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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1958
Page
4
West Berliners spend 75 cents on a hearty Kurfuerstendam meal featuring vegetable soup pork chop and potatoes while whipped cream desserts draw crowds. Cigarettes cost 37 cents a pack on the black market, half the street price, as Germany rebuilds after the 1948-49 blockade.
Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden asks a Superior Court to restore his birth name Sterling Walter Hayden born in Montclair New York forty one years ago. He served in the Marines in 1942 and briefly used John Hamilton to avoid publicity before resuming Hayden. He says four children bear the Hayden name and he lives with them in Sherman Oaks. Also reported Premier Janos Kadar will head an official Hungarian delegation to Yugoslavia with date yet to be set.
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Oklahoma City SCP report notes Le Flore County residents opposed to a state prison honor farm near Spiro met Gov. Raymond Gary. Gary pledged to try to modify the five year contract, but did not promise to cancel the plan. Delegation cites fears over labor, land values, and safety as discussions continue with Sen Howard Young and rehabilitation committee.
Los Angeles report states Donald M Nelson 69 longtime industrialist and World War II Production Board chief was divorced from Valerie Nelson 41 in a property settlement approved by a judge. She receives 125000 cash, stocks worth 125000, and 1000 monthly alimony until death or remarriage. Valerie testified he often left her at public events and took long trips without explanation.
Stanford University in Palo Alto received 2,680,060 in a single gift from the late Sophie K Hall of Los Angeles. The donation establishes the Lendall M Gray research fund to support university research initiatives. In Denver a safe was scratched with a taunt and a burglary followed at a pump and supply business, with $28 taken from a filing cabinet.
Vida Hurst, 67, prolific serial novelist who wrote 52 serialized works over 32 years for newspapers, died at a Santa Monica hospital after breaking her hip Christmas Eve. Born Tarkio, Missouri, she lived in Santa Monica eight years. She distributed works through Register & Tribune Syndicate. She leaves daughter Anne Allison of Santa Monica and two sisters, Mrs. Walter Peterson of Red Oak Iowa and Mrs. D J Thomas of Phoenix Arizona.
In Wilmington New Jersey a policeman faces a distracted moment with his five year old son Steve who interrupts while the father lists his possessions to the tax assessor. The child recalls a Christmas bike and the bike the father had given him, prompting a brief pause before the father resumes.
Los Angeles police captured Robert F Walklin a 44 year old ex convict as he climbed from a broken window carrying a portable television. He claimed a gun was shoved in his face by a stranger who handed him the TV and pointed him away. In Winter Park Florida thousands of birds face starvation due to cold weather prompting the Audubon Society to urge residents to leave food near shrubs and trees to give refuge to the birds seasonal visitors.
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