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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1955
Page
17
At Stead Air Force Base Nevada an officer defends survival training as necessary not torture. A 35 year old B 47 navigator from Texas describes the session as brief and aimed to prepare him for real danger. The major says intense swearing and abuse were meant to help and not to torture.
In Municipal Court Judge Edwin Babylon questions a man charged with nonsupport. He admits not supporting the woman or the children for a year but claims he never saw them before. A docket check reveals the wrong defendant is on trial.
Oklahoma City police inspector Bert Giddens said officer Gordon Ray Stout 26 faces an inquiry into his conduct unbecoming an officer after he shot and killed truck driver Jim A. Miller. Stout had been cleared of criminal blame in the fatal shooting, which occurred Sunday night as Miller allegedly tried to fire into a parked car. The inquiry focuses on Stout’s conduct while in a parked automobile with a married woman.
A massive project on the Panama Canal removed rock and shale totaling 2 475 000 cubic yards from Contractor's Hill to prevent slides. Shipping continued without interruption.
In New York a prominent record promotion man denounces payola as a key force shaping hits. He traces payola through writers publishers A R men disc jockeys and distributors noting estimates that up to a quarter of records are payolaed and half of jockeys take. Deals vary from cash to cars to perks and often remain hush hush, influencing which songs reach the top while the public’s role remains debated.
The piece describes the payola system where a “one stop” man helps place records in juke boxes and earns free records for pushing specific titles. It notes the A and R man from record companies as the principal payola recipient who dictates which songs artists record, with singers typically making two records.
Nationalist warplanes sank 11 Chinese Communist junks and heavily damaged many others in a raid off the South China coast. The air force said the attack targeted a concentration of more than 50 armed junks in Shapan Bay near Swatow Tuesday morning.
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