27 May 1959
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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1959
Page
1
Algiers reports French troops smashed the Tunisian border and killed 32 Algerian nationalist rebels. Six French soldiers died and 11 were wounded in the clash.
Federal sources report the names of the men accused in the Mack Parker kidnaping and murder have been provided to Mississippi Governor. The case centers on a 1966 abduction in Abbeville and drew national attention to civil rights tensions.
A jury recommends 25 year sentences for county prisoners found guilty of brutal abuse. The case centers on alleged violent misconduct by inmates, with prosecutors seeking stiff penalties and the defense arguing for due process and sentence fairness.
A circuit court jury found Jack Gillespie and Michael J. Novogradac guilty of felonious assault with malice for abusing fellow inmates in Jackson County jail. Each was sentenced to 25 years. co-defendant Thomas C. Gainey’s trial was beginning. The jury deliberated 1 hour 15 minutes after prosecutor Theodore J. Furry described the acts as the most vicious and brutal in his experience.
The Kansas City business scene highlights Stine and McClure as the city’s oldest continuous firm, reflecting a long history of local commerce and stability.
Donald Ingle, 32, a Chicago lawyer from Lake Bluff Illinois, died after entering a glass door at an apartment house entrance. He was found by a doorman with a fatal arterial wound in the left thigh.
A 13 year old student Gloria Rivera was crushed to death when a 10 foot brick wall at McReynolds junior high school toppled onto her as she walked past. Principal Charles E. Poe said the cause is not yet learned.
Cape Canaveral May 27. The Bomarc model B, a new target seeking interceptor missile, was launched for the first test. The flight evaluated the airframe booster system and overall aerodynamic behavior of the weapon.
In Grand Rapids Michigan a 3-year-old boy was rescued from a bear by teenager Thomas Cole 19 who pressed a glowing cigarette into the bear's nose causing the creature to release the boy Russell VanDam after he wedged his hand through a 2 inch mesh screen under a guard rail.
Mrs. Jessie C Grubel 80 dies after car crash in Mission Hills and leaves over 1 million dollars. Twenty five percent goes to University of Kansas Endowment for disabled children care at KU Medical Center. Shrines hospital fund Bethany St Margaret's and Cushing Memorial receive fifteen percent. Providence hospital five percent. Will filed in Johnson County Probate Court by McAnany Van Cleave Phillips.
In New York on May 27 1960 Harry S Truman and Speaker Rayburn deny any joint move to back a single Democratic candidate such as Lyndon Johnson or Stuart Symington. They say they did not discuss selecting a 1960 nominee and preserve openness. Life magazine cites a Washington report by John L. Steele.
Seniors and graduates from the Greater Kansas City area to receive degrees Monday at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and Sunday at Kansas State University in Manhattan are listed. KU list appears on page 12A and KSU list on page 10A.
Inside Pages notes report government officials attend a funeral at the National Cathedral as part of Dulles era ceremonies. Other brief items include delays in Dock Opening, an unlicensed bartender fined, and race results from Kentucky politics.
Israeli planes intercepted a Lebanese bomber over Northeast Israel and forced it to land at Haifa. The bomber and its five crew members were detained after the aircraft over Ayeleth Hashachar did not heed instructions. a few warning shots were fired.
New Orleans May 27 AP reports the Charity hospital intake book shows odd names including Josephine Mixmaster Telephone Frances and Lemon Head among recent admissions. Pink Green was also listed as entering yesterday.
The three month old Globe-Democrat strike ended when management and the American Newspaper Guild signed a contract. Publisher Richard H. Amberg set Monday for the Globe to resume publication. The walkout began February 21 over a pension plan and later included job security concerns.
Small ad offers five cent line pricing for daily or daily newspaper space in the Star state and AY edition. The ad references BA rates and a contact line 1-5500 for placement.
King Baudouin of Belgium made a whirlwind visit to Whiteman Air Force Base to observe a Strategic Air Command simulated alert. He arrived with a party of 16 from Omaha aboard a K-135 jet tanker, greeted by Cols. Humfeld Calhoun and Freeman, with Gen. Power in attendance. He chatted with B-47 crew Capt. Wadsworth Lt. Smith and others before a briefing and flight-line practice alert.
A classroom task to name the nine greatest Americans ends with a student’s pun about first base. The joke hinges on baseball terms and misapplied geography in a light moment.
The U S quarantine station at Clifton New Jersey has begun tattooing animals entering the United States. Permanent ink is applied to the ear to create a tracking number for future transfers between zoos. The measure aims to identify animals moved between institutions.
Kansas City area expects a moist pattern with showers or thunderstorms possible tomorrow. Partly cloudy and warmer, with a low 60s and high in the lower 80s, after a light 24 hour rainfall and above average moisture in the air.
The 3 percent tax on restaurant checks over $1 in New York City will rise to 5 percent starting Monday after Mayor Wagner signed the law. The reform is expected to generate about 13 million dollars in annual city revenue.
Government sources said the FBI solved the Mack Charles Parker lynching and identified participants in evidence turned over to Mississippi Governor Coleman. The list includes masked men who abducted the 23 year old Negro from Pearl River County jail April 25 and drove away, with Parker found shot and dead May 4 on the Mississippi side of the Pearl River.
Governor James T. Blair orders rural House members to back his gasoline tax increase or face a veto of a five million dollar county road fund. Rep. I W Henson schedules a Roads Committee meeting hoping for a do pass. The push follows Senate support for a study of rural road needs and a blocked two cent tax measure.
A quick tempered lawyer Robert C Jones spent about 40 minutes in the holdover cell after clashing with Judge Thomas Moran over his handling of a traffic case for Geneva Lang and Charles Stratmann. Lang and Stratmann were acquitted after Jones refused to apologize for alleged disrespect.
Cloudy and cooler tonight with a low in the low 60s. Partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow with scattered showers or thunder storms and a high in the lower 80s. Humidity at 6 am 89 percent, at 1 pm 63 percent. Barometer 30.02 rising to 30.04 at 1 pm. River stage 9.3 feet, down 0.3. Lake of the Ozarks 7 feet below full. 24 hour precipitation 0.01 inch.
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