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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1954
Page
7
The 1953 Bobby Greenlease case unfolds as Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady are executed for kidnapping and murder. The ransom, misused by the couple, remains partly unrecovered while victims’ families cope with grief and ongoing legal fallout.
Baltimore jurist sentences Ernest Parker, 22, after he admitted breaking a street display window with a brick and stealing merchandise valued at $18.70. Judge Michael J. Manley imposes five years in the House of Correction. Parker had an extended prior record.
LONG BEACH Calif Wilson Ray Parkins celebrated his sixtieth birthday behind bars for the hundredth time. Police say his Long Beach record dates to 1936 with arrests for drunkenness 84 times plus vagrancy disorderly conduct drunken driving and fugitive from justice warrants.
A block of ground at the northeast corner of Cache and Sheridan Road was sold from Mrs. Bertrude Fields to R. L. Gilbert, city drug store owner. The 275 by 269 foot plot will be developed for retail use, with $20,000 paid and additional payments expected over years. Gilbert notes possible erection of three large retail buildings and ample parking.
In Hollywood Gov Allan Shivers of Texas appeared alongside Jane Wyman in Lucy Gallant a film about Texas He introduced Miss Wyman at a luncheon where she was honored as owner of a dress shop Producers Pine and Thomas said they invited the governor for a day’s work while he campaigned for reelection and he said he could not fully commit because he was serving as governor
Thousands of South Korean laborers and disabled veterans staged protests against U S troop withdrawal. About 50 000 war veterans plus 200 000 labor unionists joined sitdowns and anti withdrawal chants in Seoul and major cities, with 200 crippled veterans at the American embassy and 100 at the foreign correspondents gate.
Delaware district confronts renewed push for white student boycotts as 11 Negro pupils begin 10th grade amid police escorts. Marion County West Virginia braces for court action over protests, while Milford officials face calls to remove administrators and possible legal action for attendance resistance.
About 15 years after a sledge hammer vanished from his shed in Centralia, Bill Dishazo receives $4 and an apology from an unidentified person in Nowata Oklahoma this week.
Frantic calls brought Norvell Spade to a Charleston scene where a year old boy in danger from fly ash was rescued. Witnesses described neighbors and playmates acting swiftly to alert authorities and save the child from harm.
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