Supreme Court ends quiet term with Rosenberg case
The Supreme Court closed a calm session after 104 majority opinions. Key rulings include a 50 gambling stamp tax upholding, Oklahoma’s anti Communist oath deemed flawed for innocent membership, and wiretap evidence admissible in state trials. It also allowed feather bedding limits and tossed out antitrust charges against the Times-Picayune.
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Rosenberg
Supreme Court
Charlotte G. Moulton
Washington
Congress
Oklahoma
Communist Party
U.S
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Justice Department
Harry Bridges
Prankster Douses Driver With Fire Extinguisher
Ernest Bell reports a mystery motorist sprayed him with a fire extinguisher while driving near Clifton North Norwood. Bell chased the other car for two miles but received another squirt before giving up, unable to obtain a license plate.
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Clifton
N.N
Ernest Bell
Boll
Bell
Borger Drops Civil Service Code in Charter Vote
Borger voters approved eliminating the civil service code and a section limiting the city manager salary to 6000 a year. The civil service code failed 443 to 167 and the salary change passed 471 to 204. The city plans a merit system for all employees after the anticipated disappearance of the state code in three years. J W Pow led recall efforts citing the code.
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Borger
Berger
J. W. Pow
Ten men carry 720-pound woman from second-floor apartment
New York June 27 ten men using a reinforced stretcher removed the body of 720 pound Mrs Florence Shine 43 who died of a heart attack after ambulance crew and police emergency squad failed to move her from the second floor Friday night.
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New York
Florence Shine
Real hearing program advertised for Microtone transistor aid
A St Paul Minnesota advertisement promotes Microtone’s Better Hearing Program and transistor hearing aid. It highlights service guidance and electronic speech equipment, touts freeing users from vacuum tubes and batteries, and invites readers to send name and address for free full details.
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St. Paul, Minn
Microtone
Ford Parkway
St. Paul 1
Minnesota
Demo Party Chief Plans Nine Stops On Tour Of Texas
Nine venues across Texas host Stephen Mitchell national Democratic chairman on a six day swing. He opens in Abilene with an open house and 8 p.m. speech then visits Denton Beaumont Bryan Waco Corpus Christi and Odessa before heading to Chicago.
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Demo Party Chief
Texas
Corsicana
Stephen Mitchell
Jim Sewell
Mitchell
Abilene
Sewell
Hilda Weinert
Seguin
Adlai Stevenson
Baylor University Student Union
Waco
White Plaza
Corpus Christi
Robert
Music Head Begins Duties At Church
Theodore F. Fox has begun duties as minister of music and education at Trinity Baptist Church in Lubbock at 34th Street and Boston Avenue. He came from Alexander City Alabama where he served at First Baptist Church for a year. Fox, born in Shawnee Oklahoma, holds degrees from Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has worked as a chemist before entering church work. He and his wife and children Frances 14 and Paul 10 are listed as part of the household.
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Theodore F. Fox
Trinity Baptist Church
34Th St
Boston Ave
Lubbock
Alexander City
Ala
First Baptist Church
Shawnee
Okla
Oklahoma Baptist University
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Frances
Paul
Denison Approves Texoma Water Pact in Straw Vote
Denison residents back a 824 to 6 vote to sign a 15 million gallon daily water contract from Lake Texoma with the U S Army Engineers for 13 000 a year. The city council plans to approve the agreement soon to secure reliable supply from the interstate lake.
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Denison
Tex
U. S. Army Engineers
Lake Texoma
Texoma
Randell Lake
Steelworker survives 250 foot fall at Amarillo tower
Lloyd Silvers, 42, suffered broken ankles after a 250 foot fall from a KGNC-TV tower in Amarillo. The incident occurred when a hoisting rope broke loose, though truck driver Claude Gentry grabbed the free rope and slowed the descent, injuring his hand and sustaining rope burns.
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Amarillo
Lloyd Silvers
Kgnc-Tv
Silvers
Claude Gentry
Gentry
Barbara Jean Fox Moves With Family At Four Months
Barbara Jean Fox, four months old, relocated with family to 3806 36th Street. Mrs. Fox serves as church organist and holds two music degrees from Oklahoma Baptist University.
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Barbara Jean
36Th St
Fox
Oklahoma
Baptist University
Summerfield Urges One Cent Postal Rate Hike
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield urged Congress to raise out of town mail one cent to help reduce the postal deficit. He said the average family would pay about 95 cents yearly and blamed Democratic administrators for service breakdowns while promising post office reforms.
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Flint
Mich
Arthur E. Summerfield
Michigan
National Association of Postmasters
Summerfield
Congress
Post Office
West Virginia Averages 1500 Feet Altitude In East
West Virginia maintains an average elevation near 1500 feet, the highest among states east of the Mississippi River, reflecting its rugged terrain and Appalachian topography. The record underscores the state’s elevated landscape and geographic distinction in the region.
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West Virginia
Mississippi River
Negro Locker Boy Testifies He Made 100000 In Army
A Houston jury hears C A Dupree a River Oaks Country Club locker boy and WWII veteran claim he earned between 80 000 and 125 000 overseas and lent money to soldiers and gamblers as the basis for his tax defense He and his wife testifying in separate sessions describe hiding cash in metal boxes and say savings from their 1914 marriage were taxed by the government.
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Austin
Country Club
C. A. Dupree
Houston
Harris County
Anna
Dupree
France
Swank River Oaks Country Club
Galveston
107-Year-Old Former Scout For Custer Near Death
Saddle Mountain Oklahoma June 27 Former Indian scout Hunting Horse who served with Gen. Custer in the Seventh Cavalry is near death at 107. Hunting Horse joined the cavalry as a youth and was a Kiowa Indian.
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Custer
Saddle Mountain
Okla
Scount
Hunting Horse
U. S. Cavalry
Cavalry
7Th Calvary
British and African troops launch major Mau Mau operation
In Nairobi on June 27 forces including British and African troops native Home Guards and Royal Air Force planes joined a large offensive against Mau Mau terrorists, described as the biggest operation yet in the East African colony.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Native Home Guards
Royal Air Force
Full Moon Charms Enid Woman Asleep in Tree
Enid Oklahoma June 27 a 27 year old wife who sleep walks during full moons was found nude 20 feet up a tree picking leaves as police and fire crews staged a life net. The husband who found her wrapped her in his shirt and woke her then she fell into the net and was unharmed apart from nerves. He said he would watch her more closely during full moons.
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Enid
Okla
Canadian Police Find Man With Namesake Hanged Prisoner
Kamloops police reveal a jail inmate named Alex Ignace shares identical fingerprints with a man hanged 34 years earlier for murder. The accused Indian from Deadman's Creek was jailed for six months on common assault, and the coincidence is described as a million-to-one match.
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Kamloops
B. C
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Alex Ignace
Deadman’s Creek
Mounted Police
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