Oklahoma Legislature Won't Delay School Program For Federal Aid
Oklahoma lawmakers said they will not delay completing the common school program awaiting federal school aid. Estimates place potential federal funding at 8.3 million, with proposals to allocate or write aid into the state bill. Gov Turner and Sen Gary urged speed, noting possible revenue gaps and a 500 pay raise for teachers in districts receiving full state aid.
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Oklahoma
Turner
Raymond Gary
Madill
State Senate Appropriations
State Board of Education
Gary
Congress
Senate
House
James A. Nevins
Okmulgee
United States
Oklahoma City
Five Million Fire Destroys Hollywood Park Race Track
Inglewood, Calif. Hollywood Park racecourse suffered a $5 million blaze that razed the clubhouse grandstand and turf club within minutes. Arson squads opened an investigation after two men and a boy were detained briefly. horses and fowl were saved as flames spread, injuring one firefighter and delaying the May 17 meeting.
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Inglewood
Calif
Hollywood Park
America
Little Lakes
Jack Mackenzie
Santa Anita Park
Clifton Freeman
Grand Stand
Centinela Hospital
Joe Cohens
Los Angeles
Westchester
Los Angeles Municipal
Burglar Net Catches $8,000 Liquor Load
Thieves seized a truckload of whisky and gin worth 8000 dollars after a Edwards service station safe was looted. Patrols traced the cargo to a red panel truck in Edmond and recovered 1752 pints of contraband with a 28 year old man James J. McAtee of El Reno jailed on vagrancy and illegal liquor charges.
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Edmond
Scoutcar
J. A. May
O. E. Higginbotham
Sheriff’s Office
James J. McAtee
el Reno
D. C. Smith
McAtee
McAfee
Kingfisher
Britton
Elk City Clerk Pleads to Theft
Mrs. Maude Ulmer, 47, former bookkeeper for the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Elk City, pleads guilty in federal court to an eight count indictment charging embezzlement. Bond set at $1,000, she released on own recognizance. court allows plea to stand subject to sentence withdrawal. Ulmer, without counsel, admits taking funds between Oct 7, 1946 and Feb 24, 1949 and has restitution made. she is among 23 indicted by the grand jury last Tuesday.
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Maude Ulmer
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Elk City
Bower Broaddus
Haskell Pugh
U. S
Pugh
Ulmer
Bixby School Head Stays On After Holdenville Hire
Holdenville May 6 Raymond Harvey, named as Holdenville superintendent, asked the local group to release him from commitments and said he would remain superintendent of Bixby schools instead.
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Holdenville
Raymond Harvey
Bixby
Weather Summary From Local U S Weather Bureau
Local forecast notes mostly cloudy skies with showers and thunderstorms and cooler this afternoon and tonight. Saturday will be partly cloudy and cooler with highs near 60s, lows around 50. Winds fresh to strong today, diminishing tonight. Extended period shows heavy precipitation east and south Oklahoma Saturday to Wednesday, totals 1 to 2 inches east, less in west. temperatures near normal with cooler temps in western areas.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
VA Order Cuts 28 Employes Off State Rolls
Eight thousand federal workers nationwide are to be let go under a VA retrenchment plan. In Oklahoma, 58 employees face discharge notices Monday. 20 from the local office and 38 from Muskogee. The action excludes hospitals and medical services. the Vinita contact office closes, travel allowances may be cut, and offices elsewhere remain open.
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Veterans’ Administration
Muskogee
Emory Gale
P. T. Lunquest
Gray
Lunquest
Vinita
Western Oklahoma
Western District
Creek County Urges Sin Despite Drunken Driving Issue
Bristow Citizen reports Creek County to Creel county invited to Sin as assistant County Attorney Bill Cheatham laments repeated drunken driving cases dismissed or unprosecuted. He claims no drunken driving conviction in Creek County for over a year and questions the value of prosecutions amid bootleg prices and lax juries.
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Bristow
U.P
Bristow Citizen
Creek County
Bill Cheatham
Citizen
Cheatham
Burglar's Torch Explodes Injuring Four Detectives
In a Midtown New York subway locker a gas torch exploded injuring four detectives during a roundup of young burglar suspects. Detectives found acetylene equipment and gas containers in the locker after arresting four men including three students linked to a plan to break safes at the New York Giants club and a finance company.
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New York
Midtown
New York Giants
Pair Kidnaps Victim at Enid
John Winford Cline, a Safeway Enid Oklahoma employee, says two armed men robbed him after entering the Enid store, forced him to drive to Wichita Falls Texas, then beat him into unconsciousness before fleeing with $200. He recovered consciousness Friday morning in a Wichita Falls hospital with brain concussion and skull injuries. One robber wore army clothing. the other wore civilian clothes and a mask.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
John Winford Cline
Enid, Okla
Cline
W. A. Nash
John Wildman
Safeway
Enid
Rita Hayworth Buys Paris Trousseau Ahead of May Wedding
Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan left the Riviera for Paris where the actress planned to add to her trousseau. She already bought 14 dresses from Jacques Fath in preparation for the upcoming nuptials, with a marriage date not definite yet.
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Cannes
France
U.P
Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Riviera
Paris
Trousseau
Rita
Jacques Fath
Vinita VFW elects district commander and auxiliary head
Boyd Finnell of Vinita was elected first district commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mrs. Jack McEnroy was elected president of the VFW auxiliary in the first district.
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Vinita
U.P
Boyd Finnell
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Jack McEnroy
VFW
First Y Drive Report Monday at Skirvin Tower
The YMCA YWCA building and modernization drive reports its first progress meeting Monday at noon in the Silver Glade room of the Skirvin Tower hotel. Civic leaders gather to disclose funds secured toward the 1,250,000 goal after opening Thursday night with Tom C Clark as featured speaker, introduced by Senator Robert Kerr.
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Ymcaywca
Silver Glade
Skirvin Tower
Tom C. Clark
U. S
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Showers to Sweep Oklahoma City Weekend Forecast
Forecaster warns of showers and thunderstorms in Oklahoma City Friday afternoon and night with cooler temperatures. High near 80, low around 50, cloudy conditions and strong winds easing after night. Expect showers Saturday and Sunday statewide with heavy precipitation in eastern and southern areas and lighter totals elsewhere. April records show unusually dry conditions at 1.65 inches for the month.
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Oklahoma City
West Awaits Red Hint On Plan for Jap Treaty
Western diplomats await the big four meeting on Germany for clues to a Japan peace treaty. They see Soviet Russia as the key to settlements in the Pacific and Europe. Moscow’s Paris conference stance may decide if a Japanese treaty moves ahead. Without Moscow’s signal, a revived American drive for a Japanese peace conference seems unlikely.
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West
Red
Washington
Germany
Japan
Russia
Pacific
Europe
Paris
Moscow
United States
Eufaula Dam Delayed Year
Washington reports the Eufaula dam project in Oklahoma will be delayed at least another year. A subcommittee approved 150000 for additional planning for the Oklahoma project, matching House action. Controversy over single versus two-dam plans delays construction as Army engineers have not recommended the two-dam option.
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Washington
Eufaula
Oklahoma
Senate
House
Army
Congressional
Army Engineers
Congress
Mexico Jungle Hunted For Missing Explorers
Archeological expedition members hunt Tehuantepec jungle for missing newsreel photographer Luis Morales and companion after three days. They reported two others, guide Carlos Frey and artist Franco Gomez, drowned when their canoe overturned on La canja river during exploration of pre Spanish ruins in the remote jungle known as lost paradise.
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Mexico City
U.P
Tehuuntepec
Lacanja River
Luis Morales
Carlos Frey
Franco Gomez
Mexico
City Man Charged With Knife Attack on Visitor
In the 200 block of Hudson early Friday scoutcar petrolmen F. F. Ramsey and H. D. Newsom found one man carrying another. The carrier recounted being cut twice by an unconscious attacker who he had knocked out. Both men were treated at Mercy hospital. Charles Fred Cowden, 35, of the city, was jailed on an assault with a dangerous weapon complaint signed by Robert Carson of El Reno.
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Scoutcar
F. F. Ramsey
H. D. Newsom
Hudosn
Mercy Hospital
Charles Fred Cowden
City
Robert Carson
el Reno
Four Miners Die In Gilberton Mine Blaze
GIRARDVILLE Pa May 6 Four miners were found dead Friday after rescue workers battled 48 hours in an anthracite shaft filled with smoke and fumes from an underground fire. Bodies were located 600 feet below the surface near a tunnel off the main shaft. deputy coroner John Cook said they likely died shortly after the fire started Tuesday night in No 5 colliery of Gilberton coal company.救
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Girardville
John Cook
Gilberton Coal Company
Joseph Kapulis
Kapulis
Pair in Police Guise Robbed Man of 150 Dollars
William W. Quinton, 30, of route 8, box 145, reported two men stopped his car in the 100 block and posed as police officers taking $150 from his billfold after forcing him into their vehicle. Earlier, another man alleged two men in police disguise also took $8 after asking for identification.
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William W. Quinton
Route 8
Box 145
Reno
Quinton
Polish Foreign Minister Modzelewski Hospitalized in Warsaw
Polish Foreign Minister Zygmunt Modzelewski is receiving treatment at a Warsaw hospital for a heart ailment. A government spokesman said he will remain away from his office for core weeks.
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Warsaw
Poland
Zygmunt Modzelewski
Modzelewski
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