Mother Receives Medal of Honor for Son in Korea
Petra Ledesma Garcia of ATUADO Puerto Rico was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for her son Marine Pvt Fernando Luis Garcia who died in Korea last year during an act that saved another soldier by shielding him from a Chinese grenade. Maj Gen Albert D Cooley, commander of the 3rd Marine Air...
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Puerto Rico
Petra Ledesma Garcia
United States
Fernando Luis Garcia
Korea
Albert D. Cooley
3Rd Marine Air
Portuguese swimmer lowers Gibraltar Straits record
Bautista Pereira, 32, swam eight miles yesterday off Tarifa in Spain to beat Florence Chadwick's light time of 5 hours 2 minutes for the Straits of Gibraltar by two minutes.
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Spain
Portugues
Florence Chadwick
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Gibraltar
Bautista Pereira
Medal of Honor Awarded to Puerto Rican Serviceman
Wing flew to City Hall as special representative of President Eisenhower to present the Medal of Honor. It marked the first time the honor went to a Puerto Rican serviceman.
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Eisenhower
City Hall
Ohio Newswomen Elect Officers
The Ohio Newspaper Women's Assn. elected officers in Columbus. Eloise Marshall Gruber, former women's editor at Columbus Dispatch, is president. Jean Dietrich of Dayton Journal Herald is vice president. Margaret Dennis of Findlay Republican Courier is treasurer. Doris O'Donnell of Cleveland News is secretary. Phyllis Nash of Ohio State Journal is membership chairman.
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Ohio
Women’s Assn
Eloise Marshall Gruber
Columbus Dispatch
Jean Dietrich
Dayton Journal Herald
Margaret Dennis
Findlay Republican Courier
Doris O’donnell
Cleveland News
Phyllis Nash
Ohio State Journal
Marryin Sams Sees Boom After Clooney Ferrer Wedding
Durant Oklahoma sees a wedding surge as Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer wed at County Judge Seth Shoemake's court on July 13. Couples from Texas Arkansas and Oklahoma travel to be married by the same judge who officiated the Clooney Ferrer ceremony. The fee law change lets judges keep wedding fees boosting Shoemake's income and sparking a revival of local matrimony business.
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Okla
Sams
Bryan County
Rosemary Clooney
Jose Ferrer
Seth Shoemake
Rosemary
Jose
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Miss Clooney
Ferrer
Shoemake
Wooster Educator To Talk At Dinner Of Loan Group
Prof William C Craig from the College of Wooster will address the second annual dinner of the Butler Warren Small Loan Assn at the Middletown Sportsmen's Club. About 150 guests are expected from small loan firms in Middletown Hamilton Oxford and Lebanon.
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William C. Craig
College of Wooster
Butler - Warren Small Loan Assn
Middletown
War Veteran Dies In Cleveland At 85
Col. Harry James Watson veteran of the Spanish War and World War I dies in Cleveland aged 85. He served 40 years in the Army with prominent commands and decorations. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
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Col
Harry James Watson
FBI Names Fugitive on 10 Most Wanted List
Edwin Sanford Garrison, 93, nicknamed the Human Adding Machine, is listed on the FBI ten most wanted. A veteran at racetracks and with racing information outfits, he is noted for rapid mental arithmetic and a long criminal record from 1925 including holdups, kidnapping, burglary, grand larceny and prison escapes. He once helped ten convicts break from Atmore State Prison Farm in 1952 and is believed to be from Newport, Kentucky. He is slender, about 143 pounds, with blue eyes gray hair and wears false teeth.
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FBI
Edwin Sanford Garrison
Garrison
Atmore
Ala
Newport
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