City Workers Rush Drainage Canal Project Near Roosevelt Stadium
City workers push to finish a drainage canal correction near Roosevelt Stadium and the city youth center. The $1,750 project adds 30 inch tile in the canal bed and under Euclid to relieve chronic flooding from heavy rains. rock walling is also installed around the bridge opening. Floyd Tite, foreman, notes completion of two more tile rows and riprap for over 100 feet of canal. work widens the canal and improves water flow to the east side of the stadium.
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Stadium
14Th Street Canal
Roosevelt Stadium
City Youth Center
Gily
Bell
Youth Center
Phice Tack Wall City
Floyd Tite
Euclid
Spartan Aircraft protests unemployment claims at Fort Sill hearing
Spartan Aircraft Co has protested about unemployment compensation for about 115 former workers after Page Aircraft Co replaced Spartan as contractor at Fort Sill. A hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. with Oklahoma Employment Security Commission referee O. J. Caldwell.
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Spartan Aircraft Co
Page Aircraft Co
Spartan
Fort Sill
Oklahoma Lmplayment Security Commission
Page Tit
Soure Nat
Virginia Kidson
Lawton
Manville Redman
Lvve
Redman
OP Aims
Lyles Trial Opens In Oklahoma City
Edward Lee Lyles, 38, Oklahoma City, faced a second degree burglary trial in Oklahoma City after a string of defense motions for venue change and delays were denied by Judge W. B. Wallace Jr. The case stems from a 1955 burglary in Shearer, with Lyles previously arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska and later returned for trial.
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Oklahoma City
Edward Lee Lyles
Lyles
Shearer
Lincoln
Neb
W. BR. Wallace Jr
Lhen
Wallace
Billy Joe Pearce
Lawton
Are Lyous
Towe 2
Cal
Comanche County Free Fair to Open Wednesday
Eshishit prepares stalls and shelves as the 1957 Comanche County Free Fair opens Wednesday with more than 3 000 exhibits. County agent Lewis Haydock cites late planting and drought as reasons for fewer entries but says overall quality should be above average. About 2 000 in premiums approved. entries to be reported to Building B office. livestock unloading expected this afternoon. barns open at 8 a.m. Wednesday with first judging at 1 p.m.
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Comanche County
Haydock
QEA Workshop Slated Sept 16 in Lawton High
Comanche county public schools will dismiss September 16 for a one day Oklahoma Education Association workshop in Lawton. About 500 educators are expected to attend sessions at Lawton High School starting with a coffee get acquainted session at 9:30 am in the LMS cafeteria. The program focuses on teacher welfare instruction strength of local OFA units and legislation with Mrs Opal Brown supervising arrangements.
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AIL Comanche County
Oklahoma Education Association
Clarence Siott
Emnty
John Shoemaker
Lawton
Lawton High School
LMS
Blast Wrecks School Five Men Arrested
A massive dynamite blast wrecked a newly integrated Traifie Canan School in Nashville early today. Police arrested five men for questioning. three were armed when they refused to move from near another school. The case ties to six nearby schools and ongoing desegregation tensions. Authorities found a delivery device and a weighted club in the arrested men’s car, with signs at the scene.
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Nasiville
Tennia
Mallie Colton
Oy Vlentifier
Polen Saus
Wil Ntahl
Ple Five
ISIS
Lin
Muller
Wen
New Akay
Douglas Roach
Vonm Wall
Sosterday
Hallie Cation
Waurika Survey Payment Okayed
Waurika Chamber of Commerce board approves an immediate payment of 12 000 on a 23 000 feasibility survey for the Waurika reclamation project with four participating entities Comanche Stephens Jefferson and Catton to raise 321 200. Funds beyond the survey support industry and ongoing Beaver Cow Creek association costs.
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Lawing Chamber of Commieres Board of Directors
Lawson
Waurika
Comanche
Stepiens
Jefferson
Catton
Beaver Cow Creek
Weather Outlook for Lawson Area Takes On Cloudy Skies
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and mild temperatures in Lawson over the next two days. Highs near 85, lows around 62, with little temperature change into the rest of the week as conditions stay cloudy and mild and showers possible.
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Lawson
Weelthermen
Bomb Threat Halts Classes In Birmingham
A bomb threat near Woodlawn and Phillips high schools triggered evacuations and a police response. Students marched to a park as authorities moved to quell a dawn disturbance. Police reported no confirmed violence or arrests as demonstrations dispersed along Woodlawn and Phillips corridors.
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Birmingham
Ala
Phillips Uigh School
Deck Square
Woodhawn High
Woodawn
Wood- Inc
Phillips
Whedlawn
Lodge Urges U N Aid To Hungary
United Nations special session hears Ambassador Lodge urge decisive action to aid Hungary. He says Hungarians are being shot, imprisoned, and mistreated as Soviet suppression continues. Australia's Keith Shann opens with a 150000 word report indicting the Soviet Union and Hungary's premier for repressing the uprising.
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United Nations
Hery Cabot Lodge Foulty
U.N Cereral
Hungary
Lodge
Nation Assembly
Australia
Keith C
Oklahoma Republicans eye repeal platform on liquor stores
Bulletin from Oklahoma City reports the major subcommittee of the State Republican Policy Committee recommending adoption of a repeal platform for the 1958 governor’s race featuring packaged liquor stores. The policy committee was to vote on the measure later in the day.
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Oklanoma City
State Republicn Policy Committee
Inday
Army Interior Refuge Land Pact Signed With Army Use of Refuge Lands
Washington Sept 10 officials announced a six page pact between the Army and Interior for use of about 1000 acres in the Wichita Mountains Refuge. Signed Sept 6 by Charles Finucane and Ross Leifer the pact authorizes a 1 year use for a buffer zone north of the private Wind tract while Army relocates Elm Spring camp.
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Army
Interior Refuge
Jack Cleland
Constitution
Washington Gureau
Washington
Departments of Army and Interior
Wichita, Mountains Wilde Refuge
Charles Finucane
Ross Lefier
Secretary of the Interior For Fish and Wildlife
Toby Morris
Army and Interior
Department of Interior
Morris
Elm Spring
Mortis
Syria Delivers Urgent Session on Mobilization
Syria's cabinet met in May amid press calls for mobilization to face a perceived U S threat. Officials blamed Western provocations for pressure as five U S ships were cited near the coast with unidentified jet activity reported over Latakia. Washington denied naval proximity and cited ships in the eastern Mediterranean while Dulles tied Syria’s stance to Eisenhower's warnings of Communist-inspired tensions.
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Amascus
Syria
U.S
U. S
Contary
Bitar
Latakia
Washington
U. & 6Th Picot
Aegian Sea
Greece
Turkey
Mediterranean
Dulles
Clave
White House
Eisenhower
Court hearing on action set for Sept 20 in Faubus case
In Little Rock Arkansas the Justice Department filed an injunction petition against Governor Orval Faubus and state officers for defiance of school integration orders. Hearing set for Sept 20 at 10 am est. two co defendants to be served. The action targets Faubus Maj Gen Sherman T Clinger and Lt Col Marion T Johnson for actions at Central High School. The move follows six cited points of interference with court mandates and attempts to block enrollment of Negro students, threatening possible federal court action.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval
Faubus
Justice Department
U.S
Beal Kidd
Hobart Copeland
National Guard
Kidd
E.st
Oper Court
Rowald Davies
Sherman T. Clinger
Marion T. Johnson
Tke Aew
Eisenhower
Arkansas
Central High
Clinger
Fatuus
Colt
Soviet warns US Turkey plot may trigger world war
Moscow accused the United States of plotting with Turkey to attack Lycia and warned that aggression against Syria could ignite a world war. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko delivered the charge during a two hour news conference at the foreign ministry.
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Moscow
United Sates
Turkey
Lycia
Syria
Imade
Andrei Gromyko
Foreign Ministry
Stuck Duck Rescued Near Swan Lake By Tulsa Fire
A Tulsa Fire Department rescue near Swan Lake freed a duckling trapped in a drain. Fire crews responded to a drowning duck scenario and successfully untangled the bird.
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Tulsa
Tulsa Fire Department
Swan Lake
Simon
Pentagon hears voices from Venus voiced by mediums
United Press report from Washington says Pentagon listened to Venus voices via Daytona medium Enid Brady. The pilots Cymatrak Human Malet and Mandal Johor were named among the supposed Vorulians. Defense reaction was unimpressive and unconvincing, yet Wayne Aho and associates push to continue hearings as Aho cites declassified time for inquiry. Venus ships Ventlas described with globular design and speeds of 4000 to 6000 mph, per pilot voice.
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Patricia Wiggins
United Press
Wasilington
Enid
Venus
Aho
Defense Department
See Voices
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Nashville
Hattie Cotton
QEA
U.N
Bulletin
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