Bill's Hope Rides High With Him
Billy Richardson, 19, of Davenport, paralyzed since a July 1944 diving accident, took his first airplane ride and will travel to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for treatment. Supported by friends from Davenport to New York and San Francisco, the trip aims to restore movement with Mayo doctors expected to decide after three days.
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Times
Billy Richardson
Davenport
Deep Fork Creek
Billy
Chandler
Mayo Clinic
Floyd Richardson
Carter
Navy
Shawnee Airport
Rochester
Minn
Ruth Winchell
Sapulpa
Til S. Davidson
James L. Carter
Egypt Senate Approves Funds for First Fighter Plane Factory
Cairo July 6 The senate approved funds totaling 1,664,000 dollars to establish Egypt's first fighter plane factory. Army and Navy Minister Mohamed Haidar Pasha said an agreement with a foreign power would supply equipment to produce fighter planes or Spitfires.
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Cairo
Senate
Egypt
Army and Navy
Mohamed Haidar Pasha
Local Fair Weather With Warmth and Winds Expected
A Weather Bureau report notes fair and continued warm humid and windy conditions today through Thursday. Highs near 95, nights near 76, with Thursday in the 90s. Occasional partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers, mainly in the north, highs around mid 90s and lows around 70.
State Highways Loaded In Run of 49
Oklahoma motorists crowded the state's highways in the first three weeks of June in the largest traffic surge in history. The highway department counted 416 506 vehicles in the week ending June 19, a rise of 53 848 from the prior record, with U S 270 at Woodward showing the biggest gain at 87 percent over 1948.
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Oklahoma
State Highway Department
Maurice L. Cline
U. S
Woodward
Shawnee
Grand Jury Demands List of Klan Members
Birmingham Alabama July 6 Dr E P Pruitt chairman of the Ku Klux Klan board of governors was ordered to appear before a grand jury with a list of every Klan member in Alabama The grand jury investigates masked gang terrorism in the Birmingham area and has heard nearly a dozen victims describe flogging or intimidation by hooded mobs Dr Pruitt said he did not have such a list
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Birmingham
Ala
U.P
E. P. Pruitt
Ku Klux Klan
Board of Governors
Alabama
Foods Skidding At Wholesale Foods Skidding At Wholesale
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index fell to the lowest level since livestock decontrols began on Oct 8, 1946. It stands at 5.66, down 3 cents from last week and 202 percent below the year ago level. The 1946 decontrol timeline and subsequent price movements are noted.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
OPA
Teachers Vote To Keep Reds Off Faculties
Boston July 6 1954 delegates of the National Education Association vote to bar Communist party members from teaching in U S schools. The action followed a keynote by John K Norton of Columbia Teachers College who warned against allowing a system that could destroy freedom. Rose Russell CIO agent cautioned against broadened disloyalty bans and potential dismissals on political grounds. Comdr S Perry Brown Legion leader urged veterans to play a role in defense training and national service.
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Boston
National Education Association
Communist Party
Communist Party of the United
John K. Norton
Columbia University
Teachers College
Norton
Rose Russell
CIO Teachers’ Union of New York
Russell
American Legion
Comdr. S. Perry Brown
State Stuck Sticky Weather Lingers In Oklahoma
A forecast of warm humid but windy conditions continues with a chance of scattered showers. Rainfall reports include Guthrie 1.67 inches and Stillwater 0.34, Enid 0.26, Ponca City 0.22, Tulsa 0.15, Vinita 0.12, with highs near 95 in Oklahoma City and lows around 76.
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Classen
Waynoka
Oklahoma
Boise City
Friends plan shower for Hessers after Stillwater fire
Friends and relatives will hold a clothing and household goods shower for Mr. and Mrs. Hesser and their 4 year old daughter. The family lost their home eight miles northeast of Stillwater in a fire last week at their residence east of Stillwater.
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Stillwater
Elmo Hesser
Hessers
Allen Dean
County Seeks Higher Tax Mills to Fund Budget Request
County commissioners voted Wednesday to seek at least eight mills to finance a 1.859 million dollar general fund request. Last year the county garnered seven mills from the constitutional 15 mill limit, with total general fund costs at 1.716 million dollars. The budget reflects 1949 legislation raising salaries for elected county officials and other officials.
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Charles A. Litton
County Commission
Excise Board
Heat Blast Hits Portugal City as Temperatures Hit 158 Degrees
A two minute heat wave along the central Portuguese coast sent thermometers to 158 F. Hundreds of people were prostrated and thousands of fish and fowl perished. The blast followed a hurricane that damaged vineyards and crops and flooded areas near Figueira. The Mondego River dried up in places as shoppers collapsed and sought shade.
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Lisbon
Portugal
U.P
Midandela
Figueira
Coimbra
Mondego
Atlantic
Ocean
United States
Britain halts nonurgent dollar spending amid crisis
Treasury chief Sir Stafford Cripps warned Britain faces a dollar shortfall and to conserve reserves. He ordered a halt on dollar purchases unless urgent national need is shown, signaling possible cuts in food and raw materials imports while plans for ERP funding and new European payment schemes unfold. Cripps will meet U S Treasury Secretary Snyder and British finance ministers to discuss the crisis.
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London
Britain
Stafford Cripps
United States
Cripps
House of Commons
Treasury
Snyder
John W. Snyder
U. S
the Commons
United Kingdom
Council May Pick Advisors
The city studies a nine member advisory commission to act as a research policy body under a proposed managerial government. The panel would solicit cross section input on citywide issues but not hear individual complaints. A formal ordinance draft outlines appointment from each ward and one at large.
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Kansas City
Walter M. Harrison
Ward 1
International City Managers’ Association
Dayton
Oklahoma City
Citizens’ Organization
AEC Chief Defends Wartime to Atomic Lead
Lilienthal told the Senate atomic committee that the United States was virtually unarmed atomically in 1947 when the AEC formed. He argued the program aimed for unquestioned leadership in atomic power, tolerating flaws to avoid delays. Fellow scientists supported his view, citing improvements at Los Alamos and Hanford as proof of progress under AEC direction.
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U. S
AEC
Lilienthal
Washington
David E. Lilienthal
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Sen. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Commission
Senate-House Atomic Committee
Hickenlooper
Robert F. Bacher
Bacher
Leslie R. Groves
Army
Los Alamos, N. M
Hanford
Wash
Enrico Fermi
University of Chicago
Lee A. DeBridge
California Institute of Technology
Norris E. Bradbury
Los Alamos
Alan Gregg
Rockefeller Foundation
Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Panama Chief in Clinic for Medical Treatment
An official spokesman said President Domingo Diaz Arosemena has entered San Fernando clinic in Panama City for medical treatment on July 6. The illness specifics were not disclosed.
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Panama
Domingo Diaz Arosemena
San Fernando Clinic
City Fugitive Eludes Police in Missouri Escape
Olaf Morehead a 32 year old wanted on three felony warrants for bogus payroll checks and as a federal parole violator escaped from Noel marshal Tuesday night after being arrested in Joplin for writing 500 dollars in fraudulent checks. He fled into woods as marshal Floyd Fine fired at him.
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Olaf Morehead
Noel
Joplin
Morehead
Floyd Fine
Southwest City
Fine
United Press
Lindsay
Sand Springs
Muskogee
Farwell
Texas
Granite
Leavenworth
Kan
Springfield
Governor Set to Sign Repeal Election Proclamation
Gov Turner will sign a repeal election proclamation to set a vote date of September 27. Assistant AG Fred Hansen prepared the proclamation while Secretary of State Wilburn Cartwright notified officials that the repeal title is approved. The same special election will also decide Gov Turner’s $36 million public building bond issue.
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Turner
Who's Lying Jury in Hiss Case Is Asked
New York July 6 The Alger Hiss perjury trial nears verdict as testimony ends and summations loom. The jury of 10 men and 2 women must decide who lied between Whittaker Chambers and Hiss. The government rests its perjury case on Chambers credibility. defense argues rebuttals. Jury to deliberate after summaries.
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Hiss Case
New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
United States
Hiss
Chambers
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Samuel H. Kaufmann
Santa Fe Files Plea For Pueblo Terminal Expansion
The Santa Fe railroad asked federal authority on Wednesday to enlarge its terminal facilities at Pueblo Colorado seeking improved capacity and operations at the major exchange point with freight and passenger traffic expected to grow.
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Washington
Santa Fe Railroad
Pueblo
Colo
Don’t Give Your Papers a Vacation This Summer
A promotional notice explains readers can receive The Daily Oklahoman and Sunday Oklahomaan during summer vacations via special dealer arrangements. Readers are advised to call the Service Department at 2-1211 to locate a local Oklahomaan dealer in their vacation spot.
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Daily Oklahoman
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