Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 72, No. 245, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1961 Page: 4 of 68
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into the Times Square area
headquarters nearby on west
safety's sake.
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do not involve western vital (Soviet Union."
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ment stood by during the aid in the woman’s iden-
firemen’s long fight, direct- tification. The officers also
ed by Fire Commissioner took finger prints and were
wrecked an auto and dam-
aged an elementary school
here early Thursday. The
ported his wife missing on
November 17 to Joplin, Mo.,
The conference was a cru-
cial one because on its suc-
cess depended the ability of
the western powers to* agree
on the issues on which they
Pate, his wife, and daugh-
ter were asleep in an apart-
The auto owned by Cullen;
Pate, custodian of the
school, was parked in a car-
NEW YORK W—An in-
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interests.
Kennedy and Adenauer. in
three days of intensive dis-
cussions here, apparently de-
cided to maintain the west-
ern claim that East Berlin
should be opened up to traf-
fic and the Communist wall
was not immediately de-
termined.
Ambulances, police emer-
gency vehicles and Belle-
vue Hospital’s disaster unit
with the latest rescue equip-
to be any prospect for suc-
cess in negotiation.
The communique carefully
paratus.jammed the streets,
and traffic was halted for a
radius of two blocks. Police
mobilized 150 extra men to
patrol the area.
A cleaning woman and a
rear seat of the auto. He
said it was not a natural
gas explosion.
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their way aloft and led the
pair to the street.
building were overcome by
smoke.
The fire was deep in the
4-level underground storage
vaults beneath the building
lor Adenauer hoped Thurs-
day for speedy British and
French agreement to a new
western negotiating policy on
Berlin.
The policy is reported to
have two principal elements
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which used to be the head- was caused by the inser-
several days. It was par-
tially covered with leaves.
Woman Pregnant
A pathologist’s report late
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Two Trapped
After a fight of almost
five hours, 130 firemen got
the spectacular blaze under
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Smoke rises from top of Times Tower as firemen battle for control early Thursday.
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months pregnant at the time
of her death.
Officers said they had no
idea to the woman s iden-
tity, but were checking the
report from a man who be-
lieved the body is that of
his wife’s.
Husband Wanted
The man, who is wanted
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building is a, classjtied, ad
vertising office on tine street
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Brown’s Red Cross and Budset Shoes,
2nd Fl. Pk. Ave.
Capitol Hill, Fenn Square
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through it.
The Red Cross and the
floor. ■ .
The building, which gave
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But the girdle of electric the area. A drug store on
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Through it all, the big
"Times” electric signs near
the top of the tower cast
into the heart. The report
said the woman was three-
continued their investiga-
tion Thursday into the mys-
terious death of an uniden-
er who were on a hunting
trip. The body was in a
ravine just off old highway
10 west of Miami.
Sheriffs officers combed
the area for clues that might
tered glass to the street.
Only one person was in-
jured — an ambulance at-
tendant who suffered minor
cuts.
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plosion cracked the walls of
the school and shattered
virtually every window in
the building. Roof of the
carport was blown across a
street and on to the front
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Premier Khrushchev’s de-
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ular stock for a sale that can’t be
blast broke windows
homes near the school.
smoke on the 23rd floor for
more than thrge hours.
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U. S. officials said the two
leaders meant by this that
Khrushchev must show some
readiness to modify his
for an end to the Berlin
crisis and those on which
they would not negotiate.
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basement.
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President Leonid Brezhnev
returned Wednesday from a
state visit to Sudan.
erated dense smoke and in- by Tulsa police and must
tense heat that poured up remain unidentified, had re-
through the building.
The heat burst hundreds
The Times Tower was sold The building, which Eave
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the status of West Berlin; president and West German and problems involved in
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control at 1:25 am. Thurs-
Sixty pieces of fire ap I In Death
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And it ; was business-as. The firemen killed—b o t b New Yoi
usual for all but one of the victims of smoke —
restaurants, saloons, movie Charles Lang, 31, and Rob- vertising office on I
Wednesday night and turned beams of light through the houses, freak shows, hot dog ’ "" "
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sion has not been done yet. the newspaper until 1913. In
Many businesses, includ- that year the Times moved
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compensates for weak signals,
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Sartain said investigation stiles St. Branch YWCA. It
said toe blast was some type of the explosion was being will be open free of charge
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WASHINGTON — Pres-on the East Berlin border obscured the issues which
ident Kennedy and Chancel- should be destroyed. Kennedy and Adenauer con-
But diplomats said pri- . . . ,
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Study Set
A workshop on urban re-
newal and housing will be
held December 3 by the Ur-
ban League of Oklahoma
City, in co-operation with
various other organizations.
! The meeting will be held
from 3-6:30 p.m. at the
was discovered in a junk-
filled ravine Wednesday.
Twenty-four firemen suf- Officers said the body, un-
fered smoke poisoning or in- clothed except for a bras-
juries. Six persons in the siere, had been in the ravine
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be achieved and it no long- include the possibility of in-
er appears to be an essen- creasing working relation-
tial condition of an agree- ships between West Ger-
ment with Russia for a Ber- (many and Communist East
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 72, No. 245, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1961, newspaper, November 23, 1961; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2005440/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.