Death of Camp Fire Girl Candy Rogers in Spokane Woodlands
Candy Rogers, a 9 year old Camp Fire girl, was found dead in a Spokane woods after a 16 day search. Autopsy showed she was murdered by strangulation with fabric from her slip. her legs were tied with cloth. Police pursued 750 tips and distributed 4000 posters as rewards reached 3500 dollars.
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Spokane
Wash
Candy Rogers
Air Force
Candy
Washington
Idaho
Ex M aid Gets Clothes Back After Magistrate Warning
Former West German maid Christa Bandelow recovered her impounded clothes and personal items from employer Irvin Borenstein after a magistrate criticized the arrangement as unjust. The case referenced a Do m est ic Service Inc contract and potential charges for larceny after trust. The maid, now staying at Zion Lutheran Church parsonage, has paid back $150 and seeks work in retail to support her mother and sister in Berlin.
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Baltimore
West Germany
Irvin J. Borenstein
James F. Fanseen
Miss Bandelow
West Berlin
Borenstein
Germany
Domestic Service Inc
New York
Irving S. Reamer
Fanseen
Hans-Ludwig Wagner
Zion Lutheran Church
Wagner
Bandelow
Berlin
Payne Bares His Soul Then Attempts Death by Own Action
Richard Arlen Payne, key figure in a recent kidnapping in South Charleston, attempted suicide at Kanawha County jail after expressing fear of returning to prison. He is jailed without bond on kidnapping charges. the Baldwin family was later rescued unharmed near Logan.
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Charleston
Richard Arlen Payne
South Charleston
Kanawha County
Payne
Bruce UnRue
Jim Cox
AnRue
Elma Baldwin
Baldwin
Logan
Max Goldman
Charleston Gazette
Julia Ladd
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Burton Junior Post
Baldwins
Cecil H. Underwood
Post
Gov. Underwood
Two die and thirty hurt in Abingdon crash on U S 11
Early Sunday near Abingdon Virginia a Greyhound scenic cruiser and a sedan collided on U S 11. Killed were Danny Counts 19 of Abingdon and Douglas Harris 20 of Bristol. One woman Virginia DeLapena 36 of the Philippine Islands was critically injured and transferred to Kingsport Tennessee. Seventeen others were hospitalized in Abingdon along with a list of named injured and unhurt passengers. The crash raised Virginia's 1959 traffic toll.
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Southwest Virginia
Greyhound
U. S. 11
Washington County
Abingdon
Kingsport
Tenn
Wytheville
Danny Counts
Douglas Harris
Bristol
Virginia DeLapena
Cumaduede City
Philippine Islands
Miss DeLapena
University of Texas
New York
Europe
U. S. Navy
California
Virginia
Washington, D.C
Ernest Eugene Mounts
Salem
Charles J. Williams
Whiteside
L. L. Lamb
New Market
William A. Jones
Knoxville
Curtis Story
Chattanooga
Hazel LeQueva
Baltimore
George D. McCray
Elmer Grover
Glendale
Ariz
James White
Stamps
Ark
Ruby Williams
Hickman
Bud Thomas
Route 2
Stanley
Kenneth Ashburn
Scottsboro
Ala
James H. Bowman
Alagan Sivaivai
Samoa
Edward F
Democrats Push Billion-Dollar Local Aid Program
Washington AP Democrats step up budget clash proposing a federal aid program with low interest loans for local water and sewer projects. Rep Brent Spence says bills would back municipal borrowings at a maximum 2 percent rate tied to health and employment needs. Republicans deride it as budget busting.
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Washington
House
Brent Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Spence
Treasury
Ike And Mack End Camp David Strategy Conference
Eisenhower and Macmillan closed their Camp David talks with plans for a summit with Khrushchev likely in late July or August in Geneva to discuss Soviet economic moves and Middle East tensions. Dulles briefly hosted them at his home as he nears cancer treatment, while aides reviewed the USSR threat and regional conflicts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Camp David
Soviet Union
Middle East
White House
Maryland
John Foster Dulles
Macmillan
Dulles
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Massachusetts Park
James C. Hagerty
Selwyn Lloyd
U. S
Christian A. Herter
Hagerty
Mountain Lodge
U.S.S.R
Free World
London
Samuel A. Moyer
Camp David Lodge
Herter
Lloyd
James Hagerty
Peter Hope
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva
Iraq
United Arab Republic
Khrushchev
Teens Steal Cars and Threaten a Farmer in Midwestern Escape
Two 16 year old girls from Geneva Nebraska escaped from a girls training school and terrorized farmer Jess Richards and other drivers in Kansas. They commandeered three cars and a knife and even attempted to steal a horse during a several hour spree stretching from Salina toward Concordia.
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Janet Spegel
Peggy Moore
Girls’ Training School
Geneva
Neb
Salina
Salina Kan
Peggy Ann Moore
Omaha
Janet Lou Spegel
Lexington
Jess Richards
Richards
Gladys Hart
Concordia
Kansas
U. S. 81
Richard Mitchell
Glasco
Kan
Mitchell
Ronald Richards
Aurora
Fifteen year old shoots sister in California
In San Francisco inspector George Dyer said Ronald Dudak, 15, shot his 17 year old sister twice with a .22 rifle as she slept. Joan Dudak, a freshman at San Jose State College, survived with arm and abdomen wounds. Ronald was jailed on suspicion of attempted murder.
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San Francisco
George Dyer
Ronald Dudak
Joan Dudak
San Jose State College
Dyer
Ronald
Herman Dudak
Joan
Double Fatalities Near Clinchport In Car Crash
Two North Carolina men, Ray Holyfield 26 and Tommy Graytare 21, were killed when the car left U S 23 and plunged down a 25 foot embankment near Clinchport Virginia. Samuel Davis Shore 20, Elkin NC, was hospitalized with multiple lacerations. Driver Ronald Southard 19 Elkin NC was jailed on manslaughter and reckless driving charges. passenger Thomas Guyer 19 State Road NC escaped uninjured.
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Clinchport
North Carolina
U. S. 23
Here
Ray Holyfield
Tommy Gray Tare
Rt. 1
Elkin
Samuel Davis Shore
Kingsport
Tenn
Southard
Dance Band In Snowden Crash In Lynchburg Va
A fatal crash on U S Route 501 near Snowden Amherst county injured 14 people. Mrs Dollie Barber 35 of Lynchburg died. Frank Woodley Jr 19 band manager among the injured. station wagon carrying Rhythm Makers of Lexington collided with a sedan.
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Lynchburg
Snowden
Here
Amherst County
Lynchburg General Hospital
Dollie D. Bar‘ber
The
Rhythm Makers
Lexington
Bedford
Rockbridge
Frank Woodley Jr
Dakar Elections Marred by Attacks and Slayings
In Dakar Senegal the legislative elections for 80 seats were disrupted by political violence and attacks on polling places. At least one person died and scores were injured as Senegal transitions to internal autonomy while remaining tied to France for defense and finance.
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Dakar
Senegalese Republic
Legislative Assembly
Royal crew protests hula hooping on Britannia deck
AP reports two secretaries aboard the royal yacht Britannia caused distress among 250 British sailors by performing hula hooping in swimsuits on the officers deck. The issue prompted a protest and was resolved with the women remaining in cabin privacy during Prince Philip’s tour to the Solomon Islands.
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London
Britannia
Anne Stevenson
Julie Vaughan-Hudson
Prince Philip
Solomon Islands
Anne
Julie
Miss Stevenson
Harrow School
Buckingham Palace
James Orr
Miss Vaughan-Hudson
Rupert Vaughan - Hudson
Middlesex Hospital
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Little Candy
Old Trails
Carl Rogers
Isaad
State Industrial School For
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Norma Warchalaski
New York Mills
State University Teachers’ College
Oswego
N.Y
Lake Ontario
Ike
Mack
MD. Camp
Jesse Richards
Hula Hooping Secretaries Pvt
Royal
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