Bull Gores Aged Couple to Death in Durango Iowa
In Durango Iowa an enraged bull killed 66 year old Mike Magerus and his wife Anna, 62, after goring them as their son Leroy 23 was lightly hurt while he was charged at. Three local men fired 38 bullets to kill the bull. Leroy said his father went to the pasture to bring the cows in for milking and his mother went to find him when the attack began.
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Mike Magerus
Anna
Leroy
Leroy Magerus
Magerus
Net shock kills 15 year old in Battle Creek gravel pile
Fifteen year old John Hawk Jr. died after sliding from a 23 foot gravel pile and touching an overhead 11 000 volt power line. He was playing on the gravel when the accident happened in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Battle Creek
Mich
UPJ
John Hawk Jr
Troopship Aground Off Japan Amid Typhoon Ruth
Typhoon Ruth battered a disabled U S Navy transport off southwest Japan harrying rescue efforts for several hundred troops aboard. The Kongo Maru listed ten degrees to starboard and grounded near Miura Island as waves reached mast height. Casualties were not reported. Okinawa Army installations suffered damage and four soldiers were mildly injured.
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Tokyo
U. S. Navy
Japan
United Nation
Japanese
Maritime Security Board
Sasebo
Korea
Miura Island
Honshu
Japan Sea
U.S. Army
Okinawa
Jerk Study Class In Colorado Springs Tests The Trade
The Colorado Springs vocational school runs a four session program teaching soda jerks how to mix drug store concoctions. About 50 students attend as films replace practical samples, leaving trainees to learn mainly from film strips rather than hands on practice.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Colorado Springs Vocational School
Totter Calls for More Entertainers for Korea Front
Hollywood star Audrey Totter, returning from a three week stay at U.N. hospitals in Korea, urged that more entertainers be sent to the fighting front to lift morale among troops.
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Hollywood
Audrey Totter
U.N
Korea
Deaths And Funerals Durham Dallas Ferrell 76
Dallas E. Ferrell 76 of Durham died at home after months of declining health. Funeral services will be Monday at Fuller Memorial Presbyterian Church in Durham with interment in Maplewood Cemetery. Survived by wife Cora Avent Ferrell, three daughters Inez Champion Olive Adams Mary Daves, two sons Joseph and Ralph Ferrell, 13 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
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Dallas E. Ferrell
Mary Ferrell Daves
High Point
Fuller Memorial Presbyterian Church
Maplewood Cemetery
Cora Avent
Inez Ferrell Champion
Olive Ferrell Adams
Miami
Fla
Joseph D
Ralph A. Ferrell
Funeral for George O Burton at West Russell Street home
Funeral services for 72 year old George O Burton who died at his residence 331 West Russell Street were held Sunday at 2 pm. Rev Devil Haworth and Rev Virgil Pike officiated with music by a quartet led by C C Haworth and piano by Edith Mattocks. Pallbearers included Frank Smith Ralph Smith C W Wall Russell Briles Frank Dingler. Interment followed in Springfield Cemetery.
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Devil Haworth
Central Friends Church
Virgil Pike
Oak Hill Friends Church
Warren Paris
Jerry Morgan
C. C. Haworth
Edith Mattocks
Frank Smith
Ralph Smith
C. W. Wall
Russell Briles
Frank Dingler
W. E. Patterson
Springfield Cemetery
Funeral Rites for W. Ernest Fouts Held in Thomasville
Funeral services for W. Ernest Fouts 69 were held at Heidelberg Evangelical and Reformed Church Sunday at 4 p.m. with Rev. J A Palmer, Rev. Lawrence Leonard and Rev. Lloyd Sechrest presiding. Active pallbearers were church elders Oscar Hedrick Harrison Black Everett Black K L Long Henry Russell W S Hunt Fred Murphy J D Stonesifer. Honorary pallbearers were deacons of the church and Thomasville Masonic Lodge members. Interment followed in Holly Hills cemetery with Masonic Lodge graveside rites. He died Friday at 3 a.m. after a prolonged illness, last three months critical.
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Thomasville
W. Ernest Fouts
Heidleberg
Fred Murphy
J. D. Stonesifer
Obituaries and notices from a North Carolina paper
Multiple death notices and funeral services for Isaac L Crofts John Everett Veach William Calvin Goodman and others list ages 69 and 69 and 69 with routes and church affiliations. Services held at Fair View Methodist Pleasant Grove and Green Street Baptist with relatives named as pallbearers and pastors listed. Also a brief notice for a tuna salad tip and a public summons notice from High Point Municipal Court.
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North Carolina
Guilford County
City of
High Point
Thre Lilly Company
Federal Equipment Company
VFW Announces VA Distribution of Hearing Aid Batteries and Prosthetic Parts
Pe. Commander W T Southards of High Point Post 619 reports the VA is setting distribution points nationwide to supply disabled veterans with hearing aid batteries and artificial limb parts. Veterans can now mail a postcard to the regional VA office to receive shipments within days, reducing wait times and cutting costs. The post honors roll remains open for serving members, and a new community service program plan is outlined with a call for missing names. The club room is open nightly and meetings are held Mondays at 7:30 p.m.
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W. T. Southards
High Point Post 619
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans Administration
United States
High Point
The
Post
NAACP Leader Attacks Segregation At South Carolina Meet
Thurgood Marshall told about 3,000 in Riley Park Sumter that segregation aims to keep one group down, denouncing segregated schools and alleged discrimination in the armed forces. He defended the Clarendon County anti segregation suit and noted a $3,000 fundraising goal met. Mayor Bynum withdrew welcome due to the pending federal case.
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Sumter
S. C
Thurgood Marshall
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Marshall
Riley Park
NAAC
NAACP
James F. Byrnes
Clarendon County
Clarendon County Against the County’s Board of School Trustees
W. E. Bynum
Clarendon
Bynum
E. C. Jones
Dreams for These Dark Days at Wesley Memorial Church
Dr. W. Arthur Kale spoke at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church on the topic Dreams for These Dark Days. He argued that while dreamers seem impractical in a material age of war and power, dreams of brotherhood and peace pursued through truth and Christian love can be practical and transformative for illiterate and underprivileged people seeking freedom and a place in the sun.
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Wesley Memorial
W. Arthur Kale
Wesley Memorial Methodist
Pilot for Vols chooses Poland in Nashville switch
Hugh Poland seed and grain operator and veteran minor league baseball manager was named the new pilot for the Nashville Vols of the Southern Association. Larry Gilbert Vols vice president and general manager said Poland, with four years in the New York National League Giants system, replaces Don Osborne under Nashville’s working agreement with the Giants.
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Vols Nashville
Tenn
Hugh Poland
Nashville Vols
Southern Association
Larry Gilbert
Vols
Poland
New York National League Giants
Don Osborne
Nashville
Giants
States must act against druggists selling narcotics
Charles F. Gilson, president of the National Retail Druggists Assn., said today that the states and not members of the trade must act against druggists who sell narcotics legally.
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Minneapolis
Charles F. Gilson
National Retail Druggists Assn
Thugs Found Under Bed and Man Sleeps On
Police pursuing two burglars who fled a closed social club chased them into Henry Robinsons Philadelphia home and pulled them from beneath the bed. The suspects were subdued after handcuffing. Also noted, New Hampshire has more than 300 unnamed lakes and ponds per the State Planning and Development Commission.
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Philadelphia
Henry Robinson
Robinson
New Hampshire
State Planning and Development Commission
Truman Offers To Talk Peace
President Truman asserts willingness to talk peace and argues that opposition in Congress has failed to permanently hinder the United States. He cites past near-blocks and defends continued pursuit of policy despite intermittent alarm from opponents.
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Truman
Wake Forest
United States
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