Record number of vacancies at West Point this year
Washington reports the United States Military Academy at West Point will have about 1 016 vacancies after graduation the largest one year shortfall in its 152 year history. Officials attribute the rise to postwar letdown nominations delays and testing results while noting normal patterns in election years and academy admissions.
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Washington
Ee Eens — Point Ng
U.S. Military Academy
Army School
Army
Academy
Congress
West Point
Kindergarten Graduation Sparks Small Kids Big Day
Washington May 24 sixty-nine three to six year olds in white caps and gowns at St John’s convent Maryland staged a kindergarten graduation. Class president Robert Gallahorn, aged six, presided with goofy charm while classmates joked and fidgeted through Handel’s Largo. Mothers supplied gowns, caps handmade from box tops. Nancy Stocker and Carla Jean Campanella kissed Bobby in a light moment as the ceremony closed.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
St. John’s Convent
Maryland
Joan Sperapani
Largo
Robert Patrick Gallahorn
Bobby
Gallahorn
Norman Bishop
Milton Frier
Nancy Stocker
Carla Jean Campanella
Two Way Radios Move Indoors In Factories
In Syracuse GE engineers note indoor two way radio use boosts efficiency by directing trucks and workers, cutting labor costs, and reducing lost time. Combined sales of high and low power systems exceed 40 million dollars annually, with manufacturing sectors leading recent adoption.
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Syracuse
N.Y
General Electric
Actress Leslie Caron's apartment loses purse in theft
A thief broke into actress Leslie Caron's Hollywood apartment by shoving a curtain rod through an unlocked window and stole a purse and its $250 contents yesterday. The suspect was not captured.
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Leslie Caron
Mexican Braceros Swarm Across Rio
El Paso reports braceros eyeing U S farm work as peso weakness and dollar strength draw migrants. A Juarez gathering of 2000 workers was repelled, border patrol sees no surge recently. Crop prospects vary with drought, river levels, and new Falcon reservoir limits. Bracero center at Hidalgo processes about 200 daily with many returning migrants.
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EL Paso
Tex
Juarez
United States
U. S
Rio Grande
Bureau of Reclamation
W. F. Reash
Texas
Laredo
International
Rio Grande Valley
New Falcon
International Reservoir
Mexico
Hidalgo
Reynosa
Hugh Cupp
Edinburg Farm Bureau
Lucky Lager Sets Frog Jumping Mark in California Contest
Lucky Lager with three prodigious leaps totaling 16 feet 10 inches set a new frog jumping record and won owner Roy Weimer $1,000 in the 27th annual contest in Angels Camp California. The team bettered Maggie’s 1944 record by 8 inches.
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Angels Camp
Calif.m
Roy Weimer
Mark Twain
Maggie
Californian Sets Sail Solo World Cruise In 28 Foot Ketch
Ralph Thorvaldson, a former Navy quartermaster, began a year long voyage circling the globe in a 28 foot ketch. The journey covers about 12 000 miles as he pursues a boyhood dream of solo world sailing.
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Los Angeles
Ralph Thorvaldson
Area Man Awarded Study Fellowship
Everett Ronald Rhoades of Star Route Lawton Oklahoma has won a 1954 Opportunity fellowship from the John Hay Whitney foundation. He attends the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine and plans to serve rural Oklahoma Indian communities. The foundation awarded 100000 to 48 recipients across 17 states and three territories.
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Everett Ronald Rhoades
Star Rt
Lawton
John Hay Whitney Foundation
University of Oklahoma School of Medicine
Oklahoma
Atoe Lafayette College
Eatona
North Carolina Export Share of Flue Cured Tobacco
North Carolina ships about forty percent of the flue cured tobacco it grows, highlighting the state’s dominant role in the curing and export of this crop.
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North Carolina
World’s Just A Big Stage
A theater robbery in Los Angeles where a holdup man flashed a gun and demanded theater receipts, ending with $125 stolen before police arrived. Other briefs note sidewalk spraying for sanitation week in New York, rubber checks to pay marriage licenses in Geneva Illinois, a taunting phone call to Ruth Grossman in Los Angeles, two men jailed for church bell tower trespass in Baltimore, and a waterless hose mishap in Powassan Ontario.
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Los Angeles
Jo Ann McCollum
Grace Kelly Type Newest Movie Fad
Hollywood notes a rising trend toward Grace Kelly type socialites as new film stars. Allison Hayes and Fran Lansing, both blue blood models, secured contracts with Universal International and Paramount respectively after social prominence helped their screen tests. Hayes, 24, came from Philadelphia via Catholic University with a Navy engineer father. Lansing, from Deerfield, TI, pursued drama while awaiting film roles.
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Hollywood
Grace Kelly
Marilyn
Allison Hayes
Fran Lansing
Allison
Navy Bureau of Ordinance
Catholic University
Washington
Suspected Killer Hunted In Fort Worth
Neil W. Vernon, 24, once based in Fort Worth, was found shot to death near Fort Smith, Arkansas. Identified as Cyclone Fence Co. employee, he had been sought after his bloodstained car was abandoned and a witness saw a man with a briefcase depart the scene. The body was found by Lester Harris on Back Bone Mountain after following blood traces.
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Fort Worth
Neil W. Vernon
Fort Smith
Ark
Vernon
Cyclone Fence Co
Shreveport
Lester Harris
Gillham, Ark
Backbone Mountain
Two Escaped Maniacs Still Remain Free
In Arkansas four dangerous mental patients escaped from the state hospital after overpowering guards with sharpened toenail clippers. Calvin Gilmer was recaptured near Marlboro, Joe Bumgardner near Memphis, while Billy Phillips and John Sparks remain at large. Sparks had a prior hospital job site incident and was once considered mentally incompetent.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas State Hospital
E. H. Crawfis
Calvin Gilmer
Marboro
Joe Bumgardner
Memphis
Tenn
Billy Phillips
Mule Bolts While Doctoring It Fatally Injures Man
Hamlin West Virginia John Delbert Thompson 68 of Bowles Route was treating a mule for an open sore yesterday when the animal bolted throwing him against rocks and into a creek. He died from internal injuries after reaching a Huntington hospital.
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Hamlin
W. Va
John Delbert Thompson
Bowles
Thompson
Huntington
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