California Girl Wins Miss America Crown
Nineteen year old Lee Ann Meriwether of San Francisco wins the 1955 Miss America title at Atlantic City after selections from 50 entrants. She plans an acting career and reveals no special romance, as judges praise her measured figure of 34 22 35 and she prepares a year of public appearances worth about 60000 dollars in prize money and incentives.
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Barbara Maxine Quinlan
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Atlantic City
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Lee Ann Meriwether
San Francisco
Lee Lee
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Gregg Meriwether
Stanford
City College of San Francisco
Mayor Faces Grand Jury Charge Over GOP Loaded Panel
Democratic Mayor M E Sensenbrenner accused a Republican judge of stacking the Columbus grand jury that reported widespread gambling in city spots. Judge Joseph M Harter defended nonpolitical, trusted appointments and noted most jurors were Republicans while the foreman was a Democrat.
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M. E. Sensenbrenner
Sensenbrenner
Common Pleas
Joseph M. Harter
No Sad Songs Played At Utah Man's Burial
Lodel Vandavere Jay, 44, Colorado cafe operator and owner of the Headquarters Cafe at Rangely, is buried after a fatal Rangely Colorado auto wreck. He requested a jazz band and his widow will wear clothing he liked. the service departs from traditional mourning.
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Salt Lake City
Colorado
Lodel Vandavere Jay
Rangely
Colo
Boat Lands at Airport During Hurricane
Boston Logan International Airport officials recalled a Saturday plea from an unidentified caller who insisted a boat had landed on the field amid the hurricane. The dispatcher doubted the claim but was told the boat had indeed been swept ashore onto the airfield.
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Logan International
Amission
Walkout Reported At Portsmouth Plant
WAVERLY Ohio construction work at the Portsmouth Area atomic energy plant in Pike County was halted by a walkout of about 15 AFL building trades workers. A Goodyear Atomic Corp spokesman said non union help was taking over some tasks, while union leaders did not classify it as a general strike. Pickets stood at gates this morning after 2 500 to 4 000 electricians and pipefitters walked off last Friday.
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Cleveland Auto Club leader John L. Young dies at 78
John L. Young longtime managing director of the Cleveland Automobile Club died yesterday at age 78 after 17 years in that role retiring a year ago.
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Cleveland
John L. Young
Cleveland Automobile Club
Typhoon Rips Japanese Mainland Killing and Evacuations
Kyodo News reports at least nine dead eight missing and 5366 homeless as Typhoon June sweeps Kyushu with 110 mph winds. Miyazaki Miyakonojo and Nobeoka evacuated. flash flood feared in Miyakonojo. center moving toward Honshu Sea of Japan.
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Kyodo
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Miyakonojo
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Representative calls for new post office in North Canton
Bow R Ohio urged Postmaster General Summerfield to examine the need for a North Canton Ohio post office. He cited possible construction under this year's congressional authorization for long term leases with private builders and said it would greatly benefit the community.
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Bow R
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Summerfield
North Canton
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Van Fleet Warns U S Faces Catastrophe in Asia
Gen James A Van Fleet says the United States has failed to capitalize on free world strength in the Far East and warns of a catastrophe in Asia if Korea Formosa the Philippines and Japan are not better defended He criticizes the Korean armistice as a political expediency and warns of Communist gains if Indochina Korea and the region fall to Beijing.
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Red Party Defeat Foretold By US Officials
Denver dispatch reports Secretary Dulles and President Eisenhower allies vow to suppress communism at home and abroad. Attorney General Brownell and FBI Chief Hoover describe new anti Communist statutes as powerful weapons to destroy the Communist party US and its unions, with about 25,000 members remaining in the United States.
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Boat Skipper Collides As Cruiser Damaged In Harbor Tow
Wilmington California report says W F Yeomans of Ha tow nosed his 28 foot cabin cruiser to the harbor when his car struck another vehicle. The cruiser left the trailer and hull and rudder were damaged. Yeomans treated for shock at a hospital.
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Race Track Driver Arraigned Today As Prison Escapee
FREEHOLD New Jersey A trotting track driver trainer faces arraignment on escape from an Ohio prison twenty years ago Robert J Taylor 45 of Degraff Ohio was given a 120 year sentence in Ohio Penitentiary on forgery in 1932 he escaped from Osborne Honor two years later Fingerprints taken at the track led to his arrest under a new state racing commission rule requiring fingerprinting of track workers
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N. J
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Robert J. Taylor
Degraff
Taylor
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Olice
Osborne
State Bureau of Identification
State Racing Commission
Ohio executive Edwin L Ryan dies at 73 in Atlantic City
Edwin L Ryan, 73, of Cincinnati, president of the Middletown Hydraulic Co of Middletown, died after a stroke yesterday in Atlantic City.
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Cincinnati
Edwin L Ryan
Middletown Hydraulic Co
Middletown
Atlantic City
Adenauer Faces Socialist Challenge in Schleswig Holstein Vote
In Schleswig Holstein the Socialists led by 12,000 votes ahead of the CDU in a state election, threatening Adenauer's pro American policy. CDU and Socialist seats were closely split with 25 each after proportional representation, while the Refugee party and Free Democrats held key roles in forming a new government. The result casts doubt on Adenauer's dominance as Germany eyes NATO ties and west east reunification efforts.
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Zwicker Denies Calling McCarthy an S O B at Hearing
Brig Gen Ralph W Zwicker testified before the Senate censure panel that he has no recollection of muttering an insult about Senator McCarthy during the February New York hearing on Maj Irving Peress. He claimed he was acting under explicit orders when he discharged Peress at Camp Kilmer New Jersey. The witness said he cannot recall making the remark cited by William J Harding as a spectator at the session.
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Ralph W. Zwicker
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Zwicker
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Irving Peress
Camp Kilmer
N. J
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Son Admits Killing His Father in Ohio Case
In Zanesville Ohio a 12 year old boy named David Ingles admitted in a signed statement to police that he planned for two to three weeks to kill his father John Ingles a 60 year old handyman. He said he used a .22 pistol to shoot once then continued firing as his father sat up in bed.
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George Hodgson
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British and German Leaders Reach Unity Drive Accord
In Bonn Anthony Eden and Konrad Adenauer announced a full agreement on European unity. They stressed German sovereignty and rearmament must rest on enduring Franco German understanding. A nine power conference in London could be planned later to align Western Europe on a German rearmament framework suitable to France. Eden to visit Paris to test French stance on West German NATO membership.
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Two Die in Two-Car Crash Near Orrville
The Associated Press reports a two car mashup north of Orrville killed two men and a woman Saturday. Over the weekend eleven persons lost their lives in traffic nationwide including three drownings.
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Attorney seeks help to fetch Williams for Sheppard case
Cleveland attorney William J. Corrigan says he will ask General Herbert Brownell Jr. to secure Billy Williams from Trenton New Jersey for questioning in the Marilyn Sheppard murder. Williams, a Florida fugitive, is linked to the case and has allegedly confessed to the killing.
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William J. Corrigan
Alty
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Trenton
N. J
Billy
Williams
Florida
Marilyn Sheppard Corrigan
Samuel H. Sheppard
Sheppard
Stephen
David E. Kerr
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Ohio Banker J J Sherrard Dies at 62 in Steubenville
Jonn J Sherrard banker and owner of the Steubenville Coal and Mining Co died Saturday at age 62 in Steubenville. He served as a major on General Pershing's staff during World War I.
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Steubenville
Jonn J Sherrard
Steubenville Coal and Mining Co
Sherrard
Pershing
Wife Murder Suspect Cited in Cincinnati
James Coffey of Indianagolia is to be arraigned for the fatal shooting of his wife Juanita Coffey in a downtown hotel cafe. Coffey, a war-wounded veteran, reportedly killed her after she refused reconciliation and later told reporters of a heated confrontation.
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James Coffey
Indianagolia
Juanita
Ohio Draft Call Seeks 1241 Inductees in October
The Ohio Selective Service Board issued an October induction call for 1241 men. Registrants must be born before September 1, 1934 unless volunteering or delinquent. County totals: Athens 6, Gallia 5, Hocking 2, Morgan 1, Vinton 4, Washington 6.
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Gallia
Hocking
Morgan
Vinten
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300 Armed Men Faced Off With Two Murderers North of Jackson
In Mississippi, 300 armed officers and FBI agents searched woods north of Jackson for two death-row fugitives Gerald Gallego and Minor Sorber who escaped from Hinds County Jail after assaulting a guard and stealing a truck. The manhunt used foxhounds and a broad order to use any means to capture them. Sorber and Gallego were convicted in separate killings and faced execution.
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FBI
Gerald Gallego
Minor Sorber
Dayton
Hinds County
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