University of Iowa Freshman Coed Slain After Party
A University of Iowa coed, Margaret Jackson, 20, was strangled after a fraternity party and a candlelit dinner with Robert Nasek, 24. Nasek, charged with first degree murder, awaits grand jury action in February as the campus tightens social rules and bars are removed from fraternities.
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Margaret (Gee-Gee) Jackson
Robert Nasek
Iowa
Bednasek
Figma Phi Epsilon
Walter R. Goetsch
Goetsch
Dean Goetsch
Miss Jackson
Delta Upsilon
Alvin Hardi Weds Rose Walther in Thrall Church
Miss Rose Lee Walther daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Walther of Taylor and Alvin Hardi son of Mr and Mrs Sam Hardi of Elgin were married in a double ring ceremony at St John s Lutheran Church Thrall Rev E Herber officiated The couple will reside near Taylor following a reception at the bride s parents home with attendants including Elfrieda Hardi Delphine Wernli Peggy Jean Schlickeisen and others The groom a navy veteran farms near Taylor and the pair plan to live there
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Elfrieda Hardi
Delphine Wernli
Peggy Jean Schlickeisen
Miriam Herber
Wayne Walther
Rowena
Elmer Stauffer
Alfred Wernh
Calvin Ging
Wilbert Walther
Leo Spiegelhauer
Johnny Martin
Fort Worth
Walter Lange
May Walther
Coupland
Navy
Taylor
Plane lands hard at Chicago Municipal Airport
A four engine Trans-World airliner with 26 aboard overshot the runway in fog and misty rain, plowing through a steel fence and stopping on Cicero Avenue. No injuries reported. 21 passengers and five crew shaken up. Captain Edward Kasper piloted the Constellation from San Francisco.
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Chicago
Municipal
San Francisco
Cicero Avenue
Edward Kasper
Amvets Gift Program Aims to help 15000 orphans nationwide
Amvets announced a national Christmas gift program for about 15000 orphans in roughly 30 states. The effort will supply toys Christmas trees visits by Santa and radio phonograph or television sets to needy children.
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Washington
Amvets
Lubbock man charged with murder in gambling debt shooting
John Dayton Ritter, 43, is held without bond after being charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Robert Spotts Spence, 24, a Morton gasoline dealer, during a dispute over gambling losses at a Lubbock apartment patio. Witness S. E. Melton corroborated Ritter’s claim that Spence returned armed to demand money.
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Lubbock
John Dayton Ritter
Robert Spotts Spence
Morton
Ritter
Justice of the Peace
C. E. Lynn
S. E. Melton
Spence
November Sales Up One Percent in 1949 Retail Data
Census Bureau reports November retail sales rose 1 percent from October but remained 3 percent below November 1948. Auto dealers up 6 percent year over year, furniture stores 5 percent, filling stations 4 percent. drug stores and lumber fell 3 percent, with declines ranging to 11 percent in jewelry and hardware.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Santa to Visit Gonzales Hospital Christmas Gift Drive
Santa Claus will visit Gonzales Hospital in Texas polio center on Tuesday night bringing gifts for 120 young patients. The annual foundation party grew from bedsides in two wards to a Cullen Wheelchair Chapel event funded by an $800 Lions Club carnival with Lawrence Walshak as general chairman and Ed Toler leading the presents committee.
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Gonzales
Santa Claus
Gon Hospital
Texas
Foundation
Pce
Cullen
Santa
Palmetto Park
Lions Club
Lawrence Walshak
Bob Holmes
Herbert E. Pounds
Ed Toler
New UT Laboratory Aims to Improve Cotton Selling Methods
A University of Texas laboratory for cotton selling research will refine fiber analysis through precise instruments controlling temperature and humidity. J. F. Hembree says the work supplements human classers, reducing costly rejections while expanding data used by merchants to compete with synthetics and foreign mills.
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Associated Press
University of Texas
J. F. Hembree
Hembree
Texas
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Europe
Orient
Cotton Research Committee of Texas
Texas A. and M. College
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