Hunger strike convicts loom in pending triple execution
A chaotic multi story clipping shows a mock parliamentary tale of a village burgomaster who seeks provincial governorship aided by pickle packers and chicken pluckers. Marilyn Monroe death report notes Eunice Murray’s account of a troubling phone call and Monroe’s sleepless night before a fatal barbiturate overdose.
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Joseph Finnigan
United Press International
Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Eunice Murray
Greenspun Address Draws GOP Backing in Winnemucca
Hank Greenspun spoke before local Republicans in Winnemucca praising upfront thinking that earned applause from Sen. John Fransway of Humbokit County. Sun Publisher Cirpunch posed a question about proposed reapportionment of the late senate.
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Hank Greenspuns
John Fransway
Humbokit County
Greenspun
SUN
Cire Punch
Ques
Senate
Crime Spree Felon Faces U S Court
James Meador a 22 year old from Santa Monica California was captured by Clark County sheriff's deputies and is held in county jail awaiting charges by the US attorney His partners Larry McDaniel and William Byrne both of Arizona were arraigned in Salt Lake City Federal Court after capture in Cedar City Utah The trio allegedly conspired to kidnap a Beaumont California mother and her two daughters after overpowering a guard transferring the convicts
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James Meador
Santa Monica
Calif
Clark County
Larry McDaniel
William Byrne
Arizona
Sal Lake City
Cedar City
Utah
Beaumont
San Francisco Defendants Seek Last-Minute Supreme Court Stay
Attorneys for Elizabeth Duncan ask the U S Supreme Court for a stay of execution as San Quentin inmates hunger strike over the looming triple execution. Duncan, to die the same day as two men she hired to kill her daughter in law Olga Duncan, awaits the chamber. Warden Achuff reports most death row inmates refuse meals amid mood of pending Wednesday executions.
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Elizabeth
Duncan
United States Supreme Court
San Quentin
Olga Duncan
Frank
Edmund G Brown
W D Achuff
Moya
Baldonado
Achuff
Nevada lawmakers plan meetings with IRS over 1 percent tax
Senators Alan Bible and Howard W. Cannon and Rep Walter Baring will meet with Director Mortimer Caplin to protest the IRS 1 percent levy on Nevada henp games. The first talks were to occur in San Francisco, with further sessions in Washington DC.
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Alan Bible
Howard W. Cannon
Walter Baring
Mortimer Caplin
Internal Revenue Service
Nevada
Bible
Cannon
Baring
Washington, DC
IRS
Ex Boxer Kills Two In Reno Shootout
A former boxer and miner, Frank Freddie Greco, 55, killed Ernest McKinney, 44, and Ruby Jiminez, 47, in their Reno apartment then shot himself, after an argument that began Sunday. McKinney died at the scene. Jiminez died later. Greco was in critical, non recovering condition at Washoe Medical Center.
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Reno Iupi
Frank
Freddie) Greco
Ernest J. McKinney
Ruby Lucille Jiminez
Greco
McKinney
Washoe Medical Center
State Engineer urges early action on Southern Nevada water law
State Engineer Hugh Shamberger urged quick agreement on a proposed state law to create a Southern Nevada water wholesale agency. The plan would supersede the Las Vegas Valley Water District and Clark County Ground Water Board and regulate wells while negotiating federal funds for a second Lake Mead water line.
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Hugh Shamberger
Southern
Nevada
Shamberger
State Building
Las Vegas Valley Water District
Clark County Ground Water Board
Harvey Banks Last Fail
Las Vegas
Four Die in Canadian Plane Crash Near Mingan
A small light plane crashed near Mingan airport in Quebec killing four people and critically injuring one. The craft, piloted by SSgt. Adrian La Point of Loring AFB Maine, went down about 1,000 feet off the shore at the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Victims were unnamed but believed to be relatives or friends of the pilot.
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Que
Apt
Adrian la Point
Loring Air Force Base
Maine
Gulf of
S. Lawrence
Two Sclons and 69 Others Survive Late Crash Landing
An American Airlines Electra crashed during landing in Knoxville due to a violent gust of wind. All 71 aboard escaped uninjured except for a broken foot to Mrs. Rachel Dix and a minor head injury to 6 month old Sharon Sue Newman. Two congressmen were among the passengers.
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Knoxville
Tenn
American Airlines
Rachel Dix
Westbury
N.Y
Sharon Sue Newman
Mt. Pleasant
Tex
Woman Replaces Ousted Vegas Welfare Official
A Carson City social service specialist Barbara Richards temporarily fills in after Charles Cheatham is ousted as Nevada welfare manager. Foster mothers and supporters waited for Barbara Coughlan who did not appear, Cheatham called in with a medical appointment, Richards aims to ensure smooth welfare services until a permanent replacement is named.
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State Welfare Department
Barbara Coughlan
Cheatham
Mrs. Coughlan
Welfare Office
Barbara E Richards
Carson City
Miss Richards
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