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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1957
Page
1
Indianapolis coverage notes thousands attending the parade while highway scandal trial moves toward possible appeal. Defense objections fill the record over jury instructions as closing arguments approach, with Judge Walter Pritchard weighing delays and potential appeals.
A 23 month old boy was critically injured when a car backed over him after a community Halloween parade in Chesterfield. The accident near Main Street involved Willie Q. Robinson driving the vehicle. the child was treated at St. John’s Hospital and underwent surgery.
London report follows Hugh Robert Johnson a year old infant who leans on a luggage cart and asks for beer. Father John Johnson says the child grows strong lifting furniture swimming and steering a car while subsisting on beer and beef aboard the family voyage from New Guinea.
A Route 1 family reports a overwhelming response to a house for rent ad in the Bulletin and Herald. The five room rural home not modern, children welcome, 530 a month, produced a flood of calls and allowed choosing tenants after one day.
A private four passenger plane from Wichita plunged into a field near Marion's airport on Thursday killing three people. Victims were Glen Roy Dodson 64 his wife Marion 60 and Donald Leroy Mitchell 32. The aircraft reportedly attempted a landing in fog with near ceiling zero and missed the runway before slamming into a newly plowed field. A witness Lanny White a Lake Central Airlines agent described the crash as the plane flipping on its side then diving. The Dobsons were representatives of a Wichita farm equipment firm aiding a silo unloader project on a Grant County farm.
A coroner’s inquest in Indianapolis concluded Betty Lou Slayton age 26, a Columbus native and former Sherryville resident, died of cancer. She was found unconscious with exposure near a canal Monday night and died Wednesday at General Hospital.
The Teamsters' board voted unanimously to not pursue corruption charges against AFL-CIO leaders. Dave Beck stated the union would go its own way if needed, arguing expulsion would be costly and unlikely. Beck claimed no intent to investigate leaders despite pending allegations.
Partly cloudy to fair with warming trends across Indiana today and Saturday. Temperatures near 60s and a low around 40. Purdue reports abundant soil moisture improving winter wheat stands and corn readiness despite harvest pauses.
Bloomington authorities plan an air and land search on Saturday for 74 year old Justis Craig who vanished eight days ago. Sheriff deputies the Civil Air Patrol Monroe and Lawrence Counties Indiana University students and volunteers will conduct a one day hunt for the slender white haired man last seen October 23 along 2 To ad.
Delegates at the 82 nation General Assembly hemmed to find a compromise on the Turkish Syrian border crisis. Syria proposes a seven nation fact finding inquiry. Turkey and the U S oppose, while India pushes Hammarskjold mediation with disavowals of aggression.
A county Republican rally will be held at Beulah Park in the 4 H Building Alexandria Sunday from 5 to 7 pm announced by Mrs Y L Hollingsworth and Mrs C Stanley. Robert Mathews state GOP chairman will speak with Judge Harold Actor giving the invocation. Music by Phillip McCord and Beverly Horine will perform. Numerous local groups join the Madison County Women's Republican Club and county GOP in planning attendance of several hundred people.
President Eisenhower led an extraordinary National Security Council gathering to discuss Russia's Sputnik the economy and defense needs. The meeting broadened to include 17 senior officials as Rascal missile joined the arsenal while Jupiter A tests failed at Cape Canaveral. Officials named include Anderson Rogers Strauss Brundage Twining Quarles Dulles Stassen Hoegh Smith Saulnier.
Two Chinese-born nuclear scientists Chen Ning Yang and Tsung Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics for disproving a long accepted universal law about parity. They conducted work at Princeton and described atoms with right handed or left handed spins, challenging conservation of parity and prompting further atomic insights.
Former New York Governor Thomas B. Dewey told reporters in Washington that the Republicans have an excellent chance to win the White House in 1960. He praised Vice President Richard M. Nixon as a superb GOP candidate and said Knowland and Stassen are first class men, though he has not seen them campaign. Dewey spoke after a 70 minute talk with President Eisenhower and declined to discuss his private opinions or Civil Rights Commission appointment.
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