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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1957
Page
8
A reflective piece recalls first days in a one room rural school near six, ending with a lifelong yearning for education. The narrator chronicles aging through grades, college dreams, and a current parade of school starts including a child’s kindergarten farewell, tying it to the annual September feeling.
ATLANTIC CITY N J The third and final group of beauties vying for Miss America 1958 compete tonight to determine 10 finalists for the pageant. Seventeen entrants populate the third group for talent swimwear and evening gown judging as the selection narrows from 51 contestants. Indiana and Georgia won talent and swimsuit in the prior preliminary, with Sara Ann Cooper Miss Missouri winning a swimsuit appearance and Cooper also capturing the talent title with a Charleston interpretation.
Senator Mansfield urges immediate talks with Saudi and Egypt to oust Soviets and proposes using the United Nations to set up Middle East controls while speeding arms to Jordan Lebanon Turkey and Iraq to deter Syrian pressure as Dulles prepares a report for Eisenhower.
Providence Rhode Island reports Maurice Trembisy a toolmaker who crafts cockeyed clocks plans to mail a reverse running clock to President Eisenhower. The device shows letters instead of numbers and spells Mr Eisenhower when read backward.
Indiana State Police Lt. Edwin C. Schroeder captured Charles R. Speedie 51 of San Fernando California in Middleburgh Heights after a 11 year chase through 40 states. Speedie alias used to pass checks totaling about half a million dollars. He carried 30 pounds of evidence and refused to discuss details. Speedie offered to plead guilty to a combined federal charge if states merged charges. otherwise he would plead not guilty and fight extradition.
Wichita tinsmith Alfred Wesley Ratzloff, 38, accused of the $3950 Yoder bank holdup July 8, is to undergo a mental examination. Judge Delmas C. Hill of the U.S. District Court ordered the two psychiatrists to conduct the test yesterday.
Revard Davis of Pawhuska Oklahoma, 46, testified he had been married 18 times and told Judge James P. Goeppinger he does not whip women or dogs. He said he only scuffled with the complainant in municipal court. Turkeys hiss to scare off predators, hinting at rural rural life.
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