Senate Faces House Clash Over Free Mail and Steed Fury
Senate leaders delay final action on a 163.2 million bill for operations amid a House battle led by Rep Tom Steed over junk and patron mail. Steed warns of exposing a hidden liquor cabinet and call girls, while Dirksen blasts his remarks as balderdash.
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Washington
Senate
House
Tom Steed
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Steed
Hernando
Dirksen
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Sen
Fort Sill Prefers Lawton Water Ties Over Own Plant
Fort Sill rejects building and running its own water treatment plant citing mission needs and reliance on Lawton. Army officials say utilities are typically obtained from nearby cities and project costs could exceed 16 million plus plant operation. Fort Sill pays Lawton for processed water and amortization, with no source of raw water besides city supply.
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Fort Sill
Army
Lawton
Fort Si
Chamber of Commerce
Port Sills
POST
Arctic Cold Front Heads For Lawton
A midwestern Arctic cold front moves toward Oklahoma expected to bring winter like weather to Lawton. Temperatures in the state will dip after a mild spell with a 75 degree high forecast for Thursday and a 65 degree peak today.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Idaho
Montana
Midwestern
Weather Bureau
Fort Sill Man Found Dead in Car Likely Suicide
Ronald L. McClure a 26 year old Fort Sillman was found dead in his blue 1959 Opel station wagon in a south Lawton lot. Police say he apparently died from carbon monoxide gas piped into the car via a garden hose. Witnesses Tackett and Crawford discovered the scene shortly before 9 am noting soot on McClure's hands and a hose entering the vehicle through a vent window. Authorities continue the investigation and have linked the death to prior assault charges filed by his wife and a fellow soldier.
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Fort Sillman
South Lawton
Ronald L. McClure
Arlington
Kenneth Tackett
Jim Crawford
A&w Motor Co
McClure
Peter Fuller
Cleo Stout
Don Cunningham
Kenneth Stradley
Col
AT&T Proposes 2 for 1 Stock Split and Dividend Hike
AT&T directors propose a 2 for 1 stock split with a 50 cent per share dividend on the split stock, equating to 1.00 quarterly on current stock. If approved at the April meeting, the split would take effect in June, the second such split in the company’s history, with prior changes noted in 1958 59 and 1961.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
At&t
Bell Telephone System
Wall Street
Five Miners Killed in South Africa Mine Disaster
In Carletonville near Johannesburg five miners were killed and five more were missing after a rock fall at a gold mine. Fourteen miners were injured but not seriously, according to mine owners.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Carletonville
Parisian Store Plans To Move
The Parisian, a women’s ready to wear shop, plans to relocate from its 322 C site after lease ends to 13th and Gore early next year. Owners Harold A. Herskowitz and Bill Ritzweiler say a downtown inventory sale will precede the move. They note suburban shopping gains and a planned new decor concept at the new branch near Cache Road Shopping Square.
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13Th and Gore
Harold A. Herskowitz
Bill Ritzweiler
Herskowitz
Cache Road
Congo arrests two Soviet diplomats amid tensions in Leopoldville
Congolese security forces dragged embassy counsellor Boris Noronin and press attache Yuri Miakotnykh from their car, beat them with clubs, and jailed them after a confrontation over a car search. Eyewitnesses say diplomatic immunity was claimed. Moscow protests followed.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Boris Noronin
Yuri Miakotnykh
Noronin
Miakotnykh
Brazzaville
Congo River
Moscow
Izvestia
Cyrille Adoula
Soviet Union
Poland
Czechslovakia
Bulgaria
Congo
Douglas Blyth
Stock Brokers Put On Carpet
Two major brokerage firms Ira Haupt & Co and J.R. Williston and Beane Inc were suspended from trading on the New York and American stock exchanges due to unsafe financial conditions. The action followed a NYSE check on these members after a customer failed to meet cottonseed oil futures commitments. Allied Crude Vegone, a New Jersey fats and oils dealer, filed for bankruptcy in Newark federal court.
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NEW York
Ira Haupt & Co
J.R. Williston and Beane Inc
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
The
Stock Exchange
New Jersey
Allied Crude Vegonne
U.S. District Court
Newark
Hawaii Talks Chart New U S Strategy For Viet Nam War
Top U S policy makers met in a secret Honolulu room near Pearl Harbor to forge a unified diplomatic and military course in Southeast Asia. The session included the White House, State, and Defense leaders, plus U S Ambassador Lodge and General Harkins. Washington sent Rusk McNamara and Taylor while Adm Felt hosted.
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Hawaii
U.S
Honolulu
America
Pearl Harbor
Asia
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Viet Nam
White House
Defense and
State Departments
Kennedy
Washington
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert McNamara
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maxwell Taylor
Adm
Harry D. Felt
Pacific Forces
Iraqi students seize Iraq Embassy in London
About 300 Iraqi students stormed the Iraq Embassy in London, declaring opposition to Abdul Salem Aref. They and embassy officials barred access, with British police outside and talks of a Baathist takeover from Baghdad underway. Provisions were arranged for the occupants as tanks patrolled surrounding streets.
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London
UPI
Aref
Nasser
Iraq
Abdul Salem Aref
Hashim Alie
Baath Party
Ent Baathist Army
Vn A
al Rubaie
Baghdad
Ahmed Hassan Bakr
Saleh Mahdi Ammash
Al-Rubaie
Bakr
Ammash
City Records Sixth Traffic Death of '63
A 52 year old Lawton woman, Vivian Irene Campbell, died after her car struck a steel pole on Fort Sill Boulevard near Cache Road. Ray Cox, 27, suffered a leg injury and possible internal injuries after being pinned for 30 minutes. The other vehicle’s occupants escaped harm. Cox siblings operated a service station nearby. Traffic deaths for Lawton reached six in 1963, advancing Oklahoma's fatality toll to 659.
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Lawton
Fort Sill Blvd
Cache Road
Memorial Hospital
Vivian Irene Campbell
Charles Robertson
Donnie Powell
Campbell
Ray Cox
Jay
Jay Cox
Rites Planned for Aged Indian Tepay Last Widow of Quanah Parker
Tepay the last surviving widow of Chief Quanah Parker died in the USPHS hospital in Lawton after a stroke. A prayer service is set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Post Oak MB Indian Church Indiahoma with services at 10:30 a.m. Friday officiated by Rev. Joe Lonetree and Rev. Lester Whitepigeon. Burial follows at Cache Nazarene cemetery. Becker Funeral Home handles arrangements. Hospital records list her age as 93 though she claimed to be over 100.
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Pall McClung
Tepay
Quanah Parker
USPHS
Lawton
Post Oak MB
Indian Church
Indiahoma
Joe Lonetree
Lester Whitepigeon
Cache Nazarene Indian Church
Cache Nazarene Cemetery
Becker Funeral Home
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Tack Bees
Associated Press
Mous
Everett M. Dirksen
Ate Appropriations Committee
Appropriations
Ara
Fort Sillam
Coventry
Pneland
Ray Atteberry
Tackett
About & Am
Crawford
Onham
Rusk
Henry Cabot Lodge
Gen
Paul D. Harkins
City Records
Topay
Quanah
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