Teamster Official Acquitted In Portland Conspiracy Case
Clyde C. Crosby head of the Oregon Teamsters was acquitted of conspiracy to accept a bribe while serving on Portland city commission. A seven woman five man jury found him not guilty after 2 hours 48 minutes of deliberation. The trial tied to bid options for an eight million dollar sports center and a Broadway steel bridge site.
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Portland
Ore
Teamsters Union
Oregon
Clyde C. Crosby
Vice
Crosby
Teamsters’ International
Broadway Steel Bridge
Broadway
Big Jim Elkins
Typing Course Offered For Summer School At Middletown High
Middletown High School will offer a summer Typing 1 course for beginners during the second term from July 22 to August 16. Classes run 8 a.m. to noon daily for junior and senior high students, with registration open today through Friday 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the high school office. Fees are $12 and at least 20 enroll.
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Middletown High School
Cypriot youth sentenced to death for Limassol murder
In Limassol a special court sentenced 18 year old Greek Cypriot Nicos So to death for killing 60 year old politician John Pelaghias last November. The court ruling comes after a high profile murder case that stirred local politics.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Nicos So. Po
John Pelaghias
Limassol
Trust leaves $90,000 to 11 schools and churches
Ashland Ohio trust distribution from Mrs Kate M Myers estate provides $90,000 to 11 institutions. Wittenberg College Philip Myers II Scholarship Fund St Johns College Annapolis and seven local churches receive $9,000 each. Four thousand five hundred to University School Shaker Heights and Miriam Myers Scholarship Fund Smith College. Final estate value not disclosed.
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Ashland
Ohio
Kate M. Myers
Philip Myers II
University School
Shaker Heights
Miriam Myers
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
Randall To Keep Post In White House Advising Role
Washington reports confirm Clarence B. Randall will remain economic adviser to the president. Spokesman James C. Hagerty denied any plan for Randall to succeed retiring Hollister as foreign aid chief or to replace Secretary Wilson if he retires. Randall declined further comment on his White House relationship.
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Washington
White House
Clarence B. Randall
James C. Hagerty
Randall
The
Inland Steel Co
Foreign Aid
John B. Hollister
Defense Wilson
Flies Cause Bridge Closure and Car Crash in Wisconsin
Swarms of flies paused traffic on a Mississippi River bridge in La Crosse Wisconsin. Flies settled on the roadway creating slick conditions. Three cars and a truck were involved in a minor accident. Traffic halted about ninety minutes while the surface was sanded.
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Lacrosse
Wis
Mississippi
Wife charged in jail escape plot in Dayton
Mrs Mertle Jeannette McQuinn 32 admitted supplying two hacksaw blades to her husband Richard 43 at Montgomery County Jail in a failed escape bid. Five inmates used the blades to saw a passage from a cellblock and beat jailer Joe Sweigert who was treated for bruises and cuts. The husband faced armed robbery charges and did not participate in the escape.
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Dayton
Ohio
Montgomery County
Mertle Jeannette McQuinn
Richard
Joe Sweigert
Sweigert
Robbers Didn't Have A Chance
Denver police soon captured the second man in a drugstore robbery after the pair parked in an alley and fled. A tree trimmer and a telephone lineman who witnessed the escape noted the car and one suspect’s description, aiding swift arrest within hours.
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Denver
Escaped Rebels Are Recaptured in Budapest Raid
Police recaptured three members of the anti-government underground who escaped from prison last Thursday. The men, under death sentences for killing a police major, were seized in a woman's apartment in Budapest yesterday. Names include Zsigmond Sipos aged 23 Jozsef Erdesz aged 30 and Pal Bakosi aged 25.
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Budapest
Zsigmond Sipos
Jozsef Erdesz
Pal Bakosi
Pangasinan flood toll and missing top headlines
The government reported 76 dead and 300 missing after Typhoon Wend y flooded Pangasinan province. Earlier figures from Philippine News Service cited 230 drowned and over 1,000 missing as the water swept through Mabini and surrounding villages destroying at least 10,000 houses. Military and police rushed relief supplies to the area north of Manila on Luzon Island.
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Wendy
Pangasinan
Philippine New Service
Mabini
Manila
Luzon Island
Plane Forced Back After Engine Fire Near Cleveland
A twin engine Trans World Airlines plane was forced to turn back to Cleveland Hopkins Airport late Tuesday after a fire broke out in a peripheral engine shortly after takeoff. The flight was delayed about three hours.
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Cleveland
Trans World Airlines
Cleveland Hopkins
Ex Boxer's Sought In Costello Probe
Police search for Vincent Gigante a former boxer and suspected key figure in the May 2 attempt on racketeer Frank Costello. Deputy Commissioner Arm confirmed the request for questioning and described it as routine in the unfolding Costello case.
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New York
Vincent Gigante
Frank Costello
Walter Arm
Gigante
Arm
New York Herald Tribune
Costello
The
Herald Tribune
Frank
Van Survives Fall From High Bridge
Carmiell Davidson of Mantua, 35, survived a 125 foot fall from the new Innerbelt Bridge into the Cuyahoga River. Three other workmen on the 16 million dollar span have been killed in falls. Davidson was taken to St. Vincent Charity Hospital with stomach pains.
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Cleveland
Carmiell Davidson
Mantua
Innerbelt
Cuyahoga River
Cuyahoga Valley
Davidson
St. Vincent Charity Hospital
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