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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1954
Page
20
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The IOC tentatively assigns summer Games to Melbourne 1936 with equestrian venues open for a later site due to quarantine for horses. Cortina is planned for the 1936 Winter Games, while Rome hosts Cinecittà and film industry notes reference a 70 year retirement rule for U.S. justices. Monkeys are exported for medical research with the U.S. as the largest buyer.
The West Virginia Supreme Court will hear next Tuesday arguments on the constitutionality of a 1949 act authorizing the Road Commission to finance toll bridges. The case involves securing $1,800,000 in revenue bonds with bridge receipts and potential state fund transfers as security. Betty Stout seeks custody of a child in a Fayette County dispute, arguing previous orders denying custody were in error and she can now care for the child.
Two former State Police members, Trooper W. D. Sergent of Grafton and Trooper R. L. Casey of Huntington, returned to force yesterday. The men had left to run a service station and work as an insurance agent, respectively, according to State Police Supt. R. W. Boyles.
At the Army McCarthy hearing a cardboard box of top secret documents is displayed. Cohn spars over profanity and vocabulary while Welch defends his clients andWelch says he only has a modest list of clients potentially listening on television.
The Supreme Court ruled against David Parsons of Wayne County who sought repayment of his deceased wife's contributions to the State Teachers' Retirement Fund as her beneficiary. The decision notes that using an insured car with owner permission does not bind the insurer if the user deviates from the granted scope of permission.
Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes landed in Washington to begin four days of talks with President Eisenhower and top U.S. officials aiming to shore up anti Communist defenses in the Middle East. The visit coincides with reports that Yugoslavia Greece and Turkey may convert their Balkan pact into a formal military alliance.
Reno police hold Dr Morton J Thorpe, a prominent radiologist and former Nevada Medical Assn secretary, on murder suspicion after his wife Elsa Thorpe, 35, was found in the bathtub. He admitted beating her during a violent quarrel at their $100,000 home while under self administered drugs.
Acting Chief Dewey Williams announced that members of the police department's vice squad are detectives not patrolmen. He noted they wear plain clothes and do investigative work, and should be titled detectives. The change ends complaints about alternate titles in news stories.
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