Chambless Dead or Alive: Friends Bet on Fate
Eth Stone, at a Lawton service station, says Lindsay Chambless is dead and will not be heard from again. Stone recalls Chambless’s disappearance after a call about using his car for a job, the car found at Oklahoma City airport, and Chambless’s unresolved armed hijacking conviction and appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Atteberry
Eth Stone
Oklahoma City
Orville
Lindsay Champbless
Bootlester
Stone
Lawton
Lindsay
Chambless
Chambress
Chamb
Tito Reports New Battle With Kremlin In Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito heads into a fresh clash with Moscow as reports of Soviet troop moves toward the Yugoslav border surface. Belgrade says Tito vows to win a power struggle echoing 1948 defiance, while Pravda blasts his stance on Soviet affairs and de Stalinization.
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London
ILP
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Kremlin
Communist Party
Nikita
S. Khrushchev
Tito
Belgrade
Josef Stalin
Cominform
Organization of
Communist States
Moscow
Hungary
Pravda
Tio
Khrushchev
Stalin
Cruel Officer Faces Court Martial Trial
FY BRAGG NC Lt Lyle Brinkoetler faces a general court martial on charges of mass punishment, illegal restrictions, and false reporting. The 31 year old officer of the 83rd Field Artillery Battalion allegedly imposed an unauthorized road march and used abusive language. He is accused of restricting personnel awaiting confession to shoe theft and destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FY. Bragg
B.C
Lyle Edward Brinkoetler
Ilegally
Brinkoeher
Decatur
83Rd Field Artillery Battalion
James V Powers
Ebrinkochter
Brinkochter
Set
Euclides Sierra
Army
Norstad Becomes SHAPE Commander in Europe
UPI reports General Lauris Norstad assumed command of Allied forces in Europe at SHAPE Paris, succeeding General Alfred Gruenther. The ceremony highlighted air power as central to Western defense, with Gruenther preparing to retire after 38 years in service. Norstad previously served as Gruenther’s air deputy and headed SHAPE’s central air force.
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NATO
Alfred M. Gruenther
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Air Force
Lauris Norstad
Paris
UPI
U.S
Alfred
Gruenther
Norstad
United States of Canada
SHAPE
Central Air Force
Fuqua Appears for Arraignment in Bootlegger Case
George Fuqua a 33 year old Oklahoma native arrived in Lawton to be arraigned on two counts of armed robbery of bootleggers with trial set in Superior court for December 5. He previously fought extradition from Texas after charges tied to 1951 hijackings on county roads and with co defendant Orville Chambless.
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Lawton
Comanche
Oklahoma
Bus Ness
Chambless
Superior Court
Albion Henry Potts Jr
Oklahoma City
George Fuqua
Lewis
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Fuqua
Orville Lindsay Chambless
Robert S Landers
Fuqna
Frank Cupshew
Carl Townsend
Charles Hammans
Johnny Howell
Gilben K. Rhoads
Hammons and
Howell
Sanders
Sen
New Lead Found In Murder Case In San Angelo
Sheriff Cecil Turner returns to Lawton after a new lead emerged in the disappearance of hatchet victim and Western Airlines employee. Det. Capt. Otis Waldron says the tip may bring arrest of suspect John D. Burk, 32, with the trail traced from Lawton after his departure last Friday. Parson, the victim, was identified days after the October 27 body find in an abandoned well near a San Angelo lake.
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Cecil Turner
San Angelo
Tex
Lawton
Western Airlines
Otis Waldron
John D. Burk
Burk
Weral Edgar Parsons
Los Angeles
Calif
Girl Claims Blinder Knew Riesel Victim
Olga De La Cruz, 20, divorced mother of two, testifies in New York federal court that Abe Telvi told her he knew Victor Riesel by name when he blinded him. Her account contradicts earlier testimony denying Telvi's knowledge of the victim before newspapers reported the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Petit
Abe Telvi
Victor Riesel
Thal
Colum
Olga de la Cruz
Telvi
Supreme Court Reverses City in Lawton Pipeline Suit
Oklahoma Supreme Court reversed a district court ruling and awarded Selected Investments Corporation the right to recover for pipelines laid in two Lawton residential additions or the facilities’ price. The decision upends the city’s stance and signals potential wider payouts to developers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Selected Investments Corporation
Lawton
District Court
City of
Jack Cummins
W. W. Godlove
Supreme Court
Cummins
Floyd Jackson
U S Seabees First Live At South Pole Station
Eight Navy Seabees and 11 sled dogs became the first residents at Antarctica’s South Pole station near McMurdo Sound. The team landed in two ski aircraft and will establish a winter camp for scientists as part of the International Geophysical Year efforts.
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Mcmurdo Sound
Antarctica
South Pole
U.S
Antarctics
Navy
U. S
Richard A. Bowers
Harrisburg
Paul Siple
Washington, D.C
Pole
Adm
George Dufek
Cold Winds Might Bring Snow Tonight
A light snow possibility looms for Lawton as a cold front pushes through Oklahoma. Temperatures fell to 38 by 11 am, with 7 am reading 42, and forecasters warn of lows near 13 in the panhandle to 35 in the southeast. Expect cloudy, cold weather through Wednesday with a warmer Thanksgiving Day.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Westville
Boise City
Buffalo
Tahlequah
Cleveland
Miami
Bristow
Eufaula
Wilburton
Quapaw
Bartlesville
Whitefield
Delaware farmer reports explosion near Harrington
A Delaware farmer reported a strong explosion near his Harrington area farm four miles southwest of town. Air and ground search parties scoured the region but found no wreckage and Dover and New Castle airfields reported no missing aircraft.
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Harrington, Delum
Delaware
Harrington
George Ehlers
Here
Dover
New Castle del
Williams gets life in killing of minister
Edward Leon Pete Williams 28, a Tulsa native, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a 71 year old Tulsa Baptist student minister on June 17. Tulsa County Attorney J Howard Edmondson said Williams would be returned to Tulsa to face charges carrying the death penalty for kidnaping the minister or armed robbery of a Tulsa service station the day before. Williams also faces armed robbery charges in LeFlore County for a Talibina couple's robbery the day after the murder. Judge E G Carroll ordered life imprisonment after Williams pleaded guilty, with the judge vowing not to recommend clemency.
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Muskogee
Edward Leon Pete Williams
Tulsa
Williams
Tammy Rober
Cooke
Arkansas River Bottom
Laad
Taft
LeFlore
Joe Page
E. G. Carroll
Paul Gotcher
Cleon Summers
Eden Sidelined as Eden rest fuels endgame talk
London reports say Prime Minister Eden is to rest after severe overstrain with Quster presiding in Cabinet. The Middle East crisis and Eden’s Egypt decision spark speculation of his resignation amid Conservative defections and Labour pressure, despite several confidence votes.
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London
A. A. Butler
Eden
Britain
Middle East
France
Egypt
Labor Party
Conservative Party
Security Duty Seen Possible During Waterway Clearing
UNITED NATIONS Egypt backed by the Soviet Union wants the UN police force to leave the Suez Canal zone after Britain France and Israel withdraw. Diplomats fear delays in resolving the deadlock as Hammarskjold contemplates possible security duties during canal clearance and negotiations on security arrangements. The UNA emergency force would supervise cease fire and troop withdrawals while coordinating with firms to clear wreckage and sunken ships. Six months has been floated as the potential duration of the operation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Egypt
Dag Hammerskjold
Suez Canal
Britain
France
Israel
Hammarskjold
General Assembly
U.N
Canal
Hamsmarskjold
Gaza
Sinai Peninsula
Soviet Union
City Sill Prepare For Holiday By BILL COOK
Lawton and Fort Sill residents join Americans in last minute Thanksgiving preparations for the 92nd observance. The morning union service at First Christian will feature Rev. Clarence A Ridge. Public service at Christian Science and Catholic churches follow with Fort Sill servicemen slated for a turkey feast. Menu includes shrimp cocktail to start, plus turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, rolls, relishes, fruit cake, pies, coffee and milk.
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Bill Cook
Lawton
Fort Sill
Turkey
Clarence A. Ridge
Seventh and
Gore
Refugees Flee Hungary for U S Amid Soviet Action
Sixty refugees from Soviet rule in Hungary board a charter flight via Vienna toward the United States as ICEM speeds up efforts to move up to 5 000 across the Atlantic. The group includes 15 men 17 women 13 children and 2 infants. They sing Hungarys national anthem before departure.
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Vienna
Hungary
United States
Atlantic
Austria
Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration
Schwechat
Munich
McGuire Air Force Base
N.J
Camp Isilmer
Linz
ICEM
Milwaukee
Asians Support Hungary Probe Move at United Nations
At the UN in New York India and two other Asian nations backed a resolution urging Hungary to permit on the spot UN observers, despite the puppet regime’s resistance to admitting political observers. Cuba’s call to halt deportations was vetoed as Asian powers sought priority.
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United Nations
N.Y
India
Ceylon
Indonesia
U.N
Hungary
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Cuba
Soviet Union
V. K. Krishna Menon
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Oklahoma County
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King
Dave Tant
State Criminal Court of Appeals
Balkans
Black Sea
Ftna
Romania
Russia
Poland
Milovan Dulas
Pst
Shape Command
Blinder
Riesel
Suez
High Court
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Quster
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