Deaf Tot with Gun Injures Three Neighbors
Four year old Troy Hoggatt unlocked a pistol from a family box and fired at neighborhood children, injuring Randy Hinton and Dawn Short critically and Ricky Hinton with facial injuries. Police note the child did not understand the harm. Blood supplies were rushed to Salem Hospital from Louisville.
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Salem
Ind
Washington County Memorial Hospital
Troy Hoggatt
Malcolm Hoggatt
Troy
Hoggatt
Curtis Hammond
William Klein
Randy Hinton
Dawn Short
Ricky Hinton
Randy
Louisville
Hinton Brothers
Klein
Maxwell Hits Service Rivalry in Defense Debate
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, calls interservice rivalry excessive and urges prompt action by the Defense Department. He cites the Bomarc versus Nike Hercules debate on continental air defense and notes Bomarc-B does not yet exist while Nike Hercules remains operational.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Army
Defense Department
Taylor
Air Force
Hale Boggs
F. Edward Hebert
Louisiana
Wdsu TV
New Orleans
One-Year-Old Dies As Auto Leaves Road
A Wytheville man, 21 year old Charles Monroe Fisher Jr., died in a non collision crash near Wytheville. Two teen friends were critically injured and two others hurt less seriously in the early Sunday incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wythe County
Wytheville
R. W. Litton
Charles Monroe Fisher, Jr
Methodists Announce Assignments at Bishop Short Meeting
The Holston Methodist conference ended its 136th annual meeting with a unanimous resolution asking Bishop Roy Short to return to Nashville for four more years. Two new district superintendents were named, R. Frank Porter to Johnson City and Paul Dodd to Kingsport. The report also notes a fatal car crash near Wytheville killing Fisher and injuring others, with funeral details for the victim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Short
Knoxville
Tenn
Holston Methodist Conference
Nashville
R. Frank Porter
Fountain City Methodist Church
Johnson City
Paul Dodd
Kingsport
St. Elmo's Church
Chattanooga
Succeeds Stone
Walter Smith
Greenville
State Methodist Session Ends in West Virginia Conference
The 114th annual session of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church wrapped up with ministerial assignments for the new year. District superintendents remain unchanged, and new pastor placements are listed for Beckley Bluefield and Charleston districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanon
W. Va
West Virginia
Diabolic plot to murder in Normandy ends in prison
In La Croisette Normandy Louis Charuel a 73 year old carpenter attempted to kill his sister in law Madame Renard by hollowing a firewood stick filled with high explosive. The plan failed when the weapon dried and discharged. He was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to five years.
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Coutances
France
Louis Charuel
Madame Renard
Normandy
la Croisette
Charuel
Charnel
Elderly Farmer Kills Two and Self in Missouri Woods
Police say 70-year-old Mike Kordash lured neighbors Claude Inman and Charles Hermis into a wooded area southeast of Macon and killed them before fatally shooting himself. Forrest Van Sickle escaped. Inman had tried to help find a supposedly lost cow.
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Macon
Mike Kordash
Claude Bloomberg
Claude Inman
Charles Hermis
Missouri
Bloomberg
Highway Patrol
Kordash
Inman
Forrest van Sickle
Kerdash
Aggravated Girl Shoots Her Step Father in Welch Area
A 15 year old stepdaughter shot her 33 year old stepfather Dewey Foster at the Foster home in Marianna about 2 15 p m Sunday. Foster was hospitalized in serious condition with a single .22 caliber chest wound. The girl was charged with malicious wounding and is free on bond pending preliminary hearing. She claimed the shooting occurred after he aggravated her all day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming County
Welch
Acey Aliff
Dewey Foster
Marianna
Foster
Aliff
Investigators Seek Clues On WWII Bomber Remains In Libyan Desert
A U S Army Mortuary team travels from Wheelus AFB toward a crash site about 800 miles southeast of Tripoli to locate remains of a B24 Liberator from April 4 1943. The wreck lies north of the Cufra oasis with crew of nine reported missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripolli
Libya
U. S. Army
S Mortuary Service
Soluck
Naples
Wheelus Air Force Base
Cufra Oasis
Bengazi
Donald J. Sheridan
Berlin talks continue as Big Four inch toward summit
The Big Four powers pressed for a Berlin settlement with secret talks at a crisis point. Gromyko kept ground, Herter and Couve de Murville held firm, while Lloyd predicted a small but final agreement. Khrushchev signaled a summit is near and hinted at postponing his August Scandinavian tour to keep space for talks.
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Villa Bakarat
Selwyn Lloyd
Christian Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Maurice Couve de Murville
Geneva
East Germany
West Berlin
UPI
Berlin
Christian A. Herter
United States
Britain
France
Lloyd
Herter
Couve de Murville
Gromyko
Iron Curtain
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Budapest
Moscow
Khrusachev
Finland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Taxi Driver Robbed and Shot by Customer
Earl Hackworth, 48, reported a fare robbed and shot him outside Charleston on Saturday night. He picked up a man who directed him toward Dunbar, then the suspect took money and fired twice, grazing Hackworth near the eye and cheek. he remained in satisfactory condition Sunday at a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
R. W. Porterfield
Earl Hackworth
Dunbar
Hackworth
Quadruplets Father Ciro Bravata Faces Wife Trouble
New Jersey mother Louise Bravata gives birth to four babies three boys and a girl in East Orange. Ciro Bravata, 39, says he has a New York wife and faces a juggling of two marriages while supporting three other children from Grace Bravata. Grace, reacting with anger, says Bravata has a paper smile while his family finances strain her. The quads are in incubators as Bravata handles press scrutiny and family tensions swirl in two states.
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New York
Ciro Bravata
New Jersey
New York City
East Orange
N.J
Louise Bravata
Bravata
Fellows
Louise
Hollis
Queens
Grace Bravata
Ciro
Grace
Orange
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Maxwell
Wythe
Nettie Adelaide
Tootsie’ Dennis
South Carolina
S. C
Roanoke Hospital
Lake Junaluska
N. C
Joseph Schuler
Richard Felton Pennington
Schuler
Pendleton
Wytheville Hospital
Roanoke
Robert B. Moore
John Schuler
Litton
Cripple Creek
Young Fisher
Charles M. Fisher Sr
Tom and
Jerry Fisher
Emmett Fisher
Wytheville Baptist Church
West End Cemetery
Bishop Short
Radford
North Georgia
Bluefield
Glenn Boye
Virginia Avenue
Keith Anvil
Boissevain - Moores
Wallace Morgan
Broadford
J. C. Clarke
Buchanan
Ewing Kidd
Cedar Bluff
Dennis Gillespie
Chatham Hill
Stanley Ross
Eggleston
Gerald McFarland
Elk ‘Garden
B. F. de Busk
Moccasin Valley
Arthur Stone
Mountain City
Raymond Geisler
Warren Stewart
Wesley Cook
Tazewell District
S. E. Bratton
Amonate
John Deck
Belfast
Paul Emore
Bishop
R. D. McGee
W. C. Lane
Narrows
A. Neil Williams
Robert Clark
S. L. Jones
Pearisburg
M. A. Stevenson
Wiley Neal
Pocahontas
L. J. Turner
Raven
H. D. Russell
Rich Creek
E. E. Chafin
Richlands
S. O. Frye
Rocky Gap
George Arnold
Staffordsville
Richard Hamblin
East Tazewell
R. A. Ireson
Tazewell
Main Street
F. E. Taylor
North Tazewell
R. F. Harris
W. E. Mustard
J. A. Hardin
Auburn
M. G. Goodpasture, Jr
Bland
W. S. Murphy
Blue Ridge
BE. C. Vestal
Bridge Creek Cir
Beckley District
Beckley
Ansted
Charles Rogers
Blue Jay
Robert Randolph
Glen Daniel
Paul Gravely
Hico
Raymond Patrick
Hilltop
Homer
Elkins
Itmann
H. J. Mitchell
Jeffrey
C. F. Cooper
Maplewood
Noel Davis
Oceana
Arthur S. Carter
Sylvester
Willis Bradley
Winding Gulf
Paul Riegel
Anawalt- Boyd Chapel
van Sickle
Big 4
Arthur Gavshon
Khrush
Itate
Papa
Pennsylvania Railroad
Quads
Ciro Bravate
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