Town With Split Personality
A government agency fights to fix a village split by a boundary between East and West Suffolk. Rockinghall Inferior and Rockinghall Superior share a single main street but separate administrations, parishes, and taxes, with residents joking about being officially inferior or superior.
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Eddy Gilmore
London
East Anglia
Rockinghall Inferior
Rockinghall
Bartholomew’'s
West Suffolk
Rockinghall Superior
East Suffolk
Britain
Local Government Commission
Inferior
Superior
East
Tuck
Fred Bailey
Jury Awards 110000 in Ariz Arthritis Drug Case
Mrs. Maxine Cornish of Pittsburg Kansas won 110000 in a federal trial against Sterling Drug Inc Winthrop Laboratory for Avalen alleging negligence in testing marketing and warning about eye damage from 1958 to 1962. The defense contends risk was rare and doctors were warned.
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Kansas City
Maxine Cornish
Pittsburg
Kan
Cornish
Sterling Drug, Inc
Winthrop Laboratory
Avalen
Tribune Phone Contact Instructions
If you cannot reach your Tribune by phone, contact your carrier. If he is unreachable, dial HE 1 3400 after 6 p m.
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Tribune
Murder convict seeks sentence set aside claim wife alive
Henry Wagenknecht serving life for a 1954 wife’s murder asks federal court to overturn his 1955 conviction, arguing a body found at his Bonner Springs home was not his wife and should have been exhumed. He has failed in prior appeals.
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Kansas City
Kan
Henry Wagenknecht
Wagenknecht
Wyandotte
Bonner Springs
Kansas Supreme Court
Mt Kennedy Rises East of Alaska Border in St Elias Range
Mt Kennedy, a 13 900 foot giant, stands just east of the Alaska border in the St Elias Mountains, the highest range in Canada.
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Mt. Kennedy
Alaskan
St. Elias Mountains
Canada
High Court Weighs Tax Exemption for Presbyterian Manor
The Kansas Supreme Court took under advisement a case over tax exemption for Presbyterian Manor in Topeka. Shawnee County appeals a district ruling that the church run home qualifies for property tax exemption behavior. The dispute centers on whether charges for services negate non profit status and exemption.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
Shawnee
Presbyterian Manor
Lewis C. Carter
State Property Valuation Department
Carter
Lord Flecker
Shawnee County
Harry Crane
Newton
Sterling
Policemen Help Push Stalled Car Before It Was Stolen
In Tampa two police officers helped start a flashy $13,000 sports car by pushing it. Minutes later a thief took the car and the owner later found it near his home after the driver appeared to have taken a joyride.
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Tampa, Fla
Tampa
Scout News Pack 235 Den 1 Opens With Flag Salute
Scout Pack 235 Den 1 with Brian Tasche led the flag salute at First Baptist church on Thursday. Den mothers introduced the May theme My Hometown and Basil Sneeringer explained the Kansas state seal and flag. Den 3 joined for a police department tour led by Chief Lige Matlock. Refreshments were provided by David Mendez.
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Brian Tasche
First Baptist Church
Hometown
Den
Jim McKinsey
Kenneth Simmons
Basil Sneeringer
Kansas State
Den 3
Police Department
Lige Matlock
David Mendez
Jury Acquits Suspect In Burglary Case
Veral Sylvester Hayes 33 of Richmond Missouri is acquitted of burglary after police found him lying on the floor of a filling station amid unclear circumstances. The jury delivered a not guilty verdict following the trial.
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Kansas City, Kan
Veral Sylvester Hayes
Richmond
Man Acquitted After Claim He Fell Into Wyandotte Station
Hayes was cleared by a Wyandotte County jury after testifying he went to a filling station for cigarettes, leaned on a door and fell, denying involvement with pried storage cabinets and a smashed safe combination found by police.
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Wyandotte
Hayes
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Bank of Commerce
Kansas Bankers Assn
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Detroit
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Kansas
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Naval Air Technical Training Center
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Parsons, Kansas
Syst
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
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