Cupid Flunks Court Tests In Mesick High Motion
In Michigan a school board ban on married high school students from extracurriculars survived a Supreme Court split ruling. Ronald Cochrane and David Shively, both 18, were barred from Mesick High School football, band, and dances during their senior year after marrying during summer vacation with parental consent.
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Michigan Supreme Court
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Mesick
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Waxford County
Ronald Cochrane
David Shively
Cochrane
Shively
State Men's Amateur Golf Championship Opens At Shawnee
Six by four qualifiers in the championship flight tee off at Shawnee Country Club in Topeka in the State Men's Amateur Golf Tournament. Defending champion Bob Vickers of Wichita is among the field. players with 77 or better in qualifying were matched in the championship fight.
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Topeka
Bob Vickers
Wichita
Shawnee Country Club
Hughes Career Termed By Actor Turned Missionary
Gareth Hughes, born in Wales, shaped a life split between stage and silent film acting and fifteen years as a lay missionary among the Piute in northern Nevada. Now 66, he rests at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, reflecting on an era of self sacrifice and artistic work.
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Hollywood
Gareth Hughes
London
Broadway
Nevada
Hughes
Motion Picture
Woodland Hills
Tommy
James Barrie
Llanelly
Wales
Elsa Players
Mrs. Wiggs
From stage to mission a Mormon actor found purpose
The article chronicles a performer who alternated between plays and film, regrets wealth as a lure, and later joined the Federal Theater Project. After a final Shylock role at Hollywood Playhouse and the University of Michigan, he retired from acting to answer a lay missionary call in 1942. He traveled 200 miles across desert reservations by jeep, visiting christenings and burials and stating acting helped him convey his scriptural messages.
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Federal Theater Project
Shylock
Holwood Playhouse
University of Michigan
Hughes
Docking Urges Fairfax Talks
Washington AP Kansas Governor George Docking urged the U S Supreme Court to review a dispute over Kansas City Kansas efforts to annex the Fairfax industrial district He backed an appeal by Girten Investment Phillips Petroleum Sealright Oswego Falls and Union Pacific after the Kansas Supreme Court rejected their bid to intervene The governor argued the case challenges a property owners right to a fair hearing and questions who may review annexation actions The court will later say if it will grant a hearing.
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Kansas
George Docking
U. S. Supreme Court
Kansas City
Kan
Fairfax
Girten Investment Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Sealright-Oswego Falls Corp
Union Pacific Railroad
High Tribunal
Kansas Supreme Court
Docking
Supreme Court
Soviet Policy Demonstrated at Naval Academy Speech
Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U.S. UN delegate, said Khrushchev's attacks on Eisenhower show Soviet aims have not changed. At the 120th commencement at the U S Naval Academy he noted the Kremlin press conference first appears untruthful and crude, but serves as a reminder of enduring Soviet goals.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
United Nations
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
U.S. Naval Academy
Lodge
Kremlin
Cougars Seek Fifth MVC Golf Title Today
In Peoria Michigan AP Houston's Cougars aim to seal a fifth straight Missouri Valley Conference golf crown led by Jackie Cupit. After 54 holes Houston held an 871 total with final 18 to play as North Texas State trailed by 20 strokes. Tulsa Cincinnati Bradley St Louis Wichita Drake followed in sequence.
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Houston
Cougars
Jackie Cupit
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Tulsa
Cincinnati
Bradley
St. Louis
Wichita
Drake
Britain Scraps Last Big Battleship Vanguard
PORTSMOUTH England AP Britain's last battleship the 44 000 ton Vanguard is headed for the scrap pile Completed in 1946 it cost 2200 a week to keep afloat and in top shape The government decided that was too much
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England
Britain
Vanguard
Fred MacMurray Heads to Disney Sequel and TV Marathon
Hollywood AP reports Fred MacMurray will star in The Absent Minded Professor for Walt Disney, a wild tale where a savant creates a weightless gas used to boost a basketball team and a car. Disney rejects sequels and MacMurray also lands the My Three Sons TV deal with ABC alongside a prolific film slate.
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Fred MacMurray
Walt Disney
Shaggy Dog
Disney
Fred
MacMurray
ABC
Machen to Meet Unranked Johnson in Chicago Bout
Heavyweight Eddie Machen ranked fourth meets unranked Alonzo Johnson in a 10 round Chicago Stadium bout televised nationally on ABC TV. Machen, 28, from Portland Oregon, has lost only twice in 35 starts, including to Ingemar Johansson. Johnson, 26, from Rankin Pennsylvania, is 18-5 and lost last start to Willie Pastrano.
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Chicago
Eddie Machen
Alonzo Johnson
Abc-Tv
Machen
Portland
Ore
Ingemar Johansson
Jonnson
Rankin, Pa
Willie Pastrano
Berlin Attorney Walter Linse Died in Soviet Jail
Dr. Walter Linse, Berlin attorney and anti communist league leader, died in a Soviet jail on December 15, 1953, aged 46, according to West German Red Cross. He had been abducted by German Communist agents on July 8, 1952 in Berlin.
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Walter Linse
Soviet Union
Red Cross
Soviet
Linse
League of Free Jurists
East Germany
Nixon Encourages California Primary Prospects
Vice President Richard M. Nixon said the California primary vote gave great encouragement for Republican chances in November. He praised the large McLain vote as showing independent Democrats still influence California politics. McLain ran against Gov. Edmund G. Brown for the state's Democratic delegation.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
California
Nixon
McLain
McCain speaks to 4-H youth at roundup
Kansas State University president Dr James A McCain told 1400 4 H Club members leaders and county extension workers to keep a zest for adventure opening the annual 4 H Club roundup in Manhattan He warned that while some mourn geographic frontiers, only the myopic would not see new frontiers for youth today He cited undeveloped countries in the Far East Near East and Latin America needing experts to share scientific farming and homemaking know how to bring abundant life in the United States.
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Kansas State University
James A. McCain
Far East
Near East
Latin America
McCain
United States
Burns Solo in Big Variety Hour a TV Review
AP writer Cynthia Lowry reviews George Burns in a NBC one hour special post Gracie Allen era. He performs with Jack Berry, Betty Grabic and Polly Bergen plus Bobby Darin, delivering anecdotes and musical routines. The show feels slick yet unmemorable. Also notes NBC pre Christmas project and other TV listings.
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New York
George Burns
Gracie Allen
George
Gracie
Las
Jack Berry
Betty Grabic
Polly Bergen
Bobby Darin
Galaxy
Jack
Man Killed by Speeding Train Near Rogersville
An unidentified man died after stepping in front of an eastbound Frisco train about a mile east of Rogersville Tuesday night. Engineer Eugene Price saw the man near the tracks, blew the whistle, and the man walked east then faced the train and knelt as the train neared. Officers said identification will depend on fingerprints.
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Rogersville
Eugene Price
Rt. 4
Springfield
Price
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