Bowl Contenders
The Cameron Aggies remain a leading candidate for the Junior Rose Bowl invitation to Pasadena. Four eastern bids are in play as Ellisville Mississippi, Cameron Lawton, Wenatchee Valley Washington, and Del Mar Texas vie for the west's representation. Decision occurs November 27 by a nine member committee.
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Cameron Aggies
Pasadena
Calif
Ellisville
Miss
Lawton
Wenatchee Valley
Wash
del Mar Junior College
Corpus Christi
Tex
Hank Ives
Wenatchee
Gray’s Harbor
Cameron
Bacone College of Muskogee
East Central
Copiah-Lincoln
del Mar
Victoria
Wharton
Texas
Mississippi
Hinds
Aggies
Moslem Fanatic Shoots Iran Premier At Tehran Mosque
Tehran Iran Premier Hussien Ala was wounded by a Moslem fanatic at a Tehran mosque while mourning Mostafa Kashani. Official said his condition was not serious. Ala, 72, had led Iran since April, with a pro Western stance and anti Communist policy.
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Iran
Tehran
Hussien Ala
Ala
Shah Mosque
Mostafa Kashani
Ayatullah Kashani
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
United States
Fazlollah Zahedi
U.N. Security Council
Russia
Ali Razmara
Baghdad
Turkey
Iraq
Pakistan
Britain
Nine Cities Protest Phone Rate Boost in Oklahoma
TEMPLE Okla UP nine Oklahoma towns including Temple Purcell Frederick Tipton Comanche Collinsville Moore SkIntook and Allen would protest a Southwestern States Telephone Co rate hike. Lindsay may join the protest as publishers in 22 of 45 affected cities report plans.
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Temple
Okla
Southwestern States Telephone Co
Oklahoma
Temple Tribune
Purcell
Frederick
Tipton
Comanche
Collinsville
Moore
Skintook
Allen
Lindsay
Argentine Chief Seizes Union Power Amid CGT Move
Maj. Gen. Pedro Aramburu's government used tanks and Marines to seize control of the General Confederation of Labor in Buenos Aires. Police arrested about 100 trainmen's union leaders as the three day strike faltered. Navy Capt. Alberto Patton named interventor for CGT with officials ousted and funds seized. Labor Minister Raul Migone pledged fair treatment but pledged to curb political use of unions.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Aramburu
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Peron
Navy
Alberto Patton
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