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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1954
Page
12
Washington weighs a major foreign aid push to develop non Communist Asia. Officials say talks with European partners are under way on an enlarged Asia development program. The debate over funding may determine the struggle for influence in the backward regions.
Oklahoma City November 24 The State Board of Affairs backs a master control board to oversee all state institutions except colleges. The plan would consolidate several institutions under one board and may spark major administrative shakeups. The three member panel led by Harris Olmstead could be replaced when Governor elect Raymond Gary takes office.
Parents of Douglas Dwight Thompson win permission to change the middle name to Walsh after deleting pages of reasons they no longer admire President Eisenhower. The first name remains Douglas, in honor of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Tehran reports Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Soraya will visit the United States for two months starting December. They will be guests of President Eisenhower and First Lady at a White House luncheon December 13. The Shah will undergo a medical checkup in New York on doctor advised.
Woodford England Prime Minister Churchill says he planned to rearm Germany if Soviet advance continued and Russia dominated Europe. He warns Stalin through a birthday rally that a world front against Russian aggression must be strengthened and that Germany could be used as a counterweight.
More than ten thousand high school students gathered in Seoul to protest all Korean elections aiming at peninsula unification. They were led by school bands and blocked downtown traffic.
Services for Thomas J. Clark 72 of 1909 C will be 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Church of God Ninth and Lee with Rev. E T Curtsinger and Rev. E C Campbell officiating. Burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Clark longtime city street department employee born Oct 21 1882 in Columbus Mississippi married Emma E Elliott in Kemp Texas Nov 4 1904 and moved to Comanche County in 1927. Surviving wife three sons a half brother and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
A Dallas bench heard a complaint from four women about four hounds kept by a man for raccoon hunting. One dog barks in bass, another in tenor, two others silent. Judge Bill Richburg ordered the dogs moved from town. the owner said he would comply.
In Santa Monica California the widow Florence McManus received court approval for a $2500 monthly allowance from the late cartoonist George McManus estate. The guardians reported monthly expenses of $1150 for staff plus $150 for medical care $700 for food supplies and car upkeep and $500 for incidentals. McManus died October 22 and the estate is valued at over one million dollars.
Berlin reports Communist Czechoslovakia appoints a delegation to attend the European security conference proposed by the Soviet Union. The gathering may be held in Moscow on November 29 with only Soviet satellites so far committed to attend. Western observers see it as a move to block West German rearmament.
John Caulk a 60 year old farm laborer was sentenced to six months in the house of correction for putting lye in the snuff box of a lady friend in Chestertown Maryland last night.
In Joliet Mrs Lois Peterson slipped driving yesterday pressing the gas instead of the brake. The car grazed a parked vehicle hit a telephone pole and crashed into a building then struck an eight foot ladder. Parker 42 sustained back injury while Mrs Peterson 18 sprained her right arm.
In Columbus Ohio a school bus carrying about 60 youngsters from Marion Franklin High School swerved off the road after the driver tried to prevent three musical instruments from sliding toward the steering wheel. Thirty one students were injured, at least five seriously, and the driver Harold C Fetter 33 was treated for shock.
The body of Andrei Vishinsky was flown from New York to Moscow as the Soviet government announced a state funeral in Red Square. He died in New York from a heart attack and will be buried near Lenin and Stalin in the Kremlin wall. Capitalina Vishinsky, Zinai da Vishinsky, Georgi Zarubin, and six others accompanied the coffin. Jacob Malik will head the U N delegation in Vishinsky's temporary absence.
Funeral plans report the body will lie in state in the Hall of Columns of Moscow House of Unions before Red Square ceremonies. Stalin’s bier was viewed there by thousands. The report notes the continuity of leadership during a tense postwar period.
SHENANDOAH Pennsylvania a 65 year old woman Catherine Murphy of Shaft near here was rescued after her front lawn collapsed into a mine breach. Alden Hertz of William Penn Fire Co lowered into the hole to pull her to safety. She was hospitalized with internal injuries a fractured nose possible left hip fracture and other injuries. An old mine barrier beneath the surface was blamed.
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