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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1950
Page
8
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Monterey County deputies report sighting a round bright object about 30 feet across streaking over a 20 mile highway stretch between Monterey and Salinas at 7 a.m. Sunday. Other units from Castroville and a Greyhound bus driver corroborated the sighting near Selinas.
The Frank E. Berry Inc contracting firm of Baytown received a 1947 safety plaque for outstanding achievement in preventing injuries. J W Kirkland of Hardware Mutuals presented it after Baytown workers completed the year without a compensable injury. President Frank H Berry credited son Marvin I Berry for safety leadership and teamwork.
In Albert Lea Minnesota Viola Gavle 33 confessed to Sheriff Lindahl that she poisoned her husband Truman Gavle by slipping strychnine into his whiskey and that a friend Lawrence Nobles 43 aided the plot. Rasmussen 47 died after drinking from a bottle Gavle offered him while a second bottle spared her husband. The two were jailed awaiting an inquest and potential first degree murder charges.
The widow of actor Richard Dix, Virginia Dix, 40, married Walter Van de Kamp from a prominent California bakery family. They wed Sunday and left by plane for Phoenix, Arizona, planning a honeymoon that includes Houston New York and Bermuda. Dix died September 22 from a heart ailment.
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