Deaf Tot 4 Opens Locks Reaches Gun Shoots Three
A 4-year-old Deaf Tot unlocked his father’s pistol after stealing a key ring and a box containing a .22 caliber revolver. He fired at neighbor children injuring Randy Hinton 5, Dawn Short 10, and Ricky Hinton, all hospitalized in Salem Indiana. No adults witnessed the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Ind
Washington County Memorial Hospital
Troy Hoggatt
Malcolm Hoggatt
Bath
Troy
Hoggart
Curtis Hammond
William Klein
Maxwell Defends Interservice Rivalry On Bomarc Nike Contention
General Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, warned that interservice rivalry can become unhealthy and must be cut by prompt decisions from the Defense Department. He spoke on a WDSU TV discussion with Rep. Hale Boggs and Rep. F Edward Hebert about whether the Air Force Bomarc should replace the Army Nike Hercules for continental air defense. Taylor said no disagreement on missions exists and that Bomarc B does not yet exist while Nike Hercules remains operational for short range defense.
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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 car crash near Wytheville Virginia left Charles Monroe Fisher 21 dead and two teens Joseph Schuler 19 and Richard Felton Pennington 17 critically hurt. Four others suffered injuries and were treated at Wytheville Hospital before transfers to Roanoke.
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R. W. Litton
Charles Monroe Fisher
Wytheville
Joseph Schuler
Richard Felton Pennington
Schuler
Pendleton
Wytheville Hospital
Roanoke
Robert B. Moore
John Schuler
Litton
Cripple Creek
Young Fisher
Methodists Announce Assignments in Knox Tennessee
The Holston Methodist conference ended its 136th annual meeting with a unanimous resolution to return Bishop Roy Short to Nashville for four more years. Two new district superintendents were named R Frank Porter to Johnson City and Paul Dodd to Kingsport. Succeeds Stone and Mohney details and retirements at Scarritt College and Asbury Acres are noted along with transfer lists and committee readings.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Holston Methodist Conference
Roy Short
Nashville
R. Frank Porter
Fountain City Methodist Church
Johnson City
Paul Dodd
Kingsport
St. Elmo's Church
Chattanooga
Walter Smith
Greenville, Tenn
Diabolic Plot to Murder Fails in Normandy Village
In La Croisette France Louis Charvel 73 and sister in law Madame Renard quarreled for years. Charvel attempted to kill her by hollowing a dead branch with high explosive but Renard saved the device. He was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Coutances
France
Louis Charvel
Madame Renard
Normandy
la Croisette
Charnel
Charuel
Elderly Farmer Kills Two and Then Self in Missouri
Police report a 70-year-old farmer lured three neighbors into a wooded area near Macon and shot two, then killed himself. The suspect had recently grieved his wife’s death and, after a truck ride to search for a cow, suddenly opened fire, wounding one man.
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Macon
Kardash
Inman
Forrest van Sickle
Kordach
Aggravated Girl Shoots Her Step Father in Welch Area
A 33 year old coal miner Dewey Foster of Marianna was wounded in the chest by a .22 caliber bullet at his home in Marianna. His 15 year old step daughter was held under bond pending a preliminary hearing on a malicious wounding charge. She said he had been aggravating her all day.
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Wyoming County
Welch
Acey Aliff
Dewey Foster
Marianna
Foster
Aliff
Investigators Probe WWII Bomber Remains in Libyan Desert
A nine man U S Army Mortuary Service party hunts for the crew of a Liberator B24 missing since 1943 after a belly landing north of Cufra Oasis. The wreck lies 800 miles southeast of Wheelus AFB with cockpit papers and loaded weapons intact.
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Tripolla
Libya
U. S. Army
Mortuary Service
Soluck
Naples
Wheelus Air Force Base
Cufra Oasis
Bengazi
Donald J. Sheridan
Berlin Talks See Crisis but Summit Expected
The Big Four foreign ministers reach a crisis in Berlin talks yet expect a summit. Gromyko shows little ground, while Herter Lloyd and Couve de Murville hold firm. Khrushchev says a summit is likely, and may delay his Scandinavian tour to attend.
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Villa Rakarat
Selwyn Lloyd
U. S
Christian Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Maurice Couve de Murville
Geneva
East Germany
West Berlin
Berlin
Christian A. Herter
United States
Britain
Lloyd
Khrushchev
Budapest
Moscow
Khrush
Finland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
State Methodist Session Ends in West Virginia Conference
The West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church closed its 114th annual session with ministerial assignments for the new year. New district superintendents were named for Beckley Bluefield Central Charleston and other districts, with many pastors retained.
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Buchanon
W. Va. I
West Virginia
Beckley District
Taxi Driver Robbed and Shot By Customer
Charleston police report Earl Hackworth, 48, said a fare robbed him after a pickup outside Dunbar. The man took cash, fired twice, grazing Hackworth near the eye and cheek. he remained in satisfactory condition at a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
RP. W. Porterfield
Earl Hackworth
Dunbar
Hackworth
Four-Time Quadruplets Father Faces Split Shock
New Jersey mother Louise Bravata gave birth to four healthy babies three boys and a girl at East Orange hospital. Ciro Bravata, 39, said he has a wife in New York City and plans to tell her about the quads. Grace Bravata, separated wife, condemned him as a “punk” and faces mounting hospital bills and support arrears.
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New York
Ciro Brava
New Jersey
New York City
East Orange
N.J
Louise Bravata
Bravata
Bravaia
Fellows
Louise
Hollis
Queens
Grace Bravata
Ciro
Grace
Ciro Bravate
Hospital Bheys
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Randy Hinton
Dawn Short
Ricky Hinton
Randy
Louisville
Hinton Brothers
Hoggatt
Klein
Maxwell
Wythe
Nettie Adelaide
Tootsie’ Dennis
South Carolina
Greenville
S. C
Roanoke Hospital
Wythe County
Charles M. Fisher Sr
Tom and
Jerry Fisher
Emmett Fisher
Wytheville Baptist Church
West End
Cem
Bt Ar
Lake Junaluska
N. C
Stone
Bluefield
Glenn Boye
Virginia Avenue
Keith Anvil
Boissevain - Moores
Wallace Morgan
Broadford
J. C. Clarke
Buchanan
Ewing Kidd
Cedar Bluff
Dennis Gillespie
Chatham
Stanley Ross
Eggleston
Gerald McFarland
Elk Garden
E. B. Randall
Falls Mills
W. R. Grimm Jr
Garden Creek
W. H. Wattenbarger
Graham
Robert Tickle
Grundy
Bernie Hampton
Honaker
Neil McKinnon
F. J. Barton
J. W. Staley
Marion
A. J. Ledford
Glenn Lippie
Robert Erwin
B. F. de Busk
Moccasin Valley
Arthur Stone
Mountain City
Raymond Geisler
Warren Stewart
Wesley Cook
Tazewell District
S. EF. Bratton
Amonate
John Deck
Belfast
Paul Emore
Bishop
R. D. McGee
W. C. Lane
Narrows
A. Neil Williams
Robert Clark
L. Jones
Pesriscare - First
M. A. Steven
Richlands
S. O. Frye
Rocky Gap
George Arnold
Staffordsville
Richard Hamblin
East Tazewell
KR. A. Ireson
Tazewell
Main Street
KE. Taylor
North Tazewell
R. F. Harris
W. EB. Mustard
J. A. Hardin
Auburn
M. G. Goodpasture, Jr
Bland
Murphy
Blue Ridge
E. C. Vestal
Bridge Creek
Kordash
Sickle
van Sickle
Big 4
Arthur Gavshon
Beckley
Ansted
Charles Rogers
Blue Jay
Robert Randolph
Glen Daniel
Paul Gravely
Hice
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
Fred Cook
Blue- Well
E. G. Scarborough
Bradshaw-Jol
Hayward Price
Bramwell
Don Cale
Brushfork
Luther Marks
Crumpler
Andy Roe
East River
T. D. Dickenson
Kimball
William J. Trowbridge
Matoaka
Ralph Thompson
Montcalm - McComas
Robert G. Osborne
War
Frank Johnson
Central
Itate
Papa
Pennsylvania Railroad
Quads
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