Two runaways in Titusville area and town crime notes
State Police alerted city police to search for Delbert Franz nine and Billy Hoffman seven who apparently fled their homes in Titusville amid a weekend of vandalism that included tearing down street signs. Also reported were local real estate transfers, a lost wallet recovered with the owner identified, a SUNY Buffalo psychology grant to Edward Walsh, a marriage license in Erie, and 21 deaths on Pennsylvania highways over Memorial Day weekend.
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Corry
Titusville
Delbert Franz
Billy Hoffman
Corry Water Supply Co
Sciota Road
Marion Tripp
Steve Sileman
Charles Jackman
Pennsylvania Gas Co
Steve
Jamies Hileman
East Smith Street
Pennsylvania
Holiday fatality toll rises across long weekend
Holiday period from 6 p.m. Friday May 14 to midnight Monday May 17 recorded 387 highway deaths. The note compares with a postwar low of 204 in 1948 for Memorial Day weekends and cites the record high for any three-day holiday period.
Supreme Court Rules on State Apportionment In Four Rulings
The Supreme Court issued four rulings on legislative apportionment. It denied a stay of New York’s fall state legislature election and held that both houses must be population-based. California's Senate must be reapportioned by population by July. It also ruled Idaho and Illinois reapportionment issues should proceed under state courts rather than federal intervention.
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Washington
New York
Supreme Court
California
State Senate
U.s.n District Court
Los Angeles
Idaho
House
Senate
Tower Federal
Chicago
Mlinois
Illinois Supreme Court
William J. Scott
Memorial Day Boating Disasters Reported
During 1955 Christmas season the figure 609 is noted. In Memorial Day holiday year Beriod reports 95 fatalities in boating accidents and 87 drownings.
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Beriod
Viet Cong Overrun Quang Ngai Hill In Dawn Assault
In Quang Ngai area heavy losses fell on auth Vietnamese ranger battalion and the 3rd Vietnamese marine battalion. The marine unit suffered at least 20 dead and 60 wounded. fewer than 80 of 265th battalion survivors. Capt. O'Sullivan died early. a Marine sergeant was killed after evacuation attempts failed.U.S. jets opened a new airfield at Chu Lai as low-intensity air war continued. U.S. planes bombed near Hanoi. eight MIGs engaged but fled.China and Communist bloc urged intervention as U.S. forces reinforce South Vietnam.
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Quang Ngai
Auth Vietnamese Ranger
3Rd Vietnamese Marine Batlalion
Quang Ngai City
Ranger Battalion
O'Sullivan
Chu Lai
da Nang
U.S. Navy
U.S. Marine Corps Sky
Philippines
John D. Noble
Holden, Mo
North Viet Nam
U.8 Air Force
Hanoi
U.S
Hinoi
Viet Nam
South
North
Clark Grabs Indy 500 Victory In Foreign Driver Breakthrough
Scot Jimmy Clark won the Memorial Day Indy 500 with a record 150.686 mph average, the first foreigner to do so since 1916. Rookie Mario Andretti finished third as rear-engine cars dominated but proved less durable. A. J. Foyt’s transmission failure ended a close contest after 290 miles.
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Indianapolis
Jimmy Clark
Italy
Dario Resta
Calif
Novi
Mario Andretti
Nazareth
Clark
Jones
A. J. Foyt
Houston
Tex
Speedway photo finish sparks huge crowd and fuel mishap
The article drums up a dramatic stockcar scene as Jones loses fuel on the final lap but still secures second place in a 200-lap race that drew over 220000 spectators. Andretti, driving a rear engine Ford, finishes third with a near record pace as several rookies follow in the top ten.
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Scotland
Jones
Andretti
Ford
Gordon Johneos Hastings
Mich
Mil Rupp
Mansfield
Ohio
Bobby Johns
Miami
Flu
al Unser
Albuquerque
N.M
al Miller
Standish
Don Breson
Champaign
Eddie Johnson
Cuyahoga Falls
Len Sutton
Portland
Wwrth
Clark
Foyl
Civil rights arrests and school integration push in Alabama
Police under Baker arrested adult Negro demonstrators on Saturday and Monday for violating anti boycott laws while youths were released. King urged Negro parents to join a meeting to organize school integration of all grades, as Tuskegee graduates heard him condemn Alabama’s silence of good people amid injustice. He cited about 1500 college students mobilizing for voter registration across 75 counties in the Black Belt South.
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Baker
Sibama
James G. Clark
King
Selma
Tuskegee Institute
Miles
Bamia
Tuskegee
Alabama
Sid
Black Belt South
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Aaragra
Erie County
John F Jensen
R.D
Columbus
H. Reynolds
First Avenue
Corry, Kenneth & Watrous
Earl F. Bettes
Harold Brown
Robert H. Brown
Melissa Asman
Second Avenue
Bessie S. Rutsky
Charles Cornish
Bessie H. Rutsky
George E. Ross
Edward P. Walsh
Jamestown Community College
State University of New York, At Buffalo
Walsh
Worl
Boyear
Columbus School
Clus
Lett
Arthueill, Mel
George
Julia Obin) Nagel
Ivan Smith
Cementary School
McMichael
USA
Winford
Bnaulds «Mperial
Caer
Au Ce
Edward
Union Optical Service
North Main Street
Jamestown
N. Y
Bob Church
North Center St
Ust
Cliff Buelink Ford
West Smith Street
Corry, PA
Pexitasraery
Elvis Presley
Troy Donoghue
Tennessee
Kimberley
Reeves
di Reeves Nadel Ene
Parnell
Oa Ayyee
AP Roe
Wy Pictures
We Ford
HEART
Pro Ncini
Martin
Mei Nanulis Delbert Mann
Tad Ose
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