Colorado cabbie admits slaying Missouri woman
A Denver taxi driver, Alvin Wesley Brooks, confessed to murdering Zelma Broadfoot of Eminence, Missouri, last Wednesday after a five hour interrogation. The partly decomposed body was found west of Golden, and autopsy showed she was at least five months pregnant.
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Weather For Other Areas Reported By Associated Press
Cooling edged New England and New York, with parts of the northern Great Lakes. Elsewhere from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast remained warm and humid. Nighttime temps mostly in the 70s except where Canada’s cool air reached. Northern Plains, Mississippi Valley seeing slight warmth. few wet areas with scattered thundershowers in the Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys, Southern Plains, Northern Rockies and Arizona desert.
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Topeka Bell Man Fined For Peace Disturbance
Topeka accountant Carl Bjorkman was fined 3 dollars in police court for a peace disturbance after installing a 640 pound bell in his yard that rings twice hourly. A neighbor complained of sleepless nights, while more than 100 neighbors supported the bell. Bjorkman plans to appeal in district court. Also noted is a statistic about milk spending in American families.
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Giant sale shakes entertainment world as RKO changes hands
General Tire & Rubber Co executive Thomas F. O'Neil agreed to pay 25 million dollars in cash for RKO Radio Pictures. Howard Hughes had previously owned the studio after a 23.5 million dollar purchase, and the new owner plans to leverage RKO's film library of hundreds of titles and expanded TV and radio assets through General Teleradio.
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Talbott Quizzing Could Be Public Hearings
Senate Investigations panel may hold public hearings on Secretary of the Air Force Talbott amid questions about his outside business ties. The subcommittee questioned Talbott behind closed doors in an informal conference regarding his role as a partner in Paul B Mulligan and Co while at the Pentagon. McClellan said Talbott cooperated and was frank, aiming to satisfy the committee about his relationship with the New York firm and its customers.
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Mulligan Firm Advises on Government Accounting Efficiency
The Mulligan firm acts as an efficiency consultant addressing government accounting problems, providing advisory services to streamline practices and improve financial management within public agencies.
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Professor Strassenburg Named Assistant Physics Professor
New Kan sas University hire for 1955 56 is Professor for K A Arnold A Strassenburg who will join as assistant professor of physics effective September. He completes a PhD at California Institute of Technology this summer with prior M A from 1953 and B S from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1951. His doctoral work was in cosmic rays. He fills the vacancy created by the death of Grant L Pistorius last winter. Strassenburg will redden y the general physics course and supervise laboratory instruction in all sections. He is married with three children.
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New Type of Case Filed Against Turnpike Group
In Douglas County District Court a new type of action joins pending litigation over Kansas Turnpike damages. The Whites, Arthur H. and wife, sue over a 4 acre tract north of Lawrence near North Michigan Street not within the right of way, claiming an enormous hole as damage.
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Recreation program and property dispute at University
The document describes a civil petition seeking damages for property loss valued at 314 dollars and 3000 dollars for operations disrupting a home. It cites the 1953 Kansas Turnpike enabling act. The piece also reports Kansas University summer recreation success led by Henry Shenk with a campus playground, square dances, an all-university party, and free Friday movies at Fowler Grove.
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Booze Hangs Name as Sabillasville Man Fined in Court
William Booze of Sabillasville faced Southern Police Court on a drunkenness charge and received a suspended $5 fine yesterday. The case hinged on his sobriety status and prior record reported in the docket.
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