Former Gambler Becomes Kilby Prison Gospel Helper
Ex-Phenix City gambler Red Cook, sentenced to life for a 1950 taxi driver killing, leads religious work as assistant to Kilby Prison chaplain. Once the city’s vice center, Phenix City now sees church attendance rise from three to 289 at Kilby as Cook urges inmates to embrace Christianity.
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Montgomery
Ala
Red Cook
Phenix City
Kilby
Cook
A. L. Patterson
National Guard
Patterson
John Mancil
National Guardsmen
Kilby Chapel
Donald MacQuire
Alabama
Red
Fred Pearson
Ike Still Seeks Postal Rate Hike
President Eisenhower plans a special message to Congress proposing a $342 million postal rate increase this winter. The package would raise first class rates from three to four cents and raise airmail, second class, and third class rates to help offset wage hikes and expanded service, facing likely party opposition in an election year.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Post Office Department
Stevenson to Lose Kneecap After Crash
John Fell Stevenson, 19, youngest son of Adlai Stevenson, will undergo surgery at Passavant Hospital to remove his shattered right kneecap after a Wednesday car crash near Goshen Indiana. Dr James K Stack, Northwestern University orthopedic surgeon, says the operation will be Monday or Wednesday with release about ten days post op. Stevenson’s father is a former Illinois governor and 1956 presidential hopeful. Two Chicago youths died in the same crash en route home from Harvard for Christmas.
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Chicago
John Fell Stevenson
Adlai F. Stevenson
James K. Stack
Young Stevenson
Passavant Hospital
Stack
Northwestern University
Stevenson
Illinois
Goshen
Ind
Harvard University
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Ike
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Leister Music CO
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Yuiet
Davenue
L. C
Corky” Higbee
Batiwikes
Merry Christmas
D Avenue
Cremer Furniture Co
Lawton Glass & Mirror Co
Norton-Kitchens
Buick Company
Buick
Cadillac
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Hollem & Truitt
RSS
Lawton Meat Supply
May the Guiding Star
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Canton Cafe
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