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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1955
Page
5
Ford Foundation grants totaling 2 524 800 will aid 38 Oklahoma hospitals and four colleges, including Tulsa University with 443 000 and Phillips University Enid with 186 000. Final grant amounts vary by hospital and will be set by the foundation.
New York reports the Ford Foundation announced its largest ever grant program. It will distribute 210 million to 615 private colleges, 200 million to 3,500 privately supported hospitals, and 90 million to medical schools, with additional 50 million earlier to raise teaching salaries. Top college gifts include New York University 5 million, Harvard 4.51 million, University of Chicago 4.32 million, Yale 4.00 million. smallest college grant 31,900 to California School of Fine Arts. Grants to hospitals range 250,000 to 10,000,000, and medical schools fund not yet itemized. Funds allocated largely by 1954-55 payrolls, half paid July 1, rest next year.
Oakland recounts key testimony as the state rests in the case against Burton Abbott charged with the unwitnessed kidnapping and slaying of 14 year old Stephanie Bryan. Dr. Paul Kirk testified hair, blood and soil evidence offered probabilistic links but admitted uncertainties in the Trinity County wilderness grave and the car mat.
Mrs Sunny Canales Worden, 42, was cleared by a county grand jury in Kingsville Texas of murdering her husband Don Worden 43. The body was found Oct 29 in a shallow Padre Island grave. Worden allegedly forced her to dig the grave and warned she would kill their daughter and herself. He had beaten and shot at her during their brief marriage.
Vic HOLLYWOOD hosted the selection from 167000 entrants. Seven finalists aged eight to thirteen were Louisa MacDonald Las Vegas Nevada Susan Rae Nielsen Salt Lake City Utah Rosalie Gronan St. Louis Missouri Shirley Spencer Indianapolis Indiana Nancy Jeane Madera Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Judy Short Adamsville Alabama Gayle Lord Osbourn San Antonio Texas.
Spanish Morocco reports eight U S Air Force airmen died when a four engine C34 transport crashed into a 5000 foot peak in the Rift Mountains near the border with French Morocco. Plane from Wheelus Field Tripoli to Casablanca was en route to the United States. Bodies to Sidi Slimane base. Altimeter thought faulty.
The December issue features a spread on current events and human interest items. It highlights notable stories, brief features, and advice columns typical of the Readers Digest format with concise insights and engaging photos.
Omaha University coed Carolyn Nevins aged 20 was shot four times at close range after working late at the school library. She was buried yesterday as police looked for a break in the case. An ex-taxi driver arrested on $100 bond admitted only to a tavern boast and passed a lie detector test indicating noninvolvement.
Joe Zipen of American Legion Post 29 asks the owner to reclaim a pin found at Centenary Methodist Church. He notes the pin’s link to the post and urges contact with the legion. The item is tied to the national Capitol’s Statue of Freedom, a bronze sculpture weighing about 15,000 pounds.
Harold Quire, a Valley High School bus driver, stopped for refreshments at students’ request and offered to pay. Delays grew as he also picked up grade school riders, prompting frantic parents to call police. All students were eventually delivered safely. no discipline for Quire. The total cost to Quire amounted to 17 dollars 34 cents.
The Red Cross reported sending 37 pints of blood to a Louisville hospital in a vain effort to save a boy and, on Saturday, 21 pints that helped save another young man.
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