Capital Gunman Admits 46000 California Theft
In Atlanta, a 19 year old Oklahoma City gunman captured after a pistol duel with police admitted stealing a safe and forty six thousand dollars in securities from Sherman Oaks California. Decatur County police overpowered Wayne Gadd Saturday night during a failed grocery store hold up and found the safe containing the securities in the getaway car trunk.
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Oklahoma City
Sherman Oaks
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Decatur
Wayne Gadd
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Lumberton
N. C
Dem leaders spotlight Harriman Stevenson and Symington
The 1956 Democratic race absorbs attention as Averell Harriman Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Symington weigh options while President Eisenhower’s condition stirs GOP talk. Harriman says he is not a candidate yet supports Stevenson and may not be morally bound to back him at the convention. Stevenson gains a DC club backing, Symington's backers in Missouri discuss a possible bid, and Hum phrey supporters tout him as vice president. Pyle predicts a 50 50 chance Eisenhower runs again as Stassen defers to the President. Dr Paul Dudley White cautions about Eisenhower’s fitness to run. Butler says Democrats will frame a campaign against the Eisenhower administration regardless.
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Adlai Stevenson
Stuart Symington
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Harriman
New York
Adlai” Stevenson
Stevenson
Hubert Humphrey
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Illinois
J. Howard Pyle
Arizona
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Orange County
Calif
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Harold E. Stassen
Republican Party
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Stassen
Denver
Paul Dudley White
Paul M. Butler
Buffaloes film draws crowds as tribe and wildlife scenes roll
Ernest Greenwalt Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge manager helps with a major buffalo sequence while Edgar Monetathchi and Southwest Oklahoma Indian delegates join the shoot. Key figures from Life and National Geographic cover the event as hundreds of Native Americans perform in regalia and a mock 1870s village is staged.
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Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge
Todd
Edgar Monetathchi
Monetathchi
Lawton
Oklahoma State Employment Service
Rush
Buffalo
John Mill
Dick Wessel
Casey MacGregor
Bobby McClellan
Sac and Fox
Shawnee
Dan Coates
Dan Jr
Fort Worth
Tex
Ray Seay
Howard Jackson
Leo Jones
Cache
NATO ministers urge vigilance as cold war eases
The NATO meeting warned against complacency amid easing tensions as Western leaders warned that Soviet gains in diplomacy could tempt cuts to defense. Partridge cited Manuilsky on capitalism versus communism while France's Billotte urged Western solidarity. Officials noted France Greece Turkey Britain key issues, with NATO strengthening despite cut plans.
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Lenin
Manuilsky
France
Pierre Billotte
Morocco
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Turkey
Cyprus
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F. R. Zorlu
Paris
Geneva
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Dulles Advocates Renunciation Of Force In World Role
Secretary of State Dulles urged a shift away from force in international affairs and criticized neutrality as obsolete. He framed the United States as valuing patriotism, productivity, power, and allies while stressing peaceful change and the duty to aid others, noting 400 billion dollars in annual production and 40 billion loaned or given abroad.
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United States
America
Oklahoma Department Reports Poultry Eggs Prices and Livestock Markets
Oklahoma City prices and market conditions from the state Department of Agriculture show No 1 hard wheat around 2.02 to 2.04, broilers and hens with varying f.o.b. and delivered bids, eggs weaker with multiple city quotes, butterfat steady to 56, and cattle hogs and sheep with slow opening and mixed price movements across markets in Oklahoma. Cattle calves steady to weak, hogs moderately active with mixed quotes, lambs and sheep showing steady to strong values in early rounds.
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State Department of Agriculture Today
Guyman
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Blackwell
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Medford
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el Reno
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Kingfisher
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Muskogee
Vinita
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Alva
Watonga
Woodward
Laverne
Elk City
Pauls Valley
USDA
Cornicks Leave Oklahoma After Family Visit
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Cornick depart for Normal Illinois after a several days visit with their son in law and daughter Lt and Mrs Robert J Barton 1521 Smith. They toured Fort Sill the Wichita mountains and the Easter Pageant site and were entertained in formal settings during their first Oklahoma visit.
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Ill
Robert J. Barton
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Oklahoma
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Chicago Butter Prices Hold Steady Amid Strong Receipts
Chicago market reports butter steady as wholesale prices and buying values remain unchanged with grades AA 93 score and A 92 at stable figures. Receipts reach 574,920 while car classifications show B and C grades with minor shifts in price markers.
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Cbs
Masons to Attend Robe Master Mason Ceremony in Duncan
Officers and a team from lodge No. 183 will travel to Duncan Thursday night for a full-dress robe Master Mason ceremony. Worshipful Master M. B. Capshaw announced the event as Masons from the local lodge meet at 6:30 p.m. to depart for Duncan.
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Burglars Fail To Lift Pin After Front Safe Break
Police report a large screwdriver was driven into a front safe to knock out the pin, but became lodged. Detectives Cleo Stout Eulis Young Bryan Logan and Frank Sandranno investigated the attempt, yielding no arrests or recovered items. Burglars hit two drive in cafes on 23rd Street over the weekend, taking $35 from the music box at 23rd Street Drive Inn. Vera's Drive Inn saw loot from a music box and marble machines and a rifled cash register. Night Chief Pete Fuller found Vera's Drive Inn burglary after responding to the 23rd Street break in. Entry came by removing molding from a window and lifting the glass. James McKelvey reported $35 stolen from his cafe music box. Lawton Co op at 402 F was entered through a rear door, but nothing reported missing. Several houses on Ferris Street and N 15th Street were burglarized with various small items and cash taken.
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Eulis Young
Bryan Logan
Frank Sandranno
23Rd Street
23Rd Street Drive Inn
S. 23Rd
Vera's Drive Inn
Pete Fuller
Vera’s Drive In
Vera’s Drive Inn
James McKelvey
Kenneth Stradley
Grady Crabtree
Lawton Co-op
C. W. Recer
Ferris
N. 15Th
Euclid
Melvin Marvin
June Eddy
Nell Hanna
Kenneth L. Buck
Five Die In Multiple Oklahoma Crashes Across State
A string of traffic fatalities reported across Oklahoma includes Roy Nunn killed near Porter Hill after his car vaulted the north shoulder, overturning four times. Gill and others escape injuries in a Fletcher area wreck. Harrison, a Oklahoma City driver, dies when her car hits a bridge east of Union City. two children injured in a Lindsay head on. Littledave dies on U.S. 66 near Miami. Tulsa teens Lewis and Franklin die in a three car crash north of Beggs. Cater dies near Hugo. Gill funeral set in Lawton. Nunn services at Temple Church of Christ in Lawton with burial at Lawton cemetery. survivors listed for Gill and Nunn families.
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Miss Harrison
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U.S. 70
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Cater
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Texas
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Lawton Funeral Home
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J. W. Gladney
First Assembly of God Church
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Odean Jones
Cadean Sales
Mae Cox
Willard Gill
Herbert Gill
Altus
Nunn
Temple Church of Christ
Lloyd Bryant
Lawton Cemetery
Joan
Gennell
Schoolmasters to Meet in Ray Beavers Lincoln Cafeteria
Comanche County Schoolmasters Association will convene at 6 30 p m today in the Old South cafeteria Ray Beavers president and Indiahoma superintendent announced Full attendance urged and agenda to include educational concerns and announcements by district leaders
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Comanche County Schoolmasters Association
Old South
Ray Beavers
Indiahoma
Forests Grow Thousands of Tree Species in U S Lands
The United States hosts over 1,000 tree species on commercial forest lands while about 35 species provide the bulk of the nation’s lumber needs.
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United States
Detachment From Fort Sill Heads to Camp Polk for Sage Brush
A 41st Field Artillery Group detachment of 14 officers and 69 enlisted from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery leave Fort Sill at 5 p.m. to act as field umpires for Exercise Sage Brush at Camp Polk Louisiana. A 27-truck convoy will move via Red River Arsenal Texarkana to the maneuver site. They will be on temporary duty and return around December 20.
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41St Field Artillery Group
Camp Polk
Red River Arsenal
Texarkana
Tex
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