Bank robber Kenneth D. Carpenter escapes Wyandotte jail
Kenneth D. Carpenter, 42, fled Wyandotte County jail during a 9:30 p.m. checkup. He had been slated for a May 31 trial on Oswego bank robbery charges involving more than $9,000. FBI later captured him near Memphis in February. his escape is linked to a prior county jail breakout.
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New Radio Device Signals Warnings of Heart Trouble
A Navy developed radio system charts heart activity during normal activity. Transmitter on patient sends ECG signals and heart sounds to a receiver. Dr. Max Kilian Kern says it helps gauge exercise tolerance and warn of attacks. Exhibit by Capt. N L Barr at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Bethesda.
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Maxmillian Kern
Chicago
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Bethesda
American College of Cardiology
Hotel Biltmore
Vincent Golden Wins Vendo Co Engineering Scholarship
Vincent Golden of Lathrop Missouri received the second annual Vendo Company scholarship in engineering at the University of Kansas. The grant is 500 dollars plus summer work in Kansas City with Vendo. An extra 250 dollars per year goes to the School of Engineering, administered by Dean T DeWitt Carr.
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Families of Inoculated Kids Stricken by Polio
BERKELEY Calif Nine cases of polio among close relatives of children given Salk vaccinations were reported by the State Health Department. Dr Merrill said no clear link to immunization existed in most cases, suggesting possible coincidence. One vaccinated child in these families did develop polio. To date 36 California children inoculated with the vaccine have developed polio.
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Malcol R. Merrill
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Rattlesnake Pete Dixon Dies at 94 in Calgary
Robert Dix known as Rattlesnake Pete and RCMP scout in early Alberta days died at 94 in hospital. He claimed meetings with Sitting Bull and outlaws Jesse and Frank James during his lifetime.
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Alta
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Japan accepts US offer of uranium for atomic research
Japan's Cabinet tentatively accepts America's 100 kilogram offer of uranium concentrate for peaceful atomic energy research under the atoms for peace plan. Gershany reports significant typhoid cases in the Southern Ruhr exceed 300 people.
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Eisenhower
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Florida Gal Gives Birth at Home with No Doctor
In Titusville Florida Mrs El lerbe W Carter Sr a forthright housewife welcomed her eighth child at home yesterday the birth occurred without a doctor present Ruthie Lee a Negro housemaid aided but left after becoming excited Neighbor writer Mary Lou Culbertson reported Mrs Carter drank whisky before the birth but says it relaxed her The piece notes population growth and a Kansas appointment of John I Young to a state commission role in June
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Ellerbe W. Carter Sr
Carter
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Ellerbe Carter Sr
Ruthie Lee
Nursing consultant appointment announced for Kansas
Dr. George Jackson Kansas director of institutions announced Carmelita Craven of Houston Texas will become state institutional nursing consultant around June 13. Craven previously supervised psychiatric nursing at a Veterans Administration hospital in Houston.
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Houston
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George Jackson
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Veterans Administration Hospital
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