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VOLUME NO 46 Officers ind Pistols In Suspect's Car Died rom all Of Sp a a te I li te Reds Receive changesin the absolute intensity COXTBOL Tt Cot in the ionosphere Asian lu Strikes More US Cities More Rains Due SB I i I I' Need or New Schools Aired LONDON The Soviet earthTsateHite paid man his first scientific dividend today 7 studied all angles of the lengthy remarks of the Soviet Communist boss? a meteor However the time the satellite might remain tn the sky has been revised upward several times The radio beam tromthe satel lite was first noted faltering last night when it apparently stuck' and emitted a steady note Instead Area Man Arrested At Cyril After Three Banks Cased' Defense Hints Indian's Wife leader gave no indication how ever that the Moscow regime was prepared to modify the political rancisco next season the Nation al League win have two teams on turned to? normal shortly after wards iff The BBC said it again around midnight and the note sometimes described as cricket lifce changed to something re sembling the yelp of an injured Two Brazilian Teachers Like Sooner State the electrical magnetic field that surrounds the earth This field varies in intensity from time to time and by send Dodgers Set Move To LA Affect Magnetic ield Disturbances on the sun set up Parker was also asked for In formation on a report attributed to Khrushchev by Reston that Russia had proposed a visit to the United States by Marshal Zhukov but the United States turned "it down Parker said know anything about It Then he added that be had not actually looked into the matter bat hoped to do so The import of com ment on call for missiles controls appeared to be Soviet scientists predicted the satellite would remain in the heavens for several weeks and that it would then fall into the Inoculation of all ort Sill troops for Asian flu which hr sweeping all parts of the country is expect ed to begin this week at the US Army Artillery and Missile Center routine shots will be ad ministered in dispensaries' normal Danish scientists reported the satellite appeared to be stowing down They said its speed ap peared to be down some 2500 miles an hour from the peak speed of 18000 miles an hour tioaal radio" communication and weather forecasting In Washington the Naval Re search Laboratory said its mon itoring operations' were normal Other American observation posts reported temporarily losing the radio signal last night Naval laboratory officials spec ulated the sound may have been lost elsewhere due toatmospberic interested tn joining two party deals with Russia which would have the effect of settling mat ters in which other countries have a vital interest without giving them an adequate voice Khrushchev said an agreement on peaceful coexistence would remove any problem of controlling new scientific devices ported ollowing the troop inoculation? a program for dependents win be In Area Tonight Heavy clouds moved over South west Oklahoma again this morn ing after steady showers dumped70 inch of rain on the city last night The 70 and 16 of an inch that fell Sunday night and Monday morning brought the total rainfall this year in Lawton to 3108 inches slightly above the 3094 average over an 82 year period Showers were general through out the area last night with most points reporting at least a half inch The forecast calls for more rain this afternoon and Wednesday with cooler temperatures scheduled to move in early tomorrow morning Roy Higdon patrolman at Lake Lawtonka 5 ebdrted 35 inch last night and 15 Monday morning Level of the lake is now 1337 JO feet above sea level or 825 feet below the top of the new gates This is feet above the old spill way lake is dropping about a half inch every three Hig don said evaporation is being cut down quite a bit this time of Other points reporting rain in cluded Chattanooga with JO Reds Propose Party Pact Plan US Maintains Other Nations Should Agree WASHINGTON (TP The State Department today a sug gestion from Nikita Khrushchev lor Russian agreement to estab lish international control of space missiles It said such a step should be part of a general disarmament package The State Department recalled that the United States Britain rance and Canada had made a proposal in disarmament talks at London Aug 29 aimed at assuring that space missiles are launched and used ex clusively for and scientific Jameson Parker press officer said tersely that will on the approach which calls for agreement by many not just the two superpowers Parker declined other comment on Khrushchev's interview withNew York Times correspondent James Reston until after officials have Arei Weather orewst Cloudy through Wednesday scattered showers abd thunder storms this afternoon and Wednes day: occasional rain tonight and cooler Wednesday Hight today near 79 low tonight near 58 high Wednesday near 65 low last night 60 11 am reatong 75 yester high 80 Aboard the man made moan device for research in the propagation of radio waves was used to obtain this the broadcast added The report apparently referred Bigin banker Stephens said the man also entered the Elgin ba a week ago and acted so suspicious that Steph ens suspectinn a holdup ordered the bank closed an hour early Hoyt Shelby Comanche coun ty undersheriff said a local in vestigation has begun by the sheriff's office No charges have been tiled Shelby said but' be added are checking to see if he has been connected with According to Jerome Dilling letcher cashier the man did not enter the letcher bank but merely sat outside in his car looking at the bank for 15 or 20 minutes Dilling becoming sus picious walked across the street and noticed that the car a 1956 De Soto bore no license tag? When the man drove offth highway was notified Caddo County Sheriff Ray Larison said the car yielded a 45 automatic and a 22 pistol when the arrest was made An automobile tag which did not check out to 4he De Soto was found inside tle car Shelby said he had not learned by noon today in whose name the tag was registered According to Larison the sus pect gave no explanation for his heard here said this was learned "by means of the short wave By BILL CRAWORD' Staff Writer Cameron college agriculture de partment facilities and teaching methods are being scrutinized to day by two Brazilian agriculture instructors now touring the coun leading colleges and univer sities The professors are rancisco Louzada Alves onseca and Yvan Joaquim Barros de Moraes Impressed With State are very impressed with what they have seen in Lee Zeroth interpreter and vo ordinator for the visiting Bra zilians said onseca and Moraes who speak only in their native tongues are being sponsored by the Internation al Cooperation Administration The tour launched about three months ago is programmed by the Department of Health Educa tion and Welfare Washington DC To Irve Today The three Brazilians will depart from the junior college campus this afternoon for Wilburton where they visit the agriculture depart ment of Eastern Oklahoma The men later will attend the American Royal uture anners of America Exposition in Kansas Qty Mo before going on to points in Nebraska Illinois Kentucky Tennessee and Cornell university in New York They will return to their teaching jobs in secondary schools at Rio Grande do Sul the southern most state in Brazil bor dering Argentina and Uruguay Interviewed via Zeroth the In terpreter onseca and Moraes Srt VISITORS rH National League which originally bad set Ott 1 deadline With the New York Giants al By TQM SHARROCK Staff Writer A 36 year old Duncan man arrested In Cyril yesterday following a tip from a letcher banker was charged in Anadarko today with carrying a concealed weapon driving with improper tag and public drunkenness The arrest was made at a restaurant in Cyril by highway Yvatvnl trfintwr T'rsanlr Rruntifctf after a complaint that the man several incidents down here was around the trst National bank in letcher In vestigation revealed that the sus pect shortly before had entered banks at both Elgin apd Cyril Troops Due lu Shots This Week Women Tell Of Doctor's 'Drug' Attacks tTULSA Two more women patients of Dr John Richard Rhine! testified in his rape trial today the 35 year oId physician gave them drugs then made sexual advances Rhine who went on trial be fore a jury of 12 men Monday stared at the floor and occasional ly the ceiling while the details of the alleged sexual acts were de scribed In the packed courtroom Monday the principal witness a blonde 20 year bld wife of an aircraft (worker told a similar story Local newsmen are with holding names of the women at the request of County Attorney Howard Edmondson The second witness' today said she was i in bed with a kidney in fection when Rine was called 4 to treat her last year She said be sent her husband to a drug store for medicine and their gave her a shot which made her numb She said she objected when he made improper advances and about that time the husband returned The first witness sobbing at times as she answered Edmond questions said she first mpt Rhine in April of 1956 when her husband was in the "hospital with a broken hip She testified i that later that summer in July of 1956 she and her husband went to Dr office because a cold had settled in her head She said the doctor gave her an injection and used some drops in her nose shortly after she ar rived She said a few minutes later she started to leave and nearly fell to the "floor After be ing put back on the doctor's ex amining table she said she heard the doctor order an injection of two cubic centimeters oT nembutal prepared The young woman said the injection of nem butol made her weak and her husband had to carry her to their car carry her into their house 'and put her to bed She testified that Dri Rhine called at their home later that night and sent heir husband sev eral miles away for a prescrip tion She said doctor sett my husband lor a prescription and I guess he had not even got' ouf of the when Rhine gave her another shot leaving her helpless but conscious pulled up a chair beside the bed and began rubbing my arms" she said apparent ly I wept completely out and when I awoke he was undressing came ovbr to the He NEW YORK tn Tbe Broolyo Dodgers will move to Los Angeles in 1958 President Walter ley announced today 'x The official announcement was made by Arthur (Red) Patterson assistant general manager for The long expected announce: made at a press confer ence In the orid Series head quarters at the Waldorf Astoria Hoteff It came 'just one day after the Lbs AngelesCfty Council by a 10 4 vote approved the proposed contract between' the city andtfA baseball dub' O'Malley had uxitil0cL 15 to reach a final deciston jjnder an By BILL COOK Staff Writer Lawton's future education needs a 20 room addition to Lawton high school and three new elementary were outlined at the October Board of Educa tion meeting Monday by John Shoemaker city school superin tendent High on the list of proposed needs were an auditorium gymna sium music rooms shop and four classrooms at Douglass A 12 room elementary school will be needed north of Morford Hills addi tion a 10 room elementary school an Westwood addition: ami a 10 room elementary school in Pecan Grove addition Shoemaker said No Action The school board took no official action on proposed needs but vot ed to discuss the situation further at the group's November meeting Enrollment in Lawton public schools now stands at about 11 250 and is increasing steadily must be prepared to meet our Shoemaker said To iHustrafe 'the profound growth which city schools are ex periencing Shoemaker explained that 751 students are now ninth graders 400 more than this year's senior cl assist Lawton high schol 75S nffEfgbth Grade A total of children are eighth graders compared to 496 Uth grad ers he said In other action Monday night board members voted that local schools be dismissed both Thurs day and riday Oct 24 and 25 to enable teachers to attend both days of a state teachers conven tion in Oklahoma City Previous i ly teachers were dismissed only on ridays Mapy of the elementary teach departmental meetings are held on Thursdays Charles Hughes constructor of Tomlinson junior high school said that gymnasium showers and dressing rooms will be ready by Monday and that an all out effort will be made to complete the caf eteria by that time Music rooms are also to be completed by Mon day he said Aid Check Received ederal aid totaling 570267 has been received Justin Kuntz clerk said The $70267 payment is the remainder of last year's entitle ment with the exception of two per cent which is customarily withheld The check received? Monday brings total federal aid to 5458 409 some $113000 plus more than the previous year Kuntz said Board members unanimously vot SCHOOtS ae i Ci 1 US Rejects Red Offer or Control By UNITED PRESS New outbreaks at respiratory ailments hit a number of midwest em cities today In New York authorities warned that about one million persons are expected to be stricken with Asian flu before the disease runs its course ort Wayne Ind and Normal and Peoria III were among the latest cities to report illnesses In Milwaukee mass vaccina tions for teachers were underway to combat a flu there and another epidemic at Grand Rapids Mich kept some 5000 children: home from school Mon day Although the Aslan flu epidemic In New York showed a decline Monday for the fourth straight day Dr Morris Greenberg the pre ventable disease direc tor warned that one in pvery 10 of New 10 million residents are expected to come down with toe flu1 New York schools Superintend ent William Jansen termed the school absentee rate with 280164 of the 964952 students absent and 3442 teachers missing from classes At ort Wayne Health Com missioner Robert Lohman said rt was impossible to ly ff that epidemic was an outbreak of Asian fiu By JOHN DOUGLAS Staff Writer The defense attorney fair a 30 yearold Cache Indian on trial for murdering his wife told the jury today witnesses will testify that tije dead woman was not seen to move or heard to speak after apparently hitting her head on a parked car as she fell Githen Rhoads defense at torney thrust this and the tinuous of the dead wom an's behavior in the forefrorft of his case after the state unexpect edly rested when court convened at 9:45 am ive Witnesses County Attorney Warren Crane said previously he would recall Sheriff Everett Ray Hale to the witness stand this morning but Superior Judge Robert Landers ruled out the move Rhoads presented five witnesses for the defense before court ad journed lor lunch at 11:45 am Pebeahsy a former Golden Gloves boxer is accused of slay his wife Darlene Pebeahsy 24 at the Pebeahsy home in Cache July 4 I Rhoads said he had other wit nesses to call during the after noon and indicated it may be im possible to complete the case to day i Attacks Reputation of VictimIn his opening address to the jury Rhoads said defense es would prove that Darlene Pe beahsy was a girl the type of girt who left her children at home and struck off with other men the type that is Jrpquently seen drinking and occupying the front seat in a beer Rhoads sad testimony would show that Darlene frequently ap proached Pebeahsy and demanded more money to support the chil dren and that at one tim had him' thrown in jail to get more money from him 1 Yesterday Dr Lowell Thorn ton Lawton pathologist who per formed an autopsy after the death of estamged wife said there a strong probabil ity death was caused by strangu lation Mentions all Rhoads said his itnesses would testify that the dead woman was not seen to move or heard to speak after apparently falling and hitting her head on a carl parked in the Pebeahsy driveway Mrs lorence Love Dallas Pe sister5 testified that she and her husband and children were visiting her brother andl father Charles and Lemuel Pebeahsy at Cache the night the death occur red She said all the adults bpd been drinking at a Cache tavern operat ed by Luke Kennedy After they left and went home she said Dar lene and Charles began ah argu ment by the car Mrs Love said she and her husband (Bill) Love and Lemuel Pebeahsy went in the house leaving jhe couple alone except the children sleeping on the porch She said at one time the fgu ment was such that she put the children in the car and drove off hoping the argument would be set tled by the time they came back She said her daughter told her that Charles got a shotgun and Science Data rom Ike On Sphere WASHINGTON tin President Eisenhower was briefed by gov ernment scientists today on Rus launching of a satellite and on plans to put a into outer space After the hour long session presidential press secretary James Hagerty said in reply to a question that so for as be knows the President received no infor mation which would lead to a speed up in this satel lite program Present plans call for launching of satellite early next year Eisenhower was briefed by Dr Alan Waterman director at the National Science oundation and Dcnald Quarter deputy secretary of defense Weterntan has over all direction of Project Vanguard this coun try satellite launching program1 Quarles te an expert in the mis sile field UTURE PHIZE ANIMAL HeracheBoydstun dean of Cameron agricul ture division third from left points with pride to a future show steer a product of the Aggie farm for the benefit of two visiting Brazilian agriculture teachers Studying the animal with Boydstun are from left Lee ZertithxwinsfcingtonD'C interpreter Yvan Joaquim Barros de Moraes Viamao Brazil rancisco Louzada Alves onseca Pelotas RS Brazilj Ind Clarence Davis right Cameron president The visitors will tour several Comaff che county farms this afternoon before departing (Staff Photo) JTE This is sketch proposed satellite being prepared for take to carry two tofour men which would orbit around earth 500 miles out in snace at 16660 miles anhour Three Gtodyeaf Aircraft Corp scientists say it will be economically feasible to build and launch this manned satellite within six to eight years They would call it The three stage vehicle would have Russians are doing from their satellite man can measure these changes The result possibly could have great influence on such things as Solon Urges US Revamp Space Study WASHINGTON Sen Mans field (D Mont) today urged that Congress set up Manhattan type to direct toe multi billion dollar race with Soviet Rus sia in toe field of missiles and earth satellite need the same type of co ordination and concentration of our best scientists and experts as developed our initial atomic Mansfield assistant Dem ocratic Senate leader said in an interview The "Manhattan Project" washe code name given during World War II to the program which de veloped the atomic bomb Mansfield said a similar organ ization in the missile satellite field permit Congress to ap propriate funds to a single agen cy which would have the neces sary flexibility in pushing am told that we have wasted hundreds of millions of dollars through our present programs of separate Army Navy and Air orce projects for attempted de velopment of long range Mansfield said is too interservice rivalry now in these fields It has resulted in overlapping duplica tion waste and Mansfield said that the Soviets way behind us but now have caught up in the atomic and thermoculear have exceeded us in the ICBM and are ahead of us on the earth satellites" he said Mansfield injected his idea into a growing congressional clamor arising from the Russian success in launching the first man made moon Protest Ike Silence Sen Ervin (D NG) urged an im mediate public hearing by he Sen ate Armed Services Committee Ervin protested from the White House and the admin in a telegram to Chair Cei 1 Hillriwr THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION OB Eb1w1 IksOUmj Miti at tea taat Office ai lawtaa oteataara Zraate KraH lataritey i em 5 1 1 (AP) (UP) APWwPHOTO THIRD ANDA AVE LAWTON OKLA TUESDAY OCTOBER 1957 16 PAGES SINGU COPY INAL EDITION I I Girl Denies Soldiers Entered Dressing Area LITTLE ROCK Gov Orval charge that paratroop ers have invaded the dressing room at Central High School was denied today by a girl student who said she may have been the original source of the Catherine Craighead a 16 vear old orphan who is a sophomore at Central High told reporters she believes charge may be an version of something she said aubus made the allegation Monday School officials termed it The white House said it was "completely untrue and completely vulgar" The governor retorted that "we'll prove it when the time comes" He said his charge was based on complaints from "moth The Central High Lea gue a segregationist group which has worked closely with aubus had indicated to newsmen that Catherine who lives' at an or phanage here could corroborate the allegations But Catherine said that where along the line there has been an exaggeration" soldiers do not go into the dressing she said She said troops on corridor duty escort JNegro girls to the head of a stairway across a ball from the entrance to the dressing room as part of their assignment of preventing any incident as the Negroes move from one class to another the soldiers lingered at the top of the stairs they might be able to look into toe dressing room when the door was being opened or closed" she said never seen them do Usual Troop Escort The nine Negro students arrived at Central High with their usual troop escort this morning About 100 white students were standing asound near the entrance waiting for the school bell to ring They paid no particulartoeed to the Ne arrival There was no shouting no demonstration of any kind Meanwhile speculation as to the time when troops mighty be re moved from the school was heightened by Rep Brooks Hays (IArk) who said in Washington that the day is approach when the soldiers can be Withdrawn Bangui Scientists Brief Col Sm TR1VL aeo Colt 4 Cat SKETCH OTEOPOSED MANKED ATELL I I two to four nn which would tW 4 Ui I 9 IS I HI KU fl Jr J' Kil lllrf jf Hall 4 a UH 'SHI iMI T'iB tB II I I Soviet scientists checking the satellite flight through outer space said they have discovered i I 9 i a I I to meastxrements of so called dec trical currents and erf the earth's magnetic field wfl i a BO.

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