Fountains Of Rome Used For Some Strange Things
Rome reports a novelty clash of tourist mischief as visitors toss coins and swim in public fountains. Anita Ekberg style scenes echo in Trevi and Bernini sites, with a playful duel over time spent in the fountain and subsequent fines. Authorities cite traffic and safety concerns around Piazza Navona and Trevi.
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William Sunderland
Piazza Navona
Rome
Nobility
UPI
Anita Ekberg
Trevi
Federico Fel
Per
Peesia É
Piazza del Popolo
Bernini
Midland Council Rejects Center Proposal in Zoning Vote
Midland city council rejected a proposed four point eight million dollar shopping center at the northwest corner of Andrews Highway and Cuthbert Street after hours of debate. Opponents cheered as H C Avery Jr urged greater buffer and screening. attorneys Emil Rossman and Parker Fielder warned the plan would devalue nearby property.
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Midland
Andrews Hwy
Cuthbert St
Planning and Zoning Commission
H. C. Avery Jr
Emil Rossman
Parker Fielder
Baylor President Leads Texas Loan Shark Fight
Abner V. Mc Call, executive president of Baylor University, forms the Texas Committee to Eliminate the Loan Shark Evil with 92 leaders. The group backs Constitutional Amendment No. 4 to license regulate and set rates for lenders and curb small loan abuses.
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Austin
Abner V. McCall
Baylor University
Texas Committee
McCall
Texas
Banned Books Roil Cape Town Under Heavy Fines
In Cape Town thousands face a 1000 to 2800 rand or five years in prison for possessing banned volumes with government lists updated in Pretoria. Censors target covers and content, leaving confusion among librarians publishers and police over enforcement.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Ment Gazette
Government Gazette
Pretoria
Youth Bond Set At 4000 In Midland
A 22 year-old Abilene man, George Alton Dye, was charged with possession of paraphernalia for administering narcotics in a justice of the peace court. Bond was set at 4000 by Justice of the Peace David Ellis. He was arrested with two others after a complaint of a bad check. The two others faced misdemeanor theft and vagrancy charges. Three Negro men in their early twenties were charged with theft over 50 dollars, each bond 2000. A 39 year-old Negro woman faced a felony check grindle with bond 2500 after she allegedly bought furniture with checks and sold it for cash.
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Midland
Abilene
Justice of the Peace
George Alton Dye
David Ellis
Sheriff's
Accident At Eastland Kills Truck Driver
An Eastland Texas truck driver, Mayers 48, died when his rig tangled with wires during a constriction project. Bells tolled and ships sounded whistles as the incident occurred about 11:02 a.m. on a U.S. High A road between Cisco and Hiroshima.
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Tokyo
Nagasaki
Eastland
Tex
Mayers
United States
Harbor
Brown
Construction Co
U.S
Cisco
Hiroshima
Obscene Calls To City Woman Nets Youth $15 Fine
Paul David Mason, 19, of 910 E Stamford, pleaded guilty to using obscene language by telephone and paid a $15 fine after a chase at Mead owbrook Municipal Golf Course Mackenzie Park. Detective Capt. L W Forrester said the call aimed to lure a Lubbock woman to meet him. officers trailed, the youth fled on foot, and five officers helped arrest him at the driving range.
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Paul David Mason
Stamford
L. W
Skeet) Forrester
Lubbock
Meadowbrook Municipal
Mackenzie Park
Forrester
Youths Face Charges In Slaying Of Girl
Nashville youths Donald Johnson and Jerry Wayne Stewart face murder and rape charges in the death of 12 year old Ruth Carolyn Weaver. The girl died from a fractured skull after falling from the car last Friday night, with police saying she had been raped. Both suspects deny the charges.
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Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Nashville
Donald Johnson
Jerry Wayne Stewart
Ruth Carolyn Weaver
Auto
Johnson
Stewart
Addison Refuses To Outline List Of Lenders
Dallas AP Addison I n 941 acknowledges commercial activity but refuses to outline lenders citing Fifth Amendment rights. Federal Bankruptcy Referee Elmore Whitehurst will decide if contempt exists as proceedings continue with creditor information. A preliminary debt list shows 23450 at Idaho Springs service station 3600 at Dallas Aero Service and 1200 at Western Airlines.
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Dallas
John Milton Adno
Elmore Whitehurst
Whitehurst
Idaho Springs
Colo
Dallas Aero
Western Airlines
Addison
T. Whitfield Davidson
Man 85 Freed After 63 Years in Custody
Henry Sullivan aged 85 walked out of the Logansport institution after 63 years tied to a 1897 theft. He had spent decades in prisons and mental hospitals though no court ruled him insane. He moved to a private boarding home near Logansport State Hospital after a 24 hour delay.
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Logansport
Ind
Henry Sullivan
Logansport State Hospital
Sullivan
Loganspot
Air Force seeks captain as rabid dog bite leads to alert
The Air Force searches for Captain E W Spullenberger whose children were bitten by a rabid Moroccan dog as they travel from Joplin Missouri to Taylor. A separate Boston incident reports an explosion on a pier with Zirconium waste, injuring two firemen and prompting radioactive material checks.
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DPS
Boston
Cross Roads Marine Disposal Co
John Connolly
Thomas O'Loughlin
Staiis Ipswich Cam Co
Pier 4
Northern Avenue
Cross Roads Company
Metropolitan areas named in South verdict in Adland case
Beverly Adland and her mother were found guilty by Judge Lewis Drucker in a nonjury Superior Court proceeding. The case notes they were drunk at a March 19 party at the Adland apartment and photographs showed them with partially clad men. The conviction carries up to one year in jail and a probation hearing is set for September 1. Beverly Adland is in the custody of a Hollywood minister as a ward of Juvenile Court.
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Los Angeles
Beverly
Atlanta
Aadland
Havelen
Fed
Ofter
U.S. Department of Comrate
Errol Flynn
H Erce
Florence 4Olland
Superior Court
Lewis Drucker
Adland
Hollywood
New Southern Areas Set With Population Over One Percent Million
Preliminary Census figures show 13 new southern areas with Georgia Oklahoma and Florida each one area, more in Alabama Louisiana Texas and a boundary cross in Arkansas Texas. Totals list Texarkana Republic region 10 938 Abilene 119 618 Brownsville Harlingen San Benito 149 901 Midland 67 332 Odessa 10 298 and Tyler 85 295. Abilene gains 34 101 since 1950 while Brownsville Harlingen San Benito adds 24 731 Midland 41 537 Odessa 48 196 and Tyler 10 594. Texarkana alone declines by 3 612.
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Georgia
Oklahoma
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas-Texas
Texarkana
Texas — Abilene
Brownsville
Harlingen-San_Benito
Midland
Odessa
Tyler
Abilene
Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito
World's Tallest Hotel Plans Set
New York plans to build the world's tallest hotel by Loew's Theaters Inc. The 50 story structure will have 2,000 rooms and cost about 50 million dollars. Construction starts in fall with completion expected by May 1962. The Americana of New York will be the second Americana hotel in the city.
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New York
UPI
Loew's Theaters Inc
Loew's
Sponge Left Behind After Surgery Won Damages
In Los Angeles 18 year old John Shelton Walker was awarded 35300 after a sponge was left in his abdomen during an appendectomy. Superior Judge Frank S Batt approved the settlement. The suit named two doctors three women employees and the hospital as defendants.
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Los Angeles
UPI
John Shelton Walker
Frank S. Batt
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