Divorcee's Slaying Trial Is Started
Connie Nicholas stands trial for the killing of Forrest Teel a 54 year old drug executive after a long affair with a younger woman. Teel was shot at his car following a late visit. Witnesses and juror questioning are expected to fill several days. Nicholas drank sleeping pills and was found unconscious in her car hours later.
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Irwin J. Indianapolis
Connie Nicholas
Forrest Teel
Ee Eens
Teel
Teacher Held In Slayings
Police said the teacher admitted killing his wife and two of his daughters with a hatchet and using a knife on another child in the family home. The suspect, a respected city teacher named Connie Seeley, turned himself in after driving from the ranch to report the triple murder.
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Connie
Seeley
Hood
Fires Kill More Than 30 Persons Tragedy Across States
A Cross 5.C. sharecropper's house fire in West New York New Jersey killed eight children and two adults while a separate blaze in Halfway Oregon claimed three small children of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Yardly. Parents escaped in both incidents. The Yardly elder brother, 16, was babysitting outside when the fire started.
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Cross
5.C
West New York
N.J
Halfway
Ore
Warren Yardly
Yardly
Sallings Death Cuts Civil War Vet Roll in Half
Kingsport Tenn. 112 year old John Sallings, a Confederate veteran from Slant, dies marking the loss of another Civil War veteran and shrinking the living roll of veterans.
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Sallings
Kingsport
Tenn
John Salling
Slant, A
Jobless Bill Near Passage
Washington lawmakers push a temporary federal unemployment benefits bill aimed at 300000 jobless workers before the April 1 cut off. The measure faces opposition as inadequate from some northern Democrats and seeks Senate action within two weeks to avert lost benefits.
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Washington
Senate
Ike Sets Speech Tonight
President Eisenhower plans a half hour address from the White House on the Berlin situation. He will outline wartime and postwar four power status and stress firm stance while urging no atomic warfare. Senator Mansfield suggests the speech will convey these aims to the nation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Berlin
White House
Federal Education Aid May Fall Short
The 887 million dollar federal education aid program faces possible shortfall as Congress delays action beyond Easter recess. Expenditures of 183 million dollars were authorized for the 1959 fiscal year ending June 30, with non appropriated supplemental funds sent to a House subcommittee and unlikely to arrive in time to aid this school year.
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Washington
Congress
House
Syrian border clash escalates amid Nasser Kassem feud
A new Syrian charge of Iraqi border violation follows three accusations in a week. A UAR Army spokesman said 30 Iraqis crossed Syria’s frontier Sunday, attacked two guards, and wounded one. Nasser denounced Kassem and pledged support for anti Reds actions in the region.
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Damascus
Syria
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Abdel Karim Kassem
1St Army
Nasser
Cairo University
Kassem
Attack Fatal To R. M. Holt
Ralph M. Holt 64 of Burlington president of Holt Hosiery Mills died in a Fort Lauderdale hospital after a heart attack. He helped raise 500000 for a local hospital during a fund drive. Surviving spouse, son Ralph M. Holt Jr., daughter Mrs James L. McCormack, four grandchildren, four brothers, two sisters and a step mother. Funeral at 2 pm Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church Burlington with burial in Pine Hill Cemetery.
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Burlington, N.C
Ralph M. Holt
Holt Hosiery Mills
The
National Assn. of
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Holt
Bush Terminal
New York City
General Cigar Co
Margaret Nelson McElwee
Rock Hill
8.C
Ralph M. Holt Jr
Burlington
James L. McCormack
First Presbyterian Church of
Pine Hill
Paying Your Income Tax ABC for 1958 Filing
Washington AP outlines the 1958 income tax filing basics. Deadline is April 15 midnight. Claim all exemptions and deductions, report taxable income, attach W 2s, ensure legible name and address, and file to obtain any refunds if tax was withheld. Children with taxable income $600+ must file. seniors 65+ with $1200+ taxable income must file.
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Washington
ABC
Duncan Case Goes To Jury In Ventura Murder Trial
Elizabeth Duncan, 54, stands accused of hiring two men to kill her son Frank's pregnant bride Olga. After a four week trial, an eight women and four men jury will deliberate under Judge Charles F. Blackstock's charge. The defense says Baldonado and Moya, who confessed, abducted and killed Olga in a ransom scheme.
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Ventura
Calif
Elizabeth Duncan
Savage Winter Storm Sees Nine Die as It Sweeps East
A savage late winter storm raged from the Midwest to the East over the weekend, leaving eight to nine deaths. Passengers were stranded as trains stalled by deep drifts near Estherville Iowa and at least one highway death occurred in Michigan. A pulp cutter died from exposure in northwest Michigan. In Texas a firefighter was fatally burned while fighting a prairie fire.
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Midwest
Iowa
Michigan
Northwestichigan
Texas
Williams Last War Survivor dies at 112 in Texas
Williams, a noted World War I veteran once predicting he would be the last survivor, died at 112 in Houston. His daughter, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles, recalled his hope to visit a friend named Salling after hearing of his illness, a detail Williams learned by radio.
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Salling
Kingsport
Walter Williams
Houston
Tex
H. A. McCamy
Hubert Hawkins
Linda
Col.Kingsport
Tenn
Williams
Willie Mae Bowles
Franklin
Texas
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Receives Honorary Degree
Emmitsburg Maryland small Roman Catholic women's college awards Mamie Eisenhower an honorary Doctor of Laws as President Eisenhower watches proudly. He jokes about communications with his wife and microphones not being on speaking terms while thanking the First Lady.
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Emmitsburgh, Md
Ap) College
Mamie Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Women's College
The Day Christ Died Hour by Hour Account of Betrayal
An hour by hour retelling begins at 6 p m on the Hebrew day with Jesus and His Disciples in Jerusalem for Passover. Judas is sent to Caiphas after the Last Supper while Caiphas moves to have Jesus tried by the Sanhedrin and handed to Roman guards for execution.
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Jesus
Jerusalem
Judas
Caiphas
Temple
Sanhedrin
Supreme Court of the Jews
Gethsemane
Communists Hold Own In France in Municipal Elections
Returns from France two stage municipal elections show Communists holding or gaining in key town councils. In Paris suburbs Reds recaptured 26 of 28 councils and won seats in the Seine Department, now holding 59 of 150 council seats. In 13 largest cities they captured 160 seats, up from 155 in 1953, as a two round system completed March 8 in many communities.
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Paris
France
Reds
Seine
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