Defense Cuts Cancel Post's Big Maneuver
Defense budget reductions forced cancellation of Clover Seal the Second, a major atomic warfare exercise planned for October 15 through 20 at Fort Sill. The event would have drawn National Guard and Army Reserve units from Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico to test defense against atomic chemical and biological weapons. Instructors were told to await further orders from Fourth Army after the decision.
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Fourth Army
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Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
New Mexico
Robert E. Kren
Sill Public Information
Fort Sill
Union Institute Begins Tonight in Lawton Session
Lawton hosts a three day educational union institute with John Cosgrove of the AFL-CIO Education Department as keynote. About 73 Lawton men are expected, with delegates from Shawnee and Cyril. The event marks Lawton’s first city wide labor institute amid related area concerns. Registration opens at 6:30 p.m. at the Hole Lawtonian.
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John EB. Cosgrove
Washington, D.C
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Bill Sexton
Langton Central Labor Union
Shawnee
Cyril
Ooen
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Page Aircraft Co
Fort Sill
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Cosgrove
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Sexton
Syria Army Chiefs Say No Attack Plans
Damascus reports quote Brig Atif Bizry and Lt Col Abdel Hamid Sarraj saying Syria will not attack or threaten neighboring states, despite rising regional tensions. They deny Communist control of the army while defending nationalism and Arab unity amid widened US shipments and Soviet arms flow.
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Missing Fort Sill Officer Still Hunted
Search for 4 year old Fort Sil van t continues after WO William E B Warren first ordnance co is AWOL since Sept six. His car found abandoned near Treasure and Post Oak lakes in Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge with keys in car. Warren served in Europe with the 104th Infantry Division and came to Fort Sill in 1957 after Korea.
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Refuge
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Howard
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Europe
Fort Sill
Korea
104Th Infantry Division
Wage Talks Delayed Ahead of Telephone Walkout
In New York negotiators for Western Electric Co and the Communication Workers of America postponed a morning session with only two days left before a nationwide telephone workers strike. A union spokesman said negotiators were subject to call after a 10:30 a.m. session was canceled without explanation. A company representative said they were awaiting word on resuming talks.
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New York
Western Electric Co
Communication Workers of America
Hanson Is Named Country Club Pro
Tommy Hanson was named the new golf professional at Lawton Country Club by president Adalph Fielz. He succeeds Woody Kerr who resigned. Hanson had last week been released as pro at the Municipal course and came recommended by Jack Greer who owns the Municipal course.
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Lawton Country Club
Tommy Hanson
Adalph Fielz
Hanson
Woody Kerr
Jack Greer
Jack Shields
Tulsa
Fritz Jale
Shields
Indian Hills
Sea Pro
Generals to Attend 45th Infantry Division Reunion
Six generals head a 43rd Infantry Division convention at Hotel Lawtonian as about 500 delegates and wives from across the United States gather. Notables include Maj. Gen. Tal Muldrow and Maj. Gen. Wash Senney with opening events, concerts, a keynote by Rep. Toby Morris, and a Saturday business session at the hotel ballroom.
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Lawtonian
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Hobart
Scudder" Autry
Fred Dargherly
Oklahoma City
United States
National Guard
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Billy P. Galyon
Lawton
Geronimo
Fort Sil
McLain Memorial Hall
Inquirer Jubilee Week Prompts Penny Paper Sale
The Philadelphia Inquirer announces a weeklong Jubilee Week sale where each copy costs one cent, a return to the penny price last seen January 27, 1917, with the regular price set at five cents.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Inquirer
Soldier Attacks Guard and Flees With Carbine
A Fort Bill Negro soldier Pvt. Tienry E Cross 26 of B Battery 290th FA attacked a guard at the motor pool about 11 55 p m fired a shot at another guard missing and fled with a loaded carbine three rounds of ammunition. Authorities pursued and manhunt extended to city police watching the homes of battery commander Lt Jack S Levings and MSgt Truman A Glover. Cross had previous AWOL conviction but no current charges or restrictions were reported.
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Tienry E, Cross
290Th Field Artillery Battalion
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290Th FA
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Clarence Armstrong
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Jack 5. Levings
Truman A. Glover
Public Information Office
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Atoka Youth Killed At Party Near Lake
Atoka Okla UF Waralu MeIninch 17 a Atoka high school student was shot to death when ten persons crashed a party he attended with classmates near the city lake last night He died at 1 am today in Coalgate hospital of head wounds A suspect George Lewis Murphy about 20 Water Grove Fla is at large and armed Investigators say a group of high school students held a party in a cabin near the lake four crashers tried to enter an argument followed by a .32 caliber pistol shot Murphy was said to have been discharged from the Air Force Thursday at Perrin Air Force Base Sherman Tex
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Atoka
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Coalgate Hospital
George Lewis Murphy
Water Grove
Fla
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Murphy
Air Force
Pertin Air Force Base
Sherman
Tex
Mysterious English Crater Gobbling Up Homes By Hour
In Warnsworth England a growing crater devours homes at a snail like pace expanding six inches hourly over 24 hours. About 50 houses reportedly fell in with leaning structures, water vanished into the cavity, threatening a rail line near Manchester. Fire crews pump as engineers consider a washed out sewer or abandoned mine as cause.
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England
Farnsworth
Tole
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Gol
Governor Optimistic On Faubus Talks With Eisenhower
Arkansas Governor Faubus left Little Rock with Rep. Brooks Hays and Arnold Sikes for a conference with President Eisenhower over the federal state dispute on integration. The governor said he is hopeful and would not discuss conference details in advance.
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Faubus
Ptay
Eisenhower
Arnold Sikes
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Newport
Rhode Island
Crisis Mediator Says Segregation Outdated
Washington dispatch reports Rep. Brooks Hays D Ark a key mediator in the Little Rock integration crisis urged progress in school desegregation. He said the old ways must change and noted his role in facilitating talks between Gov Faubus and President Eisenhower. Hays declined credit for the parley while detailing ongoing consultations with Faubus and the White House. He favors a moderate course and has proposed an Arkansas plan to aid minorities and backed a federal anti-lynching bill. He serves as Southern Baptist Convention president and lamented the Little Rock outbreak as a tough break for the city with no violence locally.
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Eisenhower
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D-Ark
Arkansas
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Little Roil
Adams
Congress
Southern Baptist Convention
Cevun
Bond Forfeiture Hearing Set For Chambless Bond
Superior Judge Robert S Landers sets 10 am September 25 for a bond forfeiture hearing on a $2,200 supersedeas bond posted in 1955 for missing bootlegger Orville Lindsay Chambless. County Attorney Warren Crane requested the schedule after notice to Summit Fidelity and Surety Co. Chambless, convicted of armed robbery in 1955, vanished from his Oklahoma City home in July 1956 four months before the appeals court upheld the conviction and ordered the sentence carried out.
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Robert S. Landers
Oklahoma City
Orville Lindsay Chambless
Warren Crane
Landers
Honding Company
State Criminal Court of Appeals
Champless
Summit Fidelity and Surety Co
Chambless
Nashville school bombing linked to Kasper probe
FBI said it supplied possibly significant information to Nashville police about the midnight dynamiting of Hatchie Cotton School in connection with a segregation controversy. John Kasper was indicted by the Davidson County grand jury for inciting violence as protests over first grade racial mixing continued near the Capitol.
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John Kasper
State Capitol
Kasper
Davidson County Grand Jury
Nashville
Herbert Brownell Jr
Washington
FBI
Brownell
Department of Justice
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