Two Tropical Storms Strengthen Aiming For Land
Two tropical cyclones, Hilda in the Caribbean and Ione in the Atlantic, gained strength and moved toward land. Hilda neared 100 mph winds and tracked toward the Yucatan and British Honduras, while Ione held 75 to 80 mph winds on a northwest to north-northwest path, threatening Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland's southeast coast if northeastward motion continued.
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MIAM
Atlantic
Caribbean
Central America
United States
Hilda
British Honduras
Havana
Cuba
Ione
U. S
San Juan
P.R
Yucatan Peninsula
Quintana Roo
Crazed Killer and Rapist Caught in West Side Chase
Chicago police captured Michael Morabito after a foot chase on Harding and Chicago avenues. He had shot Henry George, a 45 year old mail room foreman at the Chicago Daily News, and allegedly raped a 20 year old woman near Bryn Mawr Avenue. Morabito, once a Daily News employee, fled after quitting in 1946.
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Chicago
Michael Morabito
Harding Ave
Chicago Ave
Morabito
Chicago Daily News
Peter Rendek
Pierson
Augusta Blvd
Pulaski Rd
Rendek
Morabit
Henry George
George
Moody Morabito
Lake Michigan
Bryn Mawr Avenue
Daily News
Ag Night Class Enrollment Set for Cameron College
Cameron College's night courses open tonight under Dean Gordon L. Paine with 33 offerings for the first semester including two new classes, library science and beginning chemistry. Welding, library science, typing, and shorthand enroll at 7 pm, others at 6 45 pm at the education center Troop I&E. About 140 students joined summer night classes. total enrollment could reach 800 to 900, with day classes already over 625.
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Cameron College
Gordon L. Paine
I&e
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Cameron
Paine
Fund goal set for Oct 17 drive at 96314
The 1955 56 United Fund Red Cross goal is set at 96314, announced by executive director Mrs Latha H Prosser. The fall campaign begins October 17 with a revised goal 12212 higher than last year and 811 above the original figure. allocations for several agencies were increased prompting the revision.
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United Fund - Red Cross
Latha H. Prosser
Lawton- Fort Sill
United Fund-Red Cross
Oklahoma State Heart Association State Board of Directors
Oklahoma City
United Fund Board of Directors
Heart Association
Heart
Lawton Girl Scouts Assn., Inc
United Fund
Lawton
See
Ill Premier Bulganin ill after tough talks with Adenauer
Moscow Tass reported Premier Nikolai Bulganin is ill after a demanding week of negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He appeared tired with red-rimmed eyes at the signing of correspondence aimed at normalizing Soviet West German relations.
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Moscow
Tass
Nikolai Bulganin
Bulganin
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Soviet Union
West Germany
Oklahoma Insurance Forum Draws 150 Delegates
About 150 delegates from southwest Oklahoma gather at the Hotel Law tonian for a one day Oklahoma Insurance Forum chaired by Willis A. Hart of Central Surety Corp. Sessions cover fire and allied lines inland marine time element and casualty with sponsorship by the Oklahoma Fire Underwriters Association. Oklahoma City officials Jack Hartney Lynn B. Gregg and Noble C. Birmingham attend as association leaders. A round table discussion follows.
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Oklahoma
Lawtonian
Willis A. Hart
Central Surety Corp
Time Element
Inland Marine and Casualty
The
Oklahoma Fire Underwriters Association
Jack Hartney
Oklahoma Fire Underwriters
Lynn B. Gregg
Noble C. Birmingham
Oklahoma City
State Has The Money But No Polio Vaccine
Oklahoma's free polio vaccination program has funds but lacks vaccine. The U S Public Health Service approved federal aid totaling about 489,949 dollars plus an expected 300,000 state funds to buy roughly one million vaccine shots. Officials warn the money is useless without vaccine and note a Feb 15, 1956 deadline. Production must rise from 8 million shots per month to meet national and state demands.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
U.S. Public Health Service
Washington
State Health Department
Congress
Redman Gets Help In Murder Cases
Special prosecutors were announced to assist County Attorney Manville Redman in two murder cases filed here within the past week. Charles Ozman is retained by the Shaw family to aid in Louis J. Arnau's murder trial, while Ralph Cline was tapped by Horace Stevenson Jr. parents to assist Pettaway's case. Arnau is charged in the pistol death of Lawton bootlegger Shaw at Arnau's home. Ozman will handle the ball in courtroom roles, including lead in the preliminary hearing set for September 20.
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Guy
Butch) Clopton Jr
Guy Clopton
Rt. 1
Lawton
Comanche County
Butch
Manville Redman
Charles Ozman
Jack Shaw
Louis J
Nig) Arnau
Ralph Cline
Horace Stevenson Jr
Earl Pettaway
Arnau
Shaw
Oak
Ozmun
Ozmun, Brock and Fisher
Redman
Ozman
Arnan
Navy Won't Desert Its Icebound Ships
The Navy stated there is no plan to abandon Arctic cargo ships fighting polar ice above Alaska. There is no emergency, a spokesman said. The Military Sea Transportation Service operates 123 vessels delivering 500,000 tons of supplies to the Arctic radar station line and other outposts.
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Washington
Alaska
Navy
Military Sea Transportation Service
Arctic
Adenauer Gives Moscow Report
In Bonn the West German Cabinet heard a report on Moscow talks by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer but took no action. Ministers will study detailed foreign office reports before deciding whether to approve the plan for normalizing relations with the Soviet Union. Parliament must confirm the Moscow agreement, with a decision expected a week hence.
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Bonn
Germany
Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
Foreign Office
Adenauer
West Germany
Soviet Union
Carlo Schmid
Bundestag
Schmid
Public To Watch Sill Firing Show
Fort Sill hosts a 10 am Saturday public demonstration of firepower from M-1 rifle to the 280mm atomic cannon at Firing Point 137. Rep. Victor Wickersham will attend. Tickets via Lawton Chamber of Commerce. Traffic guidance by Military Police. Units include 53rd AAA Battalion and multiple FA battalions and support units.
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Fort Sill
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Victor Wickersham
D-Okla
Artillery and Guided Missile School
Boundary Road
AFA
Star Studded Grid Battle Looms Here
Lawton Oklahoma hosts a high profile football clash next month as Bolling Air Force Base Generals meet Fort Sill defending national service champions at Roosevelt Stadium. Oct 8 slated. 3,000+ tickets expected with Chamber of Commerce selling half to Fort Sill staff. Proceeds help cover Sill travel costs. Generals boast top pros and college stars led by Bernie Faloney and Johnny Lattner against Fort Sill talent and a stout line featuring Menil Mavraides and Lowell Perry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Lawton
Roosevelt Stadium
Bolling Air Force Base
Fort Sill
Chamber of Commerce
Sill
Bolling
Bernie Faloney
Maryland
Tommy O'Connell
Illinois
Notre Dame
Bobby Joseph
Pennsylvania
Richard McGinley
Ed Fullerton
Menil Mavraides
Philadelphia Eagles
Lowell Perry
Michigan Wolverines
Summer Weather To Stick Around In Lawton Area
Additional summer weather will continue in Lawton and surrounding area with fair and warm conditions through Friday. Highs in the mid 90s and tonight's low near 67. Today's low was 68 and 11 am reading reached 88. Wednesday high hit 96.
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Lawton
Westinghouse Walkout Ends After Five-Week Strike
Local 601 CIO IUE voted to end its five week strike against Westinghouse Electric Corp at East Pittsburgh. A national sympathy strike involving about 43,000 workers was also called off. Some 33,000 CIO IUE members at 26 plants had walked out in support, with final returns showing limited local opposition to ending the sympathy action.
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Pittsburgh
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Cio-Iue
East Pittsburgh
Lima
Ohio
Local 724
Local 601
Carey
Polio Strikes Altus Girl Seventeen in Jackson County
Verna Ruth Ware seventeen of Altus was admitted to Memorial hospital as the sixteenth polio patient this year. The Mangum high school graduate, employed as a telephone operator, is in fair condition with a non paralytic case. Also admitted Sunday is Mary Beth McAskill six of Elmer with fair condition. Three other patients previously released remain in satisfactory condition receiving hot packs.
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Verna Ruth Ware
Altus
Memorial Hospital
Miss Ware
Mangum High School
Otis Ware
Mangum
Jackson County
Memorial
Mary Beth McAskill
Carr McAskill
Rt. 1
Elmer
Okla
George Lyndel Capps
O. L. Capps
Loveland
Roy Dean Riddle
Bobbie McCammon
Roy Riddle
Walters
Lora Frances Johnson
Oscar Johnson
Duke
FHA says it will not cut rent on foreclosed units
Lawton residents were told by J O Ferguson FHA official that defense rental unit rents will not be cut during foreclosures later this month. Ferguson, FHA director for Oklahoma western district, and Kermit Dees Lawton Real Estate board president discussed protecting insurance profits and avoiding actions that depress other mortgagors. He said reducing rents would trigger more receiverships and foreclosures and emphasized FHA’s financial and rental interest in Lawton properties.
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J. O. Ferguson
Federal Housing Administration
Lawton
Ferguson
FHA
Oklahoma
Western District
Kermit Dees
Lawton Real Estate Board
Defense
Mt. Scott Inc
Comanche Development Inc
Fugitive Held In Knife Killing In St Louis
Charles W White, 25, Oklahoma City fugitive, faces a murder warrant after confessing to stabbing Nelson H Beare 50 in a room at the Oriole Hotel in downtown St Louis Beare, a longtime salesman for US Steel, was found with 10 stab wounds He checked in with a younger man signing the registry as Fred Davis White had a blood stained knife and a red plaid shirt matching the suspect in a prior Oklahoma City case noted by police
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ST. Louis
James Chapman
Charles W. White
Oklahoma City
Nelson H. Beare
Oriole
Beare
Fred Davis
Chapman
White
American Steel and Wire
U. S. Steel Corp
Missouri Athletic Club
Magnolia Avenue
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Phyllis Gibson
Messing School
Bulganin III
Klementi Voroshilov
Juho K. Paasikivi
Urho Kekkonen
Lew Johnson
Constitution
Generals
John Alderton
Ernie Warlick
North Carolina College
Don Chelf
Ducats
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