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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1957
Page
16
A dense OCR style list of across and down crossword clues with numbers and missing letters. Includes definitions for words such as dress trimming, waterings, and oss, plus entries like top of a tree, garden, and mountain in the Andes.
Shreveport officers halted an escape plan by three condemned prisoners led by Donald Rufus Edwards. Edwards and companions Joseph Washington and James Bush faced electric chair sentences for rapes and a 1954 murder. Letters smuggled to relatives suggest a midnight breakout attempt from the city jail.
The U S Golf Association named 10 players to face Great Britain in the amateur Walker Cup at Minneapolis August 30 31. Veterans Campbell Kocsis and Patton join seven newcomers Rex Baxter Arnold Blum Joe Campbell Will iam Hyndman Hillman Robbins E Mason Rudolph and Dr Frank M Taylor Jr with Coe as non playing captain and Yost Morey as alternates. Baxter is youngest at 21 while Patton tied eighth at the U S Open and Hyndman placed 13th nationally.
Pvt. Randall B. Boyles of Kenton Delaware received a 15 year term from a Japanese district court for assaulting and robbing a Buddhist priest then tossing him into Lake Biwa where he drowned. The judge cited Boyles's penitence and $300 offered to the widow as reasons for the lighter sentence.
Singapore dispatch notes the Malayan jungle war against Communist terrorists entering its tenth year. Since the 1940s insurgency began with about 5 000 party members, British and Commonwealth forces under Gen. Sir Gerald Templer pursued a policy of new villages and food denial. Although Reds now number under 3 000, they still tie down nearly 299 000 personnel, with tactics shifting toward hit and run as independence nears on August 31.
An off duty New York patrolman Vincent F Campbell 38 delivered his own daughter to his wife Barbara Marie 26 in their apartment. The five pound eight ounce infant was born yesterday doctors said Campbell did a fine job.
Commencement at home for 16+ students lacking a diploma. The American School, Monroe Louisiana, offers a free 44 page booklet by mail from P O Box 973. Graduates have entered over 500 colleges and universities. Include name address city and age.
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