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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1950
Page
11
Cliffora Pulver, a 32-year-old ex-convict, confessed to raping and murdering Virginia Bird, eight, in Corunna, Michigan after a four-day drunk. Police say Pulver, brother-in-law to Virginia’s father, broke down following a daylong interrogation and a lie detector test.
Manila reports the first enriched rice plant in the Far East aimed at boosting nutrition. The National Rice and Corn Corporation will pre mix vitamins adding B1 and niacin, enabling production up to two million pounds daily. Trials in Bataan indicate reduced beriberi among residents. In California, AMA delegates note antibiotics cut deaths from tuberculosis scarlet fever and other diseases with pneumonia deaths 40 percent below the 1935 47 average.
A 1 year old witness testified that a night riding gang killed his father Charlie Hurst after the hooded group tried to kidnap his sickly mother. Howard Hurst described a drive by shooting as the elder Hurst went out to meet the men and a car fired. He said the assailants used a .22 rifle and fled after injuring him.
One day per word two days per word three days per word and six days per word rates are listed. A two dollar memo charge may apply for phone orders until payment by mail or call. Northwestern National Life Insurance Company received a Texas Certificate of Authority dated June 17 1950, from George B. Butler in Austin confirming authority to transact business for the year ending May 31.
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