Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paid any attention last July when Congress routinely passed Public Law 887, entitled "Wyandotte Tribe Termination of Federal Supervision." But last week Kansas' Senators and Representatives discovered they should have been listening to the rustling in the woods. Public Law 887 gives the Wyandotte Indian tribe of northeastern Oklahoma full title to two valuable acres of land in the heart of downtown Kansas City, Kans., estimated variously to be worth as much...
...Indian cemetery established in the 18403 when the Wyandottes moved to Kansas from Ohio and Michigan, the land was part of the property ceded to the Federal Government in 1855 in exchange for lands in Oklahoma. However, the Wyandottes insist they never did convey title to the cemetery to anybody. For more than 60 years they have been seeking to regain possession, but each attempt was blocked by Kansas' Representatives in Washington. Finally, this year, the tribe employed an old-fashioned tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department...
...adventures to a minimum. Last year Captain Fernandez discovered a new way to cut loose. He began to devote all his spare time to planning and practicing for the Bendix Trophy race, a 1,120-mile dash from George Air Force Base, Calif, to Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma City...
Fernandez figured everything to a split second, scorned the time-consuming safety of taking on extra fuel in the air, climbed as high as 30,000 ft. running away from head winds, got his F-100C Super Sabre jet to Oklahoma City with exactly one minute of fuel left. His nice calculations earned him the Bendix Trophy and a new Bendix record: 666.661 m.p.h. In second place, with 656.250 m.p.h. : Captain Robert A. Madden, a Korean veteran who spent 15 months as a PW. Although adverse winds edged them out of a supersonic trip, all six contestants, all flying North...
...week's end the Oklahoma Kid had 117 out of 154 games behind him; 42 homers were already in the book (10 righthanded, 32 lefthanded). He was eight games ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But ahead of him was the Babe's whirlwind finish. In his big year Ruth hit 17 home runs in September alone (four in the last three games...