Polio Victim 18 Returns Home After Years in Hospitals
Anne Compton, once stricken with paralytic polio in first grade and confined to an iron lung for nine years, is home at 18. She writes with teeth, finished ninth grade in Nashville, and receives daily visits from neighbors, friends, and her mother, as classmates pursue college.
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Charlotte
N.C
Anne Compton
Anne
Vanderbilt University Hospital
Nashville
Tenn
Glen Coan
Mary Miller
W. C. Rankin
Gretchen School
Annie
Gretchen
Marines Land In Suburban Chicago
Marines from Okinawa began landing at the John G. Ransford home in Park Forest, sending a five bedroom house toward housing more than a dozen Marines. Donald Ransford, 22, a corporal, invited 32 buddies, with 15 accepting, as more arrivals were anticipated from Cincinnati.
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Chicago
Okinawa
Park Forest
John G. Ransford
Ransford
Donald
Butch) Ransford
Jerry
Cincinnati
Butch
Mary Margaret
Betty
Terry
New Speaker To Be In Politics Since 1936
Joseph Marvin Hunt Jr of Guilford County, longtime GOP campaigner and Greensboro insurance executive, will take the speaker's gavel Feb. 8 in the State House. A Republican with deep campaign ties, Hunt traces his political start to 1936 and built a career on foot campaigns, business leadership, and local service. He credits a simple life philosophy, and his immediate aim is to govern today without overplanning for tomorrow.
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Marvin Sykes
Greensboro Record
Associated Press Greensboro
Clyde R. Hoey
Joseph Marvin Hunt Jr
Guilford County
House of Representatives
Guilford
Joe Hunt
Wimbish Insurance Agency
Greensboro Assn. of Insurance Agents
Hunt
Willis Smith
Hamilton Lakes
Texas
Randolph
Alamance
Raleigh
House Committee On Conservation
Greensboro
Woman's College
Curry
Riverside Military Academy
Duke University
Pilot Life Insurance Co
Grace Boren
Hunts
Joseph M. Hunt III
Jody
Duke
Elizabeth
Kiser
Dog Intervenes in Wreck Witness Says Pet Caused Loss of Control
In Waukesha Wisconsin Leonard Griewank faced a driving while intoxicated charge after his car hit a utility pole. A witness supported Griewank’s claim that his dog leaped into his lap causing the crash and the charge was reduced to inattentive driving.
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Waukesha
Wis
Leonard Griewank
Griewank
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