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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1957
Page
6
Evelyn Richards 37, former Decatur County treasurer, died when her car skidded on ice and rear ended a tanker truck driven by William DeLong of Lebanon on U S 421 near a bridge. Passenger Ellanor Mellis 31 was treated and released from a hospital.
Indiana bank robbers netted about 120000 in the first 11 months of 1957 with six of eight holdups solved and most loot recovered. One man, Magee, arrested for a 46000 South Bend robbery, neither confessed nor led police to cash. Fort Wayne yielded 50104 in a six-week span, and others remain uncaught.
West Haven Vermont reports a multi generation hunt with George Sheldrick firing at a spike horn and William Sheldrick taking an eight pointer. William Sheldrick Jr. also scores a deer while Mrs. William Sheldrick nets a four point buck.
The US Army reduced William S. Girard from specialist third class to private and ordered him discharged. He will depart Friday aboard USS Anderson with his Japanese wife Haru Candy Sueyama. Girard, 22, from Ottawa Illinois, spoke calmly about the manslaughter conviction and said he harbors no bitterness toward the Army or Japanese people.
Wyoming, nicknamed the Equality State, earned a historic distinction as the first state in the Union to grant women full voting rights. The move cemented a legacy of gender equality and reshaped civic participation nationwide.
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