Teen Agers Face Murder Accusations
INDIANAPOLIS four teen aged girls faced murder charges in the strangling of 14 year old Olga Houchins at the Marion County juvenile center. Joann Munden said she had borne a three year grudge after Olga taunted her for worn castoff clothes. The defendants include Lovetta Keown 16 Lucille and Louise Spann 13 year old twins.
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Indianapolis
Olga Houchins
Marion County
Frank Lotz
Joann Munden
Olga
Munden
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Lovetta Keown
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Louise Spann
Hospital Fight Death Is Probed
AN ANTONIO January 24 UP A full scale investigation opened into the death of a mental patient fatally injured in a fight in the maximum security ward of the San Antonio state hospital. Dr J S Scarborough hospital director warned of a potentially dangerous situation in jam packed under staffed wards. A Bexar county year end grand jury attacked conditions at the hospital as deplorable. Donovan Albert Mitchell 36 of Corpus Christi died Friday five hours after he was found beaten on the bathroom floor of Ward 12. Jessie B Field 61 one of only two attendants for the 90 most disturbed patients in the 60 capacity ward said he stopped an earlier fight between Mitchell and two inmates over a mop. Scarborough said overcrowded wards a constant source of friction. He said 11 doctors cared for 2830 patients with 80 to 100 vacancies due to low pay and public opinion toward mental hospitals.
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San Antonio State Hospital
J. S. Scarborough
Bexar County
San Antonio
Justice of the Peace
B. B. Brotherman
Donovan Albert Mitchell
Corpus Christi
Tex
Jessie B. Field
Mitchell
Scarborough
Inaugural Rides Shift From Carriages To Cars At Harding
The report notes that U S Presidents rode in horse drawn carriages for inaugurations until Warren G Harding’s 1921 ceremony when the President traveled in a motor car marking a transition to mechanized parade transport.
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U. S
Widow Keeps Promise to Help Veterans Hospital
Chicago report details 72-year-old widow Mrs Louis C Ancelle who died at Cook County Hospital after a stroke. In a 1943 will she left all real and personal property to Hines Hospital and requested her body be given to the University of Chicago Medical School to save burial costs for the boys. The envelope with the will was opened by Dr Ole Nelson, medical superintendent, after her death. Neighbors note she lived frugally in a one room apartment and had long wished to aid the veterans.
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Chicago
France
Veterans Hospital
Hines Hospital
Louis C. Ancelle
Ancelle
Cook County Hospital
Ole Nelson
University of Chicago Medical School
Grady County Fat Stock Show Planned in Chickasha
The 1953 Grady county junior fat stock show is scheduled for March 10 to 12 in Chickasha Oklahoma. Lee Decker of Chickasha serves as general chairman overseeing planning and arrangements.
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Chickasha
Okla
Grady County
Lee Decker
Veterans urged to use GI loan for real home purchase
UNKLE HANK promotes the GI loan program to veterans, encouraging them to turn the dream of a home into reality. He invites readers to visit the Harry Russell Lumber Co. to discuss plans and guidance for buying a home.
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Harry Russell Lumber CO
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