Pageant marks Mormon Church birthday in Palmyra
In Palmyra New York the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints stages a two stage colossal panorama on Hill Cumorah to celebrate the 130th anniversary of its founding The production involves about 650 performers and technicians and features lights water curtains and stereophonic sound. The church now numbers 1 600 000 members with eastern growth since 1940 and major building programs including 47 new chapels and 22 sites purchased Welfare farms 220 acres in Washington New Jersey 800 acres in Virginia and another in Trappe Maryland support a broad welfare system with 650 farms over 100 storehouses 30 canneries factories and a coal mine plus mills and plants.
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New York
Hill Cumorah
America
Witness For Christ
Gerald G. Smith
Eastern States Mission
New York City
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ohio
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New England
Washington, N.J
Virginia
Trappe
Feud Overshadows North Saco Flight Dispute
In Saco Maine a family feud plays out around a pilot and a machinist with accusations of reckless flying. Police say they are unsure of all details as Mrs. Stanley Kozloff faces assault with a weapon charges and her brother-in-law Walter Kozloff reports being shot at while over North Saco.
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Saco
Maine
Stanley Kozloff
Walter Kozkis
North Saco
Felice
Kozloff
Turkish student wounded in pistol incident at UT Austin
Bahri Tkel, a University of Texas upperclassman from Istanbul, was in very serious condition with head wounds after a pistol misfire he believed would not fire while at the apartment of two friends. The incident occurred Tuesday night in Austin.
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Austin
UPI
University of Texas
Turkey
Bahri Tkel
Istanbul
Woman's Death Listed As Shooting By Own Action
In Houston police said gunpowder traces on Mary Frances McLeod's hand prove she fired a pistol before dying in her apartment. The 29 year old, who worked with several modeling agencies, is listed as a death by own action. Michael Lucerio, 29, claimed she shot herself. a lie detector test cleared him.
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Houston (Ap
Mary Frances McLeod
Miss McLeod
Multiple state primaries reshaped party races across Missouri Kansas and Michigan
The piece notes Missouri Democrats backing Atty. General John M. Dalton for governor with a landslide, Republicans naming Edward G. Farmer Jr., and incumbent James Blair not eligible to run again. Missouri House speaker Richard M. Schrord defeated A S J Caranahan. In Kansas Atty. Gen. John Anderson won the Republican nomination for governor, and GOP Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel won renomination.
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Page One
Pat McNamara
Michigan
Missouri
John M. Dalton
Edward G. Farmer Jr
James Blair
Dalton
Farmer
William B. Ewald
Richard M. Schord
Missouri House
A.S.J. Caranahan
Kansas
John Anderson
McDill
Huck) Boyd
George Docking
GOP
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Henry P. Cleaver
Schoeppel
Frank Theis
Joseph Henkle
William H. Avery
Robber O Keefe Opens Court Battle to Avoid Pennsylvania Jail
Joseph J O Keefe known as Specs and who testified against eight accomplices in the Brinks Boston robbery seeks to avoid a 3 to 12 year Pennsylvania sentence. He was captured in 1954 by Massachusetts police on bail pending appeal and held in Suffolk County jail for 15% years after testifying. McKean County officials seek his return to Pennsylvania and the case was continued to September 20 with no testimony offered.
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Boston
Joseph J
Specs) O'Keefe
Pennsylvania
O’keefe
Massachusetts
McKean County
McKean
Supreme Court
Elias Shannon
Suffolk County
Brinks
Kuykendall Moves to Relocate County Center for Shopping Zone
Planning Commission weighs action on Kuykendall request to move a county community center away from Slide road to clear space for a shopping zone. Site sits on 50th street section line. 1955 policy requires one mile spacing. Eight subdivision plats to be reviewed at the meeting.
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Ing. G. P. Kuykendall
Slide Road
Kuykendall
Planning Commission
50Th Street
Lubbock Chamber Bureau Evolution and Membership Changes
The Lubbock chamber started a Better Business Bureau bureau in November 194, with members of the Better Business Committee of the chamber. The committee formed in August 1953 by chamber and Retail Merchants Assn action. The chamber became an associate member of the Assn. of Better Business Bureaus in November 1953, but a 194 by law amendment restricted membership to incorporated bureaus. In November 1954 the chamber financed the bureau and provided an assistant manager as bureau manager. Changes in the national by-laws this year limit memberships to independent, fully financed bureaus. Attendees included Kerr Pittman Rushing Shipley Stanley Wilson Hunt Watson and others.
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Better Business Bureaus
Lubbock Committee
Chamber
Thompson
Bates
Cook
Graham
Humphries
Igo
Kerr
Pittman
Rushing
Shipley
Stanley
Wilson
Hunt
Watson
Hale Youth Ting Sharper In Local Rodeo
Hale Youth Ting leads the field with Barry Burk of Waggoner Oklahoma trailing in second. Ting, a two year association veteran, excels in calf roping and competes in optional races, roping, bull riding and steer wrestling. Ting plans Texas Tech attendance this fall after graduating Plainview High School.
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Ting Sharper
Barry Burk
Waggoner
Okla
Bassett
Texas Tech
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Mormon Church
George W. Cornell
Palmyra
N.Y
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Hugh
Craig
Tom Watson
Sylvania
San Diego Naval Training Center
U. S. Navy
BIOT
Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Hale Youth
FDIC
Sheat
Paul Graham
Avenue N
BLY America
ED Arms
Edler Furniture
S&h
Ood
Dinette
Wagonwheel
Rockers
Nathan Hale
Levine
Dad
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