Big Lift airlift öff Germany begins with 2nd Armored Division
West German Frankfurt Rhein Main airport receives the first of 14 000 GI s as U S forces launch Exercise Big Lift. The initial C135 jet arrives in rain and fog while a massive transatlantic armada departs Texas and the Gulf Coast. Hundreds of planes transport about 13 000 soldiers from Ft Hood and 3 000 from Ft Sill Ft Benning and Ft Campbell toward Frankfurt. News personnel and a WAF accompany the flight.
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Frankfurt
Germany
UPI
Atlantic
West Germany
Rhein- Main
U. S. Air Force Base
Texas
United States
2Nd Armored
Hell On Wheels
Ft. Hood
John Fullerton
Ginny
Air Force
Bergstrom Afb
Burba
Sill Troops Board Transports Start Trip To Germany
Fort Sill artillerymen began boarding large C-118 transports as Operation Big Lift moved forward. Nineteen planes carry 55 troops each plus cargo to Germany, with plans for a plane every 90 minutes. Crews expect to depart for Harmon AFB Newfoundland then Prestwick Scotland and Chambley France, to support the 2nd Armored Division Hell on Wheels.
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Harmon Afb
Newfoundland
31St Artillery
36Th Artillery
John J. Sawbridge
36Th
Douglas Harper
2Nd Armored Division
Fort Hood
Tex
Sill
Prestwick
Scotland
Chambley
France
See Sill
Woman sergeant aids Army Air Force jet transport
S Sgt Yvette R Thorn of Morrisville New York served as stewardess aboard the first jet transport carrying the main body of 2nd Armored troops to Germany. The eight year Air Force veteran declared she would take care of the 75 soldiers and officers despite not asking for the assignment.
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Bergstrom Air Force Base
Tex
Army
Air Force
2Nd Armored
Germany
Yvette R. Thorn
Morrisville
N.Y
Miss Thorn
Storm Ginny Pummels Disabled Ship and NC Beaches
Hurricane Ginny weakened only slowly as it drifted 165 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras with 80 mph winds, battering a decommissioned Navy destroyer escort Fogg and pushing surf and erosion up the coast to New Jersey. Two rescue vessels reached the ship and its 10-man caretaker crew after a two day air sea search.
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Cape Hatteras
N. C
UPS
North Carolina
Navy
New Jersey
Washington Weather Bureau
United States
Weather Bureau
Students to Receive Four Day Weekend for OEA Convention
Cameron college and Lawton public school students will get a long four day weekend as classes dismiss Thursday for the Oklahoma Education Association convention in Oklahoma City. Six hundred eighty three Lawton teachers and Cameron college faculty will attend the two day event. Classes end Wednesday afternoon and resume Monday October 28.
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Cameron College
Lawton
Oklahoma Education Association
Oklahoma City
Court Clears Path To Sell Pike Bonds
Oklahoma Supreme Court upholds the eastern turnpike bond issue for 31 million dollars to finance the Henryetta to McAlester toll road. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority plans a swift sale, with underwriters and bond counsel ready to proceed once bonds are printed.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
State Supreme Court
Henryetta
McAlester
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Tulsa
Marvin Millard
Millard
W. D. Hoback
Hoback
Supreme Court
New York
Henrietta
Hugo
Oklahoma
British One-Eleven jet crashes on test flight. seven die
A new British airliner, the One-Eleven, crashed during a test flight near Tisbury England. Seven pilots and observers perished in the fire. American carriers have ordered 31 of the planes, which are slated for passenger service next summer. The craft was designed for 550 miles per hour.
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Tisbury
England
Britain
Jet ride and Germany trip thrill Army private
Pfc. F. D. Smith of Grayson Kentucky experiences his first jet airplane ride as part of Operation Big Lift. The 20 year old with the 142nd Signal Battalion remarks he never expected such an trip and hopes to be home in Texas by Christmas after the 5600 mile journey to Germany.
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Ergstrom Afb
Tex
UPI
Pfc
F. D. Smith
Germany
Smith
Grayson
142Nd Signal Battalion
Texas
Closing Hours Set For Private Clubs
City council passes an ordinance amendment tightening private club rules setting 2 a.m. weekday closing and 3 a.m. on Sundays and New Year’s Day. New licenses may not be issued within 300 feet of churches or schools, and revocation bars new licenses for 30 days. False applications become grounds for denial.
Aerial Ferry Plans Move 2nd Armored Division To Europe
The Hell on Wheels unit, 10 000 troops strong, rehearses a 5600 mile airborne bridge from Ft. Hood to Europe in under 72 hours. Maj. Gen. Edwin H Burba leads the 2nd Armored Division as 400 soldiers stay at Hood to guard 300 tanks.
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Charles W. Cord Dry
Lead Jet Transport
API
Hell On Wheels
Ft. Hood
Tex
Europe
2Nd Armored Division
Texas
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Edwin H
Signal at Rogers Lane U S 62 277 281 Proposed
State highway officials favor a traffic signal at the Rogers Lane junction with U S 62 277 281 north of Lawton if access road movements are controlled. The plan includes closing a median section and designating a southbound one way segment, with half the estimated 5000 dollar cost to be paid by the department. The light supports Pioneer Park expansion.
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State Highway Department
Rogers Lane
Lawton
Highway Department
Wichita Falls
Tex
Oklahoma City
Veterans Administration
Pioneer Park
Fund receipts reach $80 985 in United Fund drive
United Fund receipts total $80,985.04, 58.8 percent of the Lawton goal of $137,800 announced by drive chairman Bill Johnson after a coffee report meeting. Campaign divisions show varied progress with Advance Gifts leading and Downtown Firms lagging behind. A next report meeting is slated for 10 a.m. Thursday at USA Fourth and B.
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United Fund
Lawton
Bill Johnson
USA
Fourth
B. Johnson
Ross Porter
Elmer Bauman
C. R. Ellsworth
Mild Readings and Clear Skies Across Oklahoma
Temperatures are expected to reach a mild 80 degrees in Lawton and southwest Oklahoma under clear to partly cloudy skies. Rainfall from Sunday and Monday ended by Monday night with heaviest amounts at Waurika 1.15 inches and Healdton 1.13 inches while many spots recorded under one inch.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Waurika
Healdton
Grady
Comanche
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Eucelsfen
Louisiana
England Afb
Alexandria
Ft. Sill
Okla
Ft. Benning
Ft. Campbell
Fort Sill
Sheppard Air Force Base
Me Catiudt
Fort Sheppard
U.S
Ramstein Air Base
Kaiserslautern
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