Lana Turner dated underworld figure Johnny Stompanato
Hollywood details how Lana Turner, a top star, began dating Johnny Stompanato, an alleged underworld figure. The stabbing by Turner's daughter Cheryl followed threats to Lana, with police notes on Stompanato’s debts and extortion claims and a possible defense of justifiable homicide.
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Lana Turner
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Cheryl
Johnny
Barbara Nichols
New York
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Stomanato
Lex Raber
Tarzan
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Stompanato
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Woodstock
Mickey Cohen
Santa Monica Superior Court
Jerry Giesler
Miss ‘Turner
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Lanita
Miss Turner
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Scotland Yard
Britain
Cheryl Crane
Juanita
Vida
Covered Wagons to Tour Unaka Mountains to Murphys
A caravan of covered wagons will travel 60 miles from Tellico Plains Tennessee to Murphy North Carolina to press for a modern road. Initiated by Sam Williams of Tellico Plains the trip aims to start around July 4 and finish in three days with civic clubs from both towns backing the effort.
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Unaka Mountains
Tellico Plains
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Tennessee State Line
Sam Williams
Reversal On Race Issue To Be Asked
The Southern Presbyterian Church will vote on repudiating a report urging desegregation efforts in public schools. The 98th General Assembly opens April 24 in Charlotte with overtures from Mississippi Alabama and Central Mississippi to abolish the Council on Christian Relations and change church policy on private schooling during desegregation disruptions. The assembly may also decide on church building use during school closures and will include about 500 commissioners including a dozen African Americans.
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Council On Christian Relations
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Southern Writers Set Workshop Opens in Raleigh
The Southern Writers Workshop brings about 100 authors to Raleigh for a three day program of lectures and discussions. Co chairs are Mrs. Bernadette Hoyle and Bugs Barringer. A Wednesday panel includes Labert Davis Ashbel Brice and John F Blair with Patton Harris Burgwyn Harden Wellman and other writers scheduled to participate.
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Southern Writers Workshop
Bernadette Hoyle
Smithfield
Bugs Barringer
Rocky Mount
Labert Davis
University of North Carolina Press
Ashbel Brice
Duke University Press
John F. Blair
Winston-Salem
Frances Gray Patton
Bernice Kelly Harris
Mebane Holeman Burgwyn
Burke Davis
John Harden
Manly Wade Wellman
Ovid Pierce
Richard W
Noel Huston
New Roommate for Diggs After Jail Transfer
William Diggs 52 yelled for police claiming his roommate was beating and robbing him. Police charged Ernest Washington 18 with robbery and then moved Washington to a new cell, effectively giving Diggs a new roommate.
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William Diggs
Ernest Washington
Diggs
Viscount plane crash kills 47 on first turboprop in US service
The Viscount, the first turboprop passenger airliner in U.S. service, operated by Capital Airlines since 1955, suffered a fatal crash killing 47 aboard. Trans-Canada and BOAC also use the craft, built by Vickers-Armstrong. The jet-turbine powered planes replaced piston engines and faced prior criticism from Capital Air Lines president J H Carmichael over alleged campaign against the model.
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Trans-Canada Airlines
British Overseas Airways Corp
Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd
Surrey
England
J. H. Carmichael
Capital Airlines
Mud Hite Dies Of Heart Attack In Clarksburg
Clay B Hite 62 died of a heart attack in his car near Clarksburg Washington Irving High School where he coached athletic teams for 31 years He had continued teaching at WI after giving up coaching in 1951 A North Carolina backfield coach in 1920 he joined Washington Irving in 1921 The article also notes Antarctica's size relative to the United States and Europe.
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Clay B
Mud
Hite
Washington Irving High School
North Carolina
Washington Irving
Second Chance To Buy Foreclosed Moffitt Home
In Winston Salem the father in law of Willard Moffitt will have another chance to buy the foreclosed Moffitt home for his son in law's wife and children. W E Calhoun who bid $5500 at public auction last week will reassign rights to Walter Holleman Moffitt's father in law. Moffitt is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill Cicely Coley who is in Baptist Hospital after the branch bank attack. Lake Erie distance noted as 64 miles from New York state.
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Winston-Salem
Willard Edward Moffitt
Moffitt
W. E. Calhoun
Walter Holleman
Gavin dismisses Soviet tests as propaganda in Space race remark
SOUTHERN PINES N C Lt Gen James M Gavin retired Army chief of research and development calls Moscow's claim to halt nuclear tests propaganda and notes U S lag in space. He cites a 1100 pound satellite vs U S 34 pound max and plans a June 1 book after testimony on missile program delays.
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