New Indian Hospital Planned On Site Of Old Structure
Washington officials announced a new 2 million USPHS Indian Hospital will be built on the current site with ground to be broken by January 1965. The 1937 west wing will be retained but likely not used for patient care.
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Usphs Indian Hospital
Washington
Carruth Wagner
Division of Indian Health, Feducation and Welfare
USPHS
Jerrold M. Michael
Office
Michael
Elmerea
Cache Road
Gore Blvd
U.S. 277
Benjamin E. McBrayer
Oklahoma City
See Hospital
Pope 4
Lawton
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Arizona-New Mexico
Flagstaff
Ariz
Iowa
Lincoln
Neb
Wyoming
Soviet Jets Shoot Down Iranian Plane in Irani Territory
Soviet jet fighters shot down an unarmed Iranian twin engine civilian plane 18 miles inside Iran after it strayed into the Soviet Union. The pilots and two aerial survey officials aboard were killed as the craft reportedly exploded after being fired upon near Darghaz during Brezhnev's visit.
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Tehran
Tran
Soviet Union
Darghaz
Iran
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Birdman of Alcatraz Dies at 73 in Sleep
Robert Stroud known as the Birdman of Alcatraz died in his sleep at 5 45 a.m. in the U S Medical Center Springfield Mo He was 73 and had spent 54 years in prison including 43 years in solitary confinement His life sentence for killing a guard and earlier commutation for a 1909 bar room killing shaped his infamous career He gained fame for bird studies and writing prompting the 1950 film The Birdman of Alcatraz The latest court appearances were in July 1959 and earlier this month regarding a book on the federal prison system
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Springfield
Robert Stroud
Alcatraz
U.S. Medical Center
U.S
Leavenworth
Kan
Jesse Harris
Stroud
Alcatraz Prison
Kansas City
Birdman
Wreck Claims Second Victim Near Rush Springs
A Tuesday morning crash south of Rush Springs killed a 61 year old Bethany man and seriously injured 21 year old William McGowan. Investigating troopers said McGowan in a northbound station wagon forced a head on collision on U S 81 after a shoulder pull over to avoid the other car. Patterson died in a separate one car crash near Chandler earlier today, raising Oklahoma toll to 664 for the year.
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Rush Springs
Lawton Highway Patrol District
William McCowan
Marlow
U. S. 81
Bethany
Buel Otis Brauderick
Brauderick
McGowan
Lincoln County
Tom Patterson
McGowan’s
Oklahoma
Patterson
SH 18
Chandler
Highway Patrol
Texans Hear Kennedy on Space Critics
President Kennedy defended the space program in Texas tours with wife Jacqueline. He framed space research as beneficial to Earth, citing radar to transistor progress and space medicine promises, while aiming to unite Democrats for 1964. The Brooks Air Force Base visit highlighted medical laboratories and a non political, healing role.
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San Antonio. Tex
UPI
Kennedy
Jacqueline
Washington
Texas
Aero
Brooks Afb
Earth
Pope
Church Grants Friday Meat Dispensation for Kennedy Luncheon
Catholics attending Friday lunch for President Kennedy in Dallas have been given a dispensation to eat meat, while Kennedy himself would not need exemption as he is a military commander. Reverend J A Schumacher of the Dallas Fort Worth Diocese explained the decision noting the luncheon audience includes many non Catholics. Sirloin steak is to be served.
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Dallas
UPS
Kennedy
J. A. Schumacher
Dallas-Fort Worth
Schumacher
Gulf Hunt For Captain Spy Plane Debris Over Cuba
Rates at McMahon Tomlinson Nursing Center drop to 175 dollars monthly as Nursing Center officials say the new base rate will admit more patients. Murphy Cole Memorial Hunt administrator announced the change today and cited budget needs.
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McMahon-Tomlinson Nursing Center
Murphy Cole
Memorial Hunt
Cole
Nursing center facing funds as patient total rises
At a board of control meeting on November 12 the home reported eight weeks of operation with 12 patients and a deficit of 12 404 29. Cole warned the 70 bed nursing center would lack funds by late December unless more patients are admitted.
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Board of Controls
Cole
Plan
Wichita Falls Fire Kills Three Children
A two story frame apartment fire in Wichita Falls Texas killed three Gilbert children Cindy six Elbert three and Norman fifteen months. Fire Chief Herschel Johnson said both boys burned to death and the girl died of smoke inhalation. Two firemen were slightly injured when the roof collapsed as residents escaped.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
UPI
Norman Gilbert
Gilbert
Altus
Cindy
Elbert
Norman
Herschel Johnson
Johnson
Leroy Sampson
Dale Cox
Love Story Ends Big Lift Operation With Texas Wedding
The 2nd Armored Division airlift moved 16 000 troops to Germany and back to Fort Hood as Pfc John J Martin 24 of San Diego and his Dallas sweetheart Betty Thompson shared a romance. Martin wed in Texas after a brief reunion following the final Big Lift flight.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
2Nd Armored
Germany
Ft. Hood
Texas
John J. Martin
San Diego
Calif
Betty Thompson
Dallas
Edwin H. Burba
Miss Thompson
Burba
Martin
Navy Reports Body Missing of WU2 Pilot
Wreckage of a WU2 spy plane vanishes over Cuba and is found in 1,000 foot Gulf water near Key West. Pilot Capt. Joe G. Hyde Jr. remains missing. Coast Guard and Navy vessels search while officials cite mechanical failure as likely cause. Debris and oil slick spotted northwest of Key West, aiding the probe.
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Key West
Fla
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
Navy
Coast Guard
Joe G. Hyde Jr
LaGrange
Ernest H. Dunlap
Nemesis
Hyde
Pentagon
Washington
Strategic Air Command
Defense Department
SAC
Maha
Gulf
Capt Hyde
Joe G. Hyde Sr
Marianne Gerdes
Leland
Miss
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Pioneer
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Carruth J. Wagner
The
Iranian Air Taxi Co
Robert F. Stroud
Merriman Smith
White House
Gulf Hunt
Virgil Gattoer
Seventh Corps
Jayhawker
Stutgart
West Germany
United States
Oregon
Thompson
Frankfurt
Bergstrom Afb
PFC
John Martin
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