New Trial Bid Stays Execution in Georgia Case
Willie Grady Cochran, 37, sentenced to death for the slaying of 14 year old Patricia Ann Cook, has a motion for a new trial filed in Bartow County Superior Court. The motion, filed Aug 12, automatically stays Cochran's scheduled execution. The case details note rape and shooting, with the body recovered from the Etowah River five days after the June 20 crime.
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Bartow County Superior Court
Willie Grady Cochran
Rome
J. H. Paschall
Cherokee Judicial Circuit
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Patricia
Ann Cook
Etowah River
Milledgeville State Hospital
Airman Dies at Keesler During Drill
A airman at Keesler Air Force Base died during a drill while marching to classes. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the base hospital. The deceased is A.3.C. Anthony Abato of Staten Island New York, recently completed basic training at Sampson AFB New York and assigned to the 3380 Kent Squadron in a radio operations course.
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Keeseler Air Force Base
Keeseler
Anthony Abato
Anthony Abato Sr
Staten Island
N.Y
Abato
Sampson Afb
N. Y
Air Force Sets Suppersonic Speed Record Claim
An Air Force North American F100C piloted by Col. Horace A. Hanes reportedly set the first official supersonic speed record, just over 800 mph, on a Palmdale test. Verification pending, with official announcement planned at Philadelphia’s Thompson Trophy show.
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Air Force
American Aviation Daily
Wed
Horace A. Hanes
the Daily
Hanes
Fayette, Ill
Palmdale
Calif
Edwards Air Force Base
Philadelphia
F. K
Pete) Everest
Edwards Air Base
North American Aviation Co. of
Los Angeles
National Aeronautic Assn
Maybe They Should Use Apples Maybe They Should Use Apples
Two legislators debated school funding in Montgomery. Sen Albert Boutwell and Rep Joe Dawkins pulled fake sums from their wallets to illustrate existing taxes and a proposed income tax. They proposed a $10 million cushion but remained at an impasse on the plan.
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Montgomery
Albert Ewell
Jefferson County
Joe Dawkins
Dawkins
Boutwell
Vandals Strike Tuggle Elementary School Again
Seventeen rooms at Tuggle Elementary in Birmingham were damaged when intruders broke in this week. Police found footprints and a two youths entry method through a broken window. The act spilled flour, powdered milk, cooking oil and grease across two rooms. Clock face broken, glass shattered, drawers emptied. damage estimated in the hundreds.
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Birmingham
Tuggle
Curry
Assassins Fail Damascus Prosecutor Wounded in Attack
Unidentified assailants tried to assassinate Hamdi Saleh, Syrian military prosecutor, wounding him in the leg. Police hunt the attackers, linked by authorities to the Social Nationalist party amid other high profile charges. Saleh was to prosecute the case. Separate note: US currency in circulation declined from 60 million to 9 million dollars between 1940 and 1955.
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Damascus
Syria
Hamdi Saleh
Social Nationalist Party
Col
Adnan Malki
Saleh
Cool Editor With Eye On Heat Prevents Death by Own Action
Hal Brown news editor of The Mobile Register talked a caller down from suicide during a heat wave. He kept her on the line for about eight minutes, obtained her son’s name and address, and alerted police who halted the plan before officers found her with gas jets open but conscious.
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Eye On Heat
Mobile
Hal Brown
Mobile Register
Brown
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