Boy FoundDead in Desert with Bullet in Head near Las Vegas
Four-day search for 13-year-old John Cooley ends with his sun-scorched body near a dirt road north of Las Vegas. A .22 rifle lies at his feet, and three notebook pages reveal a bitter farewell. Deputies call it suicide after revelations about his stepfather Beasley.
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Las Vegas
John Cooley
W. E. Leypoldt
Avery
Cooley
Beasley
Nellis Air Force Base
Prisoner Taught to Write a Check by Sheriff
Mith Son ta Baxter of Lake Odessa Michigan is jailed in Ionia County on forgery charges today. Sheriff Peter Van Vinck said Baxter learned to write a check while a prisoner in 1949, a detail Baxter faced with embarrassment.
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Sonta, Mith
Paul Baxter
Lake Odessa
Mich
Ionia County
Peter van Vinck
Baxter
500 Drug Pills Found in Street in Harlan Ky
A police patrolman and a judge spent an hour collecting over 500 barbiturate capsules scattered on a residential street in Harlan Kentucky. The effort followed a pedestrian report on a Thursday, with investigators seeking the source. A jar in a yard bore a label dated 8-7-42 and the name P. E. Gioanni, MLD, who had previously practiced medicine here and left in 1943 or 1944.
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Harlan, Ky
James Forrester
Charles Cornett
Cornett
Forrester
Investiigate
P. E. Gioanni
Gioanni
Reader's Digest $53,000 Contest Opens Entry
A free official entry blank is available at newsstands for the July issue. Read six article descriptions and submit your top picks for a chance to win cash prizes up to $10,000 with 12,164 other prizes. Entries must be postmarked by midnight July 96.
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Ike Heads to Geneva for Big Four Conference
President Eisenhower plans a transatlantic flight to Geneva for the Big Four talks with Bulganin Eden and Faure. The journey includes Keflavik stopovers and a luncheon with Iceland’s president, while White House aides prepare for the Geneva agenda and a live TV address.
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White House
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Dillon Anderson
Andrew J. Goodpaster
Murray Snyder
Ann's ‘Whitman
John Meaney
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Iceland
Long Beach
Assgeir Assgeirsson
U. S
John Muccin
Nus
Geneva
Chateau de Dreux de Genthod
Bulganin
Russia
Eden
Britain
Faure
Merder
Kremlin
France
Fin
Soviet Union
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