Confederate Veteran Plans Ride in Santa Fe Parade
Emple Texas six year old Confederate veteran Walter Williams from Franklin will ride in the parade celebrating Santa Fe Railroad's 75th year in Temple. Williams, a forage master under Hood's Brigade, defied expectations and will ride instead of watching, receiving a battle flag for Texas Hoed's Brigade.
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Walter Willians
Franklin
Santa Fe
Temple
Williams
Willams
Hood
Texas
Hoed
Tragic double tragedy and political indictments emerge
In Sublette County Wyoming a rancher killed his wife, daughter, and parents in law with a .30-06 rifle before his body and the others were found at the north Sublette County home. The coroner labeled the killings murder suicide while authorities pursued motive. Separately in Kinloch a former alderman and three officers were indicted for civil rights violations involving beaten prisoners, each facing up to $1000 fines or up to a year in jail. Also reported were a Salt Lake City incident of a woman's attempt to quit swearing with a penny jar and a Washington update on stalled Air Force and Marine funding and hospital security measures.
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WRA
Here
Sublette
Francis Tanner
Lawrence
Jack) Alexander
Patricia
Grace
Alexander
O'Brien
Miami
Fla
Morris Horton
Alexanders
Kinloch
Sea Young
Milton Crenshaw
Cornell McGee
Willie Kincaid
Roosevelt Thomas
Roosevelt
Wilder
John Willis
Bath, Sr
Louis HA
Federal Seme
Urges St Louisans to Sponsor German Refugees
Senator Langer urged St Louis Germans to sponsor entry of German refugees under the refugee relief act of 1953. He spoke at a German American Society meeting and the St Louis Catholic Rehabilitation Committee, saying the program is held up by too few American citizens stepping forward. He also mentioned a hunger strike visit to the U S Medical Center in Springfield and planned reporting to a Senate prison committee.
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Langer
RNOD
St. Louis
Pinntches
Gerge
Charles
U.S. Medical Center
Springfield
Senate Committee On Prisons
James V. Bennett
Long Beach
Calif
Newsmen find Wortman as officers fail to locate suspect
EAST ST LOUIS 11. Newsmen locate Frank Wortman while authorities admit they have no formal charge against him. An arrest order had been issued for Wortman, reputed rackets boss, as police pursue leads from the Koenig case tied to horse racing information services and gang related shootings.
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Frank
Buster) Wortman
Wortman
J. Fred Koenig
Koenig
Dispatch
St. Clair
Wartman
H Is
St. Louis
Plan Park Roads Dedication Sunday Plan
State Highway Commission officials join Clarksville residents Sunday afternoon July 3 for a dual dedication at Pinnacle Roadside Park Route 79. The event marks the dedication of US Route 40 and Route 79 as part of The Great River Road and the Pinnacle Park. A 12 15 p m invocation opens a garden club sponsored dinner followed by an Evolution of Transportation parade and ceremonies with plaques unveiled by Lt Gov Blair and Gov Donnelly. Harris J Rodgers chairs the program with Sen Long as master of ceremonies. Rex Whitton introduces highway officials. Nemo Shrine Chorus performs under Gilbert Proman.
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Pinnacle Roadside Park
Route 79
Clarksville
Pike County
St. Louis
Hannibal
Garden Clubs
Louisiana
Elsberey
Mississi PA
Gow
Phil M. Donnelly
Pinnacle Roundside Park
James T. Blair Jr
Edward V. Long
Clarville
Highway Commission
Harris J. Rodgers
Commission
Morgan
Commission Wai
Rex M. Whitlon
Entr
Némo Shrine Chorus
Gilbert Proman
Randolph County Heifers to Greece Through Hofer Project
Eleven Randolph County cows will be sent to Greece with $160 collected through Hofer Project Inc. This marks the project’s first in Missouri. Heifers were raised through Randolph County churches and firms.
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Randolph County
Greece
Hofer Project, Inc
Missouri
Randoph
Chairman Named For Jaycee Meeting
Alan Robey and Charles Mueller received National Junior Chamber of Commerce FE awards for helping launch a new Jaycee club at Eldon. The Jefferson City Jaycees met at the Jaycee Cole County Fairgrounds to discuss a 1955 Kansas City convention and fund raising to send members.
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Alan Robey
Charles Muckery
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Eldon
Jefferson City
Kansas
Cir
Jamies Strong
Jaycee
Charles Edmond
Son Way
Missouri Jaycee
Cave Fecht
Terry Noah
Strong
Cole County Agricultural Building
Plan to convert Camp Douglas into air national guard center
A four million dollar project underway at Camp Douglas Wisconsin will turn the former National Guard base into a permanent training center for the Air National Guard. The facility will host drills for units from Wisconsin Illinois Minnesota North and South Dakota Indiana and Missouri. The camp began as a rifle training site named Camp Phillip Reserve in honor of a Missouri rifle inspector.
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Camp Douglas
Wis
National Guard
Air National Guard
Wisconsin
Illinois
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Indiana
Missouri
Phillip Res
Two Former Loan Officers Indicted
Two former officers of the Jefferson Loan Co. were indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of mail fraud. Vernon F. Neubauer, former president, and Marion F. Langenberg, former accountant, allegedly devised false financial statements and presented them to banks to mislead about the firm’s status. The company reportedly owed banks about one million dollars in bankruptcy records.
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T. Louis
Jefferson Loan Co
Vernon F. Neubauer
Marion F. Langenberg
Tea Company
Missourians Die In New Mexico Crash Near Albuquerque
Charles Reaner, 79, Marshfield, Missouri, was fatally injured when his car struck three bridge abutments on U S 66 near Old Laguna west of Albuquerque after apparently falling asleep. An Albuquerque hospital official cited shock and multiple leg fractures as the cause of death.
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Albuquerque
Charles &. Reaner
Marshfield
U.S. 66
Old Laguna
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