Red Skelton’s Son Dies After Leukemia Fight
Hollywood notes the 9-year-old Richard Skelton died after a 16 month battle with leukemia. He asked for a Pope blessed crucifix before death. Red and Georgia Skelton, not Catholics, received prayers from visitors as they faced the tragedy. Richard’s funeral at Forest Lawn will follow Protestant rites, with earlier TV plans canceled.
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Hollywood
Georgia
Ucla Medical Center
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Valentina
Magi
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Red
Teant
Roebuck
Saturn
Reneem Ee
Forest Lawn
Holden Files for District Judge in Cimarron District
Cimarron John Staley Holden, a Gray County attorney and key figure in a prolonged dispute over school board finances, announces as a Democratic candidate for district judge in the 31st judicial district covering Kiowa Comanche Clark Ford Meade and Gray counties. Holden, Gray County attorney for eight years, previously sought to disqualify the current judge and was later cited for contempt over newspaper ads during the case. He is the son of the late Ben T. Holden of Louisburg North Carolina and grandson of Dr William Wesley Staley of Suffolk Virginia and Elon College president.
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John Staley Holden
Holden
Kiowa
Comanche
Clark, Ford, Meade
Gray Counties
Gray County
Ernest Vieux
Ben T. Holden
Louisburg
N.C
William Wesley Staley
First, Christian Church of
Suffolk
Elon College
Elon
Iranian Teenager Knifed by Girls in New York Park
The 16 year old daughter of Iran’s UN delegate was cut on the hand with a penknife by two teenage girls in Brony Park. Frieda Abdoh and her sister Masty were walking with their father and mother when the attack sparked a tense scene. The assailants, about 16 or 17, fled after ripping Frieda’s skirt. Masty was unhurt.
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New York
Iran
United Nations
Brony Park
Frieda Abdoh
Masty
Djalal Abdoh
Frieda
Fried
Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery
New York reports a new healing substance named Bio-Dyne used in suppository or ointment form under Preparation Hunt. It claims to shrink hemorrhoids, stop itching, and relieve pain without surgery with high success in case after case. Money back guarantees and U.S. patent registration are noted.
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New York, N. Y
Specler
Rattlesnake Death and Car Crashes Reported in Kansas
A 7 year old boy, Noel Bigelow of Ottawa, died after stepping on a rattlesnake on a fishing trip. Five others died in separate Kansas highway crashes near Wellington and Ottawa over the weekend. Carolyn Holle, 16, Wichita, was killed Sunday. Delbert Etter, 21, Chester Fenerborn, 22, Arnold Scheckel, 22, and Charles Scheckel, 20, perished in crashes. Mrs Emma Lou Smith, 32, Caro, and her 3 year old daughter survived with others injured as the car overturned and crashed on the Turnpike near Wellington.
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Kas
Noel Bigelow
Lawrence
Kansas City
Kansas
Weekend
Glen Bigelow
Carolyn Holle
Wichita
Greeley
Sas Turnpike
U. 8
Wellington
Emma Lou Smith
Thelihe
Delbert John Etter
Pike
Smith
Chester Joseph Fenerborn
Arnold Scheckel
Lincoln man survives mower injuries in two incidents
Lincoln Nebraska. Jack Coffman 7' Coffman, 27, arrived at a hospital with mangled fingers from a power mower. After treatment including six stitches in an index finger he returned to work. Later that afternoon a foot slash required extensive surgery for a severed tendon.
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Jack Coffman
Coffman
Lincoln Hospital
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Nolan Motor Company
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