30 Aug 1957
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1957
Page
1
FP Enbreen was arrested on piracy charges to form a Communist party in a 1 state, per A! Abram. The Egypt ian Taws notes a ban on forming a Communist party in Egypt, with Red activity described as secretive.
Public drunkenness dominated docket in Kingsport and Belfast courts. In Kingsport City Court J R Pecktal fined two men 320 each after guilty pleas. In Belfast Northern Ireland General Sessions a bomb case and alcohol offenses led to fines and bonds forfeited. police blamed IRA for violence. In Rome a 24 hour transit strike halted all streetcars and buses over pay and hours. In Honduras a plane explosion killed twelve. In Nicosia a special court sentenced two Greek Cypriots to death for arms carrying, tied to HOKA.
Kingsport PTA Council opens the 1957 58 school year with a 7 30 p m meeting in the Dobyns Bennett Cafeteria. President Mrs CE Bruton says the purpose is to plan the coming year. No program is set. Local presidents are urged to attend. all are welcome.
In a Pacific rescue, a Navy ship provisioning the battered ketch found 550 miles northeast of Honolulu delivered three cases of fresh vegetables, canned food, candy, cigarettes, a new battery, and rigging wire. Rockne H. Johnson, a Scripps Institute engineer, and two teenagers were aboard. Johnson planned to join tidal wave study with Thomas A. Price of Scripps Institute after departing San Diego in August.
Caryl Chessman the convicted sex offender has won the right to take his case back to Los Angeles where it began in 1948. The state supreme court denied his petition to transfer but referred his argument about a court reporter's death before transcription, a move tied to a US Supreme Court order.
AMAL Colo Uncle Bani's Wage asiional debt warned Arthur EK Lamper of Lanier died at 72. His last will filed for probate in Prowers County directs executrix Mrs Carlyle Vickers of Lamar to bequeath to the United States all U S Investment bonds in his name valued between 5000 and 10090 dollars.
Jonesboro Tenn Bert T. Pitman of Nashville pleads guilty to transporting 1.8 pints of whisky and related charges. He is held on $1,000 bond, bound to the September grand jury. Pitman, 34, was fined $50 for speeding. Bondsman named Fair and Faucette of Johnson City. Fair holds whisky licenses in Johnson City.
Gerald Ankeny named general talent manager of Maytag Co with Claire Ely announcing the promotion. Ankeny, a Town University graduate and Dixon, Illinois native, succeeds Ely who becomes vice president to replace retiree Roy Bradle on Sept 1.
Death notices report Mrs Stella M Parrish of Dallas Pennsylvania death on August 17 and list son Russell A Cooke of Lake Crest Drive. Funeral services for infant Hilda Sue Castle of Kingsport are set at Fordtown Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Infant son of Mr and Mrs Roy W McMurray to be buried at Glenwood Cemetery after services in Gate City Virginia. Mrs Mary Martha Randolph of Kingsport, 62, dies at home. services at Broad Street Methodist Church with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. Recipients include Watson W Randolph and Virginia Lingar among survivors. service details and locations noted.
Jack O Brian notes a lively Jack Pane Show hour with Nina Foch and Warren Stevens. Luther Henderson Jr. is cited as first Negro musical conductor on a major TV program. Budgets and station deals surface with ABC buying KQY for 700000. Plus TV schedules, premieres, and a note on fierce piranha fish in South American rivers.
Deputies recovered most of the loot from a Johnson City highway service station burglary. Two youths were arrested Tuesday and a third detained in Virginia Thursday. Loot found near an old rock quarry included four tires, a car battery, spark plugs, a vending machine, and bottled drinks.
In San Jose California Mrs Herman F Desomber asked Santa Clara County Sheriff to give her two sons Herman and Thom a stern talk after a four hour bicycle trip to Texas. The mother threatened this on Thursday as she found her exhausted sons asleep with their clothes on. A small amount of blood was noted in a local area.
Sister Mary Aquinas a 12 year old Catholic nun and science teacher from Holy Family College Manitowoc Wisconsin flew a T-33 jet trainer at McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey during a lecture tour. She reportedly prayed before the flight and reached speeds around 5 percent miles per hour as she took the controls part of the aircraft while city officials coordinated a safety search for two boys later found safe at home.
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