Petkov’s Execution by Bulgaria Rapped by Officials in U S
The United States denounced Bulgaria’s hanging of Nikola Petkov as a miscarriage of justice. US and Britain urged a world review, while Bulgaria and the Soviet bloc rejected protests. Petkov, an opposition leader, was executed in Sofia for plotting against the communist government.
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Washington
United States
Bulgaria
Nikola Petkov
State Department
Petkov
Sofia
Statenant Traued
State” Department
Fatherland Front
Ita Professiona
Sofia Softa
Nikola Pethov
Communist Party
Britain
Soviet Union
Supreme Court
Toren
Hungary
Truman weighs three options on high prices and hunger
Washington Sept 23 President Truman studies three emergency answers to domestic inflation and hunger abroad. Options include no action with reduced grain exports or a voluntary rationing plan, a middle course of limited export cuts, and a push to match last year’s grain exports through compulsory conservation.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Western
Europe
Cabinet Food Committee
United States
No Increased Rates For Ginning Of Cotton
Oklahoma City Sept 23 The Oklahoma Cotton Ginners association will not receive increased rates for the current season The association did grant an increase for bagging and ties from two dollars to two dollars sixty per hundred weight Present ginning rates remain forty five cents per hundred pounds for picked cotton and fifty cents per hundred for hollies
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Cotton Ginners’ Association
Publisher Named To U.S. War Post
President Truman named Gordon Gray of Winston-Salem to be assistant secretary of the army. Gray, Piedmont Publishing Co. president and three term North Carolina state senator, served in World War II rising to captain with the 12th ArmyGroup in Europe. He is UNC and Yale educated, practiced law in New York and Winston-Salem, and has a wife and four sons.
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Washington
Truman
Gordon Gray
Winston-Salem
N. c
Gray
Piedmont Publishing Co
North Carolina
12Th Army Group
Europe
University of North Carolina
Yale
New York
He i
Milk Strike Ends in Muskogee After Weeklong Holdout
In Muskogee ATUBIKOGIRI Sept 2 the Muskogee Dairy Partners Association voted to accept a price of 31.24 per pound for butterfat, ending a dairy farmers strike that had sought 1.96 per pound. Processors stood firm, and the stoppage ended with the new rate while a punitive milk price policy was debated.
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Atubikogiri
Muskogee
Lilienthal Urges Program To Tell Of Atomic Energy
Livy E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, urged a broad educational program to explain atomic energy to Americans. He warned that without wide awake democratic citizen control, the American system could be overwhelmed by rapid scientific advances and changing realities.
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Lilienthal
Crawordavistm
Daillanita
The
Atomic Energyy Commission
ABC
Atomic Energy
Eisenhower Declines Political Office Seekers
General Dwight D. Eisenhower told Morgantown listeners he wants nothing to do with politics or any political office. He spoke at a West Virginia University convocation and accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree amid talk he might be a potential Republican presidential nominee.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
West Virginia University
Price Named To Vets Unit In Lawton Area
Lawton banker C. BE. Price, longtime chairman of the county selecting service board, will volunteer to aid veterans in obtaining re employment and seniority rights. William E. Morris and John Looney announced the appointment, with Price offering guidance to veterans who believe their veteran re employment rights have not been fully honored. The veterans re employment division will handle cases that cannot be amicably resolved, under policy from Labor Secretary Schwellenbach.
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C. BE. Price
Lawton
Kag Lean
Anaiattier
William E. Morris
Veterans
U. S. Department of Labor
John Looney
Price
Nck
Khvary Oaffort
Mocerls
Labor
Schwellenbach
Robert K. Salyers
Department
Veterans’ Re-Employment Mehta Division
Looney
Study Slated On Bus Firm's Fees
City council finance committee planned a 3 PM session to review a proposed fee reduction for the Lawton Fort Sill Bus Co. Milo Tague said a recommendation could be made after a meeting with manager Carl Froneberger. The firm seeks lower assessments citing revenue declines since the 1944 contract set 5 percent of gross receipts and 5 percent of one third of gross from the Lawton to Fort Sill route.
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Lawton-Fort Sill
Lawton-to-Fort Sill
Slavs Told To Release The Trieste Patrols
US Army headquarters in Trieste demands release of one American officer and two enlisted men captured by Yugoslav forces on mounted patrol near the Trieste frontier. The missing trio are identified as Mish Tat, Waller Van Aten, Earl G. Mendrioty Jr., and Glen A. Myers. A labor strike called by Sindicati Unici followed by an allied military government response.
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Trieste
United States Army
Trieste Tree
Westerdity
Gunpaint
U. S
Mish Tat
Waller van Athen
East Orange
Noy
Earl G. Mendrioty Jr
Arlington
Pre
Glen A. Myers
Engeley
N. D. van Aten van Cache
Army
Pricsts
Free Territory
AAM
Gad
Sindicati Unici
Storm Warning As New Gale Plagues Florida Coast
MIAMI Fla Sept 23 AP The second tropical storm in a week hovered near Tampa Bay with winds near 40 mph moving slowly northward. Warnings extended west of Cedar Key to Apalachicola while inland towns near Lake Okeechobee faced rising flood risk. Florida’s coast and 30 000 acres of vegetable land were threatened with multiple towns in danger. The region reeled from last week’s storm with 44 deaths and extensive damage, prompting relief funds to rise toward 7 million dollars.
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Miamy
Fla
Florida West Co
Tampa
Tampa Bay
Weather Bureau
Cedar Key
Apainebloom
Tah Beach
Charleyton
Ida West Gonsat
Isoys
Burrau
Roth
Diited
Egmont Key
Belle Glade
Puhokes
Canal Point
South Bay
Lakeland
Miami
Caribbean
Red Cross
Florida
Alabama
Mississoph
Loulataita Vite
Muskogee to vote on 913000 city bond issue
Muskogee residents will decide on a proposed 913000 bond for city improvements. The measure covers street upgrades and storm sewer work with mains pass and extension needs. The council approved the election but date not set.
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Musicocima
Olem
Bey
Jaseelee
Muskogee
le Resminder Galing
Clee
Boys Fatally Injured When Dozing On Roadside
In Girard Kansas two youths aged 17 were struck while dozing on a highway. Melvin Dike of Diamond and Robert William Mathis of Albia suffered critical injuries and fractures after the car driven by Henry Baldwin from Brazilton failed to see them. Baldwin stopped to investigate the crash.
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Girard
Kans
Melvin Dike
Diamond
Robert Willian Mathis
Henry &. Baldwin
Brazilton
W. G. Thinchart
Five Indian Tribes Represented On Cameron Campus
Cameron College hosts students from five tribes led by Ernest Oldshield of the Seneca-Sioux club formed last year. The Comanches are most represented, followed by Kiowas and members of Senecea-Sioux, Otoe, and Osage nations. Notable students include Buddy Yarkeschi, Kennath Romeah Walters, Pauline Chant, and Otis Overly among others from Oklahoma and New York.
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Cameron College
Ittawaha
Oldshield
Buffalo
N.Y
Buddy Yarkeschi
Kennath
Lester Romeah
Walters
Merrill Kassanavoid
Carlton Hoahwah
Indiahoma
Pauline
Robert Chant
Lawton
Mabel Ann Coffey
Faxon
Deans
Myers
Apache
Romana
Ray Tohsuda
Temple
Gary Evans
Oklahoma City
Samuel
Doc) Penweardy
Elgin
Wilbur
Ernest Appentane
Anna
Lena Morrison
Mountain View
Luke Tainpeah
Verden
Allen Quetone
Myron Moshiway
Otoe
Otis Overly
Anguage
County Youths Sweep Awards at Oklahoma State Fair
Lawton FFA members continued their winning run at the state fair. Rudy Hanza won first in the junior Jersey heifer division, with third and sixth in other Jersey classes and third in open aged Jersey bull. Sheep winners include Percy McCuistion with Hamp shires and Tam lambs placings, Bill Clark with Shropshires, plus Don Vaughn exhibiting the champion Angus bull and winning with an Angus heifer. Other awards list Hampshire and Southdown breed wins with multiple placings for McCuistion and Broc. page 2 for full results.
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Marvin Bicket
Lawton Ffa
Rudy Hanza
Hanza
Lawton
Hampshires
Percy MccCuistion
Ram Lamba
Bill Clark
Shropahires
Wig
Don Vaughn
Angus [Emale
Hinad
Angus Belfar Evision
Morman Gregg
FFA
Karl Aveci
Fivat
Astrol
Southdown
Pery McCulstion
Iirst
Hampshire
Jamea Broc
City receives single bid for piers on water main project
One bid was submitted for the construction of piers to support a 24 inch water main from Lawtonka to the filler plant. Officials said the water department may perform the work if only one bid stands or if prices are excessive. Flooded supports from Spring rains risk damage if conditions worsen.
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City Ball
Lale Lawtonka
City Water Department
Two Named On Paralysis Group In Oklahoma
Taawton men Buddy Garber and Joe Zipen of Lawton Fort Sill chapter are named to a state committee planning a spastic paralysis center in Oklahoma. Norman’s John Sullivan chairs the panel, which will meet soon to map duties after a $20,000 legislature appropriation. Lawton and Fort Sill attendees include Ray Wells and Bill Green.
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Taawton
Ollahoma
Buddy Garber
Joe Zipen
Lawton Fort Sill
John Sullivan
Norman
Autumn Arrives But Its Still Hot In Oklahoma
Autumn arrived today at 3 29 pm as Oklahoma towns report a chilly 47 degrees in the morning warming to near 30s by afternoon. Households dig out blankets and start furnaces while national cold fronts bring below freezing readings in places like Luca New Jersey Me and Mt Washington snow. No crop damage linked to the chilly spell yet despite forecasts of cold.
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Olimhorna
Mercury
Oklahoma
Iowa
Prosser withdraws bid for state mental health director
Oklahoma City September 23 10 Dr Moorman Prosser a psychiatrist on the Central State hospital Norman staff withdrew his application for the new state mental health director post. He gave no reason but the move followed disputes over administration of state institutions and a proposal by the Oklahoma committee for mental hygiene to hire an out of state candidate.
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Oklahoma City
Moorman Prosser
Central State Hospital
Norman
Oklahoma Committee For Mental Hygiene
State Could Use Another 400 Teachers, Hodge Says
Oklahoma faces 80 of 30 rural schools closed due to teacher shortages. Superintendent Oliver Hodge estimates 600 to 800 children kept from school. He suggests the state could use another 400 teachers, noting some districts relieve gaps by increasing class loads, though single-teacher schools remain unaddressed.
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State
Hodge
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Oliver Hodge
New Offensive Opened Today By Vishinsky
In New York the Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky opened a fresh offensive before the United Nations General Assembly. He accused the United States of an incorrect explanation of the Korean deadlock and urged big powers to bury differences for peace, demanding exclusion of Korea and Italy from debate and criticizing American attitudes toward international agreements. He warned that the deadlock harms world peace and urged compromise among the five permanent members.
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New York
Russia
Ava
United Nations
Marshall Ty
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Marshall
Marshal
Vishinsky
General Assembly
Korea
Italy
Palestine
Palestina
Vishinssky
United States
Services Pending For J D Sweeten
John D Sweeten 67 of Comanche County died Monday afternoon near his home east of Lawton after a heart ailment while operating a tractor. Burl Clanton Jr found him about 3 30 p m His wife and children survive along with two brothers and a sister. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Becker Funeral Home.
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John D. Sweeten
Comanche
Ns - Heart
Miles
Lawton
Burl Clanton, Jr
Seeten
Texas
Oklahoma
Sweeten
Foster
Okla
Masonic Lodge
Reusben ‘Zimmerman
Loya
Chiddix
Leon -Wilson
Route 2
Jim Sweeten
Burkburnett
Tex
Noah Sweeten
Tishomingo
Lydia “Garvin
Sugden
By. Becker
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Ray Wells
Bill Green
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