Wet Bill On Tap In Kansas
Topeka lawmakers near a final passage of a liquor bill the first in 68 years. A five member joint committee planned to report on Tuesday afternoon and suggested agreement on revenue split with 80 percent to the state and 20 percent to local governments. The measure allows Kansans to buy liquor out of state for home consumption and sets up state machinery over months to permit in state sales limited to packaged goods.
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Topeka
WUP
Kansas
House
Senate
Gold Coins Seized From Argentine Couple in Mexico City
Mexican customs officers seized 1,630 gold coins valued at 81,500 in the baggage of an Argentina-bound French couple at Mexico City airport. The coins, weighing 200 pounds, were hidden in false bottoms of five suitcases. The couple, arriving from Buenos Aires three months earlier, planned to travel to Guatemala and then Argentina to gather material for a Latin American book.
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Mexico City
Buenos Aires
Guatemala
Argentina
Weather synopsis from U S Weather Bureau station
Cloudy today with light rain or snow and little temperature change. High near 42, low near 32. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer in the upper 40s. Northern state light snow or rain. clearing Panhandle tonight. Wednesday clearing west, rain east and south central, then clearing east. Lows tonight 28 to 34 west and north, to 40 southeast. High Wednesday 45 to 50. Extended trend near normal. rain or snow again Saturday and Sunday.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Panhandle
$12,000 Whisky Haul Made by Tulsa Police
Tulsa police seized 161 cases of liquor worth 12000 in a garage raid three miles east of Memorial Drive on 11th. The owner, Bill Edwards, recently freed on appeal bond, may face liquor possession charges. Deputy Roy Rains led the raid. liquor stored in the county courthouse vault.
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Tulsa
U.P
Bill Edwards
Memorial Drive
Roy Rains
Russell Eastman
Edwards
Rains
Snow and cold grip Oklahoma as forecasts call for light rain
A winter weather mix moved through Oklahoma with heavy snow in parts of the northwest and southwest, while forecasters predicted the precipitation would end soon. Snow totals reached a few inches in Hollis and around Woodward, with temperatures near freezing and a warmup expected by Wednesday.
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Oklahoma City
Norman
Purcell
Hollis
Oklahoma
Woodward
Lawton
Clinton
Elk City
Classen
Three New Troopers Assigned by Patrol
Three new highway patrolmen were assigned to duty posts Tuesday to replace troopers who have resigned in recent months. Vernon R. Anderson of Lawton, a former Central State Teachers College student, joins the force as part of the recent troop replacements.
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Vernon R. Anderson
Lawton
Central State Teachers College
State Farmers' Cash Receipts Rise in 1948 Totals
Oklahoma farm marketings for 1948 reached a grand total cash receipt of 706,359,000, up from 649,495,000 in 1947. Crop receipts rose to 357,302,000 from 314,205,000, while livestock and products climbed to 349,057,000 from 335,890,000, with increases of 43,097,000 and 13,167,000 respectively.
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Oklahoma
Robert S. McCauley
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Robbers Loot Weatherford College Safe for $320
Weatherford report states robbers looted the Southwestern Institute of Technology vault and escaped with 320.23 dollars Monday night. The burglary, described as amateurish by Sheriff Albert Gershing, involved forcing two doors and opening the safe with an acetylene torch. About 1,500 dollars in checks and 50 dollars in cash were left untouched, discovered early Tuesday by W. L. Meler.
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Weatherford
Southwestern Institute of Technology
Albert Gershing
Everett Garrell
Granite Riot Spurs Prison Probe Demand
A riot at the state reformatory in Granite involving 300 inmates sparked calls for a senate investigation into transfers from McAlester to Granite. Sen. Henry Worthington linked the transfers to unrest. warden Claude Moore began inmate hearings while 3 guards and 2 convicts were injured and 50 to 75 of about 240 segregated prisoners took part.
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State Reformatory
Granite
Senate
McAlester
Henry Worthington
Mangum
Bergman
Buck Cook
Charities and Corrections
Russell Bergman
State Board of Affairs
Cook
L. E. Murray
Moore
O. W. Blackburn
State Penitentiary
J. D. Woods
S. M. Legerwood
Blackburn
W. A. Bennett
Walters
Winfred Bennefield
Tulsa
Tulsa Negro, Shot In the Arm. Between 300 and 350 Reformatory
Sgt. Woods
Officer Must Explain Fine
Sget. E. V. Sharp, transportation officer at the Oklahoma state penitentiary, paid a $200 liquor possession fine in Columbus, Kan. He pleaded guilty to possessing five pints of whisky, was fined, and sentenced to 30 days in jail before parole. Sharp was driving a prisoner from Leavenworth to McAlester when his car overturned.
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M’alester
U.P
Sget
E. V. Sharp
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Columbus
Kan
Sharp
Clarence P. Adams
Bartlesville
Leavenworth
McAlester
Judges Approve State Bonds For Lodge Construction
The Oklahoma supreme court approved an $850,000 bond issue to finance a Lake Murray tourist lodge and 40 cabins with a dining room for 300, plus modernization of 34 cabins. Construction could start by April 1 with bids opened in 10 days and the lodge expected to be ready in six to eight months.
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Lake Murray
Supreme Court
Clarence E. Burch
Planning and Resources Board
Alfred H. McCall
Norman Cafeman
Burch
Harold Flood
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Grave Slaying of Mother and Child Shocks Michigan Village
Byron Center Michigan police reveal a widow Delphine Downing aged 28 and her 2 year old daughter Rainelle were found buried in crude concrete graves in their basement. Martha Beck 29 confessed to the crime with accomplice Raymond Martinez Fernandez 34. FBI to verify a potential Lonely Hearts Club racket connection. Beck said Downing was drugged and Fernandez shot her. the child was drowned after planning to flee.
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Byron Center
Mich
Michigan
Roger C. McMahon
Kent County
Delphine Downing
Rainelle
Martha Beck
Raymond Martinez Fernandez
Fernandez
Hawaii
Downing
McMahon
FBI
Beck
Mrs. Downing
Idaho Lawmaker Flirts in Legislative Debates
In Boise Idaho on March 1 a lighthearted scene unfolds in the Idaho House as Rep Edith Miller of Ada county yields to a proposal and accepts a playful marriage gambit from Rep Adams of Adams county. The exchange ends with a recess and reporters noting a private caucus.
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Boise
Idaho
Appropriations
Idaho House of Representatives
E. A. Snow
Council
Snow
Ada
Edith Miller
Larry Mills
Larah
Adams
Two Decades As Firefighter Ends Career in Seminole
EMINOLE March 1 Times Staff John Stovall assistant fire chief retires after 20 years. He joined March 1 1929 and served the Seminole department his entire career. A dinner honored him as the boys presented a 21 jewel watch. He recalls saving a child seven years ago and a 5500 barrel gasoline tank explosion that blistered him and a partner. He plans to fish and perhaps start a business.
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Times
Bob East
John Stovall
Seminole
Jack Gale
Eminole
Stovall
Tovall
Seminole Fire Department
Countess Loses Lawsuit Against Wealthy American
New York March 1 A federal judge dismissed a suit by French countess Anne Wilbert de Lairigne seeking $400000 from Frank Jay Gould heir to a railroad fortune She said the check was given in 1944 for keeping him from Nazi hands The judge ruled Gould cannot travel as he lives in France under medical care and the case is dismissed.
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New York
Alfred C. Coxe
Frank Jay Gould
Anne Wilbert de Lairigne
New York City
United States Trust Co
Coxe
Gould
France
Ada to Vote on $790000 Bond Issue March 15
Ada citizens will vote March 15 on two bond issues totaling 790000 dollars. The ballot item covers municipal improvements and school facilities financing. Local officials urge turnout to determine funding for community projects.
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Ada
U.P
China Recognizes Israel and Trans-Jordan
The Chinese republic on Tuesday formally recognized the states of Israel and Trans-Jordan. The foreign affairs ministry said recognition aims to establish friendly relations with the new states and their governments.
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Canton
Israel
Trans- Jordan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Trans-Jordan
Republic of China
Aggie Club Plans Forum on Admission for Two Negroes
In Stillwater Oklahoma on March 1 the American Committee for Equality says two Langston Negro university students Henry Floyd of Eufaula and Jane Ellison of Oklahoma City will attend a campus forum at Old Central auditorium. They sought admission to Oklahoma A&M for courses Langston lacks. They will outline reasons for wishing to transfer while Regents of agricultural colleges review their applications next Friday in Oklahoma City.
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Regents
Agricultural Colleges
Oklahoma City
Judge Waives First Hearing In Lorenzen Manslaughter Case
Harry F. Lorenzen, a Canadian county judge, Tuesday waived the preliminary hearing on a manslaughter charge. He will be bound over to district court Friday for arraignment as defense attorney Herbert K. Hyde requested a delay. Lorenzen is to appear before Clarence Mills in district court.
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Harry F. Lorenzen
Herbert K. Hyde
James
Lorenzen
Hyde
Clarence Mills
Mari- el Reno
Alexander Drug Co sale to McKesson Robbins completed
Oklahoma City firm Alexander Drug Co the largest drug distributor in the southwest sold to McKesson Robbins Inc New York for about 2250000. Alexander Drug will operate as the Alexander Drug division with no management changes and will relocate to a new 650000 building at NE 11 12 and Santa Fe. The sale makes Alexander the 76th division of McKesson Robbins and Oklahoma part of the southwest region led by Jesse Wynne.
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Alexander Drug Co
Oklahoma City
Southwest
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
New York
L. I. Fitschen
Alexander Drug
McKesson & Robbins
Tulsa
Amarillo
Texas
Alexander Drug Division
NW 1
Harvey
NE 11
Santa Fe
Fitschen
Robert A. Alexander
National Drug Organization
Oklahoma
Jesse W. Wynne
Break Believed Near In Chemical Strike
Texas City March 1 The 38 day strike at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp showed its first signs of easing as union spokesman C F Bush indicated wage disputes could be resolved. He said the union is ready to split the difference with the company. Federal conciliator T F Morrow called the statement a move in the right direction but warned against predicting a quick settlement.
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Texas City
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp
C. F. Bush
Machinists Union
AFL
T. F. Morrow
Rush
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