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When Midwest City's founder and developer, W. P. "Bill" Atkinson, passed away in 1999, he left his 1955 mansion in trust for the community's enjoyment and historical appreciation. Today, the Atkinson Heritage Center at N.E. 10th and Midwest Blvd. is owned by the Rose State College Foundation and maintained by the college.
The bill Eisenhower actually signed in 1956 was the brainchild of Congressional Democrats, in particular Albert Gore Sr., George Fallon, Dennis Chavez, and Hale Boggs. [5] That bill authorized paying for highway expansion by establishing the Highway Trust Fund, which in turn would be funded by increases in highway user taxes on gasoline, diesel ...
Book review: "Tinkertown: A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us: The Story of Midwest City & Tinker AFB" by Jim Willis (ArtStrings, LLC, in stores)
After much negotiation, both houses of Congress approved the bill in May 1954, and on May 18, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law as Public Law 361. Congress could not afford to appropriate the funds in 1955, so association president William Crowdus resorted to asking the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations for $10 million.
He ended up becoming Midwest City’s starting quarterback and led the Bombers to a state title in 1995 when Dennis Huggins was the head coach. That was the last time a non-Tulsa area school won a ...
The state's populace's opposition to Communism and the Korean War turned Wisconsin strongly to Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election. For the 1956 rematch, Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II began by campaigning against Eisenhower's handling of farm problems, at a time when most of the interior United ...
Heritage Park Mall owner Ahmad Bahreini's plan to converted blighted shopping center into housing, hydroponics rejected by city council.
Eisenhower won the general election and was re-elected in 1956. The bitter 1952 convention, the presumption that Taft was too extreme to win the general election, and Eisenhower's re-election meant that conservative Republicans had not occupied the White House since at least 1929 or won the Republican nomination since at least 1936.