Des Moines Housewife Crowned Mrs America Margaret Priebe
Margaret Priebe of Des Moines winner of the Mrs America title for 1959 1960 will spend much of her reign traveling while her husband and parents care for the couple’s four children. The 36 year old former schoolteacher will tour and appear on television as Mrs America with a prize package including household goods new kitchen and vehicle.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Des Moines
Iowa
America
Margaret Priebe
L. Clarke Priebe
Priebes
Helen Giesse
Cleveland
Ohio
Giesse
Priebe
Air Force Reserve
Union Park Meth
New York
Margaret
Gregory
Douglas
Karen Jane
Mrs. Priebe
South America
Mass Slated For Ethel Barrymore
Hollywood mourns Ethel Barrymore, 79, who died of a heart ailment. A Requiem Mass will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd Beverly Hills with about 300 mourners attending the Rosary. Burial follows at Calvary Cemetery beside brothers John and Lionel.
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Hollywood
Ethel Barrymore
Good Shepherd
Beverly His
Miss Barrymore
Calvary Cemetery
John
Lionel
Joseph Cotten
Orrin Kelly
Neil S. McCarthy
Herbert Bayard Swope Jr
Charles Brackett
Phil Dunne
Clyde Barton
Church of the Good Shepherd
Spencer Tracy
Ina Claire
Blanche King
Kelly
Cotten
Samuel Barrymore Colt
John Drew Colt
Ethel Barrymore Colt Miglietta
John Barrymore
John Jr
Dolores Bedell
Diana Barrymore
New York
Bus Evacuated as Fire Strikes Mountain Tour
Forty members of a Macon Georgia women’s club evacuated a chartered sightseeing bus on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville after it caught fire. No injuries were reported. driver Jesse Carden valued the bus at 50000 and set off again for Macon after flames were fought for two hours by local fire crews.
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Asheville
Macon
Blue Ridge Parkway
Southern Stages, Inc
Jesse Carden
Weaverville Volunteer
The
Bible Manufacturing Co. No. 1 Women's Club
Virginia Leslie
Mt.a
North
Caro
Scouts Complete 300-Mile Upstream Canoe Trip
Four Explorer Boy Scouts finish a 16 day 300 mile upstream journey from Charleston South Carolina to Charlotte North Carolina. The group led by 21 year old Bobby Pittman arrived Sunday with teammates Dewey Smith Bill Crenshaw and Fred Buchan.
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Charlotte
Charleston
S.C
Bobby Pittman
Dewey Smith
Bill Crenshaw
Fred Buchan
Damages Awarded In Air Deaths In Grand Canyon Collision
A federal jury awarded about 492000 dollars for the deaths of three automobile executives in the 1956 Grand Canyon airliner collision. Carl J. Snyder's estate received 142200, Donald F. Kehl's widow 147300, and Theodore M. Kubiniec's widow 160500. Kehl and Kubiniec were Ford attorneys. United Air Lines and Trans-World Airlines were found negligent.
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Los Angeles
Grand Canyon
Carl J. Snyder
Chrysler Corp
Donald F. Kehl
Theodore M. Kubiniec
Kehl
Kubiniec
Ford Motor Co
Cigarette Tax Stamp Disappears in Federal Change
Winston Salem report notes a shift from daily prepayment of federal cigarette taxes to twice monthly payments. Reynolds Tobacco had relied on over two million dollars in stamps daily. The change uses a blue paper closure stating federal stamps no longer required while cigarette prices stay unchanged.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Reynolds
House
Mutual of Omaha Offers Varied Medical Benefit Schedule
The article promotes Mutual of Omaha as a leading insurer offering maternity benefits up to 250 with twin coverage to 500, surgery benefits from 7.50 to 375, and hospital extras up to 1000. Benefits are paid per schedule regardless of where care occurs, with a focus on policyowners collecting hospital-related extras.
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Mutual of Omaha
North Carolina Legislature Ends Historic 1959 Session
Lawmakers hailed a hard working 137 day session with 1880 introduced bills, 1419 enacted including a 75 cent hourly minimum wage for about 55000 workers and an income tax withholding plan. Budget nears 1.2 billion and a new State Department of Water Resources was created amid reforms and reform defeats.
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Raleigh
Hewlett
State Department of Water Resources
Earnhardt
North Carolina
Lynching Probe Pressed in Veracruz Mass Killing Case
Authorities pressed an inquiry into the Isla Veracruz lynching of two men Julian Benitez 26 and Francis co Coda 28 who were dragged from jail and killed by about 4000 people amid claims they rape and murdered a 3 year old girl with one official noting one man may have been innocent and jailed after witnesses saw them with the child.
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Jalapa
Mexico
Julian Benitez
Francisco Coda
Isla
Veracruz
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Viciure
Bell-Ans
Bellans
Orangeburg
N.Y
Omara
Nebr
United States
George Richardson Agency
ED Smallwood
Richardson St
Mutual
Omaha
Matuel Benefit Health & Accident Aesoration
Nebraska
Richardson
High Point, N. C
Luther Earnhardt
Senate
Addison Hewlett
State Milk Commission
ABC Liquor Store
Shallotte
Mt. Airy
Statesville
Gibsonville
Benitez
Coda
Nash Jewelry CO
N. Main ST
Pruritus
Isodine Pharmacal Corps
Ation
Playtex Park
Dover
Del
B.F Goodrich Sivertowns
B.F Goodrich
Silvertowns
B.F Goodrich Co
Akron
Begoodrich
Oldsmobile
Olds
Oldsmobiles
Highland Motors, Inc
North Main Street
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