School Boy Held In Public Park Slaying
NEW YORK high school student charged with homicide for the playground slaying of a park department employee Frank Gargiulo 20 shot in full view of mothers and children. Arrested in Harlem Hiram Rosa 17 alleged trigger man with others 17 year olds David Vargas and John Barnett and a 15 year old. Vargas allegedly pulled the trigger after a fight between Barnett and Michael Flynn 16 sparked the deadly incident. Police say Gargiulo worked in the Parks Department and told Rosa I only work here before Rosa fired a fatal chest shot. Arrests followed as officers pursued the quartet and liquor served to minors at a local bar.
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New York
Park Department
Park
Frank Gargilio
Harlem
Hiram Rosa
Rosa
Machine and Metals High
East Harlem
David Vargas
John Barnett
Gargiulo
Parks Department
Borke
Barnett
Michael Flynn
Vargas
Flynn
Garguilo
Fort Sill Nears Fund Drive Goal
Fort Sill relief and welfare fund nears its 65000 goal with under a week left. Artillery and Guided Missile Center Command surpassed 100 percent at 16834 dollars. Transfer Point leads percentage at 407 percent and 366 dollars. First Ordnance Group rises to 112 percent with 1741 dollars. Central Post at 206 percent, up and the 17th or Group holds 127 percent. The fund drive page 2.
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Fort Sill
Artillery and Guided Missile Center Command
First Ordnance Group
Post Chemical
Central Post Fund
Tith FA
Tampico Toll Hits 326 As Flood Mounts Higher
The Tampico death toll rose to 326 in the flood, with the Panuco River still rising and relief efforts led by the United States. Aircraft carrier Saipan and Siboney helicopters joined U.S. Army, Air Force, Marines, Red Cross, and Salvation Army in a massive aid push to Tampico and surrounding areas. The 14th Air Force reports about 280,000 pounds of food and clothing delivered since Oct. 1 as Operation Friendship gains praise from residents and Mexican newspapers for bolstering U.S.-Mexican ties.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Panuco
Mexico
U.S
Yucatan Peninsula
Saipan
U.S. Army
Air Force
Marines
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
Siboney
Norfolk
Oglethorpe
M. C. Quillen
U.S. Army Air Force Transportation
14Th Air Force
U.S. 4Th Army
San Antonio
Tex
Red Cross
U.S. Navy
Fears Mount For Kidnapped Girl Life
Tulsa police fear for 13 year old Ramona Mayo missing since Tuesday after two escapees from Eastern Washington hospitals were charged with kidnapping. Ramona’s uncle Lewis Driscoll and John Thomas Clausen 17, were seen in a green and white 1955 Chevrolet with Washington plates 98 602C. Mother urged full description to aid search as FBI coordination began.
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Tulsa
Ramona Lee Mayo
T. A. Mayo
Lewis Driscoll
Charles Clausen
John Thomas
Eastern Washington State Hospital
Washington
Bank deposits dip slightly across four local banks
Deposits at American National City National Security Bank and Fort Sill National show a 141 591 62 decline from a year earlier while total loans rise to 10 688 575 51 across four institutions for the period ending Oct 5 1955 City National records a 276 747 31 year over year deposits gain as the four banks report 29 345 492 45 in deposits and 10 688 575 51 in loans.
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Fort Sill
American National
City National
Security Bank & Trust Co
Fort Sill National
Grady jail escape suspects located near Rush Springs
An accused murderess Flora Mae Giddings and two male suspects Cornelius Cook and W R Garrett, who fled Grady county jail for the second time, were believed found in a dense black jack area four miles west of Rush Springs as police from Grady and Caddo counties join with highway patrol and a searching plane and bloodhounds en route.
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Grady County
Rush Springs
Grady
Caddo
Flora Mae Giddings
Venubia
Calif
Beheading murder case still open says Bivins
Oklahoma Crime Bureau Chief O K Bivins said there is a good chance the 1952 murder of Betty Stevens a 21 year old Dallas waitress may be solved despite years of leads and no final suspect He noted the case is not closed and hinted it could be linked to other 1952 slayings while detailing Stevens movements and the carved RAT on her abdomen.
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Oklahoma City
Oklalahoma Crime Bureau
O. K. Bivins
Dallas
Tex
Oklahoma
Betty Jackie Stevens
Yukon
Okla
Bivins
Underworld
Odessa
Henrietta
Decatur
Alvord
United DC-4 crashes into Medicine Bow Peak killing 64
A United Airlines four engined DC-4 on a Denver to Salt Lake City leg struck Medicine Bow Peak in southern Wyoming, killing all 64 aboard. Rescue crews reported the wreckage scattered on the snow covered summit, with extensive fire and disintegration evident. The flight had originated from New York LaGuardia and had stopped in Denver before continuing to Salt Lake City.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
United Airlines
Denver
Salt Lake City
Medicine Bow
Wyoming
44Th Air Rescue
San Francisco
Guards Take Command After Strike Violence in New Castle
National Guardsmen backed by tanks moved into New Castle Indiana to end violence at the Perfect Circle plant and prevent a flare at Chrysler. About 600 troops enforced a limited martial law with road blocks curfew and tavern closures as CIO UAW and Perfect Circle stake holders sought a truce after a two hour gunfight injuring nine.
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New Castle
Ind
Perfect Circle Corp
George Craig
Weanesaay
Perfect Circle
Chrysler Corp
CIO United Auto Workers
Indiana National Guardsmen
Perfect Circle Piston Ring
Bulganin Emerges as Kremlin’s Dominant Figure
Western diplomats question Khrushchev’s grip as Premier Nikolai Bulganin appears the stronger power within the Soviet leadership. After talks in Moscow with Adenauer and Brentano, allied officials note Bulganin’s clear influence in negotiations, reshaping views on Soviet decision making.
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Washington P
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
Heinrich von Brentano
Shake-Up In Patrol Spurs Claims By Safety Chief
Oklahoma City October hearing unfolds in Senate probe into state patrol shake up. Safety Commissioner Lookabaugh brands former Lt. C T Raley a sponger moocher and fence rider alleging a Big I Little You mindset and by passing the chief's office. Testimony included two troopers a state highway official and Lookabaugh as Nix notes the session will move to a closed door portion for reluctant witnesses.
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Oklahoma City
Jim Lookabaugh
Highway Patrol
C. T. Raley
Lawton
Lookabaugh
Raley
Kirksey Nix
McAlester
Senate
State Highway Commission
Sen
Nix
State Safety Commissioner
Africa Rebels Ready To Quit RABAT
Rebels in the mid-Atlas Mountains near the Spanish frontier show signs they may abandon fighting, while French officers report continued clashes around Tizi Ouzli. In Rabat Premier Faure reshuffles his cabinet, and debates over reform plans stall. Refugees flood Taza as tensions rise in French Morocco and nearby regions.
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Rabat
French Morocco
mid-Atlas
Tizi Ouzli
Morocco
France
Paris
Edgar Faure
Pierre Koenig
Pierre Boyer de Latour
Fez
Boured
Aknoul
Spanish Morocco
Abd el Krim
Taza
Polio Strikes Mexican Girl in Oklahoma Hospital
A 19 year old Mexican girl Esperanza Anaya of Pharr Texas was admitted to Memorial hospital in Oklahoma for acute polio, the second polio patient this week. The Anaya family of 12 moved to work in the cotton harvest near Duke Jackson county two weeks ago. Her condition is satisfactory though she remains in fever in isolation on Memorial's fourth floor. rodolfo Briseno of Eagle Pass Texas and another Anaya child previously contracted polio. other patients in hot pack treatment include Mrs LeRoy Benson of Snyder and Carolyn Sue Davis of Duncan.
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Memorial Hospital
William C. Love
Esperanza Anaya
Primitivo Anaya
Pharr
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Oklahoma
Duke
Jackson County
Anaya
Altus
Memorial
San Antonio
Rodolfo Briseno
Jose Briseno
Eagle Pass
Briseno
LeRoy Benson
Snyder
Carolyn Sue Davis
8. T. Bewley
Duncan
Cameras Catching Scenes In Refuge
H Woodbridge Williams a photographer for National Geographic Society magazine photographs scenery and wildlife in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. He arrived Tuesday and will stay at least a month focusing on the Refuge herd of Longhorn cattle the largest in the world.
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H. Woodbridge Williams
National Geographic Society
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Williams
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Nancy
Paula
Roosevelt Stadium
Ramona
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Raley ‘Moocher
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Wyoming Air National Guard
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Kremlin
Bill Hamilton
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