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Guthrie man wins Theodore N. Vail Gold Medal for heroism
Charles Erwin Rider of Guthrie Oklahoma received the Theodore N Vail Gold Medal and a 500 cash prize for bravery restoring critical telephone toll lines after a Cimarron river bridge derailment. He risked flames and explosion across a raging current, coordinating improvised cables and bridge crossing to restore 34 downed wires by 6 pm. The award was presented in Oklahoma City by Eugene D Nims with Gov M J Trapp and other officials observing.
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Oklahoma City
Charles Erwin Rider
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Vail
State of
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Rider
Southwestern System
Eugene D. Nims
Nims
M. J. Trapp
D. A. Cargill
W. M. Harrison
Oklahoma Daily Times
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Chaumber of Commerce of
Theodore N. Vail
Bell
Cimarron River
Santa Fe Railroad
Chicago
Gulf
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Kansas City
Texas
Telephone Company
Chicago-Galveston
Bell System
Bell Telephone Company of America
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Vail Memorial Fund
Myrtle Isbel Hadley
Snyder
Okla
Charles Nepeir
Wolever
Pittston
Muriel Annetta Cruikshank
Wyoming
Louis Leon Gauthier
Shreveport
George Herbert Mann
Phoenix
Arizona
Alice C. Tillinghast
Housatonic
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Trapp
Oklahoma Club
Bell Telephone System
Alexander Graham Bell
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