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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1957
Page
14
Peoria Catholic grade schools announced a code restricting pupils to modest dress and limiting social activities. The plan affects about 15 schools and 6,000 students, with a nightly curfew and parental oversight emphasized. It aims to keep children in proper childhood pursuits and curb activities deemed inappropriate.
Seventeen major oil companies meeting in London agreed to study a proposed 40 million dollar pipeline to bypass the Suez Canal. They seek concrete proposals to be discussed with relevant governments, noting the plan would supplement existing routes rather than replace them.
In Budapest, fourteen Hungarians were sentenced to death by the Municipal Court for taking part in October riots in Miskolc that attacked police headquarters and hanged seven Communist policemen. Four others, including a woman, got life terms. Twenty-one on trial. Western correspondents barred, trial conducted with Hungarian translators.
The U S aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt suffered slight propeller damage from a Wednesday collision with an underwater object. The vessel, 51 000 tons, will dry dock in Norfolk for extensive inspection and repair after a 30 mile east position from Mayport. No subs were found in the area and no hull or internal damage reported.
Jefferson County Ky authorities said the body of Richard Jessup 20 Clarksville was recovered by two Kentucky Dredge Co. workers from Louisville. He drowned May 11 when a boat with Morris Harrell 35 New Albany overturned after hitting a snag five miles east of Jeffersonville in the Ohio River. Tim berlake Corydon and Paul Merrifield Louisville found the body while dredging near the incident.
DETROIT reports Adm. Jerauld Wright says Russian submarine activity in the Atlantic is increasing. In Indiana a driver who dozed at the wheel struck a hitchhiker, Eugene Richardson, killed, and an airman Pedro M. Robledo hurt. Robledo faces reckless homicide charges. Elvis Presley recuperates after emergency dental cap removal near his lung.
Prosecutor Melvin B Thornburg filed the case in Circuit Court charging Daniel E Walter with passing a 22 50 fraudulent check on May 13 and Merle Graves with grand larceny over a volt tester. A separate civil suit by Ann Curtis Elwood against Lucille Pebernat for malicious prosecution seeks damages over reputation from a 1955 Anderson City Court charge. Jury verdicts favored the defendant in the damage action and a separate personal injury case awarded 6000 to Alex Johnson Jr. against Joseph Hall. Multiple divorce affidavits and other civil actions are noted in the circuit and superior courts with various parties named.
Ralph Goldsberry son of Mr and Mrs Ed H Rayl Rt 4 was recently initiated into the Hanover College chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
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