Demolition Experts Remove Explosives From City Home
Fort Sill explosive ordnance team removed 12512 pounds of tri nitro toluene from a Lawton shed at 206 H Mrs James A Brush. residents feared danger as TNT could destroy buildings within a 100 yard radius. The 61st EOD led by Lt Joseph A Wrable and Sgt Gerald Grimm hauled out 251 half pound blocks, while the mystery of how the TNT arrived remains unsolved.
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Fort Sill
Lawton
James A. Brush
Public Service Company
Brush
Joseph A. Wrable
Sill 61St Ordnance Detachment
EOD
Gerald Grimm
Lt. Vrabie
Vrabie
A. C. Shaefer
Garfield
Co. C. Shull
Lorrie Mae
Wrable
Sgt
Fire destroys Fort Sill hospital annex building
Four Fort Sill units and one from Lawton fought a blaze that engulfed the administration section of the hospital annex along U.S. 277 near Gate 1 and Gate 2. The fire, not fully under control hours after the first alarm, drew thousands of spectators in freezing weather. no patients were housed there, and damage estimates were not yet available.
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Fort Sill
Lawton
Public Information Office
Brewer Admits Bank Holdup in Cement Robbery Case
Lewis Gordon Brewer, 55, pleaded guilty to bank robbery for the Nov 4 Cement bank heist after previously claiming innocence. U S District Judge Edgar S. Vaught set sentencing for Brewer and two co-defendants, bond denied reduction, with $25,000 bonds and details noting the stolen $3,140. Brewer and Spann are related. Shaw is from Lawton.
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Oklahoma City
Lewis Gordon Brewer
First State Bank of Cement
Brewer
U. S
Edgar S. Vaught
Vaught
Dave Tant
Dale Cook
Howard Shaw
Jimmy Franklin Spann
Spann
Cement
Shaw
Lawton
Buffalo Hit By Blizzard Strands City Workers
Buffalo, N Y, awoke to a raging blizzard from the Great Lakes trough, trapping thousands on streets and blocking roads to the city. A Buffalo Transit Co bus toward Hamburg was missing all night but later reached the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna where company officials provided shelter and coffee.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Great Lakes
Buffalo Transit Co
Hamburg
Bethlehem Steel
Lackawanna
All Five Girl Escapees Back In Cells At Akron
Five teenage girls who escaped the Summit County Detention Home and left an elderly matron dead were back in custody. Prosecutor Alva J. Russell planned murder indictments as details emerged of the fatal strangulation and the girls actions during the escape. Margaret Nicholson and Mirl Cain surrendered, Ruth Beichler and Shirley Shingler were captured, Zelda De Cost, 16, surrendered after hiding in cellars in freezing weather.
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Akron
Ohio
Summit County
Zelda de Cost
Margaret Nicholson
Mirl Cain
Ruth Beichler
Shirley Shingler
Second Cold Blast On Way In Oklahoma Weather Outlook
A Arctic feel lingers as a storm center moves from the western plains into the state bringing cold air Wednesday night and Thursday. Lawton expects little change with a high in the 40s and a freeze tonight near 25 to 30, with tomorrow in the 50s. Five day statewide forecast shows temperatures about five degrees below normal in the Panhandle and up to 16 degrees below in central and eastern Oklahoma with no significant precipitation through Sunday.
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Plains
Lawton
Panhandle
Oklahoma
French Premier Edgar Faure Ousted by Assembly
The National Assembly in Paris voted 318 to 218 to remove Premier Edgar Faure from office. His cabinet, the 21st postwar French government, had faced multiple confidence votes and will likely yield a temporary cabinet to arrange spring elections. The Communists' opposition sealed the fall, ending plans for a December election and delaying any vote to spring or later.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Edgar Faure
Faure
France
National Assembly
Assembly
House
Francois Mitterrand
Pierre Menées
County Girl Makes Good At National Dress Winner Margie John
Margie Mae John of Lawton Oklahoma was named national winner in the dress revue at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. She designed a mauve three piece outfit from French imported wool and wore graphite accessories. ATexture 4-H member since 1937, she won state honors and competed against 76 state entrants and several others nationally.
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Chicago
Margie Mae John
Leland S. John
Rt. 2
Lawton
Imliss
Miss John
Flower Mound Club
Simplicity Pattern Company
Oklahoma A&m College
John
More Suits Filed In Fatal Accident
A Lawton man and his wife are named defendants in two new suits filed in Superior court this morning over a January 10 highway crash on U S 277 near Randlett Cotton county that killed three people. Plaintiffs seek a total of 175700 from James Herbert Dyas and Nellie H Dyas with new plaintiffs John K Riedel and Deborah Riedel of Austin Texas now joining one suit and Mrs Riedel filing another.
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Lawton
U.S. 277
Randlett
Cotton County
James Herbert Dyas
Nellie H. Dyas
Park
John K. Riedel
Deborah Riedel
Austin
Tex
Fort Sill Hosts Advanced Artillery Officers Class
Fort Sill hosts 240 officers in the Artillery Officer Advanced course including 130 field artillery, 78 anti aircraft, and 32 from allied nations. A Friday barbecue dinner at the National Guard armory honors the class and their wives, with 10 per couple tickets on sale via the Chamber of Commerce. Classes resume after holidays, as the 35 week program at Fort Sill builds battalion and group leadership for artillery commands.
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Fort Sill
Fort Bliss
Tex
Artillery
National Guard
George Page
Chamber of Commerce
Sill
Field Artillery and Allied of
Ficers
Bliss
Calcutta Hosts Soviet Leaders in Turbulent Welcome
In Calcutta, a massive crowd greeted Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party chief Nikita Khrushchev. Police redirected officials by side routes as the throng blocked governor’s residence access, delays hit flights, and the afternoon program was canceled.
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Calcutta
India
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Bulganin
Khrushchev
Army Reshuffles High Command
Washington report on the fifth postwar general staff reshuffle. The Army's top Pentagon posts shift but the intelligence chief remains an assistant chief of staff. New organization moves three deputy chiefs of staff to oversee personnel plans and military operations.
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Washington
Army
Pentagon
Walter L. Weible
C. D. Edleeman
Weible
C. B. Magruder
General Staff
Anti-West Rioters Swarm Damascus
Ten thousand demonstrators filled Damascus streets shouting anti western and anti Israel slogans. Police posted heavy guards outside the American British French and Turkish embassies as other police dispersed the mob without incident. Similar demonstrations erupted in other parts of Syria.
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Damascus
Syria
Solons Probe Army's New Security Rules
Senate investigators sought a precise explanation of how the Army will handle security risk cases under a new directive. Sen Hennings questioned Defense official Jerome Fenton on the order issued ten days earlier and its implications for pre induction screening. Chairman Young testified that three of four government firings for security concerns hide broader derogratory data and questioned a numbers game.
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Washington
Senate
Sen. Hennings
D-Mo
Senate Subcommittee On
Jerome D. Fenton
Defense Department
Philip Young
Civil Service Commission
Young
Hennings
Wickersham Optimistic On Economy Events in Lawton and 1956 outlook
U S Rep Victor Wickersham touring his expanded sixth district spoke in Lawton predicting 1956 congressional action will boost business He forecast higher defense spending a national highway program and action on water conservation He accused the current administration of delaying authorized spending to balance the budget and said programs might be freed in 1956 to precede the campaign He discussed surpluses and aid to the aged and needy and noted no new details on Fort Sill expansion See WICKERSHAM Page 2
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U.S
Victor Wickersham
Lawton
Wickersham
Congress
Benson
Fort Sill
Perfect Circle Strike Ends After Narrow UAW Vote
NEW CASTLE Ind where United Auto Workers at Perfect Circle Corp foundry voted 86 to 72 to end a four month strike that twice brought National Guard troops and tanks to the city. The secret ballot followed a closed meeting lasting about two and a half hours.
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New Castle
Ind
CIO United Auto Workers
Perfect Circle Corp
National Guard
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